Rebecca Taylor
@beccaet.bsky.social
Liberal internationalist 🇪🇺 feminist, antiracist & LGBTQ+ ally. Yorkshire/London. Ex LibDem MEP. LD Friends of Cycling/Primary Care WG. Works in health policy. ❤️s running, cooking, cycling & yoga. Mum of 1. Dual 🇬🇧/🇩🇪 citizen (personal account)
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Rebecca Taylor
@beccaet.bsky.social
· Sep 17
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,250,652!
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Have you noticed that when King Donald the Mad doesn’t want to answer a question he simply insults the journalist and the insult becomes the story rather than the fact that he ducked the question.
... and no-one challenges him for it!
... and no-one challenges him for it!
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Have you noticed that when King Donald the Mad doesn’t want to answer a question he simply insults the journalist and the insult becomes the story rather than the fact that he ducked the question.
... and no-one challenges him for it!
... and no-one challenges him for it!
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🧵 For International Men’s Day, @moreincommonuk.bsky.social has new research into a cohort of disillusioned men who have lost faith in the social contract & the idea that hard work will support a good life, don’t think politics respect them & who are turning away from mainstream politics
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🧵 For International Men’s Day, @moreincommonuk.bsky.social has new research into a cohort of disillusioned men who have lost faith in the social contract & the idea that hard work will support a good life, don’t think politics respect them & who are turning away from mainstream politics
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Liberal Democrats are fighting to save the high street AND cut your cost of living.
Our plan would cut your energy bills, slash VAT for hospitality, and put £270 back in your pocket.
Our plan would cut your energy bills, slash VAT for hospitality, and put £270 back in your pocket.
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Liberal Democrats are fighting to save the high street AND cut your cost of living.
Our plan would cut your energy bills, slash VAT for hospitality, and put £270 back in your pocket.
Our plan would cut your energy bills, slash VAT for hospitality, and put £270 back in your pocket.
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After several difficult years for the trans community, we must continue to stand up for the rights of trans people across the UK and the world and fight discrimination wherever we find it #TransAwarenessWeek
November 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
After several difficult years for the trans community, we must continue to stand up for the rights of trans people across the UK and the world and fight discrimination wherever we find it #TransAwarenessWeek
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In 2019 he went on Fox News and pushed Great Replacement antisemitism.
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In 2019 he went on Fox News and pushed Great Replacement antisemitism.
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Always worth reposting this quote from UKIP co-founder Alan Sked..
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Always worth reposting this quote from UKIP co-founder Alan Sked..
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Receipts from 8 years ago - and yes Andy Wigmore did refer this to Farage’s lawyers
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Receipts from 8 years ago - and yes Andy Wigmore did refer this to Farage’s lawyers
Have I understood #Labour's pitch for #GE2029?
Vote for Labour to implement Reform-like policies to stop Reform implementing them?
[Labour seems to see Reform as a threat to Labour staying in power rather than a threat to the country, communities & institutions we hold dear]
Vote for Labour to implement Reform-like policies to stop Reform implementing them?
[Labour seems to see Reform as a threat to Labour staying in power rather than a threat to the country, communities & institutions we hold dear]
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Poland has ordered Russia to close its consulate in Gdańsk in response to last week's sabotage of a rail line by agents working for Moscow.
The decision means that all of Russia's consulates in Poland have now been closed down, with only the embassy in Warsaw remaining.
The decision means that all of Russia's consulates in Poland have now been closed down, with only the embassy in Warsaw remaining.
Poland to close last Russian consulate in response to train line sabotage
notesfrompoland.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Poland has ordered Russia to close its consulate in Gdańsk in response to last week's sabotage of a rail line by agents working for Moscow.
The decision means that all of Russia's consulates in Poland have now been closed down, with only the embassy in Warsaw remaining.
The decision means that all of Russia's consulates in Poland have now been closed down, with only the embassy in Warsaw remaining.
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"A police leader has claimed that the display of national flags on streets has become a "tool of division." She said it was part of a "disturbing" trend in rising hate-fuelled rhetoric and deliberate misinformation about immigration and asylum seekers".
www.lbc.co.uk/article/flag...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/flag...
St George's flags on the nation's streets causing 'division' and 'fear' | LBC
A summit of police chiefs and crime commissioners heard the displays were part of a
www.lbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
"A police leader has claimed that the display of national flags on streets has become a "tool of division." She said it was part of a "disturbing" trend in rising hate-fuelled rhetoric and deliberate misinformation about immigration and asylum seekers".
www.lbc.co.uk/article/flag...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/flag...
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Gary Stevenson, "You cannot allow the richest people in your society to take a bigger share, in economies with almost no growth, and not expect ordinary families to get poorer"
"The reason ordinary families and the gov get poorer year after year is because of this massively increasing inequality"
"The reason ordinary families and the gov get poorer year after year is because of this massively increasing inequality"
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Gary Stevenson, "You cannot allow the richest people in your society to take a bigger share, in economies with almost no growth, and not expect ordinary families to get poorer"
"The reason ordinary families and the gov get poorer year after year is because of this massively increasing inequality"
"The reason ordinary families and the gov get poorer year after year is because of this massively increasing inequality"
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One to bookmark for when Labour collapse in London next May
November 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
One to bookmark for when Labour collapse in London next May
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And a pivot back to liberalism at that point will be seen as inauthentic.
Brexit has eaten both our major parties
Brexit has eaten both our major parties
November 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
And a pivot back to liberalism at that point will be seen as inauthentic.
Brexit has eaten both our major parties
Brexit has eaten both our major parties
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They're also haemorrhaging activists.
My hard-working and excellent local councillor was deselected because he objected to Starmer's "rivers of strangers" speech.
He was instrumental in their canvassing and nobody else seems motivated to take over and get out the vote.
My hard-working and excellent local councillor was deselected because he objected to Starmer's "rivers of strangers" speech.
He was instrumental in their canvassing and nobody else seems motivated to take over and get out the vote.
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
They're also haemorrhaging activists.
My hard-working and excellent local councillor was deselected because he objected to Starmer's "rivers of strangers" speech.
He was instrumental in their canvassing and nobody else seems motivated to take over and get out the vote.
My hard-working and excellent local councillor was deselected because he objected to Starmer's "rivers of strangers" speech.
He was instrumental in their canvassing and nobody else seems motivated to take over and get out the vote.
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These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard
I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them.
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
November 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard
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This description very much sums up what people who support Trump mean by "respect the office."
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This description very much sums up what people who support Trump mean by "respect the office."
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I attended the protest outside of Rockstar North in Edinburgh this evening to stand in solidarity with the more than 30 workers across the UK, including a number of my constituents who have been sacked.
November 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I attended the protest outside of Rockstar North in Edinburgh this evening to stand in solidarity with the more than 30 workers across the UK, including a number of my constituents who have been sacked.
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Mmm. I've got several things in common w Nigel Farage. Born 60s Lond/home counties, white & middle class, paternal grandad a WW1 infantryman. Even went to the same school (not quite at the same time, I'm a little older). Somehow the racist stage passed me by. Makes me wonder about Farage's parents.
Guess I need to be proud of myself for not having had a wildly racist/fascist stage as a teenager and just having been a run of the mill moron being ultra dramatic about interpersonal whatever; like, apparently it can't be assumed we didn't all go through a wee ~reckless Hitler fanboy phase.
2025.
2025.
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Mmm. I've got several things in common w Nigel Farage. Born 60s Lond/home counties, white & middle class, paternal grandad a WW1 infantryman. Even went to the same school (not quite at the same time, I'm a little older). Somehow the racist stage passed me by. Makes me wonder about Farage's parents.
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Badenoch is using the Epistle to Timothy to justify welfare cuts.
She might note that the Epistle to Timothy also says women shouldn't braid their hair, should remain silent & submissive to men.
And also that Biblical scholars consider it to be a forgery, not written by Paul.
She might note that the Epistle to Timothy also says women shouldn't braid their hair, should remain silent & submissive to men.
And also that Biblical scholars consider it to be a forgery, not written by Paul.
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Badenoch is using the Epistle to Timothy to justify welfare cuts.
She might note that the Epistle to Timothy also says women shouldn't braid their hair, should remain silent & submissive to men.
And also that Biblical scholars consider it to be a forgery, not written by Paul.
She might note that the Epistle to Timothy also says women shouldn't braid their hair, should remain silent & submissive to men.
And also that Biblical scholars consider it to be a forgery, not written by Paul.
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“We must be looking at a customs union with the EU to grow our economy.”
@helenmorganlibdem.bsky.social
@helenmorganlibdem.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“We must be looking at a customs union with the EU to grow our economy.”
@helenmorganlibdem.bsky.social
@helenmorganlibdem.bsky.social
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He went to a school where, some years later, students would xhant "we pay your benefits." Out of bus windows as they passed a nearby state secondary school.
Honestly I'm really not shocked by this or how he turned out...
Honestly I'm really not shocked by this or how he turned out...
💥 NEW: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
“He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers".
Read on for more...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
“He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers".
Read on for more...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
He went to a school where, some years later, students would xhant "we pay your benefits." Out of bus windows as they passed a nearby state secondary school.
Honestly I'm really not shocked by this or how he turned out...
Honestly I'm really not shocked by this or how he turned out...
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No surprise. It's long been evident that Russia is engaged in a covert war with Europe.
Two Ukrainian men believed to be working with Russia identified as suspects in Polish rail sabotage attacks – Europe live
Two Ukrainian men believed to be working with Russia identified as suspects in Polish rail sabotage attacks – Europe live
Donald Tusk tells parliament that C-4 explosives were used also used in the attacks at the weekend
Poland’s prime minister Donald Tusk has just told lawmakers that the authorities investigating the rail sabotage incidents over the weekend identified two main suspects.
He says the suspects are both Ukrainian men, who crossed into Poland from Belarus this autumn, and are believed to had been working with Russian intelligence services. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
No surprise. It's long been evident that Russia is engaged in a covert war with Europe.
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Most Reform UK voters would back wealth tax on very rich, poll suggests
Exclusive: Best for Britain thinktank says the figures show Nigel Farage is ‘out of step with his base’ on taxation
He is out of step and to think otherwise he does not care about anyone.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Exclusive: Best for Britain thinktank says the figures show Nigel Farage is ‘out of step with his base’ on taxation
He is out of step and to think otherwise he does not care about anyone.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Most Reform UK voters would back wealth tax on very rich, poll suggests
Exclusive: Best for Britain thinktank says the figures show Nigel Farage is ‘out of step with his base’ on taxation
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Most Reform UK voters would back wealth tax on very rich, poll suggests
Exclusive: Best for Britain thinktank says the figures show Nigel Farage is ‘out of step with his base’ on taxation
He is out of step and to think otherwise he does not care about anyone.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Exclusive: Best for Britain thinktank says the figures show Nigel Farage is ‘out of step with his base’ on taxation
He is out of step and to think otherwise he does not care about anyone.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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"I believe in restoring the dignity to the quiet, often invisible work of caring, of loving well, as we look to build a happier, healthier society.”
I couldn’t agree more.
I couldn’t agree more.
Catherine's first speech in two years calls for dignity for carers
Catherine's first speech in two years calls for dignity for carers
The Princess of Wales tells business leaders about the importance of supporting families with young children.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
"I believe in restoring the dignity to the quiet, often invisible work of caring, of loving well, as we look to build a happier, healthier society.”
I couldn’t agree more.
I couldn’t agree more.