Billysackboy 🔶️
@billysackboy.bsky.social
Lib Dem town Councillor, railway enthusiast, and fandom art distributor
Never been happier over a by-election, I hope this is the start of Britain coming to its senses
Benfieldside (Durham) Council By-Election Result:
🔶 LDM: 28.3% (+17.3)
🌹 LAB: 27.4% (+0.8)
➡️ RFM: 25.6% (-6.6)
🙋 Ind: 15.7% (-8.0)
🌳 CON: 1.6% (-5.0)
🌍 GRN: 1.4% (New)
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
🔶 LDM: 28.3% (+17.3)
🌹 LAB: 27.4% (+0.8)
➡️ RFM: 25.6% (-6.6)
🙋 Ind: 15.7% (-8.0)
🌳 CON: 1.6% (-5.0)
🌍 GRN: 1.4% (New)
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
July 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Never been happier over a by-election, I hope this is the start of Britain coming to its senses
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Benfieldside (Durham) Council By-Election Result:
🔶 LDM: 28.3% (+17.3)
🌹 LAB: 27.4% (+0.8)
➡️ RFM: 25.6% (-6.6)
🙋 Ind: 15.7% (-8.0)
🌳 CON: 1.6% (-5.0)
🌍 GRN: 1.4% (New)
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
🔶 LDM: 28.3% (+17.3)
🌹 LAB: 27.4% (+0.8)
➡️ RFM: 25.6% (-6.6)
🙋 Ind: 15.7% (-8.0)
🌳 CON: 1.6% (-5.0)
🌍 GRN: 1.4% (New)
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
July 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Benfieldside (Durham) Council By-Election Result:
🔶 LDM: 28.3% (+17.3)
🌹 LAB: 27.4% (+0.8)
➡️ RFM: 25.6% (-6.6)
🙋 Ind: 15.7% (-8.0)
🌳 CON: 1.6% (-5.0)
🌍 GRN: 1.4% (New)
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
🔶 LDM: 28.3% (+17.3)
🌹 LAB: 27.4% (+0.8)
➡️ RFM: 25.6% (-6.6)
🙋 Ind: 15.7% (-8.0)
🌳 CON: 1.6% (-5.0)
🌍 GRN: 1.4% (New)
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
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Mendip (Bath & North East Somerset) Council By-Election Result:
🔶 LDM: 57.1% (-18.2)
➡️ RFM: 22.0% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.7% (+6.7)
🌍 GRN: 6.6% (+2.0)
🌹 LAB: 4.6% (+0.9)
Liberal Democrat HOLD.
Changes w/ 2023.
🔶 LDM: 57.1% (-18.2)
➡️ RFM: 22.0% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.7% (+6.7)
🌍 GRN: 6.6% (+2.0)
🌹 LAB: 4.6% (+0.9)
Liberal Democrat HOLD.
Changes w/ 2023.
July 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Mendip (Bath & North East Somerset) Council By-Election Result:
🔶 LDM: 57.1% (-18.2)
➡️ RFM: 22.0% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.7% (+6.7)
🌍 GRN: 6.6% (+2.0)
🌹 LAB: 4.6% (+0.9)
Liberal Democrat HOLD.
Changes w/ 2023.
🔶 LDM: 57.1% (-18.2)
➡️ RFM: 22.0% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.7% (+6.7)
🌍 GRN: 6.6% (+2.0)
🌹 LAB: 4.6% (+0.9)
Liberal Democrat HOLD.
Changes w/ 2023.
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Llanidloes (Powys) Council By-Election Result:
🔶 LDM: 35.5% (+5.2)
➡️ RFM: 35.1% (New)
🌼 PLC: 14.3% (+1.9)
🌳 CON: 7.5% (-7.7)
🌹 LAB: 7.1% (-4.8)
🙋 Ind: 0.4% (New)
No Ind (-24.9) or GRN (-4.9) as previous.
Liberal Democrat HOLD.
Changes w/ 2022.
🔶 LDM: 35.5% (+5.2)
➡️ RFM: 35.1% (New)
🌼 PLC: 14.3% (+1.9)
🌳 CON: 7.5% (-7.7)
🌹 LAB: 7.1% (-4.8)
🙋 Ind: 0.4% (New)
No Ind (-24.9) or GRN (-4.9) as previous.
Liberal Democrat HOLD.
Changes w/ 2022.
July 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Llanidloes (Powys) Council By-Election Result:
🔶 LDM: 35.5% (+5.2)
➡️ RFM: 35.1% (New)
🌼 PLC: 14.3% (+1.9)
🌳 CON: 7.5% (-7.7)
🌹 LAB: 7.1% (-4.8)
🙋 Ind: 0.4% (New)
No Ind (-24.9) or GRN (-4.9) as previous.
Liberal Democrat HOLD.
Changes w/ 2022.
🔶 LDM: 35.5% (+5.2)
➡️ RFM: 35.1% (New)
🌼 PLC: 14.3% (+1.9)
🌳 CON: 7.5% (-7.7)
🌹 LAB: 7.1% (-4.8)
🙋 Ind: 0.4% (New)
No Ind (-24.9) or GRN (-4.9) as previous.
Liberal Democrat HOLD.
Changes w/ 2022.
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June 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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June 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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June 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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A superb week on the rails comes to an end. Back to work next week 😩
🟢 3360 miles covered
🚄 1914 miles on HSTs
✅️ 13 winners for haulage
🏖 New heritage line visited
Thank you, Scotland & the West Somerset Railway! Thanks to @turboted170 & @CallumGreenINV for the company along the way ❤️
🟢 3360 miles covered
🚄 1914 miles on HSTs
✅️ 13 winners for haulage
🏖 New heritage line visited
Thank you, Scotland & the West Somerset Railway! Thanks to @turboted170 & @CallumGreenINV for the company along the way ❤️
June 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A superb week on the rails comes to an end. Back to work next week 😩
🟢 3360 miles covered
🚄 1914 miles on HSTs
✅️ 13 winners for haulage
🏖 New heritage line visited
Thank you, Scotland & the West Somerset Railway! Thanks to @turboted170 & @CallumGreenINV for the company along the way ❤️
🟢 3360 miles covered
🚄 1914 miles on HSTs
✅️ 13 winners for haulage
🏖 New heritage line visited
Thank you, Scotland & the West Somerset Railway! Thanks to @turboted170 & @CallumGreenINV for the company along the way ❤️
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June 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Including diverse customers & employees strengthens business
Miller's America First Legal agenda of hate will lead brands foolish enough to follow it right into a dead-end with customers
Miller's America First Legal agenda of hate will lead brands foolish enough to follow it right into a dead-end with customers
🏳️🌈 Stephen Miller's America First Legal filed a Federal civil rights complaint Against Kellogg’s in 2023 saying the food giant was "infused with woke ideology."
Now Mars is acquiring Kellanova (formerly Kellogg's). Mars M&Ms Pride: "The world is sweeter with all the colors"
#Pride #PrideMonth
Now Mars is acquiring Kellanova (formerly Kellogg's). Mars M&Ms Pride: "The world is sweeter with all the colors"
#Pride #PrideMonth
June 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Including diverse customers & employees strengthens business
Miller's America First Legal agenda of hate will lead brands foolish enough to follow it right into a dead-end with customers
Miller's America First Legal agenda of hate will lead brands foolish enough to follow it right into a dead-end with customers
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It's a thing of absolute beauty, a form of beautiful art that continues to glide along, doing its thing nearly 50 years on 😍
43150, arriving into Stirling earlier today, working a Glasgow Queen Street to Aberdeen service
43150, arriving into Stirling earlier today, working a Glasgow Queen Street to Aberdeen service
June 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It's a thing of absolute beauty, a form of beautiful art that continues to glide along, doing its thing nearly 50 years on 😍
43150, arriving into Stirling earlier today, working a Glasgow Queen Street to Aberdeen service
43150, arriving into Stirling earlier today, working a Glasgow Queen Street to Aberdeen service
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'Now it's a mighty long way down the dusty trail
And the sun burns hot on the cold steel rails'
Happy birthday Ian Hunter, lead singer with Mott The Hopple, who turns 86 today
And the sun burns hot on the cold steel rails'
Happy birthday Ian Hunter, lead singer with Mott The Hopple, who turns 86 today
June 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
'Now it's a mighty long way down the dusty trail
And the sun burns hot on the cold steel rails'
Happy birthday Ian Hunter, lead singer with Mott The Hopple, who turns 86 today
And the sun burns hot on the cold steel rails'
Happy birthday Ian Hunter, lead singer with Mott The Hopple, who turns 86 today
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Dr. Who is a terrifying premise. Don't like the idea of an alien that can go any where any time but still chooses to mostly hang out with the British.
June 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Dr. Who is a terrifying premise. Don't like the idea of an alien that can go any where any time but still chooses to mostly hang out with the British.
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#SemaphoreSunday just visible through the halo-like haze of clag from 58023 at Kidderminster station during the Severn Valley Railway spring diesel gala last month. Great to finally see this fairly rare survivor in action & get some mileage behind her. #Class58 #BritishRail 15/5/25
June 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
#SemaphoreSunday just visible through the halo-like haze of clag from 58023 at Kidderminster station during the Severn Valley Railway spring diesel gala last month. Great to finally see this fairly rare survivor in action & get some mileage behind her. #Class58 #BritishRail 15/5/25
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As local news sites resemble Facebook the YorkshirePost holds out.
Today a well researched article - with fabulous unseen pictures - on Doncaster’s legacy as an electric locomotive builder.
🆓 📰 app.yorkshirepost.co.uk/story/515291...
Today a well researched article - with fabulous unseen pictures - on Doncaster’s legacy as an electric locomotive builder.
🆓 📰 app.yorkshirepost.co.uk/story/515291...
June 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
As local news sites resemble Facebook the YorkshirePost holds out.
Today a well researched article - with fabulous unseen pictures - on Doncaster’s legacy as an electric locomotive builder.
🆓 📰 app.yorkshirepost.co.uk/story/515291...
Today a well researched article - with fabulous unseen pictures - on Doncaster’s legacy as an electric locomotive builder.
🆓 📰 app.yorkshirepost.co.uk/story/515291...
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The anguish of gay Americans who were called “sexual psychopaths” in Congress and fired from their jobs fueled the first public demonstrations for gay rights in the nation. The fight for dignity continued through the AIDS epidemic and the battle for marriage equality.
Gay history was made in D.C. At times, it was dispiriting — but also uplifting.
D.C. is the place for monuments to the thinkers, warriors and leaders who shook and shaped the country. Memorials of LGBTQ history may be less well known, but are key to understanding the place of g...
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June 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The anguish of gay Americans who were called “sexual psychopaths” in Congress and fired from their jobs fueled the first public demonstrations for gay rights in the nation. The fight for dignity continued through the AIDS epidemic and the battle for marriage equality.
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Chiltern Railways class 121 'Bubble Car' working the 17.08 Little Kimble to Aylesbury on 18 Aug 2016
June 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Chiltern Railways class 121 'Bubble Car' working the 17.08 Little Kimble to Aylesbury on 18 Aug 2016
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Morning all. Into a new week, I hope it’s good for you all.
Still sporting its British Rail corporate blue, 37154 sits inside Eastfield TMD receiving a bit of TLC. The loco survived until 1999, and met its end in 2000 in Wigan.
#Class37 #Tractor #EastfieldTMD #BRBlue #BritishRail
Still sporting its British Rail corporate blue, 37154 sits inside Eastfield TMD receiving a bit of TLC. The loco survived until 1999, and met its end in 2000 in Wigan.
#Class37 #Tractor #EastfieldTMD #BRBlue #BritishRail
June 2, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Morning all. Into a new week, I hope it’s good for you all.
Still sporting its British Rail corporate blue, 37154 sits inside Eastfield TMD receiving a bit of TLC. The loco survived until 1999, and met its end in 2000 in Wigan.
#Class37 #Tractor #EastfieldTMD #BRBlue #BritishRail
Still sporting its British Rail corporate blue, 37154 sits inside Eastfield TMD receiving a bit of TLC. The loco survived until 1999, and met its end in 2000 in Wigan.
#Class37 #Tractor #EastfieldTMD #BRBlue #BritishRail
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#ManxMonday Snaefell Mountain Railway No.6 waits at Laxey for the next trip up the mountain. 21.8.95
June 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
#ManxMonday Snaefell Mountain Railway No.6 waits at Laxey for the next trip up the mountain. 21.8.95
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On this day, 2nd June 2012, Deltic D9000/55022 gets ready to depart Banbury with the Pathfinder Railtours - The York Flyer, having just made its way from Didcot.
June 2, 2025 at 5:54 AM
On this day, 2nd June 2012, Deltic D9000/55022 gets ready to depart Banbury with the Pathfinder Railtours - The York Flyer, having just made its way from Didcot.
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#SundaySeventyThree Once almost unheard of this far north, nowadays so common that I think I was the only person photting 73961 'Alison' as she passed through Kettering yesterday afternoon. A closer look at Colas Rail 1Q99 Tonbridge West Yard to Derby RTC. #Colas #MML 31/5/25
June 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
#SundaySeventyThree Once almost unheard of this far north, nowadays so common that I think I was the only person photting 73961 'Alison' as she passed through Kettering yesterday afternoon. A closer look at Colas Rail 1Q99 Tonbridge West Yard to Derby RTC. #Colas #MML 31/5/25
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For photo 20 of 200 to celebrate 200 years of railways it could only ever be a photo of a class 20 😊
June 2, 2025 at 8:06 AM
For photo 20 of 200 to celebrate 200 years of railways it could only ever be a photo of a class 20 😊