@johndeath.bsky.social
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Thought the plan was to smash the smuggling gangs not emulate them.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Thought the plan was to smash the smuggling gangs not emulate them.
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So to summarize, your image is packed with mistakes, uses an exploitative tech, fails to communicate a clear message, displays your ignorance, insults the people of that county, makes you look like environmental vandals and fails to describe your key demographic.
This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
So to summarize, your image is packed with mistakes, uses an exploitative tech, fails to communicate a clear message, displays your ignorance, insults the people of that county, makes you look like environmental vandals and fails to describe your key demographic.
This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
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Last night, Peers voted against Swift bricks: rejecting a simple, proven way to help one of our fastest declining birds recover. ❌
We share @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's disappointment & frustration.
The vote came late, but with government refusing to back it, its fate was already sealed.
We share @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's disappointment & frustration.
The vote came late, but with government refusing to back it, its fate was already sealed.
November 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Last night, Peers voted against Swift bricks: rejecting a simple, proven way to help one of our fastest declining birds recover. ❌
We share @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's disappointment & frustration.
The vote came late, but with government refusing to back it, its fate was already sealed.
We share @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's disappointment & frustration.
The vote came late, but with government refusing to back it, its fate was already sealed.
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Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
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November 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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#OTD 1907: First women elected to borough and county councils. Women had been able to be elected to a number of public bodies since W.E. Forster's Education Act of 1870 and, following Henry Fowler's Local Government Act of 1894, to urban and rural district councils, however...🧵
November 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM
#OTD 1907: First women elected to borough and county councils. Women had been able to be elected to a number of public bodies since W.E. Forster's Education Act of 1870 and, following Henry Fowler's Local Government Act of 1894, to urban and rural district councils, however...🧵
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If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight.
Use the Quick Vote option.
Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them
Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand
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October 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight.
Use the Quick Vote option.
Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them
Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand
secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...
Use the Quick Vote option.
Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them
Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand
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Huge congrats to Rob Jetten, our D66 friends, and VVD in the Netherlands! 💛
Proof that hope, optimism and liberal values can beat the fear and division of the populist right.
Let’s do the same here in the UK and wipe the smile off Farage’s face at the local elections in May.
Proof that hope, optimism and liberal values can beat the fear and division of the populist right.
Let’s do the same here in the UK and wipe the smile off Farage’s face at the local elections in May.
October 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Huge congrats to Rob Jetten, our D66 friends, and VVD in the Netherlands! 💛
Proof that hope, optimism and liberal values can beat the fear and division of the populist right.
Let’s do the same here in the UK and wipe the smile off Farage’s face at the local elections in May.
Proof that hope, optimism and liberal values can beat the fear and division of the populist right.
Let’s do the same here in the UK and wipe the smile off Farage’s face at the local elections in May.
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The current line taken by some Conservatives is "We will rip up ILR, something no govt has ever done before, but citizenship is different". Not reassuring. Precedents matter. "We don't abide by rules previously agreed" is the precedent.Once that's set, reassurances on other rules carry little weight
October 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The current line taken by some Conservatives is "We will rip up ILR, something no govt has ever done before, but citizenship is different". Not reassuring. Precedents matter. "We don't abide by rules previously agreed" is the precedent.Once that's set, reassurances on other rules carry little weight
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Hātabaðan, n: Bath (place name). (HA-ta-BA-thon / ˈhaː-ta-ˌba-θan)
The city of Bath used to be called Hot Baths.
Image: Book of Hours; St Omer or Théouranne, c. 1320; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 36684, f. 7v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD #placenames
The city of Bath used to be called Hot Baths.
Image: Book of Hours; St Omer or Théouranne, c. 1320; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 36684, f. 7v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD #placenames
October 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Hātabaðan, n: Bath (place name). (HA-ta-BA-thon / ˈhaː-ta-ˌba-θan)
The city of Bath used to be called Hot Baths.
Image: Book of Hours; St Omer or Théouranne, c. 1320; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 36684, f. 7v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD #placenames
The city of Bath used to be called Hot Baths.
Image: Book of Hours; St Omer or Théouranne, c. 1320; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 36684, f. 7v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD #placenames
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Encore 7 Lecornu et on a le droit à un Lecornu gratuit
October 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Encore 7 Lecornu et on a le droit à un Lecornu gratuit
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This sounds plausible to me. But if it’s true, it means that the age of social media might be over soon, with only the old and wrinkled (like myself) spending any actual time there.
October 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This sounds plausible to me. But if it’s true, it means that the age of social media might be over soon, with only the old and wrinkled (like myself) spending any actual time there.
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Another astonishing sign of incredible incompetence from the UK Conservatives. They can’t even get right the name of the country they want to represent.
(Image via LBC political editor Natasha Clark)
(Image via LBC political editor Natasha Clark)
October 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Another astonishing sign of incredible incompetence from the UK Conservatives. They can’t even get right the name of the country they want to represent.
(Image via LBC political editor Natasha Clark)
(Image via LBC political editor Natasha Clark)
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Another day through the looking glass with UK politics starts with Reform finding out strangely enough that local government isn't spending all (or indeed virtually any) money on woke initiatives they can easily cut. www.ft.com/content/277c...
Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters
Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending
www.ft.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Another day through the looking glass with UK politics starts with Reform finding out strangely enough that local government isn't spending all (or indeed virtually any) money on woke initiatives they can easily cut. www.ft.com/content/277c...
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#OTD 1842: The marriage takes place of Peter Alfred Taylor (MP for Leicester 1862-1884) and Clementia Doughty, a remarkable, radical couple who became engaged in all the main political debates of the day. 🧵 1/2
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
#OTD 1842: The marriage takes place of Peter Alfred Taylor (MP for Leicester 1862-1884) and Clementia Doughty, a remarkable, radical couple who became engaged in all the main political debates of the day. 🧵 1/2
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Keir Starmer says everyone in the UK will be required to have mandatory digital ID. That’s not the kind of country we want to be.
Liberal Democrats have always stood up to defend civil liberties against government overreach.
We will fight tooth and nail to oppose these plans too.
Liberal Democrats have always stood up to defend civil liberties against government overreach.
We will fight tooth and nail to oppose these plans too.
September 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Keir Starmer says everyone in the UK will be required to have mandatory digital ID. That’s not the kind of country we want to be.
Liberal Democrats have always stood up to defend civil liberties against government overreach.
We will fight tooth and nail to oppose these plans too.
Liberal Democrats have always stood up to defend civil liberties against government overreach.
We will fight tooth and nail to oppose these plans too.
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Council deputy leader joins the Liberal Democrats
Council deputy leader joins the Liberal Democrats
Councillor Tony Fairclough, deputy leader of Waverley Borough Council and previously in the Farnham Residents Group, has joined the Lib Dems.
buff.ly
September 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Council deputy leader joins the Liberal Democrats
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The media - no, we're not going to report on serious Lib Dem policies
The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts
The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts
The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
September 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The media - no, we're not going to report on serious Lib Dem policies
The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts
The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts
The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
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With Tory MP Danny Kruger defecting to Reform UK yesterday, 67% of Britons say MPs who switch parties should have to fight a by-election, including 60% of Reform UK voters
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
September 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
With Tory MP Danny Kruger defecting to Reform UK yesterday, 67% of Britons say MPs who switch parties should have to fight a by-election, including 60% of Reform UK voters
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
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only around a decade to go until another PM thinks "I know, I should hire Peter Mandelson"
September 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
only around a decade to go until another PM thinks "I know, I should hire Peter Mandelson"
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This summer has seen a rise in protests around hotels housing #AsylumSeekers and #refugees - and our CEO shares our position at Sophie Hayes Foundation regarding this hostility.
#RefugeesWelcome #Immigration #Asylum #Protests #Solidarity #ModernSlavery #HumanTrafficking #HumanRights
#RefugeesWelcome #Immigration #Asylum #Protests #Solidarity #ModernSlavery #HumanTrafficking #HumanRights
September 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This summer has seen a rise in protests around hotels housing #AsylumSeekers and #refugees - and our CEO shares our position at Sophie Hayes Foundation regarding this hostility.
#RefugeesWelcome #Immigration #Asylum #Protests #Solidarity #ModernSlavery #HumanTrafficking #HumanRights
#RefugeesWelcome #Immigration #Asylum #Protests #Solidarity #ModernSlavery #HumanTrafficking #HumanRights
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This 🔽 spread widely 👍
Apparently the UK government are doing an emergency alert test on the 7th of September so just in case anyone knows any current domestic abuse victims who would need to have their safety phones switched off so as not to be outed, please pass it in.
August 31, 2025 at 8:26 AM
This 🔽 spread widely 👍
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Speculative cost savings should never have been the basis for redrawing the map of local government.
Especially without independent evidence for that claim.
The government can still rethink its approach.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Especially without independent evidence for that claim.
The government can still rethink its approach.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ministers didn't do cost review of English council mergers
The government relied on a report by a lobbyist group that now says reorganisation could make no savings.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Speculative cost savings should never have been the basis for redrawing the map of local government.
Especially without independent evidence for that claim.
The government can still rethink its approach.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Especially without independent evidence for that claim.
The government can still rethink its approach.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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🚀WE'RE #HIRING!🚀
💫 We're looking for a new #Chair of our #BoardOfTrustees to help us take our mission of supporting women survivors of exploitation to the next level!
For more information and to apply, visit the link below and download our full Candidate Pack:
www.sophiehayesfoundation.org/jobs
💫 We're looking for a new #Chair of our #BoardOfTrustees to help us take our mission of supporting women survivors of exploitation to the next level!
For more information and to apply, visit the link below and download our full Candidate Pack:
www.sophiehayesfoundation.org/jobs
August 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🚀WE'RE #HIRING!🚀
💫 We're looking for a new #Chair of our #BoardOfTrustees to help us take our mission of supporting women survivors of exploitation to the next level!
For more information and to apply, visit the link below and download our full Candidate Pack:
www.sophiehayesfoundation.org/jobs
💫 We're looking for a new #Chair of our #BoardOfTrustees to help us take our mission of supporting women survivors of exploitation to the next level!
For more information and to apply, visit the link below and download our full Candidate Pack:
www.sophiehayesfoundation.org/jobs
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Nigel Farage and the Reform Party’s Taliban Tax means sending hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money to an oppressive regime that British soldiers fought and died to defeat.
August 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Nigel Farage and the Reform Party’s Taliban Tax means sending hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money to an oppressive regime that British soldiers fought and died to defeat.