Mike
@mike-quirke.bsky.social
Teacher and creative practitioner. Merseyside.
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The City & the elites are apparently worried about me.
The people who bankrupted this country are spooked.
Won't someone think of the billionaires?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The people who bankrupted this country are spooked.
Won't someone think of the billionaires?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
UK Greens’ Populist Tilt Worries City With Disregard for Markets
Green Party leader Zack Polanski is winning over voters with his pledge to tax the wealthy and unleash borrowing to plow money into Britain’s ailing public services. His inequality-busting ideas are a...
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The City & the elites are apparently worried about me.
The people who bankrupted this country are spooked.
Won't someone think of the billionaires?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The people who bankrupted this country are spooked.
Won't someone think of the billionaires?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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September 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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‘An asset he understood.’ Great line, which highlights Starmer’s biggest fault in government - constant failure to ‘read the room’ which seems baffling for a previously successful lawyer. Another great one from @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social youtu.be/1Iag4yaozis?...
"Put Up Some Fences" - Marsh Family parody of "Walking in Memphis" about Donald Trump UK State Visit
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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September 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
‘An asset he understood.’ Great line, which highlights Starmer’s biggest fault in government - constant failure to ‘read the room’ which seems baffling for a previously successful lawyer. Another great one from @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social youtu.be/1Iag4yaozis?...
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
July 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
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£230,000 would buy you a fantastic Flat in Leicester.
The UK Political system is broken.
The UK Political system is broken.
There is no way she spent all that legitimately on 155 items. What did she buy, and for what purpose? This needs a second look.
June 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
£230,000 would buy you a fantastic Flat in Leicester.
The UK Political system is broken.
The UK Political system is broken.
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'Give Farage a chance' is brought to us by the same people who wanted Brexit. It's like they want to finish the destruction they started. 🤦♀️
We do not have to give Nigel Farage a chance.
We should not give Nigel Farage a chance.
We should not give Nigel Farage a chance.
June 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM
'Give Farage a chance' is brought to us by the same people who wanted Brexit. It's like they want to finish the destruction they started. 🤦♀️
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When the education system demands things that aren't developmentally appropriate, you end up creating issues not solving them. Young children are not meant to be static for long periods of time. If we insist they are, we create 'behaviour problems' that are actually just children behaving normally.
June 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
When the education system demands things that aren't developmentally appropriate, you end up creating issues not solving them. Young children are not meant to be static for long periods of time. If we insist they are, we create 'behaviour problems' that are actually just children behaving normally.
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This is a message we all need to hear. 💪
June 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This is a message we all need to hear. 💪
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At the very least the guy could pay for a new cathedral or floating piazza!
June 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
At the very least the guy could pay for a new cathedral or floating piazza!
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This is like watching gangrene work its way up a limb and consume a cancerous tumor.
WATCH: “You’re a U.S. senator and you don’t know anything about the country you want to topple.”
Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran
Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran
June 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
This is like watching gangrene work its way up a limb and consume a cancerous tumor.
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45°C in the UK isn’t a disaster film - it’s a Met Office warning.
This is what decades of fossil fuel lobbying, political cowardice & climate delay has led us to.
This is why we urgently need a bolder Green Party - a party for the people and the planet.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This is what decades of fossil fuel lobbying, political cowardice & climate delay has led us to.
This is why we urgently need a bolder Green Party - a party for the people and the planet.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK temperatures of 45C may be possible in current climate, Met Office says
Experts say risk of 40C has almost trebled since 2000, with 50/50 chance of hitting that mark in next 12 years
www.theguardian.com
June 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
45°C in the UK isn’t a disaster film - it’s a Met Office warning.
This is what decades of fossil fuel lobbying, political cowardice & climate delay has led us to.
This is why we urgently need a bolder Green Party - a party for the people and the planet.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This is what decades of fossil fuel lobbying, political cowardice & climate delay has led us to.
This is why we urgently need a bolder Green Party - a party for the people and the planet.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Huxley (1936): “The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
April 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Huxley (1936): “The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
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Hi #EduSky, we’ve had 9000 free downloads on #PlayMatters. It’s got lots of useful tips on children’s play based learning & a foreword by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social - can you help us get to 10,000? @ruthswailes.bsky.social @ruthswailes.bsky.social www.early-years-reviews.com/_files/ugd/c...
April 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Hi #EduSky, we’ve had 9000 free downloads on #PlayMatters. It’s got lots of useful tips on children’s play based learning & a foreword by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social - can you help us get to 10,000? @ruthswailes.bsky.social @ruthswailes.bsky.social www.early-years-reviews.com/_files/ugd/c...
Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen!
Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
Put Public Ownership of Water Back on the Table
Privatisation of water isn’t failing - it is the failure. The Government is mid-way through a major review of the water sector. But so far, it has refused to consider a potential solution that’s backe...
you.38degrees.org.uk
April 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen!
Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
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Energy bills up 6.4% — while network providers raked in £4 billion in “excess” profits over four years.
Water bills up 26% — while firms paid £78 billion in dividends since privatisation & racked up £64 billion in debt.
End this scam. Bring water & energy into public ownership.
Water bills up 26% — while firms paid £78 billion in dividends since privatisation & racked up £64 billion in debt.
End this scam. Bring water & energy into public ownership.
April 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Energy bills up 6.4% — while network providers raked in £4 billion in “excess” profits over four years.
Water bills up 26% — while firms paid £78 billion in dividends since privatisation & racked up £64 billion in debt.
End this scam. Bring water & energy into public ownership.
Water bills up 26% — while firms paid £78 billion in dividends since privatisation & racked up £64 billion in debt.
End this scam. Bring water & energy into public ownership.
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You have to see this.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
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March 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
You have to see this.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
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"Britain is increasingly poverty-stricken. Nothing works. Many in full employment rely on food banks. Our buildings and infrastructure are crumbling. Our waterways are poisoned.
Yet, incredibly, we are the sixth largest economy in the world.
So: where has all the money gone?" 🤷♂️
Yet, incredibly, we are the sixth largest economy in the world.
So: where has all the money gone?" 🤷♂️
Pecksniff: Where has all the money gone?
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
eastangliabylines.co.uk
March 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"Britain is increasingly poverty-stricken. Nothing works. Many in full employment rely on food banks. Our buildings and infrastructure are crumbling. Our waterways are poisoned.
Yet, incredibly, we are the sixth largest economy in the world.
So: where has all the money gone?" 🤷♂️
Yet, incredibly, we are the sixth largest economy in the world.
So: where has all the money gone?" 🤷♂️
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"As he reaches adolescence, the current level of anxiety my son experiences in a mainstream class is destroying any chance he has of reaching his academic potential. He needs a more regulated environment. I wish it were not so, but no amount of my “thinking differently” will change it." 👇
An open letter to Bridget Phillipson on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
A parent’s response to Phillipson’s position on SEND funding
westenglandbylines.co.uk
March 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"As he reaches adolescence, the current level of anxiety my son experiences in a mainstream class is destroying any chance he has of reaching his academic potential. He needs a more regulated environment. I wish it were not so, but no amount of my “thinking differently” will change it." 👇
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Humanitarian carnage is being inflicted by the UK Labour Government on on of the most vulnerable sector of the UK population to save £6 billion.
However BREXIT costs the UK economy £37 billion a year.
thehighlandtimes.com/obscene-cost...
However BREXIT costs the UK economy £37 billion a year.
thehighlandtimes.com/obscene-cost...
Obscene Cost of Brexit to UK Business Revealed - The Highland Times
New independent analysis has revealed the devastating cost of Brexit to UK business as a staggering £37 billion per year. House of Commons Library research, commissioned by SNP MP Stephen Gethins, con...
thehighlandtimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Humanitarian carnage is being inflicted by the UK Labour Government on on of the most vulnerable sector of the UK population to save £6 billion.
However BREXIT costs the UK economy £37 billion a year.
thehighlandtimes.com/obscene-cost...
However BREXIT costs the UK economy £37 billion a year.
thehighlandtimes.com/obscene-cost...
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We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham
March 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham
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🌍 "Labour’s ‘red lines’ on its relationship reset with the European Union, including no return to the Single Market or the EU Customs Union, must now be revisited and revised.”
Chancellor must ‘supercharge EU reset’ to escape economic black holes
"Getting the UK back in the Single Market and the Customs Union is a prerequisite for creating sustained growth that can improve opportunities for British people across the board"
northeastbylines.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
🌍 "Labour’s ‘red lines’ on its relationship reset with the European Union, including no return to the Single Market or the EU Customs Union, must now be revisited and revised.”