Smartie101
@smartie101.bsky.social
English person living best life in France. Hate brexit, Socialist, love animals. Owned by a cat. Stand by Ukraine 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇨🇵
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Minimum wage should not go higher, suggests UK multi-millionaire Tory leader Badenoch on a salary of £93,904+expenses.
Silence on equitable distribution of wealth, progressive taxation or universal basic income/services.
Can't build economy on poverty.
Silence on equitable distribution of wealth, progressive taxation or universal basic income/services.
Can't build economy on poverty.
Minimum wage should not go any higher, suggests Badenoch
Badenoch claimed Labour had tipped the balance too far against workers and in favour of welfare.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Minimum wage should not go higher, suggests UK multi-millionaire Tory leader Badenoch on a salary of £93,904+expenses.
Silence on equitable distribution of wealth, progressive taxation or universal basic income/services.
Can't build economy on poverty.
Silence on equitable distribution of wealth, progressive taxation or universal basic income/services.
Can't build economy on poverty.
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In case you missed it, 100 voted for the bill for a Customs Union with the EU, and 100 voted against
Deputy Speaker Caroline Nokes cast the vote aye, to allow further debate, "Who will prepare the bill?"
Deputy Speaker Caroline Nokes cast the vote aye, to allow further debate, "Who will prepare the bill?"
December 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In case you missed it, 100 voted for the bill for a Customs Union with the EU, and 100 voted against
Deputy Speaker Caroline Nokes cast the vote aye, to allow further debate, "Who will prepare the bill?"
Deputy Speaker Caroline Nokes cast the vote aye, to allow further debate, "Who will prepare the bill?"
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If the Brexit ref was held today, Remain would win by over 8 million votes. That huge majority is created from old Leavers dying, young pro-EU people entering the electorate, and millions changing their mind. It's time for the big parties to accept this reality and aim their policies toward Rejoin.
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
If the Brexit ref was held today, Remain would win by over 8 million votes. That huge majority is created from old Leavers dying, young pro-EU people entering the electorate, and millions changing their mind. It's time for the big parties to accept this reality and aim their policies toward Rejoin.
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Well done @libdems.org.uk and those Labour MPs.
We cannot be afraid to discuss and challenge `brexit.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
We cannot be afraid to discuss and challenge `brexit.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
More than a dozen Labour MPs back call for EU-UK customs union
Labour prime minister is pursuing a post-Brexit ‘reset’ with the bloc
www.independent.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Well done @libdems.org.uk and those Labour MPs.
We cannot be afraid to discuss and challenge `brexit.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
We cannot be afraid to discuss and challenge `brexit.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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✅ Take parcels to the Post Office
✅ Sort out Christmas presents
✅ Join the Green Party!
180,000 members and counting. Will you be the next? ⤵️
✅ Sort out Christmas presents
✅ Join the Green Party!
180,000 members and counting. Will you be the next? ⤵️
December 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
✅ Take parcels to the Post Office
✅ Sort out Christmas presents
✅ Join the Green Party!
180,000 members and counting. Will you be the next? ⤵️
✅ Sort out Christmas presents
✅ Join the Green Party!
180,000 members and counting. Will you be the next? ⤵️
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Nigel Farage, currently under investigation for
- election expenses fraud
- antisemitism rants
- Putin connections
- £40billion lost to UK public finances
- friendships with
* child rapist
* Russian spy
* 'illegal' immigrant employer
is only kept afloat by
uncritical billionaire media adulation
- election expenses fraud
- antisemitism rants
- Putin connections
- £40billion lost to UK public finances
- friendships with
* child rapist
* Russian spy
* 'illegal' immigrant employer
is only kept afloat by
uncritical billionaire media adulation
December 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Nigel Farage, currently under investigation for
- election expenses fraud
- antisemitism rants
- Putin connections
- £40billion lost to UK public finances
- friendships with
* child rapist
* Russian spy
* 'illegal' immigrant employer
is only kept afloat by
uncritical billionaire media adulation
- election expenses fraud
- antisemitism rants
- Putin connections
- £40billion lost to UK public finances
- friendships with
* child rapist
* Russian spy
* 'illegal' immigrant employer
is only kept afloat by
uncritical billionaire media adulation
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I SAID IT WHEN TORIES WERE BLATANTLY SHOWING THE ENTIRE COUNTRY JUST HOW CORRUPT THEY WERE, WE DID NOTHING!!!!! I SAY IT AGAIN NOW REF FARAGE GETTING IN.WE MUST NOT BE COMPLACENT, AND DO NOTHING!! ACTION IF NECCESSARY. NEVER EVER EVER MUST HE GET A TOE IN NUMBER TEN
December 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I SAID IT WHEN TORIES WERE BLATANTLY SHOWING THE ENTIRE COUNTRY JUST HOW CORRUPT THEY WERE, WE DID NOTHING!!!!! I SAY IT AGAIN NOW REF FARAGE GETTING IN.WE MUST NOT BE COMPLACENT, AND DO NOTHING!! ACTION IF NECCESSARY. NEVER EVER EVER MUST HE GET A TOE IN NUMBER TEN
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Nigel Farage is wrong – victims don’t forget bullying and abuse | Letters
December 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Nigel Farage is wrong – victims don’t forget bullying and abuse | Letters
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JUST IN: A federal judge rejected the Trump administration’s effort to halt approvals for all new wind energy projects – dealing a blow to the president’s efforts to hamper renewable energy.
thehill.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
JUST IN: A federal judge rejected the Trump administration’s effort to halt approvals for all new wind energy projects – dealing a blow to the president’s efforts to hamper renewable energy.
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📊 The Brexit majority hasn’t just slipped 👉it’s vanished.
This chart from Peter Kellner/YouGov shows:
• 5m 2016 voters have died
• New young voters back Rejoin by 5:1
• 29% of Leave voters now want to rejoin
• Net result: Rejoin 19.8m vs Stay Out 11.7m
➡️ An 8 MILLION majority for Rejoin.
This chart from Peter Kellner/YouGov shows:
• 5m 2016 voters have died
• New young voters back Rejoin by 5:1
• 29% of Leave voters now want to rejoin
• Net result: Rejoin 19.8m vs Stay Out 11.7m
➡️ An 8 MILLION majority for Rejoin.
December 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
📊 The Brexit majority hasn’t just slipped 👉it’s vanished.
This chart from Peter Kellner/YouGov shows:
• 5m 2016 voters have died
• New young voters back Rejoin by 5:1
• 29% of Leave voters now want to rejoin
• Net result: Rejoin 19.8m vs Stay Out 11.7m
➡️ An 8 MILLION majority for Rejoin.
This chart from Peter Kellner/YouGov shows:
• 5m 2016 voters have died
• New young voters back Rejoin by 5:1
• 29% of Leave voters now want to rejoin
• Net result: Rejoin 19.8m vs Stay Out 11.7m
➡️ An 8 MILLION majority for Rejoin.
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Trump, Putin, Xi & Musk all want the EU to be destroyed, because a divided Europe will be an easy prey to be picked apart and subjugated by the world's authoritarian states. It will become a contested region in which the authoritarian empires will seek to extend their areas of influence and control.
December 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Trump, Putin, Xi & Musk all want the EU to be destroyed, because a divided Europe will be an easy prey to be picked apart and subjugated by the world's authoritarian states. It will become a contested region in which the authoritarian empires will seek to extend their areas of influence and control.
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With this there would have been no Mo Farah. No Freddie Mercury. No Lenny Henry. No George Michael. No Meera Syal. No Sadiq Khan. No Sajid Javid. No Salman Rushdie. No Hanif Kureishi.
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
With this there would have been no Mo Farah. No Freddie Mercury. No Lenny Henry. No George Michael. No Meera Syal. No Sadiq Khan. No Sajid Javid. No Salman Rushdie. No Hanif Kureishi.
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Great listen on a huge scandal . Worth checking out . . .
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How do you save an animal everyone thinks is already protected?! David talks with award-winning filmmaker, @abrahamjoffe.bsky.social, who's trying to do just that.
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The Secret Trade in Polar Bears
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How do you save an animal everyone thinks is already protected?! David talks with award-winning filmmaker, @abrahamjoffe.bsky.social, who's trying to do just that.
www.treesacrowd.fm/abraham-joff...
December 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Great listen on a huge scandal . Worth checking out . . .
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New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
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What a difference 24 hours makes. Small margins between life and death.
December 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
What a difference 24 hours makes. Small margins between life and death.
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Starmer urged to let Labour MPs back vote on joining EU customs union – UK politics live
December 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Starmer urged to let Labour MPs back vote on joining EU customs union – UK politics live
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“Labour and the country have reached a historic inflection point. For all the talk of Brexit ‘benefits’, the anti-EU ideologues know the tide has turned” @pollytoynbee.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house. The Brexiters are rattled – and it shows | Polly Toynbee
Labour and the country have reached a historic inflection point. For all the talk of Brexit ‘benefits’, the anti-EU ideologues know the tide has turned, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
“Labour and the country have reached a historic inflection point. For all the talk of Brexit ‘benefits’, the anti-EU ideologues know the tide has turned” @pollytoynbee.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Lando Norris seems like a lovely young man.
(Here ends this year's Formula 1 analysis.)
(Here ends this year's Formula 1 analysis.)
December 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Lando Norris seems like a lovely young man.
(Here ends this year's Formula 1 analysis.)
(Here ends this year's Formula 1 analysis.)
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Trump and Musk will give Europe to Putin if they can. The world faces a tyranny of power and greed crazed madmen.
We all know their servants in the media.
Call them out at every opportunity.
We all know their servants in the media.
Call them out at every opportunity.
December 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Trump and Musk will give Europe to Putin if they can. The world faces a tyranny of power and greed crazed madmen.
We all know their servants in the media.
Call them out at every opportunity.
We all know their servants in the media.
Call them out at every opportunity.
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Spot on. That's why it was so disgusting and cynical of the Leave campaigns in the UK to use the symbols and evocations of WWII in their campaigning.
The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
December 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Spot on. That's why it was so disgusting and cynical of the Leave campaigns in the UK to use the symbols and evocations of WWII in their campaigning.
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Anyone who tries to sell Nigel Farage to you as a saviour is either super rich or thick as shit.
Might want to wonder why that is.
Might want to wonder why that is.
December 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Anyone who tries to sell Nigel Farage to you as a saviour is either super rich or thick as shit.
Might want to wonder why that is.
Might want to wonder why that is.
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I HAD MY DAUGHTER IN 1972. NURSING STAFF FED HER ALL NIGHT FOR TEN NIGHTS!! NORMAL BIRTH. MUMS WERE ALLOWED TO REST. LOOK AT TODAY? WTF HAS GONE WRONG??? EVERYTHING TORIES TOUCHED THEY BROKE.NOW BLAMING LABOUR, FOOLS BELIEVE THEM!! I TRULY DESPAIR FOR UK.
December 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I HAD MY DAUGHTER IN 1972. NURSING STAFF FED HER ALL NIGHT FOR TEN NIGHTS!! NORMAL BIRTH. MUMS WERE ALLOWED TO REST. LOOK AT TODAY? WTF HAS GONE WRONG??? EVERYTHING TORIES TOUCHED THEY BROKE.NOW BLAMING LABOUR, FOOLS BELIEVE THEM!! I TRULY DESPAIR FOR UK.
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It’s the world’s rarest ape. Now a billion-dollar dig for gold threatens its future
December 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
It’s the world’s rarest ape. Now a billion-dollar dig for gold threatens its future
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'Police assess claims Reform overspent on Farage election campaign'
Time someone investigated why Farage was on Putin's own state TV station so many times.
Time someone investigated why Farage was on Putin's own state TV station so many times.
December 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
'Police assess claims Reform overspent on Farage election campaign'
Time someone investigated why Farage was on Putin's own state TV station so many times.
Time someone investigated why Farage was on Putin's own state TV station so many times.
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Mason Mount reaffirmed his importance to Ruben Amorim and Man Utd, but the praise for him by the manager just showed that Kobbie Mainoo won’t... #MUFC #Football #ManchesterUnited
Ruben Amorim’s key praise for Mason Mount shows why Kobbie Mainoo won’t have Man Utd future under him
Mason Mount reaffirmed his importance to Ruben Amorim and Man Utd, but the praise for him by the manager just showed that Kobbie Mainoo won’t...
www.unitedinfocus.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Mason Mount reaffirmed his importance to Ruben Amorim and Man Utd, but the praise for him by the manager just showed that Kobbie Mainoo won’t... #MUFC #Football #ManchesterUnited