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Multilayered protections for everyone.

Yearning for the days when public health protected public health.
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UK govt ditches flagship policy from the workers’ rights bill.

Removes the right to protection from unfair dismissal from the first day of employment, introduces a six-month threshold.

Victory for bosses, Tories and LibDems.

Insecurity for workers.
Government to ditch day-one unfair dismissal policy from workers’ rights bill
Flagship Labour plan to be replaced with six-month threshold after Peter Kyle vows to not let businesses ‘lose’ under new law
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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If Labour abolish most trials by jury, and a future Reform government then takes us out of the ECHR, we'll end up in an incredibly scary place because we'll be at the whim of a handful of people.

(You could argue "if you're a criminal" but who gets to define what criminality is? Exactly.)
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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I haven't seen any yet but you could probably find a few contemporaries who didn't personally witness Farage being Farage at school. But there doesn't seem to be a single former pupil or teacher who find the descriptions of racism, anti-semitism & cruelty unfeasible. Shocked, I tell you...
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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I’m afraid that I can’t refute this.

My feeling is it will be similar to the tobacco issue.

Some might say that’s tolerable, but it is sad.
What future can there be for the children of today, growing up in a world filled with uncontrolled Covid-19? The harsh truth is that many children, having been subject to repeated infections, are destined for an unhappy fate of serious illness and early mortality.

#COVID19 #children
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Reform UK & Nigel Farage hate media scrutiny, it shows them up for the hypocrites they are.

Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.

A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:

A 6–8% hit to GDP

That's £180bn-£240bn a year

It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.

Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.

Please sign and share 🙏

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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An irritated Nigel Farage said he would never racially abuse someone ‘in a hurtful or insulting way’, which raised more questions than it answered – 23 top responses.
www.thepoke.com/2025/11/25/f...
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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There are three things Rachel Reeves should bear in mind tomorrow: obscene wealth doesn't 'trickle down', tax cuts don't 'pay for themselves' and the private sector isn't 'more efficient'
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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£100 billion of trade a year and over a million jobs since Brexit have been lost. We agree with Sir John Major, Brexit is a flop, but now, we must fix it.
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Kentish Fran 🇪🇺

Remember that Farage was one of the laziest MEPs.
He rarely turned up for a vote.
I wonder what was so special about this one?😉
November 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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It's not a coincidence that the four most damaging politicians of the last two decades (Cameron, Osborne, Johnson and Farage) are all the products of English public schools.
November 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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The UK is losing up to £250m a day in lost tax revenue due to the economic impact of Brexit, House of Commons Library analysis for the Lib Dems suggests.

Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
For you @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social to share with Wes. Please could we have free Covid vaccines for all who want them?
By @adamumak.bsky.social
“COVID is neither over, nor is it a harmless infection without consequences… When you see someone wearing a mask, remember that they’re doing more to protect you than you’re doing to protect them.”

adamumak.medium.com/leslie-lee-i...
Leslie Lee III: Funeral for a Friend
Explaining the one important lesson that he wanted you to learn.
adamumak.medium.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.

We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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By @adamumak.bsky.social
“COVID is neither over, nor is it a harmless infection without consequences… When you see someone wearing a mask, remember that they’re doing more to protect you than you’re doing to protect them.”

adamumak.medium.com/leslie-lee-i...
Leslie Lee III: Funeral for a Friend
Explaining the one important lesson that he wanted you to learn.
adamumak.medium.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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ICYMI: Boris Johnson responded to the Covid Inquiry via his Telegraph column - he failed to apologise

Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice: "It is beyond contempt that he has chosen to respond to the Covid Inquiry by attacking the Covid Bereaved for "wrangling" about the deaths of our loved ones"
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.

It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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"The former BBC director general Tim Davie misled the public in suggesting BBC news reporters had a leftwing political agenda, Good Law Project can reveal." goodlaw.social/vyyj
Tim Davie misled audience about the BBC’s supposed leftwing agenda | Good Law Project
Speaking at a book festival, the former director general suggested the BBC newsroom was full of BLM T-shirts and Kamala mugs. But that’s fake news.
goodlaw.social
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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He sure is
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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In the same week that new revelations broke of Farage’s long history of outright racism, & a court found one of his closest associates literally in the pockets of Vladimir Putin, senior commentators still pretending this is a man who we should somehow take seriously as the next PM of the UK
The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage
The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Reform UK are going to announce a policy where all EU citizens will be stripped of all benefits and double the NHS surcharge

They will be given 3 months notice. If the EU refuses to accept these terms, there will be a ‘trade retaliation’ with the EU?

Race to the bottom in the sewage of racism.
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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A few weekends ago my husband & I were away, trying to relax and spend time together after the death of our son. Whilst there an accident happened at the factory he runs, he spent ages on his phone & laptop helping to sort out the response. But this bastard took holiday during our biggest crisis!!
Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM