Sue Edwards
@sueedwards.bsky.social
Yorkshire lady. Cretophile. Labour supporter under Keir Starmer. Happily retired NHS nurse.
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Show some gratitude, people – Nadhim Zahawi has joined Reform for our benefit, apparently | Marina Hyde
Show some gratitude, people – Nadhim Zahawi has joined Reform for our benefit, apparently | Marina Hyde
The current crop of politicians are constantly telling us they don’t have to be doing this. Aren’t we lucky, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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January 13, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Show some gratitude, people – Nadhim Zahawi has joined Reform for our benefit, apparently | Marina Hyde
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Ah. Shameless self-interest every time. He’ll fit right in.
Zawahi failed to secure peerage from Badenoch before Reform UK defection, Tory sources claim – UK politics live www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Zawahi failed to secure peerage from Badenoch before Reform UK defection, Tory sources claim – UK politics live
‘Given he was sacked for his dodgy tax affairs, this was never going to happen,’ says source
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January 12, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Ah. Shameless self-interest every time. He’ll fit right in.
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The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
January 10, 2026 at 9:15 AM
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: 38d.gs/cc-df
Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petitio...
38d.gs
January 6, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: 38d.gs/cc-df
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Today the leaders of Europe, our PM and the PM of Canada will be looking each other in the eyes and making decisions that will reverberate around the world. I’m glad it’s Starmer. I’m glad it’s Carney. Two very smart, strategic men who are always two steps ahead.
January 6, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Today the leaders of Europe, our PM and the PM of Canada will be looking each other in the eyes and making decisions that will reverberate around the world. I’m glad it’s Starmer. I’m glad it’s Carney. Two very smart, strategic men who are always two steps ahead.
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Thanks to the Tories and Reform the only thing Starmer has in his arsenal for going it alone without collaboration with others, is our sovereignty. How far will that get us do you think?
January 5, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Thanks to the Tories and Reform the only thing Starmer has in his arsenal for going it alone without collaboration with others, is our sovereignty. How far will that get us do you think?
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I’m sorry but paying tax is patriotic. Running a fleet of taxis, paying drivers, servicing citizens in Cities requires good roads, security and people to have money in their pockets.
Uber need to pay their taxes. Boycott them as much as possible.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Uber need to pay their taxes. Boycott them as much as possible.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Uber rewrites contracts with drivers to avoid paying UK’s new ‘taxi tax’
Hailing app will now act as agent rather than supplier outside London, avoiding VAT requirement
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:29 AM
I’m sorry but paying tax is patriotic. Running a fleet of taxis, paying drivers, servicing citizens in Cities requires good roads, security and people to have money in their pockets.
Uber need to pay their taxes. Boycott them as much as possible.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Uber need to pay their taxes. Boycott them as much as possible.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Help me understand. In 2025 the FTSE rose over 20%. Why would people/businesses be investing in British companies if our Country were not destined to thrive. That the view of our economy and the management thereof must be positive.
So why are the media only sharing doom and gloom predictions?
So why are the media only sharing doom and gloom predictions?
January 2, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Help me understand. In 2025 the FTSE rose over 20%. Why would people/businesses be investing in British companies if our Country were not destined to thrive. That the view of our economy and the management thereof must be positive.
So why are the media only sharing doom and gloom predictions?
So why are the media only sharing doom and gloom predictions?
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I often boast about being the national schoolboy public speaking champion in my youth. Just in case anyone at the Times, Telegraph, Mail, Spectator etc is preparing a humiliating exposé, I would like to clarify that it was the 1988 English Speaking Union National Schools Public Speaking competition.
Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
December 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I often boast about being the national schoolboy public speaking champion in my youth. Just in case anyone at the Times, Telegraph, Mail, Spectator etc is preparing a humiliating exposé, I would like to clarify that it was the 1988 English Speaking Union National Schools Public Speaking competition.
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Paul Doyle who injured more than 100 people in Liverpool has pleaded Guilty to 9 charges of Causing Grievous Bodily Harm and 17 charges of Attempting to Cause Grievous Bodily Harm.
He is a MAGA and Andrew Tate supporter.
Why do we never hear about the dangers of the Far Right?
He is a MAGA and Andrew Tate supporter.
Why do we never hear about the dangers of the Far Right?
November 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Paul Doyle who injured more than 100 people in Liverpool has pleaded Guilty to 9 charges of Causing Grievous Bodily Harm and 17 charges of Attempting to Cause Grievous Bodily Harm.
He is a MAGA and Andrew Tate supporter.
Why do we never hear about the dangers of the Far Right?
He is a MAGA and Andrew Tate supporter.
Why do we never hear about the dangers of the Far Right?
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Rather unusual for a chancellor to be told to resign for not increasing taxes as expected in light of better-than-expected revenue forecasts.
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November 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Rather unusual for a chancellor to be told to resign for not increasing taxes as expected in light of better-than-expected revenue forecasts.
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On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
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Atkins was at Wandsworth in 2016. Mistaken release has hit the front pages this week, but it isn't new. Between 40 and 115 offenders were incorrectly released every year from 2011 to 2024.
“It happens every working day. It just doesn’t normally become news.”
www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...
“It happens every working day. It just doesn’t normally become news.”
www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...
The real reason prisoners keep walking free
For one former inmate, the current swathe of wrongly freed prisoners is nothing new
www.newstatesman.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Atkins was at Wandsworth in 2016. Mistaken release has hit the front pages this week, but it isn't new. Between 40 and 115 offenders were incorrectly released every year from 2011 to 2024.
“It happens every working day. It just doesn’t normally become news.”
www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...
“It happens every working day. It just doesn’t normally become news.”
www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...
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Farage “knows he has to moderate his tone and get across some budget details. But attention to detail [isn’t] his thing and responsibility bores him”…and makes a bore of him.
His success lies in him talking shite. If he can’t do that, he becomes v dull v quickly
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His success lies in him talking shite. If he can’t do that, he becomes v dull v quickly
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Economic policy is one thing Nigel Farage can’t crib from the Donald Trump playbook | Rafael Behr
The Maga model, based on the US’s exorbitant market privileges, can’t be imported to Britain. That’s going to be a problem for Reform UK, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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November 5, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Farage “knows he has to moderate his tone and get across some budget details. But attention to detail [isn’t] his thing and responsibility bores him”…and makes a bore of him.
His success lies in him talking shite. If he can’t do that, he becomes v dull v quickly
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
His success lies in him talking shite. If he can’t do that, he becomes v dull v quickly
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
October 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
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This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”.
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Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK
How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
No political party should tolerate racism - which is why I’ve signed a huge petition to suspend the Reform Party’s Sarah Pochin MP for her racist comments - add your name now: 38d.gs/fodu
No political party should tolerate racism - which is why I've signed this petition to suspend Reform UK’s Sarah Pochin MP for her racist comments - add your name now:
I just signed the campaign calling to immediately suspend MP Sarah Pochin for her racist comments.
38d.gs
October 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
No political party should tolerate racism - which is why I’ve signed a huge petition to suspend the Reform Party’s Sarah Pochin MP for her racist comments - add your name now: 38d.gs/fodu
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Breaking - Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips REMAINS in post.
They say Phillips has “devoted her life to hearing and amplifying the voices of women and girls who would have otherwise been unheard”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
They say Phillips has “devoted her life to hearing and amplifying the voices of women and girls who would have otherwise been unheard”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips remains in post
Exclusive: In fresh controversy, the women write to Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood to speak up for safeguarding minister
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Breaking - Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips REMAINS in post.
They say Phillips has “devoted her life to hearing and amplifying the voices of women and girls who would have otherwise been unheard”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
They say Phillips has “devoted her life to hearing and amplifying the voices of women and girls who would have otherwise been unheard”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Our politics and media have become viciously obsessed with immigration. Farage has made sure of it. And in that obsession, they’ve all lost sight of the people they target. Fellow human beings trying to live and belong somewhere.
Shame on everyone responsible for this daily inhumanity
(Letter,Times)
Shame on everyone responsible for this daily inhumanity
(Letter,Times)
September 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Our politics and media have become viciously obsessed with immigration. Farage has made sure of it. And in that obsession, they’ve all lost sight of the people they target. Fellow human beings trying to live and belong somewhere.
Shame on everyone responsible for this daily inhumanity
(Letter,Times)
Shame on everyone responsible for this daily inhumanity
(Letter,Times)
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What an absolute joke that the Times puts on its innocent face and urges Starmer to not let that happen to us, when every day, they and their right wing mates furiously promote Reform and fail to hold its wildly corrupt leader to account. Fake-crying as they usher him into No. 10.
Repulsive.
Repulsive.
September 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
What an absolute joke that the Times puts on its innocent face and urges Starmer to not let that happen to us, when every day, they and their right wing mates furiously promote Reform and fail to hold its wildly corrupt leader to account. Fake-crying as they usher him into No. 10.
Repulsive.
Repulsive.
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Utter nonsense, and I expect better from these reporters. Maybe they have gotten used to the chaos and daily drama of a Johnson or Trump government. Maybe these very new Labour MPs should stop tearoom gossip and concentrate in the job in hand? I like dull! I like action, not words.
September 13, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Utter nonsense, and I expect better from these reporters. Maybe they have gotten used to the chaos and daily drama of a Johnson or Trump government. Maybe these very new Labour MPs should stop tearoom gossip and concentrate in the job in hand? I like dull! I like action, not words.
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Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride.
They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.
They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.
September 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride.
They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.
They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.
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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.