Sue
@suescishaw.bsky.social
Retired Science Technician (Education)
Previously SENCO Early Years
Mum to severely autistic son
& Resident Doctor daughter.
Centre left
Gardening/Travel/Hiking/Outdoors
#DisabilityRights #NHS
#SocialCare #Inclusion #MoreInCommon #BeKind #HopeNotHate
Previously SENCO Early Years
Mum to severely autistic son
& Resident Doctor daughter.
Centre left
Gardening/Travel/Hiking/Outdoors
#DisabilityRights #NHS
#SocialCare #Inclusion #MoreInCommon #BeKind #HopeNotHate
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Farage hopes he can breeze into power without scrutiny. But his racism, corrupt donations, shady links to Russia and MAGA… make it harder for him to hide. And his tantrum reactions to being challenged reveal him for the nasty inadequate he really is.
#NeverPM
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
#NeverPM
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
The Wheels Are Falling off the Nigel Farage Project
The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers
www.adambienkov.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Farage hopes he can breeze into power without scrutiny. But his racism, corrupt donations, shady links to Russia and MAGA… make it harder for him to hide. And his tantrum reactions to being challenged reveal him for the nasty inadequate he really is.
#NeverPM
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
#NeverPM
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
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Keir Starmer Observer interview with @rachelsylvester.bsky.social articulates opportunity for young people as his defining mission for his government
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Keir Starmer Observer interview with @rachelsylvester.bsky.social articulates opportunity for young people as his defining mission for his government
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This is pretty much exactly like a European saying the United States should be abolished, so that the governments of individual states can better represent their people.
It’s a take, you’re entitled to it, but what’s it got to do with you, buddy?
It’s a take, you’re entitled to it, but what’s it got to do with you, buddy?
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This is pretty much exactly like a European saying the United States should be abolished, so that the governments of individual states can better represent their people.
It’s a take, you’re entitled to it, but what’s it got to do with you, buddy?
It’s a take, you’re entitled to it, but what’s it got to do with you, buddy?
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
this shit is just beyond parody, man
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The most important line in a solid piece by @iandunt.bsky.social
"And yet for all its flaws, Bluesky offers something which is becoming vanishingly rare in the modern world: a vision of life without the algorithm. What I see is what I have chosen to see. We own our own destiny on Bluesky."
"And yet for all its flaws, Bluesky offers something which is becoming vanishingly rare in the modern world: a vision of life without the algorithm. What I see is what I have chosen to see. We own our own destiny on Bluesky."
Thank God for Bluesky
A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis.
iandunt.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The most important line in a solid piece by @iandunt.bsky.social
"And yet for all its flaws, Bluesky offers something which is becoming vanishingly rare in the modern world: a vision of life without the algorithm. What I see is what I have chosen to see. We own our own destiny on Bluesky."
"And yet for all its flaws, Bluesky offers something which is becoming vanishingly rare in the modern world: a vision of life without the algorithm. What I see is what I have chosen to see. We own our own destiny on Bluesky."
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"He so exactly reminds me of the Farage that said those things back then."
Peter Ettedgui says he has to switch off the TV when the Reform leader is on because of how much it reminds him of his schooldays.
Peter Ettedgui says he has to switch off the TV when the Reform leader is on because of how much it reminds him of his schooldays.
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"He so exactly reminds me of the Farage that said those things back then."
Peter Ettedgui says he has to switch off the TV when the Reform leader is on because of how much it reminds him of his schooldays.
Peter Ettedgui says he has to switch off the TV when the Reform leader is on because of how much it reminds him of his schooldays.
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🚨 BREAKING: The EU has slapped a €120 million fine on Elon Musk’s X, straining ties with the US.
Read the story: www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
Read the story: www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
December 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
🚨 BREAKING: The EU has slapped a €120 million fine on Elon Musk’s X, straining ties with the US.
Read the story: www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
Read the story: www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
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Finally someone says it.
Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat"
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
December 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Finally someone says it.
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This is quite unhinged, not least because Farage keeps calling them his “alleged” remarks when he’s already admitted that he said them (including earlier in this press conference)
December 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This is quite unhinged, not least because Farage keeps calling them his “alleged” remarks when he’s already admitted that he said them (including earlier in this press conference)
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Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐
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A key question to Nigel Farage is this
You have said your schooldays were 40+ years ago.
Can you say categorically that you never used the most offensive racial slurs - words like the n-word, p-word and wog - as an adult?
You have said your schooldays were 40+ years ago.
Can you say categorically that you never used the most offensive racial slurs - words like the n-word, p-word and wog - as an adult?
December 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A key question to Nigel Farage is this
You have said your schooldays were 40+ years ago.
Can you say categorically that you never used the most offensive racial slurs - words like the n-word, p-word and wog - as an adult?
You have said your schooldays were 40+ years ago.
Can you say categorically that you never used the most offensive racial slurs - words like the n-word, p-word and wog - as an adult?
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'Perhaps' does some lifting here but ask yourself what would happen in the right wing media if Chris Mason ever expressed the equally plausible *opinion* that Farage is 'perhaps' the most obviously racist MP since Enoch Powell.
Didn't like this then, like it less now:
The BBC's political editor just described Farage as "perhaps one of the master story-tellers of his political generation".
December 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
'Perhaps' does some lifting here but ask yourself what would happen in the right wing media if Chris Mason ever expressed the equally plausible *opinion* that Farage is 'perhaps' the most obviously racist MP since Enoch Powell.
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But we’ll price the UK out because we don’t value security more than protecting our industries?
Welcome to SAFE, Canada!
When like-minded partners join forces on security and defence in a turbulent world, our countries grow stronger, our industries benefit and our citizens are safer.
Our Joint Statement ↓
link.europa.eu/QCDtpr
When like-minded partners join forces on security and defence in a turbulent world, our countries grow stronger, our industries benefit and our citizens are safer.
Our Joint Statement ↓
link.europa.eu/QCDtpr
December 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
But we’ll price the UK out because we don’t value security more than protecting our industries?
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You will be shocked to discover after reading these stories that while Rachel Reeves claimed to have been the "British girls under-14 [chess] champion" she was in reality merely the "Under 14s British Women’s Chess Association (BWCA) Girls" Champion.
This is getting utterly ridiculous now
This is getting utterly ridiculous now
December 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
You will be shocked to discover after reading these stories that while Rachel Reeves claimed to have been the "British girls under-14 [chess] champion" she was in reality merely the "Under 14s British Women’s Chess Association (BWCA) Girls" Champion.
This is getting utterly ridiculous now
This is getting utterly ridiculous now
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This year's Christmas special is pretty dark
December 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This year's Christmas special is pretty dark
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Labour: let people use nectar points to buy baby formula, it'd be slightly cheaper
The very online right: THIS IS COMMUNISM
The very online left: NATIONALISE BABY FORMULA NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR IT
Just need 'everyone should breastfeed anyway' to complete the deck
The very online right: THIS IS COMMUNISM
The very online left: NATIONALISE BABY FORMULA NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR IT
Just need 'everyone should breastfeed anyway' to complete the deck
The right wing British politics twitter reaction/the policy.
I wish I was making this up.
I wish I was making this up.
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Labour: let people use nectar points to buy baby formula, it'd be slightly cheaper
The very online right: THIS IS COMMUNISM
The very online left: NATIONALISE BABY FORMULA NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR IT
Just need 'everyone should breastfeed anyway' to complete the deck
The very online right: THIS IS COMMUNISM
The very online left: NATIONALISE BABY FORMULA NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR IT
Just need 'everyone should breastfeed anyway' to complete the deck
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Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
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The "Rachel from accounts" thing is sexist, classist, misogyny, and anyone who uses it should be utterly ashamed of themselves.
Too many dinosaurs in this country who cannot abide women who succeed.
Conservative Deputy Chairman Matt Vickers MP should do better 👇 #PMQs
Too many dinosaurs in this country who cannot abide women who succeed.
Conservative Deputy Chairman Matt Vickers MP should do better 👇 #PMQs
December 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The "Rachel from accounts" thing is sexist, classist, misogyny, and anyone who uses it should be utterly ashamed of themselves.
Too many dinosaurs in this country who cannot abide women who succeed.
Conservative Deputy Chairman Matt Vickers MP should do better 👇 #PMQs
Too many dinosaurs in this country who cannot abide women who succeed.
Conservative Deputy Chairman Matt Vickers MP should do better 👇 #PMQs
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This is the main thing the resident doctor strike action is about, not the pay - though that helps retain doctors.
If resident doctors cannot get posts, which is the case currently, they cannot progress and may leave our NHS.
Down the line we will have a shortage senior doctors such as consultants
If resident doctors cannot get posts, which is the case currently, they cannot progress and may leave our NHS.
Down the line we will have a shortage senior doctors such as consultants
This year, 30,000 doctors applied for only 10,000 training posts. These are highly trained professionals who want long term NHS careers, yet thousands are being denied the ability to progress in their careers. Many are left moving between short-term roles or leaving.
www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/se...
www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/se...
December 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This is the main thing the resident doctor strike action is about, not the pay - though that helps retain doctors.
If resident doctors cannot get posts, which is the case currently, they cannot progress and may leave our NHS.
Down the line we will have a shortage senior doctors such as consultants
If resident doctors cannot get posts, which is the case currently, they cannot progress and may leave our NHS.
Down the line we will have a shortage senior doctors such as consultants
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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 12:41 PM
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.
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This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?
December 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?
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My extremely simple heuristic for the current political system is that until you can go food shopping and think prices haven’t increased / things aren’t expensive etc don’t expect any material political continuity.
December 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
My extremely simple heuristic for the current political system is that until you can go food shopping and think prices haven’t increased / things aren’t expensive etc don’t expect any material political continuity.
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This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post.
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
December 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post.
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
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This is grim. Richard Murphy is where he's getting his MMT views from.
Pinched this video from @cjsnowdon.bsky.social on Twitter because Bluesky has to see it.
Nothing can prepare you for the punchline here.
Nothing can prepare you for the punchline here.
December 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is grim. Richard Murphy is where he's getting his MMT views from.
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Pinched this video from @cjsnowdon.bsky.social on Twitter because Bluesky has to see it.
Nothing can prepare you for the punchline here.
Nothing can prepare you for the punchline here.
December 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Pinched this video from @cjsnowdon.bsky.social on Twitter because Bluesky has to see it.
Nothing can prepare you for the punchline here.
Nothing can prepare you for the punchline here.