drnedflanders.bsky.social

drnedflanders.bsky.social

@drnedflanders.bsky.social

Love physics, mathematics, computing, gaming, painting and piano. Fighting against exploitation,intolerance, bigotry and injustice.

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“While each of us (voted Brexit) for different reasons, we all believed that the UK could do a better job of running its own affairs than *unelected officials* in Brussels could." Ben Houchen... November 2020 Six years later 👇👇👇

Private Eye Magazine@privateeyenews.bsky.social

Since his ennoblement in Boris Johnson’s 2023 resignation list, Tees Valley regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen has claimed more than £25,000 in tax-free daily “attendance” allowances from the House of Lords for 73 days when he hasn’t voted, spoken or performed any recorded parliamentary activity.

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I suspect many new Reform UK Councillors saw it as a way to get rich quick - but baulk at the prospect of actually having to do some work to benefit not just themselves "Oldham's first Reform leader says he is leaving politics after shock resignation" www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

manchestereveningnews.co.ukOldham's first Reform leader says he is leaving politicsLewis Quigg said there had been ‘immense pressure’ on his family

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Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

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Stop Funding Hate@stopfundinghate.bsky.social

GB News airing yet more dangerous, sweeping generalisations about Muslims and migrants. This is what Sky, Trailfinders and Naked Marshmallow are enabling: 👇

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2026: Jeremy Hunt says we can't have Freedom of Movement with the EU because young people will not have jobs 2019: Jeremy Hunt saying he would tell people they have to lose their job because of Brexit, but he would do so "with a heavy heart"

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I may not be able to talk, but my vote can’t be silenced! I voted early and in less than 10 minutes. Check out your local early voting sites and VOTE 🗳️

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Fascists in Wakefield "try stopping a group collecting clothes and toys for refugees" but it didn't work ... "Brilliant support in Wakefield today! One people carriers worth of donations has already been taken away ...!" www.facebook.com/groups/19585... via John Hughes & Sarah J Woolley

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4 DAYS TO GO until Thames Water creditors meet to agree *another* bailout at our expense Voters will not forgive @andyburnham.bsky.social if he lets a bunch of US hedge funds get away with this Take back Thames Water, slash the debt, bring it into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP weownit.org.uk/act-now/tham...

weownit.org.ukAndy Burnham, block the Thames Water bailoutEnough is enough. We are sick and tired of Thames Water tumbling from crisis to crisis.

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Fascinating Jeremy, now tell us about the time you cut national insurance twice as an electoral game despite knowing we couldn't afford it.

The i Paper @theipaper.com

“Healey should remove anxiety and depression as a reason to claim benefits and offer people treatment instead. It would be better for the individuals and a fraction of the cost.” Read more: trib.al/cxsKwxw

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Farage has said he's not racist, the British public knows he's not racist, and he's 'never directly racially abused anybody' - so why ... "A Reform propaganda pamphlet masquerading as a newspaper features a councillor who has made vile racist comments online" via Jessica Brooking

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Cunningham had been sent onto national television to defend Reform against allegations serious enough to be assessed by the Electoral Commission and Metropolitan Police. Her opening problem was admitting she had not watched the entire investigation.

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Kemi Badenoch and Jacob Rees-Mogg, both Conservatives, criticised Andy Burnham for appearing on Gogglebox Here's Boris Johnson appearing on Eastenders when he was Mayor of London The double standards are extraordinary.