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#FBPE 🌟 Forever 🇪🇺 🏴 🇬🇧 Former nurse and chemist No DMs
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Ahead of tomorrow's budget statement. Here’s how the UK chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions by addressing tax and fiscal anomalies. There is no shortage of money. All that is needed is the political will.
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🚨Brexit is slowing production of life-saving medical tech at local business Elekta, says the leader of Brighton & Hove City Council: "In the fight against cancer, we need our life saving enterprises to be working at maximum capacity."
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Reform UK now in third place in four out of the last five UK polls bsky.app/profile/youg...
Our latest Westminster voting intention poll (25-26 October 2026) shows a five point lead for Labour Labour: 27% (no change from 18-19 Oct) Conservative: 22% (-1) Reform UK: 20% (-2) Lib Dem: 11% (=) Green: 10% (=) Restore Britain: 4% (+1) SNP: 2% (=) Plaid Cymru: 1% (=) yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
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“Why was a major government supplier allowed to help shape the rules governing how the department buys its products, with little public scrutiny?” (The name of the supplier should come as no surprise) https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-palantir-led-secret-review
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With Reform dropping to 20% in polls their predicted seat share has plummeted under the FPTP voting system. Perhaps it’s time for Reform to support Proportional Representation again⁉️🤔
Westminster Voting Intention: Labour: 27% (=) Conservative: 22% (-1) Reform UK: 20% (-2) Liberal Democrats: 11% (=) Greens: 10% (=) Restore Britain: 4% (+1) SNP: 2% (=) Others: 2% (+1) Plaid Cymru: 1% (=) Via: YouGov MOE: ±2.0% Field Work: 25-26 Oct changes w/ 18-19 Oct
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How strange Reform UK whose leaders supported Brexit and British people 'taking back control' is happy to get most of its funding from millionaires living abroad (ps who never give something for nothing, 'donations' are the British way of corruption buying policies like tax cuts for millionaires)
The Independent. 'True scale of Reform UK’s donations from overseas donors revealed 80 per cent of the money received by Reform UK from donations in the year 2025-26 has come from individuals or companies who have been based abroad in the past two years'
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Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage
The remote rendezvous in August highlights the remarkable relationship between a son of the US president and a businessman with ties to the Kremlin. ft.trib.al/9g7wnme
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Imagine a world where we are no longer dependent on oil and nuclear energy. It's coming and it's better and that's why the vested interests are doing everything in their power to stop it
Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
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The Guardian reporting on Oxfam’s report shows the top 0.1% emit more carbon than 44% of humanity while cashing in on climate disasters. Why let billionaires profit from destruction? 🤔 #ClimateAction
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Yeah, this is getting absurd. Zero scrutiny. BBC News broadcasts Reform UK speeches in full without interruptions www.thenational.scot/news/2667178...
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Zelenskyy calls out monthlong wait for Hegseth to sign off on Patriot missiles
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Can public service broadcasting claim impartiality while platforming right-wing populists? The BBC airing 41 minutes of uninterrupted, unchallenged Reform UK speeches right before the Budget surrenders balance for hype. Why hand Farage a free mega-phone? (1/2) 🤔 #FBPE
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Latest Democracy for Sale scoop - how Ministry of Defence commissioned Palantir to lead a review of how software is purchased from companies… like Palantir Experts calling for National Audit Office to examine what happened youtube.com/shorts/V6NdD...
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GUARDIAN: “Lula’s win is bad news for Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a 27-year sentence for that botched power grab… also a blow for Donald Trump, the Bolsonaro clan’s most important international ally.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Elon Musk not only controls the satellite systems that the Ukrainian army - and other European armies - rely upon, he also controls the algorithms that govern a large swathe of the European information space. Europe needs to decouple from this clear and present threat to their security. My latest
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Right-wing populists and US isolationists demanding Ukraine surrender to Putin while claiming it’s a strategy for peace! A masterclass in appeasement: reward armed aggression, abandon international law, and pretend capitulation equals security! #RuleOfLaw
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🔴 NEW The Conviction of Estonia’s ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ Links Russian Intelligence to Moscow’s Interference on Brexit By Sergei Cristo Read below. ↓
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This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.
BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY
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It is budget week. We are calling for a budget that cuts the costs of living. The Chancellor must listen to our plans, so households across Britain have the support they need. @libdemdaisy.bsky.social
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To everyone getting their knickers in a twist… All because @andyburnham.bsky.social suggested a sensible conversation about freedom of movement …do you perhaps need reminding of this?
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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 👇👇👇
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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