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Linda Parton

@hearinglosslp

Major interests include patient and public involvement in health research, mainly but not only at Keele University. I have a hearing loss and teach paramedic students about it. Other interests include walking, badminton, tai chi and family history.

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Kemi Badenoch called high interest rates on student loans an ‘unfair debt trap’ - no one tell her who introduced it

23.02.2026 13:02 👍 166 🔁 48 💬 3 📌 0
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Happy #ValentinesDay from our Livestock Guarding Dogs! For more than 30 years, these #dogs have been helping keep #cheetahs in the wild by preventing conflicts between humans and #wildlife.

🐾To learn more about how these dogs are saving wild #cats, visit cheetah.org.

12.02.2026 16:40 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Huge change to political donation rules to close loopholes on foreign cash Labour frontbencher Steve Reed today unveils legislation to stop foreign donors interfering with UK politics - while also letting 16 and 17 year olds vote in elections for the first time

Huge change to political donation rules to close loopholes on foreign cash

Labour’s Steve Reed today unveils legislation to stop foreign donors interfering with UK politics - while also letting 16 and 17 year olds vote in elections for the first time 👏
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

12.02.2026 17:30 👍 495 🔁 118 💬 28 📌 15

Against a corrupt, exhausted, unlucky Government, which under-estimated the threat from Reform, trying for its fifth General Election in a row, Morgan McSweeney delivered 33.7% of the vote. And he then made Starmer the most unpopular PM ever. That's the measure of the man's 'genius'.

08.02.2026 17:30 👍 773 🔁 170 💬 34 📌 10
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Now that’s a President.

07.02.2026 16:10 👍 7085 🔁 1176 💬 150 📌 45

Seems like the Epstein files are full of billionaires and not immigrants.

08.02.2026 04:31 👍 1148 🔁 304 💬 40 📌 16
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Good morning . Your #FoxOfTheDay today from @ceidil.bsky.social !

08.02.2026 07:00 👍 674 🔁 45 💬 11 📌 4

While we should all be looking very hard at Starmer’s leadership, this week Nigel Farage decided that the people who vote for him would prefer to have cheaper beer at the expense of children being lifted out of poverty.

07.02.2026 10:13 👍 532 🔁 159 💬 29 📌 5
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BBC News, "Greater Manchester Police are investigating a report that Reform UK broke electoral law in the Gorton & Denton by-election"

"It's been reported that the party sent a letter to voters that didn't include an imprint identifying the promoter of the material"

07.02.2026 13:37 👍 577 🔁 239 💬 58 📌 10

If HMRC thinks you owe them a penny it will chase you to the ends of the earth.

If you owe them millions it won't do anything.

07.02.2026 14:09 👍 268 🔁 54 💬 10 📌 3
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Reform faces police investigation over ‘concerned neighbour’ byelection letters Material distributed in Gorton and Denton did not have legally required imprint stating it was funded by party

Reform UK will face a police investigation in Gorton and Denton after admitting it sent out letters from a “concerned neighbour” which did not state they had been funded and distributed by the party

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

07.02.2026 19:14 👍 565 🔁 225 💬 48 📌 9
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🚨BREAKING: Parliament is going to debate the petition – BY-ELECTIONS TO BE CALLED AUTOMATICALLY WHEN MP’S DEFECT TO ANOTHER PARTY on 16 March 2026!

Contact/Tag your MP now and ask them to attend the debate and speak out in support

07.02.2026 09:45 👍 1403 🔁 411 💬 72 📌 44

Nigel Farage claims that he's fighting the Greens.

But for weeks now he's refused to debate me.

Reform know Gorton & Denton are ready to vote for the Green Party.

31.01.2026 14:38 👍 2834 🔁 656 💬 124 📌 31
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24.01.2026 01:14 👍 22927 🔁 4875 💬 238 📌 153
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This is apparently real. People who voted for him must've wanted someone stupider than they are. I'm sorry, but he's a " low-IQ individual," to quote the Low-IQ Individual in Chief.

23.01.2026 20:35 👍 13109 🔁 2873 💬 2083 📌 467

Donald Trump again disparages Nato allies, claiming troops “stayed a little back, a little off the frontlines” while fighting in Afghanistan in support of US against Taliban.

Only time Nato has ever invoked article 5 – that attack on one member represents attack on all – came after September 11.

23.01.2026 10:06 👍 1255 🔁 308 💬 149 📌 39
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Armed forces minister Al Carns says comments about NATO troops not serving in Afghanistan are ‘utterly ridiculous’

‘I served tours... many alongside my American colleagues, we shed blood sweat and tears together’

23.01.2026 11:20 👍 702 🔁 204 💬 40 📌 14
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Thousands march in Minnesota and hundreds of businesses close to protest ICE Some Minnesotans boycotted work, school and shopping Friday to signal their opposition to the Trump administration’s deployment of ICE agents.

Even in sub-zero temperatures, working people brought the heat today in Minnesota!

Tens of thousands of people peacefully protested and made their voices heard to stand up for our immigrant siblings.

This is what solidarity looks like!

24.01.2026 00:37 👍 2076 🔁 450 💬 40 📌 18
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Nigel Farage’s trip to Davos hosted and paid for by family trust of billionaire Trust says Reform UK leader was invited to WEF event by London-based venture capitalist as an honorary adviser

Nigel Farage’s trip to Davos hosted and paid for by $10bn family trust of an Iranian-born billionaire.

Listed on the programme as member of parliament and a representative of HP Trust “family office of Sasan Ghandehari”.

What do sponsors get in return?

24.01.2026 08:59 👍 337 🔁 198 💬 21 📌 12
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"Prince Harry who served two front line tours in Afghanistan said the sacrifices made by British and other NATO troops, deserved to be spoken about truthfully and with respect"

"After Donald Trump falsely claimed they had avoided the front line" #C4News

23.01.2026 20:45 👍 776 🔁 254 💬 37 📌 13

If you or a loved one served in Afghanistan and are horrified by Donald Trump's claim that Nato including British forces, stayed "a little off the front lines" during the conflict, and would like to write to express your anger and outrage, then please email editor@centralbylines.co.uk

23.01.2026 15:20 👍 155 🔁 91 💬 7 📌 0

Where are the poppy patriots? Why are they completely silent on this grotesque insult to our armed forces and specifically the 2,000 UK service and civilian personnel who were injured and the 457 who died in Afghanistan?

23.01.2026 12:09 👍 2165 🔁 684 💬 166 📌 33
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The Day of Truth and Freedom: UU Clergy and Laypeople Join Multifaith March in Minneapolis Against ICE Developing story: Follow UU World’s live updates, including dispatches from Minneapolis.

200+ UU colleagues are in #Minneapolis protesting ICE www.uuworld.org/articles/min...

23.01.2026 22:47 👍 8842 🔁 2128 💬 174 📌 69
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We finally have a shot at criminalising lying in politics…

And you can help.

I spoke at an event this week where the room voted almost unanimously that MPs & Lords must be covered by the new offence of Misleading the Public

Imagine if this went though

And this is where we need your help…

23.01.2026 20:54 👍 929 🔁 288 💬 36 📌 34
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TODAY IN MINNESOTA: Hundreds of thousands marched through Minneapolis in -10°F, shutting down the city to demand ICE the fuck out of the Twin Cities. People risked frostbite just to make their point. The entire country should be ashamed if they don’t follow.

24.01.2026 02:02 👍 1425 🔁 439 💬 35 📌 27
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Nigel Farage inadvertently breached MPs' financial rules 17 times, says watchdog The parliamentary commissioner for standards said Farage had apologised after missing the deadline for registering interests.

How does anyone do anything 17 times inadvertently‽

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

21.01.2026 22:43 👍 15 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
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Nigel Farage apologises for 17 breaches of MPs’ code of conduct Reform UK leader, who failed to declare £380,000 on time, says he is computer-illiterate ‘oddball’

I'm sorry I accidentally broke the law.

Again.

And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.

It was an accident.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

21.01.2026 13:53 👍 761 🔁 218 💬 62 📌 16

Reform losing. Green Party gaining. Country winning.

Fight back with us:

Join.greenparty.org.uk

21.01.2026 13:45 👍 2011 🔁 420 💬 40 📌 23
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If the UK media now do not apply equal harsh measures to Nigel Farage than they did to Angela Raynor, then they are complicit in
a) a Mysoginist narrative where men are forgiven and women 'should have known better' and
b) are actively saying they are okay with Farage in charge.

21.01.2026 11:48 👍 1471 🔁 611 💬 107 📌 28
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When Christian Wakeford MP defected from the Tories to Labour in 2022, Nigel Farage was outraged.

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21.01.2026 17:43 👍 269 🔁 75 💬 5 📌 2