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Formerly a worker; an athlete & artist, carer & disability advocate. All round listener with opinions.

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This infographic was produced in order of MP’s money earned from other jobs.

Ooh look who’s front and centre, it’s “man of the people” Nigel Mirage.

Not often seen in his constituency but topping the charts of additional earnings.

07.03.2026 09:21 👍 310 🔁 229 💬 43 📌 9

Well. This is an interesting thing from a council that gave control to Reform UK just under a year ago.

06.03.2026 21:00 👍 427 🔁 89 💬 19 📌 2

What? Dont quite get whose votes exactly are in danger of being taken, by whom & from where to where.
Has he got the ick for FPTP all of a sudden.
June ‘16 he was v happy with 52% 48%

03.03.2026 02:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Did I miss this being brought up in Parliament or HoLs?
Enabling is a short step away from collaborating condoning & then participation.
There must be a full debate and vote. We need to hear who’s supporting this dreadful escalation & who’s calling for diplomacy.

02.03.2026 09:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We’d see Old Sarum making a come back, & grateful that married women 30+ can express an opinion via ballot box.

1832 Reform Act.
1928 Equal Franchise Act

No rotten boroughs
No disenfranchisement

02.03.2026 09:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Youth unemployment is not at its ‘highest ever’ levels – Full Fact Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch claimed at PMQs that youth unemployment is ‘at its highest ever’, but that’s not what the statistics show.

At #PMQs this week Kemi Badenoch claimed “youth unemployment is at its highest ever”.

This isn’t correct for either the unemployment rate or the number of unemployed 16-24 year olds, according to ONS data.

27.02.2026 15:55 👍 139 🔁 64 💬 5 📌 2

Political fraud is next to non-existent in this country. Voters are already required to show ID when voting. Being foreign born does not mean you cannot vote. This is outright racism from Reform. All political parties should be widely condemning Farage's claims.

01.03.2026 08:08 👍 195 🔁 54 💬 6 📌 1
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Spencer’s victory speech an object lesson in grace while Reform’s man rages | John Crace Matt Goodwin claimed cheating in Gorton and Denton, Angeliki Stogia fled, Keir was tin-eared and Kemi brought the comedy

Spencer’s victory speech an object lesson in grace while Reform’s man rages

28.02.2026 08:04 👍 111 🔁 30 💬 3 📌 0
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💚For the Green Party — a stunning victory.
For Reform UK — a shattering disappointment.
For the Labour Party — third place. Third.
An outright disaster. The question is: will Labour wake up — or carry on down the same path?

27.02.2026 07:33 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov

Gorton and Denton was 127th on the list of Green Party target seats.

To win by such a margin there suggests there is much bigger potential for Green gains in May's local elections than most people expect

bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

27.02.2026 07:44 👍 954 🔁 229 💬 32 📌 16
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Left: Jacob Rees-Mogg to Steve Bray, "Brexit is marvellous.. We've saved billions"

Right: "Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue a year"

25.02.2026 23:49 👍 250 🔁 123 💬 37 📌 3
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A female MP at that.
Violence against women and girls is on the rise yet they blame immigrants for that.
Has Farage, Yusuf and co condemned this yet?

25.02.2026 15:49 👍 338 🔁 154 💬 38 📌 14

Reform’s Deputy Leader for Lancs CC Simon Evans who posted an image saying a n MP should be shot has said it was a genuine mistake.

The text is directly above the image & he even reposted it yesterday.

This vile buffoon is responsible for a £1.2bn budget,
#PoliticsLive #pms

25.02.2026 15:46 👍 222 🔁 99 💬 16 📌 5
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Reform UK councillor shared Facebook post saying Labour MP ‘should be shot’ Natalie Fleet MP says politicians should not expect ‘death threats as standard’, as Lancashire councillor apologises

Reform UK Deputy Leader of Lancashire Simon Evans must resign.

Reform UK councillor shared Facebook post saying Labour MP ‘should be shot’

25.02.2026 09:21 👍 110 🔁 53 💬 7 📌 2

Attempted to take dog for a walk, at weekend & needed a car ride, park up, absolutely chucking it down.
Dog refused to get out of the car 🤣. Just put his nose out & then sat down, brakes firmly on, body language was ‘its a definite No from me’.
Couldn’t budge him. Hilarious.

25.02.2026 08:42 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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End the sewage pollution scandal We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

23.02.2026 13:19 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Its a vicious twister,
work FT in a supermarket, dont earn enough to pay basic bills, tax payer funds UC, family go to food bank & eat OOD food from the same S/mkt - who get a moral green wash for reducing waste.
Only ‘winner’ is the supermarket.
Its a choice not an economic inevitability

23.02.2026 22:14 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Sharon Owens wrote

Dangerous Coats

Someone clever once said
Women were not allowed pockets
In case they carried leaflets
To spread sedition
Which means unrest
To you & me
A grandiose word
For commonsense
Fairness
Kindness
Equality
So ladies, start sewing
Dangerous coats
Made of pockets & sedition

22.02.2026 01:25 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Confirming that he lives a life benefiting from white male bias - not using “privilege” as that might imply something earned or deserved, which we can dismiss in his case.

21.02.2026 18:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Every British voter should know who James Orr is and what he stands for....

His ideologies are what a Reform UK government would actually deliver if they ever gained power

#ShowOrrTheDoor

20.02.2026 20:45 👍 88 🔁 73 💬 4 📌 2

Always read the label of own brand shelf meds, and you’ll often find the active ingredients are identical at a fraction of the fancy promo packets. Dont fall for Pharma & Supermarket rip offs!

20.02.2026 09:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Another scam, beware

19.02.2026 11:39 👍 16 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 2

#nolanprinciples immediate suspension internal audit investigation as a minimum.

19.02.2026 10:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🚨 BREAKING: Nigel Farage has announced that Robert Jenrick will be Reform UK's Shadow Chancellor

18.02.2026 08:48 👍 1306 🔁 635 💬 169 📌 60

Tax threshold stays the same, its doubly regressive. Leave ECHR and employees more open to exploitation, including maternity protection & tax women without children…
its almost as if they ate actively seeking out opportunities to oppressively punch down on the most disadvantaged in our society.

19.02.2026 10:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Imo Fear is at the deepest root level of racism & hatred.

18.02.2026 09:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘I've gotten to know Robert [Jenrick] since he joined Reform...’

‘And, don't tell me, you now *don't* think he's a 'liar' or 'dishonest'?’

Zia Yusuf, Reform UK's home affairs spokesman, on how he changed his mind about his party's pick for Chancellor

#Newsnight

18.02.2026 08:55 👍 314 🔁 87 💬 64 📌 17
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Our message to young voters is "Vote Reform if you feel overpaid on £10 an hour"

17.02.2026 18:12 👍 467 🔁 189 💬 33 📌 13

Reform pledge to scrap the Equality act.

If they do so you can be discriminated against or abused at work, in education or in the public.

For Age, Disability, Gender reassignment, Marriage status, Pregnancy, Race, Religion. Sex or Sexual orientation.

Doesn't sound good to me.

17.02.2026 20:34 👍 194 🔁 66 💬 12 📌 1
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Repair Manifesto: If we can't fix it, we don't own it.
- Repair is better than recycling.
- Repair saves us money.
- Repair teaches basic engineering.
- Repair saves the planet.
- Repair connects people and things.
- Repair is sustainable.
#Minimalism

10.02.2026 21:17 👍 2801 🔁 873 💬 0 📌 71