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It's official, sticking my oar in is useful

🤣Morning Jolyon.
Thanks for the work you do.

Gorton and Denton by-election shouldn't be featured by multiple layers of Russian influence, should it.
Your vote should be about your local concerns, so that discounts Reform and Labour, leaving Hannah Spencer as the only legit choice.
The rest are irrelevant or coerced.
Vote Green

Or the wrong denomination of Christian, or too Norman, or too Roman....

So I'm less British purely because I'm an atheist? 🤔

Enslavement and colonisation were crimes against humanity, say African leaders AFRICAN leaders have adopted a resolution describing the transatlantic slave trade and colonisation as crimes against humanity.

When will the Royal family pay from their own pockets
reparations for their ancestors' massive investments
in slavery & the slave trade ...

"Enslavement and colonisation were crimes against humanity, say African leaders"
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ensl...

Body warmer to us 70s kids

#Reform♡Rubles

Gorton and Denton by-election shouldn't be featured by multiple layers of Russian influence, should it.
Your vote should be about your local concerns, so that discounts Reform and Labour, leaving Hannah Spencer as the only legit choice.
The rest are irrelevant or coerced.
Vote Green

The Honourable Member for Gorton & Moscow.

What’s going on with Measles in England? An explanation of where we are, how we got here and what we can do

My latest post digging into the Measles situation in England

open.substack.com/pub/christin...

So the growth Rachel Reeves promised has finally arrived.

Ta

Draft trans guidance for schools treats vulnerable kids as a threat The guidance won’t become law until September, but the draft shows Labour is intent on kicking trans people and calling it fair play

The guidance won’t become law until September, but the draft shows Labour is intent on kicking trans people and calling it fair play.

www.thecanary.co/uk/2026/02/1...

Risk of type 2 diabetes may be higher up to 3 years after COVID infection in unvaccinated, severely ill

"Risk of type 2 diabetes may be higher up to 3 years after COVID infection in unvaccinated and severely ill"

Study of more than 2 million adults tested for COVID (2020–2024) found risk highest in year 1, still elevated in year 2 and year 3, not significant after 3 years.

That must have been a nasty experience. I'm sorry to hear you experienced it
They act like bullies, it's clear.

Reform came for me when I was a local election candidate. It was a nasty experience and meant that way. I’m expecting more of the same this time round. So they give it out but they can’t take it.

This campaign needs you now Replace Chris Mason with a neutral voice

Petition to replace BBC weasel Chris Mason - with anything really...
c.org/8S5p4BCssm

The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now".
So Bannon and Farage and Trump are in the Epstein files.
No record in the files released so far that Farage did anything illegal or improper.
More files yet to be released.

This is nearly at 1,700 signatures...

YouTube video by KernowDamo Reform UK Pulls Out In Gorton By-Election | Can’t Face Voters, Optics Brutal

Reform UK's Goodwin can't face the electorate on the same terms as Gorton and Denton candidates.
He's doing a runner?
Seem like he's scared?
Not really a strong candidate then?
Nope!
Seems like the reasons to not vote Reform are building and building!
#votegreen not for brass-neck Goodwin

Must Have Ideas email inbox has received my feedback and passed it on, and done precisely nothing with it.

So Gorten and Denton.
This is what's forecast for us all under a Farage government.
Your rights at work, not just someone elses, someone you don't know.
Loyalty means nothing to Farage.
You know what means something?
Kindness, hope, compassion.

Vote for these things, not division.
#votegreen.

Goodwin and his cronies just provide fodder for their own derision.
He's a one man army cementing distrust in academics that swing from researcher to advocate for right wing rhetoric.
As Hannah Spencer put it, he mistook his research for an instruction manual.

Petition: Introduce an NHS data opt-out & require a consultation for system expansions Introduce a clear national opt-out for NHS data processed in the Federated Data Platform (FDP) and National Data Integration Tenant (NDIT) and require a full public consultation before any further exp...

You want to opt out of Palantir abusing your health data, right?

Sign the petition and share, please!

Reform's Handmaid's Tale Vision for British Women... On my LBC show this Saturday, I spoke about some of the Handmaid Tale style policies and rhetoric which has emerged from the Reform party recently.

Wrote a new Substack. Share it with every woman you know. They’re coming for our rights.

tashthinks.substack.com/p/reforms-ha...

Absolutely spot on article

All those “Sensibles” and “Centrists” please read this.

You might understand why Starmer is so deeply despised.

His ignominious demise cant come soon enough.

5/5 🧵
I really wonder how we could check where all this stuff comes from - Reform activists? Russian bots? Pretty obvious who has a vested interest in spreading this kind of 🐮 💩, but how would we prove it?

Maybe one for @manchestermill.bsky.social to look into?

3/🧵

- When pressed for details in the comments they keep it very vague. For example the dog one was asked for a description of the dog and the bloke who made nasty comments - they wrote back "police have his description, I believe he is a member of staff".

Message in Levy Massive Facebook group by Anonymous participant: " Just heard they are knocking Tescos down and turning it into temporary housing for illegal migrants is this true?"

Message in Levy Massive Facebook group by AttractiveKale5631 - an anonymising Facebook handle: "I've been waiting all night for the 192 has something gone on? It's not safe waiting for the bus near Tescos an Asian man keeps harassing me it's a joke this place"

Message in Levy Massive Facebook group by Anonymous participant: "Some man has just kicked my dog outside Levenshulme Bakery told me that dogs shouldn't be allowed in this area, what kind of third worlds mentality have we imported here"

Dispatches from the #GortonandDenton by-election: local community Facebook groups are being flooded with some really dodgy 💩.

One for my neighbours in Levy and for investigative journalists - not sure whom to talk to about it.

See a few screenshots here, and 🧵on why I think it's sus below.