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Pete Jackman

@ymenyn.bsky.social

Amersham Bucks UK. Retired civil servant, liberal leaning. West Ham fan for 54yrs. Have never & would never consider voting Tory or for the far right. Worried for the world right now.

149 Followers  |  261 Following  |  57 Posts  |  Joined: 13.11.2024  |  2.2035

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Um, hi. This.

27.02.2026 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Extraordinary that in these fractious & divided times, so many of us can unite around the single, simple fact that Matthew Goodwin is an irredeemable twat.

27.02.2026 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4976    πŸ” 666    πŸ’¬ 191    πŸ“Œ 38
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Summary:

The electorate is restless.
Labour is rudderless.
Greens are hope.
Tories are hopeless.
And Reform’s silent majority has once again turned out to be a noisy minority.

27.02.2026 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 738    πŸ” 162    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 3

Here's my big takeaway from all this.

Since 2016 the Tories have pursued exactly the same things Reform is offering now β€” isolation, recrimination, division, and blind faith that finding the *right* charismatic bullshitter will fix the country.

The Tories lost their deposit.

It doesn't work.

27.02.2026 10:58 β€” πŸ‘ 453    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 2
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Unions and industry rally against Reform UK’s LGPS plans Pensions UK has said Reform's comments about the LGPS are "not supported by evidence", as the party's deputy leader confirms plans for a DB to DC switch.

Unions and industry rally against Reform UK’s LGPS plans

www.pensions-expert.com/lgps/unions-...

25.02.2026 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reform have made it clear that if they win, they'll govern like MAGA-Nazis.
⛔️ Economic policies from the Epstein Class
⛔️ Immigration policies from Heinrich Himmler
⛔️ Health policies from Harold Shipman
⛔️ Women's policies from the Taliban
⛔️ Workers' rights from Amazon
⛔️ Data protection from Palantir

25.02.2026 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

The clown show is in full effect.

From the same berks who brought you Brexit, more shambles.

And Mr Tice, your Mrs lives in Dubai for tax avoidance reasons.

Patriot much??

24.02.2026 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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On the 4th anniversary of Russia's failed full-scale invasion, we need to thank Ukraine's military for saving both Ukraine and Europe.

Every single person who helped in any way deserves to be remembered

24.02.2026 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 188    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reform wants to put public unions β€˜under review’, by-election candidate has said Comments late last year indicate challenges Farage faces in courting working-class voters

Reform are copying the Nazis again! ... The Nazis also banned trade unions in 1933 – and forced workers to join a single regime-led union called the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront or "DAF"). The first thing the DAF did was make strikes illegal.
#RefUKkers

23.02.2026 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
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Reform’s Trump-inspired plans for an ICE-style force will only bring chaos and disorder to Britain’s streets, not the order and control our immigration system needs.

23.02.2026 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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You don't vote for one issue... you vote for the whole package!

You only have to look at Trumps USA to see what Reform want to turn the UK into.

Reform will tell the UK is broken. Farage broke it with Brexit then imediately tried to get a German passport to get out of the UK!!!!

23.02.2026 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Best PM for many a year.

23.02.2026 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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100% arrest him

22.02.2026 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Guess which system Farage wants to bring to the UK?

22.02.2026 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Turns out being physiologically flawed is just billionaire speak for β€œcan’t be bought”

22.02.2026 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
TV characters.

TV characters.

Alexander Johnson being fluffed yet again by Tory Laura Kuenssberg on her show tomorrow.
Our BBC my arse.

21.02.2026 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They noticed!

21.02.2026 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 771    πŸ” 119    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 6
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An important reminder

21.02.2026 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2671    πŸ” 972    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 30

Get this slime out of the EU.

Along with Farage, they're the ultimate EU grifters, but Orban is by far the biggest.

21.02.2026 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/reform-matt-goodwin-by-election-candidate-paper-cxrshwmbt?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_page=Politics&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1771615661

Reform’s Matt Goodwin’s having an absolute mare this week:

😬Accused of sexual harassment
πŸ€‘Apparently receiving a dodgy Β£10k/month salary from Russia
🫀Now it emerges his numbers just didn’t add up in his academic position at a right wing think tank…

t.co/cwK8ym4UB4

21.02.2026 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Daily Mail have made a desperate attack on Green Candidate Hannah Spencer.

Among the evil things she did, going to the US 12 years ago, and going to Spain 10 years ago.

I think those revelations will...

Make people laugh at the ridiculous Daily Mail.

21.02.2026 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 119    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1

The people creating these retirement ages live on a different planet.

Planet millionaire/billionaire.

20.02.2026 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

According to the last census, the population of the UK is currently 69,785,969. The number of people who "can't speak English" is 161,000. That makes a non-English speaking minority here of 0.23%. Far fewer than the Brits in Spain who don't speak Spanish!
#RefUKkers

19.02.2026 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Someone needs to re-cover Johnson taking documents to Italy without his security too

19.02.2026 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Room Next Door - Prince Andrew YouTube video by Michael Spicer

oh ok then

19.02.2026 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 553    πŸ” 176    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 18

Our best hope then is that the rightwing out-bastard each other into oblivion. Lovely.
Competing on how many/who’d they’d deport, who loses their rights, who doesn’t deserve welfare, who isn’t disabled, who they hate…
Yes. May it all blow up in their bigoted, ugly faces before they do more harm.

19.02.2026 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 275    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

Trump’s endless flip-flopping on the Chagos Islands shows why Starmer’s approach is doomed to fail.

Britain can’t rely on the US while Trump is in the White House. It’s time to strengthen our ties with allies we can depend on, starting with our neighbours in Europe.

18.02.2026 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 340    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 8

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