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Foreign-born voters stole by-election, Farage blasts, amid rising alarm over suspected poll fraud
Nigel Farage has sensationally claimed that Reform UK was robbed of victory by foreign-born voters in last week's Manchester by-election.
Farage needs to fuck off with this.
The candidate that Reform stood had a long history of overtly racist views and comments, heβs a known misogynist and overall has the charisma of a soiled pair of knickers.
They are doing nothing more than causing further division.
Fuck off, the lot of them.
01.03.2026 11:08 β
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Here are the latest death toll figures from the US and Israel's ongoing attacks on Iran and Iran's retaliatory strikes.
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01.03.2026 14:07 β
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Really?
01.03.2026 10:57 β
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Definitely sore loser vibes.
01.03.2026 08:48 β
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This post is for all of you in every time zone all around the world.
I keep hearing that Bluesky is still mostly North American. But I think thereβs lots of you around the world that love cities, and want them to be better.
We want @urbantruth.bsky.social to be global.
I hope youβll check us out.
01.03.2026 08:42 β
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Definitely a good chunk of people in the UK.
01.03.2026 08:47 β
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Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnishβed with car-related fatalities.
βHelsinki hasnβt registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past yearβ¦Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a carβs speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinkiβs residential areas and city center in 2021.β
01.03.2026 04:01 β
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If that happens, itβs a great example of how some people probably shouldnβt hold a driving licence.
28.02.2026 15:20 β
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This is precisely where bike parking should be at supermarkets.
28.02.2026 15:18 β
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A table showing what was eaten on each day of the week for breakfast, dinner, tea and supper
The average diet of a Rural Oxfordshire family, 1912 - mostly bread and butter
Grim
Nostalgia is a cruel deceiver
From, apparently, How the Labourer Lives: A Study of the Rural Labour Problem by B. Seebohm Rowntree and May Kendall, 1917
28.02.2026 12:26 β
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Seconded.
27.02.2026 19:36 β
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That said, it does hit at something more fundamental. Wirral is another council that is a bugger for running consultations for the appearance of doing something without actually having to do the hard part. That sort of behaviour undermines confidence in delivery; because none ever happens.
27.02.2026 10:32 β
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TROs are a great example of that. The TRO is happening. It's clearly needed. What they're asking is "are there any particular issues you can see from your local knowledge, like there being nowhere for services to park due to adjacent resident only parking schemes", not should we do this.
27.02.2026 10:32 β
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Absolutely. Our education system has failed a lot of people around civics education. Primarily that:
Consultation = we're doing this, it's happening. We're asking you for anything we may not have considered about its implementation.
Referendum = should we do this or not
27.02.2026 10:32 β
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Pavement blocked both sides of a road by 3 cars on each side.
In Watford our Beryl bikes scheme has bays on wide sections of footway as it is funded by Watford Council, not the highways authority Herts CC. 1st fine of Β£10 for parking outside a bay, 3rd time banned from the scheme so compliance is very high, meanwhile cars block pavements...
27.02.2026 09:45 β
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As a council candidate, you would hope they really would know the difference between consultations and referendums.
27.02.2026 09:42 β
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Skinner am I out of touch meme
"Can it be true that I lost because I'm a fundamentally unlikeable weirdo parachuted in by fascists? No, it's the woke Muslims who are wrong"
27.02.2026 09:38 β
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There's a solution for e-bike parking chaos - but it's not problem-free
Introducing dedicated parking bays has not completely solved the issue.
The solution is problem free. It's only problematic if you operate from the base assumption that the carriageway is only for private vehicles.
**THAT** is the real problem.
(And yes, bikes and scooters absolutely should be parked on the carriageway; not on footpaths and pavements).
27.02.2026 09:34 β
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Gorton and Denton by-election result:
GRN: 40.7% (+27.5)
REF: 28.7% (+14.7)
LAB: 25.4% (-25.3)
CON: 1.9% (-6.0)
LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1)
Green GAIN from Labour.
Expect weeks of "family voting" rhetoric from Reform. They're out of the gates on it already.
It mustn't be allowed to wash because look at the scale of that win.
Tactical voting has obviously played a massive part.
Gorton and Denton rejected Reform and its hateful agenda.
27.02.2026 07:14 β
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Unfortunately, if anything it might swing it to Greens vs Reform, but it'll stay two party. The FPTP system demands it.
The best thing Labour could do is start implementing PR. They're unlikely to win again, but they could remain the largest in a left-leaning coalition.
27.02.2026 06:52 β
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couple surrounded by cars complaining about two e-scooters - classic example of car blindness
time for a repost of this classic
26.02.2026 09:05 β
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I'm sure 50% of my responses to AI are "clearly fucking not" when it says it's done something, but it hasn't.
26.02.2026 21:20 β
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Apparently so. π π€¦ββοΈ
Definitely needs the /s
26.02.2026 21:20 β
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What? Subsidies to store private property in public, or on private land for a minority of residents paid for by everyone, including those who don't even have cars β whether through council tax or higher prices in stores β is a human right?
What a weird fucking take.
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Iβve begun a new research project and now escape todayβs madness by rifling through pre-1914 cycling magazines. Iβll share stuff here and there on this thread, starting with β¦
03.01.2026 18:08 β
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Just found a cycling friend is on a stag do (Batchelor party for the Americans) where the stag has been forced to dress up as an air hostess. Absolutely peak costume. Even better, they apparently got the airplane stewards to agree to let them collect rubbish from the passengers while dressed up π
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Not everyone bikes, but not everyone drives either. Yet only one demands we pave over our neighborhoods just for storage. How we design our streets dictates who gets to thrive in them.
People or machines? It's a choice.
26.02.2026 13:37 β
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I'm as shocked as you are.
25.02.2026 18:48 β
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