Cheerfulness coming back in my front garden!

In Havering, Reform won 71% of the seats on 36% vote share. In Ealing, Labour won 66% of the seats on 30% of votes. In Westminster, the Tories won 59% of the seats on 35% of the vote. In Sutton, 44% of the vote gave the Lib Dems 93% of the seats. Under FPTP, whoever wins, the voters lose.

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However you dice it, it’s been a great night for Thai-based cryptocurrency billionaires & Vladimir Putin - who, incredibly, is currently getting more good news from the UK than Ukraine.

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I long for the day when people can vote for the party they love rather than against the party they hate. We need electoral reform! #PR stopreformuk.vote

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www.instagram.com/reel/DX66Jzs... Brilliant as usual!

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Sky News correctly identifies the problem with our current electoral system in an era of multiparty politics. Do we really want to elect our representatives on 15% of the vote? We need a fair, proportional system. news.sky.com/video/share-...

This new Banksy statue is a reminder that nothing can be more powerful, more creative, more impactful than human-made art. He's managed to capture the dangers of the current political moment in a single piece of artwork. Absolutely brilliant.

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

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What lonely, susceptible, vulnerable people at risk of radicalisation need isn’t PREVENT. It’s community, belonging, activity & friendship. So it’s time to invest in the wonderful small grassroots groups working in every community that are continually bypassed by big government.

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I just signed this petition to stop private firms from draining the NHS, by demanding the Government introduce a cap on private profit. Can you add your name too?

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A reminder as BP once again posts record profits, we owned most of it in 1979 before Margaret Thatcher took over. She sold it all for less than it sometimes makes in just one year. The greatest theft ever.

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The Iran war is making everything more expensive for us, but some companies are cashing in. Don't think that's right? Sign the petition now demanding they are taxed more on their record profits to help us all with the cost of living. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ra...

Excellent as usual!

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Thinking about this one again…

LIVE SUMMER GIG ALERT - TICKETS: broadstairsfolkweek.org.uk/artist/the-m... 8th August at Crampton Tower, 3.00-4.30pm #livemusic #announcement #broadstairsfolkweek #kent #cramptontower

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I just signed a @globalactionplan.bsky.social petition: Stop Dirty Data Centres. Sign here: www.globalactionplan.org.uk/stop-dirty-d...

I just signed a @globalactionplan.bsky.social petition: Stop Dirty Data Centres. Sign here: www.globalactionplan.org.uk/stop-dirty-d...

He is only saying publicly what the rest of them are thinking quietly. If reform is elected we will say goodbye to the NHS. What replaces them will mean bankruptcy or death to most of us

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Anyone spotted (particularly media luvvies) that the process followed with the Mandelson appointment is the process which was in place throughout the Tory years. Starmer's first experience with this flawed process and he's changed it so it cannot happen again, remind us again, what's the story.

I listened to Starmer's speech in full, he is blaming the process not the officials tasked with carrying out said process. This is his first experience with a process which is clearly flawed and he's made changes. The question is why didn't the Tories make this change when they were in office.

Kerkenhof tulips!

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Wouldn't it make a refreshing change if journalists and political commentators stopped talking to themselves about Starmer's faults and asked the people who are benefiting from Labour's policies. People on UC, on minumum wage, free breakfast clubs and childcare hours, the Employment Rights act etc

Hyacinth heads the scent was intoxicating!

You mean this

First part of journey to Amsterdam! Off to explore the bulb fields!

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Now adjust it for population. USA is more than twice the size of Germany and nearly five times the size of the U.K., nearly 35 times the size of Sweden and so on

A reminder, the security services advised Theresa May Johnson was a security risk before she appointed him Foreign Secretary, they advised against giving Lebedev a peerage, he got one, Johnson misled (lied to you and me) about what he knew about Pincher when he made him Deputy Chief Whip.

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Next CEO pay rose from £4.9m to £7.4m, could hit £9.27m this year. Company changed CEO pay formula because it didn't give directors enough. Non-exec directors to get higher pay. Most shop workers toil on/around minimum wage. Govts preach pay restraint to workers but no curbs on fat-cattery.