Sharon Osborne was
▶️an immigrant into the USA in the late 1970s
▶️an immigrant into Ireland in the mid 1990s
▶️an immigrant into the USA again from 2002 to 2005
▶️and then again from 2010 to 2020
She has been an immigrant for approx 48 of her 73 years
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Reform will - Fix It
Wait... this is real?
Reform actually did this in... Leeds?
Did everyone get a badge with a ribbon?
A great piece of research which I mentioned today when debating the council’s climate action plan
On tele with fellow Labour members speaking about NEC blocking @andyburnham.bsky.social from running www.itv.com/watch/news/w...
Hey @teamlabouruk.bsky.social, do you think you could be any more stupid?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Just come back from regional conference Ironic that regional Labour Party conference was held at the Titanic hotel as the NEC has just drove into a massive iceberg - however this was an Iceberg that was in plain sight. Inexcusable error.
U turn now
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Nigel Farage said their flagship council in Kent would be a "shop window" for how they would run the country.
Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...
Great book forensically cataloguing all the Tories bad deeds in a humorous manner even though it’s not funny at all what they did
The final volume in the horrific but superbly detailed trilogy from @russincheshire.bsky.social arrived in the post today from @bylinetimes.bsky.social signed copy too. Not sure what category it should go under horror, politics or black comedy ?
lol you need a supply of bubble wrap
Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.
Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.
That, right there, is the problem.
Have the Tories finally destroyed themselves?
@russincheshire.bsky.social ‘s last part of his brilliant trilogy.
Get your signed copy before stocks go.
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Omg I’ve only just started vol 1 which is a very fullsome volume are vol 2 &3 as lengthy?
"People who are 'too poor to pay tax' find a spare half billion quid to pay UPFRONT for something that's entirely voluntary."
There, I fixed it for you.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
"It’s not so much a track record as a skid-mark, so you’d expect the Tories to be ready for action whenever a story emerged about Mark Menzies, but you’d be wrong."
Excerpt from my forthcoming book about the Sunak years, "Tories: The End of an Error"
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...
In a 2024 Telegraph bit, Badenoch wrote it is "naïve [to] assume immigrants abandon ancestral ethnic hostilities at the border ... their feet may be in the UK, but their heads and hearts are still back in their country of origin."
Except for her, or course
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Shocked and v sad about the premature death of fellow Cheshire East Councillor Chris Hilliard who was an Independent Cllr for Lacey Green. Chris was a truly decent person and the Council’s Active Travel Champion.
A great loss to the council and cycling world.
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Is there a violin small enough for this?
Plans to reform environmental regulations risk irreversible harm to nature.
My amendments to the Planning Bill would prevent this.
Safeguarding nature and building homes can go hand in hand - with an empowered, well-funded planning system.
www.politicshome.com...
Liverpool, May 1966, by Barry Feinstein. When Bob Dylan was playing the Odeon Theatre.
What a despicable bloke
We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham
Camilla Tominey humiliated on #BBCQT
Gary Stevenson explains how we have given away national assets to rich people, so we should tax rich people
Camilla Tominey dismisses the call to tax rich people by saying everyone pays taxes
Gary Stevenson explains to tax the rich on their wealth
Not technically bankrupt yet , and you should still be getting your black bin collected every 2 weeks as that doesn’t come in till 2026- I agree with taxing the rich
youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE
Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?"
It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine.
#SlavaUkraini
#Dontabandonthem
