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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social

What has needed to happen to get us where we are. Starmer had a massive majority and 5 years to get us on another path. He could have made the case for progressive values and helped those who are in danger of voting Reform out of desperation. screedvault.neocities.org/post/full_sp...

aug 23, 2025, 3:57 pm • 2 0

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Martin Lewis @martinnhw.bsky.social

Thanks for sharing this. I'll have a look at it.

aug 23, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social

Instead Starmer's Labour Party is maintaining the country on a course to get to the same destination that Reform would take us. After 5 years of Starmer, Farage won't have anywhere near so much left to do. Is it any better if my healthcare is blocked by someone with Labour branding?

aug 23, 2025, 4:03 pm • 3 0 • view
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Martin Lewis @martinnhw.bsky.social

I'm not defending everything Labour has done. I was a member & activist until I resigned over "Island of strangers" & trans rights. I can't even imagine how hard it must be to be trans rn. But I disagree profoundly about using the "far right" label for Labour.

aug 23, 2025, 4:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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Martin Lewis @martinnhw.bsky.social

If we're unfortunate enough to get a Reform govt in 28/29 I think it will be a horror show the like of which we haven't seen in living memory. Trump is giving us a taste of what it might be like.

aug 23, 2025, 4:22 pm • 1 0 • view
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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social

Starmer is enacting the same programme as Trump is.

aug 23, 2025, 4:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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Martin Lewis @martinnhw.bsky.social

Tariffs? Troops on the streets? Slashing science and health research funding? Creating an unaccountable paramilitary police? Attacking higher education? I can't take this comparison seriously, I'm afraid.

aug 23, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social

screedvault.neocities.org/post/transat...

aug 23, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social

The BBC is still run by Tories after over a year of Starmer. The EHRC, our HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTION is still run by the same anti trans activists as it was under the Tories - they had their contracts extended and another one will soon be the chair in defiance of the JHRC. bsky.app/profile/good...

aug 23, 2025, 4:07 pm • 1 0 • view
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Martin Lewis @martinnhw.bsky.social

Yes, I agree entirely about the BBC and the EHRC.

aug 23, 2025, 4:12 pm • 0 0 • view