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Bryan Smith #RejoinEU

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UK Company director, scientist & humanist. Opinions are my own, but are based on facts. If they upset you don't take them seriously - but check your sources! Same handle on Twitter. Microbiologist, tech expert, smallholder, polymath, Green energy #RejoinEU

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Revealed: the Ukrainian facility where UK engineers help fix vital weapons Exclusive: MoD-contracted workers assisting Ukrainians in a way ‘no other nation has been willing to do’, says minister In an unmarked and undisclosed location in western Ukraine, British and Ukrainian engineers work side by side to fix damaged military hardware, crawling under the chassis of artillery systems and pulling apart the insides of British-donated howitzers. Until now, the existence of this facility, along with three other similar sites inside Ukraine, has been kept quiet, buried in neutral language to avoid drawing too much attention to the sites, given the sensitivities of all military-linked work inside Ukraine. Continue reading...

Revealed: the Ukrainian facility where UK engineers help fix vital weapons

06.03.2026 22:10 👍 87 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 2
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Reduced bills for around 300,000 households in WaterSure reform Around 300,000 low‑income households will see lower water bills thanks to the biggest overhaul of WaterSure in nearly 30 years.

Thousands of low‑income households will see lower water bills thanks to the biggest overhaul of WaterSure in nearly 30 years.

The changes will expand the eligibility criteria to include disability benefits, meaning a further 53k low-income households will see significant savings.

Thank you Labour!

06.03.2026 07:09 👍 64 🔁 32 💬 0 📌 1

Both Badenoch and the again Shadow Foreign Secretary, Priti Patel, have made horrendous and disgusting comments this week.

At a time we need all of Parliament to pull together, the Tories have made it extra personal with disgusting attacks. They have sunk to a new low.

06.03.2026 09:24 👍 98 🔁 32 💬 9 📌 0

That's shameful, #Fullfact.
We aren't even 2 years into a 5 year Parliament.
Its far too soon to say this appears off track - there have been plenty of improvements to living standards introduced already, & many more coming in April.
Your analysis looks more biased every day.
Be better. Be *neutral*

06.03.2026 15:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That's shameful, #Fullfact.
We aren't even 2 years into a 5 year Parliament.
Its far too soon to say this appears off track - there have been plenty of improvements to living standards introduced already, & many more coming in April.
Your analysis looks more biased every day.
Be better. Be *neutral*

06.03.2026 15:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Given the unanimous reporting of our media wanting us to join an illegal war the citizens of this country are not buying it.

Have the media barons pushed the public too far? I do hope so. I think their anti Starmer rhetoric has worn very thin.

06.03.2026 12:06 👍 132 🔁 28 💬 11 📌 0

Given its use as a treatment for baldness, very possible 😉

06.03.2026 15:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe, but they don't see that as "rescue", more as a "taxi service".

06.03.2026 15:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Letter from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to Baroness Casey of Blackstock DBE CB

The Commission will continue it's worth this year and is expected to start up a national conversation, which will likely have many opportunities for people to engage with the Commission's work.

It's really good to see both immediate action and longer term work on social care being done!

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06.03.2026 07:27 👍 39 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

#LabourIsActing

Social Care has been a big problem for years due to Tory cuts.
Labour is taking immediate action on interim recommendations by Louise Casey's review.

06.03.2026 14:47 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Casey Commission | Independent Commission on Adult Social Care The Casey Commission: the Independent Commission on Adult Social Care

A year ago, the Labour government instructed Louise Casey to carry out an Independent Commission on Adult Social Care.

This is a major piece of work to fundamentally transform the care sector and will take a long time.

But Baroness Casey said she would feedback with any immediate actions...

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06.03.2026 07:27 👍 51 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 0

Ed Conway now doing a long explainer on why his long explainer 5 days ago saying "Oil will reach $100 a barrel in hours" was completely wrong...

Now he's scaremongering about helium, sulphuric acid & the inability to store oil, gas etc even though there are 2 months production storage in Saudi.🙄

06.03.2026 14:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

(Possibly "Redistribute".)

06.03.2026 14:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My money would be on "Rescue"...

06.03.2026 14:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

All polling is clear on this .. why anyone shocked unless on twitter

06.03.2026 13:58 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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Home Office may forcibly remove child asylum seekers from UK in handcuffs Move is part of scheme to target families for expedited voluntary removals before enforced removal proceedings

#ClickBaitJournalism
This headline is about as relevant to the story beneath it as one saying "Councils will crush cars left on an expired parking meter".
The story outlines all means of removing people with no right to be in the UK, including voluntarily.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

06.03.2026 13:53 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0

So there was no "argument", no "disagreement", no "rebellion by Ed Milliband", just a presentation of the #Facts, an informed discussion with each department head giving their thoughts & insights on possible benefits & drawbacks, then a unanimous decision.
#GrownUpPolitics

06.03.2026 13:52 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

So there was no "argument", no "disagreement", no "rebellion by Ed Milliband", just a presntation of the #Facts, an informed discussion with each department head giving their thoughts & insights on possible benefits & drawbacks, then a unanimous decision.
#GrownUpPolitics

06.03.2026 13:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Leak from secret UK meeting about US attacks on Iran a travesty, says Lammy Justice secretary calls for inquiry into reports of cabinet splits at national security council over use of British bases

What *actually* happened:
We've all been in meetings.
We file in, sit down, get an Agenda for discussion.
The Chairman reads each item, its discussed, minuted, agreement reached & action points issued.

The Chairman's (Starmer) job is neutral control.🙄
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

06.03.2026 13:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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Here is the PM talking to us after yesterday's COBRA meeting and before the press conference on the Middle East.

So good to have a sensible, intelligent, grown up PM during this crisis, after years of terrible PMs.

The thought of any other current party leader dealing with this really scares me.

06.03.2026 07:48 👍 230 🔁 69 💬 15 📌 5

Once again, seems like polls were nonsense...

People can see it, despite relentless Media #disinformation.

#LabourIsWorking

06.03.2026 11:36 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Almost nobody in the media reported on the former Tory Government's sweeping power grab of the electoral commission. This week Labour have announced that they will reverse what Boris Johnson did and return the commission to independence.

Ofcourse Labour will get absolutely no credit for doing this

05.03.2026 18:54 👍 1338 🔁 470 💬 56 📌 14

TLDR?

The *Tory Government* didn't bother writing a law to allow them to seize & search asylum seekers phones, & didn't keep records of who they took them from (incredibly).
That was illegal, & courts awarded compensation (rightly).
Only ~60 asylum seekers involved.

Labour has now written a law.

05.03.2026 10:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Another perfect illustration of what is wrong with our media and just what the government is up against!

In this case, omission of details and fact twisting which makes people blame Labour rather than the Tories.

05.03.2026 06:52 👍 92 🔁 41 💬 4 📌 1
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Stronger protections for children with allergies in school Life-saving allergy pens must be stocked by schools for the first time under new plans announced today.

Labour bring in stronger protections for children with allergies in school!

Measures include:

+ requiring life-saving allergy pens to be stocked by all schools

+ Extra training for teachers

+ improved incident reporting

+ dedicated allergy policies

+ Individual Healthcare Plans

05.03.2026 07:03 👍 97 🔁 34 💬 6 📌 1
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13 new Labour/news announcements that will be deliberately missed or misrepresented by our media

Please share as we have to do the job of our media. Let your fam/friends know this government has your back. As well as keeping us out of a forever war.

05.03.2026 08:41 👍 126 🔁 88 💬 4 📌 2

Well done though!
Your body is better for quitting, & after 15 years or so it will have repaired most of the damage caused.

04.03.2026 21:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah - every smoker "just stops".
Problem is, most smokers start again after a few hours, a day, a week.
Cold turkey *doesn't work* for most people.
Thats why I developed my common sense, scientifically based, *free* method, which *everyone* can use to quit smoking.

It's helped hundreds of people

04.03.2026 21:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Zack is getting hysterical over this, but he still hasn't explained where he'd find the £604billion needed to repair & upgrade water & sewage to legal levels of service, or even how to pay the shortfall between £10billion income from bills & £20billion cost of supply.
#Populist

03.03.2026 15:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Weekend voting and shopping centre polling stations to be trialled Some voters in May local elections to cast their ballot in a shopping centre and on weekends as part of plans to make voting easier

The integrity & security of the UK's voting system will continue to be protected in the trials.

Local authorities will continue to operate traditional polling stations alongside the new options.

People will still be able to vote by post or proxy, & choose the method that works best for them.

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03.03.2026 09:25 👍 21 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1