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Lizzie Lass #FBPE🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪🇪🇸🇵🇸

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Left of centre and a European that’s wants to see the Republic of Scotland rejoin and take its place in Europe once again .I also detest Starmer, The US Turd , Putin, and most of all the Dark Money ruining the World . No DMS

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Lizzie Lass #FBPE🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪🇪🇸🇵🇸 @echarkie.bsky.social · May 7

Starmer is the only one sitting in the HOC that still thinks he’s on the right course !! There no genie waiting to come out of his bottle I’m afraid . Playing the Tory gaming blaming the last government for all the country’s ailments . It’s going to be a long long 4years as the uk sinks !!

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

"Brexiteers boasted that leaving the EU would be worth hundreds of billions a year. Cambridge Econometrics estimates that over the next decade Britain's economy will be £300bn smaller than if we had not left the EU. This is self-harm on a heroic scale."
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins

With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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How the BBC is 'Falling for Farage'

A new exclusive Byline Times report reveals how the corporation is enabling the far-right of British politics

www.bylinesupplement.com

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

Oh dear that failed spectacularly as the BBC arranged an all-right-wing panel to challenge Green leader Zack Polanski on Question Time last night. But he schooled them all. And it was a perfect example of how to cut through establishment propaganda with clarity and compassion.

Zack Polanski schooling a right-wing BBCQT panel was a brilliant lesson in how to beat propaganda

The BBC arranged an all-right-wing panel to challenge Green leader Zack Polanski on Question Time last night. But he schooled them all.

www.thecanary.co

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Former Labour MP Ruth Kelly appointed as Chair of Thames Freeport.
Blackrock 80% stakes in 3🇬🇧freeports, inc Thames Freeport
Kelly’s post-MP career blur the line between public service & private gain, potentially aligning Thames Freeport’s with BlackRock's interests
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The Corporate Coup Eroding UK Sovereignty Through Freeports, SEZs and AI Growth Zones

Welcome to "Zone Fever": the bipartisan Ponzi scheme turning Britain's ports, factories, and public services into corporate feeding grounds.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.

He is gaslighting a nation.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements Nigel Farage has insisted his party’s former leader in Wales who was convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes was a “bad apple” who betrayed him. The Reform UK leader was in Caerphilly campaigning for his candidate in a forthcoming Senedd byelection when he was asked about his links to Nathan Gill. Continue reading...

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

The picture of Farage with the T shirt from Gill’s briber’s wife, taken the day Gill appears her Pro Russian TV channel, is taken in Gill’s office

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick

We deserve a better class of villain. Or at least a more memorable one.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Membership at record levels.

Polling at record levels.

Winning elections at record levels.

What a time to be in @greenparty.org.uk

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Zack Polanski: I went on Question Time - I was blown away by the response

The response has been quite overwhelming.

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 1d

The leader of Plaid Cymru has urged voters in Wales to elect his party next year to “stop Reform”

Vote Plaid to stop Reform - Rhun ap Iorwerth

The leader of Plaid Cymru has urged voters in Wales to elect his party next year to “stop Reform”. Addressing the annual Plaid conference in Swansea, Rhun ap Iorwerth suggested the Senedd elections ne...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Green Party is polling higher than ever before. Our membership is growing rapidly.
And every single day we are surging.

Where Labour have failed, the Left must be ready to take on Reform.

news.sky.com/story/bring-...

'Bring it on': Left-wing activists gather for fight back against the right - and Labour

Zack Polanski, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will headline a left-wing festival in Manchester this weekend - as progressive voters look for an alternative to Labour.

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Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 1d

Reporter: Why didn’t Donald Trump win the Nobel peace prize?

Nobel Committee: We only give the award to people of courage and integrity.

That says it all folks.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 2d

We're a long way off an election, and I'm not one to focus on polls.

But I'll take a rare break from that to say: Good grief, it is going to be carnage if anything like this is put through the meat grinder of First Past the Post...

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 2d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.

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Lizzie Lass #FBPE🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪🇪🇸🇵🇸 @echarkie.bsky.social · 1d

Just bloody confirm it Israel !!!

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for all the really amazing support from Question Time tonight!

You heard it several times (including even from Reform!):

@greenparty.org.uk are surging.

Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

#BBCQT

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Lizzie Lass #FBPE🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪🇪🇸🇵🇸 @echarkie.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a worry now! No confirmation from Israel or its criminal leader or its government . Criminals don’t want to go to jail but has Trump the balls to finish them if they don’t sign up to the peace plan . Many know where the bodies are buried !!!

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

Sir Jim Ratcliffe spent part of the £4bn tax bill he dodged to fund Manchester United.

That is how the UK works you pay tax, the big people don't and they get richer and richer and RICHER.

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Yes! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Lizzie Lass #FBPE🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪🇪🇸🇵🇸 @echarkie.bsky.social · 1d

Making America Great Again!

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 2d

Head of largest US bank warns of risk of American stock market crash #USA

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Head of largest US bank warns of risk of American stock market crash

Jamie Dimon, chair of JPMorgan Chase, said he was ‘far more worried than others’ about serious market correction

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 2d

A controversial online software system that has been linked to the possibility of vote rigging is being used by Welsh Labour to select Senedd candidates for next May’s election, we have been told ✍️Martin Shipton

Controversial online voting software 'used to select Labour Senedd candidates'

Martin Shipton A controversial online software system that has been linked to the possibility of vote rigging is being used by Welsh Labour to select Senedd candidates for next May’s election, we have...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.

To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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