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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3h

Many countries including France and Russia nationalised large areas of their countries that had been stolen by massive landowners who had remained unchanged for centuries.

Nearly 70% of the UK belongs to people like this, who have owned huge tracts for hundreds of years.

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Annie G @anniegoss.bsky.social · 4h

I agree with this: Make Hope Normal Again is a brilliant slogan for our times. @zackpolanski.bsky.social is shifting the narrative, not just responding to it... And, let's face it, it's high time someone did that! 👏

The Rest Is Politics @therestpolitics.bsky.social · 6d

We see you Zack Polanski 👀

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12h

Presenter tries to Gotcha! Zack Polanski by telling us rich people will sell their assets to avoid a Wealth Tax.

But who are they selling them to?

Because unless it is Mr Nobody they will still be hit by a Wealth Tax.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 8h

I have written to Lisa Nandy, following her grossly misleading comments over the Maccabi Tel Aviv ban.

This is about a group of fans with a history of racism and violence. It is not about banning Jewish people - and any attempt to conflate the two is shameful.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3h

The Banks in the UK make £82,000,000,000 a year profit, they pay just 28% tax on that.

You pay 28% tax on £12,571+
And 42% on £50,270+

The rich do not pay tax.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3h

Someone was moaning about immigrants.

So I said, look what they have done to the food prices.

"Uhh..." They replied.

And the Water Bills and the Energy Bills and the Mortgages and the Rents...

"That's not immigrants." They told me.

"No, no it's not."

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Harmonica 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @harmonica2.bsky.social · 3h

First the betting business, now the big banks are making threats. Tax us on our record profits and we'll hurt households and businesses.

news.sky.com/story/bank-t...

Bank tax could hurt households and business lending, UK's biggest mortgage provider says

Lloyds Banking Group's chief executive urges the chancellor to ignore calls for a windfall tax on commercial banks even though the sector is enjoying record profits.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 8h

Iain Dale has to apologise an awful lot.

Perhaps he should just stop Tweeting, and *checks notes* wrestling peaceful protestors to the ground on live TV.

This clip is quite insane.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 10h

What is WRONG with this government?

UK government ‘deeply saddened’ as Maccabi Tel Aviv decline any Aston Villa tickets

The Israeli side’s fans have been blocked from attending, with the club saying in a statement: ‘The wellbeing and safety of our fans is paramount’

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 16h

Nick Robinson preannounced that interview about Maccabi Tel Aviv fans being banned, by saying "what does this tell us about antisemitism?"

Where is the antisemitism? Or is it just there because we're told it's there, partly by double barrelled questions like that? #r4today

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Andy Hearn 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈⚽️🎶🌈 @andyhearn24.bsky.social · 8h

Labours polling is astonishingly and deservedly bad, their few remaining supporters attempts to blame everybody else for this is really grating.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14h

Left: Lisa Nandy, "It is unprecedented in modern times that all away fans have been banned because of the behaviour of a small minority"

Right: West Ham fans banned from Europa League Game, Barcelona fans banned from UEFA Champions League tie

Shouldn't she correct the parliamentary record?

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 14h

This is just obviously true, isn't it, and it's going to be even more obvious, if such a thing is possible, when Labour gets trounced in Caerphilly on Thursday?

Blue Labour is dead Labour. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

We must turn Labour around, deputy leadership frontrunner warns Starmer

Exclusive: Lucy Powell takes aim at PM over ‘missteps and mistakes’, saying she was sacked for opposing cuts and that the party must reconnect with lost voters – but not by copying Reform

www.independent.co.uk

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 9h

Birmingham supports Palestine, and so does the rest of the UK.

Why doesn't our Government?

We need to change that.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Jewish community leaders in Birmingham

Standing outside Villa Park

Saying they support the ban of Maccabi

Saying it's nothing to do with religion, or against Jews

"It's a genuine safety concern against hooliganism from Maccabi"

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 1d

#Renationalise water

Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 1d

What an absolute cluster.

Private companies in effect alleging the Thames Water bidding process is rigged. Who’d have guessed!

Ministers should just fess-up. This charade has never been about the public interest.

It was always about keeping water in private hands at any cost.

Screenshot of Financial Times article with the headline: CKI calls for Thames Water renationalisation after 'high risk' creditor plan

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Harmonica 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @harmonica2.bsky.social · 10h

She is a complete disgrace. Useless Culture Secretary and apologist for Israeli football hooligans. And Labour wonder why they are plummeting in the polls.

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 18h

Andrew Neil:
"What about university tuition fees then, will you remain committed to scrapping them in your first term?"

#Starmer:
"They're all pledges, Andrew, so the answer to these questions is yes"

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 18h

Labour and tuition fees, then and now.

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A Broken World 🌍 🌎 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 16h

While the rest of us have to struggle to make ends meet, these 'royal' parasites lead a privileged life of luxury and avoid the laws of decency we have to live by.

Ban the nonsense of monarchy and remove their titles, stolen lands and palaces.

#AbolishMonarchy #PrincePervert #NoMoreKings #r4today

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 11h

The Greens need to get out into the streets of Govan, Muirhouse, Torry, Handsworth, Newton Heath, Bloomsbury and Trowbridge.

They need to go out canvasing and leafleting these impoverished areas where the communities desperately need a voice that's not Reform UK.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15h

Tough on Katie Lam's dad, who is the son of a German refugee.

Will he be deported too, I wonder?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported

Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’

www.theguardian.com

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 16h

(Prince) Andrew needs to be fully investigated by the Metropolitan Police.

Repost if you agree.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

Is the Prime minister subtweeting me?

Tax wealth. Not work.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

National renewal isn't just moving money around. It's about completely rewiring the state and the economy.

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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 13h

Our culture secretary is endangering our own people to protect Israeli football hooligans

www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/how-much-m...

How much more evidence do we need that Israel is in charge?

If you hadn’t been paying attention to politics, you might have found it weird how the British government reacted to the ban of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from the upcoming UEFA Super League match with Ast...

www.councilestatemedia.uk

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Charlotte @charlottor.bsky.social · 1d

“If we don’t let violent football hooligans come to Birmingham then that would be antisemitic” — genuinely I think I’m losing my mind, what the fuck are they on about

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