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Rick—The Political Gardener
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Former Environmental Scientist #Socialist. Gardening Business Owner. Ex-Rugby Player, Ulster & Irish Rugby Supporter. Pro Small Business, Pro Social Justice! Find me writing— https://open.substack.com/pub/thepoliticalgardener
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“Fiscal discipline” is code for protecting the donor class.

Fiscal Rules are thus
No Taxes on the rich
Low Interest Rates for the rich
Privatisation
Allowing price gouging
Permanent Austerity
Managed Decline

Neoliberals are the whip hand of the slave masters.
The Great Government Debt Scam
Turning Public Debt into Private 1% Wealth—Understanding how money works today.
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Time for adult conversations and redesigning democracy so this can never happen again.

And look at our lot, a disgrace in the UK the island runs deep.
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There is no reason for MPs to be given 'donations' at all, other than influence and corruption. It should be illegal.
Trident started at £5bn and is now £205 And it doesn't fucking workin.

Americans call it Enshittification, coined by Cory Doctorow.
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Now it's just greed and incompetence.
#3Point5Percent of the population, demonstrating, general strikes, and everything possible to starve the beast of its trade and its resources.

Time For Adult Conversations.

Time to ban Free Markets and Neoliberalism.
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I often see people argue about just how many people are suffering from long COVID. The answer is LOTS. Canada is slow producing stats, but as of 2023 that number was 2.1 million people. Almost 12% of the population. About 50% of those had been suffering for more than a year.
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The Dragon's Egg Nebula.

This nebula in Norma is close to the famous "Fighting Dragons of Ara" hence its name. Captured from my Bortle 7-8 backyard in Sydney. This received a Highly Commended in the recent Astrophotography Prize & a top-pick on Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/qkmfea/ 🔭 #astrophotography
I'm a socialist because I believe in democracy & we as a people have the right to stand against US Capital—ism.
Asystem of public contracts that reward failure. I believe it's our democratic right to object against the excess of Capital beit China, EU, US or British
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Enshittification
The American Dream Is Creepy and Crap
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We are paying to make interest rates higher.

And we are paying 40% rents

Why do we permit the lunacy of modern capitalism?
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“Fiscal discipline” is code for protecting the donor class.

Fiscal Rules are thus
No Taxes on the rich
Low Interest Rates for the rich
Privatisation
Allowing price gouging
Permanent Austerity
Managed Decline

Neoliberals are the whip hand of the slave masters.
The Great Government Debt Scam
Turning Public Debt into Private 1% Wealth—Understanding how money works today.
open.substack.com
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Great Mr. Wolff,Sue In The
Language of The Chump's,Money
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Today, England's water companies received their worst pollution ratings since records began.

Rising bills. Soaring profits. Sewage in our rivers and seas.

Enough is enough. Bring water back into public ownership, now.
If you want a healthier, greener, more grown up economy?

Then you've only 1 choice at the moment, it's @zackpolanski.bsky.social
@greenparty.org.uk & its sister parties in @greenpartyni.org & @scottishgreens.org

US monopoly is killing the country—Lib Dems, Tories, Labour & Reform all US Capital
And the only party offering these types of solutions to put really expensive oil and gas dependent markets is we pay 40% rent on all gas and oil imported into the country.

Which is why Green Invest is so badly needed to lower costs.
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Europe’s Renewable Boom Just Blindsided the U.S *EU Wins*
YouTube video by Ben Alexxander
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And no one dare talk of the UK car production?

They are all foreign owned & closing down production in the UK.
We could repurpose factories & jobs, build with Cheap Chinese Tech but new British cars!

That takes investment from the government into PEOPLE!

innovation doesn't come from monopoly.
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This is absolutely seismic.

Like this is global capitalism changing.

And you need to understand why the Green Party and a better more democratic ownership of energy is needed!

If BYD can make a good car for £10k with a trade deal on tech that is half the cost?

£7k cars?
South Korea Fears China’s CATL Sodium Battery Revolution
YouTube video by Ben Alexxander
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Zack Polanski has just confirmed that rejoining the EU is an aim for the Green Party.

The Green Party is the only party promising this.
I am hoping that inspires the British working class to examine the role of the monarchy in Trump's world.

Then maybe we can close Westminster and the Palaces and democracy can be reborn here too.

Look forwards not backwards is the American Dream—a government of the people for the people—finally!
Yeah, it shows an order that never truly left.
Old-guard capitalism had Republicans like Prescott Bush who helped Hitler rise—capital backed him.
Cloning British policy. Capitalism’s jackboot brothers—with religion, seized power.

Rejoice; this clears space for a new democracy to emerge after.
I am hoping that inspires the British working class to examine the role of the monarchy in Trump's world.

Then maybe we can close Westminster and the Palaces and democracy can be reborn here too.

Look forwards not backwards is the American Dream—a government of the people for the people—finally!
Yeah, it shows an order that never truly left.
Old-guard capitalism had Republicans like Prescott Bush who helped Hitler rise—capital backed him.
Cloning British policy. Capitalism’s jackboot brothers—with religion, seized power.

Rejoice; this clears space for a new democracy to emerge after.
Even in the movies, scenes of the White House getting blown up by invading aliens or terrorists feel emotionally unsettling.

It’s the People’s House after all.

So imagine having to witness its destruction in real life…and the culprit is the President.
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“Can you put two and two together about what’s going on here??”

@saikatforcongress.bsky.social connects the dots for the panel
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People aren't leaving the Labour Party.

The Labour Party have left them.

I spoke today with Sky News - live from Swindon.

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Green Party leader reveals defection of three Labour councillors
YouTube video by Sky News
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The real debt crisis in the UK is the fact that 4 million people are having to borrow just to make ends meet, not the ‘government debt’ BS.
What is the UK’s true debt emergency?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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