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Alan Griffiths
@alanji.bsky.social
Newham Councillor.
UNISON retired member.
Co-operative Party London Council.
Lifelong Labour member, seen most of it before.
Barnsley FC Season Ticket holder.
December 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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📢 Overseas recruitment of nurses and midwives has fallen by almost 50%, putting NHS services at serious risk.
UNISON warns that government immigration changes are damaging staffing levels and calls for urgent action.
Read more here ➡️ unsn.uk/4rU0YiC
December 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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[shamelessly both promoting Dorian's point and adding my own]

Farage has always been very good at doing sort of golf club racism. He has an instinctive grasp on what codes to use and how much he can say before people recoil that his heirs and imitators lack. (...more)
It's revealing about taboos around racism that the visceral bullying racism of schoolboy Farage cuts through while the much more consequential thinly veiled racism of adult Farage doesn't. Many people need that veil and flinch when it's removed. You can advocate racist policies but not say the words
December 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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🌊☀️ Offshore solar is getting seriously competitive.

Study on offshore floating PV finds that Thailand and Malaysia could reach LCOE levels below $0.06/kWh — opening the door to low-cost clean energy.

The research benchmarks where offshore solar can deliver strong performance and economic results.
Offshore solar could achieve LCOE of less than $0.06/kWh in Thailand, Malaysia
An international team of researchers completed a preliminary techno-economic study on the global potential for offshore floating PV (OFPV). The results provide project cost benchmarking, country-speci...
www.pv-magazine.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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📣 🌹 GOOD NEWS! @sebastiansalek rounds up this week's Labour achievements in government. labourlist.org/2025/12/good...
Delivering in Government: your weekly round up of good news Labour stories – LabourList
It was a busy week for Labour. And I wrote this before the Child Poverty Strategy was fully announced!  As the media unpicked the Budget,…
labourlist.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Ever thought your neighbourhood could generate its own clean power?

Solar roofs, shared batteries, community wind...it's all possible when people team up 🙌

Get involved, learn more, and be part of the energy shift! ⚡🤝
December 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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You'd think us violating Irish neutrality in an apparent attempt to assassinate Zelensky by forcing his plane to crash would be bigger news.

For the Irish for a start.
December 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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“Four unidentified military style drones breached a no-fly zone and flew towards the flight path of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plane at sea near Dublin Airport late on Monday night”

Next time the meeting must be in a NATO country …

www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
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December 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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This story is a complete disgrace - and an explanation of so much that is wrong with our economic system.

Great reporting by @manchestermill.bsky.social as ever.

manchestermill.co.uk/meet-the-lon...
Meet the London lawyer terrorising the leaseholders of Bolton
‘If these allegations are true, this is one of the most egregious cases of bullying I have ever seen’
manchestermill.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Glasgow provides half of all jobs and most high-paid roles in the City Region.

Our new briefing explains why devolution is essential to match governance with how the region’s economy actually works.

Read the full briefing 👇
buff.ly/vIErqXZ

#Devolution #Scotland
December 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
December 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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The discussion on this point on the Today programme just now did not make for a calm start to the day.
Lies, damned lies and the Telegraph. They posted CSJ figures using an outrageously false comparison of 2 cases. It claimed a benefits family were better off by £18k than a working household when the real figure was £16k worse off. The details benefitsinthefuture.com #benefits #budget
Benefits in the Future – Welfare reform commentary and analysis
Welfare reform commentary and analysis
benefitsinthefuture.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM