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Chiara-Oscuro

@chiaroscurof19.bsky.social

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Hello Blue skies! Fled the X swamp. Ex Labour Party member. UK based entrepreneur, family from Galway & Connemara. Obsessions: music, reading, science, food, farming, climate, nature, cooking, growing stuff. Tax the 1%. Renationalise water and utilities.

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Chiara-Oscuro @chiaroscurof19.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 2d

"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

www.theguardian.com

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Chiara-Oscuro @chiaroscurof19.bsky.social · 1d

Well deserved humiliation.

Chiara-Oscuro @chiaroscurof19.bsky.social · 1d

Right. And even in UK we’ve got a Labour government criminalising protesting a 🤬 genocide. Un-bloody-believable.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

Chiara-Oscuro @chiaroscurof19.bsky.social · 1d

A scone as big as your face? A-mazing day ingredient right there. 😂💕

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

There is some commonsense and decency left in this crazy world, then.

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Chiara-Oscuro @chiaroscurof19.bsky.social · 2d

I surely hope so.

Leaders, politicians and media/ journalists who were complicit in this appalling period of war crimes.

We see you. Your reputation is already trashed. A reckoning will come. We will remember and fingers will point at you.

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Chiara-Oscuro @chiaroscurof19.bsky.social · 2d

She’s not wrong.

But you just know her response to a freeze caused by a failing AMOC would be “but you said global warming!”

Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 2d

WE RAN OUT OF TIME FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

says Fiona Bruce at the end of Question Time

*Green Party bingo cards explode across the nation*

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Chiara-Oscuro @chiaroscurof19.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus wept. 🤦‍♀️🤯 I’ve never in my life hoped someone would drop something in the bath and electrocute themselves. But here we are.

Chiara-Oscuro @chiaroscurof19.bsky.social · 3d

Every word.

Power and wealth have taken our assets. We must take them back.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

"The Green Party had a particularly strong conference season under Polanski... with a bold platform of nationalisation of major utilities, a wealth tax and stronger environmental policy."

Power and wealth have taken our assets. We must take them back.

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Disunited kingdom • Michael Jacobs

Keir Starmer’s Labour government is struggling to position itself in a fragmented political landscape

insidestory.org.au

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3d

🚨The petition has now passed 74,000 signatures! Thank you so much for your support 🙏

You can support the campaign to change the law by signing here👇
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

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Chiara-Oscuro @chiaroscurof19.bsky.social · 4d

Sounds like more bloody chickens coming home to roost. 🤦‍♀️

Chiara-Oscuro @chiaroscurof19.bsky.social · 4d

Read the article. Currency, even your mortgage is not a loan from existing funds or deposits. Banks create both a credit and a debt. They effectively create the money.

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Chiara-Oscuro @chiaroscurof19.bsky.social · 5d

My thoughts entirely.

Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 @terrencewilliams.bsky.social · 5d

Chiara-Oscuro @chiaroscurof19.bsky.social · 6d

Expected bias from the Beeb now. Time we talked about the current lack of trust and respect they have garnered. It’s a shame but a done deal at this point.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 6d

Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.

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Chiara-Oscuro @chiaroscurof19.bsky.social · 6d

Disgusting isn’t it.

Chiara-Oscuro @chiaroscurof19.bsky.social · 6d

Great thread from David today on ECHR withdrawal costs and implications. Start here.

David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 6d

Another day through the looking glass with UK politics starts with Reform finding out strangely enough that local government isn't spending all (or indeed virtually any) money on woke initiatives they can easily cut. www.ft.com/content/277c...

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters

Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

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Chiara-Oscuro @chiaroscurof19.bsky.social · 6d

Crickets…

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 6d

If any Government can just snatch basic human rights away from any section of society when it pleases then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 8d

Prime Minister Keir Starmer plans to change how judges interpret the European Convention on Human Rights – a move that risks weakening everyone’s protections.

The ECHR has become a convenient scapegoat for challenges around migration and sovereignty.

WE MUST PROTECT IT
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🚨THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTS US ALL. WE MUST PROTECT IT

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

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Chiara-Oscuro @chiaroscurof19.bsky.social · 6d

Madness. All it takes is “Palestine”. And that’s because they don’t like being told they’re supporting genocide. So let’s make it illegal. Positively Trumpian logic.

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Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social · 6d

As Kemi Badenoch confirms plans to pull out of the ECHR a reminder that much of this debate is driven by myths and misinformation observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Misinformation and myth: the UK’s phoney war over human r...

The debate over the future of the European Convention on Human Rights will shape conference season and beyond

observer.co.uk

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Chiara-Oscuro @chiaroscurof19.bsky.social · 6d

I do believe based on the Cadwallader work that he’s in it up to his neck and I think he’s probably going to come to a sticky end on money as he’s played fast n loose thinking he’d never get elected.

Chiara-Oscuro @chiaroscurof19.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, but he should know better. He sounds like Trump, saying stuff to see how far he can go with this.

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The Secret Labuor MP🥀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 @secret-labour-mp.bsky.social · 7d

You need evidence?

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Nigel Farage’s funding secrets revealed

Channel 4 News investigation reveals how millionaire Arron Banks spent approximately £450,000 on Nigel Farage to fund lavish lifestyle the year following the EU referendum in summer 2016.

www.channel4.com

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