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CPBollo @cpbollo.bsky.social · 22m

For a money sovereign with the ability to create its own money, PFI is about as moronic a solution to any problem that anyone could come up with. Ironically the Govt will have to create more money to pay these debts
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The Power of the Pound

YouTube video by POTP

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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 7d

It’s easy to lose sight of what billions in PFI debt actually cost.

But behind every figure is a nurse working double shifts, a ward left understaffed, a patient waiting longer.💬

It’s not just numbers - it’s people.

👉 Read full EveryDoctor report: everydoctor.org.uk/nhs-trusts-t...

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Skwawkbox @skwawkbox.org · 3h

Farage just gave the most disgraceful sermon of his entire career...

Farage just gave the most disgraceful sermon of his entire career

Farage's speech should strike fear into the hearts of ordinary people, no matter where they live or what ethnicity they are

www.thecanary.co

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Marc @marcfrance.bsky.social · 10h

I’ll just leave this here.

youtu.be/a6oD78BWSCY

Why would anyone want to be fleeced by Farage?

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 11h

Benefit facts:

Benefits are not the drain media tells us they are

Benefits barely - or don’t - cover the cost of living & don’t permit savings so everything received gets spent

And everything that’s spent benefits the private sector

And everything that is spent in the private sector gets taxed!

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CPBollo @cpbollo.bsky.social · 11h

Not originally perhaps

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 13h

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Britain’s AI Growth Zone Gamble: How Government is Selling Out Communities From Oxford to Wales to Dorset
The Great Data Center Land Grab: 200+ Bids and Counting While Communities Are Left in the Dark
I'm a volunteer, please support my research! Subscribe to my Substack
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Britain’s AI Growth Zone Gamble: How Government is Selling Out Communities From Oxford to Wales to Dorset

The Great Data Center Land Grab: 200+ Bids and Counting While Communities Are Left in the Dark

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 1d

Maintaining the status quo is an essential part of the job of the mainstream media.

It is becoming increasingly obvious, in fact, that the role of the
media is not only to tell Americans what they should think, but
to convince an increasingly angry and alienated public that their
neighbors have not come to the same conclusions. The logic is
much like that used to dissuade voters from considering third
parties: even if the third party challenger states opinions shared
by the majority of Americans,

Americans are constantly warned not to “waste their vote” for the
candidate that actually reflects their views because no one else
will vote for that candidate. It’s hard to imagine a more obvious
case of a self-fullling prophecy. The result is a mainstream
ideology—a kind of conservative centrism that assumes what’s
important is always moderation and the maintenance of the status
quo—which almost no one actually holds (except of course the
pundits themselves),
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 1d

Mischaracterised by university leaders as financial ‘saving’, austerity is in truth vandalism. It ravages decades of training, accrued and accredited knowledge, and publicly funded research.

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

moneyontheleft.org

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

What the BBC is not telling you about the Government's EII Support Levy, and why it has everything to do with Brexit.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Who pays when corporations get 90% off their energy bills? You do. And it’s about to get much worse
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The Great Energy Swindle: How Your Bills Will Subsidize Big Tech’s Data Center Bonanza

Government’s 90% Electricity Discount Scheme: A Corporate Giveaway Dressed as Industrial Policy

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CPBollo @cpbollo.bsky.social · 1d

The world could be so different

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MMT101.ORG @learnmmt101.bsky.social · 1d

People voting for austerity parties tells me that they don’t know what it means. Governments enacting austerity tells me they don’t know what it means. Economists advising governments to enact austerity tells me that they don’t know what it means. A pyramid of ignorance got us to where we are today.

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MMT101.ORG @learnmmt101.bsky.social · 1d

New on MMT101: Bill & Warren's Excellent MMT Adventure and the 1990s Post Keynesian Thought Discussion Group

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Bill & Warren's Excellent MMT Adventure and the 1990s Post Keynesian Thought Discussion Group

Join me as I paddle in the birthing pool of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

This is the densest article I have written to date on the UK duopoly's nationwide rollout of Freeports, Special Economic Zones, and AI Growth Zones.
Please take the time to read and share it.
I would appreciate it very much if you subscribe to my Substack💚
open.substack.com/pub/european...

The Silent Architecture of Control: Is a Social Credit System Being Built in UK Free Zones?

All the ingredients for Chinese-style surveillance are being assembled in Britain’s corporate-governed territories—with zero public debate

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CPBollo @cpbollo.bsky.social · 1d

What is it about Politicians who fight to get into Govt, to be the Govt, to assume power, only to give it all away. No courage, no principles, no vision. Weak, weak, weak. As rotton in the UK as in Australia

CPBollo @cpbollo.bsky.social · 1d

What is it about the "pragmatic" (as if that in itself is virtuous), "centre-left" that the compromise is always, but always, sure come in, take what you like and hey, let us help you load the truck as well?

CPBollo @cpbollo.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly 🎯💯%.Anything else is an insult, a betrayal even.

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CPBollo @cpbollo.bsky.social · 2d

Politicians are either ignorant of these facts, in denial, or practice to mislead. Either way it amounts to THE great deceit, (among many others), of the modern age

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New Economics for Sustainability & Humans #MMT☘️ @maconnolly888.bsky.social · 2d

Think you know how money works?
Betcha don't!!

New Economics for Sustainability & Humans #MMT☘️ @maconnolly888.bsky.social · 13d

It's amazing just how little people understand about how money, banks and our governments work
Here's a story that tells a small part of it ...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 2d

This is a must-read thread on how companies like #Blackrock are sinking their claws into the UK and stealth-privatising huge swathes of the country.

Both the Tories and #Starmer'sLabour are complicit in this neoliberal betrayal of the nation.

EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 3d

A new asset class is being identified as ‘Nature’s Economy’, where a country’s green spaces are targeted by a sovereign wealth fund controlled by a Saudi Prince, or Blackrock for example. This is global, but it is already happening in the UK and part of Zone Fever
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9xn...

"This Is The Only Way To Prepare For What's Coming” | Whitney Webb FINAL WARNING

YouTube video by Whitney's Fan Club

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CPBollo @cpbollo.bsky.social · 3d

Can't afford it! Fiscal rules! Can't afford it! Fiscal rules! Why always the cost of doing something and not the cost of not doing something. Idiots

CPBollo @cpbollo.bsky.social · 3d

Quite. Sadly none of these mediocroties have the intelligence to understand such basic realities. Instead they hide behind their intellectual vacuity as if that in some way is a virtue.

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