GordonWright
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GordonWright
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Dog dad. He/him.
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One of the most shameful incidents of WW2 was when the government and press scapegoated refugees, then decided to pack them off an a cramped ship, The HMT DUNERA and ship them to Australia.

As they boarded the boat they were stripped of the valuables and robbed by the guards.

Now government policy
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Who's the cretin on Ian Dale right now? (Not Ian).
November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Wowsers. Took our Home Secretary less than 2 minutes to utter her first "untruth".

#UKLabour
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Shelagh's off on another of her "reasonable" mad right wing meanders.
November 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I see #UKLabour have decided modern slavery isn't all bad now. 🤦‍♂️
November 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Remember: The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.

The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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I stand with unionized Starbucks workers, who are on strike across the country right now for better wages and working conditions.

Until Starbucks strikes a fair bargain with its workers and ceases its union-busting behavior, I'll continue to boycott the company.
It’s Time to Roast Starbucks | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Shabana Mahmood on the BBC this morning talking about desperate people fleeing war and persecution as being given a "golden ticket" and "handouts" and saying she's got a "moral mission" to take them away from them

Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Shabana Mahmood and the Politics of Extortion
Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket and it is not going to work
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
@tomhfharwood.bsky.social Just a thought Tom. You might want to actually find out how Motability works before prevaricating on it from a place of ignorance?
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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The Rule of Law and enriching the rich.

For £60bn private sector investment in public assets, UK govts paying £306bn + billions in servicing traps.

Govt has revived PFI, calls it Public Private Partnership (PPP) and will apply it to the NHS. Billions will be drained from public purse.
Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few
leftfootforward.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Corporate Properties departments get to show a concrete win of lowered costs while all other departments bear the intangible costs of miserable employees.
There was never going to be another way.
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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This is everything wrong with Starmer in one social media post. COP is about protecting the planet from becoming uninhabitable. It needs a coordinated international effort, yet Starmer is playing the nationalism and economic growth card, which is the opposite of what is needed on multiple levels.
November 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Tories overtake Labour.

Labour's tactic of appealing squarely to the voter demographic that will never vote Labour is going swimmingly.
📊 Ref lead of 12pts
Westminster voting intention

REF: 31% (-2)
CON: 19% (+1)
LAB: 18% (-3)
LDEM: 13% (+1)
GRN: 12% (+1)

via @Moreincommon_, 31 Oct - 03 Nov
Chgs. w/ 27 Oct
britainelects.com
Britain Elects | Substack
Cutting through the noise with Ben Walker. Click to read Britain Elects, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
britainelects.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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So, a possible pay-per-mile tax on electric cars, but banks get to enjoy their juicy profits? So very Labour...
November 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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🔴Nigel Farage’s Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English

The party’s candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’ and attacked ‘third world cultures’ in now-deleted posts

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
Nigel Farage's Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English
The party's candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon 'lineage' and attacked 'third world cultures' in now-deleted posts
bylinetimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Wasn't ever going to be much of a leap from "You're not a woman if you weren't born one" to "You're not British if you weren't born one" to "You're not British if you're not white".
🔴Nigel Farage’s Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English

The party’s candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’ and attacked ‘third world cultures’ in now-deleted posts

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
Nigel Farage's Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English
The party's candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon 'lineage' and attacked 'third world cultures' in now-deleted posts
bylinetimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Jeezo Andrew Marr. "Radical socialist" 👀👀👀
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Is it too much to expect accuracy/truth from Shelagh Fogarty?
November 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM