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Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 6h

In the UK we have private companies being paid to take waste from councils so that they can burn it to produce electricity and get paid again. Shareholders profit while local communities suffer poor air quality and the world heats up

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Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 6h

You can’t defy gravity for very long

Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 10h

After the 2008 financial crash, the majority Tory group at Essex County Council tried to close down public libraries because they were obviously to blame

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Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 10h

The failure of Thatcherism. Foreign governments own British infrastructure. Profits go overseas while Brits stare at sewage seas, rivers and lakes

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks

Govts of Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman, China, France, Germany Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Singapore, Spain, UAE, US would like to thank UK for letting their entities own UK infrastructure.

Vast profits exported, Britons stare at sewage in rivers.

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership

Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

leftfootforward.org

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Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 16h

Cutting benefits = cutting taxes for the rich

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Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 1d

Brexit is the gift that keeps on giving

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Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 2d

The SS were tasked with the detection of actual or potential enemies of the Nazi state, the neutralisation of any opposition, policing the German people for their commitment to Nazi ideology, and intelligence gathering. The USA under Trump is at the SA stage. ICE is Trump’s SA 4/

Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 2d

A third component of the SS, the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV; "Death's Head Units" ran the concentration camps and extermination camps. Additional subdivisions of the SS included the Gestapo and the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) organisations. 3/

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Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 2d

The SA were later replaced by the
SS. The Allgemeine SS was responsible for enforcing the racial policy of Nazi Germany and general policing, whereas the Waffen-SS consisted of the combat units of the SS, with a sworn allegiance to Hitler. 2/

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Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 2d

Hitler's "Brownshirts," or the Sturmabteilung (SA), were the Nazi Party's paramilitary force known for their brown uniforms, which helped the party rise to power by protecting Hitler's meetings, disrupting political opponents, and intimidating voters. 1/

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Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 3d

Breaking news: Poland is in the EU

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 3d

Looks like you’ll be going anyway

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Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 3d

Vote Reform and you’ll get the loony far right element of the Tory Party in charge: anti NHS, anti workers rights, pro lower wages, pro benefit cuts, low taxes for the rich

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Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 4d

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 4d

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 4d

No shock shock

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4d

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 4d

The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie - Mark Twain

Twain captures the frustrating asymmetry between truth and willful ignorance. Truth relies on evidence, reason, and a willingness to be persuaded. But a person committed to a falsehood is armed with confirmation bias

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 5d

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

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Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 5d

I think if you fly the flag from your home because your relatives have served in the military that’s patriotism. When people hang flags from street furniture it’s about sowing division and marking territory to make other people feel unwelcome

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Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 5d

Before I respect a flag, I look at who's waving it - Peter Ustinov

Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 5d

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human - Aldous Huxley

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Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 5d

The co-founder of Raise the Colours is Andrew Currien (also called Andy Saxon). He is reported to have links to far-right organisations such as Britain First, and previously with the English Defence League.

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Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 5d

Tory conference: Badenoch’s policies are basically austerity 2

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Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 5d

Or the exact opposite to what you said. Gary said he’s been developer for 15 years and never before has a flag been put up on one of his building sites. The raising of the flags is a far right initiative designed to cause division. It’s smelly old Tom cats scent marking their territory

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Please wait to be seated @paulthorogood.bsky.social · 5d

Farage is a huge supporter of Trump and wants to bring MAGA to UK

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