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stewpot206.bsky.social @stewpot206.bsky.social · 18h

🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them: 38d.gs/rezg

Sign the petition: Save our National Parks

🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them:

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Every pound of so-called “government debt” is a private financial asset. When the government spends, it creates money that becomes your wealth. Yet politicians pretend debt is a burden, and that is just wrong. youtu.be/lixZeo_jn-k?...

Government debt is private wealth — so why do people want to get rid of it?

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 21h

🆘 🛟 Brexit is a disaster even for big business!

M&S boss Stuart Machin says 6 out of 19 lorries from GB👉NI are stopped daily for Brexit checks: each one carrying up to 650 pages of paperwork.

Taking back control translates as wasting time, money, energy on pointless bureaucracy that helps no one.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 20h

If you're a Labour party member, cancel your membership today.

If everyone does that, they will HAVE to change.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 20h

I've written a deep dive into the Tories and Labour nationwide free zones rollout; every day, new info comes to light.
This article is forensically researched, references included. Please read, share and where possible subscribe, thank you❤️
open.substack.com/pub/european...

The Corporate Carve-Up: How Brexit Enabled the Systematic Privatisation of Britain

An investigation into the network of over 140 enterprise zones transforming Britain into a patchwork of corporate sovereignties

open.substack.com

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stewpot206.bsky.social @stewpot206.bsky.social · 1d

Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation

For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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

SPOILER ALERT: The number one reason for voting Brexit was to "control our borders".
"Asked if there were any examples where Brexit has helped the UK 'control our borders', both the Border Security Commander Martin Hewitt and the Director General of the National Crime Agency Rob Jones were stumped.”

Borders chief can’t name a way Brexit has helped UK control its borders

The new border security commander, Martin Hewitt, said he did ‘not immediately’ have an answer

www.independent.co.uk

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stewpot206.bsky.social @stewpot206.bsky.social · 2d

The monarchy is rotten to the core – not just Prince Andrew - The i Paper

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 3d

British Gas owner Centrica and Holland & Barrett fined for what Australians aptly call “wages theft” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Centrica and Holland & Barrett fined for underpaying staff

A list of nearly 500 employers fined more than £10m for failing to pay the minimum wage is released.

www.bbc.co.uk

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stewpot206.bsky.social @stewpot206.bsky.social · 3d

Landmark global shipping deal in tatters after US pressure - BBC News

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5d

Your occasional reminder that Mone can not be stripped of her peerage without an act of parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Baroness Mone-linked PPE firm misses deadline to pay £122m

PPE Medpro was ordered to repay damages by 16:00 BST on Wednesday after breaching a Covid-19 contract.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 7d

Let’s not forget when the Tories were last in office - according to international Human Rights Watch - the UK was on course to make the list of countries that abuse rather than protect human rights

We need to protect the ECHR, not leave it

youtu.be/ceukUFLBrFo?...

🚨UK will leave the ECHR if Tories win next election Kemi Badenoch has announced

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 8d

Zack Polanski, "Reform UK's Zia Yusuf was full of b*llocks and I think it was important to call that out on #BBCQT"

"What has become clear about Reform UK, they're a bunch of cowards"

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European Movement West London #FBPE #FBPR #RejoinEU @em-westlondon.bsky.social · 8d

Ursula von der Leyen: “Clean energy is not only about addressing climate change but, it is also about energy security and prosperity..
renewables will cut EU energy costs, reduce EU’s exposure to Russia, create new jobs and power data centres”
archive.ph/2025.09.26-1...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 8d

BBC News explain that because of Brexit, Brits will be photographed and have their fingerprints taken when going into the EU, as the UK now is a third country

BBC News forget to explain that the UK helped create these rules when we were part of the EU because we wanted stronger border control

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 8d

Russia is terrorizing Ukrainian cities while the world’s attention is fixed on the Middle East, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said

Over just one week, Moscow launched more than 3,100 drones, 92 missiles, and 1,360 guided aerial bombs against Ukraine
euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/12/r...

Russia launches 1,360 bombs and 92 missiles on Ukraine in single week, while global attention is drawn to Middle East

While Israel and Hamas negotiate a pause in hostilities, Russian forces intensify strikes across Ukraine, hitting civilians and energy infrastructure with unprecedented volume.

euromaidanpress.com

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 9d

Teesside’s freeport, initiated in 2021 under Rishi Sunak, has cost £560 million far exceeding the standard £25 million allocation (22 times the standard £25m).
90% profits go to the private sector.
This clearly shows the UK model of State aid post-Brexit is utterly corrupt.

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stewpot206.bsky.social @stewpot206.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11d

Zack Polanski,
"How do you expect people to integrate when you've taken away their services?"

"We need to make sure that all politicians are speaking about migration in a positive sense"

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11d

Zack Polanski, "The four wealthiest people in this country have more wealth than 20 million people"

"Inequality in our society is absolutely huge"

"We need to be taxing the super rich"

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 11d

Lewisham's 🔴Labour council🔴 wants public ownership of Thames on the table

🕑There's only so long this government can hold out against the tide of public opinion

💧Lower our bills; clean up our seas; democratise our water. Public ownership of Thames Water NOW. www.salamandernews.org/lewisham-cou...

Lewisham council urges government to consider nationalisation of failing Thames Water

Green opposition councillors brought a motion calling for Thames Water to be brought back into public ownership. The Labour group passed an amended motion, but keeps nationalisation on the table.

www.salamandernews.org

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11d

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies?

By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 12d

What if the UK admitted it uses MMT and turned that into its superpower? youtu.be/ufst9cxbyZA?... What if the UK government admitted it already uses modern monetary theory? Would markets panic — or would we finally have the power to rebuild Britain?

What if the UK admitted it uses MMT and turned that into its superpower?

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 11d

More water bills rises announced today, on top of those already planned.

Privatisation without competition, arguably the worst of both worlds

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 11d

Japan is teaching us the lesson that without serious levels of inward migration we’re going to be in deep trouble www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

Japan is teaching us the lesson that without serious levels of inward migration we’re going to be in deep trouble

What happens in a country that has insufficient inward migration and a massively declining birth rate (as many, including the UK, are now at risk of having)? The FT has the answer in the case of Japan...

www.taxresearch.org.uk

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