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Dame Knitting Cat @dameknittingcat.bsky.social · 2h

The media, talking heads and the Tufton Street cabal are eagerly working against the interests of the many, creating opportunities and wealth for the very few with their relentless promotion of Farage in particular & the far right in general.

LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 6h

Tip of the week: you cannot believe the negativity about Labour reported in the Guardian or any of the right wing rags. Especially if no one is named as a source. It’s lies, lies and damned lies.

Our media have failed us.

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 6h

“Mass deportations” are now said with ease, like it’s normal.

Just profoundly depressing.

The UK is in the toilet.

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philip-goddard.bsky.social @philip-goddard.bsky.social · 3h

Deform are the care home for The Toxic Tories. It's their little desperate safety net to keep the money rolling in... "Think I cannot be more toxic, racist, homophobic, transphobic? Ha-ha...challenge accept!"

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 3h

If Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, then it was an injustice Bomber Harris didn't receive Town Planner of the Year award in 1945.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 3h

"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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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 17h

TOP NEWS TODAY 🔝

🔥 BAVOVNA in Volgograd region, Kotovo, LUKOIL-Korobkovsky Gas Processing Plant.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 5h

‘Frankly, the deception of Brexit has exposed Britain as a lonely person sitting outside the conference table.’

Lord #Heseltine: one of last true statesmen reminding us what Europe built - peace, power, and purpose. Only Europe gives us strength to stand our ground against global powers.
#Heseltine

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Donald Trump awarded the Nobel Piss Prize

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Dame Knitting Cat @dameknittingcat.bsky.social · 3h

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Spanglish @spanglish51.bsky.social · 3h

Slamming so many doors that the fake gold ornaments are dropping like leaves in autumn !
😂😂😂

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 6h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Dame Knitting Cat @dameknittingcat.bsky.social · 3h

Grim.

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 5h

Liverpool, 1956, photo by Thurston Hopkins.

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 21h

‘No backsies’: The REAL reason Mike Johnson won’t swear in new Dem rep

@chrislhayes.bsky.social explains precisely why Mike Johnson is stalling the new Dem rep's swear-in over the Epstein vote.

‘No backsies’: The REAL reason Mike Johnson won’t swear in new Dem rep

YouTube video by MSNBC

www.youtube.com

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Gildy Stern @oldhamletsghost.bsky.social · 5h

Blue sky (and the public)

2024 - We're sick of snake oil salesmen and changing PM every 5 minutes, give us a Government that'll make long term decisions for the good of the country

2025 - We must change PM now for a snake oil salesman and come up with some short term tax gimmicks in the budget

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Bob Hawkins @bobhawkins.bsky.social · 5h

Declaring war on large sections of your own country are not the actions of a prospective Nobel peace prize winner. #r4today

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 11h

You know who takes a cognitive test? People whose family members suspect their loved one is suffering from dementia. If he kept getting “perfect” scores…they wouldn’t keep administering them. My take? He blew the first one he ever took. Now, they’re tracking the decline. I’d bet my hot coffee on it.

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Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 3h

@greenparty.org.uk interesting that Fiona Bruce appeared to say that the audience was heavily Reform, but there was no live in the room for Zia Yusuf nor Reform.
A lot of Reform supporters are only there because they're not one of the big 2 and are ripe for Greens.

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Rocket Fella🇳🇱 @kooiker.bsky.social · 3h

Ruzzia bombards Ukraine with huge strikes on energy facilities

www.politico.eu/article/russ...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3h

The Road to Nowhere.

The Conservative Party conference felt less like a come back and more like a wake.

Is this the final act in the party's 200 year story?

Me for @noosphere.app
www.noosphere.app/the-road-to-nowhere

The Road to Nowhere

Get news direct from reporters you trust.

www.noosphere.app

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uphillwheezer.bsky.social @uphillwheezer.bsky.social · 5h

Another highly-balanced QT panel then. IEA, Reform and Tories.

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Nic Holland @nic-holland.bsky.social · 6h

The IEA has an agenda, and it's not for the benefit of ordinary working people of this country!

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Laura @laurajerramp.bsky.social · 12h

I want super rich like this in the UK .. the ones who want to contribute and are even calling on the Government to tax them more:

Www.Patrioticmillionaires.uk

Patriotic Millionaires UK

Www.Patrioticmillionaires.uk

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Kittycritter @kittycritter.bsky.social · 13h

And they keep promoting the bullshit www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

The British “wealth exodus” is a big, fat myth

Rachel Reeves is not responsible for chasing millionaires away from UK PLC.

www.newstatesman.com

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Laura @laurajerramp.bsky.social · 13h

taxjustice.uk/blog/debunki...

Debunking the myth of the "millionaire exodus" - Tax Justice UK

The widely-reported "millionaire exodus" didn't happen. A critical reconsideration of the Henley & Partners Private Wealth Migration report.

taxjustice.uk

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Dr Eric Farmer @himself132.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, and on tonight’s BBC QT, a Conservative MP, an intermittent senior Reform member who sometimes can’t bear his party’s policies, and a right-wing former IEA member. That’s balance, BBC-style.

No room for one of the 72 Lib Dem MPs, whose election elicited a BBC “congratulations, I suppose”.

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Debating Room @debatingroom.bsky.social · 5h

We often see articles repeatedly warning us about how the super-rich are "expected" to leave without any actual statistics...
theconversation.com/millionaires...

Millionaires may not be fleeing the UK in droves – but there are reasons these stories persist

It’s often not the super-rich who argue for lower taxes – but those whose incomes depend on their wealth.

theconversation.com

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