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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 6h

Just done another job application which has taken a bloody age to do because of sodding AI now affecting the selection process. Some applications have to be in a certain order too. It's such a bloody faff. All the effort you put in , and sometimes you don't get an interview.

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 16h

In horrible times you need something to watch that cheer you up. Just found out you can watch the 80s series Moonlighting with Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepherd on the STV app in UK for free. 😀 It reminds me of happy times.
#SimplePleasures

a man and woman are posing for a picture and the woman is wearing a bracelet

ALT: a man and woman are posing for a picture and the woman is wearing a bracelet

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Alan Rodgers @bi99le5.bsky.social · 18h

Not gonna lie, for me the jury is out on ZP. Too many politicians have proved themselves to be self serving, billionaire boot licking scum of late. Hard to trust/believe any of them. But Polanski is saying the right things, he is echoing exactly what I think.
Maybe we need more Polanski's?

Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 19h

Zack has been making great videos for a while, but this is perfection.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxt4...

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

www.youtube.com

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It isn't just me. @shirleyanng.bsky.social · 17h

Madness. Lose, lose situation. Labour playing at Reform lite (fascist lite) will only bring harm to both the party and country. @darrenpjones.bsky.social

Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 20h

Source: The Guardian
search.app/XzcQn

Labour own goal.

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 1d

Performance politics at it’s best. Belongs to the party they are criticising and thinks the occasional speech and/or post absolves them of complicity

Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 1d

Calling out Reform’s racism will ring hollow while Labour offers watered-down versions of their migration policies.

We can only prevent a Reform-led government if we do not allow migrants to be scapegoated for problems created by the super rich.

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer is still sending flights over the Gaza Strip, the complicity continues!

www.declassifieduk.org/gaza-spy-pla...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Bill Jenrick (father) LinkedIn:

"I served a 5 year apprenticeship at AEI Manchester and qualified as a Management accountant. Then I worked as an accountant...."

Robert Jenrick (son) : "...gas fitters like my dad"

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

I know plenty of politicians 'working classify' their backgrounds, but this from Jenrick is taking the piss.

His father's linked in is here: uk.linkedin.com/in/bill-jenr...

He was a managing accountant who ended up as the Managing Director of Cannon Industries

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 18h

That's just evil and terrible. But it's always been about greed and money. I hope karma comes for them all.

EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Trump, Netanyahu and Tony Blair will install and manage special economic zones (SEZs) under a reconstruction regime engineered to subjugate Palestinian land and labour to global capital — beachfront resorts for investors, not homes for the displaced. progressive.international/wire/2025-10...

PI Briefing | No. 37 | The Plan to Colonize Palestine

The Trump-Netanyahu “peace plan” for Gaza is little more than a blueprint for its colonization.

progressive.international

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 18h

Just says it all really.

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

A source within MI6 has revealed that MI6 are unhappy with the Palestine Action ban because they are not terrorists and the drain on staff is making the UK more vulnerable to actual terrorist attacks.

End the ridiculous ban.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

A source within MI6 has revealed that MI6 are unhappy with the Palestine Action ban because they are not terrorists and the drain on staff is making the UK more vulnerable to actual terrorist attacks.

End the ridiculous ban.

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Kerry @kerry10.bsky.social · 18h

Has ANY @teamlabouruk.bsky.social MP stood up and mentioned this?

Called it a disgrace?

Asked how everyone is doing?

Helped them in any way to get away from the genocidal IDF & zionists in Israel?

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

So much energy from Green Party Conference.

Great to hear about all the local parties in England & Wales calling up their new members, inviting them to action days and getting people involved.

Let's go! 💚🚀

novaramedia.com/2025/10/07/z...

Zack Polanski Must Now Transform His Fans Into Activists | Novara Media

The telegenic eco-socialist has triggered an explosion of interest in the Green party, and a parallel growth in membership. Now he needs to translate enthusiasm into activity, writes Adam Ramsay.

novaramedia.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick has gone from forgettable nobody to frothing-BNP-styled dickhead. Why does this corrupt little man get to strut around the media blowing his racist dog-whistle?
He should be shamed and shunned out of political existence. We all despise the Tory party for a reason. He’s one of those reasons.

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 18h

Even then he was peddling the National Front crap. How can anyone support this racist and Fascist ? We must make sure he never gains power. 👇

Rob Massam 🔸 @rmassam.bsky.social · 18h

open.substack.com/pub/writesbr... the Brexiteers message in 2016 now conveniently forgotten by them without exception, Farage, Carswell, Johnson and Hannan among many. Not a shred of integrity among them

Has Farage forgotten his own immigration promises?

We have the receipts, Nigel...

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

I have serious reservations about this current Home Secretary.

How would tougher powers for police affect protests in England and Wales?

The home secretary has announced plans to allow officers to consider the impact of repeated demonstrations

www.theguardian.com

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Kerry @kerry10.bsky.social · 18h

The last time I looked Bob Vilan has not taken up arms like zionist Israel & the genocidal IDF and has shot, bombed & killed thousands upon thousands of women, children & men

Free speech is a must or is that only allowed for zionist maniacs and the likes of Tommy 10 names, Goebbels Jenrick & Farage

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 1d

We need to do this. We have to tax the rich. Not the middle classes or the just managing - the RICH

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer faces cabinet revolt over tax rises that could drive wealthy away. Ridiculous.

Capital gains, dividends taxed at lower rates than wages.

Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in tax than the richest 20%.

16m live in poverty. Millions rely on food banks.

End tax perks of the rich.

Starmer faces cabinet revolt over Budget tax rises driving wealthy away

‘The trouble is we have crossed a line in trying to encourage aspiration. The non-dom change and the VAT on school fees have sent the opposite message,’ minister tells The Independent

www.independent.co.uk

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 21h

Reform UK, backing US farming, not British farmers.

Lee Anderson’s keen to point out salads are chlorine washed, but he’s not keen to point out that you don’t need to with chicken you can cook chicken so long as it’s reared in reasonable conditions.

But you can’t cook salad.

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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 18h

Facts

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 18h

Just awful. No-one voted for this crap.

Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 19h

Every Labour intervention on migration has 'trade - good, brown people coming here - bad' lurking in the background.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 20h

Wilful ignorance of how trade and migration actually work in a globalised economy.

The idea that the (short and long-term) movement of people -especially between India and the UK - has nothing to do with trade and investment is (obviously) wrong.

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

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder the death toll in Gaza was 64,260.

In June 2024.

The only reason the count hasn't gone up in 16 months is because Israel killed everyone who was doing the counting.

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 18h

Quite.

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19h

Tory Badenoch to set out new rule to cut borrowing and taxes.

A code for more austerity, public service cuts. What do they think will happen when £47bn is removed from the economy?

Silence on taxing the rich, windfall taxes, ending corporate welfare, tax havens.

Same old Tories.

Badenoch to set out new rule to cut borrowing and taxes

In a conference speech, the Tory leader will say the Conservatives are the only party

www.bbc.co.uk

Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 18h

Basically doing Trump's bidding. A real Labour leader would actually do the opposite. What a waste of space. #RejoinEU

Politics UK @politlcsuk.bsky.social · 18h

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer is preparing to increase the price that the NHS pays for drugs under plans to prevent pharmaceutical companies quitting the UK by changing NHS value-for-money rules

[@thetimes]

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 18h

Bang on.🎯

@radartabs @radartabs.bsky.social · 20h

Jenrick’s plans for the Judiciary…