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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 3d

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Men Of Honour - From the film Belonging - The Truth Behind The Headlines youtu.be/2GYQNWH5nw4 ‬

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Elaine Dyson @elainedyson1.bsky.social · 24d

#SocialistSunday In a world full of hate & violence, it's crucial we join together to promote debate, common sense, peace and justice. If you haven't joined Your Party, please join using by clicking on the link below, to support socialist values. Please follow each other from the replies. #Palestine

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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 10d

#SocialistSunday No1. @premnsikka.bsky.social @normalisland.co.uk @jujuliagrace.bsky.social @paulapeters19.bsky.social @elainedyson1.bsky.social @elemjay.bsky.social @vamroses.bsky.social
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Playing Politics

UK Parliamentary Women’s Football Club Many parliamentarians think of politics as a game they play until they’re offered a lucrative job in industry or the media, or can retire to the House o…

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Prof. David Kitchener @davidbsky1.bsky.social · 10d

Happy Socialist Sunday #SocialistSunday Elaine

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24d

Algebra of dictatorship.

Reform UK want a new dept for immigration staffed solely by people who agree with the party’s policies to leave the ECHR and implement mass deportations

How long before similar edicts apply to police, judges, academics?

Would the next road to Auschwitz go through Clacton?

Reform wants to scrap neutral civil service and hire anti-ECHR staff

Richard Tice, the party’s deputy leader, also floats the idea of US-style political appointments for judges

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Elaine Dyson @elainedyson1.bsky.social · 24d

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Mark Roberts @robertsmark.bsky.social · 25d

Hello everyone. #SocialistSunday time again. Thoughts, as ever, go out to anyone affected by the horrific events in the Middle East. Will follow back like-minded people.✊ #FreePalestine #PeaceForPalestine #PeaceForGaza #GazaFamine #StopArmingIsrael #NetanyahuWarCriminal

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Elaine Dyson @elainedyson1.bsky.social · 24d

#SocialistSunday In a world full of hate & violence, it's crucial we join together to promote debate, common sense, peace and justice. If you haven't joined Your Party, please join using by clicking on the link below, to support socialist values. Please follow each other from the replies. #Palestine

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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 24d

#SocialistSunday No1. @premnsikka.bsky.social @normalisland.co.uk @jujuliagrace.bsky.social @paulapeters19.bsky.social @elainedyson1.bsky.social @elemjay.bsky.social @vamroses.bsky.social The Nobel Peace Prize thephilosophicalmuse.blog/2025/09/13/t...

The Nobel Peace Prize

Nominate Francesca Albanese for Nobel Peace Prize Judging by the response I’ve been getting on both Bluesky and X when posting this petition I thought it worthwhile to write something about the Nob…

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Elaine Dyson @elainedyson1.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Elaine Dyson @elainedyson1.bsky.social · Aug 3

#SocialistSunday just got better ☺️👇
Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana have just launched a new political party, please sign up, I have, membership now 600,000, please follow each other from the replies, it's time to change the political narrative & work together x #ForTheMany www.yourparty.uk#//

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Aug 27

UK electricity/gas infrastructure companies have spent £490m a year less than budgeted on maintaining system reliability and preventing failures.

Gas privatised in 1986, electricity in 1990. Assets sweated.

Electricity/Gas distribution companies have the highest profit margins in the UK.

Profiting Amid the Energy Crisis: The Distribution Networks at the Heart of the UK's Gas and Electricity System

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Aug 26

OFWAT probes exec pay at water companies. Yorkshire Water bypassed rules, paid execs through offshore parent company.

Govt was told legislation was weak.

Why was govt/Ofwat not proactive?

End the cat-and-mouse games. Nationalise water. Let customers and employees vote on exec pay.

Ofwat probes payments to water bosses after Yorkshire row

The regulator, which is due to be abolished by the government, has written to water companies to investigate whether they have paid executives via offshore vehicles, Sky News learns.

news.sky.com

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Gem&Molly ⓥ @gemandmoll.bsky.social · Aug 26

@maniisnala.bsky.social

Hi Mani

I just signed a petition you promoted about banning terrier work, but then lost it before I could repost.

For those who don't know, the UK still doesn't stop terriermen sending little dogs to attack foxes in their dens.

They are the scum of the posh hunting scum

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Aug 27

Energy bills to rise by more than expected ahead of winter.

UK's 20 largest companies made £514bn operating profit since 2020, causing inflation, poverty, business failures, enriching shareholders.

No party tackling corporate power, profiteering, rentier economy.

Energy price cap: Gas and electricity prices to rise by 2% in October

The £35 a year increase for a typical household is twice what analysts had predicted.

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Elaine Dyson @elainedyson1.bsky.social · Aug 26

800,000 have already signed up, let's make it one million, please join today 👇 and repost x
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Elaine Dyson @elainedyson1.bsky.social · Aug 24

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Elaine Dyson @elainedyson1.bsky.social · Apr 27

#SocialistSunday DIY follow list. We are stronger together, please join us, for #Palestine, the #homeless, #NHS & #socialjustice.
For more socialist followers, reply below, re-post & follow each other, from the replies. Please check profiles. #TaxtheRich #StarmersCutsCostLives

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Elaine Dyson @elainedyson1.bsky.social · Aug 24

#SocialistSunday DIY follow list. We are stronger together, please join us, for #Palestine, the #homeless, #NHS & #socialjustice.
For more socialist followers, reply below, re-post & follow each other, from the replies, remember to check profiles. Please join #YourParty www.yourparty.uk#//

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Aug 21

Neoliberal destruction of the NHS

UK has 2.4 hospital beds per 1,000 people
Germany 7.6
OECD average 4.6

Worse in many places. Hackney in London 0.9, lower than Mexico. Bedfordshire 1.7, same as Colombia.

Sick people can't work. Can't boost GDP & productivity without better healthcare.

Our state has become a guarantor of corporate profits

Equitable distribution of income and wealth would go a long way towards stimulating domestic demand and investment...

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Aug 21

"In less than 6 months child malnutrition has tripled across the strip. In Gaza city 1 in every 3 children is now malnourished"

Israel is starving Palestinian children to death.

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Elaine Dyson @elainedyson1.bsky.social · Aug 21

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This is ethnic cleansing and the world's leaders just shrug their shoulders and watch the consequences of their compliance and collaboration unfold, into yet another horrendous bloodbath of murdered and maimed Palestinian civilians. #FreePalestine #Gaza

Palestinians flee Gaza City as Israel says first stages of assault have begun

An Israeli military spokesman says troops will deepen the damage to the

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Aug 20

Poverty obstructs economic recovery.

16m Britons live in poverty
800,000 suffer from nutritional deficiencies.
1-in-200 households experiencing homelessness
1-in-4 young people have mental health conditions.
Scurvy/Rickets are back.
£39bn GDP a year lost due to poverty.

Must redistribute.

Our state has become a guarantor of corporate profits

Equitable distribution of income and wealth would go a long way towards stimulating domestic demand and investment...

leftfootforward.org

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Mark Roberts @robertsmark.bsky.social · Aug 17

Hello everyone. #SocialistSunday time again. Thoughts, as ever, go out to anyone affected by the horrific events in the Middle East. Will follow back like-minded people.✊ #FreePalestine #PeaceForPalestine #PeaceForGaza #IranIsraelConflict #StopArmingIsrael #NetanyahuWarCriminal

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Elaine Dyson @elainedyson1.bsky.social · Aug 17

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Elaine Dyson @elainedyson1.bsky.social · Aug 3

#SocialistSunday just got better ☺️👇
Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana have just launched a new political party, please sign up, I have, membership now 600,000, please follow each other from the replies, it's time to change the political narrative & work together x #ForTheMany www.yourparty.uk#//

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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · Aug 17

#SocialistSunday No1. @premnsikka.bsky.social @normalisland.co.uk @jujuliagrace.bsky.social @paulapeters19.bsky.social @elainedyson1.bsky.social @elemjay.bsky.social @vamroses.bsky.social
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My Political Life!

This is a further adaptation of my first blog which I originally wrote as a DM to a group of friends to tell them something of my background. I saw that, with a bit of editing, it was exactly what …

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