@gelllybean.bsky.social
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The cost of homelessness is crippling councils but is spiralling.
Not including those sleeping rough or staying in hostels, a record number — 126,040 households, inc 80,530 families with 164,040 children — have lost their homes and are living in temporary accommodation.
www.ft.com/content/4605...
Not including those sleeping rough or staying in hostels, a record number — 126,040 households, inc 80,530 families with 164,040 children — have lost their homes and are living in temporary accommodation.
www.ft.com/content/4605...
Preventing homelessness is less costly than the cure
The rapid increase in spending by councils is in reaction to a problem better tackled at source
www.ft.com
June 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
The cost of homelessness is crippling councils but is spiralling.
Not including those sleeping rough or staying in hostels, a record number — 126,040 households, inc 80,530 families with 164,040 children — have lost their homes and are living in temporary accommodation.
www.ft.com/content/4605...
Not including those sleeping rough or staying in hostels, a record number — 126,040 households, inc 80,530 families with 164,040 children — have lost their homes and are living in temporary accommodation.
www.ft.com/content/4605...
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Reform’s Clean Energy Crackdown Would Cost 60,000 Jobs and Raise Bills, Says Study
Nigel Farage’s “economically illiterate” climate policies could wipe £92 billion off the UK economy, according to @neweconomics.bsky.social.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
Reform’s Clean Energy Crackdown Would Cost 60,000 Jobs and Raise Bills, Says Study
Nigel Farage’s “economically illiterate” climate policies could wipe £92 billion off the UK economy, according to @neweconomics.bsky.social.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
Reform’s Clean Energy Crackdown Would Cost 60,000 Jobs and Raise Bills, Says Study
Reform UK’s policies to “scrap net zero” would cost more than 60,000 jobs and wipe £92 billion off the UK economy, according to a new study. Nigel Farage’s party — which took control of 10 councils in...
www.desmog.com
May 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Reform’s Clean Energy Crackdown Would Cost 60,000 Jobs and Raise Bills, Says Study
Nigel Farage’s “economically illiterate” climate policies could wipe £92 billion off the UK economy, according to @neweconomics.bsky.social.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
Reform’s Clean Energy Crackdown Would Cost 60,000 Jobs and Raise Bills, Says Study
Nigel Farage’s “economically illiterate” climate policies could wipe £92 billion off the UK economy, according to @neweconomics.bsky.social.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
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Guess which MP has received £224,575 from people + companies linked to the private health sector between Jan 2023- March 2025?
Wes Streeting, our Health Secretary.🚨
We think these donations should be BANNED! If you agree, please click here to sign! bit.ly/HealthNotWea...
Wes Streeting, our Health Secretary.🚨
We think these donations should be BANNED! If you agree, please click here to sign! bit.ly/HealthNotWea...
May 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Guess which MP has received £224,575 from people + companies linked to the private health sector between Jan 2023- March 2025?
Wes Streeting, our Health Secretary.🚨
We think these donations should be BANNED! If you agree, please click here to sign! bit.ly/HealthNotWea...
Wes Streeting, our Health Secretary.🚨
We think these donations should be BANNED! If you agree, please click here to sign! bit.ly/HealthNotWea...
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Elon Musk “apparently did not anticipate that it would be bad PR for the world’s richest man to take food and medicine from the world’s poorest children”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Elon Musk “apparently did not anticipate that it would be bad PR for the world’s richest man to take food and medicine from the world’s poorest children”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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Robert Jenrick illegally rushed through planning permission to try help a billionaire avoid £45m in property tax.
May 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Robert Jenrick illegally rushed through planning permission to try help a billionaire avoid £45m in property tax.
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'What we're really asking for is for a first year doctor to go from £17.50 an hour to just under £23 an hour'
Dr Melissa Ryan from the British Medical Association Resident Doctors Committee speaks to #BBCBreakfast as doctors in England take part in a ballot on industrial action
Dr Melissa Ryan from the British Medical Association Resident Doctors Committee speaks to #BBCBreakfast as doctors in England take part in a ballot on industrial action
May 27, 2025 at 6:39 AM
'What we're really asking for is for a first year doctor to go from £17.50 an hour to just under £23 an hour'
Dr Melissa Ryan from the British Medical Association Resident Doctors Committee speaks to #BBCBreakfast as doctors in England take part in a ballot on industrial action
Dr Melissa Ryan from the British Medical Association Resident Doctors Committee speaks to #BBCBreakfast as doctors in England take part in a ballot on industrial action
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The paedos behind UK’s 'biggest-ever' child sex abuse ring were ALL WHITE and yet Rupert Lowe, Nigel Farage, @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social & rest of right wing don’t seem to care.. 🤷🏼♂️
Why do child victims of brown skinned pedo gangs matter so much to them but those of white ones don’t❓🤔
#RaceWar bait
Why do child victims of brown skinned pedo gangs matter so much to them but those of white ones don’t❓🤔
#RaceWar bait
Criminals behind 'biggest-ever' child sex abuse ring as jailed for 145 years
A total of 21 people have been convicted of a string of sex offences committed against seven children
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
April 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The paedos behind UK’s 'biggest-ever' child sex abuse ring were ALL WHITE and yet Rupert Lowe, Nigel Farage, @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social & rest of right wing don’t seem to care.. 🤷🏼♂️
Why do child victims of brown skinned pedo gangs matter so much to them but those of white ones don’t❓🤔
#RaceWar bait
Why do child victims of brown skinned pedo gangs matter so much to them but those of white ones don’t❓🤔
#RaceWar bait
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Badenoch’s vacuousness is only surpassed by her extreme arrogance, like a stuck record over Pakistani grooming gangs
Not a word though about👇🏼 10 strong white male pedo gang in Manchester just prosecuted by the CPS.. 🤷🏼♂️
The right wing’s obsess over brown pedo’s because it suits their racist agenda❗️😡
Not a word though about👇🏼 10 strong white male pedo gang in Manchester just prosecuted by the CPS.. 🤷🏼♂️
The right wing’s obsess over brown pedo’s because it suits their racist agenda❗️😡
April 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Badenoch’s vacuousness is only surpassed by her extreme arrogance, like a stuck record over Pakistani grooming gangs
Not a word though about👇🏼 10 strong white male pedo gang in Manchester just prosecuted by the CPS.. 🤷🏼♂️
The right wing’s obsess over brown pedo’s because it suits their racist agenda❗️😡
Not a word though about👇🏼 10 strong white male pedo gang in Manchester just prosecuted by the CPS.. 🤷🏼♂️
The right wing’s obsess over brown pedo’s because it suits their racist agenda❗️😡
Wonder who decided having all males to present medals at the Womens Six Nations yesterday was a good idea? #Guinness #WomensSixNations
April 27, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Wonder who decided having all males to present medals at the Womens Six Nations yesterday was a good idea? #Guinness #WomensSixNations
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Alignment with the EU could boost UK GDP by 1.5%, yet the allure of a US trade deal persists.
@jennyrhodes42.bsky.social looks at possible concessions and their cost.
#UKEconomy #TradeDeals
@jennyrhodes42.bsky.social looks at possible concessions and their cost.
#UKEconomy #TradeDeals
Inching tortuously towards the fork in the road – decision time?
In April the UK continued to focus on making pacts with both the EU and the US. Soon we may have to make a choice
eastangliabylines.co.uk
April 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Alignment with the EU could boost UK GDP by 1.5%, yet the allure of a US trade deal persists.
@jennyrhodes42.bsky.social looks at possible concessions and their cost.
#UKEconomy #TradeDeals
@jennyrhodes42.bsky.social looks at possible concessions and their cost.
#UKEconomy #TradeDeals
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Reform currently has zero (0) MPs in the chamber for the statement on defence spending.
February 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Reform currently has zero (0) MPs in the chamber for the statement on defence spending.
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A fascinating piece by @BBCCountryfile, really bringing home the absurdity of post-Brexit red tape.
The truth is that Brexit bureaucracy is suffocating the aspirations of our entrepreneurs; from our SMEs to our farmers.
A thread 🧵👇
The truth is that Brexit bureaucracy is suffocating the aspirations of our entrepreneurs; from our SMEs to our farmers.
A thread 🧵👇
February 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
A fascinating piece by @BBCCountryfile, really bringing home the absurdity of post-Brexit red tape.
The truth is that Brexit bureaucracy is suffocating the aspirations of our entrepreneurs; from our SMEs to our farmers.
A thread 🧵👇
The truth is that Brexit bureaucracy is suffocating the aspirations of our entrepreneurs; from our SMEs to our farmers.
A thread 🧵👇
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Absolutely spot on from Rory Stewart
February 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Absolutely spot on from Rory Stewart
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Must watch interview. Ed Davey calls for a customs union with the EU to grow the UK economy
And Laura Kuenssberg ends up making the case for why the UK should be in a customs union with the EU, without realising it 🤷♂️
This is a gold standard interview by @eddavey.libdems.org.uk 👏
Part 1 of 7
And Laura Kuenssberg ends up making the case for why the UK should be in a customs union with the EU, without realising it 🤷♂️
This is a gold standard interview by @eddavey.libdems.org.uk 👏
Part 1 of 7
February 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Must watch interview. Ed Davey calls for a customs union with the EU to grow the UK economy
And Laura Kuenssberg ends up making the case for why the UK should be in a customs union with the EU, without realising it 🤷♂️
This is a gold standard interview by @eddavey.libdems.org.uk 👏
Part 1 of 7
And Laura Kuenssberg ends up making the case for why the UK should be in a customs union with the EU, without realising it 🤷♂️
This is a gold standard interview by @eddavey.libdems.org.uk 👏
Part 1 of 7
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Update.
The Telegraph has now corrected its entirely fabricated claim that 1 in 12 Londoners is an "illegal migrant" and has accepted that this claim was false in *four" separate respects.
However, this has not resolved my complaint to IPSO - I will continue to request a front-page correction.
The Telegraph has now corrected its entirely fabricated claim that 1 in 12 Londoners is an "illegal migrant" and has accepted that this claim was false in *four" separate respects.
However, this has not resolved my complaint to IPSO - I will continue to request a front-page correction.
January 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Update.
The Telegraph has now corrected its entirely fabricated claim that 1 in 12 Londoners is an "illegal migrant" and has accepted that this claim was false in *four" separate respects.
However, this has not resolved my complaint to IPSO - I will continue to request a front-page correction.
The Telegraph has now corrected its entirely fabricated claim that 1 in 12 Londoners is an "illegal migrant" and has accepted that this claim was false in *four" separate respects.
However, this has not resolved my complaint to IPSO - I will continue to request a front-page correction.
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Come for Calvin "Altar Mitty" Robinson dancing in front of Trump.
And stay for the buttock clenching 23rd second when he realises everyone is blanking him.
And stay for the buttock clenching 23rd second when he realises everyone is blanking him.
October 28, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Come for Calvin "Altar Mitty" Robinson dancing in front of Trump.
And stay for the buttock clenching 23rd second when he realises everyone is blanking him.
And stay for the buttock clenching 23rd second when he realises everyone is blanking him.
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⚠️Warning⚠️
As I have been saying for the last few years, charter cities will devour the UK, abolish the welfare state, and destroy the environment by turning entire cities into competing feudal entities.
Absolute chaos and societal breakdown will ensue.
1/2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHC2...
As I have been saying for the last few years, charter cities will devour the UK, abolish the welfare state, and destroy the environment by turning entire cities into competing feudal entities.
Absolute chaos and societal breakdown will ensue.
1/2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHC2...
Right-wing think tanks are promoting charter cities, and they’re a nightmare
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
www.youtube.com
January 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
⚠️Warning⚠️
As I have been saying for the last few years, charter cities will devour the UK, abolish the welfare state, and destroy the environment by turning entire cities into competing feudal entities.
Absolute chaos and societal breakdown will ensue.
1/2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHC2...
As I have been saying for the last few years, charter cities will devour the UK, abolish the welfare state, and destroy the environment by turning entire cities into competing feudal entities.
Absolute chaos and societal breakdown will ensue.
1/2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHC2...
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Last month, Sen. Deb Fischer's (R-NE) husband refused to shake the Vice President's hand.
Yesterday, he tried to shake Doug Emhoff's hand. The Second Gentleman replied: "Why would you try to shake my hand when you wouldn’t shake my wife’s hand?”
REPOST if you love Doug Emhoff!
Yesterday, he tried to shake Doug Emhoff's hand. The Second Gentleman replied: "Why would you try to shake my hand when you wouldn’t shake my wife’s hand?”
REPOST if you love Doug Emhoff!
January 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Last month, Sen. Deb Fischer's (R-NE) husband refused to shake the Vice President's hand.
Yesterday, he tried to shake Doug Emhoff's hand. The Second Gentleman replied: "Why would you try to shake my hand when you wouldn’t shake my wife’s hand?”
REPOST if you love Doug Emhoff!
Yesterday, he tried to shake Doug Emhoff's hand. The Second Gentleman replied: "Why would you try to shake my hand when you wouldn’t shake my wife’s hand?”
REPOST if you love Doug Emhoff!
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Over the past two decades, rightwing think-tanks and pressure groups that spread climate denial, attack public services and stoke culture wars have bagged millions of pounds in donations from charities.
@mc00.bluesky.social investigates:
buff.ly/40BtEB7
Over the past two decades, rightwing think-tanks and pressure groups that spread climate denial, attack public services and stoke culture wars have bagged millions of pounds in donations from charities.
@mc00.bluesky.social investigates:
buff.ly/40BtEB7
A good cause? How charities funnelled £28m into rightwing think-tanks | Good Law Project
Over the past two decades, rightwing think-tanks and pressure groups that spread climate denial, attack public services and stoke culture wars have bagged millions of pounds in donations from charitie...
buff.ly
January 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Over the past two decades, rightwing think-tanks and pressure groups that spread climate denial, attack public services and stoke culture wars have bagged millions of pounds in donations from charities.
@mc00.bluesky.social investigates:
buff.ly/40BtEB7
Over the past two decades, rightwing think-tanks and pressure groups that spread climate denial, attack public services and stoke culture wars have bagged millions of pounds in donations from charities.
@mc00.bluesky.social investigates:
buff.ly/40BtEB7
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Read the room, Labour. Read the room.
More Britons would rather have the EU than the US as Britain's closest trading partner
The EU: 53% (+2 from 2 Mar 2020)
The US: 21% (+4)
Neither: 7% (-3)
yougov.co.uk/topics/inter...
The EU: 53% (+2 from 2 Mar 2020)
The US: 21% (+4)
Neither: 7% (-3)
yougov.co.uk/topics/inter...
January 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Read the room, Labour. Read the room.
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'officers went into Rebekah Brooks’s office and found that she had a private dressing room with a vanity cabinet. They moved the cabinet and found the door to an underfloor safe. When they opened it, they found it was “filled with hard drives and computers”
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
How Murdoch’s company magicked away 31 million emails
A powerful media empire was required to preserve evidence of illegal spying. Instead, it went on a deletion spree. Now claims of an astonishing cover-...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
'officers went into Rebekah Brooks’s office and found that she had a private dressing room with a vanity cabinet. They moved the cabinet and found the door to an underfloor safe. When they opened it, they found it was “filled with hard drives and computers”
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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To the crowds cheering Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement:
Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect?
Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse?
Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?
Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect?
Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse?
Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?
January 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM
To the crowds cheering Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement:
Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect?
Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse?
Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?
Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect?
Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse?
Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?
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Rachel Reeves hopes to ride out the current financial storm. Richard Murphy thinks she has tools she is refusing to use | Prof Richard Murphy
The tools are there: will Rachel Reeves take them?
Rachel Reeves hopes to ride out the current financial storm. Richard Murphy thinks she has tools she is refusing to use
eastangliabylines.co.uk
January 21, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Rachel Reeves hopes to ride out the current financial storm. Richard Murphy thinks she has tools she is refusing to use | Prof Richard Murphy
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The outcome of this case will affect every one of us but is barely getting a mention in UK media. Why? Peaceful protest is a fundemental democratic right. I’ll aways defend it. The decision in @libertyhq.bsky.social’s important case is due any time now
Parliamentary democracy exists to make sure a government can’t just do whatever it wants. That must be respected - and that includes this government
The decision in @libertyhq.bsky.social important case is awaited
This is why I’m standing shoulder to shoulder with them👇
youtu.be/qk5aiRXRuU0?...
The decision in @libertyhq.bsky.social important case is awaited
This is why I’m standing shoulder to shoulder with them👇
youtu.be/qk5aiRXRuU0?...
Labour Government backs Tory power grab by appealing Liberty High court victory
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
January 21, 2025 at 6:55 AM
The outcome of this case will affect every one of us but is barely getting a mention in UK media. Why? Peaceful protest is a fundemental democratic right. I’ll aways defend it. The decision in @libertyhq.bsky.social’s important case is due any time now