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Lovely Socialist 🍉🦋✊️🥀 @lovelysocialist.bsky.social · 5m

If Richard Tice likes the UAE so much why doesn't he just go and live there and leave us the hell alone?

*Quick Google seach*

Oh... 🤨

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Reform deputy leader Richard Tice splitting time between Skegness and Dubai after partner leaves UK

MP says says he is totally committed to his constituency after Isabel Oakeshott moved to the Emirates

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 57m

UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.

Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP

No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.

But here's Tice calling us decadent

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Care of Earth and People Ensure A Future World 🌎 @bpermaculture.bsky.social · 1d

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity www.bbc.com/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2h

So the people causing the shutdown are getting paid. The people keeping the country running don’t.

And Speaker Mike Johnson won’t let the House come back to work. So basically they’re on a paid vacation while Americans miss paychecks.

Did I get that right?

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1h

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 20h

To celebrate the centenary of Thatcher's Birth, I suggest digging her up and relocating her body to a plot in Liverpool, placing an illuminated dance floor on top, and charging £10 a go.

We could pay off the national debt in under a week.

a man is standing on a dance floor with a crowd behind him

ALT: a man is standing on a dance floor with a crowd behind him

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 19h

We are now so far through the looking glass that arch-Tory Michael Heseltine has started sounding moderate...

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20h

Lord Heseltine, "I wouldn't touch Nigel Farage"

"I hear of talk about a pact with Reform UK"

"We can see Reform UK, all over Europe. Le Penn in France. AfD in Germany. Same equivalent in Italy, Spain"

"It's all the same stuff"

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20h

Lord Heseltine, "I wouldn't touch Nigel Farage"

"I hear of talk about a pact with Reform UK"

"We can see Reform UK, all over Europe. Le Penn in France. AfD in Germany. Same equivalent in Italy, Spain"

"It's all the same stuff"

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Lovely Socialist 🍉🦋✊️🥀 @lovelysocialist.bsky.social · 19m

Well let's face it, with Reform, Tories and Labour all fighting over the same voters in the right of our politics, there's loads of room for someone on the left to do something HUGE!!!

#GreenWave #GreenGrowth
#EcoSocialism

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20h

Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.

Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.

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The greens may be the threat that the right never saw coming.

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Lovely Socialist 🍉🦋✊️🥀 @lovelysocialist.bsky.social · 22m

Britain's wealth gap is so wide it's impossible to save enough to become rich.

The Resolution Foundation says an average worker would have to save almost all their income over 52 years to save the £1.3m needed to move from the middle to the top of wealth distribution.

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It's now almost impossible to work your way to riches, says report into growing wealth gap

The Resolution Foundation's analysis of the country's wealth gap comes seven weeks before the chancellor delivers what's expected to be a tax-raising budget, though the government seems reluctant to p...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

#WarRavagedPortland

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19h

Conservative MP Mel Stride claims PIP benefit is thousands of pounds per month.

No it is an absolute maximum of £720 a month, and most people only get £250 or less.

Meanwhile he claims £1,250 a month in rent on his expenses

Lying, thieving b******

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Lovely Socialist 🍉🦋✊️🥀 @lovelysocialist.bsky.social · 19h

Un-British to protest? No.

It is probably un-British to sell arms to a country that is committing a genocide 🤷‍♀️

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Is it ‘un-British’ to hold pro-Palestinian protests on October 7?

Hundreds of students have defied Sir Keir Starmer's call not to demonstrate on the second anniversary of the October 7 attacks. Sky's Becky Johnson speaks to the students protesting.

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Colloween @colken.bsky.social · 21h

"Thank you for your timely attendance, officers, as I mentioned on the phone I believe Ratty and Badger are senior members of Antifa"

A person in a frog/toad costume faces off the might of American fascism

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 19h

#Newsnight 1030pm BBC 2

• Kemi Badenoch speech tomorrow likely to highlight new rules she wld bring in around the economy. We’ll discuss

• & contender for deputy leader of Labour Bridget Phillipson tells us if her opponent Lucy Powell wins, there’s a ‘risk’ it cld ‘destabilise the party’

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nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 1d

Woman shot by ICE in Brighton Park ordered released.

“What I do know is, it was Ms. Martinez who has seven holes in her body from five shots from this agent, who fired within seconds of getting out of this vehicle,” — Martinez’s attorney, Christopher Parente

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Woman shot by agent in Brighton Park ordered released; lawyer says expletive used against her

A woman shot by an immigration agent after she allegedly rammed his vehicle on Chicago’s Southwest Side over the weekend was ordered released from jail Monday following a hearing where her attorney cl...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

People would have signed this off.

Others will have been shown the product.

Further individuals will have put them in the goodie bags.

How on Earth did nobody spot it?

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Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate

Misprinted wrappers pulled from Manchester goodie bags after derision on social media

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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 19h

Noem says out of one side of her mouth, they’re doing such a great job that people are clapping for them in the streets, as if Chicago is thrilled by ICE’s presence. Out of the other side of her mouth, she says the agents are so hated they can’t even find a place to use the restroom or grab lunch.

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Marko Silberhand @markosilberhand.bsky.social · 1d

.
Just a friendly reminder . . .

Greta Thunberg began her school strike for the climate in Stockholm, Sweden, on August 20, 2018.
She was 15 years old at the time . . .

💙 💚 💙

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, "let's build this new order" is not exactly coded language, is it. The guy is sharing his political influences pretty directly.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

I suspect when Jenrick imagined saying the final words "let's build this new order, let's take our country back," his voice BOOMED and the roar of the crowd was DEAFENING. In the event, his voice cracked and was met with the politeness of a local baking contest won by "a not-bad lemon drizzle". ~AA

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Politics UK @politlcsuk.bsky.social · 21h

🚨🎥 WATCH: Keir Starmer addresses passengers from the cockpit on his British Airways flight to India

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Lovely Socialist 🍉🦋✊️🥀 @lovelysocialist.bsky.social · 21h

I'm reminded of that old game, Frogger 🐸

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