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Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 41m

I last watched it when there was a Tory minister on, a question was asked of her and Bruce stepped in and said 'let me answer that for you'.

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 18h

The rhetoric of the far right is escalating.
Look at ICE in the US. Armed militias kidnapping people off the streets.

We’ve seen this before.
It’s fascism. Imported from the US to British shores by the likes of Farage and Tommy Robinson.

Will you help us fight it?

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

It would take the average UK earner 52 years’ worth of earnings to join the richest 10%.

Up from 38 years in 2006-08. Rich buy political influence.

Govts help the rich. Bottom 20% pay higher proportion of income in than the richest 20%.

Inequalities obstruct economic growth, fuel social unrest.

Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says

Research finds it would take average worker saving all their earnings for 52 years to match wealth of richest 10th of society

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 20h

Wow, she really is a heathen

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

There is something deeply broken in the UK and it has absolutely nothing to do with migrants, especially with 1 in 25 properties being vacant.
This should be the number one priority for the government. Instead more and more homeless individuals are dying.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high

Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.

www.bbc.com

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Reform UK Councils are finding that DOGE was a gimmick and its cheerleaders were frauds.

Now they are facing upping council tax 5%.

Their May promises:

Cut tax
Find DOGE savings
Save services

All gone. Lies.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 1d

Who ate all the pies?

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Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 1d

Funny thing is, there were probably some antifa in the room with her at that time, unless of course they were Fox reporters

Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 1d

BBC News - Jenrick defends calling Handsworth 'worst-integrated' - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Obviously, he'll be demanding the tearing down of the Stamford Hill Jewish community. Will he fuck.

Jenrick defends calling Handsworth 'worst-integrated'

The shadow justice secretary is accused of racism after saying the Handsworth area was one of the

www.bbc.co.uk

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cc2023.bsky.social @cc2023.bsky.social · 1d

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 2d

BREAKING: Shabana Mahmoud has clarified that British people are allowed to protest as long as they don't protest too often, their protests aren't seen by anyone, and they are completely ineffective. Anything else is un-British and basically terrorism x

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Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social · 2d

You should be angry at private companies making massive profits from our taxes to house the most desperate people in appalling conditions... And NOT the people forced to live in them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 2d

Just a thought...

Characters from the Simpsons
First pic: I thought you said the law was powerless.
Second pic: Powerless to help you, not punish you

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Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 2d

Let me get this straight...

You changed the law so that hundreds of people would be arrested for holding placards, and now you're blaming those people for wasting police resources?

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg “I'm not scared of Israel. I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity.”

Stand with Greta, stand with humanity.

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Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 2d

Is that for fucking real?!! The fate of British citizens 'is a matter for the Israeli government'? Get the fuck out of here. Scum. They're scum.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 2d

After a trip across Ukraine on trains that keep running in spite of Russian air raids, nothing says welcome home quite like those three magical words:

Rail Replacement Bus

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 2d

The BBC has been accused of “extraordinary” anti-Green bias, after the party says a long-promised conference interview with new leader Zack Polanski was cancelled by the Laura Kuenssberg show just days before going to air

Every major political party leader, aside from him, was interviewed recently.

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com

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Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 3d

I say 'Carry On Kemi'. 🙂

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Mark Venner @mark16.bsky.social · 3d

Clown is forgetting who was in charge from 2016 until last year.
“The size of the civil service has grown very rapidly, by over 35%, since 2016. We think that we can get the civil service to that size at a substantial saving.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

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Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pilargomez.bsky.social · 4d

Tories approved by British newspapers see ICE in USA zip tying children and raiding apartments with a military helicopter and think

“Yes, let’s have some of that”🤷🏼‍♀️

Sunday Express Newspaper front page saying ‘Tory ICE’ Force would deport 150,000 a year. Bold plan to tackle migrant crisis based on US agency” story is about Robert Jenrick announcing his ice style plan of deportation.

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