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Troovus @troovus.bsky.social · Jul 11

Starmer has opted not to do all the obvious and popular things that would improve people's lives and is instead doing all the things that were too right wing, authoritarian and unpopular for the Tories and New Labour to do

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Redcountessa @redcountessa.bsky.social · Jul 11

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/yv...

Yvette Cooper- Proscribe the IDF

The "IDF" has repeatedly carried out large-scale, deliberate acts of violence against civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. It is our sincerely held belief that the atrocities and tactics use...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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Redcountessa @redcountessa.bsky.social · Jul 3

🚨 No More First Past the Post Elections.

5 parties polling strongly, chaotic results, millions left unrepresented.

We need Proportional Representation — NOW.
✍️ Sign the petition:

actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...

📢 No More First Past the Post Elections!

The 2025 Local Election results confirm what so many of us already know: the current voting system is broken. With 5 parties polling strongly, First Past the Post is delivering chaos and turning elec...

actionnetwork.org

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Redcountessa @redcountessa.bsky.social · Apr 12

Why all local councils should be elected with proportional representation www.electoral-reform.org.uk/why-all-loca... Electoral Reform Society – ERS

Why all local councils should be elected with proportional representation

If you live in England, you might be casting a vote for a councillor in a local election this May – and with your vote, expressing your desire for how you’d like your local services

www.electoral-reform.org.uk

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Redcountessa @redcountessa.bsky.social · Mar 6

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services

Across the UK, living standards are falling and millions live in poverty, while the cost of living crisis has made affording the basics difficult. Public services we all rely on - our hospitals, schoo...

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Maggie Gothard @yorkshirelass.bsky.social · Mar 3

Billions paid out for wars and death, but nothing for those that are struggling to live - going to work isn't just about earning money. It is being social with colleagues and keeping your mind positive. Being ill is often painful, isolating, always expensive and very depressing.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · Feb 16

Gaza: Israeli forces used 80-year-old Palestinian as human shield before killing him - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-israeli-forces-used-80-year-old-palestinian-human-shield-killing-him

Israeli forces used 80-year-old Palestinian as human shield before killing him

Israeli forces strapped explosives around the neck of an elderly Palestinian who used a walking stick and forced him to inspect areas used by Hamas before killing him and his wife

www.middleeasteye.net

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Redcountessa @redcountessa.bsky.social · Feb 12

ALERT EVERYONE JEREMY CORBYN IS ON PESTON TONIGHT.

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Linda Vaux @lindav138.bsky.social · Feb 12

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · Feb 11

Just horrendous - so if you are a really desperate refugee without safe options, you are to be penalised for life.

Labour's #HostileEnvironment

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK to refuse citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’

Home Office accused of shutting out refugees, as new guidance says those applicants will ‘normally be refused’

www.theguardian.com

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · Feb 11

from today's post —
please go read the
whole thing here: bit.ly/4aV4MI6
thanks!

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Lu 💙 @ladyinred50.bsky.social · Feb 12

Please share repost this

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Redcountessa @redcountessa.bsky.social · Feb 10

💥 I’ve just signed the petition calling for a “National Commission on Electoral Reform” - Will YOU sign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/nc...

Sign the Petition

National Commission on Electoral Reform

actionstorm.org

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Feb 5

Donald Trump's threat to Gaza is genocidal.

But the Western media has helped normalise it - just like they've normalised the depravity from day one.

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/trump-prop...

Trump proposes the US taking over Gaza genocide. Our media normalises it

An obscene, shameless crime is proposed - and the Western media simply normalises it

www.owenjones.news

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Feb 5

So much evil in one photo it is actually staggering

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · Feb 5

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · Feb 5

via @jvp.bsky.social

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Dan white @danwhite1972.bsky.social · Feb 5

"Anyone who didn’t do their duty for the labour market – say, people too disabled or ill to work, family carers and jobseekers – should expect very little from Labour."

Just brilliant quote from @francesryan.bsky.social on labour and it's increasingly narrow minded thinking of people.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · Feb 5

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eugene @eugene290390.bsky.social · Feb 5

Palestinians Propose Taking Ownership of Mar-a-Lago
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

Palestinians Propose Taking Ownership of Mar-a-Lago

“Right now, Mar-a-Lago is a mess,” the Palestinian spokesman said.

open.substack.com

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · Jan 27

Fascism doesn’t arrive in uniform overnight. It arrives with suited politicians, one piece of legislation — or executive order — at a time.

My piece for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/01/jere...

Jeremy Corbyn: Remembering Auschwitz, Fighting Today

As we mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we must remember the heroic resistance of many inmates to inspire our struggle against renewed fascism today.

tribunemag.co.uk

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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · Jan 27

📚 Join Jeremy Corbyn, Vijay Prashad and Claudia Webbe in conversation on the global arms trade, the struggle for peace and our book ‘Monstrous Anger of the Guns’ — hosted at the Marx Memorial Library in London on Sunday 9 February.

🎟️ Tickets: bit.ly/MAGMarx

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Redcountessa @redcountessa.bsky.social · Jan 27

But it obviously doesn't as its happening in Gaza right now!

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · Jan 27

I spoke to @tristancorkpost.bsky.social at the Bristol Post about finding my feet as an MP, not getting drawn into Westminster's weirdness, fighting for renters' rights - and plenty more! Have a read ⬇️ www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Photo of a newspaper spread, with a picture of Carla Denyer and the headline 'Parliament's a toxic environment... but I've had some successes'

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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · Jan 27

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