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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3h

Lord Heseltine, "The number of people aged below 50 who think it was right for us to leave the European Union, is less than 20%

"The latest polls tells us 56% now believe it was mistake to leave the European Union"

Hands up if you are one of the 56% 🙋‍♂️

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Roger Silson #FBPE @rogsilson.bsky.social · 2h

At some point in the future, a government somewhere will decide it's acceptable collateral damage to allow its citizens to die from lack of water, rather than let a data centre overheat. Judgement day will have arrived.

Jorj, Interim DEITY🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏽 @just-jorj.bsky.social · 3h

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Scott Immordino @scottimmordino.bsky.social · 7h

Bill Gates: $106B | Microsoft: $3.9T
Jeff Bezos: $232.5B | Amazon: $2.3T
Larry Page: $204.2B | Google: $2.84T
Mark Zuckerberg: $243.5B | Meta: $1.8T

Can someone please explain why on earth we’re paying the power & water bills for their data centers?

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🦋 M.S. MotorcycleMama 🏍️༄₊°.࿔ ༘. ⃛ @ms-motorcyclemama.bsky.social · 4h

“Everyone is welcome here.
Hate is NOT.”

Printed over a bright wavy rainbow across a black background.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 5h

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 4h

Or worse, if there's now more speculation.
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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 4h

On the other hand: stamp duty is a brake on property speculation - buying to sell on in six months making a profit from rising prices. So, scrapping it incentivises this behaviour, which makes prices more volatile and bubbles more likely.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 4h

Unbelievable that TikTok & Insta are amplifying 1970s ‘jokes’ about N*****s & P***s to a whole new generation.

Bernard Manning, of all people, is back in fashion…

The Nerve @thenerve.news · 13h

Bernard Manning rides again: how TikTok and Instagram are promoting racist “jokes” to teens

Sketches from the 70s & 80s featuring slurs including the N word are going viral on social media, shared by millions and boosted by algorithms

@stokel.bsky.social reports

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Composite of Bernard Manning clips on social media with the title: Bernard Manning rides again: how TikTok and Instagram are promoting racist “jokes” to teens

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Roger Silson #FBPE @rogsilson.bsky.social · 4h

I don't think first time buyers and upsizers gain from a stamp duty cut - house prices quickly adjust upwards when stamp duty reduces the cost of buying

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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #FBR #NAFO @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 5h

I invite you to join our next Campaign Wave!
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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #FBR #NAFO @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 1d

📢 Join the #FBPE & #FBR Campaign Wave (aka tweet storm) on Sunday, 26 Oct:

- to protest against the global rise of the far right,
&
- support progressive parties in the Dutch elections (29 Oct).

Time: 20–22 CET | 19–21 UK

Hashtags: #DefendDemocracy #HopeNotHate

Let’s stand strong together!✊

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Roger Silson #FBPE @rogsilson.bsky.social · 5h

Anybody who thinks cutting stamp duty is going to help them buy a house, is a mug. All stamp duty cuts do is increase house prices. Then who pays for the lower tax revenues? - that's right, the poor, the sick and the vulnerable. The rich just enjoy the uplift in asset prices.

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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 6h

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 15h

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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The Rejoin EU Party @therejoineuparty.com · 16h

🇪🇺 Miss Europe?
🍁 Want to Rejoin? 🇬🇧❤️🇪🇺
📅 Join us this Saturday.
💻 It’s Online. Pro-European. Powerful.

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#RejoinEU #ExitBrexit

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The Rejoin EU Party @therejoineuparty.com · 1d

🇪🇺🇬🇧 Do you agree it's going to be a glorious day when we get rid of Brexit?🇬🇧🇪🇺

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Immaterial @listeningmainly.bsky.social · 15h

I won’t listen to any of the RW lies about ECHR peddled by the same con men who sold us Brexit. Labour Levinson 2 now please.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

co-wrote Trump's first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He's not trying to stop "left-wing" terrorism. He is staging it.
His troop deployments are a false flag - meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.
This is now very obvious.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Roger Silson #FBPE @rogsilson.bsky.social · 1d

I think you're being a bit harsh on alley cats

Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 1d

Make no mistake - not one defection to Reform is about policy or leadership. It’s about hanging on for all it’s worth to the prospect of a job. These defectors - no matter which party they are coming from - have all the fvcking morals and principles of an alley cat!

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Politics latest: 20 Tory councillors defect to Reform - as Jenrick defends 'didn't see another white face' comment

20 Tory councillors have announced they are defecting to Reform today. It comes on day three of the Conservatives' annual conference in Manchester. Meanwhile, shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick h...

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 2d

I think I’ve got part of that postcard

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

Answers on a postcard. Farage - who is currently in line to be the next Prime Minister of the UK - won't explain this mounting ties to a hostile foreign power. We need more investigation and public inquiry before its too late 12/12
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‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Tories and Reform want to quit the European Convention on Human Rights.

Since 1980, the ECHR court has heard 29 cases of immigrant deportation. UK won 16. No defeats in the last 5 yrs.

Quitting ECHR won't fix illegal immigration, will destroy our freedoms and rights.
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