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Rorza8472

@rorza8472.bsky.social

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disabled, geeky 36 year old muddling through life here in North East Somerset. politics nerd (Green Party member) football fan (Manchester United/Bath City) gamer (any genre if a game is fun/interesting) sci-fi lover, especially Star Trek.

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Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · Feb 28

if you don't want to care about "identity politics" then that's your decision of course, but don't pretend you can do that and still call yourself a socialist, because it means you are turning your back on the most vulnerable & discriminated against members of the working class.

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Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 6h

Donald Trump says "jump" and Kier Starmer says "how high, sir? how high? please daddy Trump tell me what to do?"

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 21h

James Cleverly: "I cannot understand the motivation for protests of this type so regularly"

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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 16h

If Starmer wants to ban inflammatory chants I suggest he start with ‘Vote Labour’

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21h

Treasury pushing for weakening of protections for England’s national parks & national landscapes to make it easier for developers.

Once lost, they are lost for ever

Rehabilitate empty homes.

Ever thought about building houses on the estates of the rich? Can't they live in smaller houses?

Green groups criticise plans to weaken protections for English national parks

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

www.theguardian.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 22h

Rory Challands: "[Keir Starmer] says that some people have been using Palestine solidarity demos to call for the murder of Jewish people, though he doesn't actually provide any examples of where or when this took place"

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Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 13h

Kemi Badenoch's downfall is going to be a pleasure to watch tbh, she is a nasty piece of work.

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 16h

I grew up in Lozells, just a stone’s throw from Handsworth.

Robert Jenrick called it “as close as I’ve come to a slum” and complained he “didn’t see another white face.”

This is white-supremacist thinking dressed up as “legitimate concerns”.

I grew up in Lozells, just a stone’s throw from Handsworth — where much of my family still live and where I went for sixth form. It’s a proud, diverse, working-class community.

Robert Jenrick called it “as close as I’ve come to a slum” and complained he “didn’t see another white face.”

This is white-supremacist thinking dressed up as “legitimate concerns”.

The political and media establishment normalises this racism, but we won’t stay silent. We stand with all our communities and against the far-right.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14h

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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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

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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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Oli Dugmore, "A word of warning to Keir Starmer and his Labour government"

"You can feed the bigoted dragon as much as your like, but you will never appease it and it will eat you in the end"

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Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 1d

Douglas "Germany messed up a couple of times" Murray is a shill? who'd have thunk it?

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

According to hacked emails obtained by @dropsitenews.com, 'journalist' Douglas Murray was allegedly writing secret draft speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN while also pretending to be an independent 'journalist'.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 1d

this should be a source of national shame.

with all the wealth in this country, we shouldn't have homeless people, much less have record numbers of them dying.

any politician that has opposed measures to reduce homelessness and help these people has blood on their hands.

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.co.uk

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 1d

If the right accuse the left of something (terrorist sympathising, communism, antisemitism etc) the media will ask the left to defend themselves from that charge.

If the left accuse the right of something (racism, fascism, colonialism), the media will ask the left to justify that charge.

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 1d

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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Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 1d

the PM is a massive *unt.

Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 1d

I won't ever apologise for wanting a better future for this country or for humanity in general.

I won't ever apologise for championing what I believe is right and moral.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Can you imagine if Russia attacked and seized a UK vessel in international waters & kidnapped the people on board, including UK citizens, and the only response from the UK govt was to say that's "a matter for the Russian govt".

No, me neither.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

So Keir Starmer accuses people of protesting against his governments complicity in Israels genocide of being "unBritish"

What the UK govt is doing is exploiting the synagogue attack to attack & ban protests against the genocide they’re complicit in.

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Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 1d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj... - fuck off Starmer, you autocratic genocide apologist piece of shit.

Starmer urges UK students not to protest as Israel marks two years since 7 October attacks - live updates

Sir Keir Starmer urges students not to join pro-Palestinian protests on the second anniversary of the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel.

www.bbc.co.uk

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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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Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 2d

if they couldn't even get the name of their own country right then I imagine so lmao.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

Greta:

"I will never comprehend how humans can be so evil. That you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades of oppression and apartheid.”

Source: Global Sumud Flotilla via X

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Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 2d

hot take but if you're on the "Left" but use work-centric rhetoric all the fucking time then you don't get to claim you're an ally to disabled people who can't work.

you literally use the language of the people who want us all left to rot on the streets, that is not allyship, it's enablement.

Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 2d

amazing self own by the Tories 😂 what a clown show of a party.

Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 2d

Tories misspell the country they wish to run.....

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