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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17h

Shortly after accusing all other political party leaders of believing in "the magic money tree", Kemi Badenoch announces her plan to completely scrap stamp duty, without any word on how she plans to pay for it

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 16h

The headline should read: Since 2020, Brits could be banned from the EU due to Brexit removing our status, freedoms, and opportunities as European citizens. Now it will be harder to cheat the 90/180 rule.

Also another example of the UK tabloids hating it when the EU takes 'control' of its borders

Brits could be banned from holiday homes under EU's 90-day rule

The EU has ordered member states to apply the 90/180-day rule 'rigidly', meaning Brits who overstay could be hit with hefty fines of up to £8,700 and even ten-year bans from entering the bloc.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 16h

Scrapping stamp duty will cost £11.6bn a year. But it won't house a single one of Britain's 240,000 homeless.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 13h

Canada vs. America

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10h

🕰️ Times change.

📉 Even amongst Tory voters Brexit is seen as a failure and there is an acknowledgement that it has made Britain poorer.

Read more of our exclusive new polling below 👇

https://www.bestforbritain.org/tory_voters_say_brexit_has_failed_and_damaged_uk_economy

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 14h

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean.

If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 15h

Is this what they mean by a Brexit benefit? “Unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism.”

In 2023, EU agreed to ban exports of waste to poorer nations outside a group of mainly rich countries within the OECD for an initial 2.5 years - the UK has no such ambitions in place

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows

Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

www.theguardian.com

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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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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19h

Studying the language and literature that has helped to define our nation at home and around the world for centuries is a "rip-off" apparently

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Andy Street is spot on. Birmingham is a brilliant city. Vibrant, diverse, wonderful.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll put it bluntly, Robert is wrong… it’s actually a very integrated place... Not the definition of a slum.”

Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands 2017-24, responds to Robert Jenrick's comments on Handsworth.

#Newsnight

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His Royal Huwness @litterygeniarse.bsky.social · 1d

New wizard weeze.

Tag news stories with #NotOnBBCNews if you have not seen it reported by the Corporation.

This will allow searching of stories they've wilfully ignored and aid factcheckers to confirm or deny that designation.

Please repost to aid adoption.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

A source within MI6 has revealed that MI6 are unhappy with the Palestine Action ban because they are not terrorists and the drain on staff is making the UK more vulnerable to actual terrorist attacks.

End the ridiculous ban.

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 2d

Reform lied to get elected to Kent County Council.

They promised tax cuts in their election material.

The only tax councils have any real say over is council tax.

Refore are now saying they will increase council tax in Kent.

Failure to deliver on what they promised after just 5 months.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

Kemi Badenoch is taking a page out of Trump’s playbook - she wants a migrant removal force inspired by ICE.

Here’s what ICE does: it uses “violent military-style offensive weaponry against people.”

We don’t want this in Britain. Ever.
https://bit.ly/3VQXuP2

Body slamming, teargas and pepper balls: viral videos show Ice using extreme force in Chicago

A facility in Broadview, a mostly Black suburb, has become the site of escalation and ‘targeted attacks’ on protesters

www.theguardian.com

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His Royal Huwness @litterygeniarse.bsky.social · 2d

Someone without brain fog should do a rigourous comparison of the stories the BBC covers on Reform and the Greens.
I regularly see Farage banging on about immigration but never the Gill scandal or the one about the Reform councillor who threatened Starmer etc etc etc.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Tories offer £47bn austerity - cuts to disability benefits, PIP for mental health claimants, social housing, civil service, regulators, green economy, accompanied by anti-migrant rhetoric.

Won't hike taxes the rich or curb profiteering.

The nasty party heading for the dustbin of history.

Tories confirm plans to cut PIP for mental health claimants

The Conservatives have unveiled plans to cut spending on welfare and scrap environmental subsidies

www.mirror.co.uk

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 3d

Late tonight, a federal judge issued a sweeping new order prohibiting the president from deploying any National Guard forces—from any state or DC—to Oregon.

The president cannot keep playing whack-a-mole with different states’ Guard units to get around court orders and the rule of law.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking: over 3,000 people joined @greenparty.org.uk over conference weekend.

Membership now stands at over 86,000.

We’re just getting started.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 2d

Just got a haircut, and my lovely barber, a Turkish guy who employs 6 people, and has a wife who's an IVF technician, is shutting up shop and moving to another country because his Indefinite Leave to Remain is under threat by these venal, stupid, posturing politicians, left and right.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 2d

If the media covered Palantir/BlackRock's public sector takeover and the rollout of deregulated investment zones with the same intensity as Nigel Farage and immigration, we'd see actual outrage at the seismic corporate power grab secretly remaking Britain. The UK is being privatised.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 2d

Politico: Kent County Council controlled by Reform UK, 'is likely to raise council tax rates next year after its cost-cutting “DOLGE” program struggled to find savings, the FT reports. Council Cabinet member Diane Morton said local services were already “down to the bare bones”'

Exactly as warned.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

Gary Neville, "Brexit has had a devastating impact on this country"

"The messaging is getting dangerous"

"All these idiots out there spreading hate speech in any form, abuse in any form, we must stop promoting them"

"And get back to a country of love, peace and harmony"

"And become a team again"

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 2d

Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

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