Ian Tasker
@tasker40.bsky.social
6 Music fan and occasional guitarist. Family man still dumbfounded how we lost our EU Citizenship to some dodgy referendum. Used to live in Almeria Spain and had hoped to retire there.Supports The Posh.
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Ian Tasker
@tasker40.bsky.social
· Jun 9
Strikes & the workers behind them
YouTube video by Working Voices UK
youtu.be
Working Voices, a side project myself and a mate Dave Tarren put together a while back reporting on the national strikes in 2022 - 2023. We put a documentary together about it so could you share, like comment or subscribe. Thanks
youtu.be/2tLWjRXeAaI?...
youtu.be/2tLWjRXeAaI?...
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The UK was better off in the EU and Europe was better off with the UK in it.
All of this Trump driven chaos underlines that and you can practically hear Putin rubbing his hands in Moscow.
WE have deliberately weakened ourselves, our security and our region for absolutely no good purpose at all.
All of this Trump driven chaos underlines that and you can practically hear Putin rubbing his hands in Moscow.
WE have deliberately weakened ourselves, our security and our region for absolutely no good purpose at all.
January 19, 2026 at 10:05 AM
The UK was better off in the EU and Europe was better off with the UK in it.
All of this Trump driven chaos underlines that and you can practically hear Putin rubbing his hands in Moscow.
WE have deliberately weakened ourselves, our security and our region for absolutely no good purpose at all.
All of this Trump driven chaos underlines that and you can practically hear Putin rubbing his hands in Moscow.
WE have deliberately weakened ourselves, our security and our region for absolutely no good purpose at all.
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The UK right: ‘Why are we supporting so many foreigners, we should be supporting our own in this country’
Government announces plans to lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty and to help struggling parents afford baby formula
The UK right: ‘No we didn’t mean them’
Government announces plans to lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty and to help struggling parents afford baby formula
The UK right: ‘No we didn’t mean them’
December 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The UK right: ‘Why are we supporting so many foreigners, we should be supporting our own in this country’
Government announces plans to lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty and to help struggling parents afford baby formula
The UK right: ‘No we didn’t mean them’
Government announces plans to lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty and to help struggling parents afford baby formula
The UK right: ‘No we didn’t mean them’
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‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache
‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache
Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache
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I know the Tory party is a rancid rotting carcass of a party but, Christ, surely we’re all beyond sick of them now. This lot won’t get back into power but they can’t even manage to be a responsible opposition.
They’re just so grimly dismal, racist and thick.
They reek of inadequacy.
Just go TF away.
They’re just so grimly dismal, racist and thick.
They reek of inadequacy.
Just go TF away.
October 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I know the Tory party is a rancid rotting carcass of a party but, Christ, surely we’re all beyond sick of them now. This lot won’t get back into power but they can’t even manage to be a responsible opposition.
They’re just so grimly dismal, racist and thick.
They reek of inadequacy.
Just go TF away.
They’re just so grimly dismal, racist and thick.
They reek of inadequacy.
Just go TF away.
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Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.
Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.
join.greenparty.org.uk
October 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.
Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.
join.greenparty.org.uk
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Farage should never be interviewed without being forced to answer for failures of Brexit. That the man whose lies fuelled Brexit vote which has cost UK Billions & who said Liz Truss budget was “best Tory budget since 1986” could be trusted on *anything* is mind-boggling #bbclaura
July 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Farage should never be interviewed without being forced to answer for failures of Brexit. That the man whose lies fuelled Brexit vote which has cost UK Billions & who said Liz Truss budget was “best Tory budget since 1986” could be trusted on *anything* is mind-boggling #bbclaura
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If the only way you'll ever hear someone call out Nigel Farage's destructive, divisive politics on the BBC is for me to do it, then so be it.
Watch @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk call out the BBC for their failure to hold Nigel Farage to account.
July 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
If the only way you'll ever hear someone call out Nigel Farage's destructive, divisive politics on the BBC is for me to do it, then so be it.
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🔥 “The stupidest thing any country has ever done.” Michael Bloomberg said it out loud —
but we’re still pretending Brexit is untouchable.
Read why nobody dares reopen the conversation – and who’s benefiting from that silence....
but we’re still pretending Brexit is untouchable.
Read why nobody dares reopen the conversation – and who’s benefiting from that silence....
New bid to join the EU does not need a referendum
Labour hides behind claims of the need for a new referendum, to hide the true reason why they don’t want real progress towards the EU
eastangliabylines.co.uk
July 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🔥 “The stupidest thing any country has ever done.” Michael Bloomberg said it out loud —
but we’re still pretending Brexit is untouchable.
Read why nobody dares reopen the conversation – and who’s benefiting from that silence....
but we’re still pretending Brexit is untouchable.
Read why nobody dares reopen the conversation – and who’s benefiting from that silence....
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💥 The benefits of Brexit are as “elusive as Lord Lucan”, John Major has declared and he called for Britain to rejoin CU and SM.
“The only Brexit ‘freedom’ I’ve yet seen is the freedom to be poorer.” and that Brexit was a “gift to countries that wish us ill, and a shock to those that wish us well”.
“The only Brexit ‘freedom’ I’ve yet seen is the freedom to be poorer.” and that Brexit was a “gift to countries that wish us ill, and a shock to those that wish us well”.
June 27, 2025 at 5:51 AM
💥 The benefits of Brexit are as “elusive as Lord Lucan”, John Major has declared and he called for Britain to rejoin CU and SM.
“The only Brexit ‘freedom’ I’ve yet seen is the freedom to be poorer.” and that Brexit was a “gift to countries that wish us ill, and a shock to those that wish us well”.
“The only Brexit ‘freedom’ I’ve yet seen is the freedom to be poorer.” and that Brexit was a “gift to countries that wish us ill, and a shock to those that wish us well”.
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Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸
June 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸
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Working Voices, a side project myself and a mate Dave Tarren put together a while back reporting on the national strikes in 2022 - 2023. We put a documentary together about it so could you share, like comment or subscribe. Thanks
youtu.be/2tLWjRXeAaI?...
youtu.be/2tLWjRXeAaI?...
Strikes & the workers behind them
YouTube video by Working Voices UK
youtu.be
June 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Working Voices, a side project myself and a mate Dave Tarren put together a while back reporting on the national strikes in 2022 - 2023. We put a documentary together about it so could you share, like comment or subscribe. Thanks
youtu.be/2tLWjRXeAaI?...
youtu.be/2tLWjRXeAaI?...
Working Voices, a side project myself and a mate Dave Tarren put together a while back reporting on the national strikes in 2022 - 2023. We put a documentary together about it so could you share, like comment or subscribe. Thanks
youtu.be/2tLWjRXeAaI?...
youtu.be/2tLWjRXeAaI?...
Strikes & the workers behind them
YouTube video by Working Voices UK
youtu.be
June 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Working Voices, a side project myself and a mate Dave Tarren put together a while back reporting on the national strikes in 2022 - 2023. We put a documentary together about it so could you share, like comment or subscribe. Thanks
youtu.be/2tLWjRXeAaI?...
youtu.be/2tLWjRXeAaI?...
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Please could you follow EveryDoctor? We are starting a movement for the NHS… IT’S TIME 💙💙💙
HELLO BLUESKY! We're fed up of what politicians are doing to the NHS. The media is mostly complicit in what they're doing too.
So...we've decided to start a mass movement of people to fight for the NHS, its patients and staff. Who's in? Please could you follow us? We have no time to lose...💙
So...we've decided to start a mass movement of people to fight for the NHS, its patients and staff. Who's in? Please could you follow us? We have no time to lose...💙
May 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Please could you follow EveryDoctor? We are starting a movement for the NHS… IT’S TIME 💙💙💙
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Plenty of people & businesses who are all for the UK/EU reset deal.
Maybe if Badenoch & Farage took time to talk to these businesses they might learn something, oh wait it doesn’t benefit their millionaire mates so they won’t!
#UK-EU
Maybe if Badenoch & Farage took time to talk to these businesses they might learn something, oh wait it doesn’t benefit their millionaire mates so they won’t!
#UK-EU
May 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Plenty of people & businesses who are all for the UK/EU reset deal.
Maybe if Badenoch & Farage took time to talk to these businesses they might learn something, oh wait it doesn’t benefit their millionaire mates so they won’t!
#UK-EU
Maybe if Badenoch & Farage took time to talk to these businesses they might learn something, oh wait it doesn’t benefit their millionaire mates so they won’t!
#UK-EU
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Big Minimum wage increase
Tax on private education
Nationalisation of railways
NHS waiting lists down
Doctors’ strikes resolved
Economy growing
Interest rates coming down
These are things that people want
Tax on private education
Nationalisation of railways
NHS waiting lists down
Doctors’ strikes resolved
Economy growing
Interest rates coming down
These are things that people want
May 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Big Minimum wage increase
Tax on private education
Nationalisation of railways
NHS waiting lists down
Doctors’ strikes resolved
Economy growing
Interest rates coming down
These are things that people want
Tax on private education
Nationalisation of railways
NHS waiting lists down
Doctors’ strikes resolved
Economy growing
Interest rates coming down
These are things that people want
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UK not entering trade war with US, says Starmer.
Wrong assessment. Trump has declared trade war. Extra tariffs on UK steel, motor trade. Trump demanding tax cuts for US corporations operating in the UK.
Appeasement is futile. Don't become the 51st state. Join the EU. Carve a common future.
Wrong assessment. Trump has declared trade war. Extra tariffs on UK steel, motor trade. Trump demanding tax cuts for US corporations operating in the UK.
Appeasement is futile. Don't become the 51st state. Join the EU. Carve a common future.
UK not 'jumping into trade war' with US, says Sir Keir Starmer
The UK is in
www.bbc.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
UK not entering trade war with US, says Starmer.
Wrong assessment. Trump has declared trade war. Extra tariffs on UK steel, motor trade. Trump demanding tax cuts for US corporations operating in the UK.
Appeasement is futile. Don't become the 51st state. Join the EU. Carve a common future.
Wrong assessment. Trump has declared trade war. Extra tariffs on UK steel, motor trade. Trump demanding tax cuts for US corporations operating in the UK.
Appeasement is futile. Don't become the 51st state. Join the EU. Carve a common future.
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The super-rich are getting richer while ordinary people struggle. Yesterday I joined @sarahwoolley1.bsky.social, @garyseconomics.bsky.social, @cathobbs.bsky.social and more to call on Rachel Reeves to stop savage cuts to welfare and instead bring in a #WealthTax now
March 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The super-rich are getting richer while ordinary people struggle. Yesterday I joined @sarahwoolley1.bsky.social, @garyseconomics.bsky.social, @cathobbs.bsky.social and more to call on Rachel Reeves to stop savage cuts to welfare and instead bring in a #WealthTax now
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Here it is - the post that got @therickwilson.bsky.social banned from X - therickwilson.substack.com/p/kill-tesla...
Kill Tesla, Save The Country
Elon has a weak spot. Attack.
therickwilson.substack.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Here it is - the post that got @therickwilson.bsky.social banned from X - therickwilson.substack.com/p/kill-tesla...
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I wrote for @huffpost.com on why the government's plans to slash welfare spending are a cruel, unnecessary choice. Time to start taxing wealth fairly instead of stripping away support from those who can least afford to lose it.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/green-...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/green-...
Rachel Reeves' Plan To Cut Welfare Spending Reveals Labour's Twisted Priorities, Green MP Says
Writing for HuffPost UK, Carla Denyer says the government is making all the wrong choices.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
March 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I wrote for @huffpost.com on why the government's plans to slash welfare spending are a cruel, unnecessary choice. Time to start taxing wealth fairly instead of stripping away support from those who can least afford to lose it.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/green-...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/green-...
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Catherine and her cat from Zaporizhzhia. She spent 5 hours under the rubble of her house, destroyed by a Russian missile. All this time she has been hugging her cat.
P.S. Sorry she didn't wear a suit.
P.S. Sorry she didn't wear a suit.
March 4, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Catherine and her cat from Zaporizhzhia. She spent 5 hours under the rubble of her house, destroyed by a Russian missile. All this time she has been hugging her cat.
P.S. Sorry she didn't wear a suit.
P.S. Sorry she didn't wear a suit.
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Swap peace for surrender
Zelenskyy leaves White House early after fiery meeting with Trump, who claims Ukrainian leader isn’t ready for peace – live
Press conference between US and Ukraine leaders cancelled and no minerals deal signed after angry scenes in White House; European leaders stand behind Zelenskyy
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Swap peace for surrender