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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 4h

Amid the madness, one voice rose above the rest.

Heseltine: principled, pro-EU, and unafraid to speak truth.

“The tide is turning. Most people now believe it was a mistake to leave Europe”.

Lord Heseltine: The Voice of Reason in an Age of Madness 2025
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Lord Heseltine: The Voice of Reason in an Age of Madness 2025

YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 4h

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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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3h

We just hit 93,000 members.

We're polling on average higher than we have ever before.

Over 1000 people joining a day!

Join our movement.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

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KymberliB @kymber2526.bsky.social · 1d

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

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

The greens may be the threat that the right never saw coming.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 17h

I wrote about whether the hideous Thames Water bailout plan - which lets it off fines for up to 15 years - is lawful or will need the support of MPs. open.substack.com/pub/jolyonma...

Is the Thames Water bailout plan - which relieves the company from fines for up to fifteen years - lawful?

A group of Thames Water’s senior creditors, London & Valley Water (“L&VW”), has submitted to Ofwat proposals for them to be relieved from fines for past or future sewage dumping for a period of up to ...

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16h

1,611 homeless Britons died last yr, including 11 children & babies under the age of one.

Contrary to Suella Braverman, homelessness isn't a lifestyle. It is a failure of society.

Yet govts cut wages/benefits, public services, local council funding; no curbs on profiteering.

How civilised are we?

'Abject failure' as UK's homeless deaths rise - including children

The government's homelessness minister, Alison McGovern MP, has described the increased number of deaths as an "abject failure that cannot be tolerated".

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 16h

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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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15h

Tory Badenoch to set out new rule to cut borrowing and taxes.

A code for more austerity, public service cuts. What do they think will happen when £47bn is removed from the economy?

Silence on taxing the rich, windfall taxes, ending corporate welfare, tax havens.

Same old Tories.

Badenoch to set out new rule to cut borrowing and taxes

In a conference speech, the Tory leader will say the Conservatives are the only party

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 15h

How's that Brexit reset going, prime minister? Have you made Brexit work yet?
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/eu-set-...

EU set to match Trump steel tariffs in 'existential threat' to UK steel sector

The EU has said it will match Donald Trump's steel tariffs, in a move that has been labelled an "existential threat" to the UK steel industry.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15h

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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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 15h

Up to 25,000 Cubans could soon be fighting for Russia.

It is reported that Cubans are promised about $2,000 per month - far more than they can earn at home. It is also possible that they are promised jobs in construction but then sent to the frontlines.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 14h

⚡️ Russia just hosted the Taliban for its first official meeting since removing the group from its terrorist list.
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Russia Hosts Taliban for First Official Meeting After Removing Group From Terrorist List

Russia held its first official meeting with Taliban officials on October 7, following its recognition of the Afghan government and removal of the group from its list of terrorist organizations, The…

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 14h

Make no mistake.

The recent incursions in our skies are part of a pattern of growing threats.

It’s time to call it by its name.
This is hybrid warfare.

Europe must get the capacity to respond and protect our skies.

Work has begun.

→ link.europa.eu/4Fxrqr

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14h

Democide in our times

Austerity, wage & public service cuts kill, but are govt policy.

Millions can't get good food, housing, education, healthcare, pension.

Men in poorer UK areas live 9.7 yrs less than those in least deprived areas. Women 8 years.

Govts silent on the human cost of fiscal rules

The government must ensure fair distribution of income

'The average real wage of workers has hardly moved from the 2008 level whilst bosses never had it so good.'

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Kerry @kerry10.bsky.social · 15h

Starmer literally doesn't give a hoot what happens to this country as long as he can be a third arm to his zionist base.

Anyone can see this country is suffering from the fallout from Brexit.
Everything has gone to shit, I mean that in a literal sense too.

The whole country should vote Green!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15h

Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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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Tharg @tjrh.uk · 1d

The fact checkers at the BBC should do their jobs.

From the US Holocaust Museum:

EARLY WARNING SIGNS OF FASCISM

Powerful and continuing nationalism
Disdain for human rights
Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
Rampant sexism
Controlled mass media
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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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Kerry @kerry10.bsky.social · 15h

If you watch anything today, please let it be this video.

It is bloody brilliant.
Thankyou🙏

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14h

Barely a squeak from the usual suspects on the free-speech right, of course, but this amounts to the most serious assault on free speech in living memory. We cannot accept a situation where hundreds of non-violent demonstrators are being arrested every weekend.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14h

It's properly unconscionable that the Home Office has created this situation. It should never have been allowed to happen and once it did happen it should have been immediately reversed.

The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 15h

🚨BREAKING: The metropolitan police
arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 22h

Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 14h

A cocktail of irony has engulfed Tommy Robinson and his latest business venture

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14h

This is how we turn our country around.

Away from the forces of hate and division.

We're going to do it together.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 15h

The Green surge continues ... We’ve just passed 90,000 members! 💚

People everywhere are joining the movement for real change.

Want hope to be normal again? Join the Green Party today ↩️

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