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Dave @addicted2strava.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Emma Willis guiding her little friend through the process.

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The real two-tier justice no party wants to abolish ... There are more benefit inspectors chasing claimants stealing a pittance than HMRC tax inspectors chasing super-rich fraudsters & tax dodgers living a life of luxury on their criminal loot worth £millions meme via The UK Against Hate

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Dave @addicted2strava.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Perhaps although the very rich have always been able to pay they way out of their liabilities. That needs dealing with. The biggest hole in the tax gap is small businesses and self employed.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Don't confuse "wealth" with "super-wealth". The wealthy already pay their fair share because their wealth generally comes from earnings. But the super-wealthy pay nothing because they earn very little on paper. They instead make money with their money — which isn't taxed because we only tax earnings

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Dave @addicted2strava.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The HMRC has all but lost it's presence. Example. On the early 1990s, Hull had *four tax offices *Customs & excise *Valuation *Collectors It now has zero. Nada. Nowt. All those investigations gone. All that guidance to small businesses gone. All those settlements with none payers gone.

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Dave @addicted2strava.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Breaking those cycles that keep people in their worlds is the dull dirty work that doesn't win elections. Poverty, mental health, addiction, missed education and homelessness all feed each other. Fixing just one or two of these will improve millions of lives

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Dave @addicted2strava.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

From HMRC "the tax gap from small businesses is the largest component of the tax gap by customer group with a 62% share in 2024 to 2025; the tax gap from individuals makes up the lowest proportion of the tax gap at 4% in 2024 to 2025"

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Dave @addicted2strava.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yes. The big avoiders need dealing with but actually, the real big money is from low level avoidance by small business /selfemployed. The old Inland Revenue had multiple offices in every small town and city. Customs were also inost cities. They all had investigators. It's all gone.

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Brizo75 @brizo75.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Watched all the vox pops in this English surrealist nightmare of a town yesterday...every single one complaining about "fighting age men" being allowed so close to their village...not one journalist asked: "Wasnt it a military base before?" This cake tent rebellion is just racism, pure and simple.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What neoliberalism did to the UK. 25.3m people, including 14.9m working adults and 7.7m children, live below minimum income standard. Richest 1% has more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 families hold more wealth than 34m people. Can't grow economy on mass poverty.

leftfootforward.org

Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Reform UK Ltd : "Counter Terror Police won’t let Farage on stage" West Midlands Police : "We can confirm that Counter Terrorism Policing have had no involvement" www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...

17:03 4 September

Chris Mason
Political editor

"Counter terror won’t let him on stage yet” a senior Reform figure says, explaining the delay in Nigel Farage’s speech at the Reform UK conference.

20:08 4 September

Jack Fenwick
Political correspondent

West Midlands Police say the decision to delay Nigel Farage's conference speech "was made by Reform UK".

A senior Reform figure earlier told the BBC that Farage's speech was delayed because "counter terror won't let him on stage yet".

But West Midlands Police say: "We can confirm that Counter Terrorism Policing have had no involvement in the delivery of the Reform UK Party Conference 2026."

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Dave @addicted2strava.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Even Farridge knows that ultimately the British people mocked Moseley's silly little uniformed foray into fascism. As much as he needs their votes, he knows his only chance of not disappearing into a footnote is to try and appear respectable.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

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Dave @addicted2strava.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We all know these people. They drive the political narrative against the young, the disabled, trans, unemployed , vulnerable and anyone not from their street. This pandering to them has to stop. This sort of footage should be used to expose their type and embarrass anyone like it.

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The original beardy Bill⚓️ @beardybill1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Obviously doesn't need the crutch for mobility, given how agile he appears to be when using it as a weapon. I hope DWP are checking if he has any disability benefits

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Tony @antonyillahiwarren.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

His name is Stephen Cooling and he is from Sutton Coldfield Reform.

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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If no other picture survives Reform UK conference this year, let it be this one. It is a teachable moment. #ReformAssault #Fascism

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Chris @oakymoron.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

So it is OK to be violent then The Reform frontbencher adds: "She is a far-left protester, goes into a party conference, tries to wreck the leader's speech, and cries foul if a pensioner knocks her over the head with their Zimmer frame. "I mean, come on, get a life. news.sky.com/story/politi...

news.sky.com

Politics latest: Jenrick defends Reform colleague accused of 'straightforward racism' by cabinet minister

The business secretary has condemned masked protests at Dover, speaking on our new Sunday Morning show - and also accused Reform's Zia Yusuf of racism. Robert Jenrick has defended Yusuf - and told a p...

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Dave @addicted2strava.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If the press and all other parties get properly on board with Reform's response to this, it could be very damaging. I'll wait.

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The Lady Lucy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇬🇱🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐾🐕 @lucyarnold.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

1) she hasn't cried foul, she has yet to go to the police despite the police asking her to 2) are we saying that violence against women by men is acceptable if they say something loudly that men dont want to hear, not very "protect women and girls" that!

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Matthew Wright @matthew-wright.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What an amusing weekend: Farage on the ropes, Reform ⬇️ in the polls and universal condemnation of masked men in black clobber holding Dover to siege. Not a bad turn of events. Have a lovely rest of Sunday - Cassady’s last day b4 skool and I’m beyond sad our holiday time is nearly over xx

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Dave @addicted2strava.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I am waiting for Reform to offer policies to deport all violent offenders against women and remove all benefits (including pensions) from nasty angry boomers

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Reform UK Conference 2026 This is all it will be remembered for.

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Dave @addicted2strava.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hopefully their support will rapidly be distilled to the real hard core nasty types that can be easily locked into obscurity. The facade of respectability is the real danger.

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Gareth Bouch @garethbouch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A shame that Laura K decided not to discuss these violent assaults on women with Farage this morning - nor his laughing at them and joking about them.

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Dave @addicted2strava.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And don't forget the Boomer PIP-stick man being caught on camera hitting a young female protester on the head while Farage laughs. They're going down.

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Dave @addicted2strava.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

They don't have enough MPs to raise a football team, their leader isn't even an MP and there are fewer of them NOT under investigation for some sort of shady behaviour. Why are the MSM allowing them to promote this obvious distraction technique as of they are actually in power?

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Business Rate avoidance is rarely reported in MSM. Here is one scheme declared unlawful by the Courts. Its promoters claim it resulted in loss of £500m revenue to local councils. It involves shuffling boxes with redundant contents in unoccupied properties. The enablers face no penalties.

localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

City of London wins appeal over business rates scheme that costs it £35m a year in lost revenue

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Dave @addicted2strava.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

There should be no private children's homes. That's it.

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Dave @addicted2strava.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Which leads to further issues of quality but paying informal carers would be a start. Perhaps there should be a policy of not paying agencies who cream off the top.

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Dave @addicted2strava.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Why has a system been allowed to develop that even has a limit? If carers care for 37 hours, why aren't they paid for 37 hours?

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Dave @addicted2strava.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Or. Why would a private citizen not in politics, need security.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Why is no one pointing out the contradiction between the two Reform excuses: 1. That he was no longer in politics when he took the gift, and 2. That it was for his security as a high profile politician?

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃 🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 10/05/2026

Actually sick pay rules HAVE changed recently. To the benefit of workers. Not that you’d know that because it’s hasn’t really been reported. Strange.

Statutory Sick Pay
Changes
Statutory Sick Pay is now payable from the first full day of sickness absence and is available to more employees. This change was introduced on 6 April 2026.
Key changes
• Statutory Sick Pay is available to all eligible employees regardless of their earnings (the Lower Earnings Limit has been removed).
• Statutory Sick Pay is payable from the first full day of sickness absence (the three-day waiting period has been removed).
• The rate of Statutory Sick Pay for all employees is calculated at 80% of their average weekly earnings or the flat weekly rate, whichever is lower.

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 07/05/2026

Anyone voting today should remember that both the Tories & Deform UK Ltd wanted Britain to join in King Donald the Mad's pointless attack on Iran, at Netanyahu's behest. You can also bet our troops would have been in the thick of it, and most of the undisclosed casualties wouldn't be American.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Reinstate windfall tax on banks after surge in profits, TUC urges. Banks will make bigger profits from interest rate hikes, without any additional effort. Claw them back. Energy companies are profiteering too, and must pay windfall taxes.

theguardian.com

Reinstate windfall tax on banks after surge in profits, TUC urges

Unions group wants rate returned from 3% to 8% after big four UK lenders reveal £14bn total profit in first quarter

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

UK's shadow workforce is paid as little as 65p an hour. Who cares for the carers? 6m unpaid carers provide vital support to sick, disabled, old. 1.4m receive Carer's Allowance of £86.45 a week. More likely to be prosecuted for tiny errors in claims. Govts don't value humanity.

theguardian.com

Britain's shadow workforce is paid as little as 65p an hour. Who cares for the carers? | Frances Ryan

Carer’s allowance turns 50 this year, but it’s no reflection of the labour of the millions who cook, clean and nurse behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Somefella @somefella1.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Anyone who votes for Farage should be rounded up and put in education

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Yup. Absolutely insane and criminal that we are still dependent on fossil fuels. Future historians will scratch their heads and wonder what the hell everyone was thinking... And then just conclude that rich people were happy to get richer... and knew that dumb people would go along with it.

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Dave @addicted2strava.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

That's how most people look first thing in the morning. Not everyone has the luxury of a home with stables and an hour or two to come round before inflicting themselves on the community

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

One of my fave community notes to date…

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