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Black Dog

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We are being massively manipulated by politicians and the media. We must not allow them to get away with it! If there is any doubt, there is no doubt. Follow me if you agree.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The UK state pension, worst in the world.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
What is it that people expect from deporting people? Because it won't lower House prices or rents. And it won't make food or energy cheaper. There won't be more jobs and they certainly won't pay better. At what point do you realise it is going to achieve nothing?
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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
@bradfordtanda.bsky.social ✉️says #Labour may finally confront #Farage & #ReformUK over #BrexitShambles. Will blame for #economy harm 📉& #Reeves’ 👛Budget tax rises. But what are #Starmer & #Labour really doing re #BrexitReality — and is it enough? 🤔 @labour4europe.bsky.social #RejoinEU #UKpolitics
This letter appared in the Telegraph & Argus (Bradford) on 17 October 2025. The correspondent welcomes reports UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his Labour Government will be more forthright in future about the harm the harm leaving the European Union has done, and the role in the Brexit damage of Nigel Farage and his Reform UK.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
In other news, Kemi Badenoch's party has taken at least £7 million in donations from funders and directors of climate change denial lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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Atti 17.11 @atti1711.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
@atti1711.bsky.social @journeyled1.bsky.social @hopeful66.bsky.social @blueresister.bsky.social @filosia.bsky.social @sassysister27.bsky.social @pattyger.bsky.social @tammyjo408.bsky.social @fireeyebooks.bsky.social @arlie.bsky.social @dcombes.bsky.social @merlinmm.bsky.social @6j1.bsky.social
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Please RT this so Donald Trump sees.
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Reform have become the Temu of UK politics - always, there, always annoying & cheap as shit.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
If we can't afford billionaires we shouldn't have them. Don't you agree? When the basics of Housing, Energy, Water and Healthcare don't function we shouldn't have super rich people. Let them pay for that before they pointlessly hoard wealth they will never spend.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 01/09/2025
I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Douglas Carswell has skirted the line and now he's crossed it. This is disgusting racism from a former MP who now demonstrates who and what he is.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Today Nick Ferrari asked if treaties like the ECHR & the Refugee Convention that were drawn up in the wake of WWII are still relevant to modern Britain. I said the context of racial hatred towards Muslim immigrants now echoes the hatred of Jewish immigrants in the 20th century. We need these laws.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
There can be absolutely no “shock” about this. The media has been shamelessly platforming Reform all summer. All summer, we’ve had hate-mongering headlines about immigration. It’s a tedious and grim inevitability that you’ve made people angry enough to want to vote for this shit in response.
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Reform takes a shock 15-point lead over Labour as Farage dreams of taking power
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» Record lead for Farage's party in poll for The i Paper puts Reform UK on course for huge election win
» Polling is described as 'catastrophic for Labour which is struggling to deal with voters' immigration concerns
» Reform more trusted to resolve the small boats issue
» Government wins legal challenge on asylum hotel but is accused of putting migrants ahead of Britons
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Not sure whether all the media coverage of these flag waving "just a concerned mum/dad"s outside asylum hotels is really helping matters tbh unless of course your aim as a media organisation is to whip up more societal division so as to distract from anything that's really.. Oh.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
If Angela Rayner lived in a cardboard box, the Telegraph would claim she nicked it.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Are you ready to hand more than £1,000bn to England's privatised water companies by 2050? Shareholders don't invest. Money will be extracted from customers, shareholders will own the resulting assets and income streams and collect dividends. Public ownership is the only sane way.
leftfootforward.org
Public ownership is the only way to save the water industry
Public ownership is the only viable alternative but is opposed by the government
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jojomo0.bsky.social @jojomo0.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Thank you, @yorkshirebylines.co.uk You are one of the best. Such an interesting read.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 26/07/2025
The CEO of Scottish Water has a salary of £246,000/yr. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Water chiefs’ pay rises to average of £1.1m despite ban on bonuses and outrage over pollution
Total remuneration at companies in England and Wales – many of them under scrutiny for sewage discharge – was £15m in 2024-25
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Rowdy Rebel @rowdyrebel.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Rachel Reeves considers overruling supreme court in £44bn car finance scandal. Ultimate Deregulation: Law may be bent to prevent compensation to millions, protect banks from their follies. A licence to misbehave. Any chance of laws to cap bankers' bonuses, higher taxes? NO. It is one-way traffic
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Rachel Reeves considers overruling supreme court in £44bn car finance scandal
Exclusive: Chancellor could step in if justices uphold entirety of ruling over commission paid to brokers
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Grahame Lucas @grahamelucas.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
This is the result of the UK’s trajectory since Thatcher: How Britain privatised itself into failure. Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
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How Britain privatised itself into failure
Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
How Britain privatised itself into failure Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
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How Britain privatised itself into failure
Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Extraordinary how much of the media is essentially trying to incite rioting now. Not just legitimise or normalise but actively encourage. It is, of course, unlikely to kick off anywhere near them.
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Grahame Lucas @grahamelucas.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
How dire is our situation? It’s worse than you thought. People are disappointed by this government. But the financial situation is much worse than most people realise. Does government dare tell us? eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/eco...
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How dire is our situation? It’s worse than you thought
People are disappointed by this government. But the financial situation is much worse than most people realise. Does government dare tell us?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The solution is really simple, don't pay the billionaires, cut off their money. Then there will be loads of money for everything.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 24/07/2025
Today is World Overshoot Day. A majority of Brits are worried about climate change. But do you know who’s running away from the problem? Reform UK. They are ignoring science and delaying action. Help us stop misinformation by becoming a supporter: www.bestforbritain.org/fight-climat... Part 2 ⬇️
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 23/07/2025
BREAKING: We just subpoenaed the Epstein files. As a survivor of sexual assault, I know the pain & trauma survivors carry. This subpoena is a massive victory for every survivor who has ever been silenced, dismissed, or harmed. Bondi must release the files immediately. We demand accountability.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Goldman Sachs boss wants more deregulation, tax cuts for the rich Post-2008 crash bank reforms being reversed. Govts bail out banks, guarantee their profits (PFI); tax capital gains, dividends, private equity bosses at lower rates than wages; rarely prosecute bankers for abuses. They want more.
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Goldman Sachs boss sounds warning to Reeves on tax and regulation
David Solomon tells Sky's Wilfred Frost what the UK needs to change if it wants financial services to thrive, helping tax receipts and the economy in the process.
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Fair Political Coverage - we want to hear from ALL our parties @fairpoliticsnow.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
We’re over 5k sigs now. If you want to hear all our parties and not just have the GE framed four years out by constant over platforming of one party, then make sure you sign this petition. Democracy is at stake. Pass it on. We need to get to 10k by sept 13th. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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Petition: Ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all times
We want to ensure that a plurality of views from all political parties in Westminster are represented and the nations parliaments are heard all year round, not just election times. The rules for cover...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
“I am an immigrant.” “Get the hell out.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social triggered this Jubilee participant so hard that his racism jumped right out onto the table.
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Why would the proud Welsh vote for an English Nationalist Party like Reform? It doesn’t make sense to me.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 21/07/2025
The fact that the President of the United States posts a fake video of a kneeling Barack Obama being handcuffed and we’re supposed to pretend it’s perfectly normal, everyday stuff shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Doubling of Southern Water boss pay 'outrageous', says Minister. Fake rage PR. Govts have done nothing to check rewards for failure. SW has 119 criminal convictions, dumps sewage, leaks unplugged, customers fleeced, bosses rewarded. Fake rage is no substitute for action.
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Southern Water boss pay rise 'outrageous', says environment secretary
Southern Water's Lawrence Gosden was awarded an extra £691,000 as part of a long-term incentive plan.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
'Government has lost control of this industry' Campaigner Feargal Sharkey spoke to #BBC after the publication of a major report into the water industry in England and Wales including replacing the water regulator Ofwat and introducing mandatory water meters
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 21/07/2025
Michael Gove trying to justify not being tough on Water Companies because it would deter investment in the UK. In other words, Govey-Wovey wants a UK where corporate pirates can invest their cash, trash the country to maximise gains, and get away Scott-free. So, no change there then.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This would handicap The RepubliKKKans and Chump from Buying Elections,that is,If We Have Any More......
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
HuffPost UK: MP Gives Voters An Important Reminder About Nigel Farage's Brexit Past www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/mp-giv...
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MP Gives Voters An Important Reminder About Nigel Farage's Brexit Past
Stephen Flynn said leaving the EU has left Britain "smaller and poorer" and one man is to blame.
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Water privatisation has been a complete & utter failure. It is absurd that the government's report into the water industry didn't even consider public ownership. That's not a report. That's a political broadcast for the private sector. Put water back into public hands, now.
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alechitchman.bsky.social @alechitchman.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
BBC pre reporting Nigel Frauds speech so he doesn't have to explain it. Because he can't. Do they pre report Ed Davey speeches, or just their pet politician? #r4today #wato
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Black Dog @blackdoggo.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The film "Don't look up" was not a parody. It was a prediction of how governments work! When the earth is burning, the rich will be asking "What more could we have done?" and "Why didn't we do it?" We are heading for disaster but we still argue about trivialities. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 21/07/2025
Farage's announcement on crime, full of unverifiable anecdotes and dubious claims, is a lesson in populism. Who DOESN'T want crime lowered? The only question is how you get there. You certainly don't get there via uncosted, unworkable, back-of-a-fag-packet policies. ~AA 1/4 🧵
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Corporate Welfare. UK govts subsidise gas, oil, wind, solar, coal, biomass companies with cash and/or tax breaks. Free cash. No means testing. No equity stake, nothing repayable. Since 2020, 20 energy companies made operating profit of £514bn, shareholders enriched. We get big energy/tax bills.
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Corporate vs human welfare: The story of Drax
There is no means-testing for corporate welfare payments.
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John Addy 🌹 @johnaddy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The adage. 'Never let the perfect get in the way of the good' is still relevant Are Labour perfect? Of course not. Has any previous government ever been? But Labour, defined by its policies, is in pursuit of the good Armchair critics abound, none of them perfect, few of them good
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 30/06/2025
"Reform UK councillor Amanda Clare has been charged with assault and criminal damage after an incident at a Pride event... Police/CPS remind everyone there should be no commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice proceedings." ~AA www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform's Amanda Clare charged with assault and criminal damage - BBC News
The councillor has been charged in connection with an incident at a Pride event, police said.
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Fire Brigades Union @fbunational.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
As another heatwave hits parts of the UK, firefighters are on high alert. Wildfires are on the rise, but the fire and rescue service has been cut to the bone. The government must tax the oil and gas companies driving the climate emergency - and fund our public services.
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