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We've been doing "let's scrap [benefit] to fund [promised future public service] for close to two decades now, and while we have succeeded in scrapping benefits we do not seem to have funded any more public services. And somehow we still don't have any money.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14h

Andy Burnham announces end of triple-lock on the state pension from 2030. It will be replaced by double-lock, slower growth in state pension. Full state pension is already less than 50%of the minimum wage. Poverty awaits future retirees. £500bn of taxes not collected by HMRC since 2010.

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Beefcake Dad @jeffsreturn.bsky.social · 18h

Googling Tony Blair Arms Deal to find out what the deal is with those arms

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, fuck off, #EdMiliband. The #PalestineAction ban was absolutely intended to criminalise opponents of the British government's support for the #genocide in #Palestine, "grannies" or otherwise.

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 15h

oh no no no no no they're gonna be "pragmatic" about North Sea fossil fuel assets They're gonna do Jackdaw and Rosebank the minute after the by-election against @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 15h

Please note: Burnham keeps saying "public control" when talking about watercos, not public *ownership* These are not the same thing

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Matt Holland Author Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 16h

Quants, lib dems, and Labour briefcases are so funny because they'll storm into your mentions shrieking about how wrong you are, then they'll have AI generate some incorrect figures, then they'll post a gif of someone going cross-eyed, then they'll start talking about how rude everyone is

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 17h

Burnham says he will implement Labour’s 2024 manifesto. This is what the manifesto says about the pensions Triple Lock.

Our system of state, private, and workplace pensions provide the basis for security in retirement. Labour will retain the triple lock for the state pension. We will also adopt reforms to workplace pensions to deliver better outcomes for UK savers and pensioners. Our pensions review will consider what further steps are needed to improve security in retirement, as well as to increase productive investment in the UK economy.

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Gordo! @posting.fan · 19h

living in Britain is listening to very Sensible People happily talking about how we need to reduce the benefits 'burden' in the cruelest way possible while being cheered to do it, but any suggestion that we abolish the monarchy or reduce our military budget is treated as the ideas of a rambling fool

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Count Zero @bobbynewmark.bsky.social · 18h

Its like these 'sensibles' are totally unaware we privatised everything we could so although our taxes might be less we pay much much more for utilities and essentials than most of these countries. And now the boomers want to hit younger generations (who have less private pensions) yet again

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the worst state pensions in western Europe, 2 million pensioners in poverty and increasing numbers of pensioners still paying rising rents… triple lock being removed is not a left wing position just because you don’t like rich boomers

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Spooky Moose Malloy @spooksmalloy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"You will never defeat us" is a very funny thing to say after you've just bailed everyone who was involved in whatever the fuck this was

All five men arrested in RAF base plot are British nationals
The five men who were arrested and subsequently released on bail are all British citizens, home secretary Shabana Mahmood has just told the Labour party conference.

She adds that the scene is “now safe” and the residents living near to the RAF base are now able to return home.

“Let this be a reminder: you will never defeat us,” he says.

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Joe @joeuk80.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pensions are tiny here. 4.7% of gdp when they're 12%+ in other western European nations and this ghoul is happy pensioners are going to struggle on for below minimum wage.

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gav @gavinmit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'i once got the president of the united states to congratulate us on the arrest of some doggers we found in a lane in gloucestershire'

bob mortimer reading a prompt card on would i lie to you?

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

you all complain about the male loneliness epidemic but when a group of 20-something lads just want to do some harmless camping, we see your true colours come out don't we

RAF Fairford suspects are all British men in their 20s, counter-terror police say

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Miliband: "To the millions in this country.. who have been moved & outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people, we hear you. You were right" So scrap the proscription of Palestine Action. End all arms exports to Israel. Impose sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sing along at the chorus, kids: they are building a permission structure, and this is no more a moral crusade than the Big Society was.

Josh Glancy @joshglancy
X.com
Alan Milburn and Pat McFadden are creating a permission structure for Labour to make welfare cuts. When the time comes, they must take it, or watch Farage/the Tories do it their way

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wes Streeting: "We know that Iran.. wish to do us harm" We are allowing US planes to take off from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire to bomb Iran as part of an illegal war. I'd say that was more than just wishing them harm, wouldn't you?

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is only happening because of the Holborn & St Pancras byelection. Burnham will announce Heathrow expansion the day after polling day.

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Burnham dodges questions on Heathrow third runway as project faces four-year delay

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Second Toughest in the Infants @rbaskott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I guess the narrative will be that bombs are only good if the state deploys them? On defenseless foreign people. Rather than equipment employed specifically for this purpose. All signed off by Trump. Thank you for your attention on this matter.

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue. The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.

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John Berry he/him @thejohnberry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As long as Clive Lewis is still whipped by Labour he needs to stop performatively pretending he's the good guy. He's complicit as are all Labour members and voters.

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An Gé Mhór | Великий Гусак @derk-mcguirk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When the Israeli press conference came around, they refused to answer any non-football related questions, after their press spent the whole Irish press conference talking about Hamas and Ireland playing the Nazis in the 1930s. A farcical shitshow.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

once again the actual "story" behind Tilly Norwood is how the company's PR firm continues to get these stories placed in ostensibly legit outlets over and over despite zero demonstration of the supposed phenomenon being written about ("AI movie star Tilly Norwood") being real

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

3 years in and the bbc is still pulling this nonsense for them, hamas attacks israel and kills a definite number of people but israel doesn't attack palestine, it launches an offensive in it it doesn't kill people, but people may be killed during it how many? a subject for debate

The armed Palestinian group Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.

In response, Israel launched a massive military offensive in Gaza, during which more than 73,000 people have been killed, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations (UN).

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Counterpoint - it created exactly the kind of economy it was supposed to, and the kind of economy that western economists demonstrably prefer their rival states to have, but they were doing what's known as "lying about it."

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In 2021, income tax personal allowance was frozen at £12,570. If aligned with inflation, it would now be £16,070. A minimum wage earner in England will pay extra £980 in income tax & NIC in 2026-27. Govt can easily increase personal allowance by £3,000, worth £600 to basic rate taxpayer.

leftfootforward.org

This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship

Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 26/09/2026

damn, sounds like their strategy of being a mouthpiece for bigots and actively facilitating a more hostile environment for marginalised people didn’t pay off

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

we don't have a welfare budget problem in the uk. that has been made up wholesale by our political and news media class in order to justify policies of eugenics. we spend the same percentage of gdp on welfare as we did in the 1980s.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The BBC has long given up even pretending to be interested in who these people are, why they are coming or how they might feel, in favour of acting as a kind of shop window for the parties to display their wares of violence and cruelty

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Most migrant small boat arrivals in single day of 2026

A total of 781 migrants arrive on Wednesday, but the yearly total is below the same point in 2025.

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Count Zero @bobbynewmark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"If it reforms" so it's not 100% perfect- completely fine when their messiah says it tho...

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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did you know that the United States officially withdrew from the Human Rights Council last Friday. The day after a UN group accused the Administration of multiple war crimes in Iran. Seems like something shithole countries do.

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Green Elects @greenelects.world · 25/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: Greens have gained Queen's Park in Brighton from Labour. Congratulations to Mark Strong, who is the new councillor. With a huge swing from the 2023 city election (+28). This seat was also gained by the Greens from Labour in the 2024 by-election.

Bar chart of Queen’s Park (Brighton) election results: Green leads with 50.13%, Labour 35.3%, Reform 7.04%, Conservatives 4.2%, and Lib Dems 3.2%. Green gain from Labour.

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Count Zero @bobbynewmark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Of all the heatwaves this year this is my favourite

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Surely the single motivating factor for an election is: Between Rachel Reeves backloading the worst news and the world economy going to hell, they surely know this is the high water mark? Nobody knows better than they do that they have nothing anyone will like or want. It’s all downhill from here.

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Will Burnham call a snap election?
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Labour officials in Downing Street and beyond have discussed the parameters in which a snap election could be called. Will Andy Burnham
take the gamble? As speculation about the idea grips Westminster, host Lucy Fisher is joined by political editor George Parker and deputy political editor Jim Pickard to weigh up the risks and rewards of going to the public early. They also look ahead to the Labour Party conference in Liverpool starting this weekend, and the troubles that lie ahead for UK-EU relations. Plus George reports back from Burnham's first major international summit at the UN general assembly in New York, where the prime minister weathered his first encounter with Donald Trump.
Follow Lucy on X or Bluesky @LOS_Fisher,

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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Been saying this will happen for years. What - tax free zone application next, as it lies within Plymouth Freeport ? And the transportation will inevitably mean an even greater stream of lorries through Plympton to either go to the A38 or to the wharves. So that the US benefits most?

plymouthherald.co.uk

Plymouth's tungsten mine signs £1.4bn deal with US company

'This is a landmark commercial agreement'

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Juxtaposition is an act or instance of placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect

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SAS chief: Army witch hunts put Britain at risk

SAS are not the heroes they think they are, says whistleblower
Monica Grenfell, who worked at the elite regiment’s Herefordshire HQ for three years, claims soldiers were ‘feral’ and that ‘nasty characters ruled the roost’

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Kevin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺💚 CURRENTLY INACTIVE @kevbro1969.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Horrific, but the #FarRight morons will be completely silent on this, because the little shit who attacked her was white. He deserved a much longer sentence than the mere 'slap on the wrist' he got, & we ALL know, if the attacker was a person of colour, then he'd have had a MUCH harsher sentence.

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Thembo @thembo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"He'll move Left once he's in office" yeah lol the rich guy who no longer needs anything from you will suddenly bravely pursue stuff he doesnt care about now that he's in the club. For sure. You must be good at poker

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The Rt Hon Jess Phillips MP @supermickychow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Danny Tommo has been charged with criminal damage and that is all Why? Because informants/state assets need to remain free to be useful

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Count Zero @bobbynewmark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the more people see of Andy Burnhams actions (not words) the less they will like him and centerists are baffled by this but the strategists know

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Knesset barred today the only two Palestinian led parties from running in the coming election. According to an overwhelming majority in the Knesset, the constitutional meaning of a Jewish State is a state where Palestinian citizens cannot run for parliament.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This makes no sense unless you understand that they mean “investigation into the war crimes against civilians that their guys committed in Afghanistan”.

The Times and Sunday Times • • 8h Two former special forces officers say recruits are being put off by a 'sustained public assault' on the regiment's operations and ethos

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OnlyFranz @protopigeon.lol · 23/09/2026

Stop paying the BBC licence fee FFS!

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Mariana Z @mariana057.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I just bought a crappy car that was made in Prague. The Czech engine light keeps coming on.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent

Usually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025.

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Adrian Randall @anidealhusbando.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I hope the midterms go well, but it won’t be because U.S. voters have suddenly rejected fascism. It’ll be because the car juice is too expensive.

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