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Carole @carole74.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
@tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social Can you tell us did you vote for the removal of juries? You see MPs who did have have broken the contract with their constituents. Party took precedence. The 3rd duty being the 1st duty. The 1st duty becomes the 2nd duty. The 2nd duty becomes the 3rd duty.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Are we all modern monetary theorists when the chips are down? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03...
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Are we all modern monetary theorists when the chips are down?
I noted this in an email last night. You can see the source: A number of thoughts follow. First, who is questioning the value of government now? Second, who is asking where the money is coming fr...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
BREAKING: “Initially Keir Starmer said that we refused a request from the Americans to use our military bases to launch strikes on Iran. That’s now changed” Sky’s Sophy Ridge asks Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper “why?”
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
52,000+ patients waited longer than 24 hours to be admitted to hospitals across north-west England. Many wait for up to 3 days. Govt doesn't publish full data Tory austerity, NHS neglect, refusal to tax the rich inflicts misery. And it continues. The NHS needs more capacity, not privatisation.
bbc.co.uk
Thousands of patients waiting over 24 hours in A&E 'corridor care'
Known as
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
UK allows US to use bases to strike Iranian missile sites. UK getting sucked into illegal US war. No UN mandate for regime change. The powerful running amok. What if Russia copies the US and murders Ukrainian president? There will be turmoil for generations. And Trump wants Nobel Peace Prize.
bbc.co.uk
UK will allow US to use bases to strike Iranian missile sites, says Starmer
The prime minister says it remains the case that the UK will
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
No, Shabana Mahmood, people seeing failing state support and crumbing infrastructure don't have either legitimate concerns or a legitimate grievance against immigrants, refugees or asylum seekers. They have a legitimate grievance against governments.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
We, three trees, of Anglia are…
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Zone Fever Is Creating Future Victims Who Don't Know They're Victims Yet. We are witnessing a national reconfiguration of UK critical infrastructure: a country carved up into corporate-governed patchworks of feudal territories and tax havens. open.substack.com/pub/european...
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Zone Fever Is Creating Future Victims Who Don't Know They're Victims Yet.
Zone Fever Is The Corporate Coup Britain Isn’t Talking About
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Carole @carole74.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
SERIOUS: NEED A JOURNALIST TO WRITE AN ARTICLE FROM INFO RECEIVED ON THE SMART METER/RTS cock up that Starmer's govt have created that is affecting millions of people in England.
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Carole @carole74.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Reject plans for a mandatory BritCard (digital ID)
Sir Keir Starmer is considering a mandatory digital ID scheme called “BritCard” that would make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives. Mandatory digital IDs give the state enor...
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Nick Newman @ncwnick.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
It appears , listening to Starmer, that he has lost the ability to even deliver coherent meaningful sentences (let alone policies) … he opens his mouth and a jumbled word salad falls out 🤦‍♂️
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
"Since April 2023 Sewage Watch has been keeping a running log of press coverage on the state of sewage dumping into our rivers and onto our beaches - Updated May 2025"
westenglandbylines.co.uk
Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches
Since April 2023 Sewage Watch has been keeping a running log of press coverage on the state of sewage dumping into our rivers and onto our beaches - Updated May 2025
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
UK energy bills forecast to rise 5% from April. Add to this inflation-busting rises in water, phone, internet and more., people feel helpless. Can't grow economy with depleted household incomes. Must curb profiteering, impose windfall taxes. Ofgem protects companies, not people.
theguardian.com
Energy bills in Great Britain forecast to rise by 5% from April
Households face greater than expected rise in Ofgem price cap after Europe’s gas storage levels slump, analysts say
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Life expectancy growth stalls across Europe as England sees sharpest decline. Inequalities; poverty; poor access to good food, housing, healthcare, dentists; junk food take toll. Austerity kills. Govts obsessed with it. Redistribution is off the political agenda.
theguardian.com
Life expectancy growth stalls across Europe as England sees sharpest decline, say researchers
Poor diet, obesity and inactivity blamed on decline with Norway the only country seeing a rise
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Carole @carole74.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Starmer and Reeves definition of private sector growth is unsustainable, what they are relentlessly preaching is all about enhancing the financial growth of a few Tech entrepreneurs, the banks and private equity/venture capital, and not better wages for real people. m.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Yo...
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Labour’s plans for private sector growth could just as easily deliver a recession
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Carole @carole74.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Where is she an MP for? Can't find her name anywhere in any constituency.
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Carole @carole74.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Dartmoor to become a Lithium mine you wait and see. see @EuropeanPowell
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Carole @carole74.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
resulting for the people living within their 75 Km radius, becoming the property of CEO's with the removal of your RIGHTS as well as these CORPORATIONS BEING ABLE TO COMPULSORILY PURCHASE YOUR PROPERTY, HOUSE & LAND AT A PRICE OF THEIR CHOOSING.
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Carole @carole74.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
to companies such as Blackrock, DP WORLD owners of P&O as well as Blackstone, Deloitte, Amazon, Meta, Apple, Exxon Mobil, BP, Uber, Babcock, PEEL GROUP, OTTER PORTS LTS & MacQuarie all unregulated, no taxes to pay for 10 years, 25 year leases creating 100% privatised fiefdoms for those companies.
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Carole @carole74.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Starmer is stealing the land from under our feet, hence why district councils and parish councils are to be abolished makes it so much easier for counties to become corporation owned, (without our consent) at a cost to TAXPAYERS of £11 BILLION 840 MILLION
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Carole @carole74.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
16th December 2024 it is announced that it is Starmer's intention to cancel council elections in May 2025. 17th December 2024 Women denied their pension for 5 years will not receive compensation. Starmer knew that it was going to be announced with the loss of 3.6 Million women votes.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
'I didn't judge it would be the best use of taxpayers money to pay an expensive compensation bill for something most people knew was happening' Chancellor Rachel Reeves defends the governments decision not to compensate more than 3.5 million WASPI women affected by increase in state pension age
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Dr Sandeep Bansal @idrsunny.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I hope the public do the right thing As for me - I’m absolutely drained from the duplicitous nature of gov and various NHS bodies and the corrupt nature of it all that we’ve witnessed The sheer disdain for society leaders are showing (3/4)
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Carole @carole74.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
@idrsunny.bsky.social Found you.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 15/12/2024
The CEO of the Tees Valley Combined Authority, Julie Gilhespie, has ‘resigned’. In one fell swoop, tactical genius Ben Houchen, in a bid to stave off a ‘Best Value Notice’, has offered a sacrificial lamb to Angela Rayner | Ray Casey
northeastbylines.co.uk
Captain Houchen’s faithful lieutenant makes for the lifeboat: deckchairs being re-arranged
A few questions at TVCA and Teesworks
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I wish more people would pay attention to this.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
UK 'doesn't have enough builders' for Labour's 1.5m homes. Successive govts neglected the provision of skilled labour. Even if new homes are built, majority of people can't afford to buy. No govt plan to increase real wages, curb profiteering by housebuilders. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK 'doesn't have enough builders' for Labour's 1.5m homes
Builders and developers say reforms are needed to recruit more tradespeople to build the homes being promised.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
UK Labour govt to continue Tory policy - a planning ‘free-for-all’ allowing developers to convert office blocks into flats without planning control. New slums for the poor - Flats measuring 12ft x 12ft), poor ventilation, thin walls, lack of amenities. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
theguardian.com
Labour condemned for allowing ‘new generation of slum homes’ in England
Government accused of permitting a planning ‘free-for-all’ by allowing developers to convert office blocks into flats without the usual controls
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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
A Redwing takes a bath before going to roost. There are many birds waiting to use the pool, so it's a short energetic dip before roosting in the nearby willow scrub. #redwing #ukwildlife #ukbirds #wildlifegardening
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Political funding from the rich & corporations is bribery to access policymakers, restrict public choices; enrich a few, harm many. Must be banned and criminalized. Political parties preach competition. Let them do so, attract members, raise money. eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/fig...
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Fight back against fascism: how big money is threatening democracy
Fascism thrives when democracy falters. From funding Reform to vigilance, here’s how we protect our future
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
BREAKING: The UK Government says it will provide £50m in international aid to help vulnerable Syrians "in their hour of need"
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
CPTPP membership is going to be so “amazing” that Rishi Sunak’s government predicted it would grow the economy by a tiny 0.08% (it later emerged that even that may be an overestimate) and that was after 15 years of membership! Contrast 4% loss of GDP due to Brexit youtu.be/FR4m8rop98E?...
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Kemi Badenoch says post Brexit CPTPP membership she negotiated is “amazing” - hold onto your seats!
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
It’s being reported tonight that Reform’s Treasurer Nick Candy is planning to visit America to meet Elon Musk after reports he could donate £100m to the party. The meeting could apparently come within days. We need to make BlueSky the biggest social media platform on the planet
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Carole @carole74.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
SHE IS NOT A POLITICIAN.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Kemi Badenoch tells viewers today that only the Conservatives can be trusted to negotiate trade deals which protect our farmers…so let’s take a look at those New Zealand and Australia deals they struck
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Carole @carole74.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
@bbarbs1.bsky.social You'll have to see the address on the other site as not able to paste onto this one for some reason.
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Carole @carole74.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
@bbarbs1.bsky.social Found you on this as well.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 08/12/2024
Over 140,000 children live in sub-standard accommodation, enduring mould, bug infestations, and inadequate washing and cooking facilities | Ginny Foster (July 2024] @ginnyfos.bsky.social @sussexbylines.bsky.social 3./🧵
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The scandal of hidden homelessness
Over 140,000 children live in sub-standard accommodation, enduring mould, bug infestations, and inadequate washing and cooking facilities
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The UK House of Lords was packed today with Tory peers as the Bill to abolish hereditary peerages is debated. They oppose change. Never saw so many when poverty, homelessness debated We need an elected second chamber, but it must not be a clone of the Commons or use First-Past-The-Post system.
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Dr Priest @pennypriest.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Feargal Sharkey reckons we should all be out protesting on the streets. I agree with him.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
’ turns dark, and the Sky turns Blue The move from X to Bluesky – a lesson on how progressives can take back control yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/x-t...
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
'X' turns dark, and the Sky turns Blue
The move from X to Bluesky – a lesson on how progressives can take back control
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Carole @carole74.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
No cases will be brought until at least 2027 so once again early warning for the corrupt individuals involved being given plenty of time to pack their bags, transfer their dosh and leave the country.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Police investigating crimes linked to the Post Office Horizon IT scandal looking at "dozens" of potential suspects Don't expect trials until 2027. Issues first raised 30 yrs ago How many big-wigs will say they are too old/fragile, have selective amnesia to escape trial? www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Post Office Horizon scandal: No Trials before 2027, say police
Criminal trials aren't expected to begin until 2027, almost 30 years after concerns were first raised.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
From 1 year ago WHO confirms England’s tap water can give you cancer. Shut down the water companies, heavily fine them, issue prison sentences to CEOs. Put water utilities back in public ownership. ‘Forever chemical’ in English tap water samples carcinogenic' www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘Forever chemical’ in English tap water samples carcinogenic, WHO rules
Exclusive: Decision to categorise PFOA as linked to cancer in humans by World Health Organization increases pressure on UK government
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The two-party system has been bought by the most malign, criminally corrupt corporations in the world, capitalism without democracy, no one is paying attention to what happens next, these companies will take advantage of 86 free zones currently being installed across the UK. bsky.app/profile/euro...
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Anyone who says Sunak and Starmer’s 74 deregulated SEZs and 12 Freeports are not the result of Brexit is lying to you. The quintessential reason for resurrecting them was to exit the EUs rules on State aid and a whole raft of regulations that corporations despise. Why? 1/2
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Under secondary legislation and Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' companies are being trusted to 'self-regulate' in the zones, the whole thing stinks. The full list of SEZs is on the govt's website. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
These corporations will in due course privatise entire regions of the UK, roads, bridges, schools, security, councils, and rubbish collection, every aspect of public infrastructure is now up for grabs by corporations making serious incursions into the public sector.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Zone fever arrived by stealth in Britain, kickstarted by the Tories, fully backed by Starmer's changed Labour Party who were active board members of Sunak and Truss's nationwide SEZs/Freeports consortia. The UK is in serious shit.
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