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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 9h
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 11h
Encouraging words from the PM on social housing but STILL no new funding for councils to buy existing homes at scale. Fixing the devastation of Right to Buy cannot be achieved just through sluggish building. Time for Buy the Supply. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
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Fund Councils to Buy the Supply of Council Homes
We urgently need to replenish our decimated council housing stock, and part of the answer is real funding for councils to Buy the Supply. Over 169,000 children are homeless and living in overcrowded ...
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 11h
"It is clear that Labour needs the Greens to keep them in check everyday to push them towards the real transformation this country needs." @zackpolanski.bsky.social reacts to the Prime Minister's speech at Labour conference.
HOPE IS NOT JUST A SLOGAN, IT NEEDS TO MEAN REAL CHANGE

ZACK POLANSKI
LEADER OF THE GREEN PARTY

"Unlike his predecessor, we have a PM who talks like he gets it. But sadly like his predecessor he isn’t prepared to break from the powerful and wealthy interests that have created an inequality, affordability and a climate crisis.
 
Hope is not just a slogan, it needs to mean real change. The speech today had no wealth taxes, no rent controls, no water nationalisation and a strong hint of more North Sea drilling.
 
It is disappointing that we have a country ready to break from the last 40 years, a Labour government with the majority to do it, and yet what we see are more half measures, reannouncements and tinkering."

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 11h
Greens lead, others follow. It just takes the others far too long: yes, looking at you @uklabour.bsky.social #GetGreensElected - #VoteGreen www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
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Green party leader pledges free social care for over-65s
Natalie Bennett revives her standing in party after disastrous LBC interview with well-received speech
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 13h
Sorry this stuff is fucking *awful* and I despise this pseudo liberal bollocks everywhere. Providing services free only matters if you use the services, sure, except that it makes society in general better. Free schools are also only available to people with kids but that's fine!
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 14h
"Water is a symbol of what has gone wrong with Britain. A service where the shareholders never lose, and the public never win "I will not allow it continue like this. Today I can confirm… a strengthened water bill… The repeal of Margaret Thatcher’s ban of public ownership of water companies" #Lab26
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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 14h
Please note: Burnham keeps saying "public control" when talking about watercos, not public *ownership* These are not the same thing
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21h
Schools forced to shut amid burst Thames Water pipe ‘leaking 750 litres a second. TW infrastructure has average age of 79 years. Industry average is 56 years. 40% of TW assets are over 100 years old. Profits siphoned-off, investment neglected, execs rewarded, customers fleeced
theguardian.com
Schools forced to shut amid burst Thames Water pipe ‘leaking 750 litres a second’
Leak causes outages and low pressure in parts of London and Surrey, affecting 6,000 properties and leaving some without water
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Smotrich's plan is to push the entire West Bank population to the yellow areas, and annex the remaining 82%.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UK median pay of employee is £31884 a year, net £26476. Working-age adult needs to earn £31500 to reach minimum income standard . Lone parent with 2 children needs £67600. Couple with 2 children needs £77400. Can't get growth without redistribution. Chancellor must cut tax on the poorest 50%.
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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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes, it’s always been a big laugh to this type of person, a way to have a good giggle at all those angry-faced leftists who were so sad about whichever bunch of inferior semi-humans we or one of our horrible allies was bombing the fuck out of that week.
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Astonishing skill to protect that school
Barry Andrews MEP
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The updated @Google satellite images of #Gaza are quite incredible, for all to see...
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 28/09/2026
What a shock…I have been barred from Peter Thiel’s Nashville Antichrist lectures despite buying a ticket. Was it something I said? As the world’s foremost expert on Thiel’s Antichrist obsession, I take great umbrage. This aggression will be answered.
The Nashville Antichrist
Lectures
Marked as Not Going
The host of the event marked you as not going. We hope you can join next time.
Your ticket has been refunded, and you have been removed from the guest list. Thank you.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We're having the best time in Holborn & St Pancras! The opportunity to win and push the Government on housing costs, tackling the climate crisis and for international justice. And so much more. We can't stop now. This is it. Sign up for the final 12 days below 👇🏽
Huge crowd smiling at the camera Zack greeting a resident on her doorstepZack walking with Faiza and her absolutely cutie of a child!Zack with the Southampton Greens
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Kek-w @kekw-writer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
MEET THE SHRIVELWOODS 40 page chapbook: 2 darkly humorous yarns for fans of Gothic Romance, The Addams Family, Dark Shadows and Vivian Standshall's Sir Henry at Rawlingson End. #books #booksky #goth #gothic #gothicromance #horror #gothicfiction #weirdlit kekw.bandcamp.com/merch/meet-t...
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MEET THE SHRIVELWOODS from kekw
MEET THE SHRIVELWOODS from kekw
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Huge thank you to everyone who told me today they've got a refund for conference or are going to vote online and join us on the streets campaigning. The energy is amazing and we can win this election. But we need your help. Join us in making history: linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP
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Everything you need to get involved! Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of Zack Polanski (The Green Party) c/o PO Box 78066, London, SE16 9GQ
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 25/09/2026
Hey Jonathan Reynolds.. we've found a few...
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Great response on the doorsteps in Holborn & St Pancras this evening - more & more people recognising that @zackpolanski.bsky.social will make a brilliant local MP. One more Labour backbencher changes nothing - the best way to make this Labour government braver, bolder & better is to #VoteGreen
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absolutely huge victory as the Green Party take on Labour and win in Brighton! Huge congratulations to Cllr Mark Strong and the entire team. Labour have tired old solutions and Burnham is more of the same. The Green Party is the change we need. Awesome win! 💚🎉
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
UK food and drink trade deficit largest since 2000 at £21bn. Brexit, Trump tariffs/wars and deindustrialization add to woes. Exports to the EU fall, cheaper imports control inflation but reduce food security. Must support local production, rejoin EU.
theguardian.com
UK food and drink trade deficit largest since 2000 at £21bn
Industry leaders call on government to protect homegrown produce in the interest of national security
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Declassified journalists banned from Labour conference – again. A Trumpian policy started by Keir Starmer. Burnham can't make a fresh start without getting rid of the previous advisers. Democracy means accepting scrutiny, even when it is uncomfortable.
declassifieduk.org
Declassified journalists banned from Labour conference - again
Labour MPs have condemned the ‘Trump-like’ decision, saying party is ‘bang out of order’
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the UK population. The govt can do so immediately by increasing income tax-free personal allowance by £3,000. All it needs to do is to end subsidies to commercial banks.
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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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Put together with Mandelson’s conduct and the revolving door with big money business interests, you’d have to say New Labour was basically an influence peddling operation for a tiny number of people that took over an entire political party.
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not. Photo: AP News
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We can win in Holborn & St Pancras But we need your help on the streets to help make history. 💚
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ash Sarkar, "Every time we've had these squeezes on welfare recipients, what we've actually seen, rather than dealing with issues like long-term unemployment, is an increase in child poverty, and in-work poverty as well"
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We can win this - but only with your help. linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP
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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Secret hot topic UK climate impact warning shared at the UN but UK MPs are still kept out in the cold. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer
El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This isn't just a euphemism. This is an actual far right conspiracy, that the left/judeo-bolsheviks are importing all these migrants in secret. And here it is, right out there in a British fascist newspaper. It is beyond past time something was done about this.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Times continues to push on scything public pensions, a thing they can do because they do not have to worry about public opinion. Their audience is the country’s ruling class, not you.
Juliet Samuel • @CitySamuel • 21h
My @thetimes column:
In 1908, the Daily Express asked: "Is Britain going to surrender her maritime supremacy to provide old-age pensions?"
Pensions and old age benefits now soak up three times as much as defence.
Serious countries don't behave like this.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ah yes, the famous right to freedom from being forced to make a statement about world events. Keep shoving that square shape lads, the round hole will give eventually.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“farmers facing uncertainty after sustainability funding runs dry” - this is the sort of thing Nigel Farage should be held responsible for. It’s time to stop tickling his belly in interviews and begin holding him accountable. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘We can’t ride this storm’: the English farmers facing uncertainty after sustainability funding runs dry
After the available money ran out after just six hours, some fear they will have to reverse efforts to boost nature
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes, this is why Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell are starting their second decade in prison and George Bush II is remembered as the first US President to be sent to the electric chair.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"We're here today to say... war criminals are not welcome in this city &.. this is bigger than just Netanyahu. This is about the fact that our govt has been funding and enabling genocide & apartheid & it has to stop" Beth Miller from Jewish Voice for Peace in New York yesterday.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hutton is a consultant for privatised water. This article is about explaining *to you*, the dickheads, that nothing should change, that this is great and the unavoidable, immovable order of things.
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Andy Burnham talks about ‘public control’ of the utilities but it’s a minefield. We can lead him through it | Will Hutton and Andy Haldane
Nationalisation is not the ultimate answer for companies like Thames Water – but they could be run for the public benefit, say journalist and economist Will Hutton and former chief economist of the Ba...
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 25/09/2026
'more in step with public mood' Confirmation they think X is the public.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Strange that the Starmer government was completely fucked up by their failure to push through benefit cuts, since they are so very popular with the public
Beth Rigby • @BethRigby
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Food for thought from @robertshrimsley:
Seems to me PM cannot duck welfare reform - because of the public finances, but also because of the political pressure from Reform and Tories who are more in step with public mood.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Andy Burnham had said more about PUBS and DRINKING than he has about racist pogroms and transphobia combined
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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God they just fucking love that passive voice don't they? WHO SLASHED THE FUCKING DINGHY AMELIA AND DIANE?
theguardian.com
Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel
Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life
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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The last Conservative government is responsible for thousands of deaths due to their attacks on welfare, and systemic degradation in living standards in Britain. They have learned nothing from their murderous stigmatisation of sick and disabled people.
mirror.co.uk
Tories slammed for benefits pre-loaded cards scheme - 'built on stigma'
A similar model of pre-paid cards was proposed by ex-Tory Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith during the austerity years - but it was eventually dropped
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 24/09/2026
Healthcare should be there when you need it. No exceptions. Trans people deserve the same dignity, respect and access to care as everyone else.
Quote graphic. Headline reads: “When trust in healthcare is broken.”

Quote from Anthony Slaughter, Leader of the Wales Green Party:

“People had surgeries cancelled at the 11th hour, with no explanation or option to reschedule. These are people who had spent years preparing, both physically and mentally, for this life-affirming surgery.

In my own way, I was able to relate to that agonising wait. In the days leading up to planned surgery over recess, I underwent scheduled and serious surgery. You trust the system around you. For some, that trust has been broken.

What is important is that the voices and experiences of the trans community are amplified and understood. Gender-affirming healthcare saves lives. What this community needs now more than ever is decisive action, proof that their government will stand up for them and take the lead.”
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The enemy is both strong and weak, what's so hard to understand? It's not like that's a thought process that ever leads anywhere bad.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I would’ve accepted it happily if Sir Keir’s boys had saved the world, and I feel the same about Burnham’s very similar, overlapping bunch of lads. Like, I will not pretend I’ll ever like them, but I am ready for them to save us any time they want. In your own time, folks
One of the real problems with "The Left" from the centre to the fringe is the fixation that it is more important that | save the world than the world gets saved
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When the privatised monopolies running our public services fail to deliver or run out of £££ the government must LET THEM GO BUST AND TAKE THEM BACK You can choose UK households Or you can choose shareholders around the world But you can't please both weownit.org.uk/research-and...
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How and why Andy Burnham should deliver public ownership
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s never hard to tell whether the machine is set to suck or blow. This is what’s happened to Farage after just a few months of long overdue “blow”.
Steven Swinford •
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BREAKING:
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Reform UK would win less seats than both Labour and the Conservatives if a general election were to be held today in a dramatic reversal of fortunes for Nigel Farage's party, a YouGov MRP has found
The new large-scale seat by seat MRP by YouGov suggests the UK is currently heading for a hung Parliament with Labour as the largest party with 241 seats
The Conservatives would be in second place with 130 seats, better than their result in the 2024 general election, while Reform would be pushed into third place with 123 seats
If replicated at the next election the poll suggests that both Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman, who deserted the Tories to join Farage, would lose their seats to their old party
Even if Reform and the Tories could agree a pact they would still not have enough seats to form a majority coalition government
However Labour would also struggle to govern having lost 162 of the 403 seats that it holds at present
It would have to rely on both the Liberal Democrats, predicted to win 71 seats, and the Greens, on nine, or one of the nationali parties in order to command a majority
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 23/09/2026
“To think that the right to access health and care for some people in this country is now up for debate is unthinkable.” Anthony Slaughter introduces a debate in the Senedd on the pause in gender-affirming surgeries and its impact on Wales’ trans community.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 23/09/2026
"Quality of housing is the number one factor in how your life goes forward." Deputy Mayor of Hackney Dylan Law talks the impact of poor quality housing on people's life chances.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hmmm on what is arguably the biggest issue in British politics right now, Andy Burnham’s government sounds a lot like Keir Starmer’s…. Wild thought, but maybe this is what happens when you keep the same people in post?
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hodges out early with the first explanation of how none of this is the fault of people like him, because he’s never been wrong. You’ll be very stupid, for saying otherwise.
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE brutally detain woman's gardener—right in front of her house. 4 agents drag and violently pull man out of truck head-first. Kneel on his back after pinned down to pavement. "I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" he cries out.
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