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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Make sure your Labour MP reads this one!

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Very good idea. Young people especially should boycott.

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Their behaviour certainly suggests that! Even if they deny it.

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 2015, when I started writing 99%, my friends thought that my concern over the US and the UK ceasing to be civilised, prosperous western nations was unfounded. Now it looks obvious. 99-percent.org/the-book/

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The Book - 99%

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Heather Smith FB99% FBALL FBPE @hs3.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not to mention government subsidies for air travel

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Heather Smith FB99% FBALL FBPE @hs3.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#BigTech's data centres use as much power as millions of homes and guzzle our water We need basic rules: ⚡ 100% clean power 💧 Zero water waste 🗣️ Local community consent Sign Foxglove's petition to stop data centres harming our communities and environment now you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...

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Ban data centres that harm our communities and climate

Big Tech’s giant data centres swallow as much power as millions of homes, guzzle our water, and risk driving up our energy bills - all with zero limits. We need basic rules: ⚡ 100% clean power 💧 Ze...

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Heather Smith FB99% FBALL FBPE @hs3.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That’s a pity- what flags?

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes. And our politicians have allowed themselves to be constrained by our institutions. If we want sane policy-making, that must change now. 99-percent.org/ending-treas...

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Ending Treasury-Induced Decline - 99%

We can’t afford another Budget that fails to move the needle on the cost-of-living crisis. So what should we do? Summary of the event On Tuesday 15 September, Clive Lewis, […]

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes, absolutely. "This inequity is not just unfair; it is actively harmful. It harms the rest of the population, it harms the planet and it harms democracy." 99-percent.org/extreme-weal...

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Extreme wealth vs the 99% - 99%

How a small number of the extremely wealthy have declared class war on the rest of us, and what we must do to stop them In almost every country, 2025 […]

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And also, he is quite wrong economically. bsky.app/profile/mrma...

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And even his take on the 1980s is quite wrong. bsky.app/profile/mrma...

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes, it is only 99% of people who have suffered.

A graph showing how, since the 1980s, the top 1% share of wealth has been increasing.

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And there was no economic recovery.... bsky.app/profile/mrma...

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And to compound the problem, we seem to be planning to reduce their state pension, too. bsky.app/profile/mrma...

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Does anyone have hard evidence as to WHY Chris Mason behaves like this? It seems so far from the 'balance' we should expect, that he must have some powerful motivation.

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have just read your book. It's great.

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Poor Sir Simon. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 'remarkable national recovery' he refers to is a myth. The 1980s was when our national decline started. I wonder where he gets his information? 99-percent.org/back-to-the-...

A post suggesting that the 1980s saw a national recovery from the previous period -- entirely inconsistent with the facts.

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Allister Heath, lest we forget, said that the Truss / Kwarteng Budget was "the best Budget I have ever heard a British Chancellor deliver, by a massive margin…" www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09...

An edited version of Heath's extremist headline

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Daily Telegraph would not thank him for breaking the fiscal rules .... but most British people would be far better off. What voters won't thank him for is if he sticks to the rules but fails to grow the economy and tackle the cost of living crisis. 99-percent.org/a-blueprint-...

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A Blueprint for Economic Renewal - 99%

Can Labour still keep its promise of renewal and, if so, how? This is an approximate transcript of the presentation which launched our new report, A Blueprint for Economic Renewal, […]

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes, that is exactly right. The radical thing would be to stick to the failed frameworks and policies of the last 40 years. Renewal needs the courage to return to what works in practice. 99-percent.org/a-blueprint-...

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A Blueprint for Economic Renewal - 99%

Can Labour still keep its promise of renewal and, if so, how? This is an approximate transcript of the presentation which launched our new report, A Blueprint for Economic Renewal, […]

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I remember the 1970s. And unlike what Badenoch says, growth was far from zero -- in fact far higher than any recent Conservative government has delivered. "... economically, the 1970s were a far more successful period than any we have seen since." 99-percent.org/back-to-the-...

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Back to the 1970s - 99%

In recent years, many people have come to feel that the economy is just not working for them. In fact, median wages are lower today than they were in 2007 […]

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"There is a lot wrong with this picture. And one ... is that the Prime Minister doesn’t figure in it. If we leave the wiring like this, it doesn’t matter who is Prime Minister: we get the same economic policies anyway." A Blueprint for Economic Renewal 99-percent.org/a-blueprint-...

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A Blueprint for Economic Renewal - 99%

Can Labour still keep its promise of renewal and, if so, how? This is an approximate transcript of the presentation which launched our new report, A Blueprint for Economic Renewal, […]

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Labour promised renewal and an end to the cost-of-living crisis. That cannot be done without economic renewal. And despite what we have heard, they *could* still achieve that. This is how. A Blueprint for Economic Renewal 99-percent.org/a-blueprint-...

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A Blueprint for Economic Renewal - 99%

Can Labour still keep its promise of renewal and, if so, how? This is an approximate transcript of the presentation which launched our new report, A Blueprint for Economic Renewal, […]

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes, you are quite right. And the really big effect will be felt by poor pensioners in 50 years time. Today's youth will be retiring into poverty. 99-percent.org/tough-decisi...

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‘Tough Decisions’ - 99%

How a pattern of decision-making that harms the economy and most ordinary voters is being sustained, even as the damage becomes clearer Since the 1980s, the UK economy has been […]

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As we all know, 'tough decisions' are always tough on the 99%, not on the wealthiest 1%. They damage public services and the environment. And they also harm the economy; they do not protect it. 99-percent.org/tough-decisi...

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‘Tough Decisions’ - 99%

How a pattern of decision-making that harms the economy and most ordinary voters is being sustained, even as the damage becomes clearer Since the 1980s, the UK economy has been […]

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The 99% Organisation @99organisation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a no-brainer for any serious government. And it is among the proposals we shall be presenting in our Blueprint for National Renewal at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. Please make sure your MP attends. 99-percent.org/a-blueprint-...

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A Blueprint for Economic Renewal at LPC - 99%

We can all see the need for national renewal. But Labour has so far struggled to deliver renewal both because of institutional obstacles and because of a lack of clarity […]

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thread (1/2) Thank you for hosting, Clive. It was a great event and ...

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Lynne Jones @lynnejonesorguk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Watching tonight’s Gardeners’ World talking about gardening for the future. Assumes future will be hotter. Really short-term thinking. When the Gulf Stream fails we will be in an #IceAge

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes, and the savings will be the future pensions of today's younger workers. None of it makes sense. bsky.app/profile/mrma...

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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘I want to understand what happened at Fairford, and I am not the only one. What I absolutely do not need is a collection of commentators treating a British passport as the start of a cross-examination and calling it journalism because they put a question mark at the end.’

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A Dissection: The Fairford Fannywobble

How the right-wing commentariat turned an ongoing investigation into a migrant story before the facts were known.

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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

‘These “agents” are software programmes that run on proprietary code created by man not God. They do not have agency. They are not living Godheads. And they’re not “out of control”. They are badly designed malware.’

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Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson

A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now

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David Puttick FB99% @davidviking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also read Jamie Driscoll’s recent article ‘Hostage Nation’

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That is not evidence of unsustainability at all. It is what the book 99% refers to as 'levelling down' logic. You introduce a policy that hurts one group (never the richest) and then, in the interests of 'fairness', you hurt others (also never the richest).

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

With the Labour Party Conference coming up next week, it is vital that as many MPs as possible understand this.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Man who migrated to another country to avoid taxes says Britain's problem is migration and taxes that he doesn't pay. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Jim Ratcliffe: UK is ‘on the slide’ from days when it had world’s ‘greatest empire’

Co-owner of Manchester United says Britain is in decline because of high taxes and immigration

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The 99% Organisation @99organisation.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just one more ‘difficult Budget’ that fails on the cost-of-living crisis, public services and climate change could hand the next general election to the far-right. So, what’s the alternative? The 99% Organisation has some concrete proposals. sh1.sendinblue.com/mk/sc/eFL7qn...

An image illustrating UK poverty, failing public services and environmental destruction.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Lord give me the arrogance of a tax exile who feels the right to comment on the tax policies and general running of a country who you have deprived of billions by registering yourself in Monaco

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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

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