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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 13h

Is this…hope? 🏠 Burnham, social care & the triple lock 🧸 Reform closes 10 nurseries "to help women and girls" ⚽ Ireland's most dramatic day in football (vs Israel) 🧡 Plus my David Dickinson tan New Trawl podcast live - listen now 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/39tK...

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Is This... Hope? Labour Conference, Ireland's Stand-Off & Reform's Balls-Up

The Trawl · Episode

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 29/09/2026

As a side note to this: The best thing that Andy Burnham’s Labour Party can do right now is reach out to both Ed Davey and Zack Polanski. Whether he needs them for a coalition after the next GE or not, now is the time to get both the Lib Dems and Greens on board - especially around care.

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 23h

“Thames Water should have been in special administration yesterday... How can this Government be serious about their promise to reverse Thatcher’s legacy of privatisation, if they are not urgently bringing it into public hands?” www.standard.co.uk/business/bus...

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PM announces new law to allow public ownership of water firms

Mayors will also be given new powers to hold failing water firms to account.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 23h

It only feels “radically progressive” because we’ve spent 40 years normalising radically regressive ideas. This was broadly how Britain worked from 1945–79, when average GDP growth was 2.6% a year — compared with 1.9% in the post-Thatcher years. It works www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Burnham gambles on radical progressive plan to help Britain ‘rise again’

PM accepts some of his plan could be difficult and admits he ‘may pay a political price’

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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

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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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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I must say I’m very disappointed in the police over their dealing with the RAF Fairford incident. By announcing that the suspects are British nationals, they have completely undermined the stream of made up bollocks from myself and every other right wing gobshite on Twitter.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The U.S. owes $40 trillion in debt. Everyone has an opinion about why. But there’s one question you almost never hear asked: Who’s actually getting paid?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We can spend our lives debating the justifications (I more or less have); but we are wasting our time. What we need is a massive clampdown on the influence of money over politics, including lobbying transparency, campaign finance reform, an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thames Water: Andy Burnham should nationalise this failed monopoly. The entire water industry has failed. Must be nationalised. It is similar story in the energy sector. Profiteering, low investment. Privatisation has deepened cost of living crisis.

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The Guardian view on Thames Water: Andy Burnham should nationalise this failed monopoly | Editorial

Editorial: Bill payers should not fund another rescue for financiers of the water industry. Public ownership can end the cycle of extraction and failure

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yet again Farage goes absent from Parliament absent from his Clacton constitueny this time to campaign for an imminent general election which isn't going to happen ... "Anything to avoid doing his taxpayer funded job… " via Reform Are Not Your Friends

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Labour banned trans women from its women's conference floor ~200 turned up to a hall that used to hold 1,000 Unison, Usdaw and every affiliated union stayed away over that one issue Labour's own ballot sheet: zero union votes on 4 of 6 motions. No mandate angryaida.substack.com/p/its-offici...

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It's official: Labour's transphobia has no mandate from women across the UK

Labour held its women's conference, barred trans women from the hall, and women across the country stayed away.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 26/09/2026

We need more Greens in Parliament to hold Labour to account 💚

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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.

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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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Jo Caulfield @jocaulfield.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My neighbour overreacted. 💚✌️

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BethU @beth-u.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The @greenparty.org.uk can do it. It just takes public will to really bring about change. History has taught us well. Vote @zackpolanski.bsky.social in Holborn & St Pancras, take the fight back to parliament.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lot of the lobbying has talked about how important it is for Heathrow to be a hub aiport, and it has never been adequately explained to me why this should matter to anyone who does not own Heathrow

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I watched this last night. It's terrifying, but hopeful. I feel it's my duty, as a human, to share it. I'd appreciate it if you shared it too. It's specifically made for people in the UK, but it's about everyone, and, the more people see it, the better chance we'll have. www.nebriefing.org/the-film

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National Emergency Briefing

A 50-min film centred around the National Emergency Briefing. The frank facts, but also the huge opportunity if Government steps up and leads a WW2-scale response. Designed to be watched by communitie...

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 25/09/2026

Our new report explains HOW and WHY @andyburnham.bsky.social should deliver public ownership - not just public control Take back our assets by forcing private companies to deliver LET THEM GO BUST when they fail, so the UK can own its public services 💧💡🚄🚌🏥📮 weownit.org.uk/research-and...

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How and why Andy Burnham should deliver public ownership

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 24/09/2026

Capital gains tax affects just 1% of Britons - those who by definition are better off than the majority. They currently enjoy a 50% discount to income tax rates - for no good reason. Changing this is about introducing fairness into our tax system - one tax rate for us all. What is wrong with that?

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Plain speaking with a touch of humour (delivered straight faced) is sometimes the way to go Give that man a 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 23/09/2026

"Around 1/3 of our bills are going to servicing debt & dividend payouts...there’s no way that inviting US hedge funds into our water system will make bills go down. “People want to see Andy Burnham pick a fight, like he did with the bus companies”. We Own It in Big Issue: vist.ly/5jhh3

Headline from Big Issue, 22 September 2026: "Hedge funds want to take control of Thames Water. What could it mean for bills? More than 100 creditors are bidding to take control of Thames Water as MPs call for the government to reject the deal."

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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Deadline: midnight today ⏰ NO MORE water bills increases Let them go bust, take over the failed companies

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 22/09/2026

LET THEM GO BUST Tell Ofwat that water companies shouldn’t get any more of our money. No more bill hikes. Let them go bust and bring them into public ownership. ✍️ Take 2 mins to complete the consultation Deadline⏱️: midnight on Thursday 24th September vist.ly/5jey7

Social media posts discuss government bailouts, water rights, and privatization.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 23/09/2026

Time's up on Thames Water. Since privatisation in 1989, Thames has handed out over £10 billion to shareholders, while racking up over £20 billion in debt. Now a consortium of US hedge funds want to take control... Get private profit out of water. Nationalisation now.

Background image of a sewage treatment works. Text reads:

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.

TIME'S UP ON
THAMES WATER

NATIONALISATION NOW.

In the centre of the graphic is a screenshot of a Zack Polanski BlueSky post, which reads: Thames Water has long passed its notice period. Labour can use its massive majority to nationalise it right now.

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Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales, c/o PO Box Green Party, London, SE1P 6YL

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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As we suspected:

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Datacentre are being foisted on people living in low/medium income areas, not in wealthy areas. Resulting in excessive use of water, energy; pollution and environmental damage. Very few long-term jobs are generated. Watch the Minister's reply.

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Only an Uncompromised Left Can Defeat the Fascists. The ‘Radical Centre’ has lost control of the crisis it helped inflame and, so, the far right is on the march across Europe. The only anti-fascist economics that can stop it is an unambiguously socialist economics. zeteo.uk/p/when-the-l...

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Here’s How the Left Can Defeat the Fascists

The ‘Radical Centre’ has lost control of the capitalist crisis it helped create and the far right is on the march across Europe. Only anti-fascist economics, writes Yanis Varoufakis, can stop it.

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Might have done a bit of a rant at my MP. It's quite a nice feeling actually. Give it a go.

It has been promoted and pushed and egged and funded and nurtured by social media, where the racism, the hate. the disdain for our country's values is open and constant - and which remains unregulated to the cost of us all; and by the British media, also entirely unregulated (I suppose we could crowd fund some dentures for Ofcom but I remain unconvinced that it would know what to do with them), including those parts of it which are most trusted by the British public (link to BBC article below, where the thugs are referred to as if they are ordinary protesters, and a life-threatening criminal act in the channel aqainst RNLI staff is relegated to a brief mention in paragraph 15).

We used to hear "both sides" from the news. and even then, that was an absurd position, where only one side ever provided facts, and the other only ever provided feelings. We don't hear that any more. Now we only hear one side. it is the racist. hateful side. and it is framed, always, as "legitimate concerns".

They are not legitimate. We saw no village-wide protest from Piddington, when they had 2,600 mostly white young men in those barracks, and endured crimes, including rape, associated with those men. But 1200 brown men? Suddenly that's "legitimate concerns". It isn't. It's racism.

We cannot predicate the human rights of a person upon the strong feelings of a group that hates them.

That is not how human rights work ir this country, or it didn't used to be. We have done precisely this to trans people in this country - handed their harmless lives directly to the tiny, well- connected, well-funded group that hates them most. We are now normalising racism in precisely the same way. This is going to destroy our society.

What we need from the government urgently is:-
• Press regulation, sharp-eared enough to identify a dogwhistle and bold enough to call it what it is: with the good of our inclusive society at it's core and meaningful punishments
• Social media regulation: frankly X should be shut down. and the embarrassing fact that we don't want to annoy the chief nazi because he owns Starlink needs to be faced, because X's continued influence or our society must end. Facebook isn't much better: regulate them or end them.

• We need clear, unequivocal statements from our PM. and from our MPs, about the fact that this is racism and terrorism. It is not "legitimate concerns".
• We need these Blackshirts and their leaders proscribed as terrorists, and sentenced accordingly
• And we need a concerted public information campaign to offset the colossal, constant untruths the press and social media have propagated: our society has hardly any crime. Refugees aren't disproportionately criminal. And tell people what benefits refugees get because it's shockingly low and people believe utter nonsense they read on Facebook. Educate people! We used to have incredibly effective public information films on prime time TV - I'm old enough to remember when drink driving went from "a bit of a laugh, ho ho ho evervone does it," to "nobody does that now" virtually overniqht, because of such a campaign.

I realise government is hard, and that our current qovernment is tasked with undoing 20 years of utter incompetence. But that must start from the basis of British values. "Respect and dignity" isn't an idea. It's an action, taken every day, it's the courage to stand up against hate, every day, and to call it what it is and to say the uncomfortable thing and sometimes, yes, the unpopular thing.

I hope that our government has this courage. I have not seen it yet,
Yours faithfully,

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Bertha Mason @thornfieldhall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@andyburnham.bsky.social explain to me why priests, the elderly & peaceful protesters have been arrested for their objection to the genocide in Palestine, yet you are turning a blind eye to thugs in balaclavas disrupting travellers in Dover, harassing the RNLI & trying to kill people in the Channel?

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That thug sabotaging rescue efforts, racist riots, flags on lampposts, pink ladies wanting to burn down hotels, doxxing charity workers, ICE-style deportation plans, threats to scrap the Equality Act and leave the ECHR… “legitimate concerns” No. A tornado of hate and prejudice set off by Farage.

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Kevin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺💚 #VoteGreen #BackZack @kevbro1969.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We're "brainwashed" into thinking someone who has a posh accent, went to a private school & is wealthy is somehow more intelligent, wiser & better than us. This stuck up, stupid cunt is proof that the above is a lie. In reallity, these people are just selfish idiots. Workers revolution, anyone? 🙄

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

This is terrorism, and illegal. This isn't anything remotely resembling "legitimate concerns".

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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Our politics, as well as our economy have been captured by the super-rich. That’s why we should set a hard cap on political donations. Once again though, winning this common sense policy is often painted as unworkable & unachievable. Here's why we know that's nonsense... 🧵 1/6

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Imagine looking at ICE… Those unruly, violent, incel thugs, and the chaos, fear and murder they’ve brought to the streets of America, and thinking...that’s what Britain needs. Well, Nigel Farage has.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Palantir should not have a seat in the house of Lords. Tom Watson shouldn't be allowed to work for Palantir and be a Lord he should be fired ASAP.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

HMRC is an unsecured creditor for corporation and capital gains tax. It recovers little from bankrupt businesses. Phoenixing also robs the public purse. HMRC wrote-off £12.8bn in 2025-26. Changes to law and HMRC creditor status can raise billions for the public purse.

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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...

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Gillian Currie @gilliancurrie5.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Easy, do it

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yes, I'm pretty sure everyone can see what's happening. Rich, privately, educated entitled tossers who could not be more part of The Establishment do not think they ought to have to play by the rules.

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 19/09/2026

Is it too much to ask for water companies to have more actual engineers than financial engineers? Labour MPs are speaking out for public ownership of water It is time for Andy Burnham to bring our water into public hands

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 19/09/2026

The government keeps trying to make water privatisation work After 37 years, it's time to accept that it has comprehensively failed. The Green Party and Adrian Ramsay fully understand that Andy Burnham's words show he also understands this, but it is time for action

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