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@gary-ac.bsky.social
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Anchored left and watching Labour sail to the right. Strong believer in rejoining Europe. diy and crafting enthusiast - currently enjoying crocheting 🧶

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Man in green, "In my generation it's a pipe dream to own a home, it's so expensive.. The consensus hasn't worked.. The Tories had 14 years, they haven't built the homes we need" #BBCQT "If Labour need to change the rules, to make it easier, then that's what we need to do to build more homes"
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
BOOM!💥 The number of @bsky.app users just hit 35 MILLION!!! 👏 LETS KEEP GOING, LETS MAKE BLUESKY THE BIGGEST SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM ON THE PLANET AND SEND MUSK, ZUCK & TRUMP PACKING! LETS DO THIS!
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
England water pollution at 10-year high as sewage dumping in rivers, lakes and seas accelerates. Higher bills, more abuse. Water industry is 90% foreign owned. Shareholders have no contact with the consequences of cash extraction. Only nationalisation offers hope
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England's serious water pollution incidents at 10-year high
Campaigners release official data showing the most serious pollution incidents in England are double the target.
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Lyndsey @lyndseydoob.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Donald Trump is ramping up his trade wars and crashing the global economy. why should we roll out the red carpet for him with a second state visit? Join more than 200,000 of us and add your name to he petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
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No second state visit for Trump
Unbelievable. Keir Starmer has handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and should not go ahead.  This is the...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Yes, the UK government SHOULD abandon its Carbon Capture and Storage scheme, which a. would cause a net *increase* in emissions b. is unlikely to work c. uses tens of billions that'd be much better spent on genuinely green projects. Let's hope it has seen sense. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Labour’s carbon-capture scheme will be Starmer’s white elephant: a terrible mistake costing billions | George Monbiot
The supposedly green project – brainchild of the previous Tory government – will increase emissions, not reduce them, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
For 16 years the average person's wage and most benefits have risen below inflation, you are poorer now than you were in 2008. It's time for 16 years of profits shrinking and billionaires getting poorer.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Good morning all! 🇺🇦 Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻
Emergency demonstration at US embassy. Wed 5 March - 5:30pm
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The neverending Post Office scandal. Victims of Capture, a second faulty Post Office accounting system still awaiting redress. Capture was in place from 1992 to 1999, before the Horizon system, reported false shortfalls, criminal convictions not quashed. Management covered up failures.
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Victims of second Post Office scandal criticise 'grinding wheels of bureaucracy' as they try to get compensation
Steve Marston was convicted of stealing from his branch in 1996 following shortfalls of nearly £80,000. He said it was "human nature" to be disappointed the redress scheme would not be in place sooner...
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Sky News, "Ukrainians are ready for anything, even the loss of US support" "They are turning to Europe, hoping their European partners can step up and fill that void" Ukrainians preferring the stability of Europe to the chaos of the US under Trump Why isn't the UK preferring Europe to the US?
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Gary @gary-ac.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
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No second state visit for Trump
This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Caroline Lucas, "We are the 6th richest economy in the world, there are ways to fund defence without cutting the aid budget which is totally perverse" @carolinelucas.bsky.social #Newsnight
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Caroline Lucas, "A hard choice for Starmer would be a wealth tax" "Why are the poorest people paying for increase in defence spending?" @carolinelucas.bsky.social #Newsnight
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 26/02/2025
An important reality check for Donald Trump. Graph from the @financialtimes.com
FT graph: The US is not providing disproportionately large amounts to Ukraine
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, "I will never accept any decision between the US and Russia about Ukraine" "No leader in the world can make a deal with Putin about us, without us"
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
In 1968 Finland banned for profit education, the few private schools that exist in Finland have to reinvest any profit they make or pay it back to parents. It has been in the Top 3 in education for the last 20 years. There should be no profit in education or healthcare.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The little man-child really is this hilariously simple…
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Gary @gary-ac.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I find myself asking how do we continue to not learn from the past and allow megalomaniacs, narcissists and money to dictate our lives for their own benefit. Our society is told that those who need support are scrounges, thieves, worthless unless helping to line the pockets of some mega corp
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Gary @gary-ac.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Answer it isn’t, Labour is no longer Labour it has forgotten its roots and members to please the few. But this is just a sign of how broken our first past the post system is and our allowing of poor media and reporting
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
🔴‘Donald Trump’s Gaza Ethnic Cleansing Plan Is a Call for War Crimes And the UK Must Condemn It’ It’s time Keir Starmer’s Government finally recognises Palestinian statehood and resist the US President’s catastrophic agenda, argues Green MP @elliechowns.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/02/06/d...
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'Donald Trump’s Gaza Ethnic Cleansing Plan Is a Call for War Crimes And the UK Must Condemn It'
It's time for Keir Starmer's Government to finally recognise Palestinian statehood and resist the US President's catastrophic agenda, argues Green MP Ellie Chowns
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Gary @gary-ac.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Superb
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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Gary @gary-ac.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Totally we don’t need more runways
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/02/2025
A fascinating piece by @BBCCountryfile, really bringing home the absurdity of post-Brexit red tape. The truth is that Brexit bureaucracy is suffocating the aspirations of our entrepreneurs; from our SMEs to our farmers. A thread 🧵👇
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 03/02/2025
A £3bn bailout for Thames Water... or just let them go bust? 🤔 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Campaigners to use Thames Water high court case to push for temporary nationalisation
Judge to rule on utility’s plea for £3bn debt lifeline as MPs and charities say emergency loan too costly for customers
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Perfectly captured.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Lord Heseltine, "The creation of the EU Single Market was Margaret Thatcher's greatest achievements" "I am appalled by Brexit" "I don't believe for an instant that we should accept the verdict of a pack of lies, in order to persuade people to sever our relations with Europe"
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Gary @gary-ac.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 08/01/2025
Ministers have finally responded to our call to take action on sewage pollution, promising they won’t “look the other way” 👀 But actions speak louder than words. When South West Water spilled sewage in November, they did nothing at all. goodlaw.social/rkuf
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Government says it won’t ‘look the other way’ on sewage dumping | Good Law Project
But when South West Water spilled sewage in Newquay, ministers did nothing.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Shedding light on the grooming gang scandal… Good Pointing the finger of blame at the wrong people Bad Weaponising it for political gain Ugly We discuss this & more, with all the best/worst takes from you lot, on the brand new episode of @thetrawl.bsky.social Listen below…
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Bank of England to further relax rules for banks and insurers. Most of the post-2008 crash reforms reversed. Insurers won't need regulatory approval for high risk investment. Bank risk reporting reduced. Bank/Insurers capital requirements reduced. Who will pay when it crashes? archive.ph/8uBUs
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Bank of England to relax rules for banks and insurers
PRA’s Sam Woods says burden can be eased without ‘race to the bottom’ on financial regulation
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 07/01/2025
Home Secretary Braverman took seven months to even respond to the Jay Report, then vaguely promised "action" on 19 of the 20 recommendations and dismissed Yvette Cooper asking for details. Recommendations actually implemented? 𝙕𝙀𝙍𝙊. Now, Braverman is rending her garments. Rank hypocrisy. ~AA
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Matt Webb @mattrfwebb.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
How did investing and repairing the NHS...become moving off the profitable bits to private healthcare companies? And are these the same private healthcare companies that have been throwing money at Labour MPs? We need a wider discussion on the above. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Private sector’s role in cutting NHS waiting lists in England to rise by 20%
Critics decry Keir Starmer’s plan as ‘feeding the parasite’ rather than investing in the public health service
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Simply this. America is descending fast - and we need to ensure it does not pull down the rest of the world with it. Particularly in Europe, we need to regroup and operate without the US.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Pascal Soriot the UK's highest paid CEO gets £18,700,000 a year, largely in shares so he doesn't have to pay any tax. In just one day he 'earned' more than 90% of UK workers will get in a year. THIS is the problem.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Starmer deepens NHS privatisation. Can increase NHS capacity by buying private hospitals. Plan won't generate new health staff. Private sector will poach NHS staff. NHS to be a shell, doling out contracts to private sector. 30%-40% money will vanish in profits. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Private sector’s role in cutting NHS waiting lists in England to rise by 20%
Critics decry Keir Starmer’s plan as ‘feeding the parasite’ rather than investing in the public health service
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏
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Gary @gary-ac.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
@carolvorderman.bsky.social Hi Carol take it this is a fake account as they have used two r’s and are just reposting stuff off of your account i’ve reported it anyway
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
The world’s richest man & insecure nepo-baby shouldn’t be allowed to dictate UK politics. Yet some politicians act like sycophants & his unhinged outbursts dominate news, while our democracy is serially undermined. We must break the super-rich’s grip on our media & politics.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The dangerous lies of Elon Musk His ill-informed backing for Tommy Robinson and slurs against Jess Phillips say it all about Trump's right-hand man www.theneweuropean.co.uk/a-loudmouth-...
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The dangerous lies of Elon Musk
His ill-informed backing for Tommy Robinson and slurs against Jess Phillips say it all about Trump's right-hand man
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Of course this will come as no surprise to anyone but..
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Gary @gary-ac.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
British supermarkets are accused of stamping Union Jacks and “Made in Britain” on food grown abroad. Defra needs to crack down on supermarket bosses. Agree? Sign the petition.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
5.2m children, 36% of UK children, live in poverty. Ending the two-child benefit cap would lift 500,000 out of poverty, cost £2.5bn. Taxing capital gains at the same rate as wages raises £14bn. Govts that gave £895bn QE to speculators, can also end poverty. leftfootforward.org/2024/12/labo...
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Labour’s drift to the right could risk Keir Starmer being a one-term prime minister
The government's honeymoon has been short lived.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/12/2024
Really strong challenge by @fleetstreetfox on Musk potentially funding Reform via a company - and a very elegant solution to meet it. "If a company wants to donate money to a political party it should be in proportion to the tax that it pays in this country." ~AA
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