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Gillian McGarry

@gillmc56.bsky.social
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Socialist, Corbyn supporter, More equal and fair society - For the Many not the Few, 1950s woman. Shares not necessarily endorsements. No DMs

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Burnham said he supported limits on political donations to clean up our politics but he’s been too slow to tackle that 🤷‍♀️
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#PalantirOut
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How is this bully able to just act like this with free rein?
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Follow the money…
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
80% of Reform’s funding comes from two crypto billionaires. Reform has received £123.6m since 2019. £61m from Christopher Harborne living in Thailand, mentioned several times in Panama Papers. £44m from Ben Delo, recent returnee from Hong Kong, criminal conviction in the US.
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BREAKING: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from two crypto billionaires
“If that isn't a massive corruption risk I don't know what is.”
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sky political correspondent: "the way Labours funded tends to be more money from unions as opposed to so much from individual donors" You mean a few quid each month from hundreds of thousands of workers in the UK rather than tens of millions from a billionaire based in Thailand?
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sophy Ridge: "What would you say..." I'd say hundreds of thousands of workers in the UK giving a few quid to Labour each month through their union & a billionaire based in Thailand giving £36m to Reform are not comparable things.
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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨 TODAY: Labour’s plan to give 16 and 17-year-olds the vote faces its next major parliamentary test. Peers will begin debating the Representation of the People Bill today, which would lower the voting age for ALL UK elections.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Former Tory Chancellor George Osborne calls for UK to rejoin EU customs union and boost trade. Brexit has brought no economic gains to the UK. Brexiteers want to cosy up to the US but being the 51st state is no future.
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George Osborne calls for UK to rejoin EU customs union and boost trade
Ex-Tory chancellor says economy has ‘fallen off a cliff’ since Brexit but rejoining union could be ‘quite simple’
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tice says unions give money to Lab & make demands in return He's right, workers give money to Lab to further their interests - better conditions at work, employment rights etc Tice then claims billionaires give money to Reform & make no demands at all Does anyone believe that?
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Kevin Maguire: "I've never understood why we don't cap donations.. and we allow rich people to buy our democracy" Kevin is spot on, we should cap donations from a single individual at £5,000, and I think the reason politicians haven't done it is quite obvious #GMB
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Dear Labour supporters. If you want to put me off voting Green rather than Labour, the key is *not* to attack the Greens, but to ask yourself why I, a life-long Labour supporter, who has voted Labour at every GE since 1983 (my first), can't support Labour. Look at yourselves. Look at your party.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
On Reform's announcement today, to put deportation centres in Green-voting areas, a Green spokesperson says: “Reform keeps making abhorrent announcements...to distract voters from the fact they want to privatise our NHS, roll back workers rights & hand out tax breaks to their billionaire backers."
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@Comradess Nan @socialistnan123.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Donald Trump threatened the Iranian football team's safety if they show up for the FIFA World Cup in the USA. The World Cup needs to be removed from the USA. Play it in just Mexico and Canada.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Nicolas Maduro is being held in solitary confinement in a small cell 3 by 2 meters at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. The cell has a metal bed, a toilet, and a small window He was kidnapped by Donald Trump. Only Brazil, Spain, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Uruguay have condemned it
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 17/11/2025
The buried ocean on Saturn’s moon Enceladus seems to be stable across extremely long periods of time, making it an even more promising place to hunt for life
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Enceladus’s ocean may be even better for life than we realised
The buried ocean on Saturn’s moon Enceladus seems to be stable across extremely long periods of time, making it an even more promising place to hunt for life
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
Screenshot of a headline reading: "Refugees' jewellery could be seized to pay for asylum costs, says Home Office minister."
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
“We welcome migrants, we don’t scapegoat them". How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Starmer's knack for making simple stories worse. Banning away fans from games is pretty common as this story says. Best not politicised, but he has to go there. Badly advised. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Starmer condemns ‘wrong decision’ to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from Aston Villa game
Fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv will not be allowed to attend the Europa League match at Aston Villa on 6 November owing to safety concerns
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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
An enterprising journalist needs to start reading out some of Maccabi Tel Aviv’s chants to Starmer and Badenoch and asking if they think they’re acceptable.
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Tom Davies @tomdaviese17.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I've spent my life arguing against all football fans being tarred with the same brush, but to not even acknowledge that Maccabi Tel Aviv's far-right fans posed a threat to public order, and Birmingham's Muslims in particular, is next-level racist gaslighting
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PeterdeMeteor @peterdemeteor.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
When English clubs were barred from European competitions back in the day, nobody said it was "Anti-Christian" as I recall. Anyway, why are Israel (a country in Asia) involved in European competitions (including The Eurovision Song Contest)? The same goes for the most of Turkiye.
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Hazel @hackneyhaz.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
It was said at the time, but it needs saying again. If any British football fans had behaved as Maccabi Tel Aviv fans did in Amsterdam, or Israel fans in Paris and elsewhere, then the Government would be calling for bans, not trying to overturn one.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Maccabi Tel Aviv shouldn't even be competing in European football. Firstly they're not European and secondly the nation from which they come has been enacting a genocide for two years. Fuck Starmer and worship of all things racist.
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Rob @robbiethedish.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Totally agree. These "fans" have a reputation for causing trouble like old school football hooligans. they are basically a bunch of racist thugs. The police have judged them to be a risk to public order and safety. Starmer is wrong and should be thinking about it over his friday night dinner.
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Rich @arbee808.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
If they force the police to overturn their decision and Maccabi fans do turn up and cause trouble on the streets of a country he's supposed to keep safe, how is that going to look? It seems he cares more about how the state of Israel sees him than those in the country he's in charge of
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
How I feel about Starmer undermining UK police decisions on Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters.
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Gillian McGarry @gillmc56.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
www.instagram.com/reel/DP1pqrr...
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bobbyvylan on Instagram: "Lobby groups, government officials and Ray Romano’s TV wife. How we lost our US visas. Our outspoken nature may cost us, but now is…"
Lobby groups, government officials and Ray Romano’s TV wife. How we lost our US visas. Our outspoken nature may cost us, but now is not the time to be silent.View all 1,846 comments
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Metaphor Man @metaphorman.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
How is it possible that a peace proposal ignores the International Court of Justice’s July 2024 Advisory Opinion, which reiterated that Israel’s occupation is illegal and must end? How can it fail to mention the Palestinian’s right to self-determination? Why are Palestinians, who have a right...
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
If you don't want - people getting sick from water pollution - pensioners dying from cold not able to afford bills - children dying from mould in slum housing while water & energy company bosses & landlords revel in tax avoiding wealth you are now "Hard Left" #SocialistSunday
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Robert Campbell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @madman2.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
For me the PPE scandal exposes the politicians whose first thoughts were to try and make as much money as possible, FOR THEMSELVES, out of the global pandemic, rather than how can I help the country and the world survive this. Also a reminder of @chrischirp.bsky.social 's paper on Public enquiries
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What is the point of inquiries?
The UK needs a stronger, more efficient system for ensuring that recommendations from inquiries are implemented to avoid repeated failures, writes Christina Pagel The UK Covid-19 Inquiry has just pu...
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
And we always thought we got rid of the nazis in 1945… whilst in reality it was hiding in plain sight within the capitalist structures of the west!! www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/isra...
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Israel is waging a holocaust in Gaza. Denazification is our only remedy
A taboo is broken and direct comparison is made to the Holocaust. At last a powerful voice from within Israel…
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
tapping the sign again, lads
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
In case you missed it ... Both "Tommy Robinson" and Charlie Kirk were funded by the same US tech billionaire fascist Robert Shillman. #FightFascism
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US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f...
An American tech billionaire was instrumental in funding the far-right figure’s rise to stardom – and even paid for his new set of teeth
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John Brophy @jk001-ie.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Canada recognises Palestine, but bans Kneecap from performing there for supporting Palestine? 🤔
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
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Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins
Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Interesting discussion on political funding at Lib Dem conference. Transparency International point out that South Australia has now banned private donations to political parties for state elections, while federally Australia introduced a £25,000 annual donation cap for the next fed. election.
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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
What about: Arms sales? BDS? Protecting the Sumud Flotilla? Arresting the war criminals? Palestinians are being slaughtered by a psychopathic genocidal regime. #FreePalestine! ✊ 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 21/09/2025
The Jewish community and the Democratic Party are being torn apart over their complicity in the Gaza genocide and decades of supporting Palestinian oppression. This overdue reckoning will only be resolved by abandoning Zionism.
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The Democrats and the Jewish community are being torn apart over their support for genocide - it’s about time
The Jewish community and the Democratic Party are being torn apart over their complicity in the Gaza genocide and decades of supporting Palestinian oppression. This overdue reckoning will only be resolved...
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LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 21/09/2025
~ EXCLUSIVE: Hundreds of Jewish Health Professionals Say 'End the Genocide' in Gaza ~ zeteo.com/p/exclusive-hundreds-of-j…
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EXCLUSIVE: Hundreds of Jewish Health Professionals Say 'End the Genocide' in Gaza
"To be silent is to be complicit," the healthcare workers write in an open letter.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
"You're irrelevant on Bluesky!" m8 I was irrelevant on Twitter where I had 110k followers and frequently got over a million views on my videos. It was still just shitposting on a social media site. Deciding that posting is activism has rotted a lot of brains on all sides.
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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NoThanks Boycott App @nothanksapp.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
aption: 🚨Boycott Pepsi! The newest reports of Q2 2025 are in! And they don’t look good for Pepsi
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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I'm glad an agreement has finally been reached but Gibraltar has lost so much because of Brexit 🇬🇮 When 96% of Gibraltarians voted to Remain
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