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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 18h

Things we owned in the 1970's Water Gas and electricity NHS Schools Council houses British Rail Royal Mail Things we had in the 1970's Hope A social safety net A future And the best music 🙂

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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯🤔...

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 19h

Ok, that’s the thread! Please do share on if you found it useful. Tables up soon. Here are the videos we tested: tinyurl.com/BurnhamConfC... @convergent-opinion.bsky.social @fintan-smith.bsky.social

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 19h

Nevertheless, it does show us something important: people like Burnham even more when they’re exposed to him; many of his core themes & arguments carry people and can push up his numbers and vote share. The ownership agenda esp - if delivered - could be really powerful for him.

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 19h

finally, we independently tested the whole BBC News at Six TV package on the speech, since this sort of thing is how more voters would actually experience the speech in reality. All the major metrics increased significantly! Impressive.

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 19h

Similar result on best PM - some chunky lifts

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 19h

First finding: all clips we tested raised Burnham’s NET favorables by a lot, essentially doubling them. But the public control/ownership themes in particular really smashed it. This is, once again, Burnham’s best performing bit imo. See it consistently in qual and quant.

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 19h

How about voting intention? All videos pushed up Labour VI, but three stood out: economic power/control, water nationalisation and social care/triple lock clip, boosting it by 8-10 points! This is *genuinely impressive* for such a test, esp in an age of cynicism to politicians.

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 19h

NEW: How does Burnham’s conference speech land with voters when they see it it? In short, very well it seems. A thread on some new video testing of the PM’s speech among voters by @persuasionuk.bsky.social Top line findings and some caveats below! 🧵👇

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Heather Smith FB99% FBALL FBPE @hs3.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you’re in Liverpool next week, we’re hosting a 2-day fringe event Mon 28th & Tues 29th September @ the Quaker’s Meeting House, School lane. For info see www.neweconomyfringe.org @99organisation.bsky.social @costoflivingaction.bsky.social @cmmonwealth.bsky.social @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social

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CommonGroundOrgUK @commongroundorguk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Multi board catch up! Paisley

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CommonGroundOrgUK @commongroundorguk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Multi board catch up! Dawlish Food Festival

Town Crier and consort at Dawlish Food Festival with common Ground dem meter

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CommonGroundOrgUK @commongroundorguk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Multi board catch up. Modbury All three boards (see earlier posts) in the same week...

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/09/2026

👏 David Smith MP: "Two individual billionaires giving a total of £72 million to one political party, and hundreds of thousands of individuals, teachers, nurses, care workers, as we were just discussing, giving small amounts of money to something that they believe in."

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anyone know why a newspaper owned by the Fourth Lord Rothermere, who inherited a fortune from the Third Lord Rothermere, who inherited his money from the Second Lord Rothermere, who inherited it from the First Lord Rothermere, is so strongly opposed to inheritance tax?

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CommonGroundOrgUK @commongroundorguk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

First board in #Bridport. Lots of positive engagement and good convos.

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CommonGroundOrgUK @commongroundorguk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Great to see new teams out in Loughborough and Basingstoke! Lots of good conversations....so very needed given the crises we face. @labouruk.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @greenparty.org.uk @fwddem.com

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

(2/2) We must end Treasury-Induced Decline now. bsky.app/profile/99or...

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think that is right: we are tryingto ease him out of that strait-jacket.

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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thanks, I think Burnham understands the need for change, but he's surrounded himself with 1990's has beens and hard line neoliberals. Everything about the way he was installed shows the party will not allow Burnham to do anything radical.

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Very good questions. I can't be sure -- but unless they get this message, they are very unlikely to succeed. So we are trying to get it to them!

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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Now is probably the last chance to make the changes needed in order for the economy strat to work for the many. What signs, if any, are there that Burnham's new cabinet understands the urgency? Are they up to the task?

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A fantastic and important discussion. If your MP missed it, make sure they read this.

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yes, there is a powerful core who seem wedded to the Treasury View. There are certainly many in the PLP who do not share that view. May the best side win!

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Dominic Minghella @dminghella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And just like that, today the Bank has paused the sale of gilts. Selling them was adding to the pressure on long term borrowing rates. The cost of UK debt is NOT set by the bond market marking the Chancellor's homework, but in large part by Bank of England actions and indications.

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Dominic Minghella @dminghella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Why does this matter? Because we are constantly told that we can do nothing to stimulate our moribund economy, because the market would turn against us. As if we didn't have a central bank capable of driving interest rates by trading bonds. This myth has cemented our decline and stymied our politics

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Dominic Minghella @dminghella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Look around. Do you see a state spending too much on health? On social care? On schools? On infrastructure? Do you see working people with too much money in their pockets? Do you see over employment? Do you see an overheated economy? Or one that's been stagnant for at least two decades?

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Dominic Minghella @dminghella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We don't need to make all of that worse with further cuts (or higher interest rates) and yet that is all you will hear, all day, every day. Instead we need smart stimulus to kick-start the economy, and that means challenging the stale orthodox of the last two decades and more.

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Dominic Minghella @dminghella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In turn, it means a fight. With the Bank of England so that it supports borrowing using the tools it enjoys as our central bank. With the OBR, which has become a fiscal scaremonger, scuppering stimulus and crushing optimism. With the Treasury, which has become the Dept for Austerity.

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Dominic Minghella @dminghella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

With commentators, who continually refer to the country's economy as if it were a household and have failed to find ways to explain the complexities of economics in a way that reflects reality.

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Dominic Minghella @dminghella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Maybe the fight is even with ourselves. We've lived so long with the Thatcherite idea that only markets can invest and all borrowing is harmful, that it almost feels foolish to point out that government CAN invest and government CAN safely borrow. And, when markets fail, government SHOULD step in.

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Dominic Minghella @dminghella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

But look around, and see the high streets declining, the schools rotting, the NHS struggling, the care sector in disarray, the millions (millions!) who don't have enough to eat, and remember that it doesn't have to be this way. A moribund economy can and should be stimulated.

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Dominic Minghella @dminghella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Our institutions need to be rewired to facilitate stimulus when required, holding down interest rates, deploying tools like QE, targetting investment for long term reward, and restoring optimism. This should be the business of our institutions, which it currently is not.

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Dominic Minghella @dminghella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

After the Second World War, our debt was over 250% of GDP; the cost of servicing that debt was over 5% of GDP; half of the economy had been diverted to the war effort, 1% of the population had been lost, and the country lay in tatters. Today's orthodoxy would require massive retrenchment.

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Dominic Minghella @dminghella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Certainly the idea of CREATING A NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE in those circumstances would be seen as laughable, a pipe-dream. But Attlee listened to Beveridge and Keynes (and the interestingly secretive 'XYZ club' of economists and advisers) and rose to the challenge.

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Dominic Minghella @dminghella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Our country - our NHS, our hungry millions, our children in poverty, our care homes, our schools, our unemployed youth, our universities, our utilities, our high streets - all need some more of that hope, belief and 'can-do' ism. Our country needs more Attlee. C'mon Andy. Be more Attlee.

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes, it is painful to say it, but if we do go the way of America, thee BBC's complicity will have played an important part. What is Happening to America? - 99% share.google/GU4zWA1O6Uix...

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Can Americans count on the USA remaining a democracy?

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hear, hear. Our politicians are frighteningly complacent.

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The 99% Organisation @99organisation.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The UK cannot afford even one more Budget that fails to deliver national renewal. We have been looking at what the Prime Minister and Chancellor must do if they want to move the needle before the next election. sh1.sendinblue.com/3gblfr62bglp...

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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

6 tax all income as income 7 NIC are a form of income tax and should be paid by people of all ages 8 PR and citizen's assemblies 9 level the playing field between on-line and off-line businesses - recognising the social importance, and employment benefits, of the latter 10 bloody get on with it!

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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

1 rejoin Europe 2 recoup all that was stolen by Brexit Brigade & COVID PPE scammers 3 regulate social media as publishers and regulate publishers with Leveson II 4 criminalise concealing foreign interference in UK politics, force radical transparency 5 tax wealth, criminalise tax & secrecy havens

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is vitally important for your MP to understand ...

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Dominic Minghella @dminghella.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"but Labour and the trade unions" "but Starmer's glasses" sheesh

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David Puttick FB99% @davidviking.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just sharing this now — because once you see #HowToGetFilthyRich on Channel 4, you’re going to want to sign it. It’s time to tax wealth, not work. Add your name and help make wealth taxes the first item on the new PM’s list. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...

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Dear future Prime Minister: It's time to tax the super-rich

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JB @vectisjon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The timing of these two 'donations' has to be questioned. Just as new legislation is being debated in the Lords. There was no real reason for these donations to have been made right now.

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LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes, and funnily enough, no one managed to trace the true origins of that either..

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Susanita @spanglish51.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

…. And spinning his ‘nothing to see here ; totally legal ‘ narrative 😡

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