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Ianto FP

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A concerned Dad and Granddad who would like to make a difference whilst on this planet

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10h
Brexit has been a Tory masterclass in ideological madness. It’s widely accepted by the country as a barrelling shitshow but *still* their entitled little reps strut about insisting we can’t be allowed to vote on it again. Who TF does this person think she is? And why TF should she decide anything?
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires I discovered via an FOI request that DEFRA’s commitment in the National Adaptation Programme to run a “wildfire risk programme” since 2023 “was not brought into effect”. #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires
FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15h
Suella Braverman too proud for benefits... Went to university for free Studied in Europe using the heavily subsidised Erasmus program Claimed ALL her rent, energy, council tax bills for at least 5 years Millions of pounds in expenses claims She just doesn't call them benefits
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22h
That over 3,500 have been arrested for non violent protest, and less than ten for actual criminal behaviour, is a stain on Starmer, Cooper, and Mahmood. Baron Hain calling it shameful, is just the tip of the iceberg on how history will document this Labour policy. Labour needs to do better.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22h
Overcrowding in UK A&E depts and treating patients in corridors linked to hundreds of deaths. Neoliberals urge cuts in public spending, silence on human consequences. Delayed care leads to premature deaths People sacrificed to gods of fiscal policies.
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Overcrowding in A&E linked to 'hundreds of deaths a week', study finds
A review of more than 19,000 adult patients found that for every 10% increase in emergency department occupancy, the chance of dying in the following 28 days increased by 1%.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21h
Energy suppliers urge UK govt to help households struggling with energy bills. Silence on cutting profit margins, windfall taxes on excessive profits. Household energy debt heading to £7bn. 120,000 a year die in fuel poverty. We can't afford privatisation and resulting profiteering.
bbc.co.uk
Suppliers pile pressure on government over energy bills
Immediate action is needed to help households struggling with bills this winter, says trade body Energy UK.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20h
This intensely stupid right wing idea is an extension of Brexit ignorance and prejudice. It represents the failure of our politics and our media to act in our best interests and to inform voters properly. Brexit is more than enough idiocy. Leaving the ECHR shouldn’t even be on the radar.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The UK Green Party actually stands for something now, something that at least 70% of the UK support, Anti-Zionism, we do not support the War Criminal State of Israel. Something which ALL the other parties do without question. Vote for change, vote Green.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
UK chancellor to meet bank bosses for a pre-budget summit to discuss possible tax raid. Banks profiteering but resent windfall tax. Any chance of ending bank subsidies? Any chance of meeting pensioners, disabled, sick, poor to hear their concerns?
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Healey summons UK bank chiefs to pre-budget summit next week
The chancellor, John Healey, has called in the CEOs of lenders including Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest for talks ahead of his crucial budget statement.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/10/2026
Well said 👏♥️ "Without immigration, we would be much poorer, actually, as a country as a whole, not just as a city."
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And you don't even have to become a paid member -- just get on the email list for free and see what it's all about and what's actually going on! --> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/signup-newsl...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
More proof if any is needed that the entire Fly Dubai Hijack is an Israeli False Flag hoax. The entire plane would have been a wreck, if it had even survived, if it went through the conditions its flight recorder claims it did. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...
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Flydubai: What happens when a plane plunges 17,000 feet?
A flight instructor recreates the Flydubai jet’s near-vertical 17,000 foot dive in a simulator.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Well said greenparty.org.uk/2026/10/04/j...
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Joint statement from the Greens' 5 MPs, Leader and Co-Deputy Leaders - Green Party
As Green Party leaders and MPs, we will always uphold universal human rights. We will never tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment. We will continue to stand in opposition to genocide, ethn...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Shell is 100% Government funded in the UK. You pay all their wages, for all their Oil Rigs and all their tankers. But the fuel belongs to them. They really are laughing at you.
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viewvalley.bsky.social @viewvalley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
BBC News - still waiting for the 40 new hospitals ? Tories pledge to build 50,000 new prison places - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Tories pledge to build 50,000 new prison places
The party says its proposals would stop prisoners being released early and cut crime.
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runtokeepup.bsky.social @runtokeepup.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The NHS and the country are in a very poor way because of 14 years of disastrous Tory governments Charles Moore it will take much longer than two years for Labour governments to fix the bloody mess the Tories left behind !!! #r4today
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
DO YOU WANT THE UK TO JOIN THE EU? 🇪🇺 Then here’s the European Movement UK link - for becoming a member, getting on the email list, and/or finding your local group: www.europeanmovement.co.uk Please do get on the list at least - and share everywhere.
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European Movement
Since 1949, we've held an unshakable belief in our country, that together, we are better with Europe. Join the European Movement today.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot
A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
EXCLUSIVE Reform MP Sarah Pochin asked a question about the impact second homes have on rural areas, just 48 hours before buying a £800k second home in Wales… willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/reform-mp-...
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Reform UK MP buys £800k Welsh second home just days after questioning their impact
Is this a case of politicians saying ‘do as I say, not as I do’?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
US private equity owner of Boots to sell it to a Canadian private equity firm for $9bn (£7bn). NHS prescriptions are a major money makers. Otherwise its prices are high. No UK tax levied on dividends paid by Boots to its foreign owners.
theguardian.com
Boots owner ‘closing in on sale to Canada’s Weston family for $9bn’
Deal would mark return of Canadian family to UK after it sold Selfridges department store for £4bn in 2022
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"BBC criticised for not having Green representative on QT panel ahead of by-election" www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bbc...
thelondoneconomic.com
BBC criticised for not having Green representative on Question Time ahead of by-election
The BBC has been criticised for not having a Green Party representative on the Question Time panel ahead of a by-election next week.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026
If you, btw, would like an example of a place where data centres are *actually* being restricted by legislation, go look at Denmark - where they are now last in the grid connection queue, prioritising socially valuable load growth (like electrification, heating, cooling, new homes) first
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Denmark Puts Data Centers Last in New Grid Law
Denmark's emergency grid law puts data centers last behind households and green-transition projects, formalizing rationing that began in February 2026.
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Simunch @simunch1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Where was the press outrage and coverage when the Tories were in charge? They shut prisons, didn't build new ones, messed up policing and probation! MoJ data showed that over 10k prisoners were released early under the ECSL scheme under the Tories between October 2023 and June 2024. #ToriesGone819
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have said before and will again: any electoral reform commission must NOT rule out a change of system BEFORE the next election if needed. We cannot risk a minority vote handing a huge majority to any party that would take a shredder to democracy itself.
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New tech should mean: Shorter working weeks. Earlier retirement. More abundance. More time to actually live. If instead it means mass unemployment while a handful of corporations become unimaginably wealthy, that's not technological progress failing. That's ownership working exactly as designed.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK law firm partners collect record pay, up to £2.5m per equity partner. Partners treated as self-employed. Firms don't pay employer national insurance (ENI) on profit taken by partners. £150k ENI dodged for every £1m profit shared. Public purse deprived. Must end this tax perk. archive.ph/vJCIj
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Top UK law firm partners take home record pay
Spate of listings in Hong Kong boosted IPO work and related transactions
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's the short answer. Social Care would be affordable if it was Nationalised. So would Energy. And Water. And Housing. And so on. The problem, no profit for billionaires. But that would be THEIR problem.
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Rod Evans @ultra-rejoiner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I just signed a petition to stop Big Oil preventing cleaner flights. Planes can already fly on cleaner fuel made from waste, and the EU has a law to make it happen. But the oil giants like BP and Shell are lobbying to kill it. Please add your name now: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-09...
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Keep Big Oil out of our skies
Share the petition and you'll help multiply the impact of this campaign: Keep Big Oil out of our skies
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 01/10/2026
Letter to the editor: Why choose between solar power and farming when the same land can provide both? A reader asks why agrivoltaics isn’t getting more attention in water-stressed East Anglia.
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Letter: Why aren’t we considering agrivoltaics?
Letter to the editor
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How on earth did we let that triumvirate of thickheaded wickedness - Farage, Johnson and Rees-Mogg - persuade us that Europeans were our enemies?!
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TAFF 💕🐷🐄🐑🐥🪿🙏Annibyniaeth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @vegan-4-indy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is so moving .....🙏
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They claim it costs £8,000 a month to keep someone in a care home The actual cost including staff, energy, accommodation and food is more like £3,000 But the Landlord, owners, and staffing companies need their vast profits Renationalise Social Care and it will be affordable
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The UK spends more money on Tax Cuts for Private Pensions, 80% of which goes to millionaires, than it spends on the State Pension. If you want to punish the rich pensioners and save the most money you cut the one that is almost all going to millionaires.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What an incredible coincidence, Netanyahu warns of a terrorist attack, and less than 24 hours later one happens.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham could change tax relief on pension contributions for his projects. Gross tax relief in 2024-2025 was £83.9bn. 71% went to 7.7m additional & higher rate taxpayers. 29% to 30.4m basic rate taxpayers. Giving relief to all at 20% leaves £14.5bn spare for social care. But equality/equity?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WE SAY NO TO PALANTIR 🙅‍♂️ We and 120+ organisations and unions across Europe are calling on our governments and the European Commission to scrap all existing public sector contracts with Palantir. Read the open letter here: www.globaljustice.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Text reads: 120+ organisations and unions across Europe call on governments and the European Commission to SCRAP Palantir contracts. Palantir provides support to warmongers, drains our public wealth, deepens our dependence on tech billionaires. WE SAY NO TO PALANTIR.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
George is quite right on this. I discovered via FOI requests that just 5% of all woodland creation grants go to support natural regeneration of trees, and 95% to tree planting. I’ll continue to push DEFRA to fix this. www.theguardian.com/environment/... bsky.app/profile/geor...
theguardian.com
Government ‘failing to support natural regeneration of trees in England’
Campaigners say targets for woodland creation are unlikely to be met because 95% of grants are for planting
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Richest 1% of Britons owns more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population combined. The concentration of wealth in fewer hands has not provided the necessary economic stimulus. Need redistribution.
leftfootforward.org
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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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Green Party leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social has criticised Andy Burnham's plans to scrap the triple lock, calling on the government to 'tax the rich' instead
leftfootforward.org
‘Tax the rich’ – Zack Polanski criticises Burnham’s triple lock plans
"Why is the government going after pensioners?"
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Deloitte paid its UK-based partners £1.125m. Firm has 784 equity partners. Due to self-employed status of partners, employer national insurance (ENI) is not paid on profits shared. 150,000 ENI avoided on every £1m of profits shared. Billions lost across the country. Must end this privilege.
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Deloitte UK advisory arm rebounds to growth as new boss insists AI 'can’t replace lived experience'
Big Four giant Deloitte's new UK boss, Darren Graves, insisted AI “can’t replace lived experience” as the firm's advisory arms return to growth.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This mindset is the least we deserve from a leader. Of course it has to be turned into action. But this kind of ambition and love for the country, this kind of personal but positive vision is what takes people with you. How feeble-minded Farage and Badenoch seem. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Photo of Burnham waving to the audience in front of HOPE AGAIN backdrop Burnham was not going to die wondering. He knew he might be delivering one of the longest suicide notes in history, but he did it anyway. Because he couldn't not do it. Better to go down remaining true to his principles than being slowly airbrushed out of history like the previous six prime ministers. Failures all. Andy was prepared to burn through all his political capital right there in Liverpool, right then. Not just for his own legacy but for a country he wanted to rebuild. It was the only way he could look himself in the mirror.
Honour his parents.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
UK household energy bills forecast to rise 16%, or £276, in January. Household energy debt expected to hit £7bn soon. Heating v Eating dilemma. 120,000 a year die in poverty. Companies profiteer, fuelling costs, inflation, poverty. Public ownership gives govt more policy options.
bbc.co.uk
Household energy bills forecast to see biggest rise in four years
A typical household faces an annual gas and electricity bill of £1,999 from January, based on a key forecast.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maximum monthly State Pension. Luxembourg £5,426 Norway £1,839 Switzerland £1,657 Denmark £1,486 Sweden £1,373 Belgium £1,338 Netherlands £1,322 France £1,254 Spain £1,238 UK £997 Guess which is unaffordable?
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Now we need to see similar energy behind a commitment to get dirty money out of politics, clamp down on donations, greater transparency over lobbying, Lords reform and an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying. Only then will we have a politics people can truly trust
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham announces end of triple-lock on the state pension from 2030. It will be replaced by double-lock, slower growth in state pension. Full state pension is already less than 50%of the minimum wage. Poverty awaits future retirees. £500bn of taxes not collected by HMRC since 2010.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If I had a choice between making pensioners poorer and making billionaires poorer, I'd go for the latter option
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Netanyahu can 'hack' your phone because Israel has such close relationships with Google, Apple and Microsoft it might as well own them. Not because it needs to do any actual hacking.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thus it has access to all your microsoft accounts and data, all your google accounts and search history and all your iphone data. It doesn't need to do any hacking.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's not pensions you can't afford. It's not immigrants. It's not Disabled People. Or University educations. Or Healthcare. Or Housing. It's billionaires you can't afford, they are stealing all of this and much more.
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