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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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Ianto FP @iantofp.bsky.social · 6h
They’re talking to the rich people? 🤔
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 6h
For 14yrs, the Tories cratered our economy, added thousands to our cost of living, melted down public services and brexited us into decades of eye-watering expense and lost opportunity. That’s still their plan. With tax breaks for the super rich paid for by welfare cuts. So what TF is this headline?
THE TIMES

Thursday October 8 2026 | thetimes.com | No 75158

Tories will make you better off
Badenoch vows to scrap inheritance tax on family homes and abolish Labour's levy on properties worth more than £2m
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LordSteveyPofStoke @lordsteveyp.bsky.social · 6h
And again the deafening silence about "protecting our women and kids" from Farage, Tice, Robinson and co. when the Offenders are British and White. It's almost as if, when criminals don't fit in with their agenda of hate and misinformation, nothing is said.
Eight child sex offenders have been handed prison sentences totalling around 100 years following a series of investigations by specialist Kent Police teams.
Not a word from Reform and the rest of the far right. I wonder why???
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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 11h
Vote for Zack Polanski because a vote for anyone else is a vote for more fossil fuels
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Alex Papadopoulos @egeasri.bsky.social · 21h
The project is expected to generate enough electricity annually to offset the power use of both Magic Mountain and neighboring Hurricane Harbor Los Angeles. Shade for cars. Solar generation. Battery storage. EV charging. One project, multiple benefits. #Solar #CleanEnergy electrek.co/2026/10/05/s...
electrek.co
Six Flags has installed one of the largest solar carports in the US
Six Flags Magic Mountain's new solar carports will offset both parks' annual electricity usage, shade cars, and offer EV charging.
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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 15h
Please help get the vote out in Holborn and St Pancras today. Get Zack Polanski into parliament and change British politics step by step.
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Extreme weather, caused by the climate crisis, is affecting the UK’s public health and food supplies, driving up the cost-of-living crisis and devastating damaging natural habitats. This is an emergency, so why aren’t we treating it like one? [1/2]
Nadia Whittome MP on stage with three other people at the Nottingham Broadway cinema. A still from the National Emergency Briefing documentary viewing.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14h
The threats to our resilience are the same as the threats to our democracy: corporate lobbyists shaping policy, with dire consequences for our ability to withstand crises. Burnham seems to want to change this. But is he aware of scale of the task? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Stockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe? | George Monbiot
The UK state is dumping its responsibilities on our doorsteps, while green-lighting policies that lead us closer to crisis, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
UK govt plans £1bn energy bills help for poorer households. How about cutting energy profit margins, 100% windfall tax on excess profits before turning to the public purse. UK energy sector is mostly foreign-owned. Dividends paid without any UK tax deduction. End this perk, raise billions.
theguardian.com
Chancellor plans major intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy bills
Exclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Burning trees is not a climate solution
theguardian.com
Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Making friends with Nigel Pedos, rapists, conmen & neo-Nazis - vile scum of the earth
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Lambeth Green Party @lambethgreenparty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The super rich have too much power over our lives and our political system – that's why the Greens stand for taxing wealth and capping political donations. Clearly, the by-election is about people vs money. They have the millionaires – we need to fight back and show up for @zackpolanski.bsky.social!
Lambeth Green Party poster criticising a wealthy donor, featuring a newspaper-style headline reading "MILLIONAIRE DONATES £50K TO STOP ZACK POLANSKI WINNING BY-ELECTION," a handwritten yellow slogan "IT'S PEOPLE VS MONEY!" and the party logo.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 06/10/2026
The Conservatives want to spend £10 billion on a 'British Iron Dome'. Dr Ellie Chowns says real security starts with facing where the real threats are - and top of the list is the climate crisis.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 07/10/2026
“I’ve seen first-hand how hard those in power have to be pushed before warm words become real actions. That’s why getting more Greens into Parliament really matters.” Caroline Lucas on why more Green voices in Parliament matter in the fight against climate change.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Failures of privatisation. Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 jobs Foreign-owned RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets even after regulator lowered them. Postage: 1st class, £1.80, 2nd class 91p. When privatized in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p. Poor service at triple price. Customers fleeced.
bbc.co.uk
Royal Mail plans to cut 2,500 head office jobs
The postal service firm wants to cut the head office and other jobs by the end of 2027.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ofwat appoints Grant Thornton to help improve South East Water performance l £6m wasted. Similar exercise at Thames Water yielded zilch. SEW has £1.7bn debt, can't raise new money, loses 100m litres of water a day to leaks, customers fleeced for decades. End the scam. Nationalise water.
news.sky.com
Ofwat lines up independent monitor for troubled South East Water
The water regulator plans to appoint Grant Thornton to a multimillion-pound contract overseeing the utility's performance and turnaround plan, Sky News learns.
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Beautiful everyday Ladybird things The Mamod model steam engine Artist: Harry Wingfield
Two children, a girl and a boy, look intently at a steaming toy steam engine 
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Politics Phil @politicsphil.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Never widely reported, is that in 2010, one of Cameron's first acts was to make 500 employees of HMRC, redundant.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax’s planned datacentre to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood to produce its electricity, nearly double the CO2 emissions of all flights from London Gatwick airport. Drax, a highly profitable company gets subsidies to burn wood and produce electricity How many lives will it ruin?
theguardian.com
Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
via Meg Graham
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Make Polluters Pay @makepolluterspay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oil and gas companies are about to cash in another quarter of obscene profits, but the Chancellor isn't using the Budget to stop the plunder. Next Weds 14 Oct we’re holding a rally outside Parliament to tell the Chancellor to #MakePollutersPay - join us! www.makepolluterspay.co.uk/take-action/...
makepolluterspay.co.uk
Pre-Budget Photo Op | Make Polluters Pay UK
Join frontline workers, trade unionists, climate-impacted communities, MPs, NGOs, faith leaders and activists outside Parliament to help demonstrate the breadth of support for making oil and gas compa...
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Rod Evans @ultra-rejoiner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I've just signed this petition demanding real climate action at COP31. Particularly because hosts Turkyie and Australia are big coal users. If you agree, please join me: act.350.org/sign/cop31/?...
act.350.org
Tell the COP31 Presidencies: Phase Out Fossil Fuels and Deliver a Just Transition
In November, Türkiye and Australia will host this year's UN Climate Talks (COP31). For two weeks, they'll steer the negotiations that decide how fast and how fairly the world moves off coal, oil and g...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Shadow chancellor vows to cut tax in every Tory budget As always, it would be tax cuts for the rich. No mention of corporate welfare, equitable distribution of income/wealth. We haven't recovered from previous Tory follies. NHS queues, potholed road, crumbling schools. What will they cut next?
bbc.co.uk
Shadow chancellor vows to cut at least one tax in every Tory budget
Shadow ministers unveiled a series of policies on day two of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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...
theguardian.com
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 · 05/10/2026
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 · 05/10/2026
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 · 05/10/2026
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.
news.sky.com
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 · 05/10/2026
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 · 05/10/2026
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?
news.sky.com
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...
aljazeera.com
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...
greenparty.org.uk
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.
europeanmovement.co.uk
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...
theguardian.com
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-...
willhaywardwales.substack.com
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
servola.de
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
ft.com
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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Ianto FP @iantofp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s about time that Toyota got on board with EV’s after slagging them off for 10 years whilst promoting their polluting hybrids
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