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IzzyKaren

@izzykaren.bsky.social
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Green Socialist, formerly Labour - never again. Northern English. Sourdough, Crochet, knitting, Gardening, Golden Age detective fiction enthusiast.

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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 10h
What happened to “I can’t do anything as I’m sticking to the Manifesto”? Funny how they can do all the things that make people’s lives worse, even though they aren’t in the manifeso, but doing anything that would help “Sorry, impossible as it’s not in the manifesto”
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Free Speech For Peace @freespeechforpeace.bsky.social · 19h
Burnham cons through headlines: People going into a care home will STILL have to pay accommodation costs. Fahnbulleh acknowledged those costs could be “very hefty”. When Bruce pointed out that some people could therefore STILL end up having to sell their homes, Fahnbulleh did not deny it.
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Kev @caoimhin1.bsky.social · 14h
Don't you just love this new incarnation of The Starmer Party
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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 15h
Burnham to introduce scheme where wheelchairs for the under 25s are replaced with work experience placements, media commentators to call him "Jeremy Corbyn" in response and claim that they live in Cuba.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18h
UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 18h
Our politicians are in the pockets of corporations and billionaires.
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Recent lobbyist for Palantir had key role in helping Andy Burnham become PM
Exclusive: Martha Dalton worked closely with Burnham’s team on byelection that secured his return to parliament
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20h
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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Tory Fibs @toryfibs.bsky.social · 18h
Number of Protestants signing public letter in support of the residents of the Garvaghy Road • 140 (8pm Thursday) • 400 (12am Thursday) • 480 (8am Friday) It. Will. Go. Higher.
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 21h
The minister leading a government review of personal independence payment has refused four times to rule out cuts to spending, but he has promised no disabled person will be forced to accept products or services instead of cash. #PIP #TimmsReview www.disabilitynewsservice.com/timms-refuse...
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Timms refuses four times to rule out cuts to PIP, but makes firm promise on cash payments
The minister leading a government review of personal independence payment (PIP) has refused four times to rule out cuts to spending, but he has promised no disabled person will be forced to accept …
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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lib Dem throws a tantrum because some pensioners gained due to decent government policies in the 60/70s. He’s also not happy because there are only 2.2m pensioners in poverty and far more families. Does he want policies that make everyone’s life better? Nah, he wants to make more old people poor
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Digital ID by the back door… Andy Burnham's Culture Secretary announced yesterday that a social media ban – which would require ALL of us to submit digital ID to go online – will come into effect by next March. Remind me again HOW our new PM will introduce Change!
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Capital gains taxed at lower rates than wages. 2024-25: 584000 people paid £24.2bn capital gains tax (CGT) on £127.3bn gains. 45% of CGT paid by those with gains of £5m+, less than 1% of CGT payers. Align CGT rates with tax rates on wages, generate £12bn-£14bn. More if NIC charged.
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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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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Who should pensioners trust more ... Labour who propose to cut the Triple Lock to fund social care Reform Ltd who propose to end the Triple LOck (and maybe pensions altogether?) to fund tax cuts fro the super-rich memes via We Demand UK
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B heard media 💚🇵🇸 @bheardmedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK vice-president of Palantir & former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson wrote a threatening letter to Labour MP Clive Lewis, a vocal critics “They’re saying: ‘We are watching you. We are monitoring you. And that’s what we do. Your card is marked “Honestly, it feels very Palantir. Very Big Brother.”
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Michael Caine "I voted for Brexit... I'd rather be a poor master than a rich servant... You get lost, and then you find your way, and it will be alright." This Brexiteer lives in LA, has never been a poor anything, and there are zero consequences for his actions on him.
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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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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Comparison of state pension in G7 shows that the UK state pension is the least generous. Countries have wide variance in how retirement incomes are funded and how returns are calculated. Purists might want more nuanced data but this is what we have. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The only act of note that Burnham has taken so far, and it's one that worsens the lot of the poorest pensioners.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
South West Water pleaded guilty to sewage dumping, fined £8m, a decade after the events. Yet govt introduced more deregulation. England's water industry controlled by organisations with criminal convictions. None has licence revoked. No exec prosecuted. Customers fleeced.
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South West Water fined almost £8m for sewage spills
South West Water previously entered guilty pleas to pollution offences spanning six years.
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mcmh44.bsky.social @mcmh44.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"All pensions should be linked to MP's salary increases."
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Super-rich UK energy/food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises Working-class face soaring prices, worsening climate impacts. Billionaires owning food/energy companies profit from hardship The same class funds political parties, uses tax havens, preaches low wages to workers.
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Super-rich UK energy and food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises
Analysis has shown the costs of daily essentials soaring in recent years, thanks in part to climate shocks, wars and geopolitical tensions
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
WHY should the choice be between decent pension or decent care? tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/prot...
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Protect the Triple Lock
Britain doesn’t have to choose between a decent pension and decent care. We can — and should — provide both.
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Emma Lewis @petchary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi... Palantir, the data surveillance company at the heart of the British state, has warned its most outspoken parliamentary critic, the Labour MP Clive Lewis, that it has been surveilling his anti-Palantir activities. @labourlewis.bsky.social
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'We’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's been 9 years since Grenfell, the CPS have just been asked to consider Manslaughter charges. The killers should already be in jail, they should have been years ago. YOU would have been.
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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sometimes, we say enough is enough. We are tired of the hate, the harm, the division and the misrepresentation. This is just one of 113k cis women who signed and spoke. If you feel the same, and know others who’d agree, please sign and share: notinourname.org.uk
Blonde haired women smiles. She says “I signed because it was a huge relief to find a group of women who feel the same way I do. Some women are uncomfortable with the negative stories we keep being told about trans people — I am one of them. 

I’m proud to call myself a NION woman”
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
".. vandalism of the Lansley reforms.. fracturing the NHS & treating healthcare as a market chasing profit" So you're kicking out the private companies, abolishing trusts, scrapping the internal market & returning the NHS to being an integrated national health service, right?
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If Burnham's speech was a move in the right direction, he would have the same enemies as Corbyn. He doesn't - indeed many of those who set up the coup against Corbyn's socialist Labour shadow cabinet are supporters of Burnham.
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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham's strategy was to turn workers against pensioners whilst forcing the poorest pensioners to fund a care facility they will not benefit from Not my idea of progressive politcs
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Force more pensioners into poverty to fund care, that more pensioners will need because they are in poverty. "Fiscal rules" logic strikes again.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our pensioners are at present, even under the triple lock considerably worse off than our fellow Europeans- & many others. Why is it always pensions & welfare benefits that are singled out? Bring in a wealth tax to fund the national social care service. ##labourisntlabouranymore
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If wages are 30k and go up by 3% (£900) and pensions are 12k and go up by 3% (£360) they have not gone up by the same amount of money have they? But rent for both people may have gone up by the same amount. Or the weekly shop.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The energy price cap is going up by 4% tomorrow, & the latest forecast says its going to rise by another 16% in January.
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The Damned George Gremlin @slugfarmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A shit pension that had improved because of the triple lock but is still shit will stay shit because of fiscal rules bollocks. Labour hates old people, disabled people, brown people, trans people and poor people in general.
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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trust in politics, says @andyburnham.bsky.social 🤔 Conference refuses to debate a motion to kick the vile Palantir out of our NHS data www.middleeasteye.net/news/labour-...
middleeasteye.net
Labour conference blocks motion to cancel Palantir contract over Israeli army links
Palantir has a £330m contract to process the UK's National Health Service data
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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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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 29/09/2026
New triple lock polling today finds that 58% of Brits think the triple lock should be maintained (fieldwork ~11am to 4pm today) Definitely/probably should be maintained: 58% Def/prob should not be maintained: 20% % saying maintain by age 18-24: 35% (net +9) 25-49: 45% (net +23) 50-64: 66% 65+: 82%
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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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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Trevor Stables 🇫🇷🔶🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @trevor0257.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's appalling. They could save 8 times as much by removing tax subsidies on pensions contributions by higher rate taxpayers of £18 billion per year to be accurate. Pensioners are on £6.42 per hour!!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pensions are going up 3.9% because they have a Triple Lock NHS drug prices have been going up at an average rate of 5-7% a year, EVERY year, for the last 16 years We don't talk about this 'TRIPLE LOCK'. Which has cost the NHS tens of billions Because it is for the BILLIONAIRES
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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham's 'National Care Service' will be "free at the point of use". Okay, so he's talked a lot about the failures of privatisation, yet this suggests that private companies will be the ones providing the care - profit from basic care 🤔
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why is the Government going after pensioners? It's time to tax the rich
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This Labour government are completely unable to look outside their neoliberal ideological box, for solutions! Why are poor pensioners being asked to foot the bill for social care Mr Burnham?? Whilst Billionaires do not pay a fair share of tax, to support our society’s most vulnerable!!
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GJdop @gjdop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
👇 bsky.app/profile/gjdo...
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why cut pensions to “fund” social care? Why not tax the mega-rich…?
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Jill Hayward @frdragonspouse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So they've raised the SPA by 7 years over the course of my working life, and just as I get within a few years of one of the worst pensions in Europe, they toy with dropping the triple lock. I wonder why young people don't see the point of working? Becoming part of society isn't much of a draw.
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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Always the weak, vulnerable & poor
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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It seems that the bond market is spooked by Government spending on welfare but cool with Government spending on warfare.
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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why is it when Labour restricts government spending on the NHS or nationalising utilities it is because we must not destabilise the Bond Market But when we obey NATO directives to increase military spending to 3.5% of GDP & then 5%, the Bond Market is never mentioned?
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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So, the bond markets are now in control? 🤔
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