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HerewardtheWoke

@johngfh.bsky.social
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Husband, Dad, retired teacher. Socialist, Humanist, peace & love, tolerance, for Social Justice, environmentalist. Love mountains, Norfolk, West Ham, cricket, food, history, culture, literature, nature and cats.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11h
The Tories have called for a 5 year freeze on the Minimum Wage to 'fix unemployment'. Corporate profits in the UK are £680bn a year, enough to employ 25.1m people on the Minimum Wage full time, including NI payments. There are only 1.8m unemployed people.
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rhonda611.bsky.social @rhonda611.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
So you can buy Mein Kampf in UK but not Sally Rooney? What a bunch of complete arseholes in Gov in UK.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
It upsets me that a man who stands accused of saying ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas em all’ to Jewish students at his college, who refuses to acknowledge or apologise for this, and more recently has made disparaging comments about ‘globalists’ & George Soros is the Jewish Chronicle’s latest columnist.
Labour must rule out electoral pacts with the Greens who have embraced antisemitic dogma
Reform UK's leader says sectarian politics and importation of fundamentalism have no place in our democracy
By Nigel Farage
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Here's how Capitalism works. Netflix made a record profit this year, $426,000 per employee. So they fired 1/15th of their workforce who helped make that profit. To make even more. The system needs to be destroyed.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
What did Karl Marx predict? He predicted that under unrestricted Capitalism money would be concentrated into the hands of a handful of individuals, that Governments would become controlled by the richest, and that wages would be subsistence level. He was right.
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HerewardtheWoke @johngfh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Care should put people before profit. Yet around 80% of the UK's largest care home providers are owned or backed by private equity. It's time to end profiteering in social care. Agree? Add your name 👇 party.coop/campaign/soc...
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End private profit in social care
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Call me a masochist, but I'm returning to this issue, as I feel it has been poorly understood. Please read the whole thread before responding. First, I hope we can agree that the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza and horrific crimes in the West Bank and the wider region.
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Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I've just signed the Palantir Pledge, joining politicians across the world in committing not to support any public contracts with this US tech giant. The next big battle here is to use the upcoming break clause to kick Palantir out of our NHS!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Palantir didn't have to evade the UK's controls on lobbyists to get astonishing, unminuted access to government ministers and officials, or even to hire them to lobby their colleagues. Why not? Because there aren't any. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Palantir is worming its way into the British state – it’s time to curb this controversial US company’s influence | George Monbiot
Tom Watson has said ‘mob rule’ must not decide public contracts. Perhaps he should take a look at his new employer, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Well done, Ma'am. I love it. Racist, sexist asswipes probably hate seeing posts like this. Fucking GOOD. Follow me for more things like this daily that will piss you off if you're a goddamn moron. The more the merrier. 🖕😅🖕
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
On the birthday of Margaret Thatcher, let us take a moment to remember what a cruel, heartless piece of shit she was.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
How wonderful 🫶🏼 #BookSky
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Norway has removed all of its $2tn Investment Fund from Israel linked banks, as it continues its policy of BDS against Israel. Well done Norway.
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Earlier this year, E3G released a big report with the Department of War Studies at Kings College which showed that our dependence on gas is a major national security risk. Cutting heat pumps to fund defence is like not paying for a flu jab so you can buy lemsip. It makes no sense.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
You don't fix one security crisis by creating another. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say
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Bethany Williams @bethanyincbr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Food for thought
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Ailín 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 @oloinsigh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Somewhat suspicious, is it not?
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The planet isn't "dying" of natural causes. Forests don't just disappear. They are logged. Oceans don't just choke. They are polluted. Rivers don't just dry up. They are diverted. This is not a tragedy. It's ecocide. And ecocide should be a crime. #StopEcocide
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In the least surprising news of the century, vast majority of racist flag shaggers who go about brandishing crosses and saying that we're a Christian country... don't pray, or go to church or read the Bible www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity
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HerewardtheWoke @johngfh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Cladding.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Delighted that Navi Pillay, chair of the UN commission which found Israel guilty of genocide in Gaza, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Let Trump and Netanyahu splutter and fume: the truth becomes ever harder to deny.
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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 10/10/2026
This is an extraordinary way of saying that 2 in 3 Brits think @zackpolanski.bsky.social SHOULDN'T resign! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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One in three Brits thinks Polanski should resign after by-election defeat, poll shows
Green leader facing calls to quit from within his own party
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This 👇
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
From Aberdeen to Lambeth, Newcastle-under-Lyme to Holborn & St Pancras, Reform contested five by-elections yesterday. 💪 They lost all five… 😬 Five contests. Five defeats. That’s eleven out of eleven lost in a fortnight. Reform are not inevitable. 😉 Have a great weekend! #ReformLose
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Police in Bristol said they asked organisers of a far-right protest in city centre to move it or reschedule, because the big Shine Night Walk big cancer charity 10K fundraising walk of 2,000 people - mainly women - was planned for Friday night. Police confirmed the group refused, so walk postponed.
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Far right 'were asked to move' protest for cancer charity fundraiser
Police say they asked far-right Bristol Rises protesters to change their plans but 'an agreement could not be reached' so now the big Cancer Research event has been postponed
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 10/10/2026
Question: Does Israel have a right to exist? Correct answer: Your question is racist because it centres the coloniser rather than its victims. It's not Israel whose land is being stolen. It's not Israelis who live under brutal occupation. Ask me about Palestine's right to exist.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
'The most telling thing about the backlash against the Greens’ “Zionism is racism” motion is the refusal of the media to platform Palestinians. We’ve had wall-to-wall coverage centring the feelings of Zionists, but we’ve heard almost nothing from their victims.' www.facebook.com/CouncilEstat...
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'm for the movement that converts all billionaire pleasure yachts into fishing trawlers to feed the hungry, or housing for the homeless. (image is of Jeff Bezos' yacht)
Image of Jeff Bezos' yacht.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Funny how these errors always seem to head in the same direction. A bit like Richard Tice's tax mistakes.
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HerewardtheWoke @johngfh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Doesn't she famously have a steak for lunch according to one of her previous interviews? Showing her to be a rabid meat-eating anti-veggie, testosterone filled Maggie Thatcher clone, I presume.
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HerewardtheWoke @johngfh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Might be forgetting something but probably It's a Wonderful Life as I watch it every year, although that could also mean that it could be the Alastair Sim version of A Christmas Carol. The George C Scott version and the Muppet one would be contenders but came out after I was born.
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ireland is pushing a motion to ban Israel from FIFA and UEFA. It has made JD Vance very mad. It's time to remove Israel from world sport, don't you agree?
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The reckoning is here…
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New Substack on what those who claim to care about ‘protecting women and girls’ should actually be doing - tashthinks.substack.com/p/protecting...
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‘Protecting Women and Girls’
....And What the ‘Brave Patriots’ who Claim to be Concerned with Protecting Us Would Actually Be Doing if they Really Cared
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Conservative party's joke Bayeaux Tapestry, whilst having some funny moments, is basically cringe. What is unforgiveable is the racism. #ToryRacism [H/T @eberlmat.bsky.social @generalboles.bsky.social @seanjones.org]
Part of the border of a scene from the Conservative party's joke Bayeaux Tapestry
Migrants who are clearly not white in a small boat
Rats from the small boat chase cats
Tax payers lying on the ground dead
The implication being the migrants brought disease with themA scene from the Conservative party's joke Bayeaux Tapestry
Keir Starmer giving money and a key to some non white peopleA scene from the Conservative party's joke Bayeaux Tapestry
Kemi Badenoch giving a key to a white couple
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh no the USA is no longer using RAF Fairford as a base to bomb Iran. Making us safer by not being complicit in their war on Iran. Oh wait, that's a good thing.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
‘We are different from Reform. Totes’ Kemi’s Conservatives. Also Kemi’s Conservatives - ‘we want to completely deregulate everything, stop people talking or doing anything about climate change and if you claim from the welfare state you’re a lazy loser and we’re coming for the little you have’.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There was a time when the Tories, however hypocritically, claimed to want to protect our natural heritage. Now they're just a party of vandals, ripping down the few protections the living world has for the sake of their rich chums. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders"
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Tories have announced they would abolish Natural England, support a Third Runway & pull the UK out of the Aarhus Convention - in further signs they’ve totally given up on Middle England, don’t give a toss about the environment & just want to please some wealthy grouse moor owners & raving YIMBYs
Tory party press release: “[We will leave the Aarhus] Convention that powers the lawfare hindering every major infrastructure project in this country.”

“Abolish Natural England and the Environment Agency, moving to a more streamlined regulatory landscape to protect our environment.”Tory PR: “Support a Third Runway at Heathrow Airport and wider expansion, increasing capacity to deliver cheaper flights, better connections for passengers, and more exports of high-value British goods.”
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Truly vile. At a public event, Mike Graham mocked Andy Burnham’s father for having Alzheimer’s, less than three weeks after Roy Burnham died and apparently on the day of his funeral. Just the lowest of the low.
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