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kentishgirl.bsky.social @kentishgirl.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Trump wants new Fed chair to be 'totally independent' 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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kentishgirl.bsky.social @kentishgirl.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Government spends 25 times more on benefits than jobs for young people, says Milburn Surely Universal Basic Income must be considered now? Low in bureaucracy. High in self esteem and independence.
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kentishgirl.bsky.social @kentishgirl.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Shop staff threatened with acid attacks by thieves. "We need more youth clubs, more stuff for the kids to be engaged with, not sitting at home twiddling their thumbs and getting up to stupidity on the streets."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A UAE firm backed by a member of the royal family secretly bought a 49% stake in the Trump family’s crypto company — to the tune of $500 million. Then the U.S. gave the UAE access to tightly guarded AI chips. Trump’s crypto corruption is off the charts.
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Trump's Crypto Corruption, Explained
Trump's crypto corruption is off the charts.Here's how the president's latest grift could endanger our democracy and cra
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kentishgirl.bsky.social @kentishgirl.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Many years old. Look how it is working out.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Water companies have extracted £57bn+ in profits, built up huge debts, raised bills, & now expect us to pay £104bn more! The govts response? We'll have a new regulator. They'll do anything other than scrap the profiteering companies & take our water back into public ownership
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Left: Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, tells the UK parliament, "All men are created equal.. Every person has dignity and value.. We built an entire nation on that premise" Right: RawStory, "ICE forces showering citizen outside into freezing weather in his underwear"
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
If Labour won’t nationalise water, their “big overhaul” is a con. Sewage in our rivers. Bills going up. Profits protected. Public services should be in public hands.
Government unveils biggest overhaul to water in a generation
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kentishgirl.bsky.social @kentishgirl.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
US believes its power matters more than international law, UN chief tells BBC. I am sure that this is true. Nightmare for the world.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Whatever’s in these Epstein Files (and we have some idea) must be really bad.
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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
This, 1000%. Most school-refusing young people are distressed, overwhelmed, anxious. Fines, stern talks, ‘parenting classes’ explaining that attendance is important will not change that. Inclusive classrooms and SEND support might.
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 18/01/2026
#BoycottUS www.detrumpez-vous.com
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
"Brilliant"
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 18/01/2026
#BoycottUS www.detrumpez-vous.com
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kentishgirl.bsky.social @kentishgirl.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
When is it time to impeach? Surely this is enough?
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kentishgirl.bsky.social @kentishgirl.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
www.politico.eu/article/mand... It would have gone a long way for Peter to have apologized to the victims,” she said, adding that she would not have maintained contact with someone in Epstein’s position. I agree.
politico.eu
Mandelson calls Epstein friendship a ‘terrible mistake’ but stops short of apologizing to victims
The former U.K. ambassador to the U.S. tells the BBC he was “misplaced” in his loyalty to the convicted sex offender, in his first interview since being sacked.
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kentishgirl.bsky.social @kentishgirl.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Local NHS demanding multimillion pound developments. Meantime a private GP service has opened in a small building next to Morrisons in Chrlmsford. Should the NHS be aiming for more modest premises?
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
British police have killed fewer people in the last 100 years than American police kill in an average month. Policing in America is an ongoing tragedy.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Juliet Stevenson: "There are 4 fully equipped mobile maternity clinics waiting to cross the border.. they're not allowed across... the Israeli govt has blocked [them].. we have to stop selling arms to Israel, we have to stop supporting that regime" Well said.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 01/01/2026
🚨NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION🗓️ If you're sick and tired of public services being run for profit not people, join us. vist.ly/4k926
Quote from Andy Burnham in The New Statesman, September 2025: "“When we sold off the water, sold off the electricity, sold off the gas, sold off the council homes, sold off the buses, sold off the trains, we found ourselves in a position where ordinary people couldn't afford those basics anymore."
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kentishgirl.bsky.social @kentishgirl.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/.... Labour are being ridiculous. Why be guided by developers alone?
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Ministers may cut green tech mandate from new homes regulations in England
Critics say removing battery installation requirement will reduce amount homebuyers save on energy bills
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kentishgirl.bsky.social @kentishgirl.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
www.theguardian.com/society/2025.... Universal Basic Income would overcome these issues. Tax the rich and corporations.
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Senior DWP civil servant blames victims for carer’s allowance scandal
Neil Couling said failings by individual claimants ‘at the heart’ of crisis, despite a report finding DWP shortcomings ‘unacceptable’
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🔴The Government Has Cut Air Pollution Funds to Councils by 99% as Illegal Levels of Pollution Shorten Lives New data shows just £1.5 million was given to councils in England in the past year to tackle air pollution – down from a high of £225 million in 2021 bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
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The Government Has Cut Air Pollution Funds to Councils by 99% as Illegal Levels of Pollution Shorten Lives
New data shows just £1.5 million was given to councils in England in the past year to tackle air pollution - down from a high of £225 million in 2021
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
"You've just fobbed off that guy wanting an apology and you've fobbed off the whole country."
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kentishgirl.bsky.social @kentishgirl.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
action.wearepossible.org/page/181015/...
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Don't let the government scrap funding for warm homes.
By properly insulating UK homes, we can improve health, help with the cost-of-living crisis, and slash carbon emissions - all in one move. So why is the government thinking about scrapping funding for...
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kentishgirl.bsky.social @kentishgirl.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Police and crime commissioners to be scrapped in England and Wales Thank goodness. At last. A Tory invention for the old boys.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 29/10/2025
What is clear is that the status quo is unworkable; it leads to unnecessary suffering, painful suicides, and people fleeing their own country to take control of their deaths. We hope that peers recognise and listen to the lived experience of the terminally ill and understand why the law must change.
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 29/10/2025
It is unbelievable that not a single session for the Terminally Ill Adults Bill Committee will include terminally ill people. You cannot exclude their voices, and their experience is vital in understanding the workability of the proposed. #AssistedDyingBill humanists.uk/2025/10/29/t...
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Terminally Ill Adults Select Committee won’t hear from the terminally ill
The House of Lords Select Committee for the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has just announced its final oral witnesses, and it will not hear from terminally ill individuals or those who have...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The PM just said at PMQs: "The UK is backed as a leading and trusted member of NATO - a timely reminder for the Green Party, whose policy is to take us out." Appreciate Zack Polanski has made comments backing leaving, but the Greens' official policy is actually this: "We would work within NATO."
Nuclear weapons and NATO

Most of the world’s countries do not possess weapons of mass destruction and are safer as a result.

Elected Greens will:

Push for the UK to sign the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and following this to immediately begin the process of dismantling our nuclear weapons, cancelling the Trident programme and removing all foreign nuclear weapons from UK soil.
Work with international partners to enlarge membership of the TPNW and ensure that all states meet their commitments under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The Green Party recognises that NATO has an important role in ensuring the ability of its member states to respond to threats to their security. We would work within NATO to achieve:

A greater focus on global peacebuilding.
A commitment to a ‘No First Use’ of nuclear weapons.
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bluevoter24.bsky.social @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
They're afraid of him. I'm not. #politics
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Please do have a read of some of David Graeber's words on the policy of Universal Basic Income.
We have got a real problem the way society is 
structured. I point this out when we think about the 
robots taking our jobs. Why can’t we just redistribute 
the jobs in a reasonable way so that everybody 
does a little and then we enjoy ourselves? We 
have a stupid system where you don’t get any 
money unless you work. So we could change 
that. We could just give people the money.

There are many different solutions. You could try 
to shorten working hours. But I like that one that is 
called a universal basic income. It’s like language. 
Everybody contributes to this civilization, this 
culture, and knowledge. So why don’t we just pay 
everybody for that?
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  - David Graeber
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 10/10/2025
Robots are pretty quickly becoming more capable and affordable. If you think this won't impact the labor market, you're engaging in cope, and if you don't think we should all benefit from robot labor via universal basic income as a fair GDP dividend, you're helping billionaires become trillionaires.
pcmag.com
Figure AI's New Humanoid Robot Can Fold Your Clothes, Do the Dishes
It might also take jobs that Figure AI deems 'unsafe and undesirable.'
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kentishgirl.bsky.social @kentishgirl.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Tax the rich and the corporations . Universal basic income (UBI). Let dignity return.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/10/2025
I want to be clear: there is no need for military troops on the ground in the State of Illinois.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/10/2025
None of it was in pursuit of justice, but all of it was in pursuit of social media videos.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/10/2025
They will pull hardworking Americans out of their regular jobs and away from their families all to participate in a manufactured performance -- not a serious effort the protect public safety. For Donald Trump, this has never been about safety. This is about control.
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Barbara Cooney @barbaracooney.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Yet still she sits in the House of Lords: A con-artist who risked all our lives and health (our very own Harry Lime), sitting alongside the friend of paedophiles, Peter Mandelson, and the creature who argued (in the Jewish Chronicle) that the IDF should receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Michael Gove.
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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This poem, written by Joseph Fasano (who was also born with a heart condition), has hit me directly in the heart like an arrow today, as I watch our world's mess unfold while waiting for Kid the Younger's annual cardiology check up. We cannot save each other now. We can.
Little hymn by Joseph Fansano
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kentishgirl.bsky.social @kentishgirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
portal.cst.org.uk#:~:text=CST%....
portal.cst.org.uk
Home  · Custom Portal
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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I spoke to a few people, including journalists, at Labour conference who had seen and believed claims on X that Multiverse – Tony Blair's son's company – had been chosen to run the government’s new digital ID scheme @fullfact.org have checked this claim and it is untrue
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Yahoo Finance @yahoofinance.com · 01/10/2025
While the government is closed, jobs and inflation data go unreported
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While the government is closed, jobs and inflation data go unreported
The government shutdown could delay the jobs report and inflation data, as well as Social Security's COLA announcement for next year.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
In Chump's Own Words.......
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2025
This is dangerous. Trump’s taking cues from Laura Loomer, an extremist conspiracy theory-pushing racist, to pressure a major publicly traded company — a direct threat to corporate independence. What’s even more alarming is she’s aware of her power.
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Brian Moore @briantrumpet.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Well, and they seem to be mostly doing stuff in reaction, rather than *leading*: with his thumping majority and five years, Starmer could have at least tried espousing what he believed in and where we should be heading, rather than reacting to ephemeral polls. What's his 'vision'? No-one knows.
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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
In my contribution, I try to outline both the insights and pitfalls of communitarian thinking for social democratic politics, while emphasising that (to bastardise Herbert Morrison) communitarianism is what Labour governments do. www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/s...
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kentishgirl.bsky.social @kentishgirl.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle.... What an amazing man. He swam against the tide.
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Michel Odent obituary
Obstetrician whose work in a French hospital and then in London led to a revolution in how mothers are treated in labour
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kentishgirl.bsky.social @kentishgirl.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Let them work.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 22/09/2025
The US Dept of Justice has removed a report from its website showing that right-wing extremists have killed more Americans than any other domestic terrorist group. Deleting the report doesn’t change the facts: claims by the president and his allies that left-leaning Americans are more violent aren’
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