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Kevin Pascoe

@kevinpascoe.bsky.social
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Politics, socialist, free thinker, Welsh, European, pro-Indie, trade unionist (UCU & Unite) retired Open University, interested in all aspects of education and social justice. I follow back.

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Kevin Pascoe @kevinpascoe.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
People who dismiss the 500,000 people signing up for the new ‘YourParty’ as joining a mailing list, need to remember Corbyn attracted 400,000 new members to Labour when he took over as leader. Since 2019 Labour last lost 300,000 members.
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Kevin Pascoe @kevinpascoe.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
People who dismiss the 500,000 people signing up for the new ‘YourParty’ as joining a mailing list, need to remember Corbyn attracted 400,000 new members to Labour when he took over as leader. Since 2019 Labour last lost 300,000 members.
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Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The vote on disability cuts could take place in the next few weeks. I've launched a petition for a Wealth Tax, not disability cuts. I'll be presenting this in Parliament ahead of the vote. It's already at nearly 70,000! Add you name below chng.it/ztV8MqDHVQ
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
35 years of England water privatisation. Industry controlled by companies with 1,135 criminal convictions. 1trn litres water a year lost in leaks. Sewage dumped in rivers for 3.62m hrs a year. £85bn dividends, £70bn+ debt, people fleeced Last decade, £112m exec bonuses . Must end privatisation.
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Nationalisation is the only way to fix the crisis in the water industry
Despite the damning evidence the government is clinging on to private ownership of water, which has fleeced customers for 36 years.
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Jonathan Cook on Substack
A minute's silence for each of the children murdered by Israel in Gaza would extend to over 300 hours. Powerful speech to the UN from Daniel Levy, a former Israeli government adviser.
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Antifa Goddess *Karma @laurapcd1.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Israel halts all aid into Gaza as it demands Hamas accepts new ceasefire plan
Israel stopped the entry of all goods and supplies into the Gaza Strip on Sunday and warned of “additional consequences” if Hamas doesn’t accept a new proposal to extend the first phase of a fragile c...
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
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We're not done yet | 18F
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ianbfawu.bsky.social @ianbfawu.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Instead of tackling poverty, the political elite use it as a weapon. They pit working people against each other encouraging us to blame migrants, the sick, disabled people, the unemployed to justify cutting support and funneling money to the rich. We need real political change.
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Butterflies Katz ⓥ @butterflieskatz.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
#vegan #veganism #ethics #philosophy #DoNoHarm #HarmLess #NotFood #AnimalRights #GoVegan #BeTheChange #animals #VeganForTheAnimals #VeganForever #LiveAndLetLive #NoAnimalUse #peace
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Rick—The Political Gardener @politicalgardener.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
go.bsky.app/MQC7rfU #SocialistSunday
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Growth via death - Starmer’s Ukraine war plan for UK growth "The Labour government’s increase in military spending & its extraordinary new agreement with Ukraine are platforms for the UK arms industry, which Labour sees as key to economic growth in Britain" www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmer...
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Keir Starmer’s plan for UK growth – the Ukraine war
The Labour government’s increase in military spending and its extraordinary new agreement with Ukraine are platforms for the UK arms industry
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Kevin Pascoe @kevinpascoe.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
It’s beyond SkyNews to say Israel blockades humanitarian aid to Gaza - instead of blockade it says ‘ceases entry’ 😡😡😡
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/02/2025
Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This is such a weird attack on Jeremy. Just wait until I draft my letter to you about the £4 million donation that your party took from Quadrature Capital (arms deals, oil & gas, gambling.) Labour MPs are oddly silent about that - I'm sure you'll agree there's "no room for ambiguity."
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Kevin Pascoe @kevinpascoe.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
😡 ⁦‪⁦‪Ofgem‬⁩ aren’t fit for purpose. After they let energy network providers make £3.9 billion in ‘excess profit’ their response was ‘well it only added a few pounds to your household bill’ 🤯 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Energy network owners have made £3.9bn ‘excess profit’ from higher bills, says report
Citizens Advice believes Ofgem made flawed interest rate calculation for companies in Great Britain
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Kevin Pascoe @kevinpascoe.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
As some people predicted this is going badly wrong. Slippery slopes …. - ‘MP behind assisted dying bill suggests scrapping High Court approval’
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Kevin Pascoe @kevinpascoe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Getting ready for second Senedd protest of the day - this time UCU fighting for fair funding for post-16 education in Wales
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Kevin Pascoe @kevinpascoe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Noisy pensioner protest outside the Senedd against #WinterPaymentCuts
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
UK missed out on ‘post-pandemic trade boom’ – due to Brexit www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/uk-...
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UK missed out on 'post-pandemic trade boom' - due to Brexit
Those Brexit benefits keep piling up, don't they? Research from earlier this month further highlights the UK's act of self-sabotage
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It’s me, Claire 💚 @faultfinderuk.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Dear Americans I had a carpel tunnel operation today. Two nurses, the surgeon and a junior doctor. Total cost £1.55 (for the car park). Thank you #NHS Also, thanks to the nurse who literally held this wusses hand.
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Marko Pirata @markawilliams.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
#Sainsburys closing their cafes cos the minimum wage has gone up and the bottom line cant go down
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H.D. Gregg @hdgregg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
State Department on Friday reportedly issued guidance that it is freezing almost all U.S. foreign assistance—with exceptions for emergency food aid and foreign military financing for two U.S. allies, Israel and Egypt www.commondreams.org/news/america...
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Trump Admin Reportedly Implements Widespread Freeze on Foreign Aid—Except to Israel and Egypt | Common Dreams
"Guess which country was exempted…?" wrote the investigative outlet Drop Site News.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
“Trump was aggressive and confrontational following the Danish prime minister’s comments that the island was not for sale, despite her offer of more co-operation on military bases and mineral exploitation….” www.ft.com/content/ace0...
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Donald Trump in fiery call with Denmark’s prime minister over Greenland
US president insisted he wants to take over Arctic island
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Helen Jerome @helenjerome.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🔎 Found it! I Spy the latest issue of @bylinetimes.bsky.social snuggling amidst unlikely bedfellows Country Life, Wallpaper, The Oldie and The Idler in Waitrose. Now to dig into the story of ‘The Westminster Spy 🕵️‍♂️ Ring’
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Reform denies links to far-right figures exposed in BBC documentary nation.cymru/news/reform-...
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Reform denies links to far-right figures exposed in BBC documentary
Emily Price  Reform UK has denied links to two men who featured in a year-long undercover BBC investigation into far-right activities in Wales. ‘Unmasked: Extreme Far Right’ followed an undercover rep...
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 23/01/2025
The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla . Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...
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Heil Tesla
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Kevin Pascoe @kevinpascoe.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Obviously far more concerned about upsetting 10,000 millionaires than she was about upsetting millions of pensioners 🤯
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Kevin Pascoe @kevinpascoe.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I’m sure Rachel Reeves won’t worry about being cold even if pensioners do news.sky.com/story/uk-rec...
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UK weather: Scottish hamlet reaches -18C in coldest January night in 15 years
The Met Office confirms Friday was the coldest night of winter so far in the UK, with the temperatures falling to -18.7 C in Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands. Meanwhile, Saturday is likely to be b...
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Son of Eric @spiritof44.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Mick Lynch: "Nigel Farage is a racist."
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
#EmbarrassmentInChief 🤮
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Ceritheviking @ceritheviking.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Cool map of the llan prefix and it’s relatives. across the piece.
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Elaine Dyson @elainedyson1.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Today Keir Starmer will be waking up in his Downing St. residence warm & cosy, central heating on all day, paid for by MP expenses. Meanwhile thousands of pensioners will be freezing & hungry thanks to the axing of #WinterFuelAllowance by this Labour gov. cruel & shameful, this will costs lives.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
What would Reform do about potholes? youtu.be/AVr6eHq3PRw?... Managing potholes is a core, unglamourous and unthanked task of government. Reform only knows about gesture politics. Until anyone believes Reform can manage potholes they shouldn’t support them.
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What would Reform do about potholes?
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Nicky @nickyzog.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Energy security and Scotland's abundance of it (both traditional and renewable) should not only be protecting us, but also enriching us, offsetting the supply side (inflation) shocks globally. We should be a haven of stability (energywise) in an unstable world. youtu.be/GZs4taICTso?...
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THE 2nd GREAT BRITISH ENERGY HEIST
YouTube video by The Scotland Channel
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
57 companies are responsible for 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 2016. These companies include fossil fuel giants like Chevron, Shell, and BP, who have been raking in record profits. The profits of Big Oil should not be more important than the future of our planet.
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Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016
Analysis reveals many big producers increased output of fossil fuels and related emissions in seven years after Paris climate deal
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God @thegodshow.com · 10/01/2025
Tax the billionaires until there are no billionaires anymore and distribute the money amongst the rest of the populace. We can call it the Anti-Greed Redistribution Plan. Sound good?
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
World breaches 1.5C warming target in 2024 while 78-yr-old climate activist Gaie Delap languishes in a UK prison for having demonstrated to 'Stop Oil'. And yet there are people who continue to think that we, in the West, live in rational lib democracies www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This 77-year-old climate activist should never have been jailed – and now faces a Kafkaesque struggle to get out | Zoe Williams
A failure of justice, and draconian Tory law, put Gaie Delap in prison. A failure of government is keeping her there, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Labour's energy policy. It’s a disaster. The UK already has the highest prices in the world at about $400 per MW/h. Four times greater than most of Europe or the US. It makes any large scale manufacturing and a lot of energy intensive services near unviable in the UK. Labour need to wake the fuck up
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Michael Little @tomcatjock.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Trump would have to rise several levels to be a disgrace.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Did you know that Keir Starmer kicked out left-wing Jewish members of the Labour Party who did not support his Zionist leanings? The entire anti-semitic smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn was totally fabricated. Thread
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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
But growing the economy is more important 🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Kevin Pascoe @kevinpascoe.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Reeves says don’t worry about the £9 billion extra cost of government borrowing. But for the same amount she could have kept the universal Winter Fuel Allowance for 12.6 million pensioners and ended the two child Benefit Cap and taken 600,000 children out of poverty. 😡😡😡
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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
How many will die of the cold?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/01/2025
Jenrick shape-shifts on air with reality-bending Today interview
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Jenrick shape-shifts on air with reality-bending Today interview
Shadow justice secretary makes case for second child sexual abuse inquiry, despite ignoring the last one You can tell that Elon Musk must have overstepped the mark when even Kemi Badenoch has taken a break from tweeting her support for the…
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Just a complete joke of a platform
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1878smigger.bsky.social @1878smigger.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
He'll be missed. Hopefully he gets involved in politics news.sky.com/story/rmt-un...
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RMT union boss Mick Lynch announces retirement
The general secretary who presided over more than two years of rail strike action said the RMT could only build a robust organisation if there is renewal and change.
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