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Martin K

@martinthemartian90.bsky.social
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Disenfranchised with politics. Rooibos tea enjoyer. Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Massive crowd outside Palantir’s HQ in central London. Throw this evil corporation out of our public services." via Global Justice Now
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Ms. Deathwish #Exist2Resist @msdeathwish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wow two "fuck yous" to the disabled community in two days. YAY SOCIALISM 😱
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ᒍOᗩᑎᑎE • 1Ø yrs a Ha¡r ẞtyl¡st • ✂️🦓 @shakyjoanne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Question for @andyburnham.bsky.social A child born with Cystic Fibrosis has major health issues. What do they do when they need financial help as a disabled person, say if they've no family and are under 25?
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Kay And Skittles @kayandskittles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tons of people were assuring us just yesterday that Burnham laid out an epic and cool road map to socialism. I guess destroying the lives of a bunch of young disabled people is part of that somehow. Probably too smart for me to get it.
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Minxi @originalminx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Labour wants to continue to wage war on the disabled.
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Sam ooOOooOoo Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In fact he fucking hates you bsky.app/profile/theg...
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Sam ooOOooOoo Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wigan Starmer is not your friend
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Zack Polanski, "Over the next year, more than 1/3 of the money that the DWP spend on housing benefits, go straight into the pockets of private landlords, subsidising their extortionate rents" "That's £13.4 billion" "That could be spent building new council homes"
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
US spy firm Palantir has put its latest revolving-door hire Tom Watson to use — 'threatening' other politicians for criticising it Via @skwawkbox.org
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Watson 'threatens' Lewis for criticising Palantir
US spy firm Palantir has put its latest revolving-door hire Tom Watson to use — 'threatening' other politicians for criticising it
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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Like I say, there’s a reason why all the pundits are beside themselves with joy, and it’s because they know which parts of the programme will actually get done and which will get handed to a commission to consider and report in 2032.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 02/10/2026
“While our councils are delivering in their communities, we fight for change on the national level too so that we can all have a place we call home." Zack Polanski on Green action on housing, locally and nationally.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'In the letter, Watson detailed Lewis’s interventions on Palantir, writing: “By my count, you’ve spoken about Palantir almost 130 times since 2020; around 50 in the past year alone.” Clive Lewis MP told The Nerve: “ ... That, to me, was an implicit threat"' www.facebook.com/bheardmedia/...
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Zack Polanski, "We are the party that wants to tax the every richest, bring our public services back into public hands, and end rip-off Britain" "We are sure about who we stand up for" "And who we are standing up against"
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On The Threshold @intothewoods8.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Labour government is hiding the deaths associated with the DWP. When Labour talk about slashing welfare they are fully aware of the damage and horror it will cause. Labour = psychopaths.
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The social security minister has still yet to decide whether secret reviews into deaths linked to the Department for Work and Pensions can be released to grieving relatives, a year after he asked civil servants to examine the issue. #DWP #BenefitDeaths www.disabilitynewsservice.com/no-decision-...
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No decision from Timms on releasing secret reports on deaths, a year after speaking to DWP civil servants
The social security minister has still yet to decide whether secret reviews into deaths linked to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) can be released to grieving relatives, a year after he a…
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why is the Burnham government attempting to silence Good Law Project’s criticism of Palantir in the NHS…? Orwellian.
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Is this the first ever SLAPP by our own Government? | Good Law Project
The Department for Health and Social Care has written to us demanding we take down our video criticising Palantir’s NHS contract – we won’t
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 03/10/2026
"We see our power, and we are using it" @greenpartyhan.bsky.social
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Alejandro @ghostland6.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This isn't hope. This is terror. Labour and Burnham look to terrorise disabled people
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Amal Chatterjee (migrant, grumbler) @amalkc.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Burnham's going after the young disabled. When he could support them, and tax the tax-dodgers. Starmer's father was a toolmaker, Burnham's from the North, that's all the change the UK's got.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Andy Burnham thinks we were all born yesterday
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Paul Moore @greenbookmarker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Burnham is a complete and utter fraud. I feel sorry for the people who felt hope from his speech, as it all seems to be bullshit
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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Damn I wish liberals hated fascism as much as they hate disabled people.
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Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes
Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment
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Martin K @martinthemartian90.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Labour still attacking the sick and disabled. Proper evil this, Burnham has conned so many people
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Clark the Bushman @allypallywally.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is absolutely disgusting and will ruin lives and push young people into poverty. The Labour Party is rotten and Andy Burnham is a psychopathic charlatan
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On The Threshold @intothewoods8.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Voting Labour is voting to harm disabled people. That’s a fact. Considering there’s only 700 thousand vacancies currently this plan will end up murdering people. This is the real Andy Burnham.
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Paul Moore @greenbookmarker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sickening. This is violence on a political level.
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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
If I were British and under 25, this move would kill me. No two ways about it.
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Lacks the Necessary Aptitude. @theoccasionaltog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This will kill young people. This is shaping up to be just as bad for some of the most vulnerable amongst us as last Summer, where Kendall, Starmer and a whole swathe of Labour lied continuously, both in parliament and in the media, cherry picking figures and talking about a moral duty etc.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wonderful Party Political Broadcast by the Green Party, made me cry and made me remember why our party is so important and why I’ve put in so much time campaigning for @zackpolanski.bsky.social in Holborn & St Pancras. Join me here this weekend and next week, let’s get another Green MP…
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Green Party Political Broadcast | Protecting Our Children’s Future
YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales
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Harry Stokes @timesplitterc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Labour scum looking to push vulnerable folk into poverty
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Ms. Deathwish #Exist2Resist @msdeathwish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is social murder
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Honestly incredible the extent to which so many people have convinced themselves that opposing universal benefits is somehow a progressive position. One of the main ways the centre left has radicalised itself into austerity Osborneism, tbh.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 28/09/2026
“Camden Council faces £90 million worth of cuts under a Labour government, a government that promised things were going to get better after austerity, and they’re not.” Benali Hamdache on the pressures facing people and public services in Holborn and St Pancras, on BBC Politics London.
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Over 3500 people have been arrested in the UK for voicing support for Palestine Action. Anti-terrorism legislation was used for these arrests. The result is that one of the largest demographics of terrorist in the UK is now elderly middle class white people.
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On The Threshold @intothewoods8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Labour just want to use anything as an excuse to slash welfare and harm vulnerable people. It’s pure evil and it makes me sick. People still voting/backing Labour you need to raise your standards.
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The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why does a Labour government in UK wants to ape and copy the authoritarian far-right libertarians in US? Why trying to be like th school bully is the aim here?
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is time for people of courage to walk away from Labour www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09... They have had their chance. They have blown it. We need a real alternative in this country now. They will never be it again.
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It is time for people of courage to walk away from Labour
As I say on fiscal rules in the glossary to this blog: Fiscal rules are targets set by governments to limit borrowing, debt, or deficits over time. They are presented as if they are neutral, technical...
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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Means testing is just wedge used to turn the obviously outrageous "should we have this social net at all" into "who deserves this social net?". Every edge case is then used as an argument to diminish provision until it's gone. Cynically using people's sense of fairness to fuck everyone over.
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Samantha @samantha42.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two things: 1. If you're still in labour at this point you are not on the left of anything 2. If you expected Burnham to actually move the party left you are politically illiterate. He made very clear his principles during his leadership bid in the byelection.
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't know where to begin with a Prime minster with years left on his term and a huge majority saying he won't do anything until the next general election. Is he intending to just not govern until 2029?
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sing along at the chorus, kids: they are building a permission structure, and this is no more a moral crusade than the Big Society was.
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Alan Milburn and Pat McFadden are creating a permission structure for Labour to make welfare cuts. When the time comes, they must take it, or watch Farage/the Tories do it their way
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Labour government could have responded to the genocide in Gaza in so many ways, instead they cut aid. This is a dereliction of duty.
Stuff of nightmares UK cuts aid to Un Gaza food operations by 78%
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm not holding my breath, not least because the author of the worst of these polices, Yvette Cooper, is still in government, and her successor in the Home Office, Shabana Mahmood, has defended and extended her draconian anti-protest measures. And yes, these measures really are mad and bad.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Labour already have a huge majority. Another Labour MP putting Thames Water "on notice" isn't going to lower our water bills or protect our rivers. Nationalise Thames Water. Vote Green on October 8th. 💚
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nick Robinson on Today just referred to “so-called social care”. It’s not remotely clear to me why it’s “so-called”.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Labour is not opening new safe routes. This latest measure is reopening a route they closed and making it more restrictive. This follows claiming they were opening new community sponsorship and work/study routes which already existed but they made harder to access. It's smoke and mirrors. #r4today
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is only happening because of the Holborn & St Pancras byelection. Burnham will announce Heathrow expansion the day after polling day.
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Heathrow third runway
Burnham dodges questions on Heathrow third runway as project faces four-year delay
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yesterday we had more than 100 people out campaigning for @zackpolanski.bsky.social in Holborn & St Pancras. Today the turnout was 150+ and possibly as high as 250.
Loads of people with Zack Polanski
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Paul Moore @greenbookmarker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The punching down attitude of Labour towards benefits is disturbing. They are soft on the rich but cruel to the poor
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