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Cardinal Biggles McFerryFace @cardinalbigglere.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I was just reading about profiling voters in a study. * It's not colour * It is the less educated & those looking for an easy quick fix * It's those who enjoy the sense of belonging, changing things * It is cultist, racism, intolerance - complex Psychographics driven by emotive factors, not reason

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Pathetic and stupid behaviour from a labour government that is now effectively undistinguishable from it’s appalling Tory predecessor. Siding with Trump’s oligarchical regime against the rest of the world in seeking proper regulation of AI

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Thank you dear sweet Labour party Ifeel so much safer now The US and the UK have refused to sign the Paris AI summit's declaration on “inclusive and sustainable” artificial intelligence, in a blow to hopes for a concerted approach to developing and regulating the technology.

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Some firms in his portfolio were shut down by the CFPB for scamming people. Zuckerberg says Meta is not a bank, although it has a payments business and Zuck wants to start a currency.

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The CFPB had proposed that such apps be supervised the same way banks are supervised. Well, scratch that now. No supervision. And no insurance by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Brace yourselves for fraud and bank runs.

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

follow the money The shutting of the CFPB was welcomed by the crypto crowd, including Musk, and by those issuing Bitcoin traded funds, such as Trump Besides his financial interest in crypto Musk has stated he’s seeking to create an “everything app” that could be used for all financial transactions

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

"We voted for Trump because he will protect us from the elites" LIKE FUCK HE WILL Saturday the Trump-Musk regime shuttered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) The federal government is no longer protecting consumers of financial products. Trump-Musk ordered all work to stop at the CFPB

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The economy is flatlining; public anger at her attacks on pensioners is palpable; only the terminally dumb still believe that more austerity will do the trick this time; and Starmer has plummeted to poorer poll ratings than Rishi Sunak’s nadir within seven months of coming to power!

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Reeves has painted herself into a corner by ruling out tax rises on the rich, and by refusing to boot Britain’s debilitating infestation of privatisation profiteers out of our essential infrastructure and public services.

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Improving living standards for the majority is impossible without measures to prevent the obscene wealth-hoarding of the mega-rich.

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Instead of the systemic reforms that are required to drive down housing costs, all Starmer is prepared to offer are inadequate house building targets; planning reforms aimed at making it much easier for developers to make profits;

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Greater general prosperity is a pipe dream without fundamental reform of Britain’s broken housing market. Even if wages rise, it counts for nothing if mortgage costs and exploitative private landlords are allowed to eat up all of people’s income gains and more.

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It’s very dumb to try to boost growth by impoverishing people. Mugging pensioners, maintaining Tory sanctions on families, and impoverishing disabled people simply won’t make the country richer. All it does is take money out of the economy. Money that will be spent straight back into the economy

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

14 years of economic stagnation is evidence enough that ideologically driven austerity cuts to public services and infrastructure investment deliver neither prosperity nor growth. Despite this, Reeves is inflicting another round of damaging across-the-board austerity cuts to "balance the books"

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

With her claims that focusing on growth will somehow magically deliver prosperity for all, Rachel Reeves is pushing the same old discredited theory of 'trickle down economics'. It’s an unworkable theory and an impossible fantasy. It’s like she’s pledging to swim across the Atlantic Ocean

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Rachel Reeves is sinking like a stone anotherangryvoice.substack.com/p/rachel-ree...

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

miscarriage of justice watchdog “We’re talking about human misery for people possibly wrongly convicted in prison. It can’t just be a joke show. It can’t be a circus. It’s got to be a properly functioning organisation, and it’s essential

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Stupid starmer stated that he was modelling his assault on the democratic state on Margaret Thatcher’s deregulation of finance capital, whose eventual result, in 2007, was the first run on a British bank in 140 years, helping to trigger the global financial crisis.

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Starmer says, is inspired by his “conversations with leading CEOs”, who complain that their schemes are impeded by citizens’ objections, legal challenges and the need for consultation with regulators. Welcome to capital’s age-old struggle with that infuriating concept, democracy

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Starmer said that regulators rather than focusing on risk (which is what they exist to do), their role should be to “deliver growth”. Deliberately echoing Trump’s language as he promised to assault the planning system, Starmer said he will “build, baby, build” Starmer is a Tory fuckwit

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Labour's war against public protections launched last month by Keir Starmer and the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, who variously described them – using ever more violent language – as “weeds” that needed to be “cleared out”, or barriers that should be “ripped up”, “torn down” Starmer is a Tory

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Labour’s expulsion of the chair of the Competition and Markets Authority, Marcus Bokkerink His crime it seems was to take his role seriously, seeking to prevent the formation of corporate monopolies. He has been replaced with the former manager of Amazon UK, a company as close to monopoly as it gets

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It’s straight from the Trump playbook: Labour is tearing up the machinery of government If Starmer and Reeves really want a greener, cleaner, wilder nation, then why attack vital state bodies that are already on their knees? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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It’s straight from the Trump playbook: Labour is tearing up the machinery of government | George Monbiot

If Starmer and Reeves really want a greener, cleaner, wilder nation, then why attack vital state bodies that are already on their knees?, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

changes are expected to include a further watering-down of BP’s climate commitments Auchincloss said the company had already begun pursuing new fossil fuel projects and would restructure its low-carbon business “to grow, but in a more capital-light way” They are chasing money while the planet burns

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

UK and US fail to sign declaration on making AI ‘safe for all’ at Paris summit – Europe live Countries have not immediately explained their reasons for not signing declaration www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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UK and US fail to sign declaration on making AI ‘safe for all’ at Paris summit – Europe live

Countries have not immediately explained their reasons for not signing declaration

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

BBC breakfast news yesterday, showed a white woman officer from the back, approaching someone blurred, but the black turban and beard were unmistakable In the run up to Brexit, it was about east Europeans, which led to a complaint by a Tory MP of Polish origin. Decades before, it was about the Irish

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

We have a chance to use our voice. Clive Lewis's Water Bill will be debated for the first time on 28th March. We need as many MPs there as possible representing the interests of their constituents and their environment. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...

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Take action on water companies now

I don’t normally repost campaign emails here, but I feel that the Bill that Clive Lewis MP is promoting on the water industry is important enough to do so. As a result, I repost this mail from Compass...

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Starmer and Labour are not listening to the public, they are listening to hedge fund managers and executives—the same people who profit from this disaster. Water Regulation alone won't fix this. That's tinkering at the edges, and it will not resolve the core issue. Nationalise our water now!!

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The government claims to be tackling this crisis, yet its Commission on Water is refusing to engage in questions of governance or public ownership - something 82% of the British public want.

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The statistics are staggering. In 2023, raw sewage was dumped into our rivers and seas at least 464,056 times—an average of 1,271 times a day. That's a 50% increase from 2022.

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

We all know our water system is broken. Raw sewage floods our rivers and seas. Our infrastructure crumbles while private companies rake in billions. we paid for infrastructure with our bills, and yet we had no say file:///C:/Users/paddy/Downloads/ask-your-mp-to-attend-my-water-bill-debate.htm

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Ask your MP to attend my Water Bill debate

After years of bill hikes, shareholder pay-outs, and pollution, it couldn't be clearer that privatisation has created a crisis in our water system. We can't leave the future of this critical natio...

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Trump is going to drain the swamp oh yes of couse he is ...Like fuck Donald Trump has ordered the Department of Justice to halt the enforcement of a US anti-corruption law that bars Americans from bribing foreign government officials to win business.

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Cardinal Biggles McFerryFace @cardinalbigglere.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We've a huge hole where a Centre-Left Party should be The Tories were so hated that many lent their vote to Starmer But he's failing us Many of us will simply not vote at all if no party represents us THAT is the only way Fascists could win here. A low turnout turns their 20% of the Vote into 35%

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

It was a choice, and the political class and their mega-rich capitalist donors have done so very nicely out of it that they've got absolutely no desire to change course tax breaks, privatisation profiteering, and handouts for them.More austerity, rip-off rents and bills, and stagnating wages for us

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Millionaires have turned into billionaires, while millions of working people have become the working-poor. This national decline was never inevitable. It came about because of the privatisation and austerity obsessed right-wing politics of the Westminster establishment cabal.

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

NHS has been run down to the bare bones and the social security system has been turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare and the North Sea oil and gas bonanza was wasted while other countries like Norway used their fossil fuel wealth to build sovereign wealth funds worth hundreds of billions of pounds

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

our essential infrastructure and services have been flogged off to private profiteers for a tiny fraction of their true values;social housing has been catastrophically depleted and homes are more unaffordable than ever university education costs tens of thousands of pounds on rip-off repayment terms

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

1970s Britain owned its own water, power stations, national grid, transport, and mail service; we had millions of council houses and plenty of affordable housing ; university education was free; we had a functioning health service; and we'd discovered a massive North Sea oil and gas reserve.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

And it begins. FBI class action lawsuit against the retaliatory purge. First Amendment Violation of Due Process Rights to Privacy www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

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WIRED @wired.com · 07/02/2025

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

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A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’

An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

“.. I leave you with this quote from former US Navy pilot Jack McCain, son of the late Senator John McCain:” (via @bloomberg.com)

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The Trump administration is cutting billions of dollars in medical research funding for universities, hospitals and other scientific institutions by reducing the amount they get in associated costs to support such research. What could possibly go wrong?

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

the imaginative Xlinks project, proposing to pipe electricity from solar panels in Morocco to Britain, which could supply 8% of our electricity, should be turbo-charged.

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

There is too little sense of urgency; too much fear of offending the right and Trump. When Treasury officials debate the merits of paying for energy resilience by developing British capacity in renewables

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Europeans did not grasp the growth possibilities of beating the climate crisis fast and aggressively enough. Heading off civilisational disaster and promoting growth are not at odds; they are two sides of the same coin. Reeves needs to wake up we don't need fucking runways we need new technology

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The production of lithium batteries for EVs is another strategic necessity where China dominates, driving the price down by 90% over the past 10 years. It is not regulation, high taxes and eco-fanaticism that has laid the European car industry so low, as Trump and co like to argue;

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Chinese EV producer BYD now outproduces Elon Musk’s Tesla, with a better range of cars. Its Seagull, for example, retails for $9,700 (£7,800) and, is very cheap to run

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patthepublican.bsky.social @patthepublican.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

the cost of solar panels has fallen by more than 90% in the past decade as China has scaled up production in every component, transforming the underlying technology; the resulting energy is so cheap that in the Gulf, where there is plentiful sun, solar-produced electricity is regarded as free.

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