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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

How Britain privatised itself into failure Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...

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How Britain privatised itself into failure

Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Can someone please explain why it is that too many politicians only seem to want the votes of the prejudiced and the ignorant? To the extent that they are actively repelling anyone capable of rational thought and decency. Why the pathetic need to appease the bigot vote, at everyone else’s expense?

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Please explain to me how Margaret Thatcher forcing the sale of our national assets for a fraction of their worth was acceptable. But forcing them to sell them back to us at a fraction of their worth isn't. it doesn't make any sense.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 27/07/2025

Thatcher sold off more national assets than any other country. She underpriced them, and they were sold with zero debt. The £bn's of debt private owners have loaded onto them is money extracted for their own pockets. And Labour plays at fixing this? 🤯

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Unlike Rupert Lowe-Life I don’t “want my country back” because I never lost it… it belongs to everyone in the UK irrespective of colour, race, religion etc etc What I want to ensure is far right creeps like him, Farage, Reform mutants etc never gain power in UK and treat our country as theirs❗️🤷🏼‍♂️

Pathetic post by pathetic man Rupert Lowe the eternal moaner, saying he wants his country back

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Thank God for Channel 4 reporting what needs to be reported not what Right Wing puppet masters want us to hear👇🏼👇🏼 Why aren’t BBC, ITV, Sky etc highlighting this rather than plastering Farage and Reform, Trump, Isreal as a victim etc over our screens❓ Because they’re Cheerleaders for the Right Wing🤷🏼‍♂️

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Channel 4 to air BBC-commissioned documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack

BBC last week announced it had dropped the film over concerns it may create a ‘perception of partiality’

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Brizo75 @brizo75.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

This is powerful indeed.

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

"Nato’s 5 per cent pledge: an obscene betrayal of global needs" 'MEDEA BENJAMIN argues that real security doesn’t come from tanks and missiles — it comes from strong communities, global co-operation, and urgent action on our shared crises' morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nato...

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 30/06/2025

“Whatever way it’s done, it’s pretty much inconceivable the government will not recover its costs” “Sorting out Thames Water in the public sector will be cheaper in the long run” End the rip off, PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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What would happen if Thames Water is temporarily renationalised?

The government could put the struggling utility into a special administration regime – but what does this involve?

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

This👇👇👇👏👏👏

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Penny Burdett @pennyburdett.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I am not a religious person but this from the new Pope is extremely pertinent!

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Lyndsey @lyndseydoob.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

UK petition. End the badger cull! The petition is only approx 2500 off 100,000 which will get it considered for debate in parliament. Please sign and share if you can. 🙌 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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Petition: End the Badger cull and adopt other approaches to bovine TB control

The Government’s TB Eradication Strategy allows the continued killing of badgers, a protected species, until the end of this Parliament, despite the Labour manifesto calling the cull “ineffective.” W...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The fascism playbook hasn't changed—only the speed we're flipping through its chapters.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 06/05/2025

Health and care worker visas are already at record lows leaving care homes at threat of closure. Yet Labour want to crackdown further on work visa applications, blocking those who arrive in the UK to support people in our communities.

MIGRATION ISN'T THE PROBLEM
REAL HOPE REAL CHANGE.
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

"Rather than accepting Farage's lies that migration is the source of people's problems, Labour needs to tackle the issues that are making people's lives hard: low wages, high bills, and chronic underfunding of vital public services."
Carla Denyer MP
Green Party Co-leader | MP Bristol Central

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The cost to the UK of the richest 1% is £450bn a year. That is 200x the cost of housing asylum seekers. Double the entire benefits bill. And nearly 2.5x as much as is spent on the NHS. For just 700,000 very, very greedy people. Lets talk about this cost.

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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Very Well Said….

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

FUN FACT: Since 2019, Nigel Farage's Reform has taken more than £2.3 MILLION from oil and gas interests - making up an astonishing 92% of the party's donations. Reform are NOT for ordinary people. They're in the pockets of the big oil lobby.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

It needs to be liberated.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

“In Carney we now have the world leader who knows more than any of his peers about climate change. And who knows roughly 20x as much about climate and energy economics as anyone else in power. He may turn out to be a truly crucial figure in the fight to turn the climate tide.” @nationalobserver.com

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It's time to shift from relief to gratitude as Carney helps steer the climate transition

Danielle Smith's agitations and the insatiable fossil fuel industry's demands will make climate action difficult, but Canada's new prime minister brings the right qualifications — and will have plenty...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

“A new study has calculated that increasing trees and other vegetation in urban areas by 30% could have prevented more than 1/3rd of all global heat-related deaths between 2000 to 2019. In total, 1.16 million lives may have been saved with more greenery during this 20-year period.” Via @euronews.com

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How more trees in cities could have saved 400,000 lives in Europe

‘Expanding greenness’ could save millions of lives, a comprehensive new study finds.

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Gerri McGerriface @messmonstergigi.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

This is the people who should be in charge!

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This is the real news story: Disillusioned Labour votes far more likely to vote Green or Lib Dem (43% and 40%) compared to only 9% shifting to Reform. Share widely to counteract all the misinformation that justifies a further shift to the Right by the gov.

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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Costa are owned by Coca Cola. #BoycottTrump. Buying American products is buying into climate change denial!

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MrsVB @mrsivb.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

This is an excellent account to follow, if you're not already.

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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

After the local elections this is the current state of play of Councillors in the UK. Don't be fooled by our Farage supporting right wing media. Reform are 1 in the pie chart.

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Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Surreal that these pieces somehow manage to not even mention the pandemic that has left many millions chronically ill

The sensemaker
Signed off sick:
The parts of Britain that are not working
The party of work must focus on the communities where long-term sickness and economic inactivity have taken hold - before more fall to Nigel Farage, says Philip Collins
name. This is a party established by workers
and the material prosperity that derive from productive work. As the pious Fabian Beatrice Webb wrote in 1893: "The existence and, I fear, the growth of this leisured class... is the gravest problem of
Yet Britain isn't working, and the Labour party is going to find it extremely difficult to live up to the virtue embodied in its name. The problem is, to use a medical term,
• More than 9 million people in the UK are classified as economically inactive - the most concerning part of this large cohort is the number of people signed
• "Economically inactive" is not a measure of unemployment.
The Labour Force Survey of
February 2025 put unemployment at 4.4%, which is too high, but much lower than the post-crisis peak of more than 8% in 2011.
Unemployment at that rate means 1.57 million people do not have
• The additional 9.22 million people classified as economically inactive make up more than
a fifth of the country's potential workforce.
Active inactive
Not all of this is alarming. More than a quarter of those classified as inactive are students and more than a tenth are retired. Neither group would exactly rejoice at being described as "inactive" - although some students might be.
There are also plenty of people caring for others. More than a quarter of all inactive women, and 6% of men, are at home or caring for elderly relatives or children, or both.
The core of the problem, then, lies somewhere else. Specifically, this is not about inactivity as such; it is about sickness. Of the 9.2 million people classed as economically inactive, 30% are signed off as sick. Soon after taking office, the Starmer government commissioned Sir Charlie Mayfield to investigate the problem.

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Amy @amzomac.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Can't believe there's a literal HOLOCAUST being fueled & normalised by the so called democratic West, fascism is on the rise, we're at late stage capitalism/imperialism & on the brink of climate collapse & extinction... & they've got us arguing about who uses which toilet. You couldn't write it 🫠😅

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Chris Midgley @chrismidgley.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Where has she had her head stuck for the last three months? Just look towards Brussels, easiest way to boost the UK economy, forget about the Americans, until they sort out the squatter in the WH it's a waste of time talking to the MAGA cabal.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!

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Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian

Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Remember, Paris wasn’t “always this way.” Not that many years ago, Paris was choking in car traffic. And it wasn’t a safe place to ride a bike for transportation, so not many people tried. This is new. This is a result of deliberate vision, and bold leadership. Cities are a result of choices.

Central Paris bike-lane filled with people riding bikes.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I'm really sorry, but we just need to stop doing this. Your wood-burning hygge leads directly to people's deaths - other people's and perhaps your own. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Map reveals residential wood-burning hotspots in England and Wales

Researchers analyse energy performance certificate data to identify areas with potentially high particle pollution

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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Every centrist newspaper columnist celebrating the sacking of Ed Miliband cheers on polluted air, shorter life expectancy and a world where fossil fuels are conserved at the expense of forests.

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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Everyday British journalists wake up and think what can I write to trash my children's future. The war against net zero, is a war against all of us. Delaying climate change action leads to death and injury

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Sewage pollution and E coli in Boat Race water. River Thames has E coli levels three times above the threshold for poor bathing water status. All due to privatisation of water, sewage dumping, profiteering, high dividends, low investment. poor regulation. End the nightmare. Nationalise.

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Campaigners find sewage pollution and E coli in Boat Race water

Tests ahead of Sunday’s race revealed E coli levels three times above the threshold for poor bathing water

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months. I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Last week I met one of Scope's storytellers, Jean, who has Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. Jean told me about her current experiences with PIP, UC, and the Access to Work scheme, and how the govt's cuts would leave her unable to feed herself properly, and at risk of becoming homeless.

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

None of the government's planned cuts would make it easier for Jean to find work. I'll keep fighting against these cruel, unnecessary welfare cuts for people like Jean and disabled people all across the country.

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Penny Burdett @pennyburdett.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I hope so…

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🦋❄️🍁Baron🍁❄️🦋 @baron333.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Thanks Colin for the word 👍

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