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Mike Roller

@rollermike188.bsky.social
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Retired old codger & gardener, trade unionist & rep, ex Royal Mail, ex NHS, opinionated, internationalist and socialist. There is a better way.

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The government is looking at another benefit crackdown when it should, instead, be looking at corporate fraud and its own failure to pay all the benefits owing to people. Why has it got its focus so wrong? Does it just hate people on benefits? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...
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Why is the government obsessed with benefit fraud?
The FT has reported that: Ministers are examining proposals to grant banks access to all of the accounts of benefit claimants. They added: Officials in the Department for Work and Pensions have been a...
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Jinky @ynwa1888.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
People can’t eat or heat there homes, and on GMB today the discussion is doubling our defence spending. Here’s a thought, why doesn’t the west stop destroying and bombing countries it wants to control but has no rights to do so.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Why is the CEO of the NHS in England calling for private sector funding for NHS infrastructure when it is obvious that readily available state funding would be cheaper? Is this just pro-market political dogma being promoted by a civil servant? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...
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Are people appointed to government posts to be private sector stooges?
The FT has reported today that: The UK government should consider the use of private capital to fix the NHS’s crumbling buildings and infrastructure, the head of England’s health service has said. NH...
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Lynne Marlow @lynnemarlow.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
It's a pity the BBC didn't investigate the previous Conservative Government in depth ..we may not now be suffering the poverty, lack of care, homes, teachers, doctors, GP appts... it has left us with!
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Ken Spearpoint @kenspearpoint.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
All this guff about Rachel Reeves being spun by the BBC/Mail is desperate in its triviality. It draws the lens away from the reality of her neoliberal economic agenda.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 14/02/2025
"A new study by the University of California, Berkeley found that hate speech rose by 50 per cent in the months after billionaire Elon Musk purchased X, formerly Twitter" www.euronews.com/next/2025/02...
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Hate speech on X up 50% under Musk, new study finds
A new study by the University of California, Berkeley found that hate speech rose by 50 per cent in the months after billionaire Elon Musk purchased X, formerly Twitter.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Covering just 0.07% of the UK's Farmland in solar panels would be enough to provide 100% of the UK's energy. Remember that when they talk about not building Solar Panels to protect the UK's food supply. It's a load of bollocks. It is really to protect the Fossil Fuel industry.
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 14/02/2025
The only time UK spy flights are now operating near Gaza is when Hamas release hostages. Is the UK spying on Hamas for Israel? www.declassifieduk.org/is-the-uk-sp...
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Is the UK spying on Hamas for Israel?
Royal Air Force surveillance flights towards Gaza keep taking place when hostages are released.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 13/02/2025
DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We need to see prosecutions. Surely there must be some legal eagles out there that can take this on?
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
George Monibot, "We have a Chancellor and. Prime Minister who seem to have no vision at all, except this thing called growth, GDP growth" "GDP should not be used as a measure of national welfare" #BBCQT
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Collaboration
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Striking that so many on the Reform tendency, who have banged on for years about the need to remember the sacrifices of WW2 and policed the wearing of poppies... failed to learn any lessons from it. You don't appease dictators casting shadows on your doorstep. You fight back.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org
Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The UK & EU have taken a free ride on the US's massive defence spending, but people misunderstand what has been going on. NATO spending is not a pot into which all members' defence $ contribute For example, the US spends the vast majority of its military $ on non-NATO, domestic priorities #r4today
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 14/02/2025
Watch bad actors draw entirely the wrong conclusion from this. The message is not "It's pointless switching to EV because they still produce brake dust." It's "Even if we switch to EV, there will still be SOME issues." Summary: (Brake dust + emissions) worse than (brake dust + zero emissions)
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RMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Fighting for fairness RMT Train Managers working for Avanti West Coast back on the picket line at Euston today, fighting for fair pay for rest day working.
An RMT picket line at Euston station gathered behind a large, red RMT flag.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The UK can secure significant growth of 1.7% - 2.2% through a policy of deep alignment with the EU on goods and services, while staying within Starmer's red lines. This is the approach to push for: peak ambition within the constraints Labour has set. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Research claims EU deal will fuel growth — and Labour is listening
A report says Britain can mend some of the economic damage of Brexit without crossing the red lines set by Keir Starmer
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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🌺🌺 Cynbad 🌺🌺 @cyynbadd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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Bloomarosa @bloomarosa.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
It's always a class war
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Tiberius @ecomarxi.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Never before has there been a clearer example of how both wings of the US War Party work in tandem to achieve the Empire’s goals. The Dems slaughter and level Gaza then the GOP ethnically cleanse those who survived, both pointing at each other in the Pantomime of Death it all is.
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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
It's open source software. Programmers outside China can easily modify it to remove the political bias. It's just like sacking Kuenssberg and Justin Webb from the BBC.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Thames Water prices will be hiked by £19 a month from April. Sewage will be dumped in rivers, leaks will go unplugged, dividends will be paid, cost of servicing,£17bn debt passed to customers, execs will be rewarded for fleecing people. Predatory capitalism. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Thames Water confirm it WILL hike customers' prices by £19 a month
Thames Water has announced plans to increase its prices by £19 a month in a move which it says is to invest in infrastructure over the next five years amid a spike in sewage pollution incidents.
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Son of Eric @spiritof44.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
"Tens of thousands of Palestinians have begun returning to northern Gaza after being DISPLACED following the start of the conflict between Israel and Hamas..." DISPLACED?? - are pro-Israel Terrorist State supporters @theguardian.com having a fucking laugh. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Middle East: Tens of thousands of Palestinians begin journey home to devastated northern Gaza – as it happened
People begin to return to areas such as Jabalia and Beit Hanoun following hostage agreement
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Dolcie-Mae from #Newport has been diagnosed with HLH - a life-threatening blood disorder. A stem cell transplant is her only hope for survival but she currently has no matching donor. 💔 🔄 SHARE and register as a stem cell donor at dkms.org.uk/dolciemae_tw to help find her hero🙏
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Request a swab kit to register as a stem cell donor
Request a swab kit to register as a stem cell donor
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
#NeverAgain
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Journalist Laura Khan: "16 people have been killed [in Jenin] in the last 2 days. That includes a 2 year old baby, Laila al-Khatib" The IDF murdered a 2 year old baby. How come this didn't lead the headlines on the BBC or Sky? That's a rhetorical question. We know why.
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arnie @arnie.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
beginning to think rachel reeves is, in fact, the first test of ai in humanoid form & is malfunctioning this is just utterly bizarre
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
‘Over-use’ of right-wing guests on Question Time revealed www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/o...
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'Over-use' of right-wing guests on Question Time revealed
Academic analysis detailing the over-use of right-wing guests on Question Time has resurfaced after Nigel Farage was platformed again.
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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The Lemkin Institute was screaming about Israel committing genocide early in 2023, well before October 7th.
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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
The only focus going forward should be class war and destroying wealth inequality NOT culture wars, feelings and vibes. You can't solve anything else until this rigged system is freed from the stranglehold of concentrated capital at the top.
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Freebesieged @freebesieged.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Allegedly Hodge submitted 400 of the 700 'antisemitism' claims during the Corbyn years
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Perhaps Hodge could start by investigating herself, and what she did with all that money she made from her family's apartheid-era South African business? She previously said she donated the money to charity, but can't remember which. Strange!
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 09/12/2024
💥Our scandalous spending tracker is back in the news!💥 The £131 billion wasted by the Tories since 2019 could have: - Funded £28bn a year of green projects - Kept the winter fuel allowance - Nationalised UK energy supply - Lifted the 2-child benefit cap until 2063 www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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Tories wasted £131bn in 5 years. Here's how it could've been spent
The Conservative government wasted money on Test and Trace, Covid PPE contracts, and post-Brexit border checks. We've put it to better use.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Let’s be clear: the entire democratic world thinks the US healthcare system is a joke.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The government’s losing nearly £60 billion a year to fraud youtu.be/ldwwOD5IY98?... The government’s own data on fraud suggests it loses £58.8 billion a year, but that’s bound to be understated as there are no systems to detect fraud in two thirds of government activity. What is going on?
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The government’s losing nearly £60 billion a year to fraud
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Can we get this save our NHS starter pack followed by all? Please share like mad! We MUST save our NHS 💙 go.bsky.app/QSu8Fdi
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