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Shaker

@shakerpainter.bsky.social
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Hope not Hate, Save our NHS, #FBPE Rejoin, Make Education Free, Resist, Nationalise Utilities, Green. Banner art: Edward Burra 1905–1976 English painter draughtsman, printmaker. Opposed to all forms of cruelty & repression.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10h
Rachel Millward calls for the re-nationalisation of water without compensation as water companies are insolvent and we ought to own our crucial water infrastructure.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 14h
🚨BREAKING Green Party calls for Thames Water and South East Water to be taken into public ownership WITHOUT COMPENSATION by Christmas Thames Water is insolvent, and South East Water has repeatedly failed to supply water to thousands of homes This is wonderful from the Greens
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 02/10/2026
"We did win elections in greater numbers than ever before. But more than that, we changed this country. You did this. We made this happen.” In his speech at Conference, Zack Polanski reflects on a historic year for the Green Party.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 02/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The NHS is trying to silence us for criticising Palantir, but we’re not bowing down to the pressure goodlawproject.org/is-this-the-firs…
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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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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On LBC talking about Kemi Badenoch's banning of @bylinetimes.bsky.social from Conservative conference after calling such bans of journalists by Reform UK "authoritarian" and an assault on free speech www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps4T...
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Adam Bienkov on LBC with James O'Brien talking about being banned from Conservative conference
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It couldn't be more critical to get more Green voices in Parliament - and with only 6 days until the by-election in Holborn and St Pancras, we need as many Green activists as possible to join us in the campaign to get Zack Polanski elected! Sign up to an action day now! linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP
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Shaker @shakerpainter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BBC Question Time to be renamed, and Fiona Bruce replaced. The show will now be hosted by Jacob Rees-Mogg and be renamed BBC Reform No Need For Questions Time. It’ll be a little bit more like GBNews, but without the adverts.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 02/10/2026
It's clear what the people want. Palantir OUT of our NHS 🔥 We have less than 2 months to kick them out👇 goodlaw.social/668d1d
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
US private equity owner of Boots to sell it to a Canadian private equity firm for $9bn (£7bn). NHS prescriptions are a major money makers. Otherwise its prices are high. No UK tax levied on dividends paid by Boots to its foreign owners.
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Boots owner ‘closing in on sale to Canada’s Weston family for $9bn’
Deal would mark return of Canadian family to UK after it sold Selfridges department store for £4bn in 2022
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Shaker @shakerpainter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The BBC has a Reform problem. The problem is having to fill a Question Time panel seat every week when there are only eight MP’s to choose from or Zia Yusuf.
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Northern & proud 👊 @gazlancs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Boris Johnson became PM based on these promises He kept none of them - & knew he would not He lasted 3 years Sacked MP’s that challenged his Brexit Illegally prorogued Parliament & lied to the Queen!!
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🔥 Tell your MP: 628 constituencies want EU membership. Only 4 don’t. A great Write-To-Your-MP tool for the upcoming parliamentary debate on UK applying to join the EU. Send an email - and share the link!
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Tell your MP: 628 constituencies want EU membership. Only 4 don't. - Best for Britain
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Schools forced to shut amid burst Thames Water pipe ‘leaking 750 litres a second. TW infrastructure has average age of 79 years. Industry average is 56 years. 40% of TW assets are over 100 years old. Profits siphoned-off, investment neglected, execs rewarded, customers fleeced
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Schools forced to shut amid burst Thames Water pipe ‘leaking 750 litres a second’
Leak causes outages and low pressure in parts of London and Surrey, affecting 6,000 properties and leaving some without water
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Shaker @shakerpainter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mandani’s New York proposal would require supermarkets to apply a 10% discount to each item scanned at self-checkout. This concept is impressive and ought to be adopted without delay across all UK supermarkets.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Big business excels at tax evasion so the rest of us suckers have to pay more "Starbucks brought in £556 million from coffee sales in the UK last year. Yet the taxman paid them £13.7 million. Not a typo. Not unlawful. Just the tax rules operating exactly as they are written." via Immanuel Ezekiel
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RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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'Oh my God': White House insiders reveal Trump's dangerous high-stakes habit
President Donald Trump heads into high-stakes meetings with world leaders carrying a risky habit, White House insiders told his biographer.In a Saturday episode of "Inside Trump's Head," Michael Wolff...
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 27/09/2026
The deadline to renew Palantir's £330m contract is coming up fast. Join us to make ministers stop hiding Palantir's secrets – before it’s too late👇 goodlaw.social/o9zr
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Shaker @shakerpainter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reform aren’t on the side of the working class; the complete opposite. They want to take the UK out of the ECHR under the guise of stopping the boats when the true reason is gutting workers’ rights, unions, fire and rehire, zero-hour contracts, wage stagnation. Private health will replace the NHS!
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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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Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I fully back this call from Labour members. Palantir’s co-founder claimed “the NHS makes people sick”. Serious concerns surround its human rights record. Yet it's running the NHS' data platform. The Government must use the break clause to kick out Palantir.
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Shaker @shakerpainter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing on the scale of these risks. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks
The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing ...
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Shaker @shakerpainter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wow, £65! Running crocs. Nike must only make £64.90 profit on these. The shoe equivalent of cinema popcorn.
Running crocs. Available in ‘I Saw You Coming’
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Shaker @shakerpainter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Was this the moment Trump was reminded by the press that he not only called COVID-19 the Chinese virus during the Tulsa rally but also later on 20 June 2020, he escalated things further by also calling it kung flu for the very first time in public.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Shaker @shakerpainter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This scientist wants you to stop flushing your toilet. Here's why - BBC Science Focus Magazine apple.news/ASjoRbE9lQ-G...
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This scientist wants you to stop flushing your toilet. Here's why — BBC Science Focus Magazine
It’s time to bring ‘pee-cycling’ back September 25, 2026 Every time you go to the toilet, you could be flushing away a valuable resource – your urine. Today, we see urine as a waste product – but that...
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Shaker @shakerpainter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What I find most unsettling about Trump’s second term is that the secret services, the FBI, and the military continue as usual, even though Trump is clearly compromised, a sexual assaulter, listed in the Epstein files, a convicted rapist, and an insurrectionist – who’s protecting the US from him?
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Shaker @shakerpainter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump is what you get when you let your country be run for billionaires by billionaires. Everything is never enough.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is the UK's debt bill creating austerity for the poor and interest for the wealthy? And is this the real interest crisis the UK is facing now? youtu.be/CfCCyQezwI8?...
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Is the UK's debt bill creating austerity for the poor and interest for the rich?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 24/09/2026
Our new megapoll with YouGov finds that pledging to rejoin the EU could win Labour 321 seats at the next election - just 5 short of an absolute majority. Read more here: bestforbritain.org/eu-membership-pl…
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Are the Royal Family public servants or not? And if they are, then why do they have a blanket exemption on rules that others have to follow? In July I introduced a Bill to end outrageous Royal exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act. You can read it here: bills.parliament.uk/bills/4267
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A British water company unable to cope with rain. You couldn't make it up. And this was just one of a whole catalogue of cock-ups. Southern Water "apologised"... For the record, CEO Lawrence Gosden received a total remuneration package of £1.378 million for 2024–25. share.google/6YK0FjPoX8il...
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Water firm fined over pollution that killed dozens of fish and eels
The water firm says the pollution happened during ‘extremely heavy rainfall which overwhelmed our network’
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Shaker @shakerpainter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
FFS Guardian! There’s plenty of cash in Britain; just that most of it isn’t evenly distributed. The wealthiest avoid tax, put it offshore; this government needs ‘courage’ for addressing the balance. Government always punches down when cutting; start punching up! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage? | Gaby Hinsliff
The issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a fair solution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Neoliberals want to end the triple-lock on state pension They inflict low wages, consign millions to poverty. Govt spending on state pension as % of GDP in G7 countries. Italy 12.8 France 12 Germany 9.8 Japan 8.9 USA 6.6 Canada 4.7 UK 4.7 UK has one of the least generous pensions in the G7.
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How does the UK State Pension measure up globally?
A global comparison of State Pension provision highlights the onus on individuals in the UK to build pension savings for their retirement, rather than leaving
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports - Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 20/09/2026
We have no choice but to use our water company. Abtisam Mohamed is absolutely spot on This monopoly has failed for years, yet the government allows them to keep our water It's time for this to change. Bring water into public ownership
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Shaker @shakerpainter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just been in a situation where I’ve been sitting with 6 octogenarians, and the topic of conversation tuned too the RNLI, and small boats. The absolute misinformation theat they were coming out with was straight out of the Farage book of misinformation. Money, houses, the RNLI are called like a taxi!
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Shaker @shakerpainter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
FFS! UK has been slipping down all league tables. Thatcher shot us all in both feet by selling everything off at a fraction of its value; we should have mirrored Norway! Then the two biggest chancers delivered us Brexit on the back of a bus full of lies, self-entitlement & profit. Rejoin the EU Now!
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 19/09/2026
Use our tool to find out how much you’re paying for water pollution. Then send a clear message to Andy Burnham – fix this broken system: goodlaw.social/po43
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Stop the water industry rip-off
The PM says he wants public control of water, but water companies are still spilling sewage and hiking up our bills. Add your name.
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Shaker @shakerpainter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It is apparent that ITV is now under Sky’s ownership, given the introduction of its own odds finder; one might wonder how soon ‘ITV bet’ will appear beside ‘Sky bet’.
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Shaker @shakerpainter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Luckily Google donated millions in order for a ‘High IQ president’ to step in and avert a catastrophe! Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies - The Guardian apple.news/A1LighkzTRDC...
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Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies — The Guardian
Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Following a closed door congressional briefing on the dangers of AI held by Senator Bernie Sanders, noble prize winner, and “godfather of AI” Dr Geoffrey Hinton issued an alarming warning to lawmakers. Congress may have only one year left to put safeguards in place.
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Shaker @shakerpainter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Billionaire tax avoiders talking down the country are in the news again. Fine, leave. But if they come back… If a UK citizen departs to avoid tax, they should be barred from returning until a return fee is settled. This fee should cover the tax owed, plus interest and a 25% handling charge.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 17/09/2026
"Water privatisation is one of the biggest cons in British history" @rebeccalongbailey.com sent a powerful message to the government in Parliament: we shouldn't just bring water into public hands; we must give households a seat on the board Public ownership now
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Caroline Lucas says Labour won't rule our new oil and gas, and aren't announcing that till after the by-election in Holborn & St Pancras, because they think announcing it will help Zack Polanski win the seat Twice Labour's Heidi Alexander refuses to rule out more oil and gas.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every Green voice is one that will hold this Labour government to account and push them to do better.
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