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Steve heartswork

@steveheartswork.bsky.social
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Mostly retired counsellor/supervisor/trainer etc. Now living happily in exile in multicultural Remain voting Cardiff.Socialist ex Labour ex Twitter!

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Layla @layladoodle.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Liz Kendall has admitted that I.D. will be used for far more than just the right to work. It will be used for EVERYTHING you buy or do. Data will be harvested by the likes of Larry Ellison (U.S. 2nd richest in the world) and make no mistake it enables the govt & him to gain control over our lives
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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Call for MI5 probe into Elon Musk 'funding' Tommy Robinson legal fees
THE Security Service should investigate claims that Elon Musk is funding Tommy Robinson’s legal costs, Keir Starmer has been told.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 15/10/2025
I've officially reached the point in my career where I can hear budget cuts as a background soundtrack to my life. This mid-week post is half-primal scream, half-essay and almost entirely about the national delusion that we can keep "doing more with less." Welcome to the edge - there's snacks.
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The Ceaseless Snip-Snip-Snip of a Dying State
Fifteen years of cuts have left the UK trying to "efficiency" its way out of a collapse - and somehow still expecting growth to show up as well.
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This 👇👏
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Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence
A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank
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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
👇🏻 Current issues summed up nicely by Prem. No government solutions either
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Richard Sedgley @richardsedgley.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Vote Green! 💚 --------- Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence
A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert
Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 14/10/2025
The Starmer project has relied from the beginning on back room maneuvering, smears, stitch ups, and ruthless exploitation of the party’s disciplinary procedures. The result is a soulless, empty husk of a political project, writes Richard Sanders👇 www.declassifieduk.org/how-keir-sta...
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How Keir Starmer conned the British electorate
Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I’m seeing pieces and posts today about how useful digital ID could be in navigating bureaucracy etc. Yes. It would. That, however, is *not* how the government tried to sell it to us. Instead, they portrayed it as a tool to stop illegal working and curb illegal immigration. 1/4
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James Latimer has read Breath and Bone, awaiting Wolf2 @jameslatimer.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
If only more people cared! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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Petition: Require media retractions be made as visible as original headlines or articles
We think media companies should not be allowed to get away with printing false, misleading and malicious headlines, only to hide the retractions on interior pages or fine print some days later. Retrac...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly. I wonder how they got to this editorial decision? Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again. join.greenparty.org.uk
Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.
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Steve heartswork @steveheartswork.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
There are only marginal differences between banks so how about Bank of England current and savings accounts. They can run alongside existing suppliers so if people want "choice" they can have it. Car insurance is compulsory so a state run insurance scheme to benefit us all.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Steve Reed: "We've seen on our screens for 2 years the most unimaginable scenes of horror in Gaza" Yes, and in govt you supported & armed Israel, provided them with military assistance & refused to take any actions to exert meaningful pressure on them. Thats your record.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Britain now has 1970s levels racism without 1970s levels of secure well-paid jobs, social housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions and affordable rail fares
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Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/10/2025
Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag
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Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag
Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’ * UK politics live – latest updates * Gaza ceasefire – live updates A protester who was threatened with arrest under the Terrorism Act for holding a Palestine flag and signs saying “free Gaza” and “Israel is committing genocide” has received an apology from police, including for “unlawful false imprisonment”. Kent police have also agreed to pay damages and legal costs to Laura Murton, 43, in connection with the 14 July incident in Canterbury in which armed officers told her her demonstration expressed views supportive of Palestine Action, which had been banned earlier that month. Continue reading...
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 13/10/2025
👉NEW -- How Keir Starmer conned the British electorate by Richard Sanders Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project. www.declassifieduk.org/how-keir-sta...
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How Keir Starmer conned the British electorate
Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project.
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Wonder if the 2000 Palestinian hostages being released will be covered by the BBC? Interviews with their families, accounts of torture and abuse? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palesti...
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Palestinians in Israeli custody - Wikipedia
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Let's spell it out then. The motivation is 1/ empathy for our fellow human beings 2/ to raise the political cost of the British government's complicity to the point where London is forced to withdraw its support, thereby increasing the international pressure on Israel to cease its genocidal acts.
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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
More than half a million people marched for Palestine in central London yesterday. As long as Israel continues to oppress the Palestinians, we will continue to resist them. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Proscribe the IDF ❌
Green graphic of a large crowd at a protest 
Text reads:
Half a million march for Palestine
Signs read:
Stop Arming Israel
Gaza Stop Genocide
Free Palestine
End the siege
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Worth noting that Labour deputy leadership candidate Bridget Phillipson has been handed £60,000 by the Israel lobby, and that pro-Israel former hedge fund manager Stuart Roden has donated £80,000 supporting the office costs of Phillipson and Lisa Nandy? #bbclaurak
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Israel lobby funded half of Keir Starmer’s cabinet
Exclusive: Labour’s top team has accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds from pro-Israel funders.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🇬🇱🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
UK government withholding details of Palantir contract open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 11/10/2025
Pearson Engineering is owned by the Israeli government. Now, it has hired a lobbying firm run by the husband of Hollie Ridley, Labour’s general secretary. www.declassifieduk.org/top-labour-o...
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Top Labour official married to lobbyist for Israeli arms firm
Pearson Engineering is owned by the Israeli government. Now, it has hired a lobbying firm run by the husband of Hollie Ridley, Labour’s general secretary.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
#BBCQT Always bring the receipts.
Happy birthday to my friend and colleague Nigel Farage aka Mr Brexit.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 09/10/2025
⁠⁣Good point!
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Jonathan Ashworth: "I've wanted to see a ceasefire for 2 years" The collective position of the Labour shadow cabinet (which you were part of) for months after October 7th was to reject a ceasefire & Labour instructed its MPs not to vote for a ceasefire in Nov 2023.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The regulator Ofwat has ruled that 5 private water companies can raise bills by even more than previously agreed A reminder that despite promising to nationalise the water industry Starmer dumped that pledge &decided to side with the private companies instead. This is the result
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Dear Labour activists ... 1. Saying we need a better tax system that finally gets the super-rich to pay their fair share is not "populism". 2. Not jumping onto the anti-foreigner bandwagon as Starmer has done is not "populism". 3. Criticising genocide is not "populism".
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Robert Jenrick, the Conservatives' Farage; a racist who ordered cartoon murals to be painted over at a children’s asylum centre - because they looked ‘too welcoming’ & helped a billionaire donor avoid paying £40m in property tax. Indecent, racist, corrupt - definitely a potential Tory leader.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
James Cleverly: "I cannot understand the motivation for protests of this type so regularly"
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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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ala8.bsky.social @ala8.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Like this, just echoing each other over immigration and no solutions to the cost of living
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 07/10/2025
Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
So according to Jenrick, 'not integrated' means black/brown faces outnumbering white faces. How very dare they. Nothing to do with whether they're actually integrated – just what they look like. Absolutely shameful. He'll probably become Tory leader.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Jenrick has gone from forgettable nobody to frothing-BNP-styled dickhead. Why does this corrupt little man get to strut around the media blowing his racist dog-whistle? He should be shamed and shunned out of political existence. We all despise the Tory party for a reason. He’s one of those reasons.
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Michael Ann, sociotechnical femme @michaelann.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Most cis and heterosexual people are actually pretty normal about queer and trans folks, and/or do not know or care to know in detail what's up. It's only a very, very loud and rich few that constitute the block of transphobes and homophobes driving all of this.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Narrator: This is fascism.
The image is an X post by Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis
) from 19 hours ago, stating: "So let me get this straight: a Blackhawk helicopter and dozens of masked, armed federal agents roll up on a Chicago apartment building, cuff everyone—including kids—and then run checks for warrants and immigration status? What the hell is going on in this country? How is that not fascism?" The post includes a verified badge.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
If the media covered Palantir/BlackRock's public sector takeover and the rollout of deregulated investment zones with the same intensity as Nigel Farage and immigration, we'd see actual outrage at the seismic corporate power grab secretly remaking Britain. The UK is being privatised.
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Teachers don't know how lucky they are, what with their summer recess, their expense accounts, subsidised bars, resettlement grants, winding-up allowances, second jobs, second homes and massive salaries! Oh wait, that's MPs - sorry...
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Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
"As Farage’s career shows, the British far-right cannot hold power for long. . . . . "infighting is inevitable. Hate is a volatile fuel, quick to ignite & quicker to burn out. Politics that lasts requires patience and compromise, and hate has no talent for either." open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...
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The global far-right is brainwashing a town near you
📝 A guest essay...
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johnw60.bsky.social @johnw60.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Nothing from Starmer or Mahmood about this today bsky.app/profile/drbe...
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Yes
"Say what you like about nurses, garbage collectors, or mechanics, it’s obvious that were they to vanish in a puff of smoke, the results would be immediate & catastrophic.

A world without teachers or dock-workers would soon be in trouble, and even one without science fiction writers or ska musicians would clearly be a lesser place.

It’s not entirely clear how humanity would suffer were all private equity CEOs, lobbyists, PR researchers, actuaries, telemarketers, bailiffs or legal consultants to similarly vanish - many suspect it might markedly improve."

- David Graeber
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Anna Horroridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
It is just extremely amusing to me to see Starmer's team's efforts to discredit Polanski, which are presumably directed at voters very much like me (pretty hard left, have voted Labour tactically in the past, but now are inclined to never do that again). Like... you have absolutely no idea 😆
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