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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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Steve heartswork @steveheartswork.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I'm not "comfortable" with any right wing government including this one. The difference between Labour/Tories/Reform is about style and degree not substance. A bunch of amoral chancers saying "vote for us because we're not quite as bad" won't inspire people desperate for real change.
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Steve heartswork @steveheartswork.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
They could stop drinking expensive coffees or even get on their bikes and look for work or not have big TVs or get a different job. You know, the kind of things they recommend for poor people.
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Steve heartswork @steveheartswork.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
More evidence that the differences between Labour/Tories/Reform are about style and degree not substance. We're already getting "but if you don't vote for us Reform will win". They are already winning because Labour are now just a vehicle for unprincipled opportunists.
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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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Steve heartswork @steveheartswork.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
All the "research"that money can buy.
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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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Steve heartswork @steveheartswork.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
If he paid a proper wealth tax what would actually change for him? He and his family are already totally insulated from the everyday stresses and strains but obviously not from the pathological need for money and power.
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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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Steve heartswork @steveheartswork.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Anybody who follows what is happening and who is paying for it knows that Labour is a moral vacuum.The difference between Labour and Reform is that of style and degree not of substance.The only question is "How low will they go?".
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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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Steve heartswork @steveheartswork.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Which genius came up with the idea that reducing resources will improve anything?
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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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Steve heartswork @steveheartswork.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
A test of the governments' moral fibre.What are the odds on complete capitulation?
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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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Steve heartswork @steveheartswork.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Please Professor change your agent.
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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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Steve heartswork @steveheartswork.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
If anyone with a moral compass is still in the Labour party please leave now for the sake of your reputation.
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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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Steve heartswork @steveheartswork.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
A whole career out of being a thoroughly unpleasant man. See also Claire Fox. Abolish the Lords.
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Steve heartswork @steveheartswork.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The old phrase "You are known by the company you keep" springs to mind. The tiny minority of Labour MPs who have any shred of principle left need to accept that the party is now just another corrupt right wing party and the longer they stay in it the more their credibility diminishes.
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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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Steve heartswork @steveheartswork.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
If you are still a member of the Labour Party have a look at what they are doing and decide if you want to be complicit.
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Steve heartswork @steveheartswork.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Plenty more work for the cops ,social services, AA and liver specialists.
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Steve heartswork @steveheartswork.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Arguably?
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Steve heartswork @steveheartswork.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Recent vintage unflushable.
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