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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Half of the country is in "exceptionally serious drought" - putting us at more risk of wildfires and threatening our food security. Meanwhile water companies are wasting a staggering 2.87 billion litres of water every day through leaky pipes. Time to end water privatisation.

Half of England officially in "exceptionally serious" drought

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Across the country, wildfires are raging. The Prime Minister needs to call a COBRA meeting and treat the climate crisis with the urgency this moment calls for.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If Andy Burnham truly wants to put politics aside to grip social care, the Greens should be at the table. Last month, I sat down listening to the experiences of carers. We need new thinking and urgent change now: m.youtube.com/watch?v=HbJJ...

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The UK Care System Is Broken

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

You do not defeat the far-right by moving to the right. You do not defeat the far-right by moving to the right. You do not defeat the far-right by moving to the right. You do not defeat the far-right by moving to the right. You do not defeat the far-right by moving to the right.

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Socialist Peaky Blinders. @solidaritypb1.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Happy #SocialistFriday Comrades Solidarity to all ✊🏼

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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I call upon my MP, on all those in positions of influence and all people of the UK to take a stand against this savagery. Not in our name. We demand an end to these war crimes. Repost if you stand against this genocide.

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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I seem to have upset the Nigel Farage fan club - so let me be clear. This man sows hate, lies and division. He is a grifter and a conman. He does not represent the vast majority of Britons. Repost if you agree P.s. multiculturalism is great.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there? National Suicide Prevention Hotline Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK) 1-800-273-8255 (USA) 1.833.456.4566 (Canada)

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

For those interested, there is actually a book on this topic. The book is called Bullshit Jobs!

"Just about anyone in a supervised wage-labor job
finds it maddening to pretend to be busy. Working is
meant to serve a purpose—if make believe play is an
expression of human freedom, then make-believe work
imposed by others represents a total lack of freedom.

It’s unsurprising, then, that the first historical occurrence
of the notion that some people ought to be working at all
times, or that work should be made up to fill their time
even in the absence of things that need doing, concerns
workers who are not free: prisoners and slaves."
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- David Graeber

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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Privatisation has failed. It is time to renationalise. Water Power Royal Mail Rail National Grid Telecoms Everything that we are going to use every day forever, we don't want to rent it at ripoff prices. We want to own it.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I'm so old, I remember when nationalised Royal Mail delivered the post twice a day with stamps at an affordable price. Then it was sold off and 'the superior efficiency of the private sector' kicked in.

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Last Friday, I presented a petition opposing the government’s decision to raise the £2 bus fare cap by 50% in January 2025. Affordable bus travel is a lifeline during the cost-of-living crisis. Let’s keep it accessible for all. Sign the petition here: chng.it/BSY2mhgb8y

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

🚨Everyone should watch this important film from Liberty The Governments action this week is “a concerning disregard for the rule of law & goes against recent statements by the Gov’t that they would NOT abuse the use of secondary legislation” Liberty will be back in court later this week

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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." Thomas Mann

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Tom MacLennan @tomnisophos.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... There is no excuse for not deprivatisating Royal Mail. It was a Starmer pledge. It's a popular policy. These guarantees are worthless, ask Cadbury workers.

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Royal Mail: Czech billionaire closes in on takeover deal

Daniel Kretinsky is understood to have offered a series of concessions to the UK government.

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Please could you follow the EveryDoctor account?👇 We do extensive research into NHS privatisation💙 We proved the existence of the VIP PPE lane during the pandemic along with Good Law Project by taking the government to court🚨 Currently running a campaign involving 115 MPs😮 @everydoctor.org.uk

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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Your regular reminder 👇 🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS 🏫 78% want publicly owned schools 💧 73% want publicly owned water 🚂 70% want publicly owned rail ✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail 🚍 67% want publicly owned buses 💡 65% want publicly owned energy

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EXCLUSIVE: Poll shows huge support for nationalisation of key industries and utilities

Privatisation has failed.

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This post from the PM is problematic for a number of reasons. A thread…🧵

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Tottenham Hotspur @tottenhamhotspur.com · 23/11/2024

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £125m a year tax free from the tax payer and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed. But he still needed a 45% pay rise. Like if he needs a pay cut. RP if you want the Monarchy gone. #AbolishTheMonarchy

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Miles Vorkosigan (Taylor's version) @milesvorkosigan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The number of people per country who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills: Norway - 0 UK - 0 France - 0 Spain - 0 Portugal - 0 Denmark - 0 Australia - 0 Iceland - 0 Italy - 0 Finland - 0 Ireland - 0 Germany - 0 Netherlands - 0 Sweden - 0 Japan - 0 Canada - 0 United States - 643,000

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Quick reminder that NHS staff were treated terribly by the Conservative government for 14 years and kept the NHS going throughout that entire period. They are *definitely* not to blame for problems in the NHS, no matter what the media is saying! 🌟

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant for war crimes & crimes against humanity. The UK government must comply with the ICC, end all arms sales, impose economic sanctions & suspend its trade deal with Israel. Nothing less will do.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Finance Capitalism really is a system that is quite close to Classic Feudalism!

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The 'farmers' protest is a good time to remind people of the Just Stop Oil protestors who got 21 years, just for planning a protest. Two tier justice indeed.

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Matthew Topham @mjhtopham.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

🌹 At 4pm, a Labour minister was praising the move to public ownership on our railways. 🥀 At 5pm, we heard that privatisation is the 'only option' for our water system. Why is the government asking bill payers to bailout failed water firms? Take back their licences instead.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

On Bullshit Jobs: "Instead of simply working half the time, which we could've done, we seem to have collectively decided it would be a better idea to make up jobs that most of the people doing them feel are doing nothing at all."

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

As an Indian, as someone who lived in Egypt, and who has, modestly, remained committed to my politics despite that, here are my rules for living under fascist regimes: 1) Focus on organizational structure. 1/

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Using private companies to bring down NHS waiting lists isn’t a great plan, because the private companies poach NHS staff to do the work. Politicians should be properly investing in the NHS instead. 🚨 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Wales to use private care to cut NHS waiting lists

The Welsh government says £50m announced to cut long waits can be spent on private healthcare.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Children accounted for the biggest rise of any social group falling into poverty a shocking new report has found - a record 36%, or 5.2 million children are now in deprivation Child poverty should be the national conversation right now

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Beth Rigby, very indignantly "You think Wealthy Landowners need to pay more tax." Well it is a HELL YES isn't it. RT if it is.

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Tom MacLennan @tomnisophos.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

It's bizarre how much my previous SM experience had devolved into replying to trolls and those unable to see past their talking points. I feel like I don't know how to express clear opinions without the prompt... Not sure what to say anymore. How toxic is that?

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Privatised Social Care has meant that they are making £45,000 per child in profit every year. £45,000 stolen from every child in care, that you have to pay for, for the profits of billionaires who steal from orphans. Privatisation needs to die.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example). 1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company. 2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly. 🧵

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