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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
There is a coalition forming that is supporting @greenparty.org.uk in this upcoming election. It's the way we keep Reform out. Muslim Voter Group To Endorse Greens In Gorton And Denton By-Election www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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Muslim Voter Group To Endorse Greens In Gorton And Denton By-Election
Exclusive: A pressure group focused on who Muslims should support in elections will endorse the Green Party in Gorton and Denton.
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Laila Cunningham, London's mayoral candidate is facing explosive claims over a mould-plagued, unsafe hotel as guests warn others to stay away www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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Reform's London mayoral candidate Laila Cunningham 'is slumlord'
Laila Cunningham, London's mayoral candidate is facing explosive claims over a mould-plagued, unsafe hotel as guests warn others to stay away
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Nigel Farage is in Dubai right now asking billionaires there to fund Reform. These are the people he is selling the UK off to. Foreign billionaires. He loves immigrants so long as they are rich.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
In the 1960s more than 40% of the money you spent went straight back to Government, everything spent on Water, Oil, Gas, Coal, Electricity, Social Housing, Telecoms, Steel, Ships... Now it's less than 5%, the rest all goes to billionaires Tax Havens That's why there is no money
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Since I was elected leader of the Green Party, 100,000 new people have joined. In just over two months: 170,000 people ready to make hope normal again. This is only the beginning. Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Rupert Murdoch who has basically been in control of the UK for 46 years, since he got Margaret Thatcher into power. Tells you that actually he is doing a good job and the Green Party is bad. Poor old Rupert is scared he will lose control.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Imagine if I told you that Privatisation was only because they wanted all that money pouring into their pockets instead of back into Public Services. Now stop imagining because that is how it is.
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Sandra. @sandratofriends.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
So very true. He has stated in an interview that if they get to government, he will attack disabled ppl 1st, harder than Labour. You all have been warned ⚠️, just like Starmer warned & nobody listened. Deform, red/blue Tories on steroids.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Green leader Zack Polanski calls for Farage’s resignation over tax, on BBC Any Questions: "Farage has changed his personal business to make sure he could avoid tax for his appearances on GBNews. That’s perfectly legal, but is that in the Nolan Principles? Absolutely not. [He should] step down too.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
There is no moral justification for today’s extraordinary concentration of wealth. It is distorting politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Closing our staggering wealth gap is crucial to the survival of our economy and our democracy.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
If you're young Or old Or a woman If you've got a disability Or, you've a SEND If you're LGBTQ+ Or you're from an ethnic minority If you need care Or you're in the forces And if you're in Northern Ireland Then Farage's plan to abolish human rights law is going to screw you
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
UK media is a far right PR machine. Journalists really need to face up to what they are enabling. If Farage ends up f***ing up Britain, we will all know who helped it happen.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Keir Starmer and David Lammy belong in The Hague.
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Israel bombed a hospital. Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded. Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV. Read that again. Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Genuinely unreal. Not only do your taxes fund bombing a hospital, and then waiting until more journalists and rescuers rush to the scene to bomb it again — they also fund the perpetrator telling you to your face that it was all just a “tragic mishap.”
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
This shows what's possible under public ownership of rail, including soon in England. Hope UK Govt ministers are watching
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Absolutely brilliant, well done Team GB Paralympians.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
If you don't love Nigel Farage give this a Like. If you hate him, give it a RT.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Shell and BP are taking 30x as much money out of the UK as it costs to look after Asylum Seekers. Not one person in the Media ever mentions that. I wonder why?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Nigel Farage wants to end sick pay, he wants to destroy the unions, he wants to get rid of the State Pension, he wants US style Healthcare. The only person he will benefit is billionaires.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Because nothing says “you should feel free to come visit Washington” like standing in front of dozens of armed soldiers next to a guy who thinks women shouldn’t be able to vote 🙃
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
150 billionaires extract £120bn a year profit from the UK. They pay just 11% tax.
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
We will never descend into the gutter of blaming minorities for the problems in our society. It is the unity of all communities that can take on the rich and powerful — and win. My piece for @islingtontrib.bsky.social. www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/corb...
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Corbyn: Something is stirring all over the UK
You can sign up to build a real alternative to poverty, inequality and war, says Jeremy Corbyn
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 17/08/2025
Jeremy Corbyn and the Telegraph agree on something: allotments are under threat. Councils see £££, so who’s standing up for them? Ginny Smith looks for answers ⤵️ @sussexbylines.co.uk
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All is not well down on the allotment
Pressure to build housing may threaten our treasured allotments
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Record salaries for FTSE 100 CEOs, pay up for third year in a row. Median pay £4.58m; £58.9m at Melrose; £18.9m at Person. 122 times the salary of the average full-time UK worker. 16m Britons live in poverty. Millions rely on food banks and charity. 37% of Universal Credit claimants are in work.
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Record salaries for UK chief executives as pay rises for third year in a row
Report finds more than £1bn handed out to just 217 FTSE 100 bosses in the last financial year
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
How Spain put up wealth taxes - without chasing away the billionaires. Yet the 'don't tax the rich' brigade constantly scare people. Wealth tax isn't just about revenued. It reduces inequalities, capacity of the rich to bribe, pollute, hijack democracy, hold governments to ransom.
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How Spain put up wealth taxes - without chasing away the billionaires
Amid calls for Rachel Reeves to bring in a new levy for the super-rich, Madrid offers lessons for policymakers
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
We are an unstoppable movement for peace, for justice, and for Palestine. Join us at yourparty.uk
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Nurses, Doctors and Train Drivers aren't paid too much. Billionaires are. Cutting their profits will cut ALL your bills. So lets do that.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
People have forgotten because it was so long ago but the 1880's-1930's were crippled by mass strikes, workers walkouts and even full scale revolutions. Only because of these were your Rights, which are now being destroyed, won.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
In the 1950's, 60's and 70's when things needed to be done the Government did them. Now they beg billionaires to do them and give them vast sums of money. And nothing gets done. Let's bin the billionaires.
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John Henry @priveteye.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
As an 80 Yr old I find 1 of the fears of old age is not being of any use. I note 2/3 of those arrested in London on Saturday were over 60, not worried about any damage to their career. Some will incur legal expenses. Help them here : action.eko.org/a/defend-act...
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Defend activists risking their freedom for Palestine
As Gaza becomes hell on Earth, people protesting the genocide have been snatched off the streets, locked up, and even branded terrorists. Over 100 pro-Palestine activists in the UK have just been arr
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Russ @pappyparki.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The silence of the United States media on the murder of Al Jazeera journalists in a targeted attack by Netanyahu & the IDF speaks to the lack of integrity that now pervades our media. To date, Netanyahu & the IDF have murdered over 200 journalists & their families. The cowardice is telling
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
As we watch Keir Starmer and his team expand NHS privatisation, please remember that he was elected to become Labour leader saying specifically that he would remove NHS private outsourcing. He then quietly dropped this pledge in Summer 2022. This isn’t OK 🚨
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 13/08/2025
The Israeli army killed Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif and five of his colleagues in a targeted strike on a journalists' tent outside al-Shifa Hospital. The attack has effectively wiped out all of Al Jazeera's staff in Gaza City. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/isra...
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Israel assassinates ‘voice of Gaza,’ Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif
The Israeli army killed Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif and five of his colleagues in a targeted strike on a journalists’ tent outside al-Shifa Hospital. The attack has effectively wiped out…
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Truthout @truthout.org · 12/08/2025
Israel is not the only government in history to cut off access to food and water as a tool of war. The United States and Canada have also used starvation to conquer Indigenous peoples and acquire their land.
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Starvation Has Long Been Used as a Weapon of War Against Indigenous People
Settler colonizers in the US and Canada destroyed Indigenous food systems in their bid to acquire land.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Do you want to nationalise Water, Power, Rail, Mail, Fossil Fuel, Steel, Telecoms, Public Transport, The NHS, Care Homes, Airports, Air Traffic Control, Ship Building and much more? This isn't something radical, it's 1970.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Just 1.5% of Universal Credit claimants are refugees. Someone should let Nigel Farage and his party know www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/jus...
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Just 1.5% of Universal Credit claimants are refugees
New government statistics have shown that just 1.5% of Universal Credit claimants in Great Britain were refugees.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
In February these Journalists celebrated the Ceasefire and the return of civilians to Northern Gaza. Israel has killed every single one of the Journalistsin this video.
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20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Good to see this article from Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, on how all the evidence is that 20mph limits make London a better place to be for its residents, visitors and tourists. Its time to say #20splenty for us all.
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Dear Britain, it’s now clear: 20mph zones save lives and don’t slow traffic. Implement them | Sadiq Khan
There is too much bluff and bluster on this subject. Ordinary people just want safe streets for themselves and those they love, and we can achieve that, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Nationalise Thames Water and the entire water network now.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The problem in the UK is the super rich, they don't deserve to be rich, they don't even deserve to be poor. They deserve to have nothing. And the people need to wake up and realise this.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Great long piece on BBC news about the massive increase in the cost of cod and the impact on fish and chip shops. No mention at all of Brexit which has significantly affected £££ For the millionth time: We import ten times as much cod as this country catches. What did they think would happen?
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a plate of fish and chips with coleslaw and a lemon slice on top
ALT: a plate of fish and chips with coleslaw and a lemon slice on top
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Ministers line up administrators for Thames Water Since 1989 £10.4bn paid in dividends, £13.68bn in interest payments. No new reservoirs. Dumps sewage in rivers. Hardly any new shareholder money. Shares worthless, Lenders ready to take a haircut. Need permanent nationalisation, not temporary.
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Thames Water crisis: Ministers line up administrator for utility giant
Steve Reed, the environment secretary, has signed off the appointment of FTI Consulting to assist with contingency planning for putting Britain's biggest water supplier into a special administration r...
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
when the right say 'crime' they mean 'the presence of groups of people we're bigoted against,' they don't care about the actual stats
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Trussell @trusselluk.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
❗Scrapping the two-child limit would lift 670,000 people out of severe hardship. It would mean fewer families would need to turn to a food bank, and would give children a fairer start in life.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/08/2025
She's also the only child rapist in history to be moved to a minimum security camp with potential work release one week after meeting with the Deputy Attorney General.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
BBC Radio 4's hourly news headlines today have been an unrelenting Two Minutes' Hate against immigrants. The UK's national broadcaster is deliberately fomenting hatred against some of the world's most vulnerable people, while license fee payers pick up the tab.
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Tom Joad™️ @theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked girls. Now she gets work release. This isn’t justice. It’s a reward. She’s not reformed,she’s rehearsing her comeback. The system that let Epstein off the hook is doing it again. The survivors get silence. She gets a job. This isn’t a mistake. It’s how power works.
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