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Just an ordinary bloke. Family,music,nature,current affairs, anti tory. Not as old as I look but old enough to know better. I don't tolerate idiots.No DMs ⛔️

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
via The UK Against Hate
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NHS England waiting list hits 7.33m appointments for 6.21m individuals, rises for the third time in 4 months. Privatisation by stealth. NHS capacity neglected. Thousands suffer. Private sector profiteers. www.oecd.org/en/publicati... Hospital beds per 1,000 population, Comparison 2013 and 2023.
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LadyJoyceJoyce @twinklestar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🚨 An undercover investigation shown on Channel 4 exposed Reform figures allegedly breaking the law over foreign funding. Now demand a full criminal investigation. Sign the petition. 🔥 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...
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Sign the petition to hold politicians to account
Together, we can make sure no one - however rich or powerful they may be - is allowed to take us or our democracy for a ride.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tories to hand free childcare to those earning more than £100,000, would cost £700m to the public purse. Previously, they pledged cuts to universal credit, housing benefit, support for the long term unemployed. Continuation of the Tory war on less well-off.
theguardian.com
Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says
Kemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
UK chancellor to meet bank bosses for a pre-budget summit to discuss possible tax raid. Banks profiteering but resent windfall tax. Any chance of ending bank subsidies? Any chance of meeting pensioners, disabled, sick, poor to hear their concerns?
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Healey summons UK bank chiefs to pre-budget summit next week
The chancellor, John Healey, has called in the CEOs of lenders including Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest for talks ahead of his crucial budget statement.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
21st century update to 'Let them eat cake' meme via Piara Mia
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Paula Peters @paulapeters19.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#DisabilityJustice #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs Please support @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social just giving campaign for an upcoming protest in Manchester at No 10 North on 4th December Details here; www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Help raise £3000 to fund disability rights – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to fund disability rights. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Chinese Govt owned Syngenta to cease operations at Grangemouth, 400 jobs at risk. Previously oil refinery closed. England-based British Steel rescued. What would govt do now? UK govts oppose state ownership but let foreign govts own infrastructure. Why? Any industrial strategy?
independent.co.uk
Chemical firm to cease operations at Grangemouth site putting nearly 400 jobs at risk
The move comes just over a year after Syngenta, owned by state Chinese firm Sinochem, was given more than £2 million in Scottish Enterprise funding to expand its Scottish site
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 03/10/2026
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About the Role This is a role for someone who knows that great campaigns don’t just inform people, they move them. Someone who can see the bigger picture, move quickly when an opportunity emerges,
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The social security minister has still yet to decide whether secret reviews into deaths linked to the Department for Work and Pensions can be released to grieving relatives, a year after he asked civil servants to examine the issue. #DWP #BenefitDeaths www.disabilitynewsservice.com/no-decision-...
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No decision from Timms on releasing secret reports on deaths, a year after speaking to DWP civil servants
The social security minister has still yet to decide whether secret reviews into deaths linked to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) can be released to grieving relatives, a year after he a…
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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
Dividends paid to UK citizens taxed at rates of 8.75% to 39.35%, lower rate than wages. Dividends mostly go to the top 1%. £6bn a year raised if dividends taxed at the same rate as wages. More if NIC levied. Unlike the US, France, Germany, no UK tax levied on dividends paid to foreign investors.
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This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UK airlines to be banned from charging parents to sit with children. Some people charged up to £104 extra. Neoliberals routinely moan about regulation but are silent on customer rip-off schemes. If businesses were ethical we wouldn't need regulation.
theguardian.com
UK airlines to be banned from charging parents to sit with children
Planned rule change forms part of Burnham’s bid to crack down on the ‘little charges that add up’
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
via Campbell Finnie
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Massive crowd outside Palantir’s HQ in central London. Throw this evil corporation out of our public services." via Global Justice Now
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"BBC criticised for not having Green representative on QT panel ahead of by-election" www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bbc...
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BBC criticised for not having Green representative on Question Time ahead of by-election
The BBC has been criticised for not having a Green Party representative on the Question Time panel ahead of a by-election next week.
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Redsamo @redsamo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Even if he didn't know the details he must have realised something was not right. Not a great manager then but a cheat. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Building of the Pep supremacy is an era that will be defined by sham-ball
Guardiola’s success at Manchester City was underpinned by financial cheating. Now he can only double down on his adherence to the owners
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
9 years after Grenfell fire killed 72 people, Police pass files to the Crown Prosecution Service for possible charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies. How many will be prosecuted? Years of litigation will follow. Justice delayed is justice denied.
bbc.co.uk
Met Police submits Grenfell Tower fire investigation files to CPS
The force is seeking charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies over the 2017 tower block fire.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Super-rich UK energy/food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises Working-class face soaring prices, worsening climate impacts. Billionaires owning food/energy companies profit from hardship The same class funds political parties, uses tax havens, preaches low wages to workers.
theguardian.com
Super-rich UK energy and food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises
Analysis has shown the costs of daily essentials soaring in recent years, thanks in part to climate shocks, wars and geopolitical tensions
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
South West Water pleaded guilty to sewage dumping, fined £8m, a decade after the events. Yet govt introduced more deregulation. England's water industry controlled by organisations with criminal convictions. None has licence revoked. No exec prosecuted. Customers fleeced.
bbc.co.uk
South West Water fined almost £8m for sewage spills
South West Water previously entered guilty pleas to pollution offences spanning six years.
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Pascal (Miner for truth and delusion) 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @pascalr57.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The UK has been in debt since 1694. Tories have added £1.8T to that debt in 14 years wich is, of the top of my head, I think an increase of 120% since 2010 and 60 % of a debt accrued over the past 332 years.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Richest 1% of Britons owns more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population combined. The concentration of wealth in fewer hands has not provided the necessary economic stimulus. Need redistribution.
leftfootforward.org
This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The British public has had enough of the Brexit lies www.politico.eu/article/the-...
politico.eu
Brits want to get closer to the EU — and even Farage’s voters agree
As Labour grandees discuss reversing Brexit, Public First results show 70% of voters would welcome tighter ties with the European Union.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reform UK's Suella Braverman promises ‘consequences’ if pupils don’t sing Christian hymns. That would be policed. So what happens to atheists, agnostics, non-believers and other religious denominations. Will they be persecuted, imprisoned? Reform UK getting desperate and bizarre.
humanists.uk
Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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David @davidpeacock40.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Its not just Oxford, time to take action against these selfish drivers and their oversized cars.
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Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal @mistyswoman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#SpotTheScammer @ebenezerkids.bsky.social the WhatsApp number in the bio is associated with "Ebenezer" across multiple social media platforms. He's been outed as a fraud who is using the money to buy cars & party. See the Fraud Fighters post (verified Instagram) www.instagram.com/p/DS42pgZDVxL/
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MHM Wales @mhmwales.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🌱 Volunteer with our Calfaria Green Hub! ♻️ We’re looking for someone to spare just 2 hours a fortnight to support our recycling and green initiatives in Treorchy. No experience needed, and Tempo Time Credits are available. 📧 treorci@mhmwales.org 📞 0300 10 249 70 #Treorchy #Volunteering #GreenHub
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nigel Farage is now a desperate man. Chasing every headline; no low too low; the politics of the gutter, racism and fear embraced. His pronouncement on Fairford trying to link with ZERO evidence to asylum is beyond pathetic.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Private equity controlled TalkTalk, UK's 4th largest broadband provider, facing administration. Loaded with debt by PE, asset-stripped, low investment, poor service. PE control of essential services damages economy and national security. Neoliberals eye a bailout.
lbc.co.uk
National security concerns as broadband giant TalkTalk 'could go into administration within days' | LBC
Security officials are warning that the Ministry of Defence could be impacted if the telecom provider goes under
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 27/09/2026
Old aerial footage of a glacier in Alaska has been shared with false claims it shows the glacier that caused the deadly flood in Nepal last month.
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Old video of Alaskan glacier shared with claims it shows cause of Nepal flood – Full Fact
Dramatic helicopter footage above a glacier has been shared online with false claims it shows the glacier that caused last month’s flood in Nepal.
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The government and one of its state-owned rail operators are refusing to say how many stations will be able to provide level boarding for disabled passengers, following a decision to lease 29 new battery-electric trains. #LevelBoarding www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-r...
disabilitynewsservice.com
Government refuses to say how many rail stations will provide level boarding after major investment
The government and one of its state-owned rail operators are refusing to say how many stations will be able to provide level boarding for disabled passengers, following a decision to lease 29 new b…
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“President Duterte said kill the addicts, and the addicts died. He said kill the mayors, and the mayors died. He said kill the lawyers, and the lawyers died." ― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Interest on Reserves: The £100bn UK Bank Subsidy You Fund. Banks making £50bn profits a year receive subsidies, long ended by the EU. UK Treasury will payout over £150bn over a five-year period from 2023 to 2028. No justification for handling billions to banks. End bank subsidies, help people.
babelfish.news
Interest on Reserves: The £100bn UK Bank Subsidy You Fund
The Bank of England has paid commercial banks £100bn in interest on reserves in three years. The EU stopped doing it in 2023 – Dale Vince says Britain must too.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
London investment bankers, lawyers, accountants make £1.2bn from takeover frenzy. Everything for sale in slicing/dicing, asset stripping bazaars. Anyone focused on the long term? UK has been at/near the bottom of the OECD league for investment in productive assets for 30 yrs.
theguardian.com
London’s investment bankers and lawyers make more than £1bn in takeover frenzy
Bumper fees paid in the year’s mergers and acquisitions spark anger over high City pay during cost of living crisis
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The reality of Britain’s food poverty crisis: ‘Everything is so expensive, I only eat one meal a day’. 14m people face food insecurity. High rents, water, energy, food prices & low incomes create a crisis. No curbs on profiteering 50 families have more wealth than 34m people. Must redistribute.
independent.co.uk
Inside Britain’s food poverty crisis: ‘ I only eat one meal a day’
Millions of Britons are worrying about the cost of food as prices continue to rise. Albert Toth reports
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If diesel reaches £3 a litre, you can thank Nigel’s friend Donald Trump. inews.co.uk/news/uk-driv...
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
UK and EU to work together on foreign aid. Coordination avoids duplication, cuts costs, and is more effective. We used to do it as an EU member. Good to see Britain starting to rejoin this, at least partially. www.politico.eu/article/uk-e...
politico.eu
UK and EU step up cooperation on international aid
Britain’s international development minister to attend EU summit for the first time since Brexit.
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MHM Wales @mhmwales.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A huge thank you to Liam Miles of Ton Pentre A.F.C., who completed the National Three Peaks Challenge and raised an amazing £300 for our MHM Wales Football Project. 🏔️⚽ Three mountains, £300 raised and a real contribution to mental health and wellbeing in our community. #Rhondda #TonPentreAFC
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Suella De-Vil Shadowy spokesdemon for learning stuff @suellade.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Deform - the party of working families Erm….not if you live in South Shields
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"This is where the rhetoric ends up. On Tuesday night, hundreds of anti-migrant protesters gathered in Gosport after social-media reports that a small boat carrying people across the Channel was going to be brought ashore there. Among the crowd were children ..." www.facebook.com/TruthAgainst...
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 25/09/2026
You may have seen social media posts misrepresenting the Labour candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, Sagal Abdi-Wali, as an asylum seeker. Ms Abdi-Wali came to the UK as a child refugee in the 1990s, and is now listed as a British citizen. fullfact.org/politics/Sag...
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Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal @mistyswoman.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Thread: I did a little Google search this morning about the petite East Asian bots; here we go: These accounts are part of a widespread, coordinated inauthentic network, often referred to as "pig butchering" crypto-scams or romance scams. 1/
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Redsamo @redsamo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He is learning from his friends in Russia and North Korea.
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Sunderland Susie 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @susieshakespeare.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can you take 2 mins to respond to Ofwat's consultation to demand they BLOCK the water bill hike. If water companies can't survive without hiking our bills, let them go bust and bring them into public ownership. Deadline: midnight Thurs 24th Sept weownit.org.uk/NoBillHike
weownit.org.uk
Ofwat: No to water bills hike, let them go bust - Respond by midnight on Thursday 24th September
Demand that Ofwat says no to bill hikes. Let water companies go bust and bring them into public ownership for nothing.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Reform UK want full privatised health service - I've seen the video of Farage admitting it" via Mark Heath
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