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Vivienne

@viviennesoton.bsky.social
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Retired, political activist, volunteer, carer, cat photo to deter nuisance followers. Interested in renters rights, public transport and social care. I’m sorry, but I don’t follow back people who don’t post anything at all and never donate via Bluesky.

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kathryn3.bsky.social @kathryn3.bsky.social · 3h
The world would be a better place without Putin Netanyahu & Trump all war criminals who belong in The Hague
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 8h
Every day, hundreds, and now sometimes thousands of Russian soldiers die at the contact line, for a pointless war driven by Putin’s ego & desperation to be remembered as a “strongman.” Frustrated that he can’t win, he bombs Ukrainian citizens. This is a war crime. But Ukraine will outlive him.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 11h
Imagine younger people hearing this? “You can’t get a house but people with mansions aren’t going to pay inheritance tax on their huge wealth “ Woo hoo!!!
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4h
Perfectly put.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 3h
This needs to happen 👇
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victoria1921.bsky.social @victoria1921.bsky.social · 3h
Exactly. 2016. Brexit referendum and Trump's 1st win. The "brains" behind Project 2025/Heritage Foundation, now also supported by other right wing think tanks and the tech bros billionaires, together, they're the power behind the breakdown of decency and democracy.
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Jeff Domingues @jeffdomingues.bsky.social · 3h
Sometimes the articles of impeachment write themselves.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3h
On by-election eve, the betting odds imply Labour has a 93-95% prospect of victory & the Greens about 5-7% in Holborn + St Pancras.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 3h
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 4h
All these glowing write up’s by the usual suspects, Peston, Rigby, Mason, regarding Badenoch’s speech. Not one asking where the money is going to come from for her ridiculous defence dome & billions upon billions of tax giveaways? Considering what Truss did, not pointing this out, is a disgrace.
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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 12h
You could argue Tesco has already paid tax so their employees shouldn't pay tax on their wages. It's just as fatuous an argument as abolishing IHT, inherited wealth is unearned income, tax is always payable on unearned income.
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Daniel “Spooky Nickname” Tirebiter @danmofftarkin.bsky.social · 9h
That mf loves a marmalade sandwich
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MrsVB @mrsivb.bsky.social · 5h
nice to see Labour on 30%
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 11h
“Whether policies, polls or performances, the gulf between the reality I think I inhabit and the world according to Kemi seems almost inconceivably enormous, and yet so complete is her belief in her own brilliance that I frequently find myself checking whether my own memory of events is accurate.”
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 5h
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 5h
If you close the loophole that lets people like me avoid tax, I will make good on my threat to avoid tax by moving to Monaco, which I actually did 40 years ago, to avoid tax. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 6h
previous owner, a US private equity firm: eats Boots and leaves
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17h
“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com #BikeLanesMeanBusiness
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Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane
Research from New York City notes that newly installed protected bike lanes do more than keep bikers safe--they raise the income of the stores they are in front of.
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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 12h
I've just finished a report which saying a 50mph speed limit on a rural single carriageway A-road with direct accesses and priority junctions is incompatible with Vision Zero and should be 40mph maximum and even that's too fast for side impact risk for drivers - it should be 30mph and redesigned.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 6h
The person responsible for carrying out the totally independent investigation into Reform and clearing the party of all wrongdoing has been identified.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7h
"Journalists"
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15h
Ofwat appoints Grant Thornton to help improve South East Water performance l £6m wasted. Similar exercise at Thames Water yielded zilch. SEW has £1.7bn debt, can't raise new money, loses 100m litres of water a day to leaks, customers fleeced for decades. End the scam. Nationalise water.
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Ofwat lines up independent monitor for troubled South East Water
The water regulator plans to appoint Grant Thornton to a multimillion-pound contract overseeing the utility's performance and turnaround plan, Sky News learns.
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DJBurges @djburges.bsky.social · 14h
Aah so Corbynistas strike again. Well well well.
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epicurious.bsky.social @epicurious.bsky.social · 13h
Where does this leave those of us who think climate collapse and mass extinction are REALLY IMPORTANT!? *Never* let the membership set policy or choose leaders - it appears soooo democratic, but just enables the nutters to lumber you with a crazy policy and/or a Liz Truss.
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Claire @clairepull.bsky.social · 13h
Not sure what reports you're reading but the 'zionism is racism' motion passed, hence many Greens now resigning.
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Craig Grävling @ieatpie.bsky.social · 14h
I'd been thinking of joining the greens for a long while. They'd been doing some good stuff locally. A meeting with some of their new members put those thoughts very much on hold.
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Mr Brown @mrbrownetc.bsky.social · 14h
Leader of the Council and particularly active in local politics. People outside Camden may not know her, which is no bad thing.
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 15h
A few years from now Panorama will produce a program called “Zack’s Militant Tendency”. Meanwhile, IIRC their conference isn’t delegate based, but self-inviting, so anyone with the money and a bee in their bonnet can attend? A recipe for entryism.
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David @davidpeacock40.bsky.social · 14h
A malignant political cancer, we cut it out of the Labour Party, your Party was never big enough to feed from so the cancer is now deeply embedded within the Green Party.
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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 15h
These people existed well before Your Party and they were bound to seek another host
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Ruthi Brandt @ruthibrandt.bsky.social · 14h
We tried to raise it. As far as I know no one with influence/official position was willing to look this straight in the eye🤷🏻‍♀️ (Granted, we don't really have the processes to deal with it, which is of course a huge part of the problem)
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Craig Grävling @ieatpie.bsky.social · 14h
I have no problem at all with them condemning Israel and holding a hard line pro peace position there. It's what a serious party that cares about human rights would do. However what they've done here is gone rather beyond this into anti semitic lunacy. Beyond green and into black there.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15h
Seems that the person who drafted the Green party motion came via Your Party and joined - by her own admission - to press this simply because the Greens had a bigger platform. Classic bit of entryism which now threatens the future of the movement.
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Pirate Redux @pirateredux.bsky.social · 14h
If they're leaving because the tax environment is becoming too "hostile" for them, they weren't paying enough in the first place and will hardly be any loss to the country. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
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Apparent exodus of super-rich suggests UK is no longer billionaires’ playground
If recent complaints are believed, London and the UK are no longer welcoming for ultra-high net worth individuals
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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 13h
That is good news!😊
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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 19h
Hmmm… He’s lost it or as the bats say…
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Pie Thagoram @piethagoram.bsky.social · 14h
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Free Winnie-the-Pooh books to fill phone box libraries
The original publisher says it will donate Milne's classics alongside a new authorised sequel.
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Sean Woodcock MP @seanlwoodcock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Disgusting that the Tories have pledged to scrap the requirements for new homes to come with solar panels. Solar panels on new homes will save people hundreds of pounds, bolster our energy security, and will of course be hugely beneficial for the environment.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14h
Finally got around to watching Supergirl. People were quite down on it but I don't think they were anything like harsh enough. Whoever decided to put a rape plot into that film should be barred from contributing to any future movies.
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MKC @mkc44.bsky.social · 14h
The cap is if ONE parent earns £100k+, NOT combined income! People spending thousands a week on childcare? Have they employed Mary Poppins in a crèche? More Tory lies. More Iain Dale being a slavish enabler.
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Iain Dale: 'I'm going to have to admit defeat'
YouTube video by LBC
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Jules or Τζουλς 🕊️🍉 @katsikajules.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Doctors Without Borders summarises what Western Media has failed to report #Gaza
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Like I said, Andrew Tate is "an important voice for young men". Oh, and a pedo nonce.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 14h
Badenoch would promise us all new cars, a lifetime of free family holidays and £250 a month towards our bills to get votes.. Then forget the pledges increase car tax by 60%, increase airport tax by 70% and VAT to 40%
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 15h
U.K. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch will take the stage today to promote her “The Right Way” pamphlet. Her aim? To convince the casual viewers of the lunchtime news that they should sell shares in Reform UK and buy Kemi. More in London Playbook 👇
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Her way
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 14h
Zelensky says Ukrainian forces struck four targets supporting Russia’s ability to finance and wage its war over the past day. The strikes targeted two oil facilities and a training ground across the Perm, Samara and Astrakhan regions. Ukraine also struck in the Black Sea. #Ukraine
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Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social · 14h
Not suspected anymore. A second person is confirmed dead and more than 200 are in quarantine
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 14h
Tanker ablaze after suspected attack in the Black Sea
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Tanker ablaze after suspected attack in the Black Sea
All 23 crew members, who were Indian nationals, were unharmed, the ministry said.
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Jonathan Lane 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇫🇷🏴󠁧 @jlaorganbuilder.bsky.social · 15h
The Tories have never done anything good in my lifetime. Cut services, crashed the economy, increased the national debt, wreck our lives and future. Then Labour has to rescue the country again!
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 15h
"I usually vote for whoever promises to cut the most tax"
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Derek Sherratt @olddek.bsky.social · 16h
It was the Tories over 14 years of austerity & allowing utility companies to rip off customers, who in the case of water monopolies were chained to corporation's dedicated to high profitability.We have suffered abuse by greedy CEO's & foreigners since Thatcher turned them over to greedy capitalists.
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