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Wakeyjoe

@wakeyjoe.bsky.social
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Retired teacher of hearing impaired children, trade union caseworker, human rights activist, atheist . Let's get back into the EU family. No DMs.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Yes, raping a 15-year-old *is* bad but, on the other hand, he closes his business on Sundays to prove how much holier he is than you, so it all evens out. #ThePublicSanctimonyOfPrivatelyAwfulPeople
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Wakeyjoe @wakeyjoe.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England
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Hypothetically Sound @hysoundpodcast.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Fannie Lou Hamer – The Power of One Voice Fannie Lou Hamer fought for Black voting rights despite beatings & threats. Her courage changed elections forever. We honor her fight. #BHM2024
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Wakeyjoe @wakeyjoe.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
In a nutshell
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Scrap austerity – tax the super-rich instead Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/eco...
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Scrap austerity – tax the super-rich instead
Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I’m normally against high taxes but I think we could balance the budget here via a 100-percent levy on morons
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KitKat 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇦🇺🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @uk501.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
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KitKat 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇦🇺🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @uk501.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
This is worrying since it could form a template for the next GE. Local branches of Conservative Party & Reform UK have held talks about unofficial pacts ahead of local council elections next year, a bid to unite right-wing voters against Labour the Party www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Tories and Reform UK Discuss Informal Pact as Musk Boosts Farage
Local branches of the Conservative Party and Reform UK have held talks about unofficial pacts ahead of local council elections next year, a bid to unite right-wing voters against Keir Starmer’s govern...
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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Wakeyjoe @wakeyjoe.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Does she think she's Kylie?
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
“After rejecting plans for a youth mobility scheme… European affairs minister Nick Thomas-Symonds has indicated that the government is now open to consider the proposal.”
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Starmer’s lead EU negotiator opens door to a major concession in Brexit reset talks
European affairs minister Nick Thomas-Symonds has opened the door to agreeing a youth mobility scheme
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Sounds like a plan www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/aus...
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Ah, Feargal Sharkey is here! 🦋 Lovely. Please follow him and reshare this post to alert others.
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
“We can’t tackle attendance if we don’t tackle poverty” In a country as wealthy as ours no child or their family should be going without the essentials. No Government wishing to reduce school absence can ignore the role that poverty plays in driving it www.centreforyounglives.org.uk/news-centre/...
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Centre for Young Lives report warns poverty and hardship are preventing some children from attending school amid big increases in persistent and severe absence among children receiving Free School Mea...
Anne Longfield, Executive Chair of the Centre for Young Lives think tank, is today (Tuesday December 3rd) publishing a new report, ‘Too Skint for School’, examining the link between poverty and school...
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
“Leaked documents show the extent of collaboration between the pro-Israel legal advocacy group UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) and the Israeli Government, in their attempt to “counter” the work of human rights organisations”
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Israeli Government Lashes Out at ICC as Leaked Documents Reveal Secret Links to UK Lobby Group
The International Criminal Court is under enormous pressure to drop its arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
TODAY IS #HumanRightsDay Let’s remember Human Rights are universal & non- negotiable. If we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want
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Jenny Jones @greenjennyjones.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Here's someone interesting to follow: @jonathanelmer.bsky.social the Green Party's Nature spokesperson ...
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Wakeyjoe @wakeyjoe.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
America is going to burn
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Dolphinwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @dolphinwitchuk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
#Bylines are an important community reporting resource.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Lee Anderson on his way to work this morning.
Lone first world war soldier walking across muddy battlefield
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No To Racism @notoracism.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The home of free speech turns out to be a hater of Muslims.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/12/2024
Hundreds of thousands hit by ruinous carer’s allowance penalties, audit shows
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Hundreds of thousands hit by ruinous carer’s allowance penalties, audit shows
Campaigners say NAO report shows impact of DWP staffing decisions and failure to address flaws in benefit’s design Hundreds of thousands of unpaid carers were hit with ruinous penalties for minor breaches of carer’s allowance rules in the five years…
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
🚨Add your name to the petition now and show Wes Streeting YOU stand against new #PFI in our #NHS weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...
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Tell Wes Streeting - NO new PFI in our NHS!
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
2024: Romania annuls an election because of Russian interference 2020: Boris Johnson says there was no Russian interference in the Brexit referendum Stewart Hosie who was on the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament said the Conservative government did not look for it; Romanians did
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The concept Nigel Farage is incapable of grasping is human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want. I’ll fight that to my last breath
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
He thought he could throttle our accounts, suppress our posts, force his insane views on us & just get away with it. Boll**** to that. Welcome to BlueSky everyone
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
“Just three companies, News Corp (Murdoch family), Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT, Viscount Rothermere) and Reach plc, control over 80% of daily newspaper circulation… The hyper-rich continue to invest huge sums in acquiring control of media” We need a free press - ie free from the billionaires.
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We need a free press
It’s vital for democracy that we receive verifiable information that is not manipulated or controlled
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Well, when put it that way…
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Funny because true.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Every truly meaningful act of integrity involves some sort of sacrifice. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 23/11/2024
And right up to date, his most recent article was last week, in which he asked "How should we respond to the recent riots and the return of the far-right as a political force?" 4/5
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How should we respond to the recent riots and the return of the far-right as a political force?
Sociologist Dr Russ Jackson on how Reform UK and the UK’s news media engage in the shameless normalisation of far-right discourse
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Faith Spear FRSA @faithspear.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
"let’s work together to end one of the most shocking, cruel, inhumane & monumental injustices of the past half-century by getting behind & supporting Lord Woodleys bill – before more lives are tragically lost" @peterstefanovic.bsky.social #IPP thecriminaljusticeblog.com/2024/09/04/c...
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CAMPAIGNING LAWYER BACKS PRIVATE MEMBERS BILL FOR RESENTENCING TO END SHOCKING IPP SCANDAL
INTRODUCTION Campaigning Lawyer and CEO of CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Peter Stefanovic, who’s films have been watched hundreds of millions of times online, has posted a new film backing a Private …
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George Greenwood @georgegreenwood.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Reform MP James McMurdock was jailed for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend. He had told the media he was jailed for "pushing" his former partner in 2006. Court records obtained by The Times say the sentence was given because of "the serious nature of the offence”. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Reform MP James McMurdock was jailed for repeatedly kicking girlfriend
The MP had told the media he had been jailed for ‘pushing’ former partner in 2006, when the court records say he repeatedly kicked her on a night out
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Wakeyjoe @wakeyjoe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hahahaha numpty.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
BREAKING: Water regulator Ofwat announces it will block three water companies from using customers money to pay £1.5m in bonuses👏
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 21/11/2024
Oh. You mean to say not every single millionaire is packing their matching suitcase set and fleeing the country?
Billionaire Poonwalla family buy £42m Mayfair property despite non-dom fears.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
PPE COVID Cash Carousel: Documents Expose Government’s Struggle to Recover £520 Million Lost to Dissolved and Bankrupt Firms Hundreds of millions were wasted on contracts with zombie companies which vanished before any taxpayers’ cash could be recovered bylinetimes.com/2024/11/21/p...
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PPE COVID Cash Carousel: Documents Expose Government's Struggle to Recover £520 Million Lost to Dissolved and Bankrupt Firms
Hundreds of millions were wasted on contracts with zombie companies which vanished before any taxpayers' cash could be recovered
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
So get this. New analysis shows that: 🚜 Non-farmers were responsible for 56% of farmland purchases last year 🚜 With 400k hectares of agricultural land taken out of use for farming 🚜 Experts link this to financial advice that recommends the potential tax breaks of investing in farmland
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Wakeyjoe @wakeyjoe.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Chloe in her happy place
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Wakeyjoe @wakeyjoe.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Love the cris crossing of plane airstreams
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