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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 7h

Good question!🤔✨

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 7h

Journalist to EU spokesperson, "You say Russia should pay to rebuild Ukraine. Should Israel pay to rebuild Gaza?"

EU spokesperson, "Interesting question, no comment"

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 7h

If you want to meet a true believer in global heating, talk to an insurance actuary...

You can't fight the facts. Time for Keir Starmer to step up on the climate crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/14/millions-more-homes-in-great-britain-at-risk-of-flooding-investigation-finds

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 7h

I think you’ve given many of us hope as you speak directly, truthfully & actually acknowledge what is really wrong with 🇬🇧. Thank you😊

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7h

Join us in being cheerful!

Let's make hope normal again!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 10h

"You need to be unapologetic, someone who gets the modern media environment and social media, and is a competent speaker - all of which Polanski is."

Why Zack Polanski is one of the only UK politicians with a reason to be cheerful right now

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...

Zack Polanski: Can the Green Party leader ‘rebalance the scales’ of UK politics? | The News Agents

In little more than a month of leadership, Zack Polanski has grown the party’s membership and become a powerful figure on the left-wing of UK politics. Can he, and the Green Party, take this further…

www.thenewsagents.co.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10h

As if they keep writing all these headlines - and our membership numbers and polling just keeps shooting up. 🚀

Now at 110,000. Over 55% increase in just one month!

Lower bills. Fund NHS. Tax the super rich.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

Greens who want to save the world by destroying britain

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 10h

People listen to authentic voices & messages from people who aren’t career politicians. Keep growing!😊
👏👏✨🗳️🟢

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 10h

Good question!🤔
Shouldn’t we be impartial & fair to all groups, unless they threaten or undermine our democracy, communities & freedoms?

Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 10h

🚨BREAKING: Major human rights report finds that counter-terror laws being WEAPONISED against pro-Palestine groups in the UK, US, France and Germany.

If Russia or China did this, we'd call it authoritarian. So why are we silent when western democracies attack our right to protest?

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 10h

Afraid of upsetting Trump?🤔

EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 10h

Le Venezuela ferme son ambassade en Norvège après le Nobel de la paix

Cette décision intervient quelques jours seulement après que l'opposante María Corina Machado a reçu le prix Nobel de la paix. La Norvège a critiqué la décision.

fr.euronews.com

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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 14h

Co-op Group plans move to 100% ASC certification for farmed seafood

Co-op Group plans to transition 100% of its standard own-brand seafood to Aquaculture Stewardship Council certification by 2027

www.thenews.coop

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 14h

The colours of autumn!😊🐾
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 16h

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 14h

Well that didn’t last long!🙄Trump’s peace prize for 2026 is beginning to look a bit shaky!🤭

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 15h

$5.9bn = the amount spent annually on protecting and restoring forests

$409bn = the amount of subsidies going to agriculture industries destroying forests

Anyone else see the problem here?

The Guardian: "'Dismal' health of world's forests is threat to humanity, report warns. Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus. Jonathan Watts, 14th Oct."

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14h

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 15h

Hello thanks for your reply. I don’t DM & I don’t blame Morrison’s for this just some desperate flag admirer looking for attention😊

Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 15h

Farage has nowhere to go on this one. Yet msm will still provide a platform for him!

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 18h

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 18h

The East of England being especially badly affected with rising tides & coastal erosion.

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 18h

Totally agree! Backdate any interest on these windfall charges to 2008!🤔

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18h

Holding govts to ransom.

Goldman Sachs warns Rachel Reeves against tax rises on banks.

Banks happy to be bailed out, take QE, mis-sell products, not to be prosecuted for frauds, hike charges, pay lousy rates on savings.

Need windfall taxes. Raise top rate of income tax.

Goldman chief delivers warning to Reeves over bank tax hikes

David Solomon urged the chancellor during a private meeting last week not to hit the industry with savage tax rises in her crucial budget statement next month, Sky News learns.

news.sky.com

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 19h

Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.

It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.

Investigation now!

#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes

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Konfusi 🇦🇹 @konfusi.bsky.social · 20h

Guten Morgen, Himmelsstürmer!
Der japanische Fächerahorn spielt schon alle Farben. 🌱💚
Habt einen schönen Tag!

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

Two years after Hamas’s brutal attack, Gaza’s guns are silent—and the last hostages are home.
Trump is taking a victory lap for “everlasting peace,” but Gaza’s still in ruins, and both sides are holding their breath.
This isn’t peace. It’s a pause.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

What Comes After Gaza’s Ceasefire?

Inside the fragile peace deal, billion-dollar plans, and bitter realities shaping Gaza’s uncertain future.

open.substack.com

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 1d

'Greenpeace is threatening to sue King Charles’s property management company, the Crown Estate, alleging it has driven up costs for wind power developers and boosted its own profits and the royal household’s income, due to the "aggressive" way it auctions rights.'
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Greenpeace threatens to sue crown estate for driving up cost of offshore wind

Environmental group accuses king’s property management company of ‘milking for profit’ its monopoly ownership of seabed

www.theguardian.com

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 1d

Follow the money

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 1d

Always worth following Byline Times for real news!🤔

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

That New York Times story lots of people are sharing today about Farage's ties to US anti-abortion groups was first reported by @mc00.bsky.social on Byline Times a year ago bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

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