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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 2h

Fortunately, even Gary knows better: youtu.be/gHrxoKEnvEs?...

Is a wealth tax actually possible?

YouTube video by Garys Economics

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Unite the union @unitetheunion.bsky.social · 2h

🤯 They didn't need to declare themselves bankrupt
🤯 They didn't need to wreck the lives of bin workers & their families
🤯 They didn't need to subject Birmingham residents to months of strike action and piled-up rubbish
More:
www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/...

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Unite the union @unitetheunion.bsky.social · 2h

🤯 Simply staggering mismanagement & incompetence at
@bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social
1 The council declares itself effectively bankrupt due to equal pay liabilities of between £650m & £760m
2 They snatch £8k a year from bin workers
3 They finally settle their equal pay claims for £250m
So...🧵

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Equinor has admitted that the massive Rosebank oil and gas field in the UK would cause vast climate damage.

*Pretends to be shocked* 😲

The UK government must STOP Rosebank, and instead focus on creating jobs in North Sea renewables!

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

What is often ignored in analysis of channel crossings is the correlation between harsher border policies and increased risks. Use of larger, more unstable, boats directly contributing to greater loss of life, for example correlates with the ban on selling smaller more stable boats in Calais. 1/

Emergency call logs to French aid workers lay bare the risks taken every day by those trying to reach Britain. As more and more migrants crowd on to each boat, we chart:

Chaos in the Channel

Emma Yeomans

Tuesday October 14 2025, The Times

This is one of more than 1,000 distress calls from migrants on small boats, to aid workers in France, which underline the risks being taken in the Channel:

By 2022, when our data begins, the average number of people per boat had grown to between 20 and 40.

As the boats became increasingly overloaded, the risks grew. In December that year a boat with 47 people on board collapsed in the middle of the Channel.

The National Crime Agency's senior investigating officer, Kate Philpott, said that the quality of the boats had reduced, putting migrants at increased risk. After Rahimpur's conviction, she described "individuals really crammed on to these boats with bigger risks, going on to the boats without actual lifejackets”.

She added: "The worst conditions I have seen are 80 people on a boat which was so low in the water that it looked like a raft.

The majority of people had no lifesaving equipment. A couple of people had rubber rings and some insides from tyres."

France bans sale of inflatable boats from Channel ports in bid to stop migrant crossings

8 Sep 2021, 06:46 |

A group of migrants are brought ashore from the Dungeness lifeboat in Dungeness, Kent, after being picked-up following a small boat incident in the Channel. Picture: PA

By EJ Ward

@EJWardNews

France has been forced to ban the sale of inflatable dinghies from Channel towns in a bid to try to end a surge in migrant crossings.

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 2h

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 1d

Personally I’m looking forward to phase 2 when we deport all the natives who can’t pass A-level English. And I’d like us to start with the journalists…

Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · Apr 20

You can’t be a carpenter without knowing the use of a chisel, but lazy media folk feel no need to understand the tools of their trade.
Here’s Beth Rose for the BBC, mixing up ‘might’ and ‘may’:

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 6h

Lib Dem's Daisy Cooper calls for an assessment into the threat Elon Musk poses to UK democracy after Tommy Robinson said Musk is paying for his legal fees

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 2h

Is there gonna be outrage among westerners about russians blowing up a UN humanitarian convoy or

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Fairness Foundation @fairness.bsky.social · 9h

In November's Budget, the Chancellor can reform taxes on wealth to achieve three wins - raising revenue, tackling inequality and boosting growth. Find out more at fairnessfoundation.com/win-win-win

Win-Win-Win

Taxing wealth for fairness, revenue and growth

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 3h

Strange. It appears to be beyond the wit if man to bring any kind of equity into our tax system.
Apparently taxing the poor is a complete doddle, but taxing the rich is utterly unfeasible - so much so that we shouldn’t even try.
And yet I’m sure I remember Purchase Tax…

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 3h

Stop pretending a wealth tax is a serious idea

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/wealth-tax...

Stop pretending a wealth tax is a serious idea

It brings me no pleasure to say this.

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 3h

Real weekly wages have increased by a paltry £1.50 since last September.

Wage growth in the private sector slowed sharply over the summer according to the latest ONS labour market statistics.

Get the RF analysis ⤵️ buff.ly/evUq1Ro

Charlie McCurdy, Economist at the Resolution Foundation, said:

“The UK’s longstanding weakness in the jobs market has finally caught up with pay packets. The pace of wage growth finally fell below the rate of inflation over the summer. As a result, real weekly wages have grown by just £1.50 in total since last September – barely enough to cover the cost of a Greggs sausage roll.

“The deteriorating labour market, coupled with persistently high inflation, means that cost of living pressures are likely to build over the Autumn.”

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 3h

China's heads to Norway!

EV sales are up 24% in China in Jan-Sept 2025, compared to Jan-Sept 2024, with EV sales of 9 million.

The world's largest auto market is ~5-10 years behind Norway's 96% EV 2025 sales level.

The rise of EV & decline of ICE is rapid.
robbieandrew.github.io/EV/ #energysky

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 8h

📣URGENT more than 14,000 people have signed our petition calling on Ofwat to REJECT Thames Water's latest ridiculous proposal.

🤑Their creditors want to pollute our rivers & seas illegally for the next 15 years.

✍️Ofwat makes its decision next week. Add your name, 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 & 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 today!

Thames Water wants to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.

Thames Water wants to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years

weownit.org.uk

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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 3h

Your regular reminder 👇

🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy

EXCLUSIVE: Poll shows huge support for nationalisation of key industries and utilities

Privatisation has failed.

leftfootforward.org

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 3h

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Kepano Kolohe @alala55.bsky.social · 8h

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 5h

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 2d

“The ADF believes that British politicians, and the public, can be swayed and want abortion rights to be rolled back, its lawyers said… to empower conservative Christianity in Europe, and it sees Britain as a key bridgehead.”
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 1d

This is a huge story but massively under the radar in the UK.

A US Christian legal org called the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is working to roll back abortion rights here using the same playbook it used in the US: briefing politicians, watching, waiting.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 5h

They are working overtime on Zack because they are terrified of being out of jobs in a Britain that isnt divisive and politically illiterate.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 7h

Carole Malone, "Youu can't say what women's rights are because you're not a woman"

Zack Polanski, "You're not trans are you. We can all say you're not that thing so you can't have an opinion" 🔥

"You can still have an opinion from listening to people"

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 5h

My conversation with Jane Bradley about how US anti-abortionists are supporting Reform - and why we need to talk about Russian influence - is also available in full on the Democracy for Sale YouTube channel

Do sign up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5p0...

Nigel Farage’s New Backers: Inside the US Anti-Abortion Group Courting Reform UK

YouTube video by Democracy for Sale

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 5h

How a Democracy for Sale story about US Christian Right funding prompted a @nytimes.com investigation into the links between Nigel Farage, Reform UK and the Alliance Defending Freedom.

So good to speak to the peerless Jane Bradley:

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/nigel-fara...

Nigel Farage and the foreign influence threat

How US anti-abortionists are supporting Reform, and why we need to talk about Russian influence, with the New York Times’ Jane Bradley.

democracyforsale.substack.com

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GreySleeves @greysleeves.bsky.social · 18h

How about we just do that? Ignore the people and their political parties, and let's just hold a national vote on Universal Basic Income.
Let's see what the voter turnout would be when we're not voting for untrustworthy people in suits with vested interests.
#ubi

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 9h

Finally.

FINALLY.

They are starting to admit the truth.

But you know, they have other options to solve this apart from tax rises.

Get back into the EU as fast as possible.

Save the economy.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 9h

This makes no sense.
1. Brexit is at least two things: Being out of the EU and being out of the Single Market.
2. Both of these can be reversed.
3. To blame a reversible problem for your harmful economic decisions, while still refusing to reverse that problem, is the behaviour of a fool.

Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 9h

Rachel Reeves Blames Brexit As She Prepares To Raise Taxes And Cut Spending

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/rachel...

Rachel Reeves Blames Brexit As She Prepares To Raise Taxes And Cut Spending

The chancellor said the impact of leaving the EU is "severe and long lasting".

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 6h

Global failure to tackle the power of fossil fuel lobbyists mean we're not cutting emissions - global warming is actually accelerating.
Scientists warn that the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere in 2024 was the largest since modern measurements started in 1957.

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

www.theguardian.com

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