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MartaK @martak1959.bsky.social · 7d

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 8d

A mad proposal from the Conservatives today in the Sentencing Bill, to abolish the independent Sentencing Council, and transfer all sentencing guideline powers to the Justice Secretary

This would, by the look of it, end the idea of an independent judiciary & any separation of Government and Courts.

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Gilly 📎 @gillmh.bsky.social · 16d

He's been allowed to get away with far too much for far too long. If Charlie had any sense, he drive him to the nearest police station and hand him over. Why should an accident of birth make anyone above the law?

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Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 16d

How would a wealth tax work? PMUK's @stephenstroud.bsky.social chats to 5Live's @felicityhannah.bsky.social

#TaxWealthNotWork

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 16d

Farage’s plans to scrap indefinite leave to remain in the UK would mean his French girlfriend, Laure Ferrari would be deported❗️

So obvs it’d just apply to ex foreign nationals ie Drs, Nurses, Care workers etc not in bed with Reform

But not someone under investigation for corruption in Brussels.. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Headline in telegraph about Farages plans ti deport ppl settled here even though it’d break up families

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16d

Today, Mike Johnson will have the House adjourned for 77 out of the last 89 days.

House Republicans have worked 12 days in 3 months.

All to prevent a vote on releasing the Epstein files.

The House Republican Epstein Shutdown continues.

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 17d

We investigated the site in 2023 when a trawl of Environment Agency data suggested the area around the chemical plant might be a hotspot for forever chemicals. We found elevated levels of internationally-banned, cancer-causing PFOA, near a discharge pipe from the site.
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Firm releases almost 800kg of ‘forever chemical’ a year into Lancashire river

Exclusive: Environment Agency finds ‘very persistent, mobile and toxic’ PFAS in effluent legally discharged near Wyre estuary

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 16d

Farage will surely resign over this, given his recent insistence that Rayner had to go after her tax error...🤔

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MartaK @martak1959.bsky.social · 16d

And they want to be let loose with our treasury??

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MartaK @martak1959.bsky.social · 16d

Is it B..ing

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 16d

West Midlands Police last week banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from an upcoming game against Aston Villa - due to public safety concerns. Days later those same fans are involved in a riot at a game in their own country.

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MartaK @martak1959.bsky.social · 16d

Get on with it USA. It's almost too late

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 18d

My article on UK Special Economic Zones is free to read on my Substack.
Please subscribe and, where possible, make a donation to my Ko-Fi tip jar. ko-fi.com/europeanpowell
Thank you💚
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UK Free Zones are the most underreported transformations of democratic governance in modern British history.

I think what’s happening in the UK with free zones represents one of the most significant, and underreported transformations of democratic governance in modern British history.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 16d

This is Katie Lam, Conservative leadership hopeful, just casually talking about deporting anyone who she doesn’t believe is ‘culturally coherent’ in the Times this weekend. This puts her to the right of Enoch Powell. And there’s been silence in media on these comments.

Much like Jenrick, Lam has been accused of shifting with the prevailing winds on issues of identity and immigration. She certainly shares his unsentimental toughness on the subject.
"Everybody who's in this country illegally I think needs to go home," she says. Indefinite leave to remain is off the table, too. "There are also a large number of people in this country who came here legally, but in effect shouldn't have been able to do so. It's not the fault of the individuals who came here, they just shouldn't have been able to do so. They will also need to go home. What that will leave is a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people’.

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 17d

If handing someone their arse was a social media post.

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Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pilargomez.bsky.social · 16d

These are people who claim they can run an entire country. They can’t even figure out their own taxation liabilities! 🤷🏼‍♀️

Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 17d

Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all.

Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.

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Bad Choices Make Good Stories @badchoices.us · 24d

Fascism is violent nationalism.

In America, fascism is called Americanism.

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 17d

15 years of cuts have left the UK trying to "efficiency" its way out of a collapse – & somehow still expecting growth to show up as well

We have now officially reached the point that the cupboard is not only bare, it’s gone – we sold it off
By @bearlypolitics.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk

The ceaseless snip-snip-snip of a dying state

Fifteen years of cuts have left the UK trying to "efficiency" its way out of a collapse – and somehow still expecting growth to show up as well

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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MartaK @martak1959.bsky.social · 17d

Plus you're getting done by HMRC for not paying £400k VAT

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 17d

😂 Not going very well for Reform UK councillors

The reality of actually governing, false cost cutting promises in already slashed council budgets exposes their incompetence

4 Reform UK councillors suspended after leaked video of a chaotic Kent council meeting over the weekend

Reform UK councillors suspended over leaked video

It comes after a video was leaked of a chaotic Kent council meeting over the weekend

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WilliaSkip @williaskip.bsky.social · 17d

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 17d

This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 17d

Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all.

Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.

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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 17d

He gets paid a lot from various media. It just doesn't seem normal. I saw this chart of what he'd made since July:

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Gary Gilligan #FBPE #KTTO @garygilligan.bsky.social · 17d

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Farage's duplicity on Russia makes him totally unfit to lead our country

Farage fears his desire to reach Downing Street might be thwarted by this simpering stance towards a bloodstained war criminal

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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 17d

Imagine where the membership would be if the BBC had given the Green Party as much air time as Reform.

Jesse RT @drunkunderthe.bsky.social · 17d

This is genuinely incredible. We love to see it 💚

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17d

Something extraordinary is happening.

+6000 new members in ONE SINGLE day.

@greenparty.org.uk just hit 130,000 members and rising!!!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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