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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1h

Caroline Lucas is wondering why Michelle Mone is still a member of the House of Lords

And most of us are wondering the same as well!

But if Mone is going to be removed from the Lords, there are others too who fail to meet the standard and should be removed as well

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 5h

What’s the harm of trying? youtu.be/aCpbDQ-hIpw?...

In this off-the-cuff, spur-of-the-moment video, I ask a simple question: What’s the harm of trying something different? Why not invest? Why not tax wealth? Why not admit that government spending creates money?

What’s the harm of trying? When everything’s failing, why not change course?

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

youtu.be

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midnightsun49.bsky.social @midnightsun49.bsky.social · 18h

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16m

Can we never hear the likes of Vance lecture Europeans about free speech ever again, please?

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 43m

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 15m

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Aggy @aggykins.bsky.social · 16m

#NoGoodBillionaires

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 36m

Selective philanthropist Bill Ackman is against Mamdani becoming the mayor of NY.
Gee, I wonder why?
I am watching this race with great interest while rooting for Mamdani.
on.ft.com/3KUDx7C Bill Ackman donates $1mn to oppose Zohran Mamdani’s NY mayoral campaign

Bill Ackman donates $1mn to oppose Zohran Mamdani’s NY mayoral campaign

Hedge fund billionaire in last-ditch effort to stop democratic socialist frontrunner in race for city hall

on.ft.com

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Aggy @aggykins.bsky.social · 29m

Is “Great Britain” really unable to feed its’ poor, or house its’ homeless or treat the sick

(With apologies to The Candidate)

#WealthTax

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17h

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17h

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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Aggy @aggykins.bsky.social · 2h

Immigration is being used as a distraction

#TechBros
#Blackrock

#KnowYourEnemy

EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 3h

The real seismic shift
Britain isn’t being changed by immigration.
It’s being transformed into an authoritarian corporate client state
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Aggy @aggykins.bsky.social · 2h

Immigration is being used as a distraction

#TechBros
#Blackrock

#KnowYourEnemy

EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 3h

The real seismic shift
Britain isn’t being changed by immigration.
It’s being transformed into an authoritarian corporate client state
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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 2h

#Blackrock have their claws sunk deep into everything, it seems.

Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 3h

Alice Perry has been a long-serving bureaucrat at the top of the Labour party, a lobbyist at the firm representing Blackrock and Barclays, and now she’s paid by a private health insurance firm to ‘advocate’ for them in parliament.
labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/a...

Alice Perry: Labour bureaucrat, former lobbyist for Cicero and now for the UK’s third largest private health insurer, Aviva

Alice Perry has been a long-serving bureaucrat at the top of the Labour party, a lobbyist at the firm representing Blackrock and Barclays, and now she’s paid by a private health insurance fir…

labourrightwatch.wordpress.com

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Aggy @aggykins.bsky.social · 2h

Indeed 😤😡

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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 2h

A stigma generated by the latest narrative from Labour/Deform/Tories + our right wing #MSM on the 'cost' of mental health problems to "working people"
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#VoteGreen
Join @greenparty.org.uk

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Eleanor Ferguson @elliefer.bsky.social · 4h

www.thenational.scot/news/2553922...

Scottish Government to sponsor care workers in defiance of Labour visa ban

THE Scottish Government will sponsor UK visas for care workers to get around Labour's ban, John Swinney has announced.

www.thenational.scot

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Aggy @aggykins.bsky.social · 5h

‘Alarming rise’ in mental health stigma in England, research shows

The tendency to “other” those who don’t fit society’s norms is increasing 🙁

Lack of good care and resources to blame, along with ignorance.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

‘Alarming rise’ in mental health stigma in England, research shows

One in 10 people unwilling to live next to someone who has been mentally ill even if they have recovered, Mind reports

www.theguardian.com

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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 12h

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Tam @tammckenna.bsky.social · 14h

This is what Wes Streeting is trying to sell you, while he rakes in £250K+ from American private health care companies.

You Yes Yet Scotland

#SaorAlba #IndyClan #Salvo #LiberationScotland

duncan2024.bsky.social @duncan2024.bsky.social · 14h

www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

AOC humiliates RFK over UnitedHealth rip-off - the private health group who fund Wes Streeting

Health Secretary and his boss take shedloads of cash from private health interests - including UnitedHealth, as AOC drags them

www.thecanary.co

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Proud Cybernat @proud-cybernat.bsky.social · 8h

Being 'told' how and what to think by British Colonial Media. It's insidious. Unless you're bright enough to see their agenda and what they're doing. Think for yourself peeps.

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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 9h

Interesting article
But is it *really* the case that people deliberately avoid earning £100k cos *marginal* tax rate on any income above that figure is higher?

It does not affect earnings below £100k and even it it was taxed at 60% - still make more £

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

This tax trap is killing youthful aspiration

Little wonder the under-40s laud Margaret Thatcher: she valued hard work, unlike the rules that penalise them today

www.thetimes.com

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 23h

#NoKings.
Anywhere.

Republic @republiccampaign.bsky.social · 15d

Unaccountable. Unelected. That's why Charles isn't our King. #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 16h

Just a point to add to this.

In a Times article mentioning the same issue, it notes about dependents of migrants that:

“At present they do not have to speak any English at all.”

Which isn’t the case - at all.

The tougher language requirement will not apply to family members who come with migrant workers, known as dependants.
Separate changes will require them to learn a standard of English equivalent to GCSE.
At present they do not have to speak any English at all. The government has not said when the changes for dependants will be introduced.

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Colin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (cms48X) @cms48.bsky.social · 10h

So Melanie, you mean like the app the WM Establishment developed for England's failed Test and Trace process, which cost the UK economy C £30b. Ps Do the people of England realise that their health data may be passed to US Health Insurers

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Colin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (cms48X) @cms48.bsky.social · 10h

Is brainwashing irreversible?
Absolutely appalled at the number of Scots, of my era, who buy the Daily Mail. A retiring editor said that their success resulted from giving people something or someone to hate and boy is that obvious when you talk to their readership.

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Aggy @aggykins.bsky.social · 10h

I worked in a large public building in where the staff only read the Mail for the fashion and gossip”
Or read The S*n and The Record for “the football”.

They “weren’t political”

Most of them “couldn’t stand Nicola Sturgeon” and a fair few grumbled about “scroungers and immigrants”

Funny that…🤔

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janemick @janemick.bsky.social · 11h

bloody hell!
I agree that if these people KNEW that Brexit was such a disaster then they should have said so immediately!

Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry, but if he didn't have the courage to speak what he knew to be the truth about Brexit to the people who elected him, then he's been putting his career above the country all along. How are we supposed to trust him on the NHS or any other issue now? He lost all credibility.
#BlueLabour

I’m glad we can now talk about Brexit damage, says Wes Streeting

The prime minister is gearing up to blame Nigel Farage and Brexit for Britain’s expected downturn in productivity at the November Budget

www.independent.co.uk

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