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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 12h

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 1h

Correct

Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 9h

Populism was never the issue

The issue was calling far-right politics "populism" which was not only inaccurate but euphemised and legitimised them as a so-called alternative to the status (while they aim to take the worst of it and push it further)

Yes, I'll keep banging on about this

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 7h

"I'm not surprised the personal attacks have started. They've got loads of lines: about my teeth, about my history as an actor, about my name change... the right just don't actually have a line of attack against me that's political"

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 1h

I see what you say ,but I feel a lot of them know exactly what they are doing. I get the sense they think they are superior to other people and are attracted to the power of the far right and their views. Patel , Bravaman and Badenoch conveniently forget their parents's humble migrant roots.

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 1h

Put in fridge . You don't need to re-cook. You can make a curry sauce and just add the chicken, or use for a chicken pie, make a basic cornflower sauce add salt , pepper ham and your fave herbs add chicken, and shop bought pastry. I am making a pie tomorrow with leftover chicken casserole.

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 1h

It is a bit sexist. Far right women do exist , just like men who are far right. Both can have very narrow minded views for the same reasons.

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 6h

It shouldn't be this way. We shouldn't have to worry about being able to afford heating our homes. The huge problem is Britain doesn't own anything anymore and is ripped off and exploited by foreign private equity companies. Just read Royal Post wants to end delivery of written letters. It's crap.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h

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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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 11h

I want to see far right populism destroyed for good. It's been going on for far too long. It's up to all of us to make sure that happens. Because we cannot have a Farage Government in power because he will ruin the UK.

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Kerry = Antifa = Anti-Fascist @kerry10.bsky.social · 12h

Because they don't want any resistance for their next steps!!! To bring your country into 1930's Germany!.

Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 18h

THIS SHOULD BE CONCERNING TO EVERYONE

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no! Losing Diane Keaton and Robert Redford in the same month is really sad. What a great career she had
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79, PEOPLE can confirm exclusively. The actress was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

people.com

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12h

This narrative doesn't make sense. You can't blame Brexit for harming the economy ... (UK businesses, for example, lose £37bn a year due to a drop in EU trade) ... yet at the same time categorically rule out returning even to the Single Market. So Starmer needs to do a masssive U-turn or step down.

Starmer ‘planning to blame Farage and Brexit’ for budget tax hikes

Sir Keir Starmer has been ramping up his attacks on Nigel Farage in recent weeks as Labour falls behind in the polls

www.independent.co.uk

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Kerry = Antifa = Anti-Fascist @kerry10.bsky.social · 1d

Can someone show Starmer this and show him what real police men & women are doing in Italy.

They are not arresting peaceful protesters who are protesting a genocide.
No, they refuse to arrest them.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

The Headline smear, what Polanski actually said.

Mr Polanski, 42, said he too would 'consider shoplifting' if he also had no other option to earn money or obtain food.

Zack Polanski said people who steal because they do not have much money should be shown compassion

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 12h

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

The duopoly’s corporate coup over the UK via free zones and the likes of Blackrock is accelerating.
Don’t people understand why the MSM aren’t covering this?
Secondary legislation embedded in free zones means zero Parliamentary debate, zero public consultation, zero press notification!

EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 8d

Blackrock have 677 registered entities at Companies House UK, possibly more, many of the addresses are from the Cayman Islands.

See for yourself.
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find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search?q=Bla...

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

The duopoly’s corporate coup over the UK via free zones and the likes of Blackrock is accelerating.
Don’t people understand why the MSM aren’t covering this?
Secondary legislation embedded in free zones means zero Parliamentary debate, zero public consultation, zero press notification!

EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 8d

Blackrock have 677 registered entities at Companies House UK, possibly more, many of the addresses are from the Cayman Islands.

See for yourself.
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find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search?q=Bla...

Blackrock - Find and update company information - GOV.UK

Free company information from Companies House including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity

find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12h

Private equity wrecked UK high street, says Iceland Foods boss

PE model - low wages, cut staff/investment, high debt, profiteering, tax abuse.

PE devoured Debenhams, Maplin, Byron Burger, Cath Kidson, Comet, Flybe, Poundworld, Toys R Us.

Controls care homes, vets, supermarkets.
archive.ph/tJVkV

Private equity has wrecked the high street, says Iceland boss

Richard Walker says private buyers take out costs and fail to invest then sell to the highest bidder in a cycle that makes retailers steadily worse

www.thetimes.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 12h

Chanting 'death to the IDF' isn't antisemitic.

Rather than asking Phillipson if a Bob Vylan concert should be cancelled, #bbclaurak should be asking her what steps the govt is taking against UK nationals who've served in the IDF, a brutal occupying army thats committed genocide.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12h

In the UK we have Keir -island of strangers- Starmer, whose government is driving right wing anti immigrant and asylum seeker policies

In Spain, Pedro Sánchez is not only celebrating diversity, they're embracing and speaking positively about immigrants

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 12h

This is beautiful , and they certainly aren't hate marches Priti Patel. The far right will always say this as they are threatened by people uniting against genocide and coming together for humanity and the people of Gaza.

Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 1d

Waterloo Bridge today.
London marches for Gaza.

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Kerry = Antifa = Anti-Fascist @kerry10.bsky.social · 12h

My thoughts for this Sunday morning.

How is it that society has sunken to an all time low, that we have a flicker of happiness, joy & hope just because a few people in politics, for example the Greens & SNP are now saying what should be the norm, basic housing rights, human rights, lower bill...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12h

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 12h

Wow Priti awful saying the pro Palestine marches are hate marches and that they are anti semitic. Same old Tories , still Priti awful. But lest we forget she was involved in a scandal where she had unofficial meetings with Israel which led to Theresa May sacking her as Foreign Secretary.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12h

BBC asking Bridget Phillipson at length about rising antisemitism in the UK (which actually fell last year according to new figures, albeit still very high) but not at all about rising Islamophobia, which is up by 19% year-on-year

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 12h

Nadine Dorries clearly demonstrates that her new party Reform will continually spout narrow minded crap, and they are unfit to serve this country. This needs shouting loudly all over the country. The right wing media are trying their hardest to stitch us up with a Farage Govt. But they can F.Off!

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