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falcnow.bsky.social @falcnow.bsky.social · 10h

Clearly Isreal know that at this point any violence will blow further holes in the whole “ look - antisemitism” tactic and that Maccabi fans can’t be trusted to stick to the script.

Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 19h

Maccabi will not allocate tickets to their fans. www.maccabi-tlv.co.il/en/2025/10/c...

Club statement - Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club

We acknowledge the efforts of the UK government and police to ensure both sets of fans can attend the match safely, and are grateful for the messages of

www.maccabi-tlv.co.il

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 19h

Maccabi will not allocate tickets to their fans. www.maccabi-tlv.co.il/en/2025/10/c...

Club statement - Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club

We acknowledge the efforts of the UK government and police to ensure both sets of fans can attend the match safely, and are grateful for the messages of

www.maccabi-tlv.co.il

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 1d

On a #MarxistMonday.

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 4d

"Privatisation is a failed experiment which takes all our money and pays it out to shareholders."

Do we pay enough tax for good Public Services?

Can you see the problem?

They are not Public, so they will never be good no matter how much you spend.

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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 21h

Channel 4 News ask a govt minister to comment on corruption in the unelected Head of States family

They chose an unelected minister who had to resign due to the expenses scandal

The unelected politician says the unelected head of state should decide sanctions on his unelected brother

Democracy

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falcnow.bsky.social @falcnow.bsky.social · 1d

Remainers handed the 2019 election to the Tories but show no signs of regret over backing Mandelson’s People’s Vote.

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 1d

The bonus is designed as a reward for those who excel, right? I ask because I think maybe I'm missing something...

Secretary of State, Steve Reed, stated that all payments made since April 2024 'could' be blocked by Ofwat.

'could...'
www.watermagazine.co.uk/2025/06/10/t...

Thames Water admits to £18.5m bonus payments despite new rules - Water Magazine

Thames Water discloses that bonus payments to 21 Thames Water executives have already been paid, despite the new rules.

www.watermagazine.co.uk

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falcnow.bsky.social @falcnow.bsky.social · 1d

weownit.org.uk/news/great-b...

Great British Energy - who will benefit?

Today the government announces its plan and new legislation for Great British Energy, a new publicly owned renewable energy generation company. The government has confirmed that Great British Energy w...

weownit.org.uk

falcnow.bsky.social @falcnow.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s be honest atm neither the UK or USA look that far from being a police state.

It’s not true that capitalism is inherently democratic or liberal.

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falcnow.bsky.social @falcnow.bsky.social · 2d

The point is that if the Green Party a serious about public ownership they can’t also support EU membership.

To hold both positions is totally disingenuous.

We are in a different position to some, we have privatised our utilities, the EU makes nationalisation more difficult., as shown.

falcnow.bsky.social @falcnow.bsky.social · 2d

So when Thames Water fails and the state brings it into public ownership, what’s that if not state aid?

Answer from EU -

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falcnow.bsky.social @falcnow.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure of the point you’re making??

falcnow.bsky.social @falcnow.bsky.social · 2d

Fair enough, I don’t think you really understand what the EU is.

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falcnow.bsky.social @falcnow.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t

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falcnow.bsky.social @falcnow.bsky.social · 2d

How? How to we fix the uk while having to abide by a raft of fiscal and market rules?

It makes things harder and more complicated rather than easier and simpler.

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falcnow.bsky.social @falcnow.bsky.social · 2d

corporateeurope.org/en/EU-in-cri...

European Union uses eurocrisis as alibi to push privatisation of water services | Corporate Europe Observatory

In response to the eurocrisis, most EU countries are imposing austerity policies designed to reduce public deficits and bring down state debts by cutting down public spending on health care, education...

corporateeurope.org

falcnow.bsky.social @falcnow.bsky.social · 2d

You had to fight the EU on water - www.cpbml.org.uk/news/eu-irel...

EU to Ireland: charge for water or pay the price | Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist

www.cpbml.org.uk

falcnow.bsky.social @falcnow.bsky.social · 2d

Buckle up then - www.siptu.ie/trade-deal-l...

Trade deal ‘will force privatisation of Irish Water’   - SIPTU - Services Industrial Professional and Technical Union

International CETA Speaking Tour Monday, 9th November, 7.30pm Liberty Hall, Dublin 1 EU TRADE deals such as CETA and TTIP are a threat to Irish water, public services, fo...

www.siptu.ie

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falcnow.bsky.social @falcnow.bsky.social · 2d

EU membership fixes nothing for the UK.

We need to reverse privatisation of utilities, housing, healthcare and education. And we need to tax the rich.

EU membership doesn’t do any of this.

The rich want us arguing over EU/migration/trans issues not Tax and public ownership.

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falcnow.bsky.social @falcnow.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed it should be, but most of the EU treaties are concerned with maintain free market dogma.

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falcnow.bsky.social @falcnow.bsky.social · 2d

Or imagine a water company that didn’t charge to ensure supply of a vital service.

Imagine free broadband, imagine unmetered gas (talked of in the 60’s) or power.

In fact most ideas about universal services would fall foul of that rule.

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falcnow.bsky.social @falcnow.bsky.social · 2d

You might rightly want to run it as a service.

Imagine post service run at a loss to provide efficient deliveries that supported all sorts of other businesses, meant that the duplicating of multiple delivery companies and associated environmental costs were reduced and decent employment created.

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falcnow.bsky.social @falcnow.bsky.social · 2d

EU membership places a number of barriers including competition and tendering rules and spending rules. These would be hugely compounded if we had to take the Euro as we couldn’t access the spending needed to reverse austerity and privatisation that is provided by issuing our own currency.

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 2d

One of the Manchester bombers, Hashem Abedi, is in the news accused of the attempted murder of three prison officers.

What the media won’t be reporting is what we know of the Abedi family’s role in the UK’s 2011 war in Libya.

www.declassifieduk.org/manchester-b...

Manchester bomber was a UK ally

Salman Abedi and his closest family were part of Libyan militias benefitting from British covert military support six years before he murdered 22 people at the Manchester Arena in 2017. He is likely t...

www.declassifieduk.org

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falcnow.bsky.social @falcnow.bsky.social · 2d

I agree the UK has always pulled the EU to the right and being more pro market. You are better off without us we also are better off out where we have more scope to deal with the extreme neoliberal position we have put ourselves in.

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falcnow.bsky.social @falcnow.bsky.social · 2d

I would never want to give up the Pound for the Euro, it would make public ownership and the spending required to reverse decades of austerity and privatisation near impossible.

It’s likely that it would be a condition of rejoin and an even bigger reason not to make rejoining a policy.

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