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Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 1d

When people say ‘Labour are useless’ tell them to watch this.
I can assure you it’s a lot more than the last 14yrs of Tories or what a Reform government would do.

Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 1d

"Lots done. Lots more to do."

As Parliament is set to return tomorrow, here is a video the Labour government have put out to show us some of the things they have achieved in the first year.

And it's a LOOOOOOONG list.

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Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 2d

My God, #Trump is the most stupid President America has had the misfortune to elect. You couldn’t write it. The AI bubble is now going to completely take out the stock markets, #Gold #Silver are going to go parabolic.

America is truly fvcked.
Impeach the orange buffoon.

#Tariffs #S&P #Nasdaq

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

The stock market slumped to its worst one-day showing since tariffs roiled markets in April, as President Trump threatened to impose more tariffs on Chinese imports.

S&P and Nasdaq Slump as Stocks Fall on Trump China Tariff Threat

The S&P 500 slumped more than 2 percent for the first time in six months, rattling investors after a long stretch of gains.

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Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 3d

Based upon last nights #bbcqt show,the audience reaction and comments on BlueSky, the Greens absolutely smashed it. Zack Polanski will be our next Prime Minister.

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 4d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 4d

If #bbcqt are going to bring on Reform to the panel then when they do have to bring on the Greens. Fact. Both have 4 MP’s.

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Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 4d

Annabel Denham is a seriously odious person.

Why is she even on there? Surely it would be better to have the LibDems in her seat?

Zack just put her in her place on taxing the assets of oligarchs and billionaires.

Go Zack!

#bbcqt #GreenParty

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Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 4d

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Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 4d

What’s interesting about tonight is the next election is not as simple as the polls suggest. I think it could become a battle between Reform v The Greens. Tories are finished. Labour needs to dump its RW rhetoric. It would be nice to hear from the LibDems #bbcqt. Stop the right wing political bias.

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Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 4d

Listening to the #bbcqt audience tonight makes me proud to be British. Yusef/Reform seriously struggling here.

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Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 4d

10 mins in and sorry, not sorry, I could well be on my way to becoming a Green voter. Zack is wiping the floor with the panel. Completely agree with him 💯. #bbcqt

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𝔇𝔢𝔫𝔫𝔦𝔰 𝔅𝔞𝔯𝔯𝔢𝔱𝔱 @bsky.pickpear.com · 4d

By way of a reminder folks...

You voted for Cameron
Everything got worse

You voted for Johnson
Everything got worse

You voted for brexit
Everything got worse

You voted for Truss
Everything got worse

If you vote for Farage

You have no idea how bad your life will become.

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Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 4d

When JP Morgan says 20% of your portfolio should be gold you know this AI bubble is going down and taking everything with it. The entire, built on debt, fiat financial system. (Why is gold at $4k, and rising - up 80%).

Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 4d

We are 4yrs away from a GE. Next year, 2026, the AI bubble is going to burst taking the $ with it. It will turn into a WW financial calamity on a scale we have never seen. The rise of the left will be meteoric.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the Greens as front runners.

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Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 4d

America has $1 trillion in margin calls. It is going to go 'bang' in a way that we have never seen before. Apocalyptic. And the majority of the population have no idea whatsoever.
#Gold #Silver #Crypto #StockMarket

Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

Morning Bid: Stocks pause as bubble warnings mount reut.rs/4h6k7ZB

Morning Bid: Stocks pause as bubble warnings mount

What matters in U.S. and global markets today

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Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 4d

When was somebody from the Green Party last on #bbcqt?

About bloody time. Interesting though there are three right wingers. The political bias of the #BBC is there for all to see.

Why isn't somebody from the LibDems on instead of the truly awful Annabel Denham from the Telegraph.

Cllr Nick Hartley - Green Party @nickhartleygreen.bsky.social · 5d

The first time I’ve been looking forward to watch Question Time in quite a while!

Go on @zackpolanski.bsky.social!

#bbcqt

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Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 5d

They are indeed rattled. Good.

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Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 5d

Why should Meta and AI profit from stealing my work? Nick Clegg can go fvck himself.

Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 5d

Why is gold surging? AI bubble bursting - very soon. It will certainly take out the US stock market and it could be the final nail in the proverbial coffin for the $. Which in turn countries heavily exposed to the dollar (UK, China, Japan) will get severely fvcked too.

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Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 5d

Precisely why gold and silver are surging. Gold running to $7000 and silver to $100 oz. When the AI bubble bursts, and it will, it could well be the final nail in the proverbial coffin that takes down the dollar.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 5d

So much for ‘Free Speech’. This is an authoritarian dictatorship. WTFU America!

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Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 5d

Face facts, #Badenoch is just plain stupid.

Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 5d

So it's all the countries who do not have an economy based on oil are adopting renewables. What a surprise - not!
This 'fight' to protect oil is destroying the west while the East accelerates into the future. America, particularly under Trump is fvcked. The UK, under Farage/Reform, will be too.

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Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 6d

In reality the bottom line is, Fiat currency is fvcked, the $ is totally fvcked, and the world is scared. #Gold will go to $7000 before it runs out of steam. #Silver to $100. Will #Trump revalue, he might. And that should scare you too.
#Bitcoin #XRP #XLM #Crypto

news.sky.com/story/gold-s...

Gold smashes past $4,000 per ounce but there is good reason to be worried

Sky's James Sillars writes that a toxic cocktail of pressures are driving investors to the safe haven asset - and it's a signal we should not ignore.

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Iain Philpott @iainphilpott.bsky.social · 6d

Frigging hell, ‘who ate all the pies’!

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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