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EconomicsInTen @economicsinten.bsky.social · 11h

This is also an interesting piece by @mathewlawrence.bsky.social on another impact of Thatcher that @cmmonwealth.bsky.social have analysed - privatisation. Remember that privatisation (or denationalisation) wasn't part of the 1979 manifesto. #EconSky www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence

A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 2d

Farage's figures don't add and never have.

We don't need this older man to tell us what we know. The older, very rich man who wrote that vile article on Megan Markle. S
We need to stop giving his words a respect he doesn't deserve.

We just need the British media to do their job properly.

Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 2d

'His Numbers Don't Add Up': Jeremy Clarkson Launches Furious Attack On Nigel Farage

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/his-nu...

'His Numbers Don't Add Up': Jeremy Clarkson Launches Furious Attack On Nigel Farage

"Before anyone can question his logic, he scuttles back to his safe space and starts raging about small boats."

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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A Broken World 🌍 🌎 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 2d

It's a fair suggestion.
That's what they seem to be doing with Trump in America.

Trouble is, he is destroying their society and economy at such a pace that it's causing extreme distress right now, and possibly irreparable damage for the future.

Putin's ideal scenario.

Do we want that?

#Farage

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Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 2d

Patrick Minford, Britain's most discredited "economist", architect of the pro-Brexit economic argument, and of Truss' nightmare budget, is being showcased on #TomSwarbrick on #LBC to defend Corporal Farage's manifesto U-turn.

Posh boy, Swarbrick, should know better.

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Auld Banshee @auldbendy.bsky.social · 2d

I went to England for less than 48 hours and now I'm ill. Thanks, Starmer 😡

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Mod Magus @modmagus.bsky.social · 1d

China pulling everyone down? I don't think so.
This is what the Chinese call long-term strategic planning and it seems to be paying off nicely. The short-termism of American market-led capitalism just isn't working. www.ft.com/content/fbc5...

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A Broken World 🌍 🌎 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 2d

Socialism vs Capitalism.
In a nutshell.

#r4today #SocialistSunday #taxtherich #billionaires #ukpolitics #politicslive

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A Broken World 🌍 🌎 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 2d

What's wrong with guaranteeing everyone a home?

We'd solve most of our "problems" in society if people never had to worry about poverty or a roof over their head.

The cost of policing crime and housing criminals far exceeds the financial and social cost of providing a home.

#r4today #society

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A Broken World 🌍 🌎 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 2d

The trouble with Badenoch's "questions" is that they're always either misinformed, deliberately vexatious, or simply stupid.

shanerosser.bsky.social @shanerosser.bsky.social · 2d

Badenoch writes to Starmer over China spy case

Kemi Badenoch has written to Sir Keir Starmer asking him to address "unanswered questions" in Parliament over the collapse of a case against two alleged Chinese spies.

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A Broken World 🌍 🌎 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 1d

Thousands of Palestinians and their children evidently died unnecessarily because of the political chicanery between Netanyahu and Trump.

How sick is this?

#r4today #Gaza #FakePeaceDeal #Palestine

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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A Broken World 🌍 🌎 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 1d

As usual, the money men are the tail wagging the dog of government.

It's just a form of blackmail and extortion. Heads, they win, tails we lose.

Banks refuse any accountability for their gambling with our money. Is there no way of controlling their crimes?

How about some jail time?

#ukpolitics

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Holding govts to ransom.

Goldman Sachs warns Rachel Reeves against tax rises on banks.

Banks happy to be bailed out, take QE, mis-sell products, not to be prosecuted for frauds, hike charges, pay lousy rates on savings.

Need windfall taxes. Raise top rate of income tax.

Goldman chief delivers warning to Reeves over bank tax hikes

David Solomon urged the chancellor during a private meeting last week not to hit the industry with savage tax rises in her crucial budget statement next month, Sky News learns.

news.sky.com

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A Broken World 🌍 🌎 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 11h

Good to know, from this piece, that the #ToryBrexitDisaster has been a major cause of destroying the very Party that took us out of the EU.
Let's hope they never recover.

Now... will Labour inflict the same fate on themselves by not immediately REJOINING the EU, stopping Farage too?

#r4today #EU

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t be an effective party for successful people in midlife (sort of the *point* of the Tory party ultimately) if you are at odds with them over the most consequential thing you did in office. This week’s column:

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool

The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

www.ft.com

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A Broken World 🌍 🌎 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 11h

Corporatising essential services like vets lines the pockets of owners and shareholders, but exploits the consumers who use the services, making us poorer.

More pets will suffer if a now unaffordable treatment isn't given when needed.

"Give us your money or the puppy gets it!"
Despicable

#r4today

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 12h

One from the archives.

The number of vet practices owned by large corporations rose from 10% in 2013 to 60% in 2024, & over a similar period the prices they charge have increased by 70%- 80%. Entirely coincidence, I'm sure.

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A Broken World 🌍 🌎 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 11h

Corporatising essential services like vets lines the pockets of owners and shareholders, but exploits the consumers who use the services, making us poorer.

More pets will suffer if a now unaffordable treatment isn't given when needed.

"Give us your money or the puppy gets it!"
Despicable

#r4today

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 12h

One from the archives.

The number of vet practices owned by large corporations rose from 10% in 2013 to 60% in 2024, & over a similar period the prices they charge have increased by 70%- 80%. Entirely coincidence, I'm sure.

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Mrs Hope @mrstheolddays.bsky.social · 12h

Knowing they had next to no chance of winning the GE, the Tories went on a spending spree to leave Labour with tax bombs to deal with. The worst thing is it took Labour 18 months to face this. They should have blamed the Tories week one and swallowed the pill then. Now they own it!

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Pete @countzerorepeat.bsky.social · 12h

UK media. Ask Labour about the Chinese, don't ask Farage about Russian bribes, or mysterious bankrolling of Leave. If you do minimise it, laugh it off. Repeat the process for Russian money swilling through the Tory party.
The majority of the British media stinks.
It's as bent as a corkscrew.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12h

Climate Change Committee warns we aren’t doing enough to stem/plan for global warming.

Meanwhile, in response to proposed solar farm,Tice says they “will do all [they] can to stop investors and developers; nothing is off the table”
Reform: a constant whining drag on progress, prosperity and sanity.

UK must prepare for 2C of global warming by 2050, climate advisors warn
CLIMATE GLOBAL WARMING WEATHER
• Wednesday 15 October 2025 at 6:53am
Martin Stew
Science Correspondent
Credit: i-Stock
The UK must prepare for a 2C rise in global temperatures by 2050, according to new analysis from the Climate Change Committee (CCC), commissioned by the government.
The report forecasts that risks from heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires could double over the next 25 years, with some peak river flows increasing by as much as 40%.
itv.com

The Times:

Reform vow to fight 'crazy Miliband over solar farm

Miliband has approved plans for Britain's biggest solar farm, prompting Reform UK to say it would fight to reverse the decision.
The Tillbridge Solar project, in Lin-colnshire, would cover an area equivalent to about 2,000 football pitches.
Farage's party said the scheme would destroy valuable agricultural land, but Labour said it was needed to meet green energy targets and reduce dependency on energy from abroad.
Tillbridge Solar is the tenth large solar project Miliband has approved since taking office. Half of them are in Lin-colnshire, prompting opposition from local Reform and Conservative MPs.
Tillbridge Solar aims to generate electricity for 300,000 homes and the scheme would cover about 1,400 hectares of mainly agricultural land
Michael Shanks, the energy minister, said: "Solar is one of the cheapest and quickest power sources we can build. It is crucial in our mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower, giving us energy security, good jobs and growth across the country."

A report by the Planning Inspectorate said that the project would lead to the loss of about 1,200 hectares of farm-land, including 11l hectares of the highest grade land, and acknowledged the cumulative impact of other solar arrays in Lincolnshire. However, it concluded that this would not be nationally "significant" , with solar taking over less
than 1% of UK farmland.
It added that the biodiversity would benefit from the end of intensive farming on the land and that crop planting
"could be restored should it be needed in the future" for food security.
In a blunt warning to companies behind the schemes, Richard Tice, Reform UK's deputy leader and the MP for nearby Boston & Skegness, said: "We will do all we can to stop investors and developers; nothing is off the table."

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Mrs B 🐧📎🇪🇺🇺🇦 @faithjoc.bsky.social · 12h

Labour wants to throw the baby out with the bathwater. If their stance is truly to leave the ECHR, they are indistinguishable from the Tories or Reform. No wonder the Greens are so popular now.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 12h

As usual, Emma Barnett misrepresents the Tories' Rwanda plan.

Then we move on to a discussion of "safe third countries" and "return hubs". How many countries will be asked to take how many millions of people by how many rich countries?

#r4today

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 12h

This is an outstanding piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social, and it’s absolutely true and I can’t see any way out of it for the tories.

I recently said to a friend (a fellow ex-Tory) that i could see it being a disqualifying black mark for MP selections into the 2050s.

bsky.app/profile/step...

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A Broken World 🌍 🌎 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 11h

Good to know, from this piece, that the #ToryBrexitDisaster has been a major cause of destroying the very Party that took us out of the EU.
Let's hope they never recover.

Now... will Labour inflict the same fate on themselves by not immediately REJOINING the EU, stopping Farage too?

#r4today #EU

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t be an effective party for successful people in midlife (sort of the *point* of the Tory party ultimately) if you are at odds with them over the most consequential thing you did in office. This week’s column:

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool

The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

www.ft.com

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A Broken World 🌍 🌎 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 1d

As usual, the money men are the tail wagging the dog of government.

It's just a form of blackmail and extortion. Heads, they win, tails we lose.

Banks refuse any accountability for their gambling with our money. Is there no way of controlling their crimes?

How about some jail time?

#ukpolitics

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Holding govts to ransom.

Goldman Sachs warns Rachel Reeves against tax rises on banks.

Banks happy to be bailed out, take QE, mis-sell products, not to be prosecuted for frauds, hike charges, pay lousy rates on savings.

Need windfall taxes. Raise top rate of income tax.

Goldman chief delivers warning to Reeves over bank tax hikes

David Solomon urged the chancellor during a private meeting last week not to hit the industry with savage tax rises in her crucial budget statement next month, Sky News learns.

news.sky.com

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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 1d

Farage is copying Donald Trump’s bid to win over crypto investors

leftfootforward.org/2025/10/nige...

Nigel Farage declares himself ‘champion’ of crypto at conference in Trump-style pitch

‘It’s the Trump playbook’

leftfootforward.org

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Jayme Ruimveld @jaymeruimveld.bsky.social · 1d

All for the reality show. All for the ratings for Grampa Golf’s presidency/tv show. All for the attention. All so he can be the most popular boy.
The loss of life and the suffering during those ten months are all on him and his war criminal friend.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

reasonsvoice.bsky.social @reasonsvoice.bsky.social · 1d

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