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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Rachel Reeves says she needs to raise taxes to “balance the books.” But that’s not how government finance works. In this video, I explain why the government’s job is to sustain spending power, not drain it.

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Why most tax rises now would be economic madness

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h

Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says

Exclusive: Special rapporteur for poverty cites mainstream parties’ ‘extremely dangerous’ them-or-us dialogue Decades of efforts by mainstream politicians to roll back welfare programmes have given rise to an “extremely dangerous” discourse that has helped fuel the rise of the far right and rightwing populists in countries around the world, a top UN expert has told the Guardian. From London to Lisbon, politicians from centre-right and centre-left parties alike have steadily eroded social programmes, fostering a sense of scarcity and creating fertile ground for the stirring up of anti-migrant sentiment, said Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Continue reading...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20h

Highest. Ever. (Yet.) 🚀

Let's go! 🙌🏼

Source: YouGov

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Greens and lib Dems - 15%
Tories - 17%
Labour - 20%
Reform - 26%

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 20h

Your party is a disgrace. Starmer is a disgrace. McSweeney is a disgrace. Horrible people

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 20h

You are a liar. I need the jab. I should get it for free. Streeting and Labour stopped the jab for people like me. You are a liar

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 21h

@greenparty.org.uk has voted to oppose the introduction of Freeports and Special Economic Zones across the United Kingdom at it’s annual party conference in Manchester.
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Greens vote to oppose introduction of Freeports in the UK - Green Party

The Green Party has voted to oppose the introduction of Freeports and Special Economic Zones across the United Kingdom at it’s annual party conference in Manchester. Commenting Green Party Co-Leader A...

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 22h

The UK is being carved into 86 deregulated corporate zones—74 SEZs + 12 Freeports (now "Industrial Strategy Zones"), with 200 AI Growth Zones coming.
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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 22h

It’s who they are. Starmer hates the disabled

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 22h

Their slashing of welfare was disgusting too, sounds like they want to cut some more. Very happy to not vote Labour again, voting Green from now on

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 22h

I am appalled. It doesn’t feel like a Labour government. It feels even worse than the Tory ones

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Mummified Matt 🎃👻💀 @mattsawyer.bsky.social · 23h

A Tory govt gifted me a free flu jab when I turned 50 and a Labour govt took it away this year…not the turn of events I expected.

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 23h

I have late stage kidney disease and immune compromised. Labour stopped it for people like me. I have to pay for it. I’m never voting Labour again, if you vote Labour you are sick

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 23h

This is a lie. I am immune compromised with late stage kidney disease and this government snatched the vaccine from me. I have to pay £100 to get one. If you vote Labour shame on you

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 1d

That is a lie. Labour snatched tonnes of vaccines from people who need it. I have late stage kidney disease, I’m immunocompromised and I need the jab and this disgusting Labour government stopped me from getting it. I now have to pay £100 for it! If you vote Labour you are voting for evil

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 1d

That’s some bull. Wes Streeting and this disgustingly right wing Labour government are to blame. Why are you blaming a previous government for a decision made by this government? You’re embarrassing.
Labour voters are now WORSE than Tory voters, as evidenced here

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 1d

Why have Labour snatched vital vaccines from vulnerable people? Streeting and your party are a disgrace I have to pay £100 now for a jab I need for my immune system.

Why are you still voting Labour? Where is your red line? Because you’ve sank below “Tory voter” on the evil scale now.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 1d

I have spent more of 2025 in a state of semi-permanent exhaustion than any other year of my adult life, including the ones where I suffered a traumatic head injury and when I had to live on benefits.

That is pretty much directly the fault of the Labour Party and yes I take it personally.

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 1d

Hmmm that’s odd, why is the “Keir Starmer is a racist” sign suddenly all lit up and flashing like it’s trying to tell us something?

OH
THAT’S RIGHT

Keir Starmer IS a racist. I almost forgot

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 1d

Simon do they pay you for being a moron?

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

The AWS outage exposes again that “the cloud” isn’t magic, it’s infrastructure. The issue isn’t a cyberattack, it’s architectural over-reliance on a handful of cloud giants. We centralized the internet and then made our entire lives dependent on it.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Students: cost of living is soaring and we can hardly afford to feed ourselves

Government: I hear you - how about higher fees and more debt?

Politics UK @politlcsuk.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 NEW: University tuition fees will increase in line with forecast inflation for the next two years

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 1d

Bloomberg calling Zack Polanski ‘the British Zohran Mamdani’

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 1d

1.5C is dead.

And so-called ‘centrist’ politicians would rather we slide into fascism & authoritarianism than rebuild our world to give us a chance of surviving where we’re heading - because survival would mean dismantling the corporations that own these ‘centrist’ politicians.

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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 1d

🥀 The Green Party are the real threat to Labour.

🔄 Help us replace them.

✅️ Join us >>> Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Francis Fisher @underthesunglow.bsky.social · 1d

This. I'm a social democrat and so is my whole family. We aren't communists or far left.

But we're now voting Green because they represent what Labour should represent. Labour have abandoned their values.

Vote Green, join the Greens

Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 1d

i think when lab leadership hear 'left defector' they picture 'angry, fringe uni socialists'

but it's mainline libs - teachers, nurses, aspirational couples, recent overworked & underpaid grads & more settled surbirbanites - the **core** of their coalition

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

Left-leaning voters choose to support left-wing parties.

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