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🔴 NEW - Zia Yusuf has resigned as Reform’s DOGE chief with the project in turmoil.

Reform’s Musk-inspired slash-and-burn agenda has faced further setbacks this week
Zia Yusuf resigns as Reform’s DOGE chief with project in turmoil
New misery for Farage’s Musk-inspired project...
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Can you imagine a UK Green government taking the UK back into the EU and adding 150 MEPs to the European parliament who tell Trump to Fcuk Off and protect the European green transition, all while adding economic growth to the continent?

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Mehdi Hasan, "Is rejoining the EU a Green Party aim"

Zack Polanski, "Yes it is"

And just like that, the Green Party have leapfrogged the LibDems
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This Polanski is so refreshing. Just "Yes" to answer the question on reversing Brexit. Love it.
Mehdi Hasan, "Is rejoining the EU a Green Party aim"

Zack Polanski, "Yes it is"

And just like that, the Green Party have leapfrogged the LibDems
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Current drugs legislation punishes those with crippling addictions and is a financial blackhole.

Let’s start putting people first.

Stop criminalising drugs.
Start tackling the damage they cause.
@hackneygreenparty.bsky.social
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The severe threat the climate crisis poses to national security is laid out in a new Joint Intelligence Committee report - though we can't read it, because the govt has reportedly blocked its publication.

I pressed the minister on when we can expect it to be released... and he dodged the question.
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92% of Reform's funding between the 2019 and 2024 elections came from climate science deniers and fossil fuel interests.

We need that recoil.
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A French court has ruled that oil company Total misled consumers by claiming to be "a major actor in the energy transition, and ordered it to pay €8,000 euros each to Greenpeace and other NGOs www.ft.com/content/8279...
TotalEnergies misled consumers over climate action, French court rules
Key win in Paris civil case over disinformation in marketing campaigns
www.ft.com
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Nigel Farage promised that Reform councils would cut local government "waste" in order to slash taxes.

Now the party's flagship Kent administration is set to actually raise taxes and has just started asking opposition parties for help after failing to identify the millions in savings they promised
Reform Council Asks Opposition for Help Making Cuts After ‘Desperate’ Search for Savings Falls Short
Exclusive: Nigel Farage's struggling flagship Kent administration is now reaching out to other parties, after failing to identify the millions of pounds in savings they promised
bylinetimes.com
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TheyWorkForYou have done some big updates including finding out which MPs/peers are members (rather than officers, which is usually the only thing published) of APPGs. There's also more on Early Day Motions, for followers of MP petitions www.mysociety.org/2025/10/21/n...
New on TheyWorkForYou: browse your MP’s APPG memberships
There's now a big update on TheyWorkForYou allowing you to browse your MP’s APPG memberships for the first time.
www.mysociety.org
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The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK group, representing over 7,000 affected families, has written to the Honours Forfeiture Committee urging it to strip Baroness Michelle Mone of her OBE, following a High Court ruling over the supply of unusable PPE during the pandemic
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We're working with Racheal Maskell MP to support her Bill in Parliament to strip Andrew of his title.

We've made it super easy for you to write to your MP, to ask them to support the Bill and support all victims of sexual exploitation.

It takes seconds. 👇🏻 goodlawproject.org/campaign/tim...
Time to strip Prince Andrew of his dukedom | Good Law Project
Andrew says he won’t use his title, but that’s not enough – parliament must take it away
goodlawproject.org
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685,000 Britons has wealth of £2.8 trillion, 48m have £2.4trn.

4 people have more wealth than 20m Britons.

Bottom 50% of the population has 5% of wealth, the bottom fifth only 0.5%.

Rich buy political parties, legislators; hold govts to ransom.

Can't get economic growth without redistribution.
Rachel Reeves’ budget must reduce inequalities and increase spending capacity of the masses
This is how to secure sustained economic growth
leftfootforward.org
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The findings of the International Court of Justice are clear.

Israel has no right to block aid to Gaza. Israel's allegations against UNRWA have not been substantiated. Israel must cease obstructing the UN and its agencies.

Stop blocking aid.
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“Medical staff did not give her any food, water, or pain medication for several hours. Much later that evening, after a significant loss of blood, Lucia was transported to an emergency room approximately an hour away, with her arms and legs shackled.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say
The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.
www.nbcnews.com
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Plaid Cymru has accused Reform UK of ‘turning their backs’ on Welsh communities by failing to attend a crucial Westminster debate on coal tip safety — held the day after the anniversary of the Aberfan disaster
Reform UK slammed for missing coal tip safety debate
Plaid Cymru has accused Reform UK of “turning their backs” on Welsh communities by failing to attend a crucial Westminster debate on coal tip safety — held the day after the anniversary of the Aberfan...
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#EpsteinBallroom

But where will the tRumpcrypto casino go?