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Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 8h

This @uklabour.bsky.social government is genius at shouting the obvious when they’ve done a health and safety assessment to ensure it’s no longer controversial. I welcome #reeves’ statement but its pathetically late.

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Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t expect Farage gives two hoots about #abortion, but I’m sure his party would happily take this group’s money to whip up the conversation in the #UK. ‘Culture wars sold here. Get em while they’re hot’

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Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 8h

In the furore abt whether #china is a threat or not, one journalist said yesterday they’d been told China may have been responsible for a cyber attack on the #NHS, to me that makes no sense, why wld they want to, I’d be looking west for bad intentions to the NHS

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Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 22h

The #US economy grew massively after the 2008 financial crisis, the vast majority of that extra wealth, i think it was abt 90% went to a very few people. @uklabour.bsky.social focus on growth will increase inequality across the #UK

Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 22h

Starmer & Reeves with their growth mantra is based on a bigger cake, more to distribute. Recent history gives no basis for that assumption. The exact opposite. The mega rich, corporations, politicians will continue milking it. The rest of us will be offered as few scraps as they can get away with.

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Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 22h

100k members and going up.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22h

Keep it up, folks!

Together - hope is here!

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

Exclusive: Greens Plan To 'Overtake Tories And Replace Labour' As Support Surges

The party has also seen its membership break through 100,000 for the first time.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 1d

how dare they. That’s British sediment. We fought a dozen world wars to keep our sediment.

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Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone else hearing those 8 billion voices saying ‘Now what?’
#Israel #Palestine

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Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 1d

Its funny as that’s exactly what #Trump’s #US has been trying to do to #China

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Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 1d

Replace #councilTax, #stampDuty and #businessRates with a #landValueTax and small #localServiceTax. #Reeves should announce the review now to be implemented after the next election

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Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 1d

No doubt they will blame the Dutch for building all those sea walls and forcing the north sea to rise.

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Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 2d

Err, they haven’t built anything yet.

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Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 2d

The #ukEconomy is huddled fetal on the floor and #brexit keeps kicking the shit out of it. When are @uklabour.bsky.social going to be honest with the public and stop running away from awkward conversations.

Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 2d

Osborne has since said he thinks that he shouldn't have cut investment so severely, however the real boot on the throat of the #ukEconomy, just as it was getting up, was the vote to leave the #EU. We're lying fetal on the floor and #brexit keeps kicking the shit out of us. Thanks #nigelFarage.

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Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 3d

Whilst they're at it maybe they could add the Minotaur to the list of endangered species.

Jansen Mann @hellojansen.com · 3d

I guess this is what Farage will be banging on about next week, if he hasn't already started.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

European far right follows Trump in calling for antifa to be declared terrorists

Netherlands and Hungary move towards designation as draft resolution reportedly backed by 79 MEPs in 20 countries

www.theguardian.com

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Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 5d

Entirely agree. Everyone can see those two already have a failed project.
Join the @greenparty.org.uk who have been organising for social justice for decades.

Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 7d

Stamp duty is really bad tax for everybody. by all means scrap it.

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Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 7d

We’ve heard Stephen Miller call out acts of ‘judicial terrorism’. that’s the kind of incendiary rhetoric that @robertjenrickmp.bsky.social seems to be on a journey towards. The Judiciary works if it’s independent from politics. these two don’t seem to like that independence when it doesn’t fit.

Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 7d

#FPTP will tear this country’s politics apart. Carrying on with this tribalism as if politics was a football match is insanity. Now the centrist parties are so distrusted it’s easy for the vocal minority to get power. @uklabour.bsky.social stop living for the 1970’s and get on it.

Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 7d

phenomenal

Emily Shepherd @emi.ly · 8d

Finally a politician who admits when he's wrong! 🎉

🔥 Join.greenparty.org.uk 🔥

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8d

I said that @greenparty.org.uk membership is rising by 1000 new people a day.

I was wrong.

Yesterday we welcomed 2000 new people.

We now have 88,000 members! 🎉

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 8d

Does anyone really believe Farage has read this?

Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 8d

Everything about Jenrick’s manner says insincerity and h’ll just say whatever he thinks you want to hear. Fortunately ha hasn’t realised he’s talking to a small section of the population

Yrotitna @yrotitna.bsky.social · 8d

The country that Jenrick wants to take back is not a nice place and definitely not worth fighting for. I dont want fascists like Farage, Jenrick or Badenoch anywhere near Government. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Jenrick accused of racism over ‘no white faces’ comments as he also claims ‘collapse of old order is in sight’ – UK politics live

Labour mayor of the West Midlands says Jenrick’s comments about Handsworth were racist

www.theguardian.com

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Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 8d

‘Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity’
Despite the #fossilFuel lobbyists pushing #badenoch and #farage to deny the inevitable. Admit defeat, divest and do the world a favour. #climateChange

Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 8d

You really shouldn’t give #Dacre FOMO like that.

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Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 8d

#ArthurDaley the leader of @reformuk.bsky.social continues on his quest to sell a lemon to the British public. Only 40,000 miles guv, honest as the day is long he is.

Toby Risk @tobyrisk.bsky.social · 8d

Its amazing how stupidly blind @ukLabour have been to not reap the political capital from #brexit All #Farage’s bravado of how it would be so easy has been proven as BS. He’s doing it again on immigration and they’re letting him.

BS.to

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