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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19h

As if they keep writing all these headlines - and our membership numbers and polling just keeps shooting up. 🚀

Now at 110,000. Over 55% increase in just one month!

Lower bills. Fund NHS. Tax the super rich.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

Greens who want to save the world by destroying britain

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

POLITICO: “Leaders of Young Republican groups worried if their Telegram chat got leaked, but kept typing… referred to Black people as monkeys, mused about putting political opponents in gas chambers... lauded Republicans they believed support slavery…” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Karen @elsa-meowse.bsky.social · 2d

Human beings are not illegal

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Vambo Marble Eye @vambomarbleeye.bsky.social · 21h

Heart, lung and dermatology issues. I’d be buggered too

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ianjazz.bsky.social @ianjazz.bsky.social · 22h

Calling private healthcare parasitic is a bang-on accurate description. Moreover, it’s a cancer that sucks the life out of an otherwise healthy public healthcare system.

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Francis Sedgemore @hesgen.com · 1d

Neil Mackay addresses the English problem. And what a problem it is too.

"Sharing a house with someone having a full-blown identity crisis isn’t wise."

My solution is Scottish and Welsh statehood, and the dissolution of England into Heptarchy 2.0.

Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d

The English problem renders the Union toxic for the other home nations. Sharing a house with someone having a full-blown identity crisis isn’t wise. The best medicine for what ails England - and the rest of us - may indeed be an English departure from the Union
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

How Empire and the Union ruined England, by Neil Mackay

A case could be made that the best medicine for what ails England would be an English departure from the Union, argues Writer at Large Neil Mackay

www.heraldscotland.com

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d

The English problem renders the Union toxic for the other home nations. Sharing a house with someone having a full-blown identity crisis isn’t wise. The best medicine for what ails England - and the rest of us - may indeed be an English departure from the Union
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

How Empire and the Union ruined England, by Neil Mackay

A case could be made that the best medicine for what ails England would be an English departure from the Union, argues Writer at Large Neil Mackay

www.heraldscotland.com

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Vambo Marble Eye @vambomarbleeye.bsky.social · 23h

Why is there no levy on private health care for the training costs of their staff, borne by the govt and the NHS?

Why is there no levy for the time taken from the NHS of registrars and consultants to go work part time for private health?

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Juditty @juditty.bsky.social · 1d

We like to pat ourselves on our backs for being a democracy. But we get a vote once every 5 years whilst big business, billionaires and media barons have daily access and influence.
And once in power, all govts cement the anti-democratic power grabs they lambasted when in opposition.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Radio Jammor @radiojammor.bsky.social · 23h

More list votes for SGP also means less Unionist MSPs.
SNP1&2 actually risks the overall majority by denying SGP list votes which they will need to make-up the shortfall that the SNP numbers are polling at.
This is not 2011 and the SNP are kidding themselves they can repeat it.

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Robert F @chippyman.bsky.social · 23h

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paddyticketyboo.bsky.social @paddyticketyboo.bsky.social · 23h

I think this could potentially become the undoing of Farage and Reform if enough people support it.

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.

It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.

Investigation now!

#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes

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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 1d

Green aren't the loony left.

They just echo normal, modern thinking.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Many on the right will try and belittle and undermine what’s happening.

But here’s the truth. Tens of thousands are joining Greens. Polls are at record highs. People are just starting to feel hope again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The truth about the green party's booming membership

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 1d

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Vambo Marble Eye @vambomarbleeye.bsky.social · 23h

They’re just itching to start it all over again. Got the taste for murder and now have an itch to scratch.

Vambo Marble Eye @vambomarbleeye.bsky.social · 23h

Which his private health care provider could not provide”

If a millionaire can’t afford good enough health insurance, what chance does a part-time worker or a state pensioner have?

Private health. A parasite on the real health service and on the taxpayers of the U.K.

Ban the lot of them.

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Lattengustl @lattengustl.bsky.social · 1d

"will be responded to accordingly" 🟰 We're looking for pretexts to continue our genocide and this might be an on-ramp.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

🏮 He thinks the direction of travel in the UK will breach its human rights obligations in multiple respects - pushing trans people into an 'intermediate zone' and jeopardising their right to be treated with dignity and to be able to participate in all areas of everyday life...

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

🏮 He's very concerned about measures which oblige trans people to out themselves publicly and significantly increase their vulnerability to harassment, abuse and even violence

🏮 And he asks for an evidence-based approach. This ought to be common sense but sadly none of this is evidence based.

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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 2d

In tomorrow's paper: As Israel continues to deny genocide after the ceasefire, we publish the damning words from Israeli politicians and media showing how the atrocity came to pass.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 2d

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰

How genocide happened

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Paul van der Meer @paulvandermeer.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the fallacy. People say that Tr*mp assaulted 26 women and children. That’s not true. He was caught 26 times doing that. The real figure is about seven times higher (180).

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╭∩╮（︶︿︶） Butch ╭∩╮ 🇵🇹 @butchugal.bsky.social · 2d

Can you post some screenshots of people saying that? And I hate to break it to you, but Zionism is a political ideology. I'm 100% anti-Zionist, but I'm 100% not anti-Semitic. The two are not the same thing.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 2d

An MP investigating claims of Russian interference in the Brexit vote has said the founder of Leave.EU must explain his contact with the country.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

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Leave.EU donor Arron Banks 'must explain Russia link'

It is reported that leave campaigner Arron Banks held undisclosed meetings with Russia in 2016.

www.bbc.co.uk

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