PaulM
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Liz Truss is in Hungary.
And she tweeted this without a shred of apparent irony.
It's her friends and family I feel sorry for.
And she tweeted this without a shred of apparent irony.
It's her friends and family I feel sorry for.
June 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Liz Truss is in Hungary.
And she tweeted this without a shred of apparent irony.
It's her friends and family I feel sorry for.
And she tweeted this without a shred of apparent irony.
It's her friends and family I feel sorry for.
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Let's not forget what an abject failure Boris Johnson was!
#trevorphillips #BBClaurak #bbcbh #toriesGone331
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Let's not forget what an abject failure Boris Johnson was!
#trevorphillips #BBClaurak #bbcbh #toriesGone331
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May 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Let's not forget what an abject failure Boris Johnson was!
#trevorphillips #BBClaurak #bbcbh #toriesGone331
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Let's not forget what an abject failure Boris Johnson was!
#trevorphillips #BBClaurak #bbcbh #toriesGone331
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Fox News normalising America taking over Greenland 😱
"If we have to burn down a few bridges with Denmark to take Greenland, we're big boys"
"We dropped a-bombs on Japan and now they're our top ally in the Pacific"
"If we have to burn down a few bridges with Denmark to take Greenland, we're big boys"
"We dropped a-bombs on Japan and now they're our top ally in the Pacific"
March 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Fox News normalising America taking over Greenland 😱
"If we have to burn down a few bridges with Denmark to take Greenland, we're big boys"
"We dropped a-bombs on Japan and now they're our top ally in the Pacific"
"If we have to burn down a few bridges with Denmark to take Greenland, we're big boys"
"We dropped a-bombs on Japan and now they're our top ally in the Pacific"
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"We don’t want your Nazi cars / take a one-way trip to Mars" is a pretty good chant
March 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
"We don’t want your Nazi cars / take a one-way trip to Mars" is a pretty good chant
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Welfare cuts are a political choice.
685,500 Britons (1%) have wealth of £2.8trn. 48m (70%) have £2.4trn.
Richest four have more wealth than 20m people combined.
Govt could have taxed the rich, chose to cut benefits of the disabled/poor.
Not acceptable. Tell your MP to oppose the cuts.
685,500 Britons (1%) have wealth of £2.8trn. 48m (70%) have £2.4trn.
Richest four have more wealth than 20m people combined.
Govt could have taxed the rich, chose to cut benefits of the disabled/poor.
Not acceptable. Tell your MP to oppose the cuts.
Why austerity is a political choice not an economic necessity
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Ch...
leftfootforward.org
March 30, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Welfare cuts are a political choice.
685,500 Britons (1%) have wealth of £2.8trn. 48m (70%) have £2.4trn.
Richest four have more wealth than 20m people combined.
Govt could have taxed the rich, chose to cut benefits of the disabled/poor.
Not acceptable. Tell your MP to oppose the cuts.
685,500 Britons (1%) have wealth of £2.8trn. 48m (70%) have £2.4trn.
Richest four have more wealth than 20m people combined.
Govt could have taxed the rich, chose to cut benefits of the disabled/poor.
Not acceptable. Tell your MP to oppose the cuts.
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At what point are Labour going to do the right thing?
March 30, 2025 at 6:55 AM
At what point are Labour going to do the right thing?
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Boo fucking hoo. This motherfucker has fired literally thousands of people and fought tooth and nail not to pay them. Fuck off all the way into the sun.
Musk: I mean, have you Tim Walz, who is a huge jerk, running on stage with the Tesla stock price.. What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Like who derives joy from that?
March 29, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Boo fucking hoo. This motherfucker has fired literally thousands of people and fought tooth and nail not to pay them. Fuck off all the way into the sun.
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The new Trumpist world order - how did we get to this?
- If you foul up, attack, never admit responsibility, find a scapegoat, blame the victim of your aggression, ruthlessly lay into your opponents, spread lies and sink to the lowest you can get away
👉So are we going to let them get away with it?
- If you foul up, attack, never admit responsibility, find a scapegoat, blame the victim of your aggression, ruthlessly lay into your opponents, spread lies and sink to the lowest you can get away
👉So are we going to let them get away with it?
March 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The new Trumpist world order - how did we get to this?
- If you foul up, attack, never admit responsibility, find a scapegoat, blame the victim of your aggression, ruthlessly lay into your opponents, spread lies and sink to the lowest you can get away
👉So are we going to let them get away with it?
- If you foul up, attack, never admit responsibility, find a scapegoat, blame the victim of your aggression, ruthlessly lay into your opponents, spread lies and sink to the lowest you can get away
👉So are we going to let them get away with it?
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There is nothing positive about Brexit.
www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/upcomin...
www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/upcomin...
Upcoming Brexit checks ‘will ramp up food prices amid stubbornly high food inflation’
Forthcoming post-Brexit checks on fruit & veg, as well as planned new border control posts in Wales, will ramp up costs
www.thegrocer.co.uk
March 30, 2025 at 6:42 AM
There is nothing positive about Brexit.
www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/upcomin...
www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/upcomin...
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Trump's obversifications were tracked during his first term by the Washington Post. They documented 30,573 lies or misleading claims, an average of 21 per day.
He’s now on course to break his own record.
He’s now on course to break his own record.
The art of the ‘obversification’: on Trump and truth
The American president’s loves to say the opposite of what’s true – one of these days, that’s going to catch up with him
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Trump's obversifications were tracked during his first term by the Washington Post. They documented 30,573 lies or misleading claims, an average of 21 per day.
He’s now on course to break his own record.
He’s now on course to break his own record.
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Since 2008 the ideology of privatisation has been faltering under the weight of its own contradictions, yet its grip on British politics is vice-like.
Austerity, exploitation, corporate price-gouging, still treated not as choices, but as inevitabilities.
There are alternatives. #OurWaterOurWay
Austerity, exploitation, corporate price-gouging, still treated not as choices, but as inevitabilities.
There are alternatives. #OurWaterOurWay
March 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Since 2008 the ideology of privatisation has been faltering under the weight of its own contradictions, yet its grip on British politics is vice-like.
Austerity, exploitation, corporate price-gouging, still treated not as choices, but as inevitabilities.
There are alternatives. #OurWaterOurWay
Austerity, exploitation, corporate price-gouging, still treated not as choices, but as inevitabilities.
There are alternatives. #OurWaterOurWay
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To insult two highly respected and free thinking politicians like this is disgraceful.
It just shows how far standards in society have fallen.
Anyone reposting this insulting photograph should feel utterly ashamed.
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It just shows how far standards in society have fallen.
Anyone reposting this insulting photograph should feel utterly ashamed.
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March 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
To insult two highly respected and free thinking politicians like this is disgraceful.
It just shows how far standards in society have fallen.
Anyone reposting this insulting photograph should feel utterly ashamed.
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It just shows how far standards in society have fallen.
Anyone reposting this insulting photograph should feel utterly ashamed.
😡
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.
March 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.
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England's water companies dumped raw sewage in rivers, lakes, seas for record 3.6m hours last yr.
Companies fleece customers, flout laws; damage health, destroy biodiversity and marine life to boost profits, dividends.
Puny fines don't deter.
Govts do nothing to protect people.
Must nationalise.
Companies fleece customers, flout laws; damage health, destroy biodiversity and marine life to boost profits, dividends.
Puny fines don't deter.
Govts do nothing to protect people.
Must nationalise.
Sewage spilled into England's rivers and seas for record 3.6m hours last year
Sewage spilled into England's waterways for a record number of hours last year, the Environmental Agency says.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 6:48 AM
England's water companies dumped raw sewage in rivers, lakes, seas for record 3.6m hours last yr.
Companies fleece customers, flout laws; damage health, destroy biodiversity and marine life to boost profits, dividends.
Puny fines don't deter.
Govts do nothing to protect people.
Must nationalise.
Companies fleece customers, flout laws; damage health, destroy biodiversity and marine life to boost profits, dividends.
Puny fines don't deter.
Govts do nothing to protect people.
Must nationalise.
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Absolutely right. The economic and moral case for this is basically unanswerable. Political case is considered impossible although a brave government would do it.
Something's got to give, and I would like to propose that it's our property tax system
Scrap stamp duty and council tax, introduce an annual tax proportionate to the home's value.
Easiest way to tax wealth
Landlords pay it, not tenants
Represents a cut for 75% of population
Scrap stamp duty and council tax, introduce an annual tax proportionate to the home's value.
Easiest way to tax wealth
Landlords pay it, not tenants
Represents a cut for 75% of population
Understand that normally loyal Labour MPs who had never intended to break the whip are considering doing so because of the child poverty figure. Serious discontent, though majority not in danger. Conversations abound among Lab MPs trying to size up how big the rebellion might be.
March 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Absolutely right. The economic and moral case for this is basically unanswerable. Political case is considered impossible although a brave government would do it.
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'You're Afraid To Tax The Super-Rich': BBC Presenter Challenges Labour Minister Over Economy
Nina Warhurst told James Murray his party was "out of touch" with ordinary people
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/youre-...
Nina Warhurst told James Murray his party was "out of touch" with ordinary people
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/youre-...
'You're Afraid To Tax The Super-Rich': BBC Presenter Challenges Labour Minister Over Economy
Nina Warhurst told James Murray his party was "out of touch" with ordinary people.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
'You're Afraid To Tax The Super-Rich': BBC Presenter Challenges Labour Minister Over Economy
Nina Warhurst told James Murray his party was "out of touch" with ordinary people
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/youre-...
Nina Warhurst told James Murray his party was "out of touch" with ordinary people
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/youre-...
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God bless that guy off-camera. "Yeah, I'm an American journalist. I'd like to hear your answer to what she's asking "
Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene literally telling a British reporter to "go back to your country" and berating her for trying to ask a question.
"We don't give a CRAP about your opinion."
"We don't give a CRAP about your opinion."
March 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
God bless that guy off-camera. "Yeah, I'm an American journalist. I'd like to hear your answer to what she's asking "
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Backbench MPs criticise the optics of potentially slashing the tax bill paid by global tech firms like Google, Meta, and Amazon, at the same as cutting the welfare bill by billions of pounds.
One says the move would look "absolutely horrific"
news.sky.com/story/labour...
One says the move would look "absolutely horrific"
news.sky.com/story/labour...
Labour unease builds over suggestions ministers could axe digital tax on tech giants
Backbench MPs criticise the optics of potentially slashing the tax bill paid by global tech firms like Google, Meta, and Amazon, at the same as cutting the welfare bill by billions of pounds. One says...
news.sky.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Backbench MPs criticise the optics of potentially slashing the tax bill paid by global tech firms like Google, Meta, and Amazon, at the same as cutting the welfare bill by billions of pounds.
One says the move would look "absolutely horrific"
news.sky.com/story/labour...
One says the move would look "absolutely horrific"
news.sky.com/story/labour...
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In America, even with a valid study visa, you can be picked up off the street at random and detained by homeland security (if you’re a Muslim that co-writes something that the government doesn’t agree with).
Land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy.
This is Soviet level shit.
Land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy.
This is Soviet level shit.
March 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
In America, even with a valid study visa, you can be picked up off the street at random and detained by homeland security (if you’re a Muslim that co-writes something that the government doesn’t agree with).
Land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy.
This is Soviet level shit.
Land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy.
This is Soviet level shit.
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Gary Stevenson, "I would advise people to look at what happens to American living standards over the next few years, because that could happen here if we vote the wrong way in the next general election" #BBCQT
March 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Gary Stevenson, "I would advise people to look at what happens to American living standards over the next few years, because that could happen here if we vote the wrong way in the next general election" #BBCQT
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Staggeringly obnoxious entitlement from American, Stephen Moore (Heritage Foundation) on #r4today…
Greenland referred to as a great “piece of property” with “very valuable resources” for the US to acquire.
The world as a monopoly board with America demanding it gets to buy whatever it wants.
Greenland referred to as a great “piece of property” with “very valuable resources” for the US to acquire.
The world as a monopoly board with America demanding it gets to buy whatever it wants.
March 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Staggeringly obnoxious entitlement from American, Stephen Moore (Heritage Foundation) on #r4today…
Greenland referred to as a great “piece of property” with “very valuable resources” for the US to acquire.
The world as a monopoly board with America demanding it gets to buy whatever it wants.
Greenland referred to as a great “piece of property” with “very valuable resources” for the US to acquire.
The world as a monopoly board with America demanding it gets to buy whatever it wants.
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I just find this terribly strange and foolish. Stay on X, sure. Governments want all the communication outlets they can get. But by the same measure, why would you not be here.
33 million users. Still no sign of the British government, which remains active on Xitter.
Bluesky just reached 33 million. 🎆🦋
March 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I just find this terribly strange and foolish. Stay on X, sure. Governments want all the communication outlets they can get. But by the same measure, why would you not be here.