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A Health Secretary who won't meet
#NHS patients...but will take £220k+ from private healthcare donors.

So yes - we brought a puppet to Wes Streeting's office to ask the question: who is really pulling Streeting's strings? ⬇️
December 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
We must stop mega-donors from warping our democracy. A ban on annual donations over £5,000 would cut the influence of big donors on our politics and protect the interests of ordinary voters. Sign the petition secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/162623/...
Stop mega-donors from warping our democracy
We must stop mega-donors from warping our democracy. A ban on annual donations over £5,000 would cut the influence of big donors on our politics and protect the interests of ordinary voters.
secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk
December 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Farage keeps on switching his story about whether he engaged in racist abuse as a teenager.

What is little known is that in 1999, just before became a public figure he was using vile racist language, as can be seen in the Guardian screenshots below.

Please repost, more people need to know this.
December 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Can you imagine the outrage if JFK’s crew from their sunken PT boat had the Japanese destroyer come around for a second strike? It’s a war crime. Repeat after me: It’s.A.War.Crime.

It’s time for military justice. Someone or someones plural should be in Leavenworth.
December 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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•Hepatitis Vaccine birth-dose gets cancelled
•Speaker Johnson dares say he has the most productive Congress in history
•ICE pepper sprays Congresswoman from AZ,
who was denied being sworn in for weeks by Speaker Johnson

They’re intentionally destroying our government
#Pinks #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue
Trump has TERRIBLE FRIDAY as WORLD MOCKS him ON STAGE
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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If you're using "free speech" to defend the use of "ret*rd" you are a total & complete ASSHOLE!

And you probably do the same thing for n*gger & f*ggot

You classless, inconsiderate, ignorant twatwaffle

FRO!
December 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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A bit of good news: A corrupt politician is actually facing justice that seems like it will last, at least at state level.

(The corrupt criminal is of course hoping for a pardon from his fellow felon in the WH.)
Former senator Bob Menendez banned from holding public office in New Jersey
State court made ruling against ex-lawmaker now serving 11-year sentence for bribery and acting as an agent of Egypt
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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The name of this hideous Trump reality show should be:

“Miscreants, Sycophants and Morons”
December 6, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Today a FIFA medal, tomorrow FAFO
December 6, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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UK Govt urged to close £2bn tax loophole in car finance scandal

Law rewards abuse.

Non-bank entities can deduct compensation payments from profits before calculating corporation tax, reducing their bill.

Motor finance arms of banks are considered “non-bank entities”.
Ministers urged to close £2bn tax loophole in car finance scandal
Banks and specialist lenders will not pay tax on compensation payouts, sidestepping 2015 rule
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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A new report from Amnesty International, found that the Everglades detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz punished detainees in "The Box"—a 2x2 foot outdoor cage where victims are shackled, exposed to sweltering heat and swarms of insects, and denied water in a calculated act of torture.
December 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
There’s a HUGE Elon Musk shaped hole in the Government’s new plans to improve our elections: shady billionaires like Musk can still donate massive amounts of money with no cap: effectively buying our democracy. Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Take Big Money Out of Our Politics
British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...
you.38degrees.org.uk
December 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Legal commentator and author, @barristersecret.bsky.social told Byline Times that David Lammy's plans were “badly thought through, expensive and likely to backfire.”

bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
David Lammy's Plans to Scrap Automatic Right to Appeal Risk 'Increasing Miscarriages of Justice'
Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing "vital safeguards" and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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..So this winter, we're gathering testimony to tell millions what's happening in the NHS. To hold politicians to account for the crisis they've created.

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December 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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UK energy bills to rise by £108 to pay for infrastructure upgrades.

Since 2020 energy companies made £125bn profit.

6.1m live in fuel poverty.
£4.43bn energy bills arrears.
128,000 a year die in fuel poverty.

Eliminate privatisation of profit. Use it to fund infrastructure. Nationalise.
UK energy bills to rise by £108 to pay for infrastructure upgrades
Britain’s energy watchdog gives go-ahead to initial £28bn of investment to upgrade UK energy infrastructure but reveals move will push up network charges
www.independent.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Not a one off occurrence

www.vice.com/en/article/w...
December 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Labour keep admitting that Brexit was a disaster, but they are failing to act on reversing it. Recognition is not enough: we need action.
Henry Zeffman: Less than meets the eye to Starmer's words on Brexit
This week, the PM was trying to set the scene for what is to come on the UK-EU relationship, sources say.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Because Britain's right wing press hates young people - and it is the master Wes Streeting serves.
December 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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After spreading racist disinformation about Sadiq Khan last week, the Conservative party's leader on the London Assembly is now spreading a fake story that an Irish teacher has been sentenced to life in prison for using the wrong pronouns.

The teacher was actually sentenced for contempt of court
December 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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“The claim that this is a recent invention born of political bias is categorically untrue.”

@mrjamesob.bsky.social reveals that Peter Ettedgui made identical accusations against Nigel Farage in private six years ago.
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Thames Water risks being forced into special administration.

40% price hike. Doubling of operating profit, sewage in rivers.

Era of water poverty - 8.5% of the TW customers are on bills subsidised by those who are paying their charges, 4% not paying bills at all.

It's a scam.
archive.ph/k6QX0
Thames Water risks being forced into special administration
Creditors are proposing to inject cash and write off some of the troubled water company’s record debt as its customers struggle to afford rising bills
www.thetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Crypto investor gives £9m to Reform UK as donations exceed those to Tories.

Super rich don't donate, they invest to shape party policies to secure advantages for their class.

Normal people can't match them.

Direct donations to political parties must be criminalized.
Crypto investor gives £9m to Reform UK as donations exceed those to Tories
Christopher Harborne’s record gift revealed in Electoral Commission figures prompts renewed calls for cap on political donations
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Americans want to be able to afford to buy a home, but private equity firms are gobbling up entire neighborhoods, pricing families out, and the GOP and Trump instead blame immigrants for this.

The real villains are the billionaires turning homes into profit machines.
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
December 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM