Trish #AbolishTheMonarchy #FreePalestine
@tr1shw.bsky.social
Ex-Labour, Northumbrian, Star Trek, Isaac Asimov, SAFC, Socialist, Grandma, Busily Retired, 🇵🇸
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds"
Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds"
Albert Einstein
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Trial by jury is a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism.
It is truly frightening that such a fundamental freedom is now under attack.
Once rights are lost, they are not easy to win back. We must resist this with all we’ve got.
It is truly frightening that such a fundamental freedom is now under attack.
Once rights are lost, they are not easy to win back. We must resist this with all we’ve got.
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
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UK politics live – latest updates
Criminals will be stopped from “gaming the system” by choosing trial by jury in order to increase the chances of proceedings collapsing, the courts minister has said, promising to enact radical changes to limit jury trials by the next election.
Drug dealers and career criminals were “laughing in the dock” knowing cases can take years to come to trial, Sarah Sackman told the Guardian, saying inaction would be a road to “chaos and ruin”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Trial by jury is a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism.
It is truly frightening that such a fundamental freedom is now under attack.
Once rights are lost, they are not easy to win back. We must resist this with all we’ve got.
It is truly frightening that such a fundamental freedom is now under attack.
Once rights are lost, they are not easy to win back. We must resist this with all we’ve got.
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The rigged system continues to fail millions. It's time for total economic transformation.
Read our #Budget2026 preview here:
Read our #Budget2026 preview here:
The rigged system continues to fail millions
Project for Peace and Justice, founded by Jeremy Corbyn. A hub for discussion and action, building solidarity and hope for a more decent world.
thecorbynproject.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The rigged system continues to fail millions. It's time for total economic transformation.
Read our #Budget2026 preview here:
Read our #Budget2026 preview here:
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🚨 The verdict is in: Labour plans to use private money to build its “NHS Neighbourhood Rebuild” programme.
This is a huge red flag — NHS trusts are still billions in debt from old PFI-style schemes. 💸
We’ll be watching closely as more info comes out.
➡️ www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
This is a huge red flag — NHS trusts are still billions in debt from old PFI-style schemes. 💸
We’ll be watching closely as more info comes out.
➡️ www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Labour to use private cash to expand GP hubs
Ministers announce plan to ‘fundamentally reimagine’ local healthcare with 250 ‘one-stop shops’
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
🚨 The verdict is in: Labour plans to use private money to build its “NHS Neighbourhood Rebuild” programme.
This is a huge red flag — NHS trusts are still billions in debt from old PFI-style schemes. 💸
We’ll be watching closely as more info comes out.
➡️ www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
This is a huge red flag — NHS trusts are still billions in debt from old PFI-style schemes. 💸
We’ll be watching closely as more info comes out.
➡️ www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social : ""We have a housing crisis, a climate crisis and an inequality crisis, and what we all want to see from this budget is not tough choices for working class communities, for migrants, for disabled people, but tough choices for multi millionaires & billionaires"
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : ""We have a housing crisis, a climate crisis and an inequality crisis, and what we all want to see from this budget is not tough choices for working class communities, for migrants, for disabled people, but tough choices for multi millionaires & billionaires"
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The City & the elites are apparently worried about me.
The people who bankrupted this country are spooked.
Won't someone think of the billionaires?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The people who bankrupted this country are spooked.
Won't someone think of the billionaires?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
UK Greens’ Populist Tilt Worries City With Disregard for Markets
Green Party leader Zack Polanski is winning over voters with his pledge to tax the wealthy and unleash borrowing to plow money into Britain’s ailing public services. His inequality-busting ideas are a...
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The City & the elites are apparently worried about me.
The people who bankrupted this country are spooked.
Won't someone think of the billionaires?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The people who bankrupted this country are spooked.
Won't someone think of the billionaires?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Care in the community gets rebranded every couple of years. Kick patients out of hospitals to be cared for "closer to home" in as yet non existent places. Probably a weekly visit from over stretched district nurses.
We could start addressing the major contributors to ill health like poverty but...
We could start addressing the major contributors to ill health like poverty but...
I suppose if we want to go one better, we could always make hospitals smaller and only allow the wealthy to access treatment? 🙄
apple.news/Aa2tphN-6TcO...
apple.news/Aa2tphN-6TcO...
Hospitals must get smaller to stop NHS ‘permacrisis’, thinktank urges — The Guardian
Re:State report says role hospitals play needs ‘fundamental reinvention’ to deliver better care for patients
apple.news
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Care in the community gets rebranded every couple of years. Kick patients out of hospitals to be cared for "closer to home" in as yet non existent places. Probably a weekly visit from over stretched district nurses.
We could start addressing the major contributors to ill health like poverty but...
We could start addressing the major contributors to ill health like poverty but...
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If you read one thing today, make it The Bear’s withering dismantling of Reform UK’s “budget” with the precision of someone who understands numbers… unlike the people who wrote it. A a masterclass in calm annihilation that's ruthlessly savage. 🔥
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
The truth behind Reform UK’s reckless budget
£25bn of imagined savings, real-world cruelty and mathematics that should come with a trigger warning
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If you read one thing today, make it The Bear’s withering dismantling of Reform UK’s “budget” with the precision of someone who understands numbers… unlike the people who wrote it. A a masterclass in calm annihilation that's ruthlessly savage. 🔥
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
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When Rishi Sunak made the Vaccine deal with Moderna as Chancellor, he had up to £530m invested in Moderna.
Now Michelle Mone is desperately bringing it up.
Like if you want Mone on trial.
RT if you want them both facing the music.
Now Michelle Mone is desperately bringing it up.
Like if you want Mone on trial.
RT if you want them both facing the music.
November 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
When Rishi Sunak made the Vaccine deal with Moderna as Chancellor, he had up to £530m invested in Moderna.
Now Michelle Mone is desperately bringing it up.
Like if you want Mone on trial.
RT if you want them both facing the music.
Now Michelle Mone is desperately bringing it up.
Like if you want Mone on trial.
RT if you want them both facing the music.
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We have had 17 years of Austerity.
What we need now is Austerity for the rich.
Let them go without Mansions, Private Jets and Megayachts for at least 17 years.
What we need now is Austerity for the rich.
Let them go without Mansions, Private Jets and Megayachts for at least 17 years.
November 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
We have had 17 years of Austerity.
What we need now is Austerity for the rich.
Let them go without Mansions, Private Jets and Megayachts for at least 17 years.
What we need now is Austerity for the rich.
Let them go without Mansions, Private Jets and Megayachts for at least 17 years.
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Twitter now displays where accounts are from and it has confirmed that too many of the political accounts are out of country bots.
Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth.
Delete your account.
Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth.
Delete your account.
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Twitter now displays where accounts are from and it has confirmed that too many of the political accounts are out of country bots.
Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth.
Delete your account.
Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth.
Delete your account.
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Prescription Charges are another example of how ridiculously wasteful England is, it is a taxed imposed on almost everybody that then wastes a very large % of the money raised by implementing and checking the charges.
Abolish it and lower taxes on everybody.
Abolish it and lower taxes on everybody.
November 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Prescription Charges are another example of how ridiculously wasteful England is, it is a taxed imposed on almost everybody that then wastes a very large % of the money raised by implementing and checking the charges.
Abolish it and lower taxes on everybody.
Abolish it and lower taxes on everybody.
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social on taxing the rich: "This is about inequality. For decades now poor people have got poorer and rich people have got richer... the money [raised] is important but the real point is about tackling inequality.. we need to get those assets flowing around the economy"
November 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on taxing the rich: "This is about inequality. For decades now poor people have got poorer and rich people have got richer... the money [raised] is important but the real point is about tackling inequality.. we need to get those assets flowing around the economy"
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Zack Polanski tears into the Chancellor's Budget on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg 🎥
🗣️ 'When are we gonna see tough choices for multimillionaires and billionaires?'
🗣️ 'When are we gonna see tough choices for multimillionaires and billionaires?'
November 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Zack Polanski tears into the Chancellor's Budget on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg 🎥
🗣️ 'When are we gonna see tough choices for multimillionaires and billionaires?'
🗣️ 'When are we gonna see tough choices for multimillionaires and billionaires?'
Thank you Rachel and all your NHS colleagues 🙏❤️
I will #NeverForgiveNeverForget Johnson and his cronies who, out of pure selfishness, made this disaster much worse than it should have been, especially for NHS and care home staff. I can only imagine the nightmares many of you now have to live with 😢
I will #NeverForgiveNeverForget Johnson and his cronies who, out of pure selfishness, made this disaster much worse than it should have been, especially for NHS and care home staff. I can only imagine the nightmares many of you now have to live with 😢
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Thank you Rachel and all your NHS colleagues 🙏❤️
I will #NeverForgiveNeverForget Johnson and his cronies who, out of pure selfishness, made this disaster much worse than it should have been, especially for NHS and care home staff. I can only imagine the nightmares many of you now have to live with 😢
I will #NeverForgiveNeverForget Johnson and his cronies who, out of pure selfishness, made this disaster much worse than it should have been, especially for NHS and care home staff. I can only imagine the nightmares many of you now have to live with 😢
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"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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"If a Reform UK ex MEP
can get 10 years prison
for taking Russian money
then can the same be done
to Kier Starmer and others
for taking Israeli money??"
via Neil Maggs
#SocialistSunday
can get 10 years prison
for taking Russian money
then can the same be done
to Kier Starmer and others
for taking Israeli money??"
via Neil Maggs
#SocialistSunday
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
"If a Reform UK ex MEP
can get 10 years prison
for taking Russian money
then can the same be done
to Kier Starmer and others
for taking Israeli money??"
via Neil Maggs
#SocialistSunday
can get 10 years prison
for taking Russian money
then can the same be done
to Kier Starmer and others
for taking Israeli money??"
via Neil Maggs
#SocialistSunday
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Having Energy sold at cost would save the UK £1,000 per household and be a massive boon to the economy.
Instead you pay £30bn extra which goes almost entirely to people who don't live, pay tax or spend money in the UK.
Instead you pay £30bn extra which goes almost entirely to people who don't live, pay tax or spend money in the UK.
November 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Having Energy sold at cost would save the UK £1,000 per household and be a massive boon to the economy.
Instead you pay £30bn extra which goes almost entirely to people who don't live, pay tax or spend money in the UK.
Instead you pay £30bn extra which goes almost entirely to people who don't live, pay tax or spend money in the UK.
Totally shameful statistic 😡
Child Poverty %
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
November 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Totally shameful statistic 😡
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Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
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In fact, I'd be interested to see the graded A Level English Language certificates of every single Cabinet member, including Shabana Mahmood and Sir Keir Starmer...
New immigration rules demand people speak English to A level standard. There's no oral element to A Level English exams (nor GCSE), so how is this to be tested, & by whom?
I teach English in state secondary school. Most of my colleagues aren't A Level standard, so I doubt border guards will be...
I teach English in state secondary school. Most of my colleagues aren't A Level standard, so I doubt border guards will be...
November 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
In fact, I'd be interested to see the graded A Level English Language certificates of every single Cabinet member, including Shabana Mahmood and Sir Keir Starmer...
I wonder what made Susie think of this today? 🤔
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I wonder what made Susie think of this today? 🤔
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The NHS won’t survive this winter with one of the reasons being that social care has fallen off a cliff - but Shabana Mahmood got to punch down on the migrants propping it up as “low-qualified” and “never expected to be net economic contributors”, so… I guess there’s that.
The Punishment Model of Government
League tables, political cruelty and the quiet fear spreading through the NHS this winter.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The NHS won’t survive this winter with one of the reasons being that social care has fallen off a cliff - but Shabana Mahmood got to punch down on the migrants propping it up as “low-qualified” and “never expected to be net economic contributors”, so… I guess there’s that.