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‘After WWII, we built a welfare state because we believed in each other. Now we’re letting it rot. It doesn’t have to be this way. I’d gladly pay more tax. Wouldn’t you?’ An anonymous plea to Rachel Reeves #SpendingReview #TaxResponsibly

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Remember how they lied about Brexit? Unsurprisingly, they're lying about ECHR too. Don't give up your rights!! 👇

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"Mortally stupid": both splendid and apt.

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“With this latest announcement the government is just fiddling while Rome burns, or more accurately fiddling while England drowns in raw sewage"

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No, no and no If the government allows it to happen then that would be completely unacceptable www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Zia Yusuf said getting a Reform government is not a worthy cause. Two days later he's backing them again. He knows the party hasn't changed. So something must have changed for HIM. What did Nigel Farage offer him? If this isn't proof that these people are corrupt... 👀👀👀

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Soaring ocean temperatures. Ruined ocean floors. Over 90% of Britain's supposedly protected ocean reserves ruined by bottom trawling. Scandalous. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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“The public doesn’t like Brexit. Has anyone told the media?” @jonnelledge.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...

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Clive Lewis Labour MP speaks out in @bylinetimes.bsky.social ‘A consultation saw 88% of 28,000 respondents back public water ownership Yet, these voices have been systematically marginalised by a Govt determined to operate within narrowly enforced ideological boundaries’

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Labour returned Royal Bank of Scotland to full private ownership last weekend, leaving taxpayers £10.5bn out of pocket. The free market hates nationalisation unless bankers need it.

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Keir Starmer could've taken Thames Water back into public hands months ago. Now he's being blackmailed by the only remaining bidder willing to rescue the utility before it runs out of cash at the end of the month. Their terms: don't prosecute our crimes.

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What other industry could so brazenly demand immunity from the crimes they commit? If Keir Starmer won't stand up to this blackmail, it's up to us to act. Join the pledge to strike and help put the criminal Thames Water out of business for good 👉 takebackwater.uk

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When a gov't uses its army against its people; the end of days is moved closer. Those soldiers come from the population too.

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Voters overwhelmingly back tax on wealthy to protect public services A poll commissioned by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), found the public support tax increases on the wealthy and big businesses by a margin of almost two to one - 58% to 28% www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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A man must be judged by his actions. Putin continues to attack civilian buildings, schools, hospitals and apartment blocks. He is manifestly a terrorist.

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Barclays confirms it: consumer confidence in the UK still hasn’t recovered since the Brexit vote. Nearly a decade on, the economic scars remain, and no amount of lipstick or holiday bookings can hide them.

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Despite thousands of unoccupied homes in Bradford needing renovation building developers are only interested in covering green fields with new estates. And the Labour government does nothing but cheer them on. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Reeves given £27,000 donation from lobbying firm linked to Thames Water bidder KKR. Companies don't donate, they buy access to policymakers to advance their interests. No matter what politicians say, people see this as corruption. Must ban all political donations. archive.ph/BMaQ9

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Recent scientific research into comparisons of Neandertal and Sapiens brain structure shows few differences except that they wouldn't have voted for Trump.

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Michelle Mone got a new luxury yacht and private jet on the NHS. And most of us can't even get a GP appointment.

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We don't know who the next Prime Minister will be. But unless we change the voting system, it's likely to be someone who the vast majority of the public doesn't want. We could easily end up with one party winning total power on under 30% of the vote. Would you risk it? #PRnow

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The man's a dick.

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The return of feudalism. 😱

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Wonderful, fuck'n wonderful!😂😂😂

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Can bond vigilantes really hold governments to account? youtu.be/jUUGNyhuf0I?... The idea that bond vigilantes can set government policy suits the City and neoliberal politicians, who'd like it to be true. But is it?

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Why not make their parents wealthy enough to feed their own kids?

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For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government. But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes. Where is the outrage over that?

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Keir Starmer's celebrating a trade deal hat-trick. But only the one easing EU trade will be big boost to economy growth goal - says Vice Chair @jazz072.bsky.social in @yorkshirepost.co.uk Tories' prospects won't improve until they admit to increasingly pro-Europe voters the harm their Brexit's done

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Since becoming an MP, Nigel Farage has managed to fit in nine trips to the US, has held down twelve jobs, which earned him nearly £1million, but has been too busy to hold any surgeries for people in Clacton who actually voted for him.

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'Farage’s speech was the usual grade A bollocks peddled by the snake oil salesman. All that ails Britain is the fault of immigrants, wokeness, net-zero, and the elite that the millionaire privately educated Farage mysteriously doesn’t belong to.' @weegingerdug.bsky.social weegingerdug.wordpre...

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This is difficult to talk about… but we like telling you what’s going on. When you speak up as campaigners, you become a target. EveryDoctor is attracting trolls at the moment, and it’s really unpleasant. I have felt deeply anxious on several occasions over the past week. The best thing we can do …

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Tomorrow, voters in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse will have first say on the choice that all of us in Scotland will face next year: #VoteSNP to stop the party of Nigel Farage. Let’s not give the far-right a foothold. Vote SNP to keep The Scottish Parliament Farage-free.

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Reform MP sparks outrage with disgraceful burqa ban question to PM leftfootforward.org/2025/06/refo...

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Trump has his foot on the pulse as usual! 😂😂😂

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Rachel Reeves lashes out at Nigel Farage's 'fantasy economics' After pointing out the misery Liz Truss inflicted she says “Be in no doubt, Nigel Farage & Reform are itching to repeat that same experiment to pursue these fantasy economics all over again” www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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The BBC has platformed Jenryck because he wants to join up with Farage, the BBC favourite. #politicslive

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Thames Water is a monopoly with 16 million trapped customers. Yet KKR – a predatory private equity firm – doesn't even want to own it. If public ownership isn't the answer and private investors won't invest, then maybe Steve Reed has no idea what he's doing.

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How many people in the UK have been killed by Russia lately? As opposed to how many by poverty and austerity? Poverty and austerity carried out by a Labour government. Russia isn't the problem here. It's Keir Starmer.

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The state of this

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Why doesn't Labour sieze every UK property belonging to sanctioned Russian individuals? We could solve our homeless problem at a stroke. 🤔

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Simon Fraser explains how Brexit has created more red tape resulting in more staff needed at the civil service to manage the rise in red tape

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Men often ask me what they can do to help support women’s rights. Signing this, to once and for all decriminalise abortion, would be a solid start. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...

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Pressure is building on the government to end one of the most cruel and monumental injustices of the past half-century, the shocking IPP scandal thecriminaljusticeblog.com/2025/05/28/c...

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Govt confirms criminals control England water industry. "Since the privatisation of water and sewerage companies in 1989, all ten Water and Sewerage companies which discharge into English waters have been convicted of criminal offences". Still allowed to fleece people, no end to criminality.

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The UK government’s final chance to act is NOW. Laila Soueif is at death’s door after 242 days on hunger strike — demanding freedom for her son Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British-Egyptian activist unjustly imprisoned in Egypt for years. The clock has run out. Free Alaa. Save Laila.

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