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"We can take back control and actually mean it... Public ownership of water and energy are not just a policy choice They're a survival strategy" 🎯 @labourlewis.bsky.social at @autonomy-institute.bsky.social event this evening #forum2029

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Wilfred Frost to Philp: Labour took 6 months to launch the grooming gangs inquiry. You must admit the Tories are guilty too - they had 14 years and did nothing. Philp: No. Classic Tory sewage. #ukpolitics

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How stupid can this person be, earning hundreds of thousands? Kuenssberg: You're sending jets to the region? Rachel Reeves: We’ve got bases there, we’ve got people to protect. It’d be a disgrace if we didn’t do what’s needed. This government actually does its job - shocking, I know. #ukpolitics

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The Guardian is discussing a supposed crisis for Rachael Reeves today, when no such crisis exists. Whether she meets her fiscal rules is irrelevant. Poverty, poor housing, and suffering children are the realities they should be talking about. Why aren't they? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06...

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Another Reform Party Ltd racist candidate dropped. She’s now got a “something went wrong” twitter account. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

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By almost every economic and financial measure the Brexit he championed has been disastrous for the UK - who on earth voted in this poll? inews.co.uk/news/politic...

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Thames Water bosses should be in jail, now they are trying to blackmail the Government. They just need to be behind bars don't they? Fly tippers can get 5 years, they should get 5000.

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Rough sleeping to be decriminalised in England and Wales. 1824 law to be repealed. About time. Must attend to causes of homelessness - poverty, power of landlords, low benefits. Must provide public shelters for those on hard times, reintegrate people on hard times.

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Surely I've got this wrong. BBC say they're pandering to Reform voters to win their trust. Is that right? Well BBC I think you'll find thousands & thousands of none Reform people don't trust you. What a state for a national broadcaster. Where's Nandy? Next BBC confirm Muffin the Mule voted Reform.

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Despite how it has been reported list of achievements from this deal is substantial, & goes further than the very Ltd ambition set out in Labour’s manifesto Govt can sell the deal as a win for Britain in three big ways Much more needs to be done but this is a welcome step @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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"Minutes of a meeting of the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee in March, seen by Byline Times, show [...] plans to alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama” in order to win the trust of Reform voters.": bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

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Thread on solving the 90-in-180 day problem 🧵 The solutions to the 90-in-180 day problem are many and varied. Politicians really have no excuse for inaction. Any of the following provide models for solutions or are solutions in themselves…

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Reform…. Douglas Carswell gone Diane James gone Patrick O'Flynn gone Godfrey Bloom gone Suzanne Evans gone Ben Habib gone Rupert Lowe gone Zia Yusuf gone Nathanial Fried gone Not exactly committed to the Reform cause or to its leader are they? Wonder who’ll be next?

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Sarah Pochin seems to be a wrecking ball for Reform... www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-...

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Reform UK has uncovered the scandal of a “wasteful” £350m contract. Small problem: it’s not a contract. Or £350m. Or a scandal. Here’s how they got it completely wrong. 👇👇

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Graeme Souness rips into 'chancer' Farage in Hamilton by-election Farage will "show up for the cameras, then disappear when it matters". www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...

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Thames Water's in crisis AGAIN! 🚨 The way to end this crisis doom-loop is public ownership. And most MPs don’t know the facts about how to get this done. Wherever you live, take 1min to email your MP - ask them to read and sign our open letter now. 👇

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"Billionaires will leave if you tax them." Please explain how the Energy Companies, Supermarkets, Landlord Empires and Water Companies are going to get up and leave? They can't, it is a lie.

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Tory legacy. Fire stations in England “falling apart”, Funding down by £1bn, call outs up by a fifth. Firefighter numbers down by a quarter in seven years, 11,000 full-time staff. Population increased but lack of investment in infrastructure, tax cuts for the rich. Readying for privatisation?

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So which MPs are receiving all of these donations from people and companies linked to the private healthcare sector….? We’ve made a graph to show you🚨👇 This is not OK- click here to call for these MP donations to be BANNED: everydoctor.eaction.org.uk/ban-donation...

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As Margaret Thatcher forced the sale of Public Assets at about 20% of their value, we should force their renationalisation at 20% of their value. Fair is fair.

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On a visit to Aberdeen today, Nigel Farage admitted that he wants to cut Scotland’s budget. That would mean less money for doctors, nurses & our NHS. He has previously said that he wants an insurance based system for healthcare. Don’t let Farage & his band privatise our NHS

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Thames Water should be made an example of, arrest all their executives, let the company go bankrupt dissolving all their debts. Nationalise with no debt. It will teach the criminal bosses, the irresponsible lenders and the greedy shareholders all at once. And you pay nothing.

submitted 23 days ago • 16 comments

We’ve pressed the Brexit reset button. It's a start. But we need to go further to reboot Britain observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

From Europol to isolation: how Brexit weakened criminal justice Brexit impedes cross border criminal investigations – the UK is now unable to participate in the systems it helped create.

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Labour's attempts to blame rising small boat numbers on the weather are "pathetic" says Shadow Conservative Home Secretary Chris Philp In other news, here's Chris Philp, when he was Immigration Minister, blaming rising small boat numbers on the weather

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"This isn't reform, this is paralysis" Continuing today's theme of the chaos caused by right-wing parties... absentee #Reform councillors, and cancelled meetings in Kent.

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"From the broadsheets to the tabloids, journalism is increasingly out of touch with public opinion." www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...

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“Trump’s tariffs caused worldwide financial turmoil" The forecasts are in. Trump's chaotic tariff are slowing down the whole world economy, including the UK's. We need a common sense trade deal with the EU now more than ever - to gain 2.2% GDP growth.

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France is our closest ally. Isabel Oakeshott is ridiculous. Two facts you will never read on the pages of the Telegraph.

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The awesome @carolecadwalla.bsky.social warning Americans of the techno authoritarian state being built by Trump and his tech broligarchs youtu.be/vG7CvbccdVM?...

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What we need to do is very simple. Return all the things the rich have stolen back to Public ownership, then make it illegal for them to be stolen again.

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The premise on which Nigel Farage bases his argument for leaving the ECHR wholly fails under scrutiny

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To the people constantly hurling stones at the UK gov and British people over Brexit. If you ultimately want the UK to rejoin the EU, as I do, then you need to recognise that there has to be a meeting of minds, not a breaking of souls, for that to happen. #exitbrexit #rejoineu

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Absolutely. Without the BBC Farage would have remained a nobody.

submitted 72 days ago • 16 comments

Anthony Seldon, "There are three great trading blocs in the world, America, China and the EU" "The EU is going to be really important for Britain's future"

submitted 72 days ago • 87 comments

Here in the UK, we had a referendum when hardly anyone wanted one. Now that most people genuinely do want one, to reverse the act of self harm that we were tricked into, we can’t have one, not yet anyway. So when? At what point do we say “enough is enough. We want our country back!”

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