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Hey British media, It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning. Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10

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How come “shrinking government” always involves taking away school lunches and building 3,000 more prisons.

submitted 15 days ago • 160 comments

To revive economy UK govt must redistribute wealth. Bottom 50% of the population has 5% of wealth; bottom fifth has 0.5%. 1% have more than 70% population combined. Median wage is £29,604. Real average wage unchanged since 2008. Cut taxes on the bottom 50%. Tax wealth. End tax perks of the rich.

submitted 67 days ago • 57 comments

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Worth noting also: the Christian Right ADF, which is pursuing anti abortion legal cases in the UK with funding from the US, is also a charity meaning its activities are subsidised by your taxes. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 88 days ago • 12 comments

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The only focus going forward should be class war and destroying wealth inequality NOT culture wars, feelings and vibes. You can't solve anything else until this rigged system is freed from the stranglehold of concentrated capital at the top.

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Starmer will side with Trump rather than the EU; the US owns almost all of UK industry. The head of the CMA regulatory body that protects people from predatory capitalists was just sacked by Reeves and replaced with Doug Gurr, the former UK CEO of Amazon. As Musk is to Trump, so Bezos is to Starmer

submitted 109 days ago • 3 comments

Your regular reminder 👇 🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS 🏫 78% want publicly owned schools 💧 73% want publicly owned water 🚂 70% want publicly owned rail ✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail 🚍 67% want publicly owned buses 💡 65% want publicly owned energy

submitted 109 days ago • 5 comments

With the Hegseth confirmation, there can be no doubt that the rubber stamp GOP would willingly pass an Enabling Law giving Trump the power to rule by decree rather than passing laws through Congress. The law would enable dictatorial rule & would be a key part of Trump’s consolidation of power.

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Everyone is suddenly very keen to De-Nazify the US, which is great! I suggest you start with; - Closing the 900+ military bases that hold the world in a strangle hold. - Closing the 300+ migrant 'detention' camps. - Ending prison slave labour for the largest prison inmate population in the world.

submitted 112 days ago • 7 comments

Jeremy Clarkson is scapegoating badgers for bTB and has reportedly slaughtered them all on his land. This is disgusting, cruel, and ignorant. You know what he’d really hate? If you shared this and signed the petition to end the badger cull. Let’s do it petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 113 days ago • 15 comments

What we are witnessing is the normalisation of extremism. If we allow the right to pretend that the German AFD is just another conservative party... or that Donald Trump is just another president... or that Elon Musk was just getting carried away with that salute are on a distinctly dangerous path.

submitted 113 days ago • 67 comments

To everybody who said our Nazi comparisons were hyperbolic:

submitted 115 days ago • 452 comments

Insects, birds and other critters are going extinct at an alarming rate. We can help them by planting native- trees, bushes, flowers, etc., leaving the leaves, and never using herbicides, pesticides, other other harmful chemicals.

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment

"The problem with Elon, is that he makes no effort to get his facts straight when discussing any of these topics, and he regularly promotes lies and conspiracy theories manufactured by known bad actors, at scale." - Sam Harris about Elon Musk & his tweets on UK/grooming gang scandal. 🙃👍

submitted 119 days ago • 5 comments

live your life in such a way that the entire world doesn't burst out laughing when your rocket blows up

submitted 119 days ago • 687 comments

Another SpaceX spaceship bites the dust. Burning Teslas, burning Spaceships, burning Twitter... Burning America. Elon Musk is excellent at destroying things.

submitted 119 days ago • 206 comments

Greedy billionaire cos-playing as a Scot visits food bank and doesn't give a multi-million pound donation, that ought to be the headline. The 'crowd' wasn't that large. news.sky.com/story/large-...

submitted 119 days ago • 11 comments

The colourful and intelligent 🤯🌈 Red-shanked Douc Langur faces many threats including #deforestation and hunting. They are critically endangered! Boycott the brands destroying their home. #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🛢️🚫🙊 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/25/r...

submitted 120 days ago • 3 comments

What exactly are they going to cut? Hospitals are falling to bits, prisons are overcrowded, probation is fucked, courts are backed up years, schools are falling to pieces, social care is imploding and the armed forces are “wide open to Russian attack” Where will this ruthlessness fall?

submitted 122 days ago • 42 comments

Zionist Biden, Zionist Harris, Zionist Trump, Zionist Starmer, Zionist Netanyahu, Zionist Wilders. Nobody voted for f*cking Zionism.

submitted 186 days ago • 17 comments

Happiness is… Going #vegan 🐾💕

submitted 126 days ago • 2 comments

In 1968 Finland banned for profit education, the few private schools that exist in Finland have to reinvest any profit they make or pay it back to parents. It has been in the Top 3 in education for the last 20 years. There should be no profit in education or healthcare.

submitted 122 days ago • 27 comments

No farmers don't take good care of their #animals. They're mere commodities to them; owned slaves. They kidnap babies from their mothers routinely. Animals are mutilated without pain relief & treated like machines, until the they're no longer profitable & horrifically killed. #Vegan #AnimalRights

submitted 122 days ago • 8 comments

Reform wants to destroy government and the economy as we know it www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01... Reform revealed their economic thinking to the House of Commons last week. It is an exercise in economic insanity.

submitted 122 days ago • 10 comments

The rich don’t spend enough – and that means they shrink the economy youtu.be/D7uZrF_hqE0?... Most of any country’s saving is done by its wealthiest people. But because the rich are obsessed with staying rich they save in unproductive ways. The result is they drain economies of productive spending.

submitted 122 days ago • 18 comments

Gosh, I’m super surprised that these conditions are deemed “unsanitary”. Anyone else think these conditions are unsanitary?

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#News: In 2024, the ultra-rich’s private jet #emissions soared by nearly 50%, and industries like #mining and #palmoil faced much needed scrutiny for #ecocide and unethical practices. Time to hold climate villains accountable! #BoycottPalmOil #Together4Forests www.eco-business.com/news/climate...

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Pigoneer Pig Of The Day Shane! Pucker up! Shanes in the mood for kisses!🐽💋 Look at his happy little face, long gone are the bad days. Join the Pigoneers help support Shane & the other 98 rescue pigs @BTWsanctuary for as little as £2.50/$3.58 a month⬇️ globalvegancrowdfunder.org/pigoneer-200...

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

More like chief propagandist for Zionism and the so called state of Israel. He must be investigated as an unregistered foreign agent and expelled.

submitted 123 days ago • 1 comment

Happy #SocialistSunday Remember, kids: don't believe what capitalism tells you about socialism

submitted 123 days ago • 3 comments

Another powerful image to remind us of our impact on marine life. Did you know one plastic bottle can take up to 450 years to decompose? 🎨 Dafne Murillo #WhaleTales #TalesOfSavingWhales #StopSingleUse

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VICTORY! The Dane County Court has issued a ruling that they are moving forward to appoint an attorney to prosecute Ridglan Farms, a factory farm that breeds beagles for experimentation. This comes after months of litigation asking the Court to appoint a special prosector to prosecute Ridglan.

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