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New here; still there until I get reconnected with good people here. #FBPE 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 💙 No dodgy DMs please. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing. Now’s still not a time for silence. I follow back, unless…
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Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen! Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...

I’ve been accused of being a conspiracy theorist because I insist that the BBC had everything to do with the rise of Farage & his Reform party. This chart just focussing on BBC Question Time (2010-2020) shows there was bias towards the platforming of anti-EU MEPS especially Farage. I rest my case.

Another Friday, and the end of another week during which Labour could have taken the first steps towards rejoining the EU, but instead chose to explicitly repaint its radioactively bright Brexit red lines. So much wasted opportunity, it's incredible.

Jesus:

King Charles has invited Donald Trump to Scotland. I have a better suggestion. No King Charles and no visit from Donald Trump.

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.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

We've got the wrong PM, fuck it!

Sounds like a plan

"Six months of red lines and rejection have dashed hopes that the new U.K. prime minister really wants to walk back the more extreme elements of the Tory Brexit settlement." www.politico.eu/article/brus...

Worth a read:

Quick reminder that in 2022/2023, members of the “Independent Healthcare Providers Network” (private companies) provided a grand total of 109 doctor training placements. That’s compared to ~75000 overall! Private companies don’t ‘save’ the NHS-they poach its staff🚨🚨🚨 www.ihpn.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Gary Lineker called for Israel to be banned from International Football. Do you stand with Gary Lineker? Like if you do.

You know what? The EU & UK should put tariffs on US goods (from red states) in solidarity with Canada and Mexico. Rather than watching others get bullied and waiting our turn - we should unify against this bullying until the bully drops that behaviour.

Maybe tomorrow a <single journalist> might bother to find the Speaker or the Senate Majority Leader & ask why the hell they aren't acting to stop unelected people who aren't even federal employees from violating the laws Congress already passed, & to explain why this isn't a constitutional crisis? 🤷‍♂️

British Columbia is already pulling the American liquor.

It started with conspiracy and propaganda then evolved into dehumanisation - spreading distrust, fear and disgust about the target. The powerless were given a group to blame, the illusion of power. The techniques used now are the same. It’ll only happen again if people let it. Sadly, they are…

Lord Heseltine, "You've got all the polls indicating clearly now that people know they were hoodwinked, they were deceived. The majority is now in favour of Europe"

This is how to do it. We have to shift the conversation ourselves, as a nation. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Our new megapoll with @yougov.co.uk revealed that in *every GB constituency*, a majority of voters think the government should prioritise trade with the EU over Trump's America. Tell your MP to put UK-EU trade first 👇

In other news @bsky.app continues to fly 👏

I should think so too

💥 It passes!! 💥 The Youth Mobility (EU Countries) Bill has just passed its first reading. No opposition voiced by the govt. your thousands of emails stopped them shutting it down. Well done @jamesmaccleary.bsky.social on a superb speech. 👏👏👏

Yes please:

Greenland is 60% for joining the EU now. Up from 40% three years ago. Thanks Trump & Musk!! Original reference (it's a superb report, btw): da.uni.gl/media/4bwb5i...

The pitch from right wing politicians that the UK needs to leave the ECHR is based on a wholly misleading premise yet many are now being taken in by it. Let’s make sure everyone understands the actual facts. Leaving the ECHR will undermine all our rights

2/3rds of the people in the UK on 'benefits' are State Pensioners. Of the other 1/3rd 60% are working. The other 15% are the long term disabled people that you get in every country. Don't listen to the Daily Mail.

Did I dream a premonition, or was it real?

Hospital advertises for ‘corridor care’ nurses to ease NHS crisis The new jobs have been labelled a ‘total acceptance of failure’ as oxygen lines are installed outside wards www.thetimes.com/uk/article/h...

Donald Trumps hostility towards other democracies is already clear. There will be no special relationship with him: we should look to Europe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An old friend a few years younger than me DIED last week from the flu. If you’re eligible for a vaccine, please get one. youtube.com/watch?v=_-XH...

Great in depth article by @molly.wiki on how Musk and the Right are trying to intimidate, influence & undermine Wikipedia, a trusted source that they currently cannot control. Obviously she has citations!

A reminder of our daftness.

MEME OF THE DAY…if you LIKE IT give it 💙and plz RP😘😘

Starmer must protect elections from foreign interference, says Electoral Commission. They want law changed amid concern over Elon Musk’s plan to donate to Reform UK 👍 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thames Water accrued all its billions in debt to payout fake dividends to its investors and huge salaries and bonuses to its executives. They need to pay, or they need to forfeit ownership. Nothing else is acceptable.

Boris Johnson is terrified that we will ditch Brexit, rebuild the UK with the EU, do well economically and… …that will show him for the fraud he is.

Left: Yvette Cooper, "Wherever our intelligence and security agencies find cases which pose any kind of challenge or threat to UK national security.. We will always stand ready to take action" Right: "MI5 visited Downing Street to warn Boris Johnson against Evgeny Lebedev’s peerage"

Privatisation has failed. It is time to renationalise. Water Power Royal Mail Rail National Grid Telecoms Everything that we are going to use every day forever, we don't want to rent it at ripoff prices. We want to own it.

Whilst this is yet another prince Andrew story, that’s not what needs fixing - time to wave goodbye to the whole royal family thing 👋

What a slur on person of the year, Adolf Hitler.

If you watch, read or listen to the Media, everything you are told is seen from the point of view of the billionaires. The poor are always to blame for everything, and the rich are never to blame, and even if they are it isn't really their fault, it is unavoidable. Realise this

✍️ Lords committee to consider drawing Europe a little closer Resetting relations with the EU is now firmly on the government’s agenda but the devil is in the detail By Sue Wilson MBE

Most people (patients and potential patients) don’t about know this significant downgrading of the medical expertise that they are likely to receive: