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A reminder, the BBC board includes Robbie Gibb, who's paper Jewish Chronicle has been implicated with having direct access to the Isreali government and writes puffpieces for them. As such, the board sets who is allowed as guests and the framing they set youtu.be/052e22XabME?...

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"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

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That’s some result in Hamilton. Nicola Sturgeon is a decent person and a formidable politician but she absolutely destroyed the independence movement.

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Conservative MP Kit Malthouse speaking in the UK Parliament, "Israel has replaced the UNRWA distribution centres with a shooting gallery, an abattoir where civilians are lured out to be shot."

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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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🚨Five Labour MPs visited Israel on a trip sponsored by Labour Friends of Israel last week. They met with Israeli president Isaac Herzog who said the "entire nation" of Gaza was collectively responsible for 7 October.

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“The enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy.” - @zarahsultana.bsky.social proven right.

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Shocking but unsurprising to see two Labour MPs in front attempt to shout me down — for standing up for disabled people hit by cuts, kids pushed into poverty by the two-child benefit cap & pensioners who lost winter fuel payments. I know whose side I’m on. Can they say the same?

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As Police Chiefs in England warn against consequences of Labour budget cuts for, eg knife crime, a reminder of the differences in Scotland 'your' 'Scottish' media never tell you about: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/05/07/n...

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“Low-income households in Britain are now 27 per cent poorer than their equivalents in France and a staggering 60 per cent poorer than those in Ireland.” 🔥 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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A week after David Lammy announced the suspension of free trade agreement negotiations with Israel, Keir Starmer's trade envoy to Israel, Ian Austin, tweets about being in Israel to "promote trade with the UK".

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26 years into the Post Office scandal this injustice runs on. Alan Bates says that still the UK authorities are dragging their feet & haggling over payments. Like Windrush; contaminated blood victims; Grenfell & more: we are treated as subjects not citizens with no fundamental rights.

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Private equity control of UK veterinary services. Vets under "consistent pressure" to generate income - meet targets or else; encouraged to carry out unnecessary procedures on pets. Customer bills up by more than 60%. More pets will be abandoned. No govt stands up to private equity menace.

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The boys at Normandy were fighting against the Stephen Millers of their day. This guy hates freedom and justice for all (and everything else that makes America what its meant to be).

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We all know the person in No. 10 who thought they were playing 5D chess by reviving Enoch Powell’s fascistic phrase “island of strangers”. Keir Starmer approved it — then parroted it. Shame on all their houses.

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On this day four years ago, when Glasgow decided not to be part of an “island of strangers.” “These are our neighbours. Let them go.” #KenmureStreet

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After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.

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Labour's immigration announcement today is a reflection of the paucity of honest debate by BOTH political parties over the last decade on this issue. Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n

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They told us we’d never leave the EU. They told us we’d never have Boris Johnson as PM. They told us Labour would deliver change. They will tell us they can stop Nigel Farage holding power. Britain is broken. Let’s take control of our own destiny as an independent nation.👇

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What books do you reckon they'll put on the shelves of the "Trump Presidential Library"? Mein Trumpf? Mr Stupid? Oranges are not the only fruitloops?

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Privatisation, foreign ownership and being in the failing UK are behind Scotland's industrial demise open.substack.com/pub/dearscot...

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⚠️22,000 civil servants to be deployed to Freeport/SEZ corporate fiefdoms across the UK. My latest Substack article tears apart the Guardian's article and exposes what's really going on. Pat 'Mini-Musk' McFadden, tying funding to relocations and peddling efficiency. open.substack.com/pub/european...

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🚨🚨The lauded first-of-its kind #UK-US #tradedeal "isn't worth the paper it's written on". Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph #Stiglitz 🎯 the analysis. news.sky.com/story/uk-us-...

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We all know we'd be better off as an independent country. But when you see it like this, it makes it all the more depressing that some people believed the lies they told in 2014 & voted to remain. www.businessforscotland.com/new_figures_...

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Israel is preventing the WHO from sending incubators into Gaza. Think about how savage, how barbaric, how evil, you have to be to defend that and defend the government doing that.

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In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive. In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him. Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.

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“Can you see a day when you say no care workers should come in from abroad?” - Laura Kuenssberg “Yes we do and we’re going to change the rules this year to prevent a care worker visa being used to recruit from abroad” - Home Secretary Yvette Cooper We already have a desperate shortage!

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As the Herald's Mark Smith fakes a ScotRail problem, the facts he doesn't report: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2024/12/21/h...

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The same people who went apoplectic when asked to wear a mask to protect people in a pandemic eagerly wear one to kidnap people in Gestapo cosplay.

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The corruption in politics is insane, if you went to work and accepted loads of money from a random billionaire to not do your job you would be fired and probably thrown in jail. But the politicians basically boast about it.

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Were you taken in by Labour and the UK media's reporting of its big "success" over trade with the USA? Did you think there was an actual deal? McSweeney will be SO delighted.

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How polls turn a lead for Yes into a lead for No A good explanation of how most polling results on Scottish independence are falsely manipulated by using weighting data MORE THAN A DECADE OLD. On NO other topic would this practice be accepted. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/h...

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Why would you be good? You get everywhere in life by ripping people off, taking advantage of them, and abusing them as much as you can get away with. We then let these billionaires run our society as if they are going to help us. But they are the monsters, the very worst of us

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NEW — Trump’s ICE has just arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Alongside residents and other officials, Baraka has been protesting outside a detention facility that’s set to help Trump’s mass deportation regime.

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If you want to ensure you're not buying products from a company that supports Trumplethinskin, then Buy European is the app for you in the EU and UK.

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Reports that Labour will demand a higher standard of English from migrants, comparable with A level standard and able to write about complex issues. I wonder if they think the 240,000 Brits in Dubai should learn Arabic and discuss complex issues with it?

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One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.

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No more burying your head in the sand Starmer.

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🚨🚨For those who believe (and it seems the correct inference imho) that #kremlin was working behind the scenes to orchestrate #brexit (a nation-dividing political event), this story is further evidence substantiating this narrative. 🧵 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep The Government banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe a certain medication This should also be banned @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social unless you have a way to justify this?

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Today, small children in Gaza are dying of starvation. Just a mile away, hundreds of trucks sit full of food. The IDF blocking them entering. This is the face of the Israeli regime - evil beyond comprehension.

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