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Was @MichaelDWild on Xitter, still @[email protected], but this place is home now. #332,217
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"Thames Water piled up nearly £20 billion in debt while pumping sewage into our rivers and lakes. The price of this failure must not be paid by the customers." @timfarron.bsky.social

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

Speak out - name it as genocide - and then act. End all arms sales, impose a wide range of sanctions and call for the arrest and trial of all those guilty of war crimes, including prime minister Netanyahu.

Public ownership ‘not the answer’ says Minister as Thames Water teeters. Wrong. After 36 yrs of market solutions. Result - sewage in rivers, unplugged leaks, customers fleeced, high dividends. Govt dithered. TW added another £3bn debt, spends £200m a year on advisers. Need public ownership now.

The smart thing to do would be to work on a NATO plan for a transfer of responsibility from the US to Europe. We risk getting fake spending targets to appease Trump instead and then a gap when the US withdraws forces.

Hear hear

It'll take more than a hose down to clean up the water industry. We will continue to campaign to replace Ofwat and clean up our waterways for good.

The Best Aircraft Carriers in the World:

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, denies it’s a duck, demands you prove it's a duck, accuses you of being a duck, says your dog is a duck, that your friend's cat is a duck & that all 3 'ducks' are Russophobic ducks paid to be crisis actors, it’s a Kremlin duck 🦆

OTD in 1997 Ukraine & Russia signed the Russian–Ukrainian Friendship Treaty in which we promised to "respect each other's territory". We have not broken this or any other treaties we signed so Ukraine should sign one now for peace cos we’ll totally respect that one. Lol.

This from Ed Balls is spot-on and if Reeves has any sense is where she will end up. If you are going to retreat you do it with a below not a whimper

Is Keir Starmer Waving Goodbye To Millions Of Voters By Chasing Nigel Farage? www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/is-kei...

5 yrs ago Starmer argued “poor housing, poor public services not fault of the migrants, they’re political failures” now blames migrants for that pressure June last yr decried Reform campaigners for using racist language about migrants, now uses blatantly divisive rhetoric @bylinetimes.bsky.social

China’s no slouch in filling the soft-power hole rapidly expanding due to Trump/ 🇺🇸 foolish missteps, weakening USA’s power in the world.

The intentional death by starvation, of babies. A slow and cruel death.

💪🏻Won 60 seats off the Conservatives last July 🗳️Overtaken the Conservatives in local Government 📈Ahead of the Conservatives in today's YouGov poll 🔶We're on track to overtake Conservatives at next General Election.

“Brexit means we can make our own agreements with the EU, as we pick and choose!” - UK chooses to make agreement with EU on a handful of issues. “Brexit Betrayed!”

Happy Europe Day! 🇪🇺

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TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Brexit = -4% to our economy, hitting jobs, inflation and travel. India trade deal = (upto) +0.1% to our economy over 15 years. BREXITEERS: Woop! See, Brexit benefits! Yay! (A few moments later) BREXITEERS: Oh no, more brown people will come here! Booo!

The Conservatives' "two-tier tax" claim over the UK-India trade deal is nonsensical. We already have such deals with numerous countries. It's only for some short-term workers. It means companies aren't paying into 2 parallel social security schemes at the same time. And the deal's reciprocal.

This Starmer quote on Churchill is utterly dreadful. We give Churchill a lot of credit in Origin Story, but he was unquestionably racist & imperialist & responsible for the Bengal famine. Many British people dislike him for entirely justifiable reasons. Questioning their decency is outrageous.

OTD in 1920 USSR signed Treaty of of Moscow with Georgia, recognizing their independence. We invaded them 9 months later. Part of pattern.

"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

US: fuck off and stop selling us stuff. World: okie dokey. US: Waahh! There’s no stuff!

It was almost worth her getting elected to generate this story.

Seems that parties that confront the libertarian right-wing pro Trump agenda win elections. Someone tell Keir Starmer www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...

This is exactly the political strategy that just helped to deliver the Conservatives the biggest collapse in support of any party in British electoral history

📸 On the hottest UK May 1st since records began. Let’s get fossil fuel ads banned– just 9 days left to force a Parliamentary debate govpetition.uk/700024

Don’t lose your voice. 

Remember to take valid photo ID with you tomorrow when you vote. 🪪

The government has responded to our demand for a Rejoin referendum. In exactly the same copy and paste bullshit way the Tories used to do. If they don't offer an alternative to Tory/Reform, people will just vote Tory/Reform. Simple as that. #RejoinEU

9 🇺🇦 Civilians on a bus killed by 🇷🇺 drones. 30 injured. And Trump proposes rewarding a Putin for his war crimes, thus sending a message that war crimes pay.

Every vote for the Liberal Democrats counts. It's a vote to elect a strong local champion, who will fight for a fair deal for you and your community. Kemi Badenoch may sneer at us for being the party that will fix your local church roof, but we are proud to be focusing on fixing local issues.

Kidbrook delivers 5000 homes in harmony with nature / How it was 2/. How it is now Other wildlife trust housing sites include Trumpington Meadows in Cambridgeshire, which used to be a potato field. Now it teems with wildlife, including blue butterflies, waxcap fungi and twittering stonechats

We've been soooooooooo waiting for this from @mrjamesob.bsky.social More of this please. Also, do you know, James, how epic this speech + 2 more mins would sound on stage on Trafalgar Square at National Rejoin March IV..... 😍

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❗ 43% of Brits think the government should respond to Trump’s trade war by strengthening our ties with other like-minded partners, like the EU. Do you agree? Email your MP and tell them to attend the debate on the UK’s trading relationship with Europe 👉 buff.ly/8SDDegC