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“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs..” eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/fig...

submitted 54 days ago • 215 comments

UK's regressive tax system. Poorest 10% of households paid 48% of income in tax; richest 10% paid 39%. Poorest 10% paying 12% of income in VAT; richest 10% pay 3%. Council tax: Poorest 10% paying 7%; richest 10% pay 1.2%. No govt plans to end inequity. equalitytrust.org.uk/news/press-r...

submitted 57 days ago • 99 comments

“A huge 68% of respondents in Britain see a benefit in reintroducing cross-Channel freedom of movement in exchange for access to the European single market” www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 57 days ago • 134 comments

“Brexit made the UK an early victim of this reactionary politics which, instead of making this country great again, has already made it poorer and lonelier. Who knows what further damage may be awaiting our younger generations.”

submitted 57 days ago • 76 comments

Britain taxes the poorest more than the richest. This is why we are in such a mess. A failure to tax those who can afford it most. The rich leaching off the poor. We need to stop letting the rich make the rules. equalitytrust.org.uk/news/press-r...

submitted 57 days ago • 5 comments

Blow for landowners - or as it might read good news for everyone else as govt scraps the 2031 deadline for discovering and reporting old rights of way bit.ly/3BWt7Ad

submitted 60 days ago • 9 comments

The UK economy is "headed for the worst of all worlds" as businesses expect activity to fall at the start of next year, according to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) news.sky.com/story/uk-eco...

submitted 63 days ago • 59 comments

This is tediously stupid now… Really. Just stop with the idiotic headlines and the swagger and the EUphobic chest-thumping. Brexit is a shitshow. You know it. We know it. Even Trump might know it. Pipe down. Accept that you ballsed it. And leave us to deal with the embarrassing mess you all made.

submitted 63 days ago • 59 comments

The @DWPgovuk takes nearly a quarter of the child maintenance it collects from recalcitrant fathers and passes on to mothers, costing each child for whom it is paid £320 a year bit.ly/3DFkwlV (and yes I do know sometimes - rarely - it is the other way around)

submitted 63 days ago • 4 comments

Truth this weekend

submitted 63 days ago • 6 comments

This is a person who Kemi Badenoch thinks should sit in the House of Lords. The tweets start in 2009 - Young was 45 at the time. Appalling misogyny, casual homophobia... the lot

submitted 65 days ago • 179 comments

Here are just some of the now deleted Tweets previously put out by the man Kemi Badenoch has just made an ennobled peer of the realm

submitted 65 days ago • 133 comments

If anyone doubted that Badenoch is an idiot, the Toby Young nomination confirms it. Just the shabbiest, most dimwitted option available and she jumped right for it.

submitted 65 days ago • 74 comments

Kemi Badenoch boasts about handing a lifetime peerage to the "brave" journalist Toby Young, who was previously - Sacked for sexist and homophobic comments - Condemned by the press regulator for spreading "significantly misleading" information about Covid www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/kemi-baden...

submitted 65 days ago • 87 comments

England & Wales water company execs pollute seas/rivers, get mega pay packets, blow similar amounts on fines. Face no personal penalties. Companies have 1,100+ criminal convictions. Customers have no representation on boards, can't vote on exec pay. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 65 days ago • 19 comments

Instead of huge bill rises English water companies must be nationalised immediately. www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ne...

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

Please repost if you believe that big-money political donations are intrinsically corrupt and should be banned and classed as the serious criminal offence of corruptly buying political influence.

submitted 66 days ago • 3 comments

Dear World, Long term, what are you going to do to stop the richest man in the world from buying up all your governments one by one? Seems like kind of a big problem?

submitted 66 days ago • 338 comments

THANK YOU to our supporters for everything you've achieved in 2024 🤩 Wishing you a very merry Christmas 🎄☃️ Looking forward to campaigning with you in the New Year ✊ youtube.com/shorts/-g7Ak...

submitted 66 days ago • 6 comments

Despite his election win Trump cannot and does not single-handedly control everything that happens in Washington. And a lot of Republicans really, really hate Spaceboy. Unsurprising Pelosi calls Trump "Musk's puppet president" but seems the sentiment is rife. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 66 days ago • 29 comments

Sound about right.

submitted 66 days ago • 749 comments

In case you missed it: The UK will finally find out why a young aid to Boris Johnson was given a peerage. cc: @mrosenbaum.bsky.social

submitted 66 days ago • 56 comments

Thames Water took out £195.8 million in dividends last year which broke the @Ofwat rules and could not be justified bit.ly/41FELdr regulator will (try to!) recover £131m of them. It is one of four suppliers saying yesterday’s 35% price rise deal not enough

submitted 66 days ago • 11 comments

I miss it. Brexiteers took away something they didn’t need to use from people who wanted to and did. I call that selfish, spiteful and stupid.

submitted 66 days ago • 15 comments

From the team at @webylines.bsky.social Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches Since April 2023 Sewage Watch has been keeping a running log of press coverage on the state of sewage dumping into our rivers and onto our beaches - Updated December 2024

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/fig...

submitted 66 days ago • 105 comments

This needs to be taken very seriously. All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations

submitted 68 days ago • 1033 comments

New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton. (Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)

submitted 68 days ago • 232 comments

2016: Boris Johnson, "We'll be able to stop the tide of EU regulations.. (Remainers) are woefully underestimating this country and what it can do" 2024: "Marks and Spencer opens warehouse to store Brexit paperwork" World-beating warehouses for Brexit red tape 🤷‍♂️

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“The economic cost of Brexit, reliably estimated at around 5% of GDP and with a total loss to government coffers by 2035 of over £300bn, is unlikely to be offset by attempting to ‘make Brexit work’ – a slogan which rather confirms that it hasn’t” westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

submitted 70 days ago • 64 comments

Brexiters looking desperately for a Brexit success are like flat earthers looking for the edge. It doesn’t exist!

submitted 70 days ago • 64 comments

You have knocked it out of the park again @johnharris1969.bsky.social ( I can think of so many lived examples to back up what you’ve written)

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 70 days ago • 163 comments

Everyone in this picture would be able to walk if the polio vaccine had existed in time for them.

submitted 70 days ago • 367 comments

The polio vaccine worked so well, humans forgot polio existed — and somehow that’s the problem.

submitted 70 days ago • 615 comments

Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago 🧪 #IDsky www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 71 days ago • 234 comments

A majority of Brexit supporters now want to accept free movement in exchange for a return to the single market. Will this finally rid Labour of its Brexit bogeyman? East Anglia Bylines’ acerbic political diarist, Pecksniff, asks this and other thorny questions...

submitted 71 days ago • 53 comments

Height of conversation and discussion over on the other side

submitted 71 days ago • 50 comments

Easily the best description of him I’ve ever read.

submitted 72 days ago • 1234 comments

From @saneman.bsky.social

submitted 71 days ago • 863 comments

THIS is how it’s done, folks.

submitted 72 days ago • 2306 comments

Wow News mag GETS it wrong.. Fashion Mag #Nails it.. Hmmm ... #Fuk @TIME for selling out #AMERICA

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

Brexit support collapses, so Labour’s last excuse has gone eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...

submitted 72 days ago • 77 comments

A very good idea.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

“Brexit: five business leaders on how they’d like relations with the EU to change” - They all talk about the red tape, delays and difficulties created by Brexit and want more alignment with EU standards. How can it be achieved if Labour sticks to their red lines? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 72 days ago • 4 comments