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With the leadership of Starmer over the past couple of weeks I am again proud to be British . The last time I felt like that was during the 2012 London Olympics.

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Reform UK really are the ‘do as I say, not as I do’ party. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Incredibly sad news that the US has pulled out of the Paris climate agreement.😪 The good news is our country is going in the opposite direction and we are building renewable, clean energy, which in the longer term will enable us to be energy independent and not reliant on other countries 😀

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38d.gs/26kp A petition!

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It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

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I thought people voted for Brexit for our countries sovereignty? It seems as now Musk and the US are inferring and trying to control our country. They need to butt out. This country did not vote for deregulation and private healthcare. We voted to protect our NHS.

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With Heidi Alexander replacing Louise Haigh as transport secretary, the cabinet is now 100% state school educated for the first time in history. (Sir Keir Starmer's school was a selective state school when he joined, then became private two years into his time there.)

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"Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers. The revenue per acre is too low to warrant the purchase, unless you are extremely wealthy and are avoiding inheritance tax."

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Important context here: ● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares) ● "a big farm" is 217 acres. Now let's see who's angry: ● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres ● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres ● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres ● Dyson owns 36,000 acres

submitted 109 days ago • 217 comments

This is the truth about Labour's Budget and farmers.

submitted 110 days ago • 3 comments

Victoria Derbyshire nails Jeremy Clarkson over his Inheritance Tax scam. Hilarious to watch him squirm.

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Man who told The Times in 2021 that he’d only bought his £4.25m farm to avoid paying inheritance tax to lead protest against inheritance tax 😂🤣😂 www.thesun.co.uk/news/3179317...

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To be clear: It's £1m untaxed, plus £325k of standard tax free inheritance. You can double that if the farmer is married. So farmers can hand down £2.65m tax free, and their kids pay 20% on everything else. Tax on your job is 40% over £50k "Land owner" is not a job 🧵

submitted 112 days ago • 53 comments

40% of UK Farmland is owned by billionaires. Now you know why they are so angry it will be taxed.

submitted 111 days ago • 74 comments

Lets see what people think. If Bluesky is better than Twitter LIKE If you have stopped using Twitter RT

submitted 112 days ago • 153 comments

Jeez. The NHS will pay the King’s duchy £11m over 15 years to rent a warehouse for ambulances whilst the Ministry of Justice pays William’s duchy £1.5m a year to use Dartmoor prison www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...

submitted 127 days ago • 25 comments

Sorry, CCHQ sent a Treasury minister from the Truss era to do Question Time? I mean, I know no swing voter watches it anymore but still, have a bit of professional pride!

submitted 129 days ago • 11 comments

Strong message from PM Starmer to the Conservative contenders: "If they think the state has grown too big, let them tell working people which public services they would cut. "If they think tax rises are unfair, let them tell working people which taxes they'd raise instead."

submitted 132 days ago • 3 comments

Nigel Farage made a rare trip to the House of Commons yesterday, to vote against the Employment Rights Bill. Good to know he feels so passionately about the need to deprive workers of more rights and protections.

submitted 138 days ago • 9 comments

Disguising and totally out of touch.

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I am starting to think that Starmer must be doing something right as the full force of the mainstream media appears to be against him.

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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,711,630!

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Boris Johnson has been spreading lies about Germany using the Tories' Rwanda scheme. Not what you expect from a man who got sacked twice for lying, lied to Parliament, lied to The Queen and cheated on two wives.

submitted 183 days ago • 13 comments

well this is awkward

submitted 186 days ago • 12 comments

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social I have seen your reports that things may get worse before getting better. I do appreciate that difficult choices may have to be made. However, there are red lines for my support (and I imagine many others). Please do not increase the pension age. No one will forgive this.

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My Twitter is now deactivated. I don't want anything to do with Musk's toxic hate channel.

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NHS dentistry as we know it 'gone for good'

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Farage getting paid £1.5m for I'm a celebrity. Don't watch it, don't send them money in phone votes, don't reward the advertisers, and fuck Ant and Dec for platforming him, no matter how many oh so edgy winks to camera and cutting remarks they make.

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Pm2.5 contains many different components including black carbon, polyarylhdrocarbons etc that are damaging to our immune system and cardiovascular system so this new study adds weight to the need to tackle air quality

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