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There is only one source of money (and wealth) in 🇬🇧: the Govt. New money can only come through Govt spending and old money is removed through taxation. How you spend that money and who you tax determines what kind of society you have. #MMT
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The fight for the rights and dignities of trans people is a fight against the thin edge of fascism. It's a hill we are willing to fight and die on. If you'd like to support us with a donation dedicated to trans rights, you can do so here. I am donating ÂŁ1,000. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

More war crimes committed by the IDF – except it’s less a war and more a continual slaughter of a civilian population. 10% of the Board of Deputies of British Jews have, at last, acknowledged the reality. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Mr Polanski, who is also deputy leader of @greenparty.org.uk, added: “Through our investigation we heard from community food growing groups who highlighted to us the barriers that prevent more Londoners growing food. Access to land was the key issue." www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

Let's go Kettering! Thursday May 1st. Vote Green! 💚🙌🏼

They do this because they believe the state needs to shrink to allow businesses to grow. MMT reveals that state spending is the fuel that keeps the economic engine turning. Ever since Thatcher, we have run the economy in completely the wrong way. #LearnMMT www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Simple logic: if 'austerity measures' have been 'necessary' for nearly two decades, capitalism clearly doesn't work and needs ditching...

Thanks for the recent delivery. However, I'll be voting for real hope & real change not fear and hatred. #VoteGreen I trust the worms in my compost bin to turn the leaflet into something useful 🪱

#Poverty #RachelReeves More #Growth with Mrs Complaints... morningstaronline.co.uk/article/chil...

#physics

Zoe is my new teacher hero!🤣

A reminder that they don’t care one jot whether something is legal or not. And you’re all letting them get away with it.

As British soldiers were being evacuated from Dunkirk, the 1st Canadian Division was already in the UK as the only fully armed force to defend the shores. This photo of Canadians in the Battle of Britain is displayed across from our parliament. We fought fascism from day 1. Don't fuck with us.

This goes right along with the "Russia piggybacking on DOGE computer access" story... "US office that counters foreign disinformation is being eliminated" www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/16/1...

It’s so bonkers that UK law now recognises such a contested category as “biological sex”, as if this were somehow objective, but then defines it essentially as “sex assigned at birth”, so entirely based on subjective perception. It rly does feel like the goal is to enable the insecurities of bigots

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As I have hammered, it's a conventional wisdom processor. You are going to hear me say that a lot. www.crisesnotes.com/the-stock-ma...

What a fantastic addition to the MMT library! The dogged determination of Andrew, Neil and Richard to uncover the real story of money creation in the UK after it was obscured by the phantom neoliberal mirror-universe is inspiring. That the work had to be done by non-economists tells its own story. 👏🏻

If @davidcorn.bsky.social wants the madness to stop, he would do well to learn from the best selling economist, Prof Staphanie Kelton, that his taxes don’t, in fact, fund (or not fund) anything. Everything is funded by the state with freely produced, fresh new currency. It changes everything.

Today in Kettering where later we held a rally. Farage came here recently - and it was important to correct the record. You can reject the two old parties but vote for a politics of community, care and compassion. Vote for @greenparty.org.uk

Solidarity with the Birmingham bin strikers. There's plenty of wealth - it just needs redistributing. We should pay people who run our services properly and treat them with dignity. Solidarity. ✊🏼

👇🏻 Democrat shooting himself in the foot by not understanding how Fed finances work. Jesus, I’m a Brit and even I know the social security fund is a pantomime. Of course it isn’t “earned” - in any modern economy it’s a right, paid for by freely issued Govt $$$s. People really need to understand #MMT

🔥 5 years of replacing billionaire press with homegrown citizen journalism. 🔥 “None of us were proper hacks, even novice ones, or knew our way around the back end of a WordPress website, but we somehow muddled through together… We finally went live on 15 April.”

oh wait, you're saying the US should learn from Biden's 400bn Loan Programs Office? remarkably short memory on display here. www.ft.com/content/37e5...

Scotland would never go bust on Independence for the same reasons that the U.K. government cannot go bust. Scotland would have its own Central Bank and its own currency. It really is time that Scottish politicians and the people of Scotland understood that. youtu.be/jVdu8d8b-1E?...

If you're a worker, Reform Party is NOT on your side meme via @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social

Good on them. That a currency issuing state can claim they don’t have enough of the very thing they freely issue is bad enough. To use it as an excuse to pointlessly cut state support is disgusting. Worth learning #MMT www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

#VoteGreen It's them or Reform. Up to you...

Who wants politicians in their country not to sell their souls and take money from organisations and donors who do not have the best interests of all their people at heart? Have some integrity for gods sake!

Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.

Rethinking the state isn’t about mimicking the logic of start-up culture–rapid iteration, disruption and scaling to increase profits. Rather than learning how to win at all costs, governments need to learn how to collaborate, share, and diffuse better practices Latest w @rainerkattel.bsky.social ⬇️

America's economy has never been 'the best in the world' for most of its citizens. FFS your infant mortality rate is 33rd out of 38 OECD countries.

The Green Party are proving we can win seats from anyone. But we need feet on the ground to do it. We don't have super rich donors or constant TV coverage like other parties. We rely on volunteers. You could have Green councillors or a Green MP. This is the first step: join.greenparty.org.uk

I've been suspended by Instagram. Obviously this is bullshit - but underlines how we at the mercy of the whims of unaccountable tech giants. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/ive-been-s...

Hey Bristol đź‘‹ Wish there were more @greenparty.org.uk MPs & councillors? Want to find out how you can help make it happen? Join me on Monday for @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social's welcome evening to learn how you can get involved. Open to all but book in advance (free) here: tinyurl.com/8zuxnab3

Labour is a sinking ship. They have abandoned ordinary people, so we are abandoning them. There are two ways the next election can go. Help us make sure it's not the wrong way join.greenparty.org.uk

#DestroyLabour

Publicly owned Royal Mail delivered letters six days a week. After privatisation, that is set to fall to three days a week. Yes, it's our old friend 'the superior efficiency of the private sector'.