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Let's all share this, Labour said at the end of the debate that their only reason given, was that no to #rejoin was in their manifesto. So was no to customs union and no to single market. Please Sign and Share! Let's get it to 10k for a response...

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"The word has changed" It certainly has. So, Chancellor, why no acknowledgement that your fiscal rules and Brexit red lines from last May are no longer fit for purpose? The UK needs more ambition, not more austerity! It's time to rejoin the Single Market🇪🇺🇬🇧 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Post a warning.

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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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Labour manages to not lose to a deeply unpopular party despite never having too much enthusiasm behind them, repeatedly announces that they're going to do everything the unpopular party did but worse while feeling bad about it, and then wonders where their support went.

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When everywhere you look, our world is imploding. When it's too overwhelming. Take a break from social media. Turn off the tv. Put some tunes on. Lose yourself in music conjured smiley memories. Dance if you're able Be fierce, be free Whilst the storm rages. No shame for a while in hiding.

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lol

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Ministers are silent, but PIP cuts won’t just hurt disabled people — carers will suffer too. PIP is a passport to support like Carer’s Allowance & council tax reductions. Losing it could cost carers thousands a year, pushing families deeper into poverty. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

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My opinion piece for LBC on the recent announcement of UK disability benefits cuts, as a wheelchair user and researcher who helped shape reform of the disability benefits system in the US: Labour’s welfare plan will force disabled people out of work, not into it. www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

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Well. That America permanently scratched from the bucket list. Unacceptable behaviour!

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UK Govt assault on the poor & disabled in context. In 2024-25, the govt spending £1,276.2bn. Benefit cut will save £1bn a year. Hardly significant. It can have up to £20bn by taxing capital gains and dividends at the same rate as wages, and charging NIC. But won't do it. Political choice.

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Politics is ultimately about choices: how you raise cash and where you spend it. Labour acts as if they are forced to cut disability benefits but leading economists say they can avoid it by taxing the super rich. Spending cuts are a political choice. Don’t let them pretend otherwise.

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Cutting disabled people's benefits won't remove their disability and it won't help the economy. The NHS, which has long been a social care system and welfare service on top, will now also be forced to manage even more of the effects of poverty and crisis. There's no cost saving and no logic here.

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Starmer's disability plan is a red line. It won't grow the economy and it will hurt disabled people even more than they have already suffered. This "plan" will force millions of disabled people into poverty and there are plenty of horror stories of how these proposals will hurt people. 🧵1/3

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As Labour were kicking poor people and people with disabilities to save a few quid, Germany passed its largest spending package since reunification. That's what "things have changed" really means: the gumption to tear the rulebook into teeny tiny pieces. See also: Brexit, and rejoining the EU.

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Keir Starmer can fuck off 😡 I am fuming!

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Point of advice: 🇺🇸 IMPEACH YOUR PRESIDENT 🇺🇸

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🚨🚨 Now we have reached the stage of "constitutional crisis" in the US: The Trump admin has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration. 🧵 apnews.com/article/trum...

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So America has decided to copy our hateful (and thankfully axed) #Rwanda scheme but somehow you made it a tonne worse. Deporting Venezuelan asylum seekers to #ElSalvador where they are immediately thrown in the black hole that are Bekele's prisons, never to be seen again.

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Labour absolutely need to backtrack on plans to cut benefits. Disabled individuals are already struggling. It's already far too hard to access support, especially for "hidden disabilities", such as autism. Even before cuts come in they are increasing stress and fear. www.bigissue.com/opinion/disa...

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The Government is planning “catastrophic” cuts that experts say will force disabled people into poverty. Don’t think that’s right? Add your name now. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/no-cruel...

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Fun Fact: The #Cybertruck has an Aluminium frame, meaning that you are one overloaded trailer away from your entire back end breaking away.

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Looks like all the political parties have leapt Right. Labour are behaving like the Tories. The Tories are behaving like Reform. Reform are behaving like some Ultra Right parody of themselves.

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Here's one for @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion...

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If they can simply assert your activities are aligned with terrorism, and based on that assertion alone with no process they can disappear you, it’s over. We have to keep fighting in the courts, but the most important thing is to build with people in your own community to protect people.

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The crisis isn’t Gen Z embracing dictatorship—it’s their disillusionment with democracy. We should be fixing a system that doesn’t work for them, not fear-mongering. #GenZ By Prof Bobby Duffy & Dr Paolo Morini

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"Hugely controversial" is an understatement. I oppose this plan in its entirety.

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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

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Oh dear, Elon Musk learned how they do protests in France.

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Donald Trump has banned UK from sharing US military intelligence with Ukraine. US troops, weapons, listening posts are in the UK, but the govt can't share intelligence with allies. Can't recall the UK holding a referendum to become the 51st state. www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

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This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny. Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.

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France and the UK, “some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 20 or 30 years.” The UK lost 457 soldiers in Afghanistan, fighting alongside the US, and 179 soldiers in Iraq. Hard to overstate what an insult this is to the Brits. (Also wrong on FR obviously)

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If Musk was russian, he would be sanctioned to Hell and back, but because he's "American" (Actually an immigrant from South Africa 🇿🇦, which is ironic given his position on fascism) he gets a free pass in the press and the halls of government. 🤮

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There are 12,000 US troops permanently stationed in 11 RAF bases in the UK, what goes on inside those US bases on British soil is unknown. The UK is militarily occupied by the US. 1/2

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A lot of Americans, even liberal ones, underestimate how much anger is building up towards Washington among those British and German social groups who were once the most fervent advocates for the alliance with the United States

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I've just woken up from the weirdest dream. I dreamt that I was talking to @downtwisted.bsky.social and my brother, then an ALMIGHTY thunderstorm hit without warning; loud thunder, very close lightning hits and even a sighting of ball lightning, the works. I woke up after the storm passed.

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Hey Don, you did a rare thing, you united ALL the British press in condemnation of you. You know it usually takes a big old dose of dangerous extremism to make that happen. Hmmmm….

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Keir Starmer's spokespeople currently refusing to comment on Trump and Vance's attack on Zelensky today, despite almost all other European leaders rallying to publicly support the Ukrainian leader

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Stop the Trump State Visit. You can sign the petition here. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no... Comrade Krasnov the Citrus Tyrant 🍊 You have just offended the entire world & WE DON'T WANT YOU HERE 👏🤬 Well done dickhead !

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I want to be absolutely clear, Trump's treatment of President Zelenskyy was bloody vile.

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"The UK needs to prioritise its trading relationship with the EU. Voters want it, businesses need it, & we cannot afford to put it on ice for a less trustworthy, lower-growth option being mooted across the Atlantic," says @pimlicat.bsky.social www.bestforbritain.org/starmer_trum...

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