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Crusty old scouser socialist grandad. Retired Chartered Engineer. Still sailing & seeking another motorbike/scooter.
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"And above all, those who could stop it - and choose silence instead" via @dailypolitik.bsky.social

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So Reform wants to end gold-plated pensions for council employees. Will they also seek to end the gold-plated pensions for MPs, and will they give up their gold-plated MEP pensions paid by an EU, which they hate so much? Hold my beer.

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🎯🎯Applies to any democratic country!

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Greta Thunberg is sailing to Gaza to protest the blockade by Israel. Last time she set off Israel drone striked her ship and nearly sank it. But of course the Media completely ignored this blatant War Crime in the Mediterranean, because Israel did it.

submitted 23 hours ago • 13 comments

It’s not too late for the government to change course. Keir Starmer is being advised to urgently pause the Government's plans to cut disability & health benefits by Parliament's work & pensions committee who say they should not go ahead without a comprehensive impact assessment Contact your MP, NOW

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

I'd much rather be scammed by some poor mom trying to feed her kids than the richest man in the world trying to add to his own wealth, but maybe I'm a sap.

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via Sue Luton

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Good evening UK 🇬🇧 @HeartsofOak

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Every day a new atrocity in #Gaza. And still the UK supplies lethal weaponry to the Israeli government. There is a term for this: complicity in genocide.

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So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.

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