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rufio10.bsky.social
Starmer is a coward, what else is new.
implausibleblog.bsky.social Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6h
Sky News, "Zack Polanski described it as an illegal strike.. When asked to condemn it Keir Starmer refused to do so"
January 3, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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behindthefrequency.bsky.social
Every 10-15y.

Here's a primer on Venezuela. It's in two tabs. The first of narrative, the second is bulleted, because neurodiversity accessability is important. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
A Brief History of the USA and Venezuela
People want to know what’s going on between the United States and Venezuela. But to really get it, you need to understand the history behind it. That’s why history matters. Let's dig a little deeper i...
docs.google.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
We're challenging this terrible Labour Government.

And we're ready to take on Reform.

I spoke with the Guardian:

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘We were missing in the conversation’: how Zack Polanski hit on plan to beat Reform at their own game
This time last year Polanski was barely known outside the party. Now he’s hoping for success at May’s local elections – by taking a page from Nigel Farage’s playbook
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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linhofteknika.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 3:20 AM
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38degrees.bsky.social
23,000 lives were lost following Boris Johnson’s Covid decisions, yet he still claims £115,000 a year for life, paid by the public.

Families who lost loved ones deserve justice, not rewards for failure.

This entitlement should end permanently. Like if you agree.
January 2, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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lsdawson.bsky.social
January 1, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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gmf1369.bsky.social
#GVerse Jack Smith says that he does not understand why #Shit4Brains would pardon people who assaulted law enforcement.

He says the people who defended the Capitol that day are heroes.

#Repost

Do you agree with Jack?
January 1, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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mikeycamera.bsky.social
Personal opinion:

If KS does agree to this, then he & every Labour MP who DOESN’T openly oppose I will consider to be traitors to the UK and its population.

#UKPolitics
December 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
ala8.bsky.social
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: 38d.gs/cc-df
Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petitio...
38d.gs
December 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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38degrees.bsky.social
2025 produced 237 new billionaires.

The global billionaire count jumped from 2,682 to 2,919 in just 12 months, many through inheritance, not hard work.

Inequality isn’t accidental, it’s part of a broken system.
December 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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suziequark10.bsky.social
Please Re-Post this simple Truth.
December 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
ala8.bsky.social
🚨 Nigel Farage’s Reform UK just opened the floodgates to dark money in our politics by becoming the first UK party to accept untraceable crypto donations. Join me and sign the petition to stop shady crypto donations flooding our politics: 38d.gs/xvqe
Shady billionaires can quietly pour money into our elections, completely hidden from view.
Join me and add your name to the petition to stop this.
38d.gs
December 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
ala8.bsky.social
🚨The Gov could FINALLY be about to end fox hunting for good, by banning trail hunting. But the likes of Farage are criticising the ban. We need to drown them out: sign the petition now to back the ban and tell the Government to hold firm: 38d.gs/trailhuntingdf
Sign the petition: ban trail hunting for good
🚨The Gov could FINALLY be about to end fox hunting for good, by banning trail hunting. But the likes of Farage are criticising the ban. We need to drown them out: sign the petition now to back the ban...
38d.gs
December 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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gmf1369.bsky.social
#GVerse Actor Richard Gere on #Shit4Brains:

“We have a president who’s not only crazy, he’s a dark presence. And it’s happened so quickly. Six months, he’s almost destroyed our country”

#Repost if you stand with Gere!
December 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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airymt.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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theferalprophet.bsky.social
December 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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bettinastruff.bsky.social
For those without an Observer subscription.
Before Christmas, I went to Calais. I stood in the mud, wind howling and rain driving down, and saw the makeshift migrant encampments that the French authorities bulldoze on a timetable as predictable as the tides. I spoke to families who have fled torture, teenagers travelling alone because their parents died on the route and people who have lost everything except the hope that Britain might still honour its word and its values. Every day since my return, I've thought about the children. One in five people on the small boats are children. I saw the makeshift spaces where orphaned children find a few hours of respite to play. It's unacceptable for anyone to be living in these conditions, but to see children like this is to confront the very depths of our collective failure. One young man from Sudan, just 19 but with the look of someone who has lived three lifetimes, told me he had tried to claim asylum in several countries but had been repeatedly refused. Forty euros and an hour's train journey to Calais, but police stop people at stations, turning the search for asylum into something Kafkaesque. Again and again, I was told the same thing: people are not allowed to stay, and not allowed to leave. "So what choice do I have?" he asked. The question wasn't rhetorical. It was raw, desperate and damning of a government that lectures the world on human rights while physically shutting the door on those who most need protection. Walking through these camps was not a "trip". It was a confrontation with a cruelty our government doesn't just normalise, but actively funds. Good, loving, hardworking people left without the essentials to survive and stripped of their most basic rights. I went to Calais because the people in these camps have barely featured in our national conversation, while anti-immigration rhetoric, from Reform and increasingly echoed by Labour, grows louder and more toxic. I wanted to redress that imbalance. To give voice to those who are endlessly talked about, but rarely heard. We are entering 2026 with a moral reckoning on our hands. The question is whether political leaders are brave enough to speak the truth? That immigration is good for this country and that we have a clear, moral responsibility to protect those failed by global injustice and political neglect. The Labour party's current position is a warning. There is no future for progressive politics that accepts dehumanisation as the price of electability. None. The Greens are here to offer an alternative. Stopping deaths in the Channel means safe routes, family reunion visas and a functioning asylum system. Anything else is either inhumane and dangerous, or simply smoke and mirrors. Real security comes from a managed migration system with safe routes, from strong international cooperation and from cutting off the conditions, war, climate collapse and repression, that force people to flee in the first place. Human life matters - and government exists to make it flourish Zack Polasnki, Green party leader This isn't magical thinking. We've already shown it's possible. Over the past few years, more than a quarter of a million Ukrainians have come to the UK. We opened our border, our homes, the doors to our village halls and hosted welcome parties. Council chambers flew Ukrainian flags in solidarity. That matters. Because Ukraine is a conflict with untold human suffering. And now, more than ever, we must maintain our commitment to Ukraine. Alongside safe and managed routes for refugees, we must also be actively peace-building. That is the only sustainable way to stop people from being forced to risk their lives to find safety. What does peace-building mean? For Ukraine, first and foremost, it means listening to and supporting the Ukrainian people in their struggle. They are the ones displaced from their homes and dying on the battlefield. For Europe, and yes, we are an integral part of Europe, it means cutting reliance on the fossil fuels that are feeding the Putin war machine and cutting his access to finance, dodgy property deals and half-enforced sanctions in the City of London. In the UK. every pound spent on insulating homes and building clean energy is a pound that no longer funds war. It means rebalancing our relationship with an unpredictable US president. Instead, we should be rooted in international cooperation, in diplomacy and creating a European-based defence infrastructure. It means long-term financial support, rebuilding energy infrastructure and enforcing international justice. Accountability cannot be optional. War crimes cannot be forgotten because the news cycle has moved on. Only when we understand this do we see that Calais and Kyiv are two lenses on the same crisis. Both expose what happens when human rights are treated as expendable and both warn us where politics is heading if we continue to look away. Standing in the mud in Calais, I felt the urgency of the moment. 2026 presents us with a choice. We can drift through another year of managed decline, rising authoritarianism and political cowardice. Or we can step forward with a vision that matches the scale of the crises we face. My vision for Britain is one that treats refugees with dignity, rebuilds the NHS, makes energy affordable and leads on climate action, while strengthening international cooperation and investing in peace. These are not separate ambitions. They are part of the same moral settlement: that human life matters, and that government exists to make it flourish. Some will call this naive. I call anything less unacceptable.
December 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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38degrees.bsky.social
Boxing Day hunts could soon be a thing of the past with trail hunting now set to be banned.

Activists warn that foxes are still frequently mauled by dogs during trail hunts, and last season alone, nearly 1,600 incidents were reported across the UK.

This cruelty has gone on for too long.
December 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
ala8.bsky.social
Mad man on the loose
johndavidfraley.bsky.social John Fraley @johndavidfraley.bsky.social · 8d
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December 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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@teamlabouruk.bsky.social

Starmer is the most gutless morally bankrupt individual ever to be associated with the Labour Party.

He is a historically repugnant figure who has wrecked the entire party.
December 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
A Christmas Day tale in 3 parts.

1) Steve Reed - Housing Minister - launches a Xmas Day attack.

2) It's the Labour Governments usual shit.

3) join.greenparty.org.uk

Merry Xmas!

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
Exclusive: Cabinet Minister Brands Zack Polanski A 'Con Artist' In Outspoken Attack
Steve Reed also suggested the Green Party leader is immoral.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
The Guardian accused me of hubris because I dared post at 3pm.

The Calais Appeal donations are shooting up.

Maybe the King might like to donate too? Or maybe the Government could actually implement a fair & managed migration system?

A Christmas miracle!
Polanski has had remarkable success but lining up against the king might be a touch hubristic.
December 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social
Has Keir Starmer said anything? Or is he too busy deciding which part of the fence to sit on to avoid the most splinters?

'The move also targeted Imran Ahmed, the British chief executive of the US-based Center for Countering Digital Hate.'

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Macron and EU condemn US visa bans as row over ‘censorship’ escalates
Washington accused of ‘coercion and intimidation’ after five Europeans behind campaign to regulate US tech giants targeted
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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38degrees.bsky.social
Trump is reportedly pressuring the UK to scrap the Digital Services Tax: a 2% levy on the biggest tech giants.

It raises billions for public services and stops tax dodging. Giving in would mean handing tax breaks to trillion-dollar firms while people struggle.

The Government must hold the line.
December 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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libraonfire.bsky.social
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HE WATCHED A GUY KILL AN INFANT BIRTHED BY A 13 YEAR OLD SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIM, AND DISPOSED OF IT IN LAKE MICHIGAN!?

Like, we jumped from Jeffrey Epstein to Jeffrey Dahmer in a day.

#EpsteinFiles #CBS #Venezuela

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December 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM