Radical Embroiderer
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The Angela Rayner Story - In A Nutshell.
I made this last April
I believe it still stands.
#embroidery
I made this last April
I believe it still stands.
#embroidery
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Oof, had forgotten about this. As always, neo-imperialism and corruption go hand in hand.
Prospera Honduras is a Zone for Employment & Economic Development (ZEDE) backed by Peter Thiel. Trump plans to pardon the former Honduran president who championed ZEDES b4 his drug trafficking conviction. Honduras current outgoing president has tried to eliminate ZEDES, an obstacle for Prospera.
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Prospera: Honduras' Bitcoin City Project
Prospera is Honduras' Bitcoin City project. Located on the island of Roatan in the Caribbean Sea, it faces several challenges.
colombiaone.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Oof, had forgotten about this. As always, neo-imperialism and corruption go hand in hand.
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Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
December 2, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
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Donald Trump is taking money away from our hospitals & GP surgeries, and Nigel Farage is cheering him on.
We can't let Trump get away with extortion like this, Parliament must be given a chance to vote this deal down.
We can't let Trump get away with extortion like this, Parliament must be given a chance to vote this deal down.
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Donald Trump is taking money away from our hospitals & GP surgeries, and Nigel Farage is cheering him on.
We can't let Trump get away with extortion like this, Parliament must be given a chance to vote this deal down.
We can't let Trump get away with extortion like this, Parliament must be given a chance to vote this deal down.
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This week's letter to 99% members shows that the UK still risks repeating the Biden experience: lots of good things, but failing to tackle the key issues for the average voter.
We cannot afford that.
We cannot afford that.
Last week’s Budget contained – thanks in part to back bench pressure – some very important good news.
And it was better than any of the Conservative Budgets over their 14 years.
But will it be enough to tackle the biggest issues?
sh1.sendinblue.com/3g6snwi2bglp...
And it was better than any of the Conservative Budgets over their 14 years.
But will it be enough to tackle the biggest issues?
sh1.sendinblue.com/3g6snwi2bglp...
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This week's letter to 99% members shows that the UK still risks repeating the Biden experience: lots of good things, but failing to tackle the key issues for the average voter.
We cannot afford that.
We cannot afford that.
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We've created a simple tool so you can find out whether your local NHS trust is using Palantir's software and asking them to resist Wes Streeting's push to sign up for it. goodlaw.social/zr8w
Stop Palantir in the NHS | Good Law Project
NHS trusts are rolling out Palantir software, but we’re fighting back
goodlaw.social
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
We've created a simple tool so you can find out whether your local NHS trust is using Palantir's software and asking them to resist Wes Streeting's push to sign up for it. goodlaw.social/zr8w
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It would be very in keeping with how UK elites are chronically 6-18 months behind the curve if UK university leaders torch their credibility in trying to appease Reform and MAGA only for further shifts in political trends to start seeing a decline in support for Trump and Farage
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It would be very in keeping with how UK elites are chronically 6-18 months behind the curve if UK university leaders torch their credibility in trying to appease Reform and MAGA only for further shifts in political trends to start seeing a decline in support for Trump and Farage
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HM Treasury before the ref and the Tories own post ref DexEU department both produced analysis showing there was no version of Brexit which could have worked for the economy.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
HM Treasury before the ref and the Tories own post ref DexEU department both produced analysis showing there was no version of Brexit which could have worked for the economy.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.
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Please sign: No new tax breaks for Tech Giants!! Trump & big tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are pressuring the UK to drop our Digital Services Tax, a small 2% tax on the very biggest tech giants taxjustice.eaction.org.uk/protect-the-... via @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social
No new tax breaks for Tech Giants
Donald Trump and big tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are pressuring the UK to drop our ‘Big Tech Tax’.
taxjustice.eaction.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Please sign: No new tax breaks for Tech Giants!! Trump & big tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are pressuring the UK to drop our Digital Services Tax, a small 2% tax on the very biggest tech giants taxjustice.eaction.org.uk/protect-the-... via @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social
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No, welfare spending is not 'out of control'.
(There is an underlying rise in health-related benfits, but this needs sensible reform - not knee jerk cuts.)
(There is an underlying rise in health-related benfits, but this needs sensible reform - not knee jerk cuts.)
November 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
No, welfare spending is not 'out of control'.
(There is an underlying rise in health-related benfits, but this needs sensible reform - not knee jerk cuts.)
(There is an underlying rise in health-related benfits, but this needs sensible reform - not knee jerk cuts.)
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🚨BOOM! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 70,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
🚨BOOM! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 70,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
At last! The 2 child limit on benefits is being scrapped.
This is the piece I made last year after Starmer suspended 7 Labour MPS for voting against KEEPING the policy 🤦🏻♀️
Big shout out to those who kept pushing to get rid of this shameful policy!
#budget2025 #embroidery
This is the piece I made last year after Starmer suspended 7 Labour MPS for voting against KEEPING the policy 🤦🏻♀️
Big shout out to those who kept pushing to get rid of this shameful policy!
#budget2025 #embroidery
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
At last! The 2 child limit on benefits is being scrapped.
This is the piece I made last year after Starmer suspended 7 Labour MPS for voting against KEEPING the policy 🤦🏻♀️
Big shout out to those who kept pushing to get rid of this shameful policy!
#budget2025 #embroidery
This is the piece I made last year after Starmer suspended 7 Labour MPS for voting against KEEPING the policy 🤦🏻♀️
Big shout out to those who kept pushing to get rid of this shameful policy!
#budget2025 #embroidery
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Call for boycott of firms criticised by Grenfell fire inquiry.
Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex behaved with “systematic dishonesty”, “engaged in deliberate and sustained strategies to manipulate the testing processes, misrepresent test data and mislead the market”
72 died in 2017. No one prosecuted.
Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex behaved with “systematic dishonesty”, “engaged in deliberate and sustained strategies to manipulate the testing processes, misrepresent test data and mislead the market”
72 died in 2017. No one prosecuted.
Architect George Clarke calls for boycott of firms criticised by Grenfell inquiry
TV personality wants homeowners and businesses to shun ‘dishonest’ firms Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Call for boycott of firms criticised by Grenfell fire inquiry.
Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex behaved with “systematic dishonesty”, “engaged in deliberate and sustained strategies to manipulate the testing processes, misrepresent test data and mislead the market”
72 died in 2017. No one prosecuted.
Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex behaved with “systematic dishonesty”, “engaged in deliberate and sustained strategies to manipulate the testing processes, misrepresent test data and mislead the market”
72 died in 2017. No one prosecuted.
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NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline
As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexi...
www.thenerve.news
November 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
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Yesterday, we put out a report on the most important issues to voters.
We know that immigration now tops the traditional most important issues question (see below from @yougov.co.uk).
But that doesn't tell the full story.
Here is a rundown of the experiments we did to test this out (A THREAD):
We know that immigration now tops the traditional most important issues question (see below from @yougov.co.uk).
But that doesn't tell the full story.
Here is a rundown of the experiments we did to test this out (A THREAD):
November 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Yesterday, we put out a report on the most important issues to voters.
We know that immigration now tops the traditional most important issues question (see below from @yougov.co.uk).
But that doesn't tell the full story.
Here is a rundown of the experiments we did to test this out (A THREAD):
We know that immigration now tops the traditional most important issues question (see below from @yougov.co.uk).
But that doesn't tell the full story.
Here is a rundown of the experiments we did to test this out (A THREAD):
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This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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In 2023-24 HMRC issued 456 penalties to wealthy individuals for £5.8m, 25 prosecuted.
Tax scams designed by accountants, lawyers; five prosecutions in 2023-2024.
Govt taking powers to snoop on benefit claimants' bank accounts; mainly poor, old, sick. Nothing equivalent on tax abuse industry.
Tax scams designed by accountants, lawyers; five prosecutions in 2023-2024.
Govt taking powers to snoop on benefit claimants' bank accounts; mainly poor, old, sick. Nothing equivalent on tax abuse industry.
Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few
leftfootforward.org
November 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
In 2023-24 HMRC issued 456 penalties to wealthy individuals for £5.8m, 25 prosecuted.
Tax scams designed by accountants, lawyers; five prosecutions in 2023-2024.
Govt taking powers to snoop on benefit claimants' bank accounts; mainly poor, old, sick. Nothing equivalent on tax abuse industry.
Tax scams designed by accountants, lawyers; five prosecutions in 2023-2024.
Govt taking powers to snoop on benefit claimants' bank accounts; mainly poor, old, sick. Nothing equivalent on tax abuse industry.
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No-one is going to switch to Labour because of this cruelty. Farage will be vindicated because the ECHR is back in the news & the economy will suffer.
There was another way.
We could have all been better off by 2029 & the Reform threat kneecapped.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
There was another way.
We could have all been better off by 2029 & the Reform threat kneecapped.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar
As immigration has increased, GDP has surged and unemployment has fallen to lowest level since 2008
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
No-one is going to switch to Labour because of this cruelty. Farage will be vindicated because the ECHR is back in the news & the economy will suffer.
There was another way.
We could have all been better off by 2029 & the Reform threat kneecapped.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
There was another way.
We could have all been better off by 2029 & the Reform threat kneecapped.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Migration of any kind isn't tearing Britain apart.
What is, is the media & press organisations, saying that it is.
What is, is the Labour, Conservative and Reform parties parroting the media & press, whilst adding their own delusional opinions.
The problem, right wing media, press and governments.
What is, is the media & press organisations, saying that it is.
What is, is the Labour, Conservative and Reform parties parroting the media & press, whilst adding their own delusional opinions.
The problem, right wing media, press and governments.
Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now
November 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Migration of any kind isn't tearing Britain apart.
What is, is the media & press organisations, saying that it is.
What is, is the Labour, Conservative and Reform parties parroting the media & press, whilst adding their own delusional opinions.
The problem, right wing media, press and governments.
What is, is the media & press organisations, saying that it is.
What is, is the Labour, Conservative and Reform parties parroting the media & press, whilst adding their own delusional opinions.
The problem, right wing media, press and governments.
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There is no difference in practice between removing rights of individuals and leaving the ECHR. The end outcome is still the same, people lose rights. If human rights are an obstacle to your policy it is not the rights which are the issue, it is your policy. Labour going full Reform at this stage.
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
There is no difference in practice between removing rights of individuals and leaving the ECHR. The end outcome is still the same, people lose rights. If human rights are an obstacle to your policy it is not the rights which are the issue, it is your policy. Labour going full Reform at this stage.
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Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want
November 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want
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NEW: The biggest union in the BBC, Bectu, has written to culture secretary Lisa Nandy and BBC chair Samir Shah, demanding the removal of Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board.
They say Gibb, a political appointee, is a “direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence”.
They say Gibb, a political appointee, is a “direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence”.
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
NEW: The biggest union in the BBC, Bectu, has written to culture secretary Lisa Nandy and BBC chair Samir Shah, demanding the removal of Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board.
They say Gibb, a political appointee, is a “direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence”.
They say Gibb, a political appointee, is a “direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence”.