@buffythehat.bsky.social
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Jeez. This is completely insane given the disastrous impact Farage and his championing of Brexit has had on UK farming
www.fwi.co.uk/news/farm-po...
www.fwi.co.uk/news/farm-po...
Farmer support for Reform UK jumps to 40%, FW poll shows - Farmers Weekly
Disenchantment with the Labour government and lasting memories of the previous Conservative administration have played into the hands of Reform UK, with a
www.fwi.co.uk
January 1, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Jeez. This is completely insane given the disastrous impact Farage and his championing of Brexit has had on UK farming
www.fwi.co.uk/news/farm-po...
www.fwi.co.uk/news/farm-po...
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Denied bail for minor criminal damage (spraying paint on aircraft used in a genocide), 8 courageous prisoners are on hunger strike & close to death. Is the UK gvt willing to sacrifice Britain's reputation for liberalism to aid and abet Israel's genocide? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
December 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Denied bail for minor criminal damage (spraying paint on aircraft used in a genocide), 8 courageous prisoners are on hunger strike & close to death. Is the UK gvt willing to sacrifice Britain's reputation for liberalism to aid and abet Israel's genocide? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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UK residents can use this template letter from @pscupdates.bsky.social to write to David Lammy: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/LammyHungerS...
Demand David Lammy act now to preserve the lives of the hunger strikers
palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk
December 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
UK residents can use this template letter from @pscupdates.bsky.social to write to David Lammy: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/LammyHungerS...
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Eight Palestine Action activists are being left to die in prison – all without even facing trial.
We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
December 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Eight Palestine Action activists are being left to die in prison – all without even facing trial.
We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
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Given the govt's comittment to a) shift care from treatment to prevention and b) shift spending away from hospitals, its hard to justify the decision to keep spending on public health flat for the next three years when the NHS will see real terms spending growth
Prevention shift ‘left behind’ as budgets are held flat
Public health allocations are due to be held flat in real terms for three years, despite the government's intended "shift from treatment to prevention".
www.hsj.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Given the govt's comittment to a) shift care from treatment to prevention and b) shift spending away from hospitals, its hard to justify the decision to keep spending on public health flat for the next three years when the NHS will see real terms spending growth
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I'm deeply concerned about the wellbeing of prisoners who were involved in Palestine Action protests, and are currently on hunger strike.
Some have not eaten for six weeks. A number have been hospitalised. They are all being held on remand - without trial or conviction.
Some have not eaten for six weeks. A number have been hospitalised. They are all being held on remand - without trial or conviction.
December 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I'm deeply concerned about the wellbeing of prisoners who were involved in Palestine Action protests, and are currently on hunger strike.
Some have not eaten for six weeks. A number have been hospitalised. They are all being held on remand - without trial or conviction.
Some have not eaten for six weeks. A number have been hospitalised. They are all being held on remand - without trial or conviction.
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Dividends are taxed at marginal rates of 8.75%, 33.75%, and 39.35%, no national insurance is levied.
Wages taxed at 20%-45% +NIC.
Aligning taxation of dividends with wages could raise £6bn a year. Even higher if national insurance is also charged.
Wages taxed at 20%-45% +NIC.
Aligning taxation of dividends with wages could raise £6bn a year. Even higher if national insurance is also charged.
This is how Rachel Reeves could deliver a progressive budget
The chancellor has an opportunity to boost the public purpose and deliver redistribution
leftfootforward.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Dividends are taxed at marginal rates of 8.75%, 33.75%, and 39.35%, no national insurance is levied.
Wages taxed at 20%-45% +NIC.
Aligning taxation of dividends with wages could raise £6bn a year. Even higher if national insurance is also charged.
Wages taxed at 20%-45% +NIC.
Aligning taxation of dividends with wages could raise £6bn a year. Even higher if national insurance is also charged.
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This is a fabulous read. The figures might be specific to the USA, but the principle applies wherever neocapitalism has been applied. Read it, and feel it in your bones.
Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This is a fabulous read. The figures might be specific to the USA, but the principle applies wherever neocapitalism has been applied. Read it, and feel it in your bones.
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We’re at Parliament today to support @patmillsuk.bsky.social & the call to tax wealth more than work in next week’s Budget 👇
November 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
We’re at Parliament today to support @patmillsuk.bsky.social & the call to tax wealth more than work in next week’s Budget 👇
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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
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I find it bizarre all these claims of “left wing bias”. What I see/hear is right wing bias. Too much Farage & Badenoch, almost no Liberal Democrats & Greens, and in Caerphilly by-election Plaid Cymru mostly ignored. Reporting on Labour assumes failure…
BBC in crisis: why did Tim Davie and Deborah Turness resign?
BBC in crisis: why did Tim Davie and Deborah Turness resign?
Director general and head of news quit amid accusations of bias over Trump and trans issues at broadcaster
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I find it bizarre all these claims of “left wing bias”. What I see/hear is right wing bias. Too much Farage & Badenoch, almost no Liberal Democrats & Greens, and in Caerphilly by-election Plaid Cymru mostly ignored. Reporting on Labour assumes failure…
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🔀 With politics fragmenting, leading academics are warning First Past the Post risks plunging the UK into chaos at the next general election
🤝 The Government and all parties have an opportunity to get a grip on this risk to our national stability
👉 We need a National Commission on Electoral Reform
🤝 The Government and all parties have an opportunity to get a grip on this risk to our national stability
👉 We need a National Commission on Electoral Reform
Ed Davey wants to 'work with government' on electoral reform - BBC News
The Liberal Democrat leader backs replacing first-past-the-post with proportional representation.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:39 AM
🔀 With politics fragmenting, leading academics are warning First Past the Post risks plunging the UK into chaos at the next general election
🤝 The Government and all parties have an opportunity to get a grip on this risk to our national stability
👉 We need a National Commission on Electoral Reform
🤝 The Government and all parties have an opportunity to get a grip on this risk to our national stability
👉 We need a National Commission on Electoral Reform
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Same bullshit from Farage about how EU Government was taking all your money and we didn't get anything back.
October 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Same bullshit from Farage about how EU Government was taking all your money and we didn't get anything back.
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Why is a Labour Home Secretary perpetuating this myth in The Sun?
Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage
Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage
October 23, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Why is a Labour Home Secretary perpetuating this myth in The Sun?
Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage
Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage
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Why 9 river walks won't work: The Dart River in Devon alone has 108 landowners. Negotiating access river by river is a logistical nightmare. A simple law change to grant default right of access could unlock every river.
October 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Why 9 river walks won't work: The Dart River in Devon alone has 108 landowners. Negotiating access river by river is a logistical nightmare. A simple law change to grant default right of access could unlock every river.
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So all Jewish people are Israelis and Tel Aviv football fans? .. according to Ms Badenoch. Aligning all Jews with a political state - or even an Israeli anti-Arab football team - is dangerous.
October 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
So all Jewish people are Israelis and Tel Aviv football fans? .. according to Ms Badenoch. Aligning all Jews with a political state - or even an Israeli anti-Arab football team - is dangerous.
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This is beautiful @zackpolanski.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
This is beautiful @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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Corporate Welfare
London developers to build fewer affordable homes, but get higher subsidies to build them.
Why build unaffordable homes?
Why subsidies for highly profitable companies? Subsidies will be swallowed by companies, won't filter down to people.
Let councils build affordable homes.
London developers to build fewer affordable homes, but get higher subsidies to build them.
Why build unaffordable homes?
Why subsidies for highly profitable companies? Subsidies will be swallowed by companies, won't filter down to people.
Let councils build affordable homes.
London developers to be allowed to reduce percentage of affordable homes
Housing secretary and capital’s mayor draw up plans to boost housebuilding, but homelessness charities protest
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Corporate Welfare
London developers to build fewer affordable homes, but get higher subsidies to build them.
Why build unaffordable homes?
Why subsidies for highly profitable companies? Subsidies will be swallowed by companies, won't filter down to people.
Let councils build affordable homes.
London developers to build fewer affordable homes, but get higher subsidies to build them.
Why build unaffordable homes?
Why subsidies for highly profitable companies? Subsidies will be swallowed by companies, won't filter down to people.
Let councils build affordable homes.
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IF THIS IS NOT HOSTAGE TAKING, WHAT IS? Israel refuses to release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya who insisted on staying with his patients in his bombed hospital even after his own son was murdered. Since then he has been held in one of Israel's torture facilities.
October 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
IF THIS IS NOT HOSTAGE TAKING, WHAT IS? Israel refuses to release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya who insisted on staying with his patients in his bombed hospital even after his own son was murdered. Since then he has been held in one of Israel's torture facilities.
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More evidence of Private Equity disaster in US healthcare
PE bought hospitals, GP practices, nursing homes.
Cut wages, staff, investment, care; load with debt; extract profits; deaths, injuries rise.
Why is UK govt handing healthcare to PE/corporations?
Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.
PE bought hospitals, GP practices, nursing homes.
Cut wages, staff, investment, care; load with debt; extract profits; deaths, injuries rise.
Why is UK govt handing healthcare to PE/corporations?
Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.
Private Equity in Health Care - ACHI
This explainer examines the rise of private equity in healthcare, the financial structures behind private equity transactions, what the evidence shows about the impacts of these transactions on the he...
achi.net
October 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
More evidence of Private Equity disaster in US healthcare
PE bought hospitals, GP practices, nursing homes.
Cut wages, staff, investment, care; load with debt; extract profits; deaths, injuries rise.
Why is UK govt handing healthcare to PE/corporations?
Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.
PE bought hospitals, GP practices, nursing homes.
Cut wages, staff, investment, care; load with debt; extract profits; deaths, injuries rise.
Why is UK govt handing healthcare to PE/corporations?
Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.
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I don't think I was that cocky at 25 but I definitely thought things were simpler than I do now...
October 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I don't think I was that cocky at 25 but I definitely thought things were simpler than I do now...
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NHS increased use of the private sector under Labour govt.
Private sector delivered 22.1% of ophthalmic, 20.5% of orthopaedic procedures.
Numbers of NHS patients treated by private sector up by 10%.
With profit margins of up to 40% money buys less.
More efficient to expand NHS capacity.
Private sector delivered 22.1% of ophthalmic, 20.5% of orthopaedic procedures.
Numbers of NHS patients treated by private sector up by 10%.
With profit margins of up to 40% money buys less.
More efficient to expand NHS capacity.
New ICB figures show uneven trends on use of private sector? - The Lowdown
New figures published earlier this month show the extent to which some Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) have increased their use of the private sector since Labour took office last July, and the extent t...
lowdownnhs.info
October 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
NHS increased use of the private sector under Labour govt.
Private sector delivered 22.1% of ophthalmic, 20.5% of orthopaedic procedures.
Numbers of NHS patients treated by private sector up by 10%.
With profit margins of up to 40% money buys less.
More efficient to expand NHS capacity.
Private sector delivered 22.1% of ophthalmic, 20.5% of orthopaedic procedures.
Numbers of NHS patients treated by private sector up by 10%.
With profit margins of up to 40% money buys less.
More efficient to expand NHS capacity.
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One-third of UK children grow up in poverty, higher risk of dying young.
In some areas 62% of children live in poverty.
Children’s education, health, future employment prospects destroyed.
Caused by govts - austerity, low wages, spending cuts, fiscal rules.
Poverty is a political choice.
In some areas 62% of children live in poverty.
Children’s education, health, future employment prospects destroyed.
Caused by govts - austerity, low wages, spending cuts, fiscal rules.
Poverty is a political choice.
One-third of UK children grow up in poverty with higher risk of dying young
Children in the most deprived areas of the UK face higher death rates as childhood poverty continues to rise, according to research.
www.nursinginpractice.com
October 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
One-third of UK children grow up in poverty, higher risk of dying young.
In some areas 62% of children live in poverty.
Children’s education, health, future employment prospects destroyed.
Caused by govts - austerity, low wages, spending cuts, fiscal rules.
Poverty is a political choice.
In some areas 62% of children live in poverty.
Children’s education, health, future employment prospects destroyed.
Caused by govts - austerity, low wages, spending cuts, fiscal rules.
Poverty is a political choice.
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We can all agree that the attack on the Synagogue in Manchester was terrorism
So why is setting a Mosque alight just 'arson' and a 'hate crime' and also not terrorism?
So why is setting a Mosque alight just 'arson' and a 'hate crime' and also not terrorism?
October 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
We can all agree that the attack on the Synagogue in Manchester was terrorism
So why is setting a Mosque alight just 'arson' and a 'hate crime' and also not terrorism?
So why is setting a Mosque alight just 'arson' and a 'hate crime' and also not terrorism?
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Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It hurt when I crashed my bike into a pothole – and it taught me the true price of austerity | George Monbiot
Fixing that hole could have cost under £100; the cost of not doing so is limitless. My prang highlights the neoliberal folly of false economies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...