Frankie Patterson
busy-body.bsky.social
Frankie Patterson
@busy-body.bsky.social
Actor, socialist, wife, mother, granny, gardener. Likes books, theatre, cinema and going out for lunch or coffee.
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🚀 PETITION LAUNCH 🚀

We’re calling on the government to urgently introduce a ticket levy on the corporate sponsors of large arena and stadium shows to save Britain's grassroots music venues.

✍️ Sign our #MusicForTheMany petition: thecorbynproject.com/savegrassrootsmusic
January 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Timely…
Asked by Sky News whether his fellow Reform MP previously being jailed for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend, and then subsequently lying to voters about it, should be grounds for his expulsion from the party, Nigel Farage replies that "I've got a million followers on TikTok" and storms off
November 29, 2024 at 8:27 AM
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"Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers.” 💰🧐
Whose land? Tax avoidance and the broken economics of British farming
Noise in the billionaire press about inheritance tax changes hides a basic fact: the non-farming rich own too much land
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 29, 2024 at 7:29 AM
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A gentle reminder that Kemi Badenoch admitted hacking into a website, which is a criminal offence
November 29, 2024 at 10:28 AM
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Despite the ICC arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, the US and UK governments continue to sell arms to Israel and fund the slaughter of Palestinian civilians.

For the sake of humanity, they must end their complicity in this genocide.
At least 42 Palestinians killed as Israel ramps up Gaza attacks
Medics say an Israeli drone strike killed Ahmed al-Kahlout, head of the Intensive Care Unit at Kamal Adwan Hospital.
www.aljazeera.com
November 30, 2024 at 9:19 AM
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83% of plant life in Gaza has been destroyed.

Israel's genocide is making Gaza uninhabitable - and our media outlets are complicit by suppressing the truth.

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/83-all-pla...
83% all plant life in Gaza destroyed: two devastating reports on Israel's genocide
Two reports detail the hideous consequences of Israel's Western-facilitated genocide. And yet the Western media bury or ignore them altogether.
www.owenjones.news
November 29, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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In other news millions of people in the UK are living in poverty, destitution & using food banks
November 20, 2024 at 12:52 PM
November 17, 2024 at 3:17 PM
November 17, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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Liz Kendall, has refused to rule out replacing PIP payments with vouchers

They are revelling in making Disabled people live in absolute terror aren’t they by their stalling & deliberate evasion of answering questions

Disabled people are treated with disdain by every single government
November 19, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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If you've not seen the #LabourFiles
I suggest you watch and pay attention.
@Keir_Starmer 's
@UKLabour party are a cess pit of racism
From the top of the party down.

#SteerClearOfKeir
#StarmerLies

youtu.be/elp18OvnNV0

youtu.be/5DTMF0MSXng

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The Labour Files – Episode 1 – The Purge I Al Jazeera Investigations
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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November 16, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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Let me think. Our biggest trading partner or Donald Trump

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK must choose between EU and Trump, trade experts warn
Pascal Lamy, former head of the WTO, says Britain will have to take sides if new US administration slaps hefty tariffs on imports, as fears grow over possible trade war
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 12:11 AM
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This is why I am making my way over to friendlier, less rigged skies here. Why play on an unlevel field?
November 17, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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Wow. BBC also didn’t think this was important enough to raise with the Government Minister this morning. What do we think is going on here?
In a significant Intervention Bank of England governor said this week that Brexit has undermined the UK economy. @skynews.com.web.brid.gy didn’t think that was important enough to raise with the Government Minister this morning. I disagree. If you do too share this report

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The Bank of England governor says Brexit has undermined the UK economy. Hold onto your seats..
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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November 17, 2024 at 9:18 AM