Candi 🤸🏽♂️
@candiwp.bsky.social
Some would call me a Champagne Socialist…I fail to see how enjoying a good glass of Tattinger relates to my political leaning
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@pimlicat.bsky.social, Best for Britain CEO: "The danger in peddling these myths isn’t just that it stokes xenophobia. It distracts us from the real challenges."
🇬🇧"These are British problems, and they deserve real solutions - not scapegoats."
www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...
🇬🇧"These are British problems, and they deserve real solutions - not scapegoats."
www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...
Scapegoating migrants won’t fix Britain’s welfare system
When it comes to Universal Credit, there is no foreign invasion - just ordinary people, overwhelmingly British, struggling to get by.
www.lbc.co.uk
July 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
@pimlicat.bsky.social, Best for Britain CEO: "The danger in peddling these myths isn’t just that it stokes xenophobia. It distracts us from the real challenges."
🇬🇧"These are British problems, and they deserve real solutions - not scapegoats."
www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...
🇬🇧"These are British problems, and they deserve real solutions - not scapegoats."
www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...
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Shocking….said absolutely nobody www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Billionaires Score Best-Ever Day as Stocks Soar on Tariff Pause
The world’s wealthiest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth on Wednesday — the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — as stock markets soared after ...
www.bloomberg.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Shocking….said absolutely nobody www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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So now that the EU is on the same 10% tariff as the UK, could we please hear from all those who tried to portray the previous scenario as a 'Brexit benefit'...
April 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
So now that the EU is on the same 10% tariff as the UK, could we please hear from all those who tried to portray the previous scenario as a 'Brexit benefit'...
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BREAKING: European Union retaliates against Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs with countermeasures on up to $28 billion worth of American goods exports
Trump imposes sweeping 25% steel and aluminum tariffs. Europe immediately retaliates | CNN Business
President Donald Trump imposed a sweeping 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum imported into the United States on Wednesday, a policy aimed at leveling the playing field for US manufacturing but a mov...
www.cnn.com
March 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
BREAKING: European Union retaliates against Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs with countermeasures on up to $28 billion worth of American goods exports
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Thames Water refinancing scam.
Pimco books 17% instant profit on Thames Water emergency loan.
Company already has £19.5bn debt, another £3bn added, customer bills will rocket.
OFWAT doesn't protect people.
archive.ph/9rIel
Pimco books 17% instant profit on Thames Water emergency loan.
Company already has £19.5bn debt, another £3bn added, customer bills will rocket.
OFWAT doesn't protect people.
archive.ph/9rIel
Pimco books 17% instant profit on Thames Water emergency loan
Bond group records windfall on lifeline for UK utility even before deal is finalised
www.ft.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Thames Water refinancing scam.
Pimco books 17% instant profit on Thames Water emergency loan.
Company already has £19.5bn debt, another £3bn added, customer bills will rocket.
OFWAT doesn't protect people.
archive.ph/9rIel
Pimco books 17% instant profit on Thames Water emergency loan.
Company already has £19.5bn debt, another £3bn added, customer bills will rocket.
OFWAT doesn't protect people.
archive.ph/9rIel
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Just 1% of the UK population has wealth of £2.8 trillion, compared to £2.4 trillion held by 70% of the population combined.
The richest FOUR Britons have more wealth than 20m people combined.
Rich have hijacked govts.
Must tax the rich to improve life chances of the rest.
The richest FOUR Britons have more wealth than 20m people combined.
Rich have hijacked govts.
Must tax the rich to improve life chances of the rest.
Here’s how Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement must offer hope
'The government needs to recalibrate policies'
leftfootforward.org
March 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Just 1% of the UK population has wealth of £2.8 trillion, compared to £2.4 trillion held by 70% of the population combined.
The richest FOUR Britons have more wealth than 20m people combined.
Rich have hijacked govts.
Must tax the rich to improve life chances of the rest.
The richest FOUR Britons have more wealth than 20m people combined.
Rich have hijacked govts.
Must tax the rich to improve life chances of the rest.
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Wow — mega congrats to Bluesky on reaching 33 MILLION users! 💙🦋
bsky-users.theo.io
bsky-users.theo.io
March 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Keir Starmer has declared war on disabled people.
Labour are planning to be even crueller than the Tories.
Is this why people join Labour - to kick vulnerable people?
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/labour-dec...
Labour are planning to be even crueller than the Tories.
Is this why people join Labour - to kick vulnerable people?
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/labour-dec...
March 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Keir Starmer has declared war on disabled people.
Labour are planning to be even crueller than the Tories.
Is this why people join Labour - to kick vulnerable people?
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/labour-dec...
Labour are planning to be even crueller than the Tories.
Is this why people join Labour - to kick vulnerable people?
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/labour-dec...
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I TOLD YOU SO!!
Julia Hartley-Brewer says ban ALL refugees because it's too dangerous to take in people from Gaza.
She supported the destruction of Gaza, but now says its people are too radicalised to help.
Julia Hartley-Brewer says ban ALL refugees because it's too dangerous to take in people from Gaza.
She supported the destruction of Gaza, but now says its people are too radicalised to help.
Too "dangerous" to accept refugees from Gaza? - Julia Hartley-Brewer on Abu Wadee
YouTube video by Femi
youtu.be
March 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I TOLD YOU SO!!
Julia Hartley-Brewer says ban ALL refugees because it's too dangerous to take in people from Gaza.
She supported the destruction of Gaza, but now says its people are too radicalised to help.
Julia Hartley-Brewer says ban ALL refugees because it's too dangerous to take in people from Gaza.
She supported the destruction of Gaza, but now says its people are too radicalised to help.
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A message from Spain's left-wing government to the UK: take heart from our success on workers' rights. Raising living standards is the key to combating the far right.
"If you fall into the dialogue of the far right, the far right wins."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
"If you fall into the dialogue of the far right, the far right wins."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘If you fall into the dialogue of the far right, the far right wins’: Spain’s deputy PM on the need for workers’ rights
Yolanda Díaz Pérez’s leftwing government has championed employment reform similar to Labour’s proposals – and she tells British business there is nothing to fear
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
A message from Spain's left-wing government to the UK: take heart from our success on workers' rights. Raising living standards is the key to combating the far right.
"If you fall into the dialogue of the far right, the far right wins."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
"If you fall into the dialogue of the far right, the far right wins."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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UK capital gains taxed at 10%-28% rate; Dividends at 8.75% - 39.35%. No NIC levied.
Wages at 20% - 45% rates + NIC.
Taxing wealth at lower rates is unfair.
By aligning taxation of dividends & capital gains with wages & charging NIC, govt can collect up to £20bn.
No case for austerity.
Wages at 20% - 45% rates + NIC.
Taxing wealth at lower rates is unfair.
By aligning taxation of dividends & capital gains with wages & charging NIC, govt can collect up to £20bn.
No case for austerity.
leftfootforward.org
March 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
UK capital gains taxed at 10%-28% rate; Dividends at 8.75% - 39.35%. No NIC levied.
Wages at 20% - 45% rates + NIC.
Taxing wealth at lower rates is unfair.
By aligning taxation of dividends & capital gains with wages & charging NIC, govt can collect up to £20bn.
No case for austerity.
Wages at 20% - 45% rates + NIC.
Taxing wealth at lower rates is unfair.
By aligning taxation of dividends & capital gains with wages & charging NIC, govt can collect up to £20bn.
No case for austerity.
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The last *seven days*?
What *we* have *always feared*?
What an irredeemable fraud he is.
Gets a whole chapter in ‘How They Broke Britain’.
And here he is now, ‘seeing the light’.
Danny Dyer voiceover: “Twat.”
What *we* have *always feared*?
What an irredeemable fraud he is.
Gets a whole chapter in ‘How They Broke Britain’.
And here he is now, ‘seeing the light’.
Danny Dyer voiceover: “Twat.”
March 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The last *seven days*?
What *we* have *always feared*?
What an irredeemable fraud he is.
Gets a whole chapter in ‘How They Broke Britain’.
And here he is now, ‘seeing the light’.
Danny Dyer voiceover: “Twat.”
What *we* have *always feared*?
What an irredeemable fraud he is.
Gets a whole chapter in ‘How They Broke Britain’.
And here he is now, ‘seeing the light’.
Danny Dyer voiceover: “Twat.”
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🚨BREAKING: Tesla’s stock now down -30% for the month…👇
Are the boycotts actually affecting the stock?
Fuck yeah, they are!
Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨
#BankruptTesla
Are the boycotts actually affecting the stock?
Fuck yeah, they are!
Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨
#BankruptTesla
March 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
🚨BREAKING: Tesla’s stock now down -30% for the month…👇
Are the boycotts actually affecting the stock?
Fuck yeah, they are!
Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨
#BankruptTesla
Are the boycotts actually affecting the stock?
Fuck yeah, they are!
Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨
#BankruptTesla
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Course he does.
I often wonder how much of this clown's wannabe media mogul motivation comes from his son (Winston Aubrey Aladar deBalkan Marshall) being binned/resigning from - I kid you not, Mumford & Sons* - after he bigged up a fascist-adjacent fucknugget.
*I think he played the banjo.
I often wonder how much of this clown's wannabe media mogul motivation comes from his son (Winston Aubrey Aladar deBalkan Marshall) being binned/resigning from - I kid you not, Mumford & Sons* - after he bigged up a fascist-adjacent fucknugget.
*I think he played the banjo.
GB News and Spectator owner Paul Marshall, who has a history of liking far-right, homophobic, Islamophobic and racist tweets, wants to inculcate the next generation of journalists in his own intolerance?
Spectator owner said to be planning to fund new generation of UK journalists
Multimillionaire Paul Marshall understood to be talking to senior figures in Britain’s right-leaning media about the idea
www.theguardian.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Course he does.
I often wonder how much of this clown's wannabe media mogul motivation comes from his son (Winston Aubrey Aladar deBalkan Marshall) being binned/resigning from - I kid you not, Mumford & Sons* - after he bigged up a fascist-adjacent fucknugget.
*I think he played the banjo.
I often wonder how much of this clown's wannabe media mogul motivation comes from his son (Winston Aubrey Aladar deBalkan Marshall) being binned/resigning from - I kid you not, Mumford & Sons* - after he bigged up a fascist-adjacent fucknugget.
*I think he played the banjo.
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Nigel Farage is not a popular person today.
March 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Nigel Farage is not a popular person today.
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Interesting call today from a former Reform candidate with little or no love for Farage. This episode has really crystallised his position & I doubt he’s alone. Significant cos Farage hasn’t simply endorsed Trump, he’s manacled himself to him politically & in many ways personally.
In 2.5 weeks, Donald Trump has gone from a +38 net favourability rating among Reform UK voters to -8
All Britons
Favourable: 15% (-7 from 16-17 Feb)
Unfavourable: 80% (+7)
Reform UK voters
Favourable: 45% (-21)
Unfavourable: 53% (+25)
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
All Britons
Favourable: 15% (-7 from 16-17 Feb)
Unfavourable: 80% (+7)
Reform UK voters
Favourable: 45% (-21)
Unfavourable: 53% (+25)
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
March 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Interesting call today from a former Reform candidate with little or no love for Farage. This episode has really crystallised his position & I doubt he’s alone. Significant cos Farage hasn’t simply endorsed Trump, he’s manacled himself to him politically & in many ways personally.
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A new @yougov.co.uk voting intention poll shows that in constituencies where only Labour or Reform UK could win, tactical voting would see Labour defeat Reform
leftfootforward.org/2025/03/is-t...
leftfootforward.org/2025/03/is-t...
Is tactical voting the way to defeat Reform UK?
A YouGov study has revealed that in a Labour-Reform UK contest, tactical voting benefits Labour the most
leftfootforward.org
March 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
A new @yougov.co.uk voting intention poll shows that in constituencies where only Labour or Reform UK could win, tactical voting would see Labour defeat Reform
leftfootforward.org/2025/03/is-t...
leftfootforward.org/2025/03/is-t...
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What an astonishing own goal by Badenoch. Especially after her own shadow Defence Secretary has called the comments "deeply disrespectful". Even Farage had to condemn them.
Turns out patriotism is more than wearing a union flag jacket. Clowns. ~AA
Turns out patriotism is more than wearing a union flag jacket. Clowns. ~AA
March 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
What an astonishing own goal by Badenoch. Especially after her own shadow Defence Secretary has called the comments "deeply disrespectful". Even Farage had to condemn them.
Turns out patriotism is more than wearing a union flag jacket. Clowns. ~AA
Turns out patriotism is more than wearing a union flag jacket. Clowns. ~AA
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Front page reactions to JD Vance's insult to Britain today.
An insult to those who sacrificed their lives and a belittling of the thousands of British service men and women living with the physical and mental scars of war.
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An insult to those who sacrificed their lives and a belittling of the thousands of British service men and women living with the physical and mental scars of war.
🧵👇
March 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Front page reactions to JD Vance's insult to Britain today.
An insult to those who sacrificed their lives and a belittling of the thousands of British service men and women living with the physical and mental scars of war.
🧵👇
An insult to those who sacrificed their lives and a belittling of the thousands of British service men and women living with the physical and mental scars of war.
🧵👇
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United Utilities dumped raw sewage for 6,327 hours last year in Lake Windermere, England’s largest lake.
It has over 205 criminal convictions. Boosts profits, dividends, exec pay by sewage dumping.
Allowed to hike prices by 32%.
Nationalise. Prosecute directors.
archive.ph/23xXb
It has over 205 criminal convictions. Boosts profits, dividends, exec pay by sewage dumping.
Allowed to hike prices by 32%.
Nationalise. Prosecute directors.
archive.ph/23xXb
Raw sewage poured into Windermere for 6,000 hours last year
United Utilities’ treatment works and pumping stations released untreated sewage for 6,327 hours in the catchment of England’s largest lake, figures show
www.thetimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
United Utilities dumped raw sewage for 6,327 hours last year in Lake Windermere, England’s largest lake.
It has over 205 criminal convictions. Boosts profits, dividends, exec pay by sewage dumping.
Allowed to hike prices by 32%.
Nationalise. Prosecute directors.
archive.ph/23xXb
It has over 205 criminal convictions. Boosts profits, dividends, exec pay by sewage dumping.
Allowed to hike prices by 32%.
Nationalise. Prosecute directors.
archive.ph/23xXb
Nooooooooooooooo
Soul singer Angie Stone dies in a car crash at 63
Soul singer Angie Stone dies in a car crash at 63
The star, who had been in the Sequence before solo hit Wish I Didn’t Miss You, was died from her injuries in Alabama
Singer Angie Stone, known for her hit Wish I Didn’t Miss You, has died at the age of 63.
A representative for the singer confirmed to…
www.theguardian.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Nooooooooooooooo
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I think this is the closest many of us have ever got to seeing the real Trump. The only consistent thread in his entire unhinged rant was the love & praise for Vladimir Putin. Zelensky has more courage & dignity in his little finger than every member of Trump's regime & fan club combined.
February 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I think this is the closest many of us have ever got to seeing the real Trump. The only consistent thread in his entire unhinged rant was the love & praise for Vladimir Putin. Zelensky has more courage & dignity in his little finger than every member of Trump's regime & fan club combined.
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🔴Reform’s Policies Are Dangerously Out of Step With Public Opinion and It’s Time the Media Started Scrutinising Them’
The British press has given Nigel Farage’s party a free ride for too long, argues Salman Shaheen
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/28/r...
The British press has given Nigel Farage’s party a free ride for too long, argues Salman Shaheen
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/28/r...
'Reform's Policies Are Dangerously Out of Step With Public Opinion and It's Time the Media Started Scrutinising Them'
The British press has given Nigel Farage's party a free ride for too long, argues Salman Shaheen
bylinetimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🔴Reform’s Policies Are Dangerously Out of Step With Public Opinion and It’s Time the Media Started Scrutinising Them’
The British press has given Nigel Farage’s party a free ride for too long, argues Salman Shaheen
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/28/r...
The British press has given Nigel Farage’s party a free ride for too long, argues Salman Shaheen
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/28/r...
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If @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social can't remember why "the UK is not ready" for this changing world and why our defence is threadbare, I put together a useful reminder. ~AA
February 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
If @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social can't remember why "the UK is not ready" for this changing world and why our defence is threadbare, I put together a useful reminder. ~AA
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Spain's economy is booming - thanks to immigration.
Ideological rigidity against foreign-born workers isn’t just xenophobic, it’s economically shortsighted.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ideological rigidity against foreign-born workers isn’t just xenophobic, it’s economically shortsighted.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why is Spain’s economy booming? Thanks to migration – which proves xenophobia doesn’t pay | María Ramírez
With Spanish GDP growth leading Europe last year, diversity is making us richer – not only financially but culturally, too, says journalist María Ramírez
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Spain's economy is booming - thanks to immigration.
Ideological rigidity against foreign-born workers isn’t just xenophobic, it’s economically shortsighted.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ideological rigidity against foreign-born workers isn’t just xenophobic, it’s economically shortsighted.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...