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Maddy
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A Socialist searching for the truth and fighting for democracy!✊🏻
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Everything Must Change: What’s Next for This Channel youtu.be/36Nh1uZWmDM?... After a year of challenging the political status quo, it’s time for something new. In this video, I explain how my video channel is evolving — more content, more community, and new ways to get involved.
Everything Must Change: What’s Next for This Channel
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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June 19, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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It was said that charging VAT on private school fees would result in a flood of children moving into state schools. It hasn't and it won't. Status is worth some extra tax to the well-off. We should tax it more. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
The rich don’t change their behaviour because of a bit of additional tax
As the Guardian has noted this morning: Predictions that adding VAT to private school fees would set off a wave of parents moving children to the state sector have been proved wrong at their first key...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
March 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Musk’s attack on the USA and Israel’s on the people of Gaza have the same philosophical root www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03... Musk and Netanyahu are followers of a corrupt philosophy applied in extreme ways.
Musk’s attack on the USA and Israel’s on the people of Gaza have the same philosophical root
As the Guardian has reported  in an email this morning: Israel is to cut off any remaining electricity supplies to Gaza in an apparent attempt to ramp up pressure on Hamas, as multi-track negotiations...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
March 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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New legislation pushed by Musk would give him the largest payout in history, shield CEOs from accountability for wrongdoing & block shareholders from seeing corporate documents

Who would have guessed

www.levernews.com/musk-has-tri...
Musk Has Triggered A Corporate Deregulation Bomb
A Delaware bill would award Elon Musk $56 billion, shield corporate executives from liability, and strip away voting power from shareholders.
www.levernews.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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The Starmerite centrists are out in force, this will continue as their beloved leader continues to twist the knife in their backs, at what point will the penny drop for them?
March 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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What is happening today in the US is being mirrored in the UK by Starmer's changed Labour Party.
A policy roll out that accelerates the evisceration of public infrastructure, the hollowing out of the civil service, and the demonisation and punishment of those on benefits and low incomes.
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March 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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March 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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A think tank has issued a stark warning over Labour's planned DWP cuts

The Resolution Foundation found that Labour's planned cuts would hit poorest people the hardest.

Overall, nearly HALF A MILLION people would see their benefits cut @wordsbyhg.bsky.social reports
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
A think tank has issued a stark warning over Labour's planned DWP cuts
The Resolution Foundation has found that Labour's proposed DWP cuts would hit 460,000 of the poorest people
www.thecanary.co
March 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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🚨Plans to cut welfare benefits for those with extreme disabilities & unfit to work will be CATASTROPHIC for some of the poorest & most vulnerable people in our society

Balancing books cannot come at the expense of those who can least afford it

NOW IS THE TIME TO SPEAK OUT
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WELFARE CUTS: Balancing the books cannot come at the expense of those who can least afford it
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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March 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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🇮🇱Israel has been quietly financing UK parliamentary staff, Declassified has found.

This comes after we revealed that one in four British MPs had accepted funding from the Israel lobby.
www.declassifieduk.org/how-israel-f...
How Israel funds UK parliamentary staff
Israel is quietly financing assistants of British MPs, Declassified has found.
www.declassifieduk.org
March 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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November 17, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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We live in a Mediaocracy and the Media is run by people like Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk.
November 17, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.
November 15, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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If you are a socialist and support people, not greedy billionaires, mega corporations and their ever increasing profits which are stolen from you.

RT this and find some more friends.
November 15, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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When over 50% of the casualties are children it’s not a war… it’s a GEN0CIDE
November 15, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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Whilst the government relaxes rules on banker’s bonuses and clamps down on support for struggling families, thousands of children are going hungry at school.

Our political system is rigged in favour of the wealthy few. We need to build an alternative.
Milton Keynes children 'pretending to eat from empty lunchboxes'
More than one in three children in Milton Keynes are living in poverty, an organisation says.
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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The Morning Star doesn't yet have a presence on this platform but there's nowt to stop you going out and buying one.
As they say "You can’t buy a revolution, but you can support the only daily paper in Britain that’s fighting for one"
November 15, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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#SocialistSunday 🌹 #Solidarity

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend

(Albert Camus)
November 17, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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Obesity has a simple cause: the food industry is poisoning us www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/11... A House of Lords report has made clear that obesity, and all the many diseases that flow from it, has one cause - and that is the dire food that food industry now supplies, that is poisoning us all.
Obesity has a simple cause: the food industry is poisoning us
I missed the fact that the House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee published a report entitled 'Recipe for health: a plan to fix our broken food system' on 24 October this year. The Report is...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
November 17, 2024 at 8:50 AM
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How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump
(Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3v...
TESLA = TRUMP
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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November 9, 2024 at 10:39 AM
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King Charles charges this RNLI lifeboat station to launch its boat because he owns the beach. And they’re not the only charity he’s rinsing

(Location: Sennen Cove, Cornwall)

youtu.be/pocnThE3nHc
CHARLES, STOP FLEECING BRITAIN
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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November 14, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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Lowkey EXPOSES Israel Lobby In Keir Starmer’s Labour Party
Lowkey EXPOSES Israel Lobby in Keir Starmer's Labour Party
“The Israel Lobby is real, it exists and it’s coming to a parliament near you”
www.doubledown.news
June 17, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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EXPOSED: What REALLY Happened in Amsterdam
EXPOSED: What REALLY Happened in Amsterdam
The Video The Media Doesn’t Want You To See
www.doubledown.news
November 14, 2024 at 11:51 AM