Phyllis Tyne
phyllis-tyne.bsky.social
Phyllis Tyne
@phyllis-tyne.bsky.social
Retired. Lifelong NHS/HE. Pissed off with everything. In despair about Brexit. Blocked by 2 Lords and @afneil over on the dark side 🤣
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Desperate headlines from the Mail (and the Telegraph) about Sadiq Khan being knighted in the New Year’s honour list

I’m a LIbDem but it seems to me that someone who wins three elections in a row qualifies for a knighthood

More so than Shaun Bailey, who lost to Khan and is now in the Lords
December 31, 2024 at 10:48 AM
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World’s biggest bank shuns UK bonds over minimum wage fears.

Pathetic. Millionaires at JP Morgan resent that the poor may be able to afford food, housing, education, pension.

Can't recall bankers concerned about dangers from their own speculation & profiteering.

It is class war.
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World’s biggest bank shuns UK bonds over minimum wage fears
JP Morgan cites ‘big uncertainty’ around pay increases as it avoids British debt
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 30, 2024 at 8:18 AM
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Oh god. The inevitable Daily Mail tantrum at a Labour govt edging towards a slightly less ruinous relationship with our own continent.
What do these idiotic nationalists want? Permanent hostility? Endless cost and loss?
‘Betraying’ Brexit is an act of patriotic necessity now, you howling clowns.
December 15, 2024 at 9:06 AM
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“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs, whatever.”
Fight back against fascism: how big money is threatening democracy
Fascism thrives when democracy falters. From funding Reform to vigilance, here’s how we protect our future
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 15, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?”
@josiah.writes.news

bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?
Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners
bylinetimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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December 9, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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Self proclaimed “patriot” Farage is so patriotic he used a tax haven to avoid paying taxes like me and you 🤬

He now gets paid tens of £1,000’s by a company advising others on how to swerve paying tax

You don’t patriotism like that for free… but you can if you get your cheque book out❗️
We’ve updated our Clacton billboard to tell voters their MP just took £40k from a US firm that advises clients how to offshore their money and pay less tax. For the full story see video below 👇
December 5, 2024 at 2:50 PM
I am generally against making voting difficult by requiring ID etc, but I am increasingly thinking that an IQ of over 25 should be required. Trump and Reform would instantly cease to be a threat.
December 5, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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And there it is - 24 million users on Bluesky. 🦋

…and still growing faster than one per second.
December 3, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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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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🙌 Now over 23,800 🙌
🔥 OK, let’s REALLY test out the power of this new Bluesky community.

All of you #Rejoin folk out there… You saw that we just appointed Dominic Grieve & Caroline Lucas as co-Presidents…

And you know our 23,000 membership is now growing fast…

So - are we doing this? Are you IN?

Then join! 👇👇
European Movement
We're the UK's largest pro-European movement. Our goal is to reverse the calamity of Brexit and restore relations with our European neighbours.
www.europeanmovement.co.uk
November 26, 2024 at 9:40 AM
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Truth behind GE petition as identities behind signatures debunked

Thousands of those who have signed aren't even living in the UK. In fact the petition has been signed by people based across a whopping 184 countries. Numbers soared after Musk shamelessly shared it
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Truth behind general election petition as identities behind signatures debunked
A petition calling for a general election has been signed by people based across a whopping 184 countries, from the British Antarctic Territory to China to the United Arab Emirates
www.mirror.co.uk
November 26, 2024 at 11:56 AM
Twitter is still sometime worth a visit 😂
November 21, 2024 at 11:51 AM
Is there a counter anywhere that shows the real-time number of members of BSky? Would be interesting to watch particularly if it could be compared to the decline in numbers in the other place!
November 18, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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Just a reminder of what trade deals “with the rest of the world” have done for us compared with what we have lost and continue to lose…

(Private Eye)
November 18, 2024 at 8:58 AM
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There is something deeply amusing about musklings coming here and realizing there’s no algorithm to boost their rage bait, which was their main advantage.
November 17, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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“Move as close as possible to EU in Brexit reset, business bosses urge Starmer”

Documents published alongside the Budget last month by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) warned that Brexit was on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15%

inews.co.uk/news/return-...
November 18, 2024 at 6:34 AM
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💥 NEWS! 💥

Delighted to announce that we have TWO new Presidents at European Movement UK:

Caroline Lucas and Dominic Grieve

Our former President, Michael Heseltine stepped down at the AGM this weekend.

Onwards and definitely upwards!
www.europeanmovement.co.uk/new-european...
Caroline Lucas and Dominic Grieve join forces as new European Movement Co-Presidents
Caroline Lucas and Rt Hon Dominic Grieve KC have been unveiled as the new Co-Presidents of European Movement UK, the country’s fastest-growing pro-European organisation
www.europeanmovement.co.uk
November 18, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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Labour’s commitment to abolish hereditary peers is finally in motion, with the Bill advancing in Parliament. It’s a chance to bring the Lords closer to representing modern Britain, not a 17th-century aristocracy | Jenny Rhodes
The truth about an archaic tradition Labour wants to abolish
For centuries, Parliament has had ‘noblemen’ sitting in the House of Lords, solely due to their ancestral lineage – but their days are numbered
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 15, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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If you are anti-Brexit and pro EU and want to find some extra followers.

RT and reply to this post and add each other.

No fun speaking to yourself.
November 15, 2024 at 12:25 PM