Steve heartswork
@steveheartswork.bsky.social
Mostly retired counsellor/supervisor/trainer etc. Now living happily in exile in multicultural Remain voting Cardiff.Socialist ex Labour ex Twitter!
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Liz Kendall has admitted that I.D. will be used for far more than just the right to work. It will be used for EVERYTHING you buy or do. Data will be harvested by the likes of Larry Ellison (U.S. 2nd richest in the world) and make no mistake it enables the govt & him to gain control over our lives
October 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Liz Kendall has admitted that I.D. will be used for far more than just the right to work. It will be used for EVERYTHING you buy or do. Data will be harvested by the likes of Larry Ellison (U.S. 2nd richest in the world) and make no mistake it enables the govt & him to gain control over our lives
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I've officially reached the point in my career where I can hear budget cuts as a background soundtrack to my life.
This mid-week post is half-primal scream, half-essay and almost entirely about the national delusion that we can keep "doing more with less."
Welcome to the edge - there's snacks.
This mid-week post is half-primal scream, half-essay and almost entirely about the national delusion that we can keep "doing more with less."
Welcome to the edge - there's snacks.
The Ceaseless Snip-Snip-Snip of a Dying State
Fifteen years of cuts have left the UK trying to "efficiency" its way out of a collapse - and somehow still expecting growth to show up as well.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I've officially reached the point in my career where I can hear budget cuts as a background soundtrack to my life.
This mid-week post is half-primal scream, half-essay and almost entirely about the national delusion that we can keep "doing more with less."
Welcome to the edge - there's snacks.
This mid-week post is half-primal scream, half-essay and almost entirely about the national delusion that we can keep "doing more with less."
Welcome to the edge - there's snacks.
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👇🏻 Current issues summed up nicely by Prem. No government solutions either
UK faces highest inflation in G7 this year and next, IMF warns.
Biggest cause is profiteering led by energy, water and food businesses. No govt checks it.
Real average wage stuck at 2008 level. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Govts needs to remove cash from the rich.
Biggest cause is profiteering led by energy, water and food businesses. No govt checks it.
Real average wage stuck at 2008 level. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Govts needs to remove cash from the rich.
UK faces highest inflation in G7 this year and next, IMF warns
According to fund’s World Economic Outlook, Britain is on course to average 3.4% this year and 2.5% in 2026
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:08 AM
👇🏻 Current issues summed up nicely by Prem. No government solutions either
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Vote Green! 💚
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Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence
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Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence
A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Vote Green! 💚
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Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Labour is telling you VERY LOUDLY who to vote for if you value human rights. And it's definitely NOT LABOUR.
Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.
October 15, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Labour is telling you VERY LOUDLY who to vote for if you value human rights. And it's definitely NOT LABOUR.
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Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert
Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The Starmer project has relied from the beginning on back room maneuvering, smears, stitch ups, and ruthless exploitation of the party’s disciplinary procedures.
The result is a soulless, empty husk of a political project, writes Richard Sanders👇
www.declassifieduk.org/how-keir-sta...
The result is a soulless, empty husk of a political project, writes Richard Sanders👇
www.declassifieduk.org/how-keir-sta...
How Keir Starmer conned the British electorate
Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project.
www.declassifieduk.org
October 14, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The Starmer project has relied from the beginning on back room maneuvering, smears, stitch ups, and ruthless exploitation of the party’s disciplinary procedures.
The result is a soulless, empty husk of a political project, writes Richard Sanders👇
www.declassifieduk.org/how-keir-sta...
The result is a soulless, empty husk of a political project, writes Richard Sanders👇
www.declassifieduk.org/how-keir-sta...
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I’m seeing pieces and posts today about how useful digital ID could be in navigating bureaucracy etc. Yes. It would. That, however, is *not* how the government tried to sell it to us. Instead, they portrayed it as a tool to stop illegal working and curb illegal immigration. 1/4
October 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I’m seeing pieces and posts today about how useful digital ID could be in navigating bureaucracy etc. Yes. It would. That, however, is *not* how the government tried to sell it to us. Instead, they portrayed it as a tool to stop illegal working and curb illegal immigration. 1/4
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If only more people cared!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Petition: Require media retractions be made as visible as original headlines or articles
We think media companies should not be allowed to get away with printing false, misleading and malicious headlines, only to hide the retractions on interior pages or fine print some days later. Retrac...
petition.parliament.uk
October 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If only more people cared!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.
I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?
Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.
join.greenparty.org.uk
I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?
Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.
join.greenparty.org.uk
October 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.
I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?
Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.
join.greenparty.org.uk
I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?
Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.
join.greenparty.org.uk
There are only marginal differences between banks so how about Bank of England current and savings accounts. They can run alongside existing suppliers so if people want "choice" they can have it. Car insurance is compulsory so a state run insurance scheme to benefit us all.
October 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
There are only marginal differences between banks so how about Bank of England current and savings accounts. They can run alongside existing suppliers so if people want "choice" they can have it. Car insurance is compulsory so a state run insurance scheme to benefit us all.
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Steve Reed: "We've seen on our screens for 2 years the most unimaginable scenes of horror in Gaza"
Yes, and in govt you supported & armed Israel, provided them with military assistance & refused to take any actions to exert meaningful pressure on them. Thats your record.
Yes, and in govt you supported & armed Israel, provided them with military assistance & refused to take any actions to exert meaningful pressure on them. Thats your record.
October 14, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Steve Reed: "We've seen on our screens for 2 years the most unimaginable scenes of horror in Gaza"
Yes, and in govt you supported & armed Israel, provided them with military assistance & refused to take any actions to exert meaningful pressure on them. Thats your record.
Yes, and in govt you supported & armed Israel, provided them with military assistance & refused to take any actions to exert meaningful pressure on them. Thats your record.
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Britain now has 1970s levels racism without 1970s levels of secure well-paid jobs, social housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions and affordable rail fares
October 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Britain now has 1970s levels racism without 1970s levels of secure well-paid jobs, social housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions and affordable rail fares
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Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag
Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag
Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’
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A protester who was threatened with arrest under the Terrorism Act for holding a Palestine flag and signs saying “free Gaza” and “Israel is committing genocide” has received an apology from police, including for “unlawful false imprisonment”.
Kent police have also agreed to pay damages and legal costs to Laura Murton, 43, in connection with the 14 July incident in Canterbury in which armed officers told her her demonstration expressed views supportive of Palestine Action, which had been banned earlier that month. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag
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🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2
October 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2
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👉NEW -- How Keir Starmer conned the British electorate
by Richard Sanders
Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project.
www.declassifieduk.org/how-keir-sta...
by Richard Sanders
Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project.
www.declassifieduk.org/how-keir-sta...
How Keir Starmer conned the British electorate
Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project.
www.declassifieduk.org
October 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
👉NEW -- How Keir Starmer conned the British electorate
by Richard Sanders
Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project.
www.declassifieduk.org/how-keir-sta...
by Richard Sanders
Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project.
www.declassifieduk.org/how-keir-sta...
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Wonder if the 2000 Palestinian hostages being released will be covered by the BBC? Interviews with their families, accounts of torture and abuse?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palesti...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palesti...
Palestinians in Israeli custody - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 13, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Wonder if the 2000 Palestinian hostages being released will be covered by the BBC? Interviews with their families, accounts of torture and abuse?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palesti...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palesti...
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Let's spell it out then. The motivation is
1/ empathy for our fellow human beings
2/ to raise the political cost of the British government's complicity to the point where London is forced to withdraw its support, thereby increasing the international pressure on Israel to cease its genocidal acts.
1/ empathy for our fellow human beings
2/ to raise the political cost of the British government's complicity to the point where London is forced to withdraw its support, thereby increasing the international pressure on Israel to cease its genocidal acts.
James Cleverly: "I cannot understand the motivation for protests of this type so regularly"
October 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Let's spell it out then. The motivation is
1/ empathy for our fellow human beings
2/ to raise the political cost of the British government's complicity to the point where London is forced to withdraw its support, thereby increasing the international pressure on Israel to cease its genocidal acts.
1/ empathy for our fellow human beings
2/ to raise the political cost of the British government's complicity to the point where London is forced to withdraw its support, thereby increasing the international pressure on Israel to cease its genocidal acts.
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More than half a million people marched for Palestine in central London yesterday.
As long as Israel continues to oppress the Palestinians, we will continue to resist them.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Proscribe the IDF ❌
As long as Israel continues to oppress the Palestinians, we will continue to resist them.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Proscribe the IDF ❌
October 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
More than half a million people marched for Palestine in central London yesterday.
As long as Israel continues to oppress the Palestinians, we will continue to resist them.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Proscribe the IDF ❌
As long as Israel continues to oppress the Palestinians, we will continue to resist them.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Proscribe the IDF ❌
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Worth noting that Labour deputy leadership candidate Bridget Phillipson has been handed £60,000 by the Israel lobby, and that pro-Israel former hedge fund manager Stuart Roden has donated £80,000 supporting the office costs of Phillipson and Lisa Nandy? #bbclaurak
Israel lobby funded half of Keir Starmer’s cabinet
Exclusive: Labour’s top team has accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds from pro-Israel funders.
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October 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Worth noting that Labour deputy leadership candidate Bridget Phillipson has been handed £60,000 by the Israel lobby, and that pro-Israel former hedge fund manager Stuart Roden has donated £80,000 supporting the office costs of Phillipson and Lisa Nandy? #bbclaurak