daisydewdrop18.bsky.social

daisydewdrop18.bsky.social

@daisydewdrop18.bsky.social

Got to save this beautiful planet...and Gaza. Me, I'm a Green, Socialist, dog slave, never happier than when walking in woodlands. Learning Spanish. No data centres.

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Chancellor John Healey says the government is spending more on the NHS #Budget2026 But an average of *2,300 patients a day* are subjected to “corridor care” stuck on trolleys 👇 🏥FUND THE NHS - beds, staff 🏥END WASTEFUL PRIVATISATION @keepournhspublic.bsky.social lowdownnhs.info/emergency-ca...

lowdownnhs.infoBurnham and Healey extinguish NHS funding hopes - The LowdownAccording to the Times, a joint letter from the Prime Minister and his Chancellor to Health Secretary Yvette Cooper confirms there will be little relief from the current funding crisis, even as waitin...

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We’re told things are changing, but we’re still being ripped off. Hope isn’t just a slogan for us: its a genuine commitment to making life affordable. This is how we’ll do it.

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This is how the UK Chancellor can increase the income tax personal allowance by £3,000. Must end/curtail subsidies to banks. Align tax rates on capital gains & dividends with those on wages. Inconvenience to a few, but millions will be lifted out of hardship.

leftfootforward.orgThis is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardshipSustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population

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If they go ahead, the proposals could reveal who owns up to 95% of England and Wales – whilst screening out residential properties by using an area threshold. Respond online to the consultation below to emphasise the importance of proper access to land ownership information. #LandOwnershipInfo

Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social

The government proposes releasing a new, free public dataset identifying the owners of significant landholdings, which “will cover the vast majority of land in England and Wales whilst excluding ordinary homeowners.” This is huge. We have to get this over the line. www.gov.uk/government/c...

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Just want to temper people's expectations. Netanyahu's opponent Gadi Eisenkot (retired IDF General) is only slightly less genocidal and warmongering than him. And that's probably just a lie to get people to vote for him. Expect no change whoever wins. That's the reality.

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Andy Burnham is asked about Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields. He says "Use of our resources can support and accelerate a clean energy future" We are truly down the rabbit hole with this utter nonsense. Invest in renewables, insulate homes & say no to fossil fuels.

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Left: President Trump insults Norway calling it a sh*thouse country Right: Visit Norway, the tourism board, trolls President Trump, displaying some of their best toilets on their Instagram 😅

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Honestly, this Labour government are utterly fucking dreadful Just get 'em out

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social

Jon Kay to Jonathan Reynolds: "You're planning to remove import taxes from products like chocolate, gherkins, marmalade. Your own figures say that will save the average household 40p a week. At a time when [bills] are going up, do you really think people are going to notice 40p a week?"

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Lubna Speitan, author of the Greens4Palestine motion “Zionism is racism”, spells out the central obscenity of our age - when the victims are accused of racism to silence the grotesque horrors they face daily.

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Reform UK leaders blathering on, tying themselves in knots, telling self-incriminating fib after fib, have a lot to learn from this master of the Big Lie, who either studied Nazi propagandist Goebbels or is a natural hypocrite ... "Trump Faces Question Over Hormuz Strait Closure via Basiru Haruna

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Super-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis. They profit from polluting industries, and through the ‘adaptation economy’. Super-rich buy govts, control means of production and think tanks. Victims pay higher prices for food, homes, relocations. Who governs?

theguardian.comSuper-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis, report findsOxfam says investing by rich in disaster recovery widens inequality and gives incentive to delay climate action

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I despair.

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social

UK Chancellor pledges cheaper marmalade and gherkins in pre-Budget package of 'everyday fixes'. Fiddling at the edges. Need redistribution of income and wealth. End profiteering in housing, energy, water, essentials. Increase tax personal allowance.

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Things Andy Burnham should have done on day 1: 1. Condemn Israel's genocide 2. Stop ALL arms sales to Israel 3. Stop ALL military support for Israel 4. Promised no new or expanded North Sea drilling 5. Nationalised energy and utilities

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Andy Burnham The epitome of doing something that amounts to nothing. 5 vat of fuel. £50 quid a year Your first home. Immaterial Its like someone tries to think of things for him that might sound good. He needs to actually help. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/cost-of...

manchestereveningnews.co.ukAndy Burnham government to bring in 5% tax rule for one year from October 1The change has been brought in to help combat rising energy costs

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10 things Burnham doesn’t want you to talk about; 1. Labour’s support for Gaza genocide 2. Climate change 3. Wealth Taxes 4. Transphobic Section 28 5. Rent controls 6. Man City 7. State Pensions in neighboring countries 8. Water nationalisation 9. Mandelson 10. Labour’s support for Trump’s Iran war

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CEO of scandal-ridden Deloitte gets 45% pay rise to £7.1m, 1,360 jobs cut. CEO pay = 93 times median employee pay. Firm doesn't pay employer NIC on profits shared by partners, worth £150,000 for £1m profit shared. £899m shared. 108 govt contracts in 2026, worth £650m. Friends in high places.

cityam.comDeloitte hikes pay for top boss while headcount shrinksBig Four giant Deloitte hiked pay for one of its chief executives last year by almost half while overall headcount at the firm fell, with some of being due to targeted job cuts.

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What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

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3 hours ago the Brazilian Supreme Court rejected any challenge to the election results. Just now Flavio Bolsonaro has dropped his objections. Lula is President it cannot be stopped, and Flavio Bolsonaro will be going on trial for corruption. And then to jail.

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Admidst their internal party politics, Labour have done nothing to redress how Cameron stuffed the BBC full of right-wing political bias. They have done nothing to effect proper #MediaReform. They have not instigated #Leveson2. Shocking dereliction of duty.

Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social

Yeah, this is getting absurd. Zero scrutiny. BBC News broadcasts Reform UK speeches in full without interruptions www.thenational.scot/news/2667178...

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As the cost-of-living crisis pushes households to the brink and climate breakdown places further stress on public services, only the Green Party are pushing for genuine action at the Budget this week.

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Privatisation has failed This Thursday 29th Oct shady Thames Water execs will meet dodgy US hedge funds to agree a £2.4 BILLION bailout that *households will pay for through increased bills* @andyburnham.bsky.social has 3 DAYS to step in and STOP THE BAILOUT, take back Thames Water

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Stark inequalities in access to green space must urgently be addressed. We were promised legislation so where is it? New legal mechanisms could give local communities access to unused public land for food growing & parks - great report from @globalfuturefndtn.bsky.social @friends-earth.bsky.social

inews.co.ukThe towns where thousands have no local parkWith reforms on improving access to green spaces seemingly stalled - some are taking matters into their own hands to bring nature into their communities

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“People are demanding action on rents, the cost of the climate emergency and about how we can bring people's bills down and yet what we're about to see is just the same old.” Hannah Spencer on the government's approach to Wednesday's Budget, speaking at the Cost of Living rally.

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The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

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Politicians should look at the UK economy as a CEO would, says Lloyds Bank CEO From a bank that hasn't investigated HBOS frauds. No thank you. Companies enrich shareholders. Countries have entirely different purpose, governance, accountability. Must not be treated as corporations. archive.ph/lj45s

ft.comPoliticians should ‘look at the UK economy as a CEO would’, says Lloyds Bank’s bossHead of Britain’s biggest lender talks about tax, AI and why the City of London has fallen behind global rivals

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Oh My life! The BBC having the brass neck to say "the public" might re-think their attitudes towards Meghan Markle! I'm certain the majority of the ill-will towards her was manufactured by our right wing media along with the BBC. Most of us said 'leave them alone!' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukWill the public change its mind about Meghan?This complicated - and developing - story could prove to be a turning point for Meghan.

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Please listen. A real journalist #PeterOborne If Eisenkot wins the Israeli elections it will buy time to bring Israel back into the International fold, as the genocide & ethnic cleansing continues. Eisenkot policies are no different to Netanyahu's on International matters.

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Well done, Brazil! 👏 If @andyburnham.bsky.social had had any 'Labour' values, any 'left wing' policies - any sense at all of how the nation feels, he'd have come into office saying something similar. Instead the UK has more neoliberalism, more policies influenced by big companies + foreign powers🤬

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

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Lula loops !! Brilliant news !! 👏 #lula #brazil

Humberto Do Lago Müller@lagomuller.bsky.social

WE DID IT They had the media, the US influence, the social networks... We had hope, we had love and the will to fight back. There shall be no place for the far right in the brazilian democracy. ⭐🇧🇷 #lula #lulapresidente #brasil #democracia #fotografia #photography #brazil #democracy #elections

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It's a good job Suella Braverman claimed £45,000 for water bills on her parliamentary expenses. If she had failed to declare a ten quid overpayment on Universal Credit, she'd have been in serious trouble then.

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Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.