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vinnienoir.bsky.social

@vinnienoir.bsky.social

Just fed up with the economic myths, lies & deceit. If you know the price of everything but the value of nothing, you are just wasting everyone's time.

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Kev
@caoimhin1.bsky.social

Are you listening, supporters of King Andy Twiglet?

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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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THE NERVE
@thenerve.news

The prime minister’s new, remote-controlled Jackdaw gasfield will generate less new employment than nine standup comedians going on tour – and is considerably more likely to be hacked This week’s column by Stewart Lee

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The Lever
@levernews.com

How many deaths should an AI model be allowed to risk before the government can intervene? Under draft legislation circulated by Anthropic, the threshold would be more than 50 projected deaths or $1 billion in damages. Read the full story: www.levernews.com/ai-leader-wa...

levernews.comAI Industry Leader Wants 50 Free KillsDraft artificial intelligence legislation circulated by Anthropic would permit dozens of projected deaths before triggering government intervention.

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MMTAction
@mmt-action.bsky.social

Raise money? The government issues the pound. It doesn't collect it first. "Headroom" is a rule the chancellor wrote himself, now treated like gravity. The real limits are resources and inflation, not a spreadsheet margin. #MMT #UKGreenParty #Economics #UKPolitics #UKEconomics

bbc.co.ukFour ways Labour could raise money in the Budget without hiking income tax - BBC NewsChancellor John Healey may need to raise money to boost his fiscal headroom - BBC Verify examines what options could be on the table.

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Nelly Probin
@lillmagill.bsky.social

Don't expect any better commentary from Sky news either. The presenters and guest still think government spending is like a household budget. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so important.

frapacioli.bsky.social@frapacioli.bsky.social

The level of discussion of the UK government’s finances on the BBC is risible. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukFour ways Labour could raise money in the Budget without hiking income taxChancellor John Healey may need to raise money to boost his fiscal headroom - BBC Verify examines what options could be on the table.

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HT4Ecosocialism
@ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social

Aberfan was a horrific avoidable disaster. Since then nothing has changed. Corporations always come before the people. That’s how it works folks.

theguardian.comAt Aberfan, I saw fathers digging for their missing children. And the lessons society should have learned, it hasn’t | John HumphrysEach of those 144 deaths was entirely avoidable, but nobody was held to account. We still don’t know how to get justice for ordinary people, says journalist John Humphrys

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸
@bebsdotteragain.bsky.social

And now for the Good News… “The fact that the general populace has managed to keep a religion and the acts of a genocidal ethnostate separate, despite the barrage of propaganda attempting to conflate the two, is truly astounding if you really think about it” open.substack.com/pub/caitlinj...

open.substack.comBell Review Confirms Only Anti-Israel Attitudes Are Rising, Not AntisemitismVideo reading by Tim Foley:

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Ed Poole
@edpoole1975.bsky.social

The working class are the wealth creators, by making things and providing services. The people who own businesses make profit. That's not wealth creation. Banks and government create money not businesses. Giving them tax breaks etc just funnels that money out of the economy.

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Chancellor to pitch budget at wealth creators – UK politics live

theguardian.comChancellor to pitch budget at wealth creators – UK politics liveJohn Healey is expected to cut red tape requirements, particularly for smaller businesses Good morning. A week today John Healey, the chancellor, will be doing a media round defending the budget he is presenting on Wednesday next week. Ahead of that, he has given an interview to Patrick Maguire from the Times. As you would expect, there is no real detail in it about the measures he will be presenting to MPs. But the big picture message is very clear – and quite surprising, coming from a chancellor serving a PM who in some respects is steering left compared to his predecessor. Healey says that he wants to be on the side of bloody-minded entrepreneurs who make a profit, he acknowledges that government has made their life harder over the past two years, and he suggests that cutting the ‘cost of living’ for business is just as important as cutting the real cost of living for families. In the quote that gives the Times its splash headline, Healey says: I want to be a chancellor who backs business in Britain making a profit, and those entrepreneurs who, in the end, are the ones who challenge the status quo, come up with innovative ideas and are trying, some of them through sheer bloody-mindedness, to keep going through these sorts of pressures … If you’re not making a profit, you’ve got nothing to put back into the business. And for the people who start up these businesses, the ones who really thrive and grow, they have to make a profit — and they will be much more inclined to put it back into their own business. But we want it to grow here and stay here. If you talk to any of the businesses that have come in and have either had one-to-ones or round tables with me, I have recognised that in recent times there’s been a lot of pressure: employment law, regulation, tax, input costs, supply chains. And so when I talk about the cost of business, and recognising that in the same way as we’re recognising the cost of living pressures, I’m conscious of that as I go into the budget for both businesses and households. [Healey] is expected to use the budget to make significant cuts to regulation on businesses that one senior Treasury source described as “the sludge choking firms”. Reporting requirements are likely to be abolished for many smaller enterprises, The Times understands. Continue reading...

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Oliver
@oliver48.bsky.social

Excellent letter supporting Zack Polanski showing Green Party support all over the UK helping ensure he doesn't succumb to the same #ItWasAScam antisemitism Labour traitors & billionaire press lies which ended Jeremy Corbyn's leadership not least to scupper #TaxTheRich & #GreenNewDeal policies

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BladeoftheSun
@bladeofthes.bsky.social

The Government has until the end of the year to scrap the NHS-Palantir deal. Do you want Palantir out of the NHS? RT if you do. Lets get them out.

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Mehdi Hasan
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social

*WATCH OUR NEW AIPAC DOCUMENTARY* Zeteo pulls back the curtain on the pro-Israel lobby, in a landmark investigation into AIPAC and whether it should have to register as a foreign agent under U.S. law. Featuring exclusive interviews with whistleblowers, AOC, Massie, and more: insideaipac.com

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Dave Johnson
@dcjohnson.bsky.social

Neoliberalism -- IT'S A COOKBOOK!!! “Market economics” was supposed to serve mankind. It didn’t. It really, really didn’t. seeingtheforest.substack.com/p/neoliberal...

seeingtheforest.substack.comNeoliberalism -- IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!“Market economics” was supposed to serve mankind. It didn’t. It really, really didn’t.
Dave Johnson@dcjohnson.bsky.social

The big picture - privatisation failed. Across the board. Water, energy, transportation, postal... ALL OF THEM have become wealth-extraction scams. Theft from the public & the country. Regulators and politicians corrupted, services ruined... All of it! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

theguardian.comHow might Andy Burnham tackle Thames Water debacle?A look at some of the options after PM is urged to consider radical alternatives to deal with stricken company

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NJ
@nojusticemtg.bsky.social
NJ@nojusticemtg.bsky.social

NEW VID: Bombshell report to say ADHD NOT overdiagnosed - but Labour want cuts anyway WATCH HERE: youtu.be/sVQ0WK34WRM

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Jamie Driscoll
@jamiedriscoll.bsky.social

The government approved the Jackdaw gas field today. It's sold at the world price, so won't make us secure. Retrofit and renewables would create more jobs and lower bills. We can afford this. I'll explain how in Alnwick, Thu 29 Oct. All welcome. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hostage-na...

eventbrite.co.ukHOSTAGE NATION: Britain's Escape Plan by Alnwick Green Party“We can’t afford it” 
 is a choice, not a fact. Join us in Alnwick with former Mayor Jamie Driscoll to see why this is wrong.

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MMTAction
@mmt-action.bsky.social

Borrowing figures are not a wall. They are the private sector's savings, seen from the other side. The real limit is resources, and inflation is the gauge. The Budget challenge is political, not arithmetic. Scorecard mistaken for a wall. #MMT #UKGreenParty #Economics #UKPolitics #UKEconomics

bbc.co.ukInflation and borrowing data illustrate chancellor's Budget challenge - BBC NewsThe economic figures released on Wednesday show the constraints for John Healey as he puts the finishing touches to his Budget.

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Octopus Energy
@octopus.energy

The new gas field isn’t going to bring down your bills. Gas is bought & sold globally, so the reality is, fossil fuels controlled by dictators have Britain in a chokehold til we fully embrace gas-free driving & heating and cut the link between electricity and gas. (🧵 1/2)

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MMTAction
@mmt-action.bsky.social

"Higher than expected" deficit, as if it were an overdraft. It isn't. Debt interest is government money paid into private accounts, and the Bank of England's rate is a choice. The pressure on John Healey is political, not financial. #MMT #UKGreenParty #Economics #UKPolitics #UKEconomics

theguardian.comUK government borrowing rises to £24.5bn as John Healey prepares for budget | Government borrowing | The GuardianGovernment paid £10.9bn in debt interest, the highest September figure since records began

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Saul Staniforth
@saulstaniforth.bsky.social

"Almost 9m people.. are at risk of needing a food bank.. that includes 2.9m children.. 1 in 5 people saying there household has run out of food & couldn't afford to buy more.." As one food bank user explains: "The gap between what we earn & what we need is ever increasing" #GMB

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson
@jujuliagrace.bsky.social

Morning!! If you’re worried about what’s happening to the NHS, could you possibly help me for a min? 🚨 I’ve just started on YouTube, and I’ve created this channel to tell people what politicians are doing to the NHS. I’ve just posted my 1st video and I have a lot to learn (!)

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MMTAction
@mmt-action.bsky.social

£70bn of cuts isn't courage. It's choosing to shrink incomes and services on purpose. Cuts don't refill a pot. The government that issues the pound isn't short of it. The limit is real resources, and a stalled economy has plenty idle. #MMT #UKGreenParty #Economics #UKPolitics

bbc.co.ukLabour will not have the courage to cut spending, says Badenoch - BBC NewsSpeaking ahead of next week's Budget, the Conservative leader says her party would make £70bn of cuts.

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MMTAction
@mmt-action.bsky.social

The chancellor fears a gains tax rise "might cost the Treasury". Tax doesn't fund spending, so that was never the test. The test is whether it curbs concentrated wealth and power. Judge it on that, then spend on real capacity. #MMT #UKGreenParty #UKPolitics #Economics #UKEconomics

theguardian.comHealey to reject calls to raise capital gains tax in budget | Budget 2026 | The GuardianCabinet colleagues have previously called for an increase but chancellor feels it might ultimately cost the Treasury

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Duncan Poundcake
@duncanpoundcake.bsky.social

#Labour #TellingMeTheSameOldStory

MMTAction@mmt-action.bsky.social

Both camps treat CGT as a fundraising question. It isn't. Westminster issues the pound, then taxes it back. The case for taxing gains is inequality and asset bubbles. "The wealthy will leave" is a threat, not an economic law. #MMT #UKGreenParty #Economics #UKPolitics #UKEconomics

bbc.co.ukChancellor rejects calls to raise Capital Gains Tax in Budget, sources say - BBC NewsInfluential Labour figures had been pushing for equalising CGT and income tax, but critics have said this could drive wealthy people out of Britain.

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Richard Murphy
@richardjmurphy.bsky.social

Now is the time for Burnham to plan for Thames Water’s demise. Will Burnham rise to the challenge? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/10...

taxresearch.org.ukNow is the time for Burnham to plan for Thames Water’s demiseThe Guardian has noted this morning that: Andy Burnham has told officials to rip up their plans for how to fix Thames Water and present him with more radical options for what to do with the stricken ...