Reform UKs plan to use the Royal Navy to intercept migrant boats in the Channel brilliantly taken apart by ... er ... Nigel Farage
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@skoojala.bsky.social
Money isn't culture. A vote isn't a voice. Hate doesn't make us great. Love, community and democracy is the only way forward. A man dressed in a bin can actually change the world. England, UK, Europe. 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🏴🇺🇳❤️
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite £247m revenue, £25.3m profit. Doesn't pay much anywhere, effective global tax rate is 1.4% Shifts profits through intragroup transactions, enjoys tax breaks. UK Govt rewarding it with public contracts, enriching execs & shareholders.
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss
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My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Come on #monsterravers! You need to up your game here. Reform Party is laying claim to your loony mantle!
Sir Michael Take CBE@sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 4d ago60K migrants who entered Spain coming our way? Bailiffs seizing your dead parents’ old car in their garage to pay an imaginary death tax? Fighting for democracy against a bin? Reform MPs’statements in the past week. Reform UK are officially the NEW Monster Raving Loony Party! 😉
NEW: The Abramovich connection. How convicted money launderer George Cottrell - & close aide to Nigel Farage - ‘signed documents’ for one of Putin’s closest allies. My latest for @thenerve.news 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/george-cot...
Farage, George Cottrell and Putin’s friend Abramovich
Source reveals convicted money launderer and Reform leader’s close ally worked as a young man for the now-sanctioned oligarch after becoming friends with his son. Report by Carole Cadwalladr
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It was always unlawful, under the Highways Act 1980. But I don't suppose Suella would know that, being a lawyer, MP and former Attorney General.
We don't need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to how we own water. Scotland has already shown us what to do: PUBLIC OWNERSHIP It's the simplest, cheapest and most efficient choice for Andy Burnham to make now - first Thames Water, and then the rest of our water
How is it, when we're in #drought conditions with much of #England under a #hosepipeban, commercial car-wash outfits continue to operate? If it's a matter of compensation, then I guess that's picked up by the water companies who've failed to invest in reservoirs. @feargalsharkey.bsky.social
The establishment are funding a man that claims he is taking on the establishment. Is he lying to the establishment or the people who are voting for him to take on the establishment?
Meet the Aristocrats Helping to Fund Reform
On 7 June, Nigel Farage announced that he was resigning as the MP for Clacton amid the political furore caused by his £5 million undeclared gift from crypto billionaire and major Reform UK donor Chris...
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Hey pop-pickers! The latest re-entry that's racing up the charts is #XTC's 'Making Plans for Nigel' Listen now! open.spotify.com/track/1XT5kx...
Making Plans For Nigel
XTC · Drums And Wires · Song · 1979
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😡😡Thames Water CEO: public ownership means water investment would compete with health and defence. THIS IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. The truth is that every penny of Thames Water's planned investment will come directly from our water bills. Take 2 mins to complain to Ofcom and the BBC: vist.ly/5d5xb
Ofcom and BBC, correct the record: Thames Water CEO misled the public about public ownership
Thames Water CEO lied about public ownership on the BBC. It is time Ofcom and the BBC corrected the record
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Not sure who did this but they should be arrested immediately.
Hilarious that all those millions that have found their way to #NigelFarage will have to be wasted fighting a man with a bin on his head in a by election that was never needed, just to get his arrogant arse re-elected to a post he never bothered doing when he last held it. #Clacton
I wrote this last year, but as nothing has been done to address the underlying issues, it remains, unfortunately, just as relevant today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England's great artificial water crisis of 2025 | George Monbiot
In its refusal to nationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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It’s not just the heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and flooding… “Climate action makes economic sense. A million British livelihoods now depend on the net zero economy.” Essex CC cancelling net zero policies is very concerning. We can’t go backwards now… eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...
‘We will not be closing’
Reform cancels “net stupid zero” but the work of the climate commission won't be stopping
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The 6 largest oil companies will collectively rake in $45B in profits in the second quarter of 2026 — nearly double what they made in the first quarter. Meanwhile, Canada, France, and Spain are battling record-breaking wildfires spurred by the climate crisis. Big Oil profits while the world burns.
So many trees across East of #England showing signs of serious water stress. Grass crops looking like stubble in the field. #climatechange is well under way. We all need to do MUCH more to limit our future human impact on the #environment AND plan & retrofit accordingly.
This is surely curtains for Farage's political career. I don't think there's any coming back from it. I hope not, at any rate. Looks like there could be a strong basis for a criminal case as well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK
Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son
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Seriously irresponsible journalism from @telegraph.co.uk (Also, surprised to see them here on bluesky).
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · last wk.You gotta think even Telegraph readers aren't buying this shit as their holiday home near Bordeaux goes up in flames...
Left: Nigel Farage says the police should act because Zack Polanski refuses to apologise Right: That time Keir Starmer asked Nigel Farage to apologise for when Reform UK's Deputy Council Leader in Lancashire shared a death threat against Natalie Fleet MP, he refused to do so
It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
The story of habitat destruction from #EasterIslands should serve as a warning to everyone consuming fossil fuels right now. Capitalist greed and consumerism is killing our one planet home.
Do not adjust your screens: Daily Telegraph, purveyor of hard-core #climate denial, has temporarily noticed reality. Don’t panic: normal service on behalf of its energy industry sponsors will be resumed shortly.
How many times do @greatwesternrailway.info need to give passengers on their delayed trains the same pieces of useless information? Just tell me how late I'm gonna be so I can figure out whether I'll miss my next connection (turns out, I will).
Kent has a hosepipe ban because they do not have enough water. Meanwhile, today in Kent www.kentonline.co.uk/bexley-and-b...
Hundreds slam ‘monstrous’ plans to build AI-supporting data centre on green belt
Initial plans floated to build a data centre on green belt land on the border between London and Kent have been met with opposition by residents.
kentonline.co.uk
Privatised water has failed us. I’m backing @labourlewis.bsky.social’s call to ensure Andy Burnham meets water campaigners who’ve fought for years to clean up our water -not just the water bosses who’ve profited from the system. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...
Dear Andy Burnham, meet with water campaigners to discuss bringing water back into public ownership
Privatised water is a complete failure. I’m backing Clive Lewis' call to ensure that Andy Burnham meets frontline water campaigners who’ve fought for years to clean up our water -not just the water ...
actionnetwork.org
Nigel #Farage doesn't follow his own advice i.e. #leave means leave. Instead, he has chosen to leave, then hold a by-election to #rejoin, wasting taxpayers' money for a personal publicity stunt. For that reason alone, he deserves to be beaten by #countbinface. #clacton #binfarage @dalevince.com
Everyone in the world is hoping the good people of #Clacton elect @countbinface.bsky.social if only so we can see sights like the one on the left of this image in parliament. And (let's face it) you're unlikely to ever see Farage in parliament representing Clacton anyway.
