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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Joined February 2009
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💄💄💄 BREAKING: Everyone to be paid £13 an hour and receive a subsidised marrow at tomorrow's Budget. Google Maps will be updated to show you which £2 bus to catch to collect your local marrow. Discussions ongoing to gain access to the EU marmalade lake.
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The Green Party is grappling with a "split and a significant rift" over its controversial 'Zionism is racism' motion, according to insiders Senior figures are exploring reforms to the party rules and councillors are raising concerns about the motion's impact on campaigning 1/3
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Greg Stone 🔶 retweeted
Time to post my biannual “how artificially compressed are British wages”. Rising minimum wage and a 50k+ p/a tax bracket that runs to 40% of earnings, and hasn’t adjusted for inflation. This form of artificial wage compression has turned everyone in Britain into low productivity tax cattle - you have zero incentive to become anything other here. This is also a form of ambition and productivity compression. Source, ONS, Fig 5: ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabo…
🚨 NEW: John Healey will increase the minimum wage for over 21s from £12.71 to around £13.20
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Artem was just 12. He was in the park in the Kharkiv region when russians hit it. For an entire week, doctors at Kyiv’s Ohmatdyt Hospital fought to save his life. Yesterday, Artem died 🕯️
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Wealth has to be created before it can be redistributed. Politics tends to skip that chapter.
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Zack Polanski gave the Green Party to racists and cranks.
“They (the government) need to repeal that: repeal the Terrorism Act…” says Lubna Speitan of Greens for Palestine at a press conference earlier today
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this is wonderful!
My friend, 73, got a call last Thursday from "the IRS." He said she owed money and had one hour to pay. She was a fourth-grade teacher for 31 years. She said, "Before we start, what's the capital of Nebraska?"
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How far is the "distance" ? Are they resigning from the Party, or merely calling for Polanski to either commit to a clear out or go himself ?
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A local Gurkha family take over empty premises to open a shop and invite Shrewsbury's Mayor along to do the honours. The response from the local branch of the Reform Party? A slew of racial slurs. Excellent response from the local Lib Dems. shropshirestar.com/news/refo…
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Who Remembers.
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These Midterms are gonna be one massive Fascist shit show, eh?
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I feel like Jared Kushner being at the center of the plot that ultimately led to an American journalist being dismembered via bone saw while he was still alive should be a much bigger deal than our billionaire owned news media is making of it.
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I do ponder what my former colleagues at the moderate end of Green Party are now thinking. I know some were far more left-wing than me but saw the sense in being pragmatic so as not to scare the public, others keep their heads down doing local stuff but surely some think WTF??!!!
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Carer’s allowance cliff edge rule to be scrapped - this is welcome news and something the @LibDems have been pushing for in Parliament. Unpaid carers should never have been hounded over these overpayments and this scandal should never have been allowed to happen.
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The most disturbing line in this apologism for the Zionism is Racism motion is when Green Party councillor @AlexiDimond speaks of "weaponisation of October the 7th". The implication is that the atrocities committed by Hamas that day could somehow be justified. Otherwise, what would the "non-weaponised" version look like? The Green Party has a fatal blind spot when it comes to recognising and acknowledging the magnitude of horror unleashed on 7 October. That is not to deny the war crimes subsequently committed by Israel and Netanyahu. But the modern day Green Party seems to completely ignore the totalitarian character of Islamism and how, if Islamists had their way, Israel would simply cease to exist. Do Greens have nothing to say about this existential threat to Jews and their homeland? Their Zionism is Racism motion helps to vindicate that extermination project. That's why I've called them the new useful idiots. God forbid they are doing so knowingly instead. When they double down like this it's difficult for them to plead ignorance of antisemitic consequences.
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The motion passed by the Board of Deputies urged other parties not to do deals with the Greens unless they rejected the policy Read in full: independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
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Cufflinks a bit over the top
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Thought the England coach handled that superbly. Shut down the ‘no he didn’t’ shout from the Ireland bench in a very fair way without escalating.
England walk off the pitch against Ireland the U15 World Cup after one of their players alleges he was called a monkey
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Greg Stone 🔶 retweeted
Yet another @LibDems policy win. Great to see the lives of a really marginalised and isolated group get a little easier
Carer’s allowance cliff edge rule to be scrapped - this is welcome news and something the @LibDems have been pushing for in Parliament. Unpaid carers should never have been hounded over these overpayments and this scandal should never have been allowed to happen.
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