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@izzykaren.bsky.social

Green Socialist, formerly Labour - never again. Northern English. Sourdough, Crochet, knitting, Gardening, Golden Age detective fiction enthusiast.

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NHSE seeks external digital support as job cuts continue

NHSE seeks external digital support as job cuts continue

Wes Streeting has cut the budget of NHSE in half and now:

17.02.2026 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 7

DNA testing for potential to develop health conditions is sinister.
It's an attempt to quantify the risk for individual patients. But health advice is the same whatever your risk so knowing risk is no use to doctors or patients.
One industry that relies on understanding risk though is insurance.

17.02.2026 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Who could've predicted that a Labour Party led by a faction that actively undermined the previous party leader, threw a general election, buried official reports of racism within their ranks, and used antisemitism to smear internal opponents might end up mired in allegations of sleaze & scandal?

17.02.2026 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
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Over Β£10,000,000 of public money has been spent policing the proscription of Palestine Action.

The Labour Party has spent Β£700,000 defending the ban in court - and will spend more appealing the ruling that it’s unlawful.

That money could fund more than 3,500,000 free school meals.

16.02.2026 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 237    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5

Spend how much?

To defend the UK against the threat from a country that has failed to knock out Ukraine in over a decade.

The only credible threat from Russia is a nuclear one and it doesn't matter how much we spend, if that happens we're fucked.

16.02.2026 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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UK government considering increase in defence spending The prime minister is considering meeting a 3% defence-spending target five years earlier than planned, the BBC learns.

#Starmer
#WotNoMoney
Suddenly, Rodney has found BILLIONS to lavish om guns and bombs.

It's almost as if he was lying when #RachelReeves told us there was no money πŸ€”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

16.02.2026 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4
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Facial recognition technology is bulldozing our human rights The government is stealing our civil liberties – and giving them to Reform, writes Jeremy Corbyn MP

This government is taking away our civil liberties β€” and handing them to Reform.

My article for @islingtontrib.bsky.social on facial recognition, the erosion of jury trials, and the attack on our right to protest.

www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/faci...

16.02.2026 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 237    πŸ” 96    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
Jon Stewart DESTROYS Palantir As TERRIFYING Leak Goes Public
YouTube video by Rebel HQ Jon Stewart DESTROYS Palantir As TERRIFYING Leak Goes Public

This cannot be shared too much…

Just feast your eyes on this pure abomination!!

youtu.be/wiFEFGReIDM?...

15.02.2026 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social on Starmer: "He knew full well of Mandelsons involvement with Epstein from the beginning"

JC also points out when he challenged the role of Epstein back in 2019 politicians & the press were more concerned about his pronounciation than what he was accusing Epstein of doing

16.02.2026 08:17 β€” πŸ‘ 166    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3

No, No, NO!

@icelandrichard.bsky.social @lidl-uk.bsky.social @lidlgb.bsky.social @ocado.bsky.social

M&S. Morrisons. Sainsbury's. Tesco.

Thank you Aldi, Asda, Co-op and Waitrose.

15.02.2026 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jonathan Powell rejects overtures to replace McSweeney as Starmer’s chief of staff Exclusive: National security adviser previously held the role under Blair but is considering plans to step down this year

Downing Street has learned nothing. They wanted to replace McSweeney with Blair's chief of staff from the illegal Iraq war which killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Swap out the genocide overseer for the mere war criminal overseer...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

15.02.2026 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Since the govt supports seizing the assets of a Russian billionaire and redistributing the money to help the people of Ukraine, how about seizing the assets of other billionaires and using that cash to help us? We could start with the tax dodger Jim Ratcliffe.

15.02.2026 08:53 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

Leaving the ECHR will not allow you to deport all Asylum Seekers, you can't deport a person without the other country accepting them.

But it will allow the State Pension, Minimum Wage, Paid Holiday, Max Working Hours, Maternity Leave and much more to be cancelled.

15.02.2026 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 402    πŸ” 177    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 7
Torygraph headline "Starmer marks burns night with irn bru and tunnocks"

Torygraph headline "Starmer marks burns night with irn bru and tunnocks"

Don't Tunnocks famously support the Tories?

14.02.2026 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 1
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Gaslighting Britain: Starmer's Manufacturing War - Heartlands It is Valentine’s Day, 2026, and the Prime Minister is in Munich whispering sweet nothings to an audience of defence ministers, arms dealers, and

"Britain’s War Economy: Β£73bn for Defence, 7.3 Million on Waiting Lists"

Keir Starmer 'preaches war at a conference bankrolled by defence contractors & attended by the very people who profit from escalation ..." (and whose lobbyists fund Labour)
labourheartlands.com/gaslighting-...
#SocialistSunday

15.02.2026 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4
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No chlorinated chicken on our supermarket shelves! I just signed the campaign to say NO chlorinated chicken on our supermarket shelves!

Aldi, Asda, Co-op and Waitrose have pledged never to stock chlorine-washed chicken.

Iceland, Lidl, M&S, Morrisons, Ocado, Sainsbury’s and Tesco have not.

Yet.

We do not want low-quality, poor-welfare meat flooding our supermarkets and undercutting our farmers.
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/commit-t...

15.02.2026 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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Absolute poverty: UK sees biggest rise for 30 years The energy price crisis caused the sharpest increase in absolute poverty in 30 years, official figures show.

The facts on poverty. There were twelve million people living in poverty in 2023. I suspect it's getting worse.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-6862...

15.02.2026 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dear Gorton & Denton,

Something you might want to hear...

15.02.2026 11:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1096    πŸ” 428    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 26
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Exclusive: Greens Hit Out At Reform 'Frauds' After Zia Yusuf Suggests Poverty Rates Are Exaggerated "Reform have totally let the cat out of the bag this morning about what they really stand for."

Wild to see wealthy Reform politician "explaining" to poor people they don't understand their own experience.

Let's make sure every single person in Gorton & Denton (and the country!) knows exactly that Reform is bankrolled by dodgy donors. Mask is off.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

15.02.2026 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1105    πŸ” 448    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 16

Case in point.
bsky.app/profile/frit...

15.02.2026 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tony Blair’s oil lobbying is a misleading rehash of fossil fuel industry spin Ex-PM’s thinktank urges more drilling and fewer renewables, ignoring evidence that clean energy is cheaper and better for bills

The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change urges more drilling & fewer renewables. It has received money from the Saudi government, has advised the UAE petrostate, & counts as a main donor Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, friend of Trump & advocate of AI.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

14.02.2026 08:15 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3

Disgusting show-boating which risks war with a superpower as a dead-cat story to distract from his own multiple failings.

14.02.2026 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! πŸ€’πŸ” How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petitio...

Sainsbury’s, Iceland and Morrisons, have responded to the letter but it was half-hearted, stopping short of a full outright commitment.
Tesco and Ocado, didn’t even bother to reply We’ve seen responses in the media, but we need it in writing from the source
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/chlorine...

13.02.2026 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Jon Stewart DESTROYS Palantir As TERRIFYING Leak Goes Public
YouTube video by The Damage Report Jon Stewart DESTROYS Palantir As TERRIFYING Leak Goes Public

BTW Palantir has been given many contracts by Starmer's government without competitive tendering & is completely embedded in NHS data
youtu.be/c_yr63a8LDw?...

14.02.2026 10:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Luke is part of a government that is selling off our NHS data to a US spy tech firm, Palantir.

Luke is part of a government that is subservient to Donald Trump - a dangerous President who wants to annex Greenland.

Luke is part of a government that is increasingly desperate & utterly rudderless.

14.02.2026 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 572    πŸ” 172    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 7
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'Not one Labour MP is willing to leave the Party over links to Epstein, Genocide and Paedophilia'

(despite growing evidence of Starmer's complicity in shielding Epstein's friends & clients)

meme via Anthony Corella

14.02.2026 08:39 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

Why indeed?

13.02.2026 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The caretaker PM is running scared and resorting to more smears because he knows the game is up.

Labour is sinking in Gorton and Denton and it’s left to the Greens to challenge the far right threat of Reform.

Island of strangers? No. An Island of hope and unity.

13.02.2026 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 663    πŸ” 158    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 8
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services.

Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you.

Please do keep sharing!

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

13.02.2026 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1074    πŸ” 539    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 26
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Starmer is toast. But the dark forces that brought him to power are as strong as ever The political and media classes that once venerated Mandelson and are now cutting him adrift are the same ones that spent five years destroying Corbyn

BEWARE:

β€œMandelson and McSweeney are already out, and Starmer is surely not far behind them. They are now damaged goods beyond repair. But the system that created them is still as strong as ever. And it will soon find a new set of avatars to do its bidding”

open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

13.02.2026 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3

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