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Lucy Lepchani

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Adult Education tutor, writer, poet. Gardening, ethnobotany, community radio, etcetera. Devon, UK.

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Facts, common sense, truth: making hope normal again.

18.11.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Zack Polanski is a breath of fresh air.

15.11.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 218    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

The main issue I see with Labour is careerism.

It's so glaringly exposed in McSweeney's inept machinations and Starmer's appeasement. It got them up the greasy pole and now there they are, in full view, with their thumbs up their arses.

No vision. No moral purpose. No passion. And it shows.

16.11.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.

"The US House Oversight Committee on Wednesday announced a massive document dump from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, including thousands of emails discussing a wide range of topics, including women, blackmail, and spending the holidays with Donald Trump."

couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...

16.11.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

cringe!

14.11.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Excited to hear the rumour of a challenge against Starmer's leadership but its Wes Streeting, damn, and then 'it's all just a rumour', phew.
#paradoxofreliefanddisappointment

12.11.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Private care providers in three English regions make Β£250m in three years More than third of profits analysed went to firms owned by private equity or based in tax havens, research finds

Private companies operating care services in just three regions of England made Β£250m profits in 3 years,

Β£87.7m of profits went to care providers owned by private equity controlled from tax havens.

Profits mean money buys less. Higher taxes for less service.

Say NO to privatisation.

12.11.2025 07:18 β€” πŸ‘ 361    πŸ” 207    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 15

This one? committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...

12.11.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Starmer is a weak puppet of US Lobbyists. Follow where all the money has gone ,dodgy Freeports. Black hole. Let's not forget the contracts dolled out to Palantir for NHS and Police and AI centres. US Property Developers now in the UK property market , no coincidence. We are being asset stripped.

12.11.2025 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

UK government lets billionaires and large corporations pay no or very little tax .

12.11.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reverse Midas.

12.11.2025 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Meanwhile farage and his ilk continue to chip away at the UK. Sowing division with lies and attempting to undermine every institution that protects us.

11.11.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This makes no sense

11.11.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer PM attacks β€˜toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted

Oh fuck off.
Starmer’s attitude to Gaza, to Zarah Sultana, Apsana Begum, Faiza Shaheen…the crap about Tel Aviv Maccabis…all that and much more. Island of Strangers.
Twat.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

11.11.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The BBC has a long record of doctoring footage. But consequences only seem to follow when the Right are maligned.

1984: BBC reverses order of footage of Battle of Orgreave, portraying miners as aggressors. No apology.

2017: Newsnight edits interviews with Corbyn. No apology; Kuenssberg promoted.

10.11.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Did his government really send your bus a deportation order ?Goodness me, what is the world coming to. I hope you also manage to fight it in court.

11.11.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No, just the governance of the nation.

11.11.2025 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jailed climate activist facing deportation from UK fights β€˜crazy double punishment’ Marcus Decker is supported by climate experts, religious leaders and celebrities as he fights being first person in UK to be β€˜deported for peaceful protest’

Facing deportation for peaceful protest... Keir Starmer is an authoritarian little pipsqueak.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

10.11.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I do. I like what he says. Hope your solar panels are serving you well.

10.11.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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UK Nuclear Armed Fighter Jets - Nuclear Information Service New report: What's really behind Government plans to buy US nuclear bombers?

More nefarious Trump-worship from Keir Starmer & his shonky government.
www.nuclearinfo.org/article/uk-n...

10.11.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Labour is putting its plans for Britain in the hands of private finance. It could end badly | Daniela Gabor Handing vital infrastructure to big finance will generate windfalls for investors and leave the rest of us worse off. We need a better plan, says Daniela Gabor, a professor of economics and macrofinan...

If the UK government partnership with BlackRock becomes a model replicated elsewhere, debt-financed utility ownership could become normalised internationally.
The UK is being privatised.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

09.11.2025 08:11 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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In November 2024 Starrmer announced that his government is in partnership with US Blackrock, a mega corporation that buys up just about anything with pension funds, and money from investors/shareholders at a higher-than-market-value value price.
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You mean assisting in genocide, supporting theft of Gaza/Palestine's resources, sucking up to Trump, vilifying trans people, refusing to fund the poorest families with 3 or more children, getting rid of environmental protections, supporting Tory neoliberal Freeports, increasing NI, third runway...

09.11.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Minister Darren Jones sorry for 'tactless' pocket money example on benefits Darren Jones apologises for the

Or this hurdle? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

09.11.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Political donations: who is giving money to Bristol Labour MPs? Local Labour MPs have taken political donations from a range of sources, including pro-Israel lobby groups. Does that affect their integrity?

This Darren Jones, falling at. the first hurdle?https://thebristolcable.org/2024/12/political-donations-bristol-labour-mps-consultants-millionaires-lobbyists-concerns-not-just-about-freebies/

09.11.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What 'bit of research' leads you to conclude all that?

09.11.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

He's constipated, I think.

09.11.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK

UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:

- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

09.11.2025 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 139    πŸ” 94    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 17
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Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites

Drax's behaviour, and the UK government's support for it, is absolutely sickening given all we know about climate change and the need for protection of the environment. www.theguardian.com/business/202... #ClimateEmergency

09.11.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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