Top recent posts by European Progressive Activists on Bluesky

Mark Carney, "The lessons of Brexit are beginning to be applied to the US" "When you break trading relationships you end up with slower growth"

"What does it mean to be a ‘biological’ woman? How are you going to prove that you are one? Who is going to enforce the dividing line? To say these questions have no easy answers is to understate the difficulty - they don't have any answers at all.” www.standard.co.uk/news/supreme...

In an anti immigration rant, instead of acknowledging that the NHS would collapse without foreign workers who are 19% of the NHS work force Nigel Farage flips the script and says we should be ashamed of hiring foreign workers When actually, we should be grateful for these immigrants

“Far from simply being a beneficiary of short-term frustrations, Reform is capitalising on years of deep-rooted anger… about what millions of people see as the long slide of national decline” Decline that Farage helped cause. Anger that’s made him a fortune. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/366...

Private gas-fired stations charge 100 times normal rates for electricity when renewable energy in short supply. Private equity, foreign state-owned companies make huge profits. End the scam. Nationalise UK gas plants & entire energy production. Lower energy bills reduce poverty, business costs.

French workers encouraged to arrive late in protest over pension age rise from 62 to 64. UK state pension age to rise from 66 to 67, lower pension than in France. Rich retire whenever they want. Work till drop for the rest. LL Britons need French lessons on resistance and protest.

This "debate" about who should use what toilet doesn’t benefit anyone. It doesn’t fix the underfunding of women's refuges, NHS waiting lists leaving women in terrible pain, mums skipping meals to feed their kids. How about we get on with tackling the real issues affecting women?

If an all male US Supreme Court hearing a case about abortion rights blocked all women from making submissions before it and accepted as evidence from male anti-abortionists bullshit 'facts' which it refused to allow anyone to test I would, I can assure you, vigorously criticise it too.

I've reflected. And I still don't think the Supreme Court did a very good job. 👇🏻 www.standard.co.uk/news/supreme...

Left: Nigel Farage says the reason you can't get a GP appointment is because 7.2 million foreign born people have come to the UK Right: Nigel Farage forgets to mention that the adults who are working all pay taxes, like you and me, so they're paying their fair share for the NHS

Left: Nigel Farage complains about a 'population explosion' saying foreign born workers have lowered wages by 3% Right: UCL research showed the opposite And Migration Advisory Committee shows "immigration has had a minimal effect on average wages across the UK" www.gov.uk/government/p...

9.3m Britons, including 3m children, face hunger/hardship. Govt response - cut benefits, support services. Result - lower education, health & employment attainment; pressure on the NHS, public services. Loss of £38.2bn in annual output. Can't grow economy without eradicating poverty.

Would you mind not asking me to repost things for you? I get lots of requests to do so and I have accommodated many… but my BlueSky cannot be everybody’s BlueSky, so it’s best if I choose when I want to repost things. Thank you for understanding. x

Louis Theroux's documentary staff list. Redacted, for their safety.

Reform UK is a party stuffed with Conservatives and Donald Trump supporters who pretend to be a party for the 'working man'. But it's led and funded by millionaires/billionaires who have never been a 'working man' in their lives. It's the most blatant political fraud ever.

"Take figures from classic album covers and insert them into other places where you think they'd look at home." New @b3ta.com challenge

An important reminder. Don’t vote for grifters.

Before Trump became US president, the Conservative Party held a huge lead in the Canadian polls. A few months later, and Mark Carney's Liberals have stormed to a remarkable election win in Canada. So for once, we say: Well done President Trump!

If Nigel Farage ever becomes PM he will reduce waste in government. He will do this by making public sector staff follow his own example by only turning up once in a blue moon and spending all their time on ten other jobs instead.

🥀 People are fed up. Our community spaces are dying. And the far right are on the rise. 💧Bring peoples bills down? Nationalise our services. 🏗️ Bring life back to communities? Invest in them! 🇬🇧 Most patriotic vote for your community on Thursday? Vote for @greenparty.org.uk

Do you think that Wes Streeting should be taking donations from people or companies linked to the private healthcare sector?…🚨 We don’t, but he has been, and he’s not alone! Take a look at what’s happening here… privatisation.everydoctor.org.uk and please share this so others can take a look too!🌟

Rich MAGA's don't even look after their elderly mothers.

The problem 2000 years ago was the Greedy Rich, the problem 100 years ago was the Greedy Rich, the problem today is the Greedy Rich. We need to make sure they are not the problem tomorrow as well.

We need to pay more attention to the way money is moving through Westminster 🚨 I’m going to post some examples today of MPs taking donations from people and companies linked to the private healthcare sector - EveryDoctor’s been researching this. Everyone deserves to know what’s happening!

Karoline Leavitt, "Thank's so much Tom Homan (ICE director), you can get back to work" "Look he's already leaving" "He's got a lot of illegal immigrants to deport"

Appalling revelations in the Guardian's investigation into the housing crisis - private landlords hoovering up billions in taxpayer money while families are being forced to live in terrible conditions in temporary accommodation. Govt needs to get a grip

Oh chapeau 🎩 👏

Ukraine, desperate to join the EU The UK? We just want a 'strategic partnership' Why are Labour's ambitions so low?

Love this article where @theguardian.com followed me doorknocking! "People are going to vote for change & it remains to be seen whether they vote for the positive message @greenparty.org.uk is giving or if they will vote for Reform & its negative message." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Since saying "Fuck Israel, Free Palestine." Kneecaps record sales have increased x10. So much for being cancelled.

After running a Trump-esque campaign going hard on immigration and moaning about 'woke ideologies', Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is projected to lose his seat in the Canadian general election.

Thames Water is the poster-child of predatory capitalism. Its road to ruin began with private equity. Current shareholders want to sell to another private equity group. More problems inevitable. How will the govt protect people? Watch the Minister's reply. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mosP...

Apparently there will be no further funding from Starmer for pay rises for NHS staff and teachers. Imagine if public sector pay had increased like MP pay 👇. They’ve had 12 pay rises since 2010! www.statista.com/statistics/3...

China will be what destroys Donald Trump, the ships from China have stopped, in a few days all the shelves will be empty of the shiny things. They won't come back any time soon, and the American masses will finally awake from their 250 year coma.

US Congressman from Michigan Shri Thanedar Calls for the impeachment of Donald Trump

Congratulations to Canada for choosing openness and cooperation, and firmly rejecting the politics of division and isolation. A clear reminder that the future is stronger when we work together, on both sides of the Atlantic.

Where’s the outrage over ‘systematic’ sexual violence against Palestinians? Despite mounting evidence of the army’s gender-based crimes, Israeli & Western women’s groups have largely ignored or denied the UN’s damning new report. www.972mag.com/systematic-s...

“The supreme court refused to hear me, or my evidence, to provide them with information about the impact on those trans people affected by the judgment and failed to give any reasons.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Popcorn! Grosse Pointe Blank for @captainhowdy.bsky.social If for some reason you've never seen it, fix that this evening.

Liz Truss switching on the newest high-voltage transformer in Spain.

The latest stats on job growth in all of the UK's 12 freeports show predictably underwhelming results similar to Thatcher and Cameron's time. Between 77 to 96% shortfalls in job creation in Sunak, Truss and Starmer's Freeports. Thread

Louis Theroux is one of the last journalists we have left. All the 'journalists' attacking him are sold out billionaire media pond scum. The only error is that the UK continues to supply weapons to the blatantly criminal Israel regime.

I just sent a message to Donald Trump to congratulate him on single-handedly winning the election for Mark Carney and the Liberal Party.😀

Fun Fact: 80% of Reform UK councillors are Tory defectors - vote Reform UK get Tory.

Good morning lovely phone family. It's going to be a warm one here. Hope you get to enjoy some sun 🌞 I know it feels almost impossible to be positive some days, but there's always something to be grateful for or to make us smile. Look for the glimmers 🌷 Have a beautiful day 🥰 #HaveCourageAndBeKind ❤️

Sounds like Labour are chasing the wrong voters. No surprise for anyone paying close attention, but will Labour take any notice and refocus their aim? cdn.persuasionuk.org/reform_labou...

Slower growth, higher inflation, higher interest rates, volatility, weaker currency and a weaker economy. Canada's new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, on the Brexit effect.

Yvette Cooper, "Time and again what we hear from Reform is just noise and rhetoric and protest, without ever having proper plans in place on how things will be done and how things will change" "Nigel Farage has a history of talking about private insurance for the NHS"

“Floor 3! Floor 3! All units! Woman applying lip gloss in Ladies loos! “ LOL ✌️🏳️‍⚧️❤️”

Former Chief Exec of UK part of US private health group becomes Permanent Secretary at Dept of Health and Social Care…

If you were Labour, which would you prefer? Scrapping with Reform and the Tories to carve up a minority of RW votes. Or battling the LibDems and Greens over a majority of voters. Congested, polluted waters - or a vast expanse of clear blue sea? The answer seems obvious, yet strangely eludes them.

If god forbid a surgeon ever has to crack open Liz Truss’s head, they’ll probably find a whistle with the pea missing

Matt Frei, "Usually world events are caused by national disasters or wars" "But Trump is the event" "Today we ask whether he is an aberration in the history of this republic, or part of a pattern"

✍️ Dachau 1945, El Salvador 2025 On the anniversary of its liberation, the story of Dachau concentration camp finds a disturbing echo in Trump administration policies By Tony Barta

Next week, the logistical domino effect resulting from Trump’s tariff war will finally crash into the US economy – and the first to be hit will be the truckers who helped put him in office. Full story here: @eastangliabylines.co.uk

As someone working to steer Bristol towards a sustainable future, I know how vital it is to have strong Green leadership across our region. @mayorslayer.bsky.social is the @greenparty.org.uk candidate for WECA Mayor, and she has the high ambition for climate action that our region desperately needs.

Butter wouldn’t melt… #AdoptDontShop

🚨Company That Supplied Hundreds of Millions of Pounds of Unusable COVID Tests Saw Profits Skyrocket to £178 Million After Lobbying Conservative Peer for Contract. Here's a thread with all the detail behind my latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social report 🧵 bylinetimes.com/2025/04/28/v...

Dachau 1945, El Salvador 2025 On the anniversary of its liberation, the story of Dachau concentration camp finds a disturbing echo in Trump administration policies By Tony Barta @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James Every small act of kindness matters – and it’s so very often more appreciated than you know. 🧡 #kindness #positivity Picture by tracyverdugo

Keir Starmer, "It's got to be an unconditional ceasefire, lasting and enduring" "On territory, ultimately that's a matter for the Ukrainians" #C4News "US plans include the annexation of Crimea, is that that something Ukrainians and UK could accept?" Keir Starmer, "I don't trust Putin"

Ultra-processed foods reduce life expectancy. They reduce healthy life expectancy even more. And yet the government is doing nothing to end the addiction to them that their manufacturers are deliberately creating. Why is that? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...

Really great to see @cmmonwealth.bsky.social working on this. Another example of privatisation being allowed to hold our planet & our workers to ransom. Time to nationalise. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Possessed boys don't cry

Louis Theroux spitting facts.

Yes we all know Liverpool won the Premier League but more importantly on Sunday, Gussage Acadeicals clinched The UEFA Village Agricultural Champions League with a late winner against Real Pantyhose FC of Spain. Such joy! Mind you the game has changed so much since I played it. ⚽️

I have some pretty astonishing news about the upcoming exposure of the UK duopoly's rollout of 86 free zones...watch this space!

The entire War Criminal Israeli state needs to be dismantled.

Israel are now pressuring iTunes and Spotify, they want Kneecap removed. It is Israel's presence which should be removed from Western Countries.

Liberals retain power, Tories blow a 23% lead in 90-days, the NDP and Bloc Québécois are decimated, Greens hold their one seat; Canada, eh? | Ian Kinsey @iandkinsey.bsky.social

It has to be said. They only prevail if good people do nothing. You can prevent a Reform stranglehold if you use your vote wisely. The stakes are high for us all, but especially for women. stopreformuk.vote

Monday Sounds 💿 1972 never sounded so good 👌 The incredible Curtis Mayfield with his third and greatest album ‘Superfly’ Ear Candy 🍭

Huge congratulations to Mark Carney on his victory in Canada’s general election today Elbows up 🇨🇦 Canada, you done good 👌

EU membership offers the stability the UK needs, whereas Trump’s tariffs bring chaos northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/us-...

I’ll bet not a lot gets past you, John. 👀 😉

Shipping from China has collapsed. Truckers and retailers are reeling. Even a reversal now will not stop months of economic pain ahead

Thanks to the Trump effect the Liberals in Canada 🇨🇦 , led by Mark Carney, look to have gone from a projected crushing defeat (behind 25 points in the polls) to a stunning comeback to win the Canada elections as he warns Trump 'trying to break us'. news.sky.com/story/mark-c...

Some of the delusional drivel British tools spout is pure comedy gold. 😂

Love this article where @theguardian.com followed me doorknocking! "People are going to vote for change & it remains to be seen whether they vote for the positive message @greenparty.org.uk is giving or if they will vote for Reform & its negative message." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Make sure you vote on May 1 to keep the Tories and Reform UK out. @mvtfwd.bsky.social

Chris Philp wants the benefits of being in the EU Single Market without being in the EU

Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of England, might now be Canadian prime minister, but that does not mean populism will be defeated everywhere by the threat of Trump. Trump has to harm the well-being of the ordinary American before that happens. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...

This starter pack includes the names of 140 strong resisters from the U.S., Canada and Europe who are fighting against far-right parties, nationalism and oligarchy.

Just had one of those awful passive-aggressive patronising tweets from a terf on BlueSky. “Nobody wants to hurt you, just accept you are a TIM, and you can’t be a woman.” And she’s an ex-radiographer/ultrasound. A caring profession. Vile . (Obvs blocked)

More worry. On the day Wes announced he was implementing the Sullivan Review (written by terf, says trans people should be recorded/treated as their birth sex) I was having my first mammogram. Nurse lovely. All good. Results today- fine. Will I still get an appt in 3 yrs like other women my age?

It’s going to be a warm week ahead, with temperatures reaching up to 28°C. A little too warm for me, but the garden, and all the rosebuds about to bloom, will be very happy. 🌱

Why the UK’s pursuit of a US trade deal risks damaging Starmer’s position with Europe and could backfire domestically | Niall Ó Conghaile @eastangliabylines.co.uk @nialloconghaile.bsky.social

Macquarie ‘very proud’ of Thames Water ownership 2006-2017: TW debt up from £3.4bn to £10.8bn £2.7bn taken in dividends; £2.2bn in loans Bills hiked; sewage dumped in rivers; leaks unplugged; no new reservoirs Shareholders enriched. No retribution. Macquarie now owns Southern Water archive.ph/iro7N

When you punch down, it hurts. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

A whole new level of sucking up to Trump... Grim. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

Hahahahahaha

At this point your freedoms are: 1. Making billionaires richer 2. Saying things that are acceptable to Israel. Such 'freedom'.

Invading Canada would be the end of the USA, it is their own corrupt Government which would fall. Then finally Americans can get things everyone else has, like Healthcare and a Minimum Wage.

Issuing the world's reserve currency gives a country the advantage of not having to, in effect, pay for many of its imports. Trump has never understood that. youtu.be/EY_k9RV8LCM?...

The only people who don't deserve to retire are the billionaires. They deserve to work until they have earned all that they have stolen. That would take hundreds of thousands of years. So no retirement.

Kneecap

Save this as evidence for his corruption trial when he claims to have nothing to do with DOGE.

What is the State of the World’s Human Rights today? Our report assesses 150 countries, painting a picture of a new age of rising authoritarian practices and a disregard for international law. Read for yourself 👇 www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...