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Willem Huiskamp's avatar Willem Huiskamp @willemh.bsky.social
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"Only two years after the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, brandished a “green card for the planet” in a video message, football’s world governing body signed a four-year sponsorship deal with the Saudi oil and gas conglomerate Aramco, the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitter"

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Peter Stefanovic 's avatar Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social
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Post-Brexit phasing-out of EU subsidies blamed for drop in farmer confidence

“This year we’re going to be down to 50% or less of our previous BPS payments & this comes at a time where farmer borrowing is increasing & cost of servicing that debt is higher”
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How might an incoming government raise the money to restore public services? The Labour Party has just published plans for tax reform | Prof @richardjmurphy.bsky.social has some ideas

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The BT Tower, a staple of London's skyline that was once used to send telecom traffic, was sold to an American hotel group on Wednesday. It will be transformed by the company that turned the TWA terminal at Kennedy Airport into a hotel. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/b...

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Ken Bardsley's avatar Ken Bardsley @kenbar.bsky.social
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Gambling while laughing, about the lives of desperate people ? Is THIS the standard of out current PM ? If so, the sooner he is the EX-PM, the better.

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE🇪🇺🔶🌹's avatar Cornish Skipper #FBPE🇪🇺🔶🌹 @cornishskipper.bsky.social
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“Tory minister accused of offering 'VIP lane' for Rishi Sunak's wife's firm in UK…Trade minister Lord Johnson said he was “keen to see a bigger Infosys presence in the UK and would be happy to do what he could to facilitate that” #ToriesCorruptToTheCore

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE🇪🇺🔶🌹's avatar Cornish Skipper #FBPE🇪🇺🔶🌹 @cornishskipper.bsky.social
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“We’ve had eight years to learn the lessons of 2016 and yet here we are. Britain has responded by weakening the body that protects our elections and degrading our data protection laws to “unlock post-Brexit opportunities”. “

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE🇪🇺🔶🌹's avatar Cornish Skipper #FBPE🇪🇺🔶🌹 @cornishskipper.bsky.social
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“The financial crisis in local government…is now out of control. Denied the financial wherewithal to fulfil their basic statutory duties, nine councils have effectively gone bust…one in five risk that fate over the next two years.” #ToriesUnfitToGovern

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Grahame Lucas's avatar Grahame Lucas @grahamelucas.bsky.social
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Four Years On: Kemi Badenoch’s Sketchy Brexit Benefits. Four years on from leaving the EU, the Department for Business and Trade’s overview of Brexit tells a powerful story – of fiction bylinetimes.com/2024/02/01/f...

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Carolyn #ProEU, #FBPE, Brussels/Taunton's avatar Carolyn #ProEU, #FBPE, Brussels/Taunton @carolynda.bsky.social
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What EU farmers are resisting is like a tickle compared to what #Brexit has done to British farming.

Some forces hope to distract Britain with false narrative that we are lucky to be out of the EU. This couldn’t be further from the truth and is merely a false narrative!
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