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Barton Wickets

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I’ve been to hell and back and Stoke Poges twice Socialist & Trade Union Rep.

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Sign the Open Letter — Trade and Tenants Unions Fighting the Far Right

www.tuff.network/sign-the-ope...

04.03.2026 06:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sign the Open Letter — Trade and Tenants Unions Fighting the Far Right

Sign the open letter which calls on the TUC to lead a counter-demonstration to Tommy Robinson’s nationalist rally in May. If they don’t, grassroots activists will have to do it ourselves - but we are stronger united.

✍️ Sign here: www.tuff.network/sign-the-ope...

03.03.2026 19:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‼️ BREAKING: Greens WIN Gorton and Denton by-election in a landslide victory

🟢 Grn: 41% (+27)
➡️ Ref: 29% (+15)
🔴 Lab: 25% (-25)
🔵 Con: 2% (-6)
🟠 Lib: 2% (-2)

Green GAIN from Labour (+/- vs GE2024)

‼️First-ever Green win in an MP by-election

27.02.2026 04:34 👍 1175 🔁 331 💬 40 📌 259
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'Unity' is killing our movement whilst fascists claim the streets SUTR has a stranglehold on the UK protest movement and this monopoly on protest is hollowing out our resistance against the far right

'Unity' is killing our movement whilst fascists claim the streets

SUTR has a stranglehold on the UK protest movement and this monopoly is hollowing out our resistance against the far right, says Antifabot...
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026...

24.02.2026 00:44 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Mobilising for a big demo isn’t going to save us.

We need to get organised in our communities and we need to do it quickly.

23.02.2026 21:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There is quite literally a vigilante group patrolling Epping Forest that have links to known Neo-Nazis at the moment and nobody seems to give a shit lol

23.02.2026 21:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

03.01.2026 21:32 👍 5003 🔁 1445 💬 67 📌 67

Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves — and that’s no coincidence.

This is naked U.S. imperialism: an illegal assault on Caracas aimed at overthrowing a sovereign government and plundering its resources.

Starmer’s Labour government must condemn this unequivocally.

03.01.2026 09:49 👍 979 🔁 311 💬 46 📌 16
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Why we're creating a housing union in 2026

A housing union bringing together renters, residents and leaseholders is needed in 2026, writes Social Housing Action Campaign's Suzanne Muna

02.01.2026 21:07 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Zack Polanski offering voters fantasy solutions, says head of Fabian Society
Joe Dromey, head of the Labour thinktank, urges his party to take on the ‘twin populisms’ of Reform UK and the Greens

Politics Zack Polanski offering voters fantasy solutions, says head of Fabian Society Joe Dromey, head of the Labour thinktank, urges his party to take on the ‘twin populisms’ of Reform UK and the Greens

BREAKING: Head of the 'Sabotage the left' club doesn't like left-wing movement.

31.12.2025 07:16 👍 404 🔁 71 💬 30 📌 4

Didn’t stick to any of my 2025 New Years Resolutions, but I did steal about 50 forks from the staff canteen so it wasn’t a total bust.

31.12.2025 08:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Barry from Eastenders stole my intellectual property

29.12.2025 19:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah you could say the same for “Green austerity - we’ll make the best of it” to be fair.

29.12.2025 13:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I see, missed this. But as I said YP agreed it at conference so there’s going to be one co-ordinated effort (in theory).

29.12.2025 13:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Anyway, see what you mean and fingers crossed Greens make some changes, but don’t think the idea of a no cuts budget is so out there. YP agreed it at conference.

PS could you get Steve from G.Organise to get back to me re: Epping TUC. Appreciate he may be taking a well earned break so no dramas

29.12.2025 13:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“That’s my point” where was that your point?

29.12.2025 12:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

To make the best of it and impose a nicer austerity than the alternative? Disappointing tbh.

Local govt is a mess and needs radical change with a national strategy, IMO the Greens are missing a trick. They’ve got the momentum and a membership with the appetite for change, so why more of the same?

29.12.2025 12:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Some will call it grandstanding, some call it sticking to your principles I guess.

What’s the point in standing in local elections if you’re going to impose cuts you’re meant to be ideologically opposed to?

29.12.2025 11:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Tweet by George Galloway sent 2 Dec 2025 that reads:

If Your Party the Green Party and the Workers Party can park their differences and construct an electoral agreement around the large and vital similarities on the economy on war on the NHS and national unity could still stop the seemingly inexorable parade of Reform headed otherwise to Downing Street.
We should do so.

Tweet by George Galloway sent 2 Dec 2025 that reads: If Your Party the Green Party and the Workers Party can park their differences and construct an electoral agreement around the large and vital similarities on the economy on war on the NHS and national unity could still stop the seemingly inexorable parade of Reform headed otherwise to Downing Street. We should do so.

This is funnier than doing the cat thing in Big Brother.

03.12.2025 19:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Feel your pain I’ve caught hand, foot and mouth from the baby (she got from very first day at nursery) and I am in HELL.

01.12.2025 21:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I did reach out, cheers. Hope you’re right and he’s fine.

01.12.2025 07:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think he was having some sort of episode actually and was talking about ending his own life before he deactivated.

Don’t know him personally but hopefully he reached out to someone he knows and they’ve been kinder than some of the posts I’ve seen about him this morning 👍

01.12.2025 07:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What a way to announce the Green / YP alliance!!

30.11.2025 20:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hey mate, don’t know you personally but doesn’t look like you’re doing too well. Fire me a DM if you want to talk things through a bit. Take care of yourself.

30.11.2025 19:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pretty sure I’d remember m8

30.11.2025 17:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That was mad cows disease m8

30.11.2025 11:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’ve caught hand, foot and mouth disease from my baby and I am now 30-40% blister.

Never even heard of this bullshit Victorian farmyard sounding illness before last week.

29.11.2025 22:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Totally normal country.

26.11.2025 19:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah, but are British political, media and economic elites intelligent and informed? No. Sure, but are they wise and reasonable? Also no. Are they charismatic leaders? No. Masters of wit and rhetoric? No. Can they crack a joke? No. Conventionally attractive? No. Do they look vaguely human? Do they fu

26.11.2025 17:58 👍 42 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1

I got sortitioned for the Sunday and I’ve got my fighting pants ironed and ready.

20.11.2025 15:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0