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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social

The weirdest thing to me is that "working people" phrase rearing its head again in such a nonsensical context. So, what, unemployed people deserved shit in their rivers?

jul 24, 2025, 8:00 am • 61 13

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Gaz Bottom @garjones.bsky.social

Pensioners and kids too, send them to the sewage beach.

jul 24, 2025, 8:11 am • 1 0 • view
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can't think of a clever name @princessethanol.bsky.social

Determining acceptable levels of pollution on a river-by-river basis based on local unemployment rates.

jul 24, 2025, 11:50 am • 0 0 • view
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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social

Only working people *matter*, though, and you know they're not referring to delivery riders after that other ad 😒

jul 24, 2025, 8:40 am • 0 0 • view
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Andy McCulloch @funkadeefunk.bsky.social

Also, what the utter fuck ARE they doing for working people? Everything’s still shit because they’re in thrall to Big Money.

jul 24, 2025, 8:13 am • 2 0 • view
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com

You’d think “putting nature first” or even better,“putting communities first”, wouldn’t you?

jul 24, 2025, 8:11 am • 2 0 • view
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social

The way other species that need the waterways and are being harmed have been ignored in all of this makes me want to cry tbh

jul 24, 2025, 8:13 am • 2 0 • view
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com

The persistent centring of humans in this discussion is so symptomatic of the parlous state of our politics, yes.

jul 24, 2025, 8:14 am • 2 0 • view
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Danny Devito's Goblin Lovechild @aylwin.bsky.social

If they were pressed they would almost certainly admit that yes, they think they do.

jul 24, 2025, 8:02 am • 4 0 • view
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Billy Dee Billiams @anothersillyowl.bsky.social

I can't believe in all of those pointless words, they didn't find a way to shoehorn "growth" in there, too.

jul 24, 2025, 8:40 am • 0 0 • view
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Tony Holdsworth @tonyholdsworth.bsky.social

Their solution is to purposefully make a shit river for the unemployed and a slightly less shitty river for the employed

jul 24, 2025, 9:07 am • 1 0 • view