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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 7h

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31,154 people signed and won this petition

More funding for the NHS Gender Identity Clinics #TransCantWait

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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 7h

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Write to your MP: Save the future of general practice | DAUK

DAUK has launched a letter-writing campaign to highlight the critical state of general practice with MPs and policy makers

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 15h

Write to your MP: Save the future of general practice

We have been increasingly concerned about the messages aimed at GPs from Wes Streeting, Stephen Kinnock & Department of Health

They have said this is just a few BMA leaders

It’s not pleas write here👇🏼 and share
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Write to your MP: Save the future of general practice | DAUK

DAUK has launched a letter-writing campaign to highlight the critical state of general practice with MPs and policy makers

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 8h

Pride in Place is the government’s new £5 billion plan to rebuild local pride — by giving power and funding directly to communities, not Whitehall. Safer streets. Better high streets. Real local control. Here's how it will work ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

Restoring pride to Britain’s most deprived neighbourhoods

'Pride in Place' is an ambitious government plan to hand power and funding to local people to rebuild community pride. How will it work?

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 8h

Help @bylinetimes.bsky.social step things up a level. We’re raising £20k to build a new special investigations team led by Nafeez Ahmed
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#NoStoneUnturned – Byline Times Shop

#NoStoneUnturned Help Byline Times go where others dare to tread. We’re raising £20k to build a new special investigations team led by Nafeez Ahmed. Byline Times is asking for your support to advance ...

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 16h

Not homes.
Not streets.
ENTIRE TOWNS!

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 8h

“WARNING
Keir Starmer's Al Growth Zones are following US big tech's predatory tactics to the letter. Data centres in the US are causing mayhem for local residents, local councils are toothless and bow to pressure from big tech [and] the public are completely cut out of the decision-making process.”

EuropeanPowell (@europeanpowell)

WARNING Keir Starmer's AI Growth Zones are following US big tech's predatory tactics to the letter. Data centres in the US are causing mayhem for local residents, local councils are toothless and bo...

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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 8h

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 9h

As if they keep writing all these headlines - and our membership numbers and polling just keeps shooting up. 🚀

Now at 110,000. Over 55% increase in just one month!

Lower bills. Fund NHS. Tax the super rich.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

Greens who want to save the world by destroying britain

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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 8h

Please sign the petition

Petition: Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts

To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance, funding, and operations of free zones. Plus a public review to assess impacts, such as job displacement and value for taxpayers money

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · Sep 5

Sign the petition if you want to continue living in a democracy without corporate free zones stealing your money, your land, your homes, and your human rights.
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Petition: Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts

To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance, funding, and operations of free zones. Plus a public review to assess impacts, such as job displacement and value for taxpayers money

petition.parliament.uk

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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 8h

“I’ve spent several years researching UK Freeports and “free zones.” What I found is the largest transfer of sovereignty from democratic institutions to private corporations in British history. This is not hyperbole. This is documented fact.”

The UK Corporate Coup - What They’re Not Telling You

I’ve spent several years researching UK Freeports and “free zones.” What I found is the largest transfer of sovereignty from democratic institutions to private corporations in British history.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 11h

This is absolutely nuts. As well as racist, xenophobic, deeply offensive and entirely ineffective.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 13h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 17h

Taking on Elon Musk should be an open goal in British politics.

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 17h

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka ”Tommy Robinson,” says Tesla CEO Elon Musk is paying his legal bills.

Robinson says Musk is paying his legal costs in counterterrorism trial

Far-right activist accused of refusing to give his mobile phone pin to police

www.ft.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h

Keep it up, folks!

Together - hope is here!

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Exclusive: Greens Plan To 'Overtake Tories And Replace Labour' As Support Surges

The party has also seen its membership break through 100,000 for the first time.

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 8h

Department of Homeland Comedy: Trump Gestapo quotes Adam Sandler film to justify mass arrests

The social media account of the Department for Homeland Security is the latest indication that the US is well on its way to fulfilling the destiny laid out in Idiocracy
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Department of Homeland Comedy: Trump Gestapo quotes Adam Sandler film to justify mass arrests

The Department for Homeland Security is the latest indication that the US is well on its way to fulfilling the destiny laid out in Idiocracy

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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 8h

The case is clear: after 11 years, over 247,000 badgers killed, and hundreds of millions spent, bTB is still rampant.

Badger cull dismantled from all sides in landmark Parliament debate

The cull is collapsing under its own weight, and it is collapsing because people refused to accept a lie.

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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 9h

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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Ban Blood Sports in Ireland

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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 9h

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The Bear (@bearlypolitics)

If only someone had warned us that leaving the world’s biggest single market might make us vulnerable to, you know, markets. But noooo, we wanted to “take back control.” Congratulations - we’ve take...

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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 9h

"Trump, Netanyahu and Tony Blair will install and manage special economic zones (SEZs) under a reconstruction regime engineered to subjugate Palestinian land and labour to global capital — beachfront resorts for investors, not homes for the displaced.

This is textbook disaster capitalism."