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Fiona 📎 @lucidwhim.bsky.social · 14m

🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them: 38d.gs/rezg

Sign the petition: Save our National Parks

🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them:

38d.gs

Fiona 📎 @lucidwhim.bsky.social · 21m

Thank you so much. I hope your day has been a good one 🌻🌻🐾🐾

Fiona 📎 @lucidwhim.bsky.social · 8h

Ooooh are you seeing Poldark or Doc Martin? 😉

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Fiona 📎 @lucidwhim.bsky.social · 8h

This is what Reform voters want - private healthcare!

Wake Up UK!

John Johnston @bawsman.bsky.social · 9h

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Fiona 📎 @lucidwhim.bsky.social · 8h

@sessiagh.bsky.social Good morning Nicola. Wishing you a day filled with peace, happiness and smiles. 🌻🌻 xxx

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Critical Bill. @criticalbill76.bsky.social · 1d

#mail

And they shutdown the U.S. government.

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Fiona 📎 @lucidwhim.bsky.social · 9h

@sukie74.bsky.social Morning Sukie. Hope you have a good day. 🌻🌻xxx

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 16h

Cat makes sure their stuffed snake gets their share of the food: #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 19h

Young elephant using a tree to scratch an otherwise unreachable spot behind their ear: #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

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Fiona 📎 @lucidwhim.bsky.social · 9h

@topsyscatmum.bsky.social Morning Sue. 🌻🌻xxx

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Fiona 📎 @lucidwhim.bsky.social · 9h

Wake up UK!!

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10h

Private equity takeover of US hospitals led to rise in patient deaths.

Cuts to staffing/investment; high debt, profiteering; worse patient outcomes.

More deaths in nursing homes, increased post-operative complications

Why is UK Govt handing the NHS to PE? Why no investigation of the impact of PE?

Private equity takeover of hospitals led to rise in Medicare emergency patient deaths, says study

Study found seven more deaths per 10,000 patients in private equity hospitals’ versus non-private equity hospitals

www.theguardian.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11h

UK faces highest inflation in G7 this year and next, IMF warns.

Biggest cause is profiteering led by energy, water and food businesses. No govt checks it.

Real average wage stuck at 2008 level. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Govts needs to remove cash from the rich.

UK faces highest inflation in G7 this year and next, IMF warns

According to fund’s World Economic Outlook, Britain is on course to average 3.4% this year and 2.5% in 2026

www.theguardian.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10h

UK banks oppose tax rise.

Falsely claim to be paying 46.4% tax rate.

The PwC generated number includes PAYE, employee national insurance which is paid by workers. VAT which is borne by customers.

it is extrapolated from a sample, can't be verified

Why do media reports not expose this sham claim?

Banks step up lobbying over threat of Reeves tax hikes

The gap between the tax burden on British banks and their international rivals is widening, even before the imposition of any further levies in next month's budget, according to a report seen by Sky N...

news.sky.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10h

Private equity takeover of US hospitals led to rise in patient deaths.

Cuts to staffing/investment; high debt, profiteering; worse patient outcomes.

More deaths in nursing homes, increased post-operative complications

Why is UK Govt handing the NHS to PE? Why no investigation of the impact of PE?

Private equity takeover of hospitals led to rise in Medicare emergency patient deaths, says study

Study found seven more deaths per 10,000 patients in private equity hospitals’ versus non-private equity hospitals

www.theguardian.com

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Fiona 📎 @lucidwhim.bsky.social · 9h

@martinmto.bsky.social Morning Marty!

Business as usual today! I can’t believe that it is already Wednesday. I’m meeting with a friend this morning and we will have two hours of putting the world in order!

I hope you have a day filled with positives. 🌻🐦🐝🐾🕊️ xx

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Fiona 📎 @lucidwhim.bsky.social · 9h

Good morning Kev. I have it on good authority that today is Wednesday, but I seem to have lost Tuesday and Monday somewhere! I feel like he looks!
Hope you have a spring in your step! 🌻🌻🙏

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Fiona 📎 @lucidwhim.bsky.social · 9h

@oscarhero.bsky.social Good morning dear Shirley. I hope that your Wednesday will be a pleasant, calm day and one that will bring hope. Sending my love 🌻🌻❤️xxx

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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 22h

I’m praying for momentum, come on people, nothing will change if you keep voting for the status quo.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

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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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h

Join us in being cheerful!

Let's make hope normal again!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 1d

"You need to be unapologetic, someone who gets the modern media environment and social media, and is a competent speaker - all of which Polanski is."

Why Zack Polanski is one of the only UK politicians with a reason to be cheerful right now

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...

Zack Polanski: Can the Green Party leader ‘rebalance the scales’ of UK politics? | The News Agents

In little more than a month of leadership, Zack Polanski has grown the party’s membership and become a powerful figure on the left-wing of UK politics. Can he, and the Green Party, take this further…

www.thenewsagents.co.uk

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Fiona 📎 @lucidwhim.bsky.social · 9h

@odile620.bsky.social Good morning dearest Susan. I hope today will be an easy day for you and the journey to and from work wasn’t stressful. Yesterday was ‘one of those days’ for me, but today will be a better one. Sending you much love and big hugs 🕊️❤️🌻❤️🌻🫂🕊️ xxxx

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Fiona 📎 @lucidwhim.bsky.social · 9h

….. not forgetting the huge price of pet insurance!

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10h

Price cap should be placed on vet prescriptions, watchdog says

The Competition and Markets Authority said price caps should be placed on prescriptions provided by vets to stop pet owners from being ripped off

news.sky.com/story/price-...

Price cap should be placed on vet prescriptions, watchdog says

The Competition and Markets Authority said price caps should be placed on prescriptions provided by vets to stop pet owners from being ripped off.

news.sky.com

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Fiona 📎 @lucidwhim.bsky.social · 10h

@reecedinsdale.bsky.social Good morning Reece. I hope rehearsals are going well. Do you have any particular methods for learning lines or is it a case of reading and saying them over and over? I remember reading about one actor who learnt lines to music.
Have a great day. 🌻🌻

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Fiona 📎 @lucidwhim.bsky.social · 10h

@t166er.bsky.social Good morning Ted and Poppy. Have a very pleasant Wednesday. I’m hoping to take Marlowe to the local wood soon, but I’ve not been brave enough to let him off the lead yet, as his recall is still very poor. 🐶🫣 🐕‍🦺🐾🐾

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Fiona 📎 @lucidwhim.bsky.social · 10h

@tarquinfauntleroy.bsky.social Morning Tarqs. Hope you have a pleasant day. It’s chilly here, but at least it’s dry. The mornings of cleaning condensation off the windows have started - deep joy! 🙄 🌻🌻xx

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