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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 15d

🚨Urgent: Thames Water want permission from Ofwat to ILLEGALLY pollute rivers and seas until 2040.

🤮They want your bills to fill their pockets with gold, while they fill your rivers with sewage.

✍️Sign now. Tell Ofwat to say NO to Thames Water before Tuesday 21st October.

Thames Water want to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.

Thames water want to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years

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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 24d

"As Reform climb in the opinion polls, it is evident that they, like the Labour Party, could win on 34% of the vote," warns our CEO Emma Harrison at the @labour4pr.bsky.social rally.

Or less - recent polls show them winning on as little as 25% of the vote.

We have no time to waste. We need PR now.

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Brian Evans @soggybudgie.bsky.social · Sep 23

Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve told the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky&

Brian Evans @soggybudgie.bsky.social · Sep 4

I too have sympathy. I live in a cul-de-sac which was quiet until the end of last year. Now the large field at the end of the road is being developed into a new housing estate. Multiple land-moving equipment has given way to monster road-making and house-building. All with noisy accompaniment.

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Brian Evans @soggybudgie.bsky.social · Jul 29

What we’ve lost in a world obsessed with conflict: Reflections from South Asia to Southeast Asia www.libdemvoice.org/what-weve-lo...

What we’ve lost in a world obsessed with conflict: Reflections from South Asia to Southeast Asia

When I was seven years old, I watched as India and Pakistan stood on the brink of war. Tanks were deployed. News anchors looked panicked. People stocked up on food, and entire communities braced thems...

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Brian Evans @soggybudgie.bsky.social · Jul 23

Privatisation broke our water system.

@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.

Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&

Brian Evans @soggybudgie.bsky.social · Jul 22

Trust in govt is at a record low. Support for electoral reform is rising fast.

What’s next for UK democracy?

Join Prof. John Curtice as he unpacks the 2025 British Social Attitudes Survey.

📅 Don’t miss it.

#BSA2025 #ElectoralReform
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Is Britain's Democracy Broken? - with Prof Sir John Curtice

The British people trust governments less than ever, and support for electoral reform is at a new high. These were just some of the findings of the 2025 British Social Attitudes Survey. The confirms ...

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Brian Evans @soggybudgie.bsky.social · Jul 17

Liberal localism, Labour centralism www.libdemvoice.org/liberal-loca...

Liberal localism, Labour centralism

As Parliament approaches the summer recess, the government is pushing out announcements to set the agenda for the autumn. An ‘English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill’, 300 pages long, was p...

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Brian Evans @soggybudgie.bsky.social · Jul 16

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Open letter: stop First Group, Arriva and other private firms clinging on to our railway | We Own It

Private firms like First Group and Arriva are fighting to cling on to our railway. The government must impose a moratorium on approval of new rail contracts with private firms.

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Brian Evans @soggybudgie.bsky.social · Jul 12

🚨 No More First Past the Post Elections.

5 parties polling strongly, chaotic results, millions left unrepresented.

We need Proportional Representation — NOW.
✍️ Sign the petition:

actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...

📢 No More First Past the Post Elections!

The 2025 Local Election results confirm what so many of us already know: the current voting system is broken. With 5 parties polling strongly, First Past the Post is delivering chaos and turning elec...

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Brian Evans @soggybudgie.bsky.social · Jun 26

Can you claim copyright for yourself if it's that old and with no other strings attached?

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Brian Evans @soggybudgie.bsky.social · Jun 24

Enough is enough. The House of Lords is a rolling scandal - sign @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to demand change. It takes 30 seconds. action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3342/pe...

It’s outrageous that the majority of our lawmakers are unelected. Sign now to demand power be placed rightfully in the hands of the people

It takes 30 seconds

action.electoral-reform.org.uk

Brian Evans @soggybudgie.bsky.social · Jun 9

For heaven's sake Govt., get on with it, then, and we can move on to something else of national importance - there's no shortage!

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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · May 27

With votes spread across at least five parties, First Past the Post elections become little more than a lottery.

Don't trust the mystery box. Demand a proportional system where seats match votes.

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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · May 16

Young Labour members have a message for Keir Starmer: fix our broken voting system.

53% of Labour voters agree: we need Proportional Representation.

Featuring young campaigners Ed, Katie, Melodi and Mattie. 🌹

✍️ Sign the petition here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...

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APPG for Fair Elections @appgfairelections.bsky.social · May 17

"It cannot accommodate fragmentation, it cannot represent parties fairly or consistently, it exacerbates chaos & it undermines mandates", says @robfordmancs.bsky.social

"There is no longer any excuse for burying your head in the sand about what's going to happen under this electoral system."

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Brian Evans @soggybudgie.bsky.social · Apr 23

Private shareholders made dividends of £3.6 billion from owning our trains in the last decade. Yet the government is leaving our trains fully privately owned. Sign We Own It's petition to demand they take our trains into public ownership:

weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...

Petition: Take our trains into public ownership | We Own It

The government is taking railway operators into public ownership, but the trains themselves will remain in private hands. The government must take our trains into public ownership.

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Brian Evans @soggybudgie.bsky.social · Apr 15

Over ten months since he left office, Rishi Sunak is still shaping our democracy
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Rishi Sunak’s resignation peerages will do nothing to help collapsing trust in politics

Ten months after the last government ended, it is still able to stuff yet more peers into the grossly oversized House of Lords. On Friday, Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list was pu

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Brian Evans @soggybudgie.bsky.social · Apr 12

Why all local councils should be elected with proportional representation www.electoral-reform.org.uk/why-all-loca... Electoral Reform Society – ERS

Why all local councils should be elected with proportional representation

If you live in England, you might be casting a vote for a councillor in a local election this May – and with your vote, expressing your desire for how you’d like your local services

www.electoral-reform.org.uk

Brian Evans @soggybudgie.bsky.social · Mar 28

Just watched @labourlewis.bsky.social's powerful speech on his Water Bill, raising the fundamental question that’s been ignored for too long: who should own our water?

It’s time to bring water back into public hands.

Watch the debate here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gIOTHnvxEI

Brian Evans @soggybudgie.bsky.social · Mar 8

I studied it at a rural Grammar School 60 years ago, just for a year - no Caesar's Wars or anything like that, just the grammar, but it was helpful on countless occasions through my working life and in retirement, and I've never regretted it.

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Zero Hour for the Climate & Nature Bill @zero-hour.bsky.social · Mar 5

🌍 Ed Miliband—after the Climate and Nature Bill debate on 24 January, you promised to work towards real change for climate and nature.

📅 Will you commit to a meeting with Zero Hour and take forward the spirit of the #CANBill via future legislation?

⏳ We’re counting on you.

👉 zerohour.uk

🌍 Ed Miliband—will you meet with Zero Hour to discuss urgent, joined-up climate and nature action?

YouTube video by Zero Hour: Climate and Nature Bill

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Brian Evans @soggybudgie.bsky.social · Mar 5

Trump, Zelensky and the White Paper of our time www.libdemvoice.org/trump-zelens...

Trump, Zelensky and the White Paper of our time

The images from the Oval Office were grotesque. Donald Trump, a man who prides himself on his ability to “make deals,” sat across from a beleaguered Volodymyr Zelensky and did what can only be describ...

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Brian Evans @soggybudgie.bsky.social · Mar 4

Pay Attention Britain! www.libdemvoice.org/pay-attentio...

Pay Attention Britain!

It’s only been a little over a month since Donald Trump’s return to power and already the world feels a lot less safe; our future a lot less secure. His governing style is bluster, bullying, bribery a...

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Brian Evans @soggybudgie.bsky.social · Mar 2

And the Welsh for butterfly is ...?

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