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walkingpete.bsky.social
@walkingpete.bsky.social
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Nature all the way - ahh..and sci-fi
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weownit.org.uk
We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 9h
You are being forced to pay a privatisation premium.

Public ownership would enable us to reinvest the huge profits of energy companies into cutting our bills.

Great piece by @mathewlawrence.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence
A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank
www.theguardian.com
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walkingpete.bsky.social
walkingpete.bsky.social @walkingpete.bsky.social · 1d
If the UK becomes a lot more healthy, mentally - Tories and Reform will naturally lose support - makes sense!
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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 2d
🟢 Here's why you should join the Green Party 👇

Join.greenparty.org.uk
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 1d
“It took 3.8 billion years for 10 million species to slowly evolve on Earth. It has taken just a few hundred years for just one of those species to usher in a global ecosystem collapse that will be the biggest extinction event on the planet”

From my book THE UNHAPPINESS MACHINE
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left-foot-forward.bsky.social
Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 1d
Your regular reminder 👇

🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy
EXCLUSIVE: Poll shows huge support for nationalisation of key industries and utilities
Privatisation has failed.
leftfootforward.org
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coldwarsteve.bsky.social
Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 1d
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walkingpete.bsky.social
walkingpete.bsky.social @walkingpete.bsky.social · 1d
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neweconomics.bsky.social
New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 1d
Three things we can do to protect ourselves from extreme weather:
🏡home insulation to keep us warm in winter and cool in summer
🛬stop expanding airports and making the problem worse
💸tax the windfall profits of fossil fuel companies so the people who caused this pay for it
news.sky.com
Sky News @news.sky.com · 1d
UK must prepare for 2C of warming by 2050, government told for first time
UK must prepare for 2C of warming by 2050, government told for first time
Britain must prepare for at least 2C of warming within just 25 years, the government has been advised by its top climate advisers.
news.sky.com
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 1d
Oh oh ...
Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating.
CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening.
#climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateScience
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
www.theguardian.com
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reformexposed.bsky.social
Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 2d
Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.

It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.

Investigation now!

#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes
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walkingpete.bsky.social
walkingpete.bsky.social @walkingpete.bsky.social · 1d
Great idea!!

And while we’re on the subject why not use land on estates that cover 1000s of acres owned by the aristocracy and super rich, private equity, Jeremy Clarkson etc., and give them low prices for it as an offset for all the years of subsidies from the public purse…
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thestar.co.uk
The Star, Sheffield @thestar.co.uk · 1d
A Sheffield MP has put forward 10 alternative sites for housing in 'affluent' areas of the city in a bid to prevent swathes of green belt being used

#Sheffield
www.thestar.co.uk/news/environ...
MP lists 10 sites in 'affluent' areas which could be used for new homes - full list
A Sheffield MP has launched a scathing attack on the “utterly unfair” and “completely rushed” process to find housing sites on Sheffield’s green belt.
www.thestar.co.uk
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Richard Sedgley @richardsedgley.bsky.social · 2d
BBC caves to complaints and agrees to major Zack Polanski interview

www.thenational.scot/news/2554271...
BBC caves to complaints and agrees to major Zack Polanski interview
ZACK Polanski will be interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg after the BBC received complaints from the public for the lack of coverage of the Green Party…
www.thenational.scot
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d
The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk
Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 1d
Zack Polanski: "If the straight question is, ‘would I abolish the monarchy' - yeah, absolutely.”
open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...
Exclusive: Zack Polanski backs Scottish and Welsh independence
The eco-populist Green leader has called for sweeping change to Britain's political system, and spoken about potentially leading an explicitly ‘English’ party for the first time.
open.substack.com
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weownit.org.uk
We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 1d
📣URGENT more than 14,000 people have signed our petition calling on Ofwat to REJECT Thames Water's latest ridiculous proposal.

🤑Their creditors want to pollute our rivers & seas illegally for the next 15 years.

✍️Ofwat makes its decision next week. Add your name, 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 & 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 today!

Thames Water wants to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.
Thames Water wants to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years
weownit.org.uk
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frightopenclose.bsky.social
frightopenclose @frightopenclose.bsky.social · 1d
38d.gs/save-nationa...
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
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desmog.com
DeSmog @desmog.com · 1d
🔴 NEW - How a ‘Pro-Climate’ Charity Channelled Cash to a Koch-Funded Think Tank

Opaque funds are masking donations to political causes.

📝 @mc00.bsky.social
How a ‘Pro-Climate’ Charity Channelled Cash to a Koch-Funded Think Tank
A UK charity that portrays itself as a climate leader facilitated a £830,000 donation to the Mercatus Center, a conservative think tank heavily funded by U.S. oil billionaire Charles Koch, DeSmog can ...
www.desmog.com
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walkingpete.bsky.social
walkingpete.bsky.social @walkingpete.bsky.social · 1d
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walkingpete.bsky.social @walkingpete.bsky.social · 1d
Tories and Labour have been flogging bits of the NHS off for decades - Labour are just doing what career politicians do anywhere - accept bribes and lobbying and follow their paymasters…

#VoteGreen
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d
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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drpauldorfman.bsky.social
Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 1d
UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told
#Climate advisers warn that current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequate
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told
Climate advisers warn that current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequate
www.theguardian.com
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teenig.bsky.social
Extremely Teenig @teenig.bsky.social · 2d
Absolutely, degree in politics, sitting on the fence, eyeing up the options and plumping for the party most likely to get them elected.
Platitudes and word salad is their limit, all too eager to please their paymasters
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38degrees.bsky.social
38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 3d
Why we & @justtreatment.org delivered a massive cheque and 250,000 signatures to the UK government…
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walkingpete.bsky.social
walkingpete.bsky.social @walkingpete.bsky.social · 2d
Career politics - - when I look at the likes of Steve Reed et al - they would fit into the Tories, Liberals or Conservatives - there’s no passion, simply attention seeking and media grabbing positioning…
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