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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 1h

Ministers are set to cave to a 25% NHS drug price hike - under pressure from Trump - handing a giant payout to Big Pharma from NHS funds and putting patient care and medicine access at risk. We can’t let this happen.

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 1h

Why we & @justtreatment.org delivered a massive cheque and 250,000 signatures to the UK government…

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 6h

Every extra pound handed to drug company bosses is a pound stolen from NHS patients.

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 6h

The UK Government is set to cave in to Trump’s demands for higher drug prices - effectively signing a giant cheque to Big Pharma.
Today we & @justtreatment.org handed in 250,000 signatures to the Department of Health telling ministers to hold the line.

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 12h

Let’s make sure Reeves does the right thing in the Budget: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/tax-gamb...

We’re in a child poverty emergency, and it'll only get worse unless the Government does more.

Gambling giants don't pay their fair share but taxing them more could raise billions to help children.

act.38degrees.org.uk

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 12h

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has signalled that the Govt will make the gambling industry pay its “fair share” – BUT she was also recently revealed to be appearing as the guest of honour at an event hosted by the industry’s chief lobbyist 👀

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 12h

Right now, gambling companies are making BILLIONS in profit.

Why? Because of outdated tax rules.

A fairer tax could raise £3 billion: enough to scrap the cruel two-child limit and directly lift 500,000 children out of poverty overnight.

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 1d

Learn more: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Thames Water creditors ask for up to 15 years’ leniency from river pollution rules

Lenders say a ‘full return to legal, regulatory and environmental compliance’ under new rescue plan would not be completed until at least 2035-2040

www.theguardian.com

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 1d

Sign if you want to see bonuses blocked until water bosses get the job done: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/thames-w...

Sign the petition: Block Thames Water bonuses

Thames Water bosses are cashing in on a £3bn emergency bailout - while pipes leak and bills rise. Stop bonuses for failure. Sign the petition now to get the Government to step in: 👇

act.38degrees.org.uk

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry but 💀

Our rivers and seas can’t wait FIFTEEN YEARS, Thames Water.

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 2d

While UK billionaires get £35 million richer every single day, most families are locked out of wealth altogether. The growing wealth divide isn’t just unfair, it’s unsustainable.

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 2d

Remember when hard work was meant to pay off?

New analysis from the Resolution Foundation shows it would take 52 years of typical earnings (£1.3 million) to climb from the middle to the top of Britain’s wealth ladder.

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 3d

Every 1,000 signatures, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves will receive an alert from us to let them know that this is a fight they cannot win.

Add your name to the campaign: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/save-our...

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:

act.38degrees.org.uk

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 3d

Our national parks are under threat.

The Treasury wants to weaken the laws that protect areas like Dartmoor and the Lake District by opening them up to bulldozers and roads!

Right now, Ministers are debating the plans, but no decision has been made yet. That means we still have time to stop it.

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 4d

Instagram / Threads
Anglian Water: @anglianwater
Northumbrian Water: @northumbrian_water
Southern Water: @southernwatermedia
Wessex Water: @wessexwater_
South East Water: @officialsewateruk

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 4d

Please remember to stay polite and respectful when you do.

Facebook
Anglian: www.facebook.com/AnglianWater
Northumbrian: www.facebook.com/northumbrian...
Southern: www.facebook.com/SouthernWater
Wessex: www.facebook.com/wessexwater
South East: www.facebook.com/sewateruk

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 4d

After years of sewage spills, leaks, and record executive pay, families can't be expected to foot the bill for their failure.

If your water company’s on this list, head to their latest post and tell them: Stop punishing customers for your failures. Don’t raise our bills!

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 4d

Millions of us are about to be hit with even higher water bills as Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, Wessex and South East water companies pushed regulators to let them hike prices even further than already agreed.

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 4d

We can’t defeat hate with more hate, only with love, togetherness and action.

If we don’t stand together, hate will win.

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 4d

The attack in Heaton Park was a vile and heinous attack on our Jewish neighbours. The arson attack on a mosque in Sussex was a hate-fuelled attack on our Muslim neighbours.

We want to believe that "this isn't who we are", but we have to stand up and show that the vast majority don't want division.

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 4d

🙅 Tell Starmer NOT to cut the Digital Services Tax 👉 act.38degrees.org.uk/act/no-tax-c...

Don’t cut taxes for US tech billionaires!

Trump and the big tech CEOs are coming to the UK to pressure our government into SLASHING their tax. Tax that could be spent on training over 100,000 NHS nurses. If you want our government to stand…

act.38degrees.org.uk

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 4d

Trump and the tech billionaires want cuts, but Tax Justice has worked out we’d stand to lose £5 BILLION in tax.

Hands up who’d prefer to see that money spent on our NHS. 🙋

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 5d

Watch Hector’s documentary on the three lakes challenge here: www.youtube.com/watch?si=izV...

A World Record Swim - The 3 Lakes

This documentary follows my attempt to complete a challenge inspired by the famous Three Peaks Challenge – but with an open-water twist. Instead of climbing mountains, I set out to swim 55km across…

www.youtube.com

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 5d

When world bronze medallist Hector Pardoe set out to swim the UK’s three biggest lakes, the greatest danger wasn’t the cold or distance; it was pollution.

After swimming 55km through sewage-tainted water, he’s using his platform to call for change. When we swim together, our current is stronger.

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 5d

While UK billionaires get £35 million richer every day, our public services continue to crumble. It’s time the ultra-rich paid their fair share.

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