StuartSW
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StuartSW
@stuartsw.bsky.social
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Head of Campaigns at Angling Trust, environment activist, politics, ideas, democracy. Dad & slave to Aubrey the dog. Views are my own.
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The tragedy is not that customers are the victim of this mess @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social. We will barely notice the rebate on our bills. It's that once again the environment is the victim and gets nothing. Rights for the river?
Interesting to note that Paid won the Caerphilly bye election and Reform lost. So who is the @bbc Today Programme interviewing? Oh it's Reform. I see their love affair is not diminished.
Watching the Tories this week, it seems they have learnt nothing in defeat. Their slogan "stronger economy" they trashed the economy, "stronger boarders" they opened them post Brexit. Abolish stamp duty, they destroyed many people's chance to buy a house. Shamless!
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Conservative Party would abolish stamp duty, Kemi Badenoch tells conference - follow live
She says
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I utterly condemn the killing of Charlie Kirk. But the way the hard right in the US & around the world have been quick to weaponise it, use it to double down on authoritarianism, culture wars & intolerance is scary. This marks another moment when democracy & enlightenment values slip from our grasp.
Support the governments plans to ban bottom trawling in many of our "so-called" marine protected areas.

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New - No 10 blocked nature concessions in planning bill amid Labour rebellion

Row erupts between pro-housing MPs and those who wanted more mitigation on potential environmental harm

Campaigners thought an amendment was coming but No10 said no way

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No 10 blocked nature concessions in planning bill amid Labour rebellion, sources say
Row erupts between pro-housing MPs and those who with charities say bill risks causing environmental harm
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🎉 MAJOR OCEAN WIN! 📢 UK Government commits to ratifying the High Seas Treaty (aka the BBNJ) by the end of the year, as confirmed by Ocean Minister @emmahardymp.bsky.social at the UN Ocean Conference just now 🎉

#OceanProtection #UNOC3 #UNOC2025 #OceanWin

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Listening to Ed Milliband on @restispolitics.bsky.social Leading restores my faith in politics and that there are politicians with passion, knowledge and vision.
Big fine for Thames Water. OFWAT fine them over £136m, for them polluting our rivers & for continuing to give bonuses & dividends while they were in financial trouble. Still a company that prioritises great over care for the environment & customers. Time to call an end to Thames Water
This campaign has potentially national importance. We must end the "automatic right to connect," regardless of whether the sewage system can cope. Developers pay for increased school and transport capacity. They should be made to do the same for our sewers.
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Battle begins over new homes approved in historic village without sewage capacity
Charity launches legal challenge as it says problem of over-capacity sewage works near new homes is
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All we ask is for the government and the EA to do what they are legally meant to do to clean up our rivers. Yet once more, the anglers in Pickering and @fishlegal.bsky.social have to go to court and win again!! Great work! But it shouldn't be needed.

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Once more, Thames Water's leadership put their own greed ahead of helping customers and the environment. This is on the day DEFRA and the EA confirm they have launched 31 criminal investigations into the company in the past year. @theguardian.com

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Thames Water chair says he ‘may have misspoken’ to MPs over bonuses
Sir Adrian Montague told select committee paying bonuses out of emergency £3bn loan was insisted upon by creditors
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Not enough is being done to clean up our rivers. Anglers across England continue to show just how bad things have got. Angry? Yes! Will @teamlabouruk.bsky.social act or continue to push regressive policies that will trash the environment? @theguardian.com

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Citizen testing reveals phosphate ‘crisis’ in English and Welsh rivers
Anglers say more than a third of freshwater sites breach phosphate levels for good ecological status
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Morgan M may have brought Labour back from the disaster of #Corbyn and may be an effective campaign organiser, I'll give him that. But governing is entirely different and he is proving to be useless at it. Doing Starmer huge damage in the process. If he stays this is a 1 term gov't.
🔴The Founding Myth of Morgan McSweeney

Why reports of Keir Starmer's chief adviser's supposed campaigning genius do not appear to match up with the facts

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The Founding Myth of Morgan McSweeney
Reports of Keir Starmer's chief adviser's supposed campaigning genius do not appear to match up with the facts
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