Sarah Vaughan
@tttern.bsky.social
UK resident in #East Devon near #Exeter. Interested in democracy, politics, football, music
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If today you're thinking, I want a party that's:
- rising in the polls
- focused on tackling the cost of living
- and genuinely democratic
Join.greenparty.org.uk
- rising in the polls
- focused on tackling the cost of living
- and genuinely democratic
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
January 25, 2026 at 12:56 PM
If today you're thinking, I want a party that's:
- rising in the polls
- focused on tackling the cost of living
- and genuinely democratic
Join.greenparty.org.uk
- rising in the polls
- focused on tackling the cost of living
- and genuinely democratic
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Thousands left without water in the middle of winter in the UK. And those same people are now facing a massive bill hike.
Privatised water is a scam.
I've written to the Prime Minister asking why he won't end this rip off and bring failing South East Water into public hands.
Privatised water is a scam.
I've written to the Prime Minister asking why he won't end this rip off and bring failing South East Water into public hands.
January 15, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Thousands left without water in the middle of winter in the UK. And those same people are now facing a massive bill hike.
Privatised water is a scam.
I've written to the Prime Minister asking why he won't end this rip off and bring failing South East Water into public hands.
Privatised water is a scam.
I've written to the Prime Minister asking why he won't end this rip off and bring failing South East Water into public hands.
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Outrageous.
Ministers should be listening to scientists, frontline communities and those working towards a green transition – not hosting the interests of oil giants in their own offices.
✍🏼 - @adamramsay.bsky.social
abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/revealed-o...
Ministers should be listening to scientists, frontline communities and those working towards a green transition – not hosting the interests of oil giants in their own offices.
✍🏼 - @adamramsay.bsky.social
abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/revealed-o...
Revealed: oil industry lobbyist working inside UK’s climate department
Polanski slams arrangement; experts warn of 'corporate infiltration antithetical to democracy'
abolishwestminster.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Outrageous.
Ministers should be listening to scientists, frontline communities and those working towards a green transition – not hosting the interests of oil giants in their own offices.
✍🏼 - @adamramsay.bsky.social
abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/revealed-o...
Ministers should be listening to scientists, frontline communities and those working towards a green transition – not hosting the interests of oil giants in their own offices.
✍🏼 - @adamramsay.bsky.social
abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/revealed-o...
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This line is some weird fantasy too...
“We need to demonstrate competence, and that’s most obviously around small boats,” [Dromey] says.
I'd like to see NHS competence. SEND competence. Equality competence. Green energy competence.
“We need to demonstrate competence, and that’s most obviously around small boats,” [Dromey] says.
I'd like to see NHS competence. SEND competence. Equality competence. Green energy competence.
“The idea that squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything is fantasy and we do need to expose that.”
Good job no one’s ever actually said that - including me.
So why is Labour again repeatedly lying to avoid taxing the super-rich?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Good job no one’s ever actually said that - including me.
So why is Labour again repeatedly lying to avoid taxing the super-rich?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Zack Polanski offering voters fantasy solutions, says head of Fabian Society
Joe Dromey, head of the Labour thinktank, urges his party to take on the ‘twin populisms’ of Reform UK and the Greens
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This line is some weird fantasy too...
“We need to demonstrate competence, and that’s most obviously around small boats,” [Dromey] says.
I'd like to see NHS competence. SEND competence. Equality competence. Green energy competence.
“We need to demonstrate competence, and that’s most obviously around small boats,” [Dromey] says.
I'd like to see NHS competence. SEND competence. Equality competence. Green energy competence.
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We shouldn’t have to vote tactically to stop someone else. We shouldn’t have to choose the least bad option. Democracy should give us the freedom to vote for what we actually support – and the confidence that our vote will count wherever we live. buff.ly/SRgOk8K
December 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
We shouldn’t have to vote tactically to stop someone else. We shouldn’t have to choose the least bad option. Democracy should give us the freedom to vote for what we actually support – and the confidence that our vote will count wherever we live. buff.ly/SRgOk8K
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December 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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🎄 Just getting my last Xmas cards out there.
✍🏼 Dear cabinet....
✍🏼 Dear cabinet....
December 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
🎄 Just getting my last Xmas cards out there.
✍🏼 Dear cabinet....
✍🏼 Dear cabinet....
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It starts with a resolution...and ends with fair votes.
We've just delivered over 250,000 signatures calling for First Past The Post to be scrapped by next Christmas🎄
📢 Share to make the call even louder!
With @makevotesmatter.bsky.social @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social @electoralreform.bsky.social
We've just delivered over 250,000 signatures calling for First Past The Post to be scrapped by next Christmas🎄
📢 Share to make the call even louder!
With @makevotesmatter.bsky.social @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social @electoralreform.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It starts with a resolution...and ends with fair votes.
We've just delivered over 250,000 signatures calling for First Past The Post to be scrapped by next Christmas🎄
📢 Share to make the call even louder!
With @makevotesmatter.bsky.social @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social @electoralreform.bsky.social
We've just delivered over 250,000 signatures calling for First Past The Post to be scrapped by next Christmas🎄
📢 Share to make the call even louder!
With @makevotesmatter.bsky.social @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social @electoralreform.bsky.social
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British politics is a mess. Food, energy, housing are all too expensive. Major parties are all flogging the dead horse of trickle down. So I’m joining the Green Party. Britain needs an economy that works for workers, for small businesses, and future generations. @greenparty.org.uk
December 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
British politics is a mess. Food, energy, housing are all too expensive. Major parties are all flogging the dead horse of trickle down. So I’m joining the Green Party. Britain needs an economy that works for workers, for small businesses, and future generations. @greenparty.org.uk
The UK has agreed to pay pharma BILLIONS more for medicines to keep Trump happy – I’ve written to my MP urging them to do everything they can to stop this disastrous deal. Use this tool to email yours too!
act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4671
act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4671
Write to your MP: stop big pharma’s NHS raid
The UK government has agreed a deal with Donald Trump that could see the NHS pay pharma companies an extra £3 billion a year for drugs. Experts say that diverting NHS funding to pay for this deal woul...
act.globaljustice.org.uk
December 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The UK has agreed to pay pharma BILLIONS more for medicines to keep Trump happy – I’ve written to my MP urging them to do everything they can to stop this disastrous deal. Use this tool to email yours too!
act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4671
act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4671
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The quiet crisis at the heart of British democracy
The quiet crisis at the heart of British democracy
Our politics have changed, but our voting system remains the same – and it’s holding us back
bit.ly
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The quiet crisis at the heart of British democracy
🚨 An undercover sting just exposed alarming loopholes in Westminster’s weak lobbying system: a fake Chinese company bought meetings with ministers and MPs, and it may not have even broken any rules! ✍️ Sign & share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop foreign interference in British politics
British politics has a foreign interference problem. An undercover investigation by Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys has revealed how shockingly easy it is for secretive Chinese interests to pene...
you.38degrees.org.uk
December 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🚨 An undercover sting just exposed alarming loopholes in Westminster’s weak lobbying system: a fake Chinese company bought meetings with ministers and MPs, and it may not have even broken any rules! ✍️ Sign & share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Nearly every day we're seeing more voices in the media wake up to the crisis of democratic representation that we're facing.
First Past the Post is unsustainable. The only way to avoid complete chaos is to switch to Proportional Representation - now
First Past the Post is unsustainable. The only way to avoid complete chaos is to switch to Proportional Representation - now
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Nearly every day we're seeing more voices in the media wake up to the crisis of democratic representation that we're facing.
First Past the Post is unsustainable. The only way to avoid complete chaos is to switch to Proportional Representation - now
First Past the Post is unsustainable. The only way to avoid complete chaos is to switch to Proportional Representation - now
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💥 Excellent article in @economist.com about the absurdity of election results under FPTP - and its consequences:
"When the country has lots of medium-size parties, the correlation between the number of votes in, and number of seats out, owes more to Las Vegas than to Edmund Burke." 💯💯
"When the country has lots of medium-size parties, the correlation between the number of votes in, and number of seats out, owes more to Las Vegas than to Edmund Burke." 💯💯
Britain’s slot-machine politics
Voting is becoming a high-stakes, wildly unpredictable gamble
www.economist.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
💥 Excellent article in @economist.com about the absurdity of election results under FPTP - and its consequences:
"When the country has lots of medium-size parties, the correlation between the number of votes in, and number of seats out, owes more to Las Vegas than to Edmund Burke." 💯💯
"When the country has lots of medium-size parties, the correlation between the number of votes in, and number of seats out, owes more to Las Vegas than to Edmund Burke." 💯💯
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The tribal tedium sets in hard for me at times like this. It's bad politics, and dreadful for the country.
If we had equal votes of course none of this would matter. But they won't even do that.
SIGH.
If we had equal votes of course none of this would matter. But they won't even do that.
SIGH.
December 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The tribal tedium sets in hard for me at times like this. It's bad politics, and dreadful for the country.
If we had equal votes of course none of this would matter. But they won't even do that.
SIGH.
If we had equal votes of course none of this would matter. But they won't even do that.
SIGH.
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Hope is here: help us deliver it www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere...
Hope is here: help us deliver it
Raise £100,000 to turn our incredible momentum into election wins. Will you help us beat reform in May?
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November 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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“Isn’t it significant that Rachel Reeves used her big TV moment to attack the Greens? She knows huge numbers of people really find what we are offering attractive.”
Ellie Chowns on Labour’s lack of courage in the Budget and growing support for a fairer, greener alternative.
Ellie Chowns on Labour’s lack of courage in the Budget and growing support for a fairer, greener alternative.
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“Isn’t it significant that Rachel Reeves used her big TV moment to attack the Greens? She knows huge numbers of people really find what we are offering attractive.”
Ellie Chowns on Labour’s lack of courage in the Budget and growing support for a fairer, greener alternative.
Ellie Chowns on Labour’s lack of courage in the Budget and growing support for a fairer, greener alternative.
Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a bigger voice in politics. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to put a cap on how much they can donate in the #ElectionsBill
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Sign now to demand an end to big money in politics
It takes 30 seconds
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November 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a bigger voice in politics. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to put a cap on how much they can donate in the #ElectionsBill
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...
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R4-If we each handed the Government £100 as tax - here’s how it was spent:
£22→NHS
£6→Defence
£10→Education
£10→Debt interest
£11.40→State pensions
£4.15→Working-age welfare
£0.50→Asylum system
£0.70→Overseas aid
Immigration dominates headlines yet asylum accounts for just 0.5% of public spending.
£22→NHS
£6→Defence
£10→Education
£10→Debt interest
£11.40→State pensions
£4.15→Working-age welfare
£0.50→Asylum system
£0.70→Overseas aid
Immigration dominates headlines yet asylum accounts for just 0.5% of public spending.
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
R4-If we each handed the Government £100 as tax - here’s how it was spent:
£22→NHS
£6→Defence
£10→Education
£10→Debt interest
£11.40→State pensions
£4.15→Working-age welfare
£0.50→Asylum system
£0.70→Overseas aid
Immigration dominates headlines yet asylum accounts for just 0.5% of public spending.
£22→NHS
£6→Defence
£10→Education
£10→Debt interest
£11.40→State pensions
£4.15→Working-age welfare
£0.50→Asylum system
£0.70→Overseas aid
Immigration dominates headlines yet asylum accounts for just 0.5% of public spending.
I just signed this petition calling for better cooperation with the EU on the environment. Will you add your name, too? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk-eu-enviro...
Tell The Government: Strengthen UK-EU Environmental Cooperation
Climate change and environmental problems don't respect borders. The UK and EU must work together to protect our shared environment, tackle the climate crisis, and preserve biodiversity for future gen...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I just signed this petition calling for better cooperation with the EU on the environment. Will you add your name, too? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk-eu-enviro...
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At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.
Good advice about how to talk about migration from the Refugee Council @refugeecouncil.bsky.social plus facts: www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/support-us/c...
www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/stay-informe...
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How to speak to friends and family about refugees: top ten tips - Refugee Council
Discover some practical tips to help you talk confidently and respectfully about refugees, even if you're not an expert.
www.refugeecouncil.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Good advice about how to talk about migration from the Refugee Council @refugeecouncil.bsky.social plus facts: www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/support-us/c...
www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/stay-informe...
www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/stay-informe...
The new asylum laws represent a fundamental downgrading of the rights of vulnerable people
open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
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The new asylum laws represent a fundamental downgrading of the rights of vulnerable people
How do you build a life when your right to remain is reassessed every two and a half years?
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The new asylum laws represent a fundamental downgrading of the rights of vulnerable people
open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
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