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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d

The regulator Ofwat has ruled that 5 private water companies can raise bills by even more than previously agreed

A reminder that despite promising to nationalise the water industry Starmer dumped that pledge &decided to side with the private companies instead. This is the result

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walkingpete.bsky.social @walkingpete.bsky.social · 7h

It’s what they do with their wealth too - kill wildlife (fox, hare, deer, otters, pheasant and grouse) turning national parks into slaughterhouses -
Buy unnecessary stuff (£645m yachts)-
Don’t pay their taxes-
Their children go to schools which cost more per year than most people earn in a year…

walkingpete.bsky.social @walkingpete.bsky.social · 7h

Check out this from We Own It. Please sign the petition to stop Thames Water pollution - they overstepped the limit of public patience many years ago…

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

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

weownit.org.uk

walkingpete.bsky.social @walkingpete.bsky.social · 1d

A brief look at her wiki page says that she is supporting the US military to oust Maduro and in other news she is a staunch Zionist - hardly a peacemaker…

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

We can't keep up...

Yesterday we reached 90,000 members. Today we're at 95,000.

Be part of the Green surge. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

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walkingpete.bsky.social @walkingpete.bsky.social · 1d

If I still had a TV license I’d give you my support - but hey ho, if they start to give you equal coverage with Farage, may even start paying my license fee again..

walkingpete.bsky.social @walkingpete.bsky.social · 1d

Blimey!! Not St Trump!!…

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Ali Haydor @alihaydor.bsky.social · 1d

Today is World Mental Health Day 💚
A gentle reminder that it’s okay to not be okay.

Take a moment for yourself, reach out to others, and remember – you’re not alone.

#WorldMentalHealthDay #ItsOkayToNotBeOkay #MentalHealthMatters

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walkingpete.bsky.social @walkingpete.bsky.social · 1d

Recommend this book - just the job for today..

walkingpete.bsky.social @walkingpete.bsky.social · 1d

Asset stripping is all that the owners of water companies know - when are our neoliberal government going to be more open to this obvious rip off of our public services and actually something that they were promising to do before they took office?

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 1d

💩Thames Water's creditors are trying to strike a deal with Ofwat that could let them off complying with pollution rules until 2040.

There's a better way than their dirty tricks!

Public ownership - because we should have a say in how our water is run.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.

40% of Unis in financial crisis.

Major exporter destroyed by successive govts

Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.

How will the UK compete with other nations?

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 1d

How little we have understood about the #Biodiversity we are fast trashing: and nature keeps amazing us the more we learn

www.eurasiareview.com/10102025-how...

How Europe’s Largest Bat Catches And Eats Passerines Mid-Air

After nearly 25 years of research, the mystery has finally been solved: Europe’s largest bat doesn’t just eat small birds – it hunts and captures them more than a kilometre above the ground. And it ea...

www.eurasiareview.com

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walkingpete.bsky.social @walkingpete.bsky.social · 1d

He would destroy working class potential completely if he could and only private schools would exist..

The rest of us would be slaving away on the estates of the rich and in the Freeports with no unions or rights for workers…

NHS gone along with health and safety and any compensation for injuries

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Farage is saying all teachers are Marxists. They're not. They just teach that we should care for one another. But that offends his fascist instincts. The result is he is turning on a profession that teaches about compassion and empathy - because he loathes it. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

Nigel Farage’s declaration of war on teachers is a war on compassion, empathy and kindness

According to The Guardian, Nigel Farage, speaking at an event at a private Christian college in Michigan, USA, has accused teachers in the UK of “poisoning our kids” and predicted that they would go o...

www.taxresearch.org.uk

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walkingpete.bsky.social @walkingpete.bsky.social · 1d

When will working people realise the full extent of how the right wing in our society works?
And can we even call ourselves a society if one small group is asset stripping our communities and everything we use and buy - they would sell us the air we breathe if they could…

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Fears rise over $3tn shadow banking crisis.

Private equity is a big part of unregulated shadow banking, and has it's tentacles in every sector.

Empires built on high debt, asset stripping, tax abuse, profiteering can't last.

And who will bail them out?
archive.ph/tbKt0

archive.ph

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walkingpete.bsky.social @walkingpete.bsky.social · 1d

So the recent scare over instability of our economy has been kept secret until now. Now we know what is happening and the amount of money involved what’s Rachel Reeves going to do about it? Bail out billionaires again probably in the same way the Labour Party are bailing out the water companies…

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walkingpete.bsky.social @walkingpete.bsky.social · 1d

Wasn’t he called Neil Finch when he was at school?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Boycott Thames Water @boycottthameswater.bsky.social · 2d

“Millions of households in England face higher bills while rivers continue to suffer from mismanagement by privatised water companies." Well said @riveractionuk.bsky.social. We need public ownership of water NOW!!! @weownit.org.uk www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Millions of households face jump in water bills after regulator backs more price rises

Competition watchdog agrees requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, Wessex and South East to raise household bills

www.theguardian.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Water bills for England households to rise even higher.

Bills already up by 36%. Competition regulator permits another 1%-5%, £556m hike

No curbs on exec pay, dividends, sewage dumping as companies raise capital from customers, shareholders get returns.

End the Scam. Nationalise water

Five water firms provisionally allowed to raise bills by further 1% to 5%

An independent group appointed by the competition watchdog rejected nearly 80% of increases sought by companies.

www.independent.co.uk

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 2d

MIT: Buildings and roads built with new type of concrete could soon serve as giant #batteries capable of powering homes and electric vehicles.
#climate #EV
www.independent.co.uk/tech/concret...

Concrete battery that can power homes is now 10 times better

MIT scientist says we’re ‘at the brink of a new architectural revolution’ with multifunctional concretes

www.independent.co.uk

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Damien Willey @kernowdamo.bsky.social · 2d

Zack Polanski Terrifies the Establishment — And They’re Panicking #DamoRants #GreenParty youtu.be/b2rA0kA8LjU

Zack Polanski Terrifies the Establishment — And They’re Panicking

YouTube video by KernowDamo

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walkingpete.bsky.social @walkingpete.bsky.social · 2d

Yes - how sad!! Maybe they could take up a legal ‘sport’, one that doesn’t involve terrorising defenseless creatures so that they can gloat over them after they’ve killed them…

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