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avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 7h

Trump’s building a Praetorian Guard.

Wake up USA!

avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 1d

Great news!

"developing Countries" are surging ahead, and China is adding more renewables than the rest of the World combined.

Their Energy costs will surely fall as a result...

Meanwhile, US and Europe still reliant on expensive fossil fuels...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.co.uk

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avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 3d

This is just obscene.

Only the most depraved society would even think of doing something like this.

God help the USA.

Oliver Markus Malloy @malloy.rocks · 4d

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avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 4d

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avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 5d

We show no sign at all of dealing with the causes which will lead tothe end of the Human Race

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 5d

Top 65 banks, including UK banks, committed $869bn (£648bn) in financing fossil fuels in 2024.

$7,900,000,000,000
over 9 years, driving climate chaos, deadly health impacts, crop failures, migration.

Banks profit from destruction and no govt stops them.

Some of UK’s biggest banks ‘investing ever larger sums into fossil fuels’

Which’s analysis follows research finding that the world’s biggest banks significantly increased their fossil fuel finance in 2024.

www.independent.co.uk

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avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 6d

This tiny sample of the Met Police shows a reflection of the society it polices.

What it doesn’t show is that the whole of the UK’s Police Service is like this

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avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 7d

Here we have Nige showing how good he is with assessing good character.

Don’t forget, this “honourable man” sat next to Nige (a big fan of Putin) in the European Parliament…..🧐

Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 7d

Who’d have guessed? Nigel’s ‘honest, decent, honourable man’ has admitted taking Russian-linked bribes💰

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avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 7d

Then we need to go after the directors…

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avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 7d

Refunding the money is good, but it shouldn’t stop there.

Mone & Barrowman must be prosecuted for fraud.

Mone should be marched out of the House of Lords.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

Firm linked to Baroness Michelle Mone must pay £122m after breaching Covid PPE contract, judge rules

The government wins its case against PPE Medpro - part of a consortium led by Baroness Mone's husband - after it supplied non-compliant gowns in 2020.

www.bbc.co.uk

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avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 7d

Prosecute!

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avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 7d

So, will prosecution follow?

avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 7d

Hey @labourlewis.bsky.social
Make a speech about this at the Labour conference!

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 7d

UK subsidises energy prices in other countries.

Investors, state entities from Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Israel, Italy, Korea, Norway, UAE & the US own most of UK energy sector.

£514bn operating profit since 2020.

Profits/Dividends go abroad.

Britons pay the price of privatisation dogma.

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership

Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

leftfootforward.org

avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 8d

Obviously. And have been for years.
Anyone who says otherwise is simply not keeping up with modern methods.

avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 8d

I simply cannot understand why our govt is not all over this
Why isn’t this a priority?

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social
@greenparty.org.uk
@deborahmeaden.bsky.social
@labourlewis.bsky.social
@mayorofgm.bsky.social

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 8d

Since privatisation England's water companies paid £88.4bn in dividends.

90% of water companies owned by foreign investors/govts.

90% of dividend not recirculated in the UK economy. No UK tax paid on dividends.

Public ownership would make a difference.

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership

Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

leftfootforward.org

avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 9d

Yep

Meanwhile, our rivers and lakes are full of sh!t, the cost of living is going up, energy costs are going up, NHS is collapsing, the mega rich are bleeding us dry, and no one is doing anything to mitigate climate change.

What’s your plan?

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avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 9d

So, at last.
We get to see what the plan was all along.

I just cannot believe that the rest of the World just sits back and let it happen

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

Trump and Netanyahu agree new US peace plan for Gaza and warn Hamas to accept - live

President Trump says Israel would have US backing to

www.bbc.co.uk

avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 9d

Well done to the European Team in winning the Ryder Cup on US soil.

Credit to the fight back the US Team staged, but it wasn’t enough.

The real issue is the behaviour of US supporters. The level of abuse to players, and to Rory’s wife (!?), mirrors the new US approach to life…

avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 10d

Make America Grovel Again

avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 11d

Make
America
Grovel
Again

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/l...

Ryder Cup 2025 LIVE: Saturday fourballs scores, BBC Radio 5 Live commentary and full live text coverage of Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau

Ryder Cup 2025: Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry face abuse from the crowds in afternoon fourballs at Bethpage Black

www.bbc.co.uk

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avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 11d

Also awkward as Farage was a UKIP MEP at the same time as Gill…..🧐

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avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 11d

Don’t forget, Farage has said he admires Putin….

And Farage was a member of the European Parliament….at the same time as Nathan Gill..!

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

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avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 13d

Wouldn’t the National Insurance number for this?
What am I missing?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme

The prime minister believes a new scheme would help crack down on illegal working in the UK.

www.bbc.co.uk

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avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 13d

“Relying on water companies to provide information”….
Like Asking the burglar to tell the Police what happened!

@guyshrubsole.bsky.social
@greenparty.org.uk
@theriverstrust.bsky.social

Environment Agency failed to visit serious pollution incidents, files show www.bbc.com/news/article...

Environment Agency failed to visit serious pollution incidents, leaked files show

Data from inside England's environment watchdog show an agency struggling to monitor serious pollution.

www.bbc.com

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avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 14d

Farage obviously getting desperate as he is clearly just making stuff up.

With no policy other than “send them back”, he is just an empty vessel with only his racism to keep him company

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/nig...

Nigel Farage falsely claims migrants are eating swans from Royal Parks

Nigel Farage has been made the laughable claim that Eastern European migrants are stealing and eating swans from Royal Parks.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

avalonmarshes.bsky.social @avalonmarshes.bsky.social · 15d

"I am really good at this stuff," he told world leaders. "Your countries are going to hell."

Time for Europe (and us) to start cutting the ties to the USA.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump UN speech: Six years ago his audience laughed, this year they were silent

The US leader's address was one of the clearest expositions of the way he sees the world, writes James Landale.

www.bbc.com

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