@marisa-7538.bsky.social
Reluctant Politics follower, concerned participant of everyday life. Hoping for change. Own too many books and puzzles. Human salve of three cats and a dog.
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England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year.
Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.
People fleeced.
Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.
People fleeced.
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year.
Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.
People fleeced.
Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.
People fleeced.
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NHS faces ‘stark choice’ on £1.5bn funding black hole this year if Britain caves to Donald Trump’s drug pricing threats
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
NHS faces ‘stark choice’ if Britain caves to Donald Trump’s drug pricing threats
NHS leaders have written to the Government warning patients will wait longer for care if a funding blackhole of up to £3 billion is not filled as Donald Trump threatens higher drug prices
www.mirror.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
NHS faces ‘stark choice’ on £1.5bn funding black hole this year if Britain caves to Donald Trump’s drug pricing threats
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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What do Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Comcast, Meta, and HP have in common?
They all once pledged to stop donations to anyone who tried to overturn the 2020 election.
And now they're all donors to Trump's White House ballroom. https://popular.info/p/these-corporations-stopped-worrying
They all once pledged to stop donations to anyone who tried to overturn the 2020 election.
And now they're all donors to Trump's White House ballroom. https://popular.info/p/these-corporations-stopped-worrying
These Corporations Stopped Worrying About Democracy and Bought Trump a Ballroom
It has been nearly five years since the 2020 presidential election, but President Trump continues to baselessly insist i
popular.info
October 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
What do Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Comcast, Meta, and HP have in common?
They all once pledged to stop donations to anyone who tried to overturn the 2020 election.
And now they're all donors to Trump's White House ballroom. https://popular.info/p/these-corporations-stopped-worrying
They all once pledged to stop donations to anyone who tried to overturn the 2020 election.
And now they're all donors to Trump's White House ballroom. https://popular.info/p/these-corporations-stopped-worrying
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A reminder that you can donate to Wikipedia to keep human-sourced knowledge accessible.
The billionaire launched his A.I.-powered version, Grokipedia, on Monday.
Elon Musk Challenges Wikipedia With His Own A.I. Encyclopedia
The billionaire launched his A.I.-powered version, Grokipedia, on Monday.
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
A reminder that you can donate to Wikipedia to keep human-sourced knowledge accessible.
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…Every time we hit a milestone of 5000 signatures, we are contacting political leaders to keep the pressure up. 💙🚨
We’re 1,425 brilliant people away from the next milestone. Can we get there? Takes seconds to sign …
Just click here!
everydoctor.org.uk/the-everydoc...
We’re 1,425 brilliant people away from the next milestone. Can we get there? Takes seconds to sign …
Just click here!
everydoctor.org.uk/the-everydoc...
everydoctor.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
…Every time we hit a milestone of 5000 signatures, we are contacting political leaders to keep the pressure up. 💙🚨
We’re 1,425 brilliant people away from the next milestone. Can we get there? Takes seconds to sign …
Just click here!
everydoctor.org.uk/the-everydoc...
We’re 1,425 brilliant people away from the next milestone. Can we get there? Takes seconds to sign …
Just click here!
everydoctor.org.uk/the-everydoc...
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Whatever your party politics, @zackpolanski.bsky.social leaders speech deserves to be heard..
www.youtube.com/live/TZx9Vng...
www.youtube.com/live/TZx9Vng...
Leader's Speech - Zack Polanski at Green Party Conference 2025
YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales
www.youtube.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Whatever your party politics, @zackpolanski.bsky.social leaders speech deserves to be heard..
www.youtube.com/live/TZx9Vng...
www.youtube.com/live/TZx9Vng...
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Hackers cost Americans $16 billion a year and Microsoft is about to make their work easier. In less than two weeks Microsoft is going to end support for PCs running Windows 10. From @whitneycwimbish.bsly.social and Naomi Bethune: trib.al/AEPYetx
Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.
The company will stop supporting the OS on October 14. Advocacy groups warn this will leave up to 400 million computers vulnerable to hacks or in the dump.
trib.al
October 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Hackers cost Americans $16 billion a year and Microsoft is about to make their work easier. In less than two weeks Microsoft is going to end support for PCs running Windows 10. From @whitneycwimbish.bsly.social and Naomi Bethune: trib.al/AEPYetx
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How many more reports are needed before the UK government will call it what it is, i.e. genocide - and act accordingly? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says
The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 7:08 AM
How many more reports are needed before the UK government will call it what it is, i.e. genocide - and act accordingly? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Google data centres coming to Hertfordshire?! Sounds a lot like the final nail in an already well-nailed coffin for the local chalk streams. Or will the water be sucked out of the Thames at Teddington for it under Thames Water’s current plans? Keep your beady eyes on this.
September 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Google data centres coming to Hertfordshire?! Sounds a lot like the final nail in an already well-nailed coffin for the local chalk streams. Or will the water be sucked out of the Thames at Teddington for it under Thames Water’s current plans? Keep your beady eyes on this.
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Shameful!
@unitetheunion.bsky.social is crystal clear it will call out bad employers regardless of the colour of their rosette.
What @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social has proposed is #FireAndRehire, this should not be happening under a Labour government!
@unitetheunion.bsky.social is crystal clear it will call out bad employers regardless of the colour of their rosette.
What @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social has proposed is #FireAndRehire, this should not be happening under a Labour government!
He was a bin man for 23 years, then his son died and pay was cut by £500 a month
Bin worker Adrian Hyde sadly lost his son to sepsis last year. Just five weeks later Adrian opened a shocking letter from his employer Birmingham City Council.
www.mirror.co.uk
July 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Shameful!
@unitetheunion.bsky.social is crystal clear it will call out bad employers regardless of the colour of their rosette.
What @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social has proposed is #FireAndRehire, this should not be happening under a Labour government!
@unitetheunion.bsky.social is crystal clear it will call out bad employers regardless of the colour of their rosette.
What @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social has proposed is #FireAndRehire, this should not be happening under a Labour government!
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GP practices have had £2bn removed from core funding by NHS England over 8yrs
Done by not increasing the budget per patient by £35
Instead the £ has been moved to ARRS additional roles PCN budget £1.6bn
Pharmacy First £650m
Resulting in no increase in GP access no Family Dr
@skinnock.bsky.social
Done by not increasing the budget per patient by £35
Instead the £ has been moved to ARRS additional roles PCN budget £1.6bn
Pharmacy First £650m
Resulting in no increase in GP access no Family Dr
@skinnock.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 7:25 AM
GP practices have had £2bn removed from core funding by NHS England over 8yrs
Done by not increasing the budget per patient by £35
Instead the £ has been moved to ARRS additional roles PCN budget £1.6bn
Pharmacy First £650m
Resulting in no increase in GP access no Family Dr
@skinnock.bsky.social
Done by not increasing the budget per patient by £35
Instead the £ has been moved to ARRS additional roles PCN budget £1.6bn
Pharmacy First £650m
Resulting in no increase in GP access no Family Dr
@skinnock.bsky.social
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A strong leader wins arguments through the power of persuasion and a convincing policy agenda… not through withdrawing the whip having failed to persuade amidst a policy shambles.
July 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
A strong leader wins arguments through the power of persuasion and a convincing policy agenda… not through withdrawing the whip having failed to persuade amidst a policy shambles.
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In 1997 47 Labour MPs voted against Tony Blair's plans to abolish single-parent benefits, with a further 100 abstaining.
Not a single one of them had the whip removed
Not a single one of them had the whip removed
July 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
In 1997 47 Labour MPs voted against Tony Blair's plans to abolish single-parent benefits, with a further 100 abstaining.
Not a single one of them had the whip removed
Not a single one of them had the whip removed
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This is not normal behaviour, & it makes Starmer look weak, not strong. Backbench MPs historically only had the whip removed (cast out of the PLP) for serious personal misdemeanours. It was Boris who started wielding it as a tool to bully MPs who just disagreed with him www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Keir Starmer suspends Labour MPs for breaching party discipline
Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman, Chris Hinchliff and Rachael Maskell all voted against welfare reforms.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is not normal behaviour, & it makes Starmer look weak, not strong. Backbench MPs historically only had the whip removed (cast out of the PLP) for serious personal misdemeanours. It was Boris who started wielding it as a tool to bully MPs who just disagreed with him www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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England’s reservoirs at lowest level for a decade, experts call for hosepipe bans.
No new reservoirs built since 1989.
Over a trillion litres of water a year lost to leaks.
Water companies paid out £85bn in dividends. No regulator/Govt had a national plan.
Crisis created by privatisation.
No new reservoirs built since 1989.
Over a trillion litres of water a year lost to leaks.
Water companies paid out £85bn in dividends. No regulator/Govt had a national plan.
Crisis created by privatisation.
England’s reservoirs at lowest level for a decade as experts call for hosepipe bans
Levels even lower than in severe drought year of 2022, data shows, with water firms urged to ‘be proactive’
www.theguardian.com
July 12, 2025 at 6:08 AM
England’s reservoirs at lowest level for a decade, experts call for hosepipe bans.
No new reservoirs built since 1989.
Over a trillion litres of water a year lost to leaks.
Water companies paid out £85bn in dividends. No regulator/Govt had a national plan.
Crisis created by privatisation.
No new reservoirs built since 1989.
Over a trillion litres of water a year lost to leaks.
Water companies paid out £85bn in dividends. No regulator/Govt had a national plan.
Crisis created by privatisation.
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Disgraceful!
Just when you thought the private water bosses couldn't get any worse! They are enriching themselves with the bailout loan meant to stabilise the company.
We need to kick out these leeches for good! The ONLY solution is public ownership.
Just when you thought the private water bosses couldn't get any worse! They are enriching themselves with the bailout loan meant to stabilise the company.
We need to kick out these leeches for good! The ONLY solution is public ownership.
Thames Water refuses to claw back bonuses paid using £3bn emergency loan
Money was paid out from loan meant to stabilise firm’s finances weeks before it paused retention payments plan
www.theguardian.com
July 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Disgraceful!
Just when you thought the private water bosses couldn't get any worse! They are enriching themselves with the bailout loan meant to stabilise the company.
We need to kick out these leeches for good! The ONLY solution is public ownership.
Just when you thought the private water bosses couldn't get any worse! They are enriching themselves with the bailout loan meant to stabilise the company.
We need to kick out these leeches for good! The ONLY solution is public ownership.
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The "welfare spending out of control" narrative is nonsense.
But this chart tells us almost nothing. Not comparing like-with-like ("social protection" ≠ DWP welfare spend).
And most of the difference driven by fact UK has (private) occupational pensions, other countries have state schemes
But this chart tells us almost nothing. Not comparing like-with-like ("social protection" ≠ DWP welfare spend).
And most of the difference driven by fact UK has (private) occupational pensions, other countries have state schemes
The entire UK political/media narrative on welfare is that it is "burgeoning", "a burden" & "unsustainable". But how high is it compared to others? UK welfare at 10.8% of GDP in 2023 (including pensions). Finland spends 25.7% of GDP; France 23.8%: both double the UK.
July 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The "welfare spending out of control" narrative is nonsense.
But this chart tells us almost nothing. Not comparing like-with-like ("social protection" ≠ DWP welfare spend).
And most of the difference driven by fact UK has (private) occupational pensions, other countries have state schemes
But this chart tells us almost nothing. Not comparing like-with-like ("social protection" ≠ DWP welfare spend).
And most of the difference driven by fact UK has (private) occupational pensions, other countries have state schemes
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This week, the Prime Minister said that fairness is at the heart of this government’s story👇
But just how fair can we say the new government’s approach has been in its first year?
You can find our full article answering that question here: fairnessfoundation.com/fair-comment
But just how fair can we say the new government’s approach has been in its first year?
You can find our full article answering that question here: fairnessfoundation.com/fair-comment
July 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
This week, the Prime Minister said that fairness is at the heart of this government’s story👇
But just how fair can we say the new government’s approach has been in its first year?
You can find our full article answering that question here: fairnessfoundation.com/fair-comment
But just how fair can we say the new government’s approach has been in its first year?
You can find our full article answering that question here: fairnessfoundation.com/fair-comment
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I’m supporting the nationwide day of action calling on the richest to PAY UP.
In 2024, UK billionaires added £35 million per day to their wealth. Meanwhile, Brighton & Hove Council has an estimated funding gap of £17.2 million.
The money is there - time to tax it fairly.
In 2024, UK billionaires added £35 million per day to their wealth. Meanwhile, Brighton & Hove Council has an estimated funding gap of £17.2 million.
The money is there - time to tax it fairly.
July 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I’m supporting the nationwide day of action calling on the richest to PAY UP.
In 2024, UK billionaires added £35 million per day to their wealth. Meanwhile, Brighton & Hove Council has an estimated funding gap of £17.2 million.
The money is there - time to tax it fairly.
In 2024, UK billionaires added £35 million per day to their wealth. Meanwhile, Brighton & Hove Council has an estimated funding gap of £17.2 million.
The money is there - time to tax it fairly.
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Already over 6000 Neighbourhood Health Centres in England
GP Practices have lost 20% real terms funding since 2016, if they hadn’t they would be better able to provide the care patients need
Still 31m appts/month
Fund GP practices properly & they’ll do the rest with less funding & quicker
GP Practices have lost 20% real terms funding since 2016, if they hadn’t they would be better able to provide the care patients need
Still 31m appts/month
Fund GP practices properly & they’ll do the rest with less funding & quicker
July 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Already over 6000 Neighbourhood Health Centres in England
GP Practices have lost 20% real terms funding since 2016, if they hadn’t they would be better able to provide the care patients need
Still 31m appts/month
Fund GP practices properly & they’ll do the rest with less funding & quicker
GP Practices have lost 20% real terms funding since 2016, if they hadn’t they would be better able to provide the care patients need
Still 31m appts/month
Fund GP practices properly & they’ll do the rest with less funding & quicker
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Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.
Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.
Join us. The time is now.
Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.
Join us. The time is now.
Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
July 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.
Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.
Join us. The time is now.
Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.
Join us. The time is now.
Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
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The greatest tool working people have to win dignity, power and respect is organizing.
So proud to stand with labor as your Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York City.
So proud to stand with labor as your Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York City.
July 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The greatest tool working people have to win dignity, power and respect is organizing.
So proud to stand with labor as your Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York City.
So proud to stand with labor as your Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York City.
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Disability Labour - the Labour Party’s official disabled person’s affiliate organisation - has issued a statement that the government’s concessions are insufficient and is calling on all MPs to vote against the benefits Bill on Tuesday
June 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Disability Labour - the Labour Party’s official disabled person’s affiliate organisation - has issued a statement that the government’s concessions are insufficient and is calling on all MPs to vote against the benefits Bill on Tuesday
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Thank you Kim Johnson 👏
June 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Thank you Kim Johnson 👏
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THE GUARDIAN: Starmer's empty rhetoric on dignity unravels as Labour's harsh benefits reforms threaten to plunge vulnerable individuals into despair. A revealing critique of compassion turned callousness in modern politics.
- by John Harris
- by John Harris
Look at Labour’s cruel attitude towards disability benefit, then tell me Keir Starmer cares about 'human dignity' | John Harris
These proposed cuts will turn people’s lives into a nightmare. No wonder they are scared about where this all might lead, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
June 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
THE GUARDIAN: Starmer's empty rhetoric on dignity unravels as Labour's harsh benefits reforms threaten to plunge vulnerable individuals into despair. A revealing critique of compassion turned callousness in modern politics.
- by John Harris
- by John Harris