Paul Espley
@paulespley.bsky.social
Interested in politics, #PRnow , economics, housing, environment, food, drink, North Wales, London, some sport, meeting people.
URGENT: Plans to protect people & environment are on a knife-edge at the UN climate talks.
Tell Ed Miliband to act now and champion a fairer future, where everyone benefits from the transition away from fossil fuels ✍️ #cop30 foe.uk/upx66
Tell Ed Miliband to act now and champion a fairer future, where everyone benefits from the transition away from fossil fuels ✍️ #cop30 foe.uk/upx66
Tell Ed Miliband to stop blocking UN climate talks
URGENT: The UK delegation is blocking plans to put fairness and justice at the heart of the UN climate talks. We must act now to change their minds. At the climate talks, countries have come together ...
foe.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
URGENT: Plans to protect people & environment are on a knife-edge at the UN climate talks.
Tell Ed Miliband to act now and champion a fairer future, where everyone benefits from the transition away from fossil fuels ✍️ #cop30 foe.uk/upx66
Tell Ed Miliband to act now and champion a fairer future, where everyone benefits from the transition away from fossil fuels ✍️ #cop30 foe.uk/upx66
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The government’s Carbon Budget Delivery Plan released today, seemingly has no consideration of the 100+ AI data centres that Big Tech wants up and running during the plan’s implementation.
#AI #datacentres #CarbonBudget #Climatechange
#AI #datacentres #CarbonBudget #Climatechange
October 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The government’s Carbon Budget Delivery Plan released today, seemingly has no consideration of the 100+ AI data centres that Big Tech wants up and running during the plan’s implementation.
#AI #datacentres #CarbonBudget #Climatechange
#AI #datacentres #CarbonBudget #Climatechange
Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve asked the Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky&
October 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve asked the Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky&
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Leunig, a former gov adviser, said scrapping it — while it would boost growth and productivity — would be “a very, very big tax cut for rich people”. One effect would be to boost house prices, making the main beneficiaries the existing owners of expensive properties in the south-east of England.
Should stamp duty be scrapped in the UK?
Conservative party says property tax deters people from moving house and stifles productivity
www.ft.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Leunig, a former gov adviser, said scrapping it — while it would boost growth and productivity — would be “a very, very big tax cut for rich people”. One effect would be to boost house prices, making the main beneficiaries the existing owners of expensive properties in the south-east of England.
Nigel Farage’s Reform wants to bring back fracking in England. We need to lock the current ban in law. Join me and tell the Prime Minister: make the fracking ban permanent.
@friends_earth 👇
foe.uk/ksojs
@friends_earth 👇
foe.uk/ksojs
Tell Keir Starmer to make the fracking ban permanent
Nigel Farage's Reform party has declared it wants to “drill baby drill” if it wins the next general election. There’s a temporary pause on fracking in England, but it’s not even written into law. So i...
foe.uk
October 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Nigel Farage’s Reform wants to bring back fracking in England. We need to lock the current ban in law. Join me and tell the Prime Minister: make the fracking ban permanent.
@friends_earth 👇
foe.uk/ksojs
@friends_earth 👇
foe.uk/ksojs
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If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).
October 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).
Excellent analysis of how the BBC is failing to report on Farage and Reform without bias #@sjwrenlewis.bsky.social #BBCToday
#bbcnews @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @bbcnews.https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/farage-and-bbc.html
#bbcnews @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @bbcnews.https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/farage-and-bbc.html
Farage and the BBC
On Monday 22nd September I watched a party political broadcast on behalf of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party. It was on the BBC, and it was en...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Excellent analysis of how the BBC is failing to report on Farage and Reform without bias #@sjwrenlewis.bsky.social #BBCToday
#bbcnews @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @bbcnews.https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/farage-and-bbc.html
#bbcnews @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @bbcnews.https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/farage-and-bbc.html
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PR v FPTP!
🇬🇧 | Projected result of this week's @FindoutnowUK poll — under PR
(Via @joshhousden.bsky.social
➡️ RFM: 34% | 227 (+131)
🔴 LAB: 16% | 110 (-124)
🟦 CON: 16% | 104 (-52)
🔶 LDM: 13% | 87 (+6)
💚 GRN: 12% | 78 (+35)
🟡 SNP: 3% | 18 (+1)
🔲 PLC: 1% | 8 (+3)
+/- vs. GE2024 [PR]
🇬🇧 | Projected result of this week's @FindoutnowUK poll — under PR
(Via @joshhousden.bsky.social
➡️ RFM: 34% | 227 (+131)
🔴 LAB: 16% | 110 (-124)
🟦 CON: 16% | 104 (-52)
🔶 LDM: 13% | 87 (+6)
💚 GRN: 12% | 78 (+35)
🟡 SNP: 3% | 18 (+1)
🔲 PLC: 1% | 8 (+3)
+/- vs. GE2024 [PR]
September 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
PR v FPTP!
🇬🇧 | Projected result of this week's @FindoutnowUK poll — under PR
(Via @joshhousden.bsky.social
➡️ RFM: 34% | 227 (+131)
🔴 LAB: 16% | 110 (-124)
🟦 CON: 16% | 104 (-52)
🔶 LDM: 13% | 87 (+6)
💚 GRN: 12% | 78 (+35)
🟡 SNP: 3% | 18 (+1)
🔲 PLC: 1% | 8 (+3)
+/- vs. GE2024 [PR]
🇬🇧 | Projected result of this week's @FindoutnowUK poll — under PR
(Via @joshhousden.bsky.social
➡️ RFM: 34% | 227 (+131)
🔴 LAB: 16% | 110 (-124)
🟦 CON: 16% | 104 (-52)
🔶 LDM: 13% | 87 (+6)
💚 GRN: 12% | 78 (+35)
🟡 SNP: 3% | 18 (+1)
🔲 PLC: 1% | 8 (+3)
+/- vs. GE2024 [PR]
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A teacher on a £40k salary pays more tax than someone who makes the same from selling shares.
Why is income from shares taxed less than income from work?
Why is income from shares taxed less than income from work?
September 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
A teacher on a £40k salary pays more tax than someone who makes the same from selling shares.
Why is income from shares taxed less than income from work?
Why is income from shares taxed less than income from work?
September 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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"With a record 60% of the public in favour of changing how we elect Parliament, Labour must take action. Our APPG – the largest all-party group – urges the Government to establish a National Commission on Electoral Reform without delay."
📢 APPG for Fair Elections Chair, @alexsobel.co.uk
📢 APPG for Fair Elections Chair, @alexsobel.co.uk
Electoral reform is urgent – or an extreme party could win a majority in Parliament
The APPG for Fair Elections first called on the government to establish a ‘National Commission on Electoral Reform’ last November, in the wake of t...
www.politicshome.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM
"With a record 60% of the public in favour of changing how we elect Parliament, Labour must take action. Our APPG – the largest all-party group – urges the Government to establish a National Commission on Electoral Reform without delay."
📢 APPG for Fair Elections Chair, @alexsobel.co.uk
📢 APPG for Fair Elections Chair, @alexsobel.co.uk
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🚨 This is a crisis for Labour, but the real crisis is the one engulfing our politics
The Deputy Leadership Election is a chance to push for action on the voting system that is destroying trust in politics & threatens to hand a majority to the far right
Find out more 👇
The Deputy Leadership Election is a chance to push for action on the voting system that is destroying trust in politics & threatens to hand a majority to the far right
Find out more 👇
Get ready to elect a pro-PR Deputy Leader — Labour For A New Democracy
We need to use this Deputy Leadership Election to push for action on the voting system
www.labourforanewdemocracy.org.uk
September 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🚨 This is a crisis for Labour, but the real crisis is the one engulfing our politics
The Deputy Leadership Election is a chance to push for action on the voting system that is destroying trust in politics & threatens to hand a majority to the far right
Find out more 👇
The Deputy Leadership Election is a chance to push for action on the voting system that is destroying trust in politics & threatens to hand a majority to the far right
Find out more 👇
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Yes the USA wants Europe to be controlled by plutocrats. No thankyou.
The long-term story of US antipathy to European regulation is rather undercut by Trump's tariff obsession as his only real international trade goal, rather crucial in dealing with this administration but a distinction too often waved away by those favouring a trade war.
Out in the open: the US administration’s attempt to undermine the EU Digital Services Act (and other regulations) was evident.
Now it has been elevated to formal policy and goal of diplomatic efforts.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Now it has been elevated to formal policy and goal of diplomatic efforts.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
August 7, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Yes the USA wants Europe to be controlled by plutocrats. No thankyou.
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Billionaires have broken Britain. #MakeThemPay to fix it.
On Saturday 20 September, thousands of us will take to the streets to demand the government:
✅ Tax the super-rich
✅ Protect workers, not billionaires
✅ Make polluters pay
Spread the word today!
On Saturday 20 September, thousands of us will take to the streets to demand the government:
✅ Tax the super-rich
✅ Protect workers, not billionaires
✅ Make polluters pay
Spread the word today!
June 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Billionaires have broken Britain. #MakeThemPay to fix it.
On Saturday 20 September, thousands of us will take to the streets to demand the government:
✅ Tax the super-rich
✅ Protect workers, not billionaires
✅ Make polluters pay
Spread the word today!
On Saturday 20 September, thousands of us will take to the streets to demand the government:
✅ Tax the super-rich
✅ Protect workers, not billionaires
✅ Make polluters pay
Spread the word today!
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An accurate observation by Robert Jenrick in March 2023. Negotiate on routes for returns. If could expand the principle and the deal to the *certainty* of return, not the 5-10% risk of returns, for those outside the scheme then controlled & capped route should help to smash smugglet business model
July 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
An accurate observation by Robert Jenrick in March 2023. Negotiate on routes for returns. If could expand the principle and the deal to the *certainty* of return, not the 5-10% risk of returns, for those outside the scheme then controlled & capped route should help to smash smugglet business model
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I have some questions about the decision to wed themselves not just to "anti-ULEZ" but to "the guys who blow up ULEZ cameras"
Lego vs the London Conservatives. www.londoncentric.media/p/why-london...
July 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I have some questions about the decision to wed themselves not just to "anti-ULEZ" but to "the guys who blow up ULEZ cameras"
🚨 No More First Past the Post Elections.
5 parties polling strongly, chaotic results, millions left unrepresented.
We need Proportional Representation — NOW.
✍️ Sign the petition:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...
5 parties polling strongly, chaotic results, millions left unrepresented.
We need Proportional Representation — NOW.
✍️ Sign the petition:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...
📢 No More First Past the Post Elections!
The 2025 Local Election results confirm what so many of us already know: the current voting system is broken.
With 5 parties polling strongly, First Past the Post is delivering chaos and turning elec...
actionnetwork.org
July 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
🚨 No More First Past the Post Elections.
5 parties polling strongly, chaotic results, millions left unrepresented.
We need Proportional Representation — NOW.
✍️ Sign the petition:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...
5 parties polling strongly, chaotic results, millions left unrepresented.
We need Proportional Representation — NOW.
✍️ Sign the petition:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...
I'm joining thousands in Westminster on 9 July to meet my MP and stand for a fairer, healthier, safer future. 🌱💚 Join me! www.theclimatecoalition.org/act-now-chan... @theCCoalition #ActNowChangeForever
ACT NOW, CHANGE FOREVER
On 9th July, thousands people from every corner of the UK will come to Westminster to tell our MPs: this is a moment for leadership that protects what matters most — our health, our nature, our commun...
www.theclimatecoalition.org
July 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I'm joining thousands in Westminster on 9 July to meet my MP and stand for a fairer, healthier, safer future. 🌱💚 Join me! www.theclimatecoalition.org/act-now-chan... @theCCoalition #ActNowChangeForever
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The vote share needed to win a majority in Parliament is getting lower and lower.
Whether it's Labour, the Tories or Reform: full control of our laws, our public services and foreign policy should never be in the hands of someone most people don't support.
We need #PRnow.
Whether it's Labour, the Tories or Reform: full control of our laws, our public services and foreign policy should never be in the hands of someone most people don't support.
We need #PRnow.
July 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The vote share needed to win a majority in Parliament is getting lower and lower.
Whether it's Labour, the Tories or Reform: full control of our laws, our public services and foreign policy should never be in the hands of someone most people don't support.
We need #PRnow.
Whether it's Labour, the Tories or Reform: full control of our laws, our public services and foreign policy should never be in the hands of someone most people don't support.
We need #PRnow.
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Via Euronews: From pipelines to pistachios: Shared climate solutions take root at Eco Expo Central Asia
www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...
www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...
The solutions shaping Central Asia’s unexpected green revolution
As climate pressures mount, Eco Expo Central Asia highlighted a shift from pledges to partnerships, with countries across the region aligning on green action.
www.euronews.com
June 29, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Via Euronews: From pipelines to pistachios: Shared climate solutions take root at Eco Expo Central Asia
www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...
www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...
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🚀 Public support for electoral reform is the highest it's been since records began
💥 60% now want to change to a fair, proportional voting system... including a majority of supporters of every party
🌹 Chair of @appgfairelections.bsky.social, Labour MP @alexsobel.co.uk, welcomes the news
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💥 60% now want to change to a fair, proportional voting system... including a majority of supporters of every party
🌹 Chair of @appgfairelections.bsky.social, Labour MP @alexsobel.co.uk, welcomes the news
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June 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
🚀 Public support for electoral reform is the highest it's been since records began
💥 60% now want to change to a fair, proportional voting system... including a majority of supporters of every party
🌹 Chair of @appgfairelections.bsky.social, Labour MP @alexsobel.co.uk, welcomes the news
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💥 60% now want to change to a fair, proportional voting system... including a majority of supporters of every party
🌹 Chair of @appgfairelections.bsky.social, Labour MP @alexsobel.co.uk, welcomes the news
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Just as far-right forces crack down on civil society dealing with the climate, a new study reveals that lobbyists from the top fossil-fuel industry organisations had over 1,000 MEP meetings within less than a year.
Big Oil: over 1,000 lobby meetings with MEPs in under a year
Just as far-right forces crack down on civil society dealing with the climate, a new study reveals that lobbyists from the top fossil-fuel industry organisations had over 1,000 MEP meetings within less than a year.
euobserver.com
June 24, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Just as far-right forces crack down on civil society dealing with the climate, a new study reveals that lobbyists from the top fossil-fuel industry organisations had over 1,000 MEP meetings within less than a year.
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🔴Rachel Reeves Has Quietly Ended the Thatcherite Consensus and Opened the Door to the UK Becoming a Nordic-Style Economy
The Chancellor’s Spending Review was far more radical and transformative than anyone has yet realised, argues Josiah Mortimer
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/13/r...
The Chancellor’s Spending Review was far more radical and transformative than anyone has yet realised, argues Josiah Mortimer
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/13/r...
Rachel Reeves Has Quietly Ended the Thatcherite Consensus and Opened the Door to the UK Becoming a Nordic-Style Economy
The Chancellor's Spending Review was far more radical and transformative than anyone has yet realised, argues Josiah Mortimer
bylinetimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
🔴Rachel Reeves Has Quietly Ended the Thatcherite Consensus and Opened the Door to the UK Becoming a Nordic-Style Economy
The Chancellor’s Spending Review was far more radical and transformative than anyone has yet realised, argues Josiah Mortimer
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/13/r...
The Chancellor’s Spending Review was far more radical and transformative than anyone has yet realised, argues Josiah Mortimer
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/13/r...