scarbro8
@scarbro8.bsky.social
Taught MFL in high schools. Love gardening and countryside.
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Possibly the last 10 announcements from/about Labour for 2025. What an encore. The economy proving resilient. And haven’t even included the bank interest reduction from yesterday. Thank you Labour 👏👏
December 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Possibly the last 10 announcements from/about Labour for 2025. What an encore. The economy proving resilient. And haven’t even included the bank interest reduction from yesterday. Thank you Labour 👏👏
The Govt’s “largest review of the water sector since privatisation” ruled out public ownership - a solution 82% of us support - before even starting.
This review is a sham - but we still have a chance to be heard. Sign @labourlewis.bsky.social’s open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...
This review is a sham - but we still have a chance to be heard. Sign @labourlewis.bsky.social’s open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...
Sir Jon Cunliffe: put public ownership back on the table!
From day one, the government’s “largest review of the water sector since privatisation” - a.k.a the Cunliffe Review - has ruled out the solution that 82% of the British public want: public ownership.
...
actionnetwork.org
June 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The Govt’s “largest review of the water sector since privatisation” ruled out public ownership - a solution 82% of us support - before even starting.
This review is a sham - but we still have a chance to be heard. Sign @labourlewis.bsky.social’s open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...
This review is a sham - but we still have a chance to be heard. Sign @labourlewis.bsky.social’s open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...
Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen!
Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
Put Public Ownership of Water Back on the Table
Privatisation of water isn’t failing - it is the failure. The Government is mid-way through a major review of the water sector. But so far, it has refused to consider a potential solution that’s backe...
you.38degrees.org.uk
April 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen!
Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
Big Agribusiness profit, we eat poison – Say NO to Mercosur! Say NO to Mercosur! This EU-Mercosur trade deal means more food with banned pesticides in the EU, harming our health & farmers. Help keep toxic chemicals off our plates! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-02...
Keep Banned Pesticides Out of our Food
Big Agribusiness profit, we eat poison – Say NO to Mercosur!A new trade deal with South America called the EU-Mercosur deal would bring more food grown with banned pesticides into Europe, threatening...
action.wemove.eu
March 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Big Agribusiness profit, we eat poison – Say NO to Mercosur! Say NO to Mercosur! This EU-Mercosur trade deal means more food with banned pesticides in the EU, harming our health & farmers. Help keep toxic chemicals off our plates! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-02...
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Everyone who is a political appointee in defense that still works for the Trump admin is, as of today, morally bankrupt
March 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Everyone who is a political appointee in defense that still works for the Trump admin is, as of today, morally bankrupt
Our political system is broken - public trust is at an all-time low, and abuse in politics is rising. Change is only possible if we work together. Sign our open letter to MPs and demand a better politics for all! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/he...
Clean Up Politics - Sign an open letter to MPs
Our political system is not working because it doesn't put people first. Public trust is at an all time low and discriminatory abuse of people in politics has got worse.
These problems can only be fi...
you.38degrees.org.uk
February 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Our political system is broken - public trust is at an all-time low, and abuse in politics is rising. Change is only possible if we work together. Sign our open letter to MPs and demand a better politics for all! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/he...
On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join me and @GoodLawProject to file a complaint to Ofcom :point_down: action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...
Ofcom, stop GB News broadcasting hate
*CW: Homophobia, hate speech GB News is no stranger to spouting hatred and toxic lies. They take pride in it, and pretend the rules don’t matter. But they do. And they must be enforced. On 22 January,...
action.goodlawproject.org
February 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join me and @GoodLawProject to file a complaint to Ofcom :point_down: action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...
@labourlewis's Water Bill will have its first debate on 28th March.
This is our unmissable chance to put public ownership of water back on the table.
Ask your MP to be there and back the Bill: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
This is our unmissable chance to put public ownership of water back on the table.
Ask your MP to be there and back the Bill: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
Ask your MP to attend my Water Bill debate
After years of bill hikes, shareholder pay-outs, and pollution, it couldn't be clearer that privatisation has created a crisis in our water system.
We can't leave the future of this critical natio...
actionnetwork.org
February 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
@labourlewis's Water Bill will have its first debate on 28th March.
This is our unmissable chance to put public ownership of water back on the table.
Ask your MP to be there and back the Bill: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
This is our unmissable chance to put public ownership of water back on the table.
Ask your MP to be there and back the Bill: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
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All true.
They will go after Wikipedia.
They will go after libraries.
They will go after school boards and public extracurricular activities that are anything but sports.
They will go after archives.
Because knowledge, education, culture, and progressives are all the enemy.
Thinking is the enemy.
They will go after libraries.
They will go after school boards and public extracurricular activities that are anything but sports.
They will go after archives.
Because knowledge, education, culture, and progressives are all the enemy.
Thinking is the enemy.
January 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
All true.
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Glad you hated it, she pleased the rest of the world, and most of America too by the looks of it.
Time for you to apologize to her, abdicate and take that Nazi Elon Musk with you as well.
Time for you to apologize to her, abdicate and take that Nazi Elon Musk with you as well.
January 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Glad you hated it, she pleased the rest of the world, and most of America too by the looks of it.
Time for you to apologize to her, abdicate and take that Nazi Elon Musk with you as well.
Time for you to apologize to her, abdicate and take that Nazi Elon Musk with you as well.
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Nigel Farage, Liz Truss and Suella Braverman went to the USA for Trump's inauguration, he didn't see them, he didn't let them in.
They just wandered around Washington wearing his stupid hats like the bootlicking economy crashing morons they are.
They just wandered around Washington wearing his stupid hats like the bootlicking economy crashing morons they are.
January 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Nigel Farage, Liz Truss and Suella Braverman went to the USA for Trump's inauguration, he didn't see them, he didn't let them in.
They just wandered around Washington wearing his stupid hats like the bootlicking economy crashing morons they are.
They just wandered around Washington wearing his stupid hats like the bootlicking economy crashing morons they are.
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Harry is taking on the evil Rupert Murdoch in court today.
Hopefully it is very expensive for Murdoch.
Hopefully it is very expensive for Murdoch.
January 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Harry is taking on the evil Rupert Murdoch in court today.
Hopefully it is very expensive for Murdoch.
Hopefully it is very expensive for Murdoch.
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Most of us agree it’s a bad idea to have foreign billionaires controlling our critical infrastructure. 🤔
@UKLabour must listen to the country and take back control of our water, transport, energy and properly fund our #NHS.
Then we can finally bury Thatchers rip off policy.
@UKLabour must listen to the country and take back control of our water, transport, energy and properly fund our #NHS.
Then we can finally bury Thatchers rip off policy.
January 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Most of us agree it’s a bad idea to have foreign billionaires controlling our critical infrastructure. 🤔
@UKLabour must listen to the country and take back control of our water, transport, energy and properly fund our #NHS.
Then we can finally bury Thatchers rip off policy.
@UKLabour must listen to the country and take back control of our water, transport, energy and properly fund our #NHS.
Then we can finally bury Thatchers rip off policy.
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‘Revolving door’ between #water companies and #Westminster.
Here’s an idea - if politicians are so keen on working at water companies, why don’t they bring them back into public ownership!
Starting with Thames Water.
Sign our petition if you agree 👇🏽
tinyurl.com/yxht3p94
Here’s an idea - if politicians are so keen on working at water companies, why don’t they bring them back into public ownership!
Starting with Thames Water.
Sign our petition if you agree 👇🏽
tinyurl.com/yxht3p94
January 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
‘Revolving door’ between #water companies and #Westminster.
Here’s an idea - if politicians are so keen on working at water companies, why don’t they bring them back into public ownership!
Starting with Thames Water.
Sign our petition if you agree 👇🏽
tinyurl.com/yxht3p94
Here’s an idea - if politicians are so keen on working at water companies, why don’t they bring them back into public ownership!
Starting with Thames Water.
Sign our petition if you agree 👇🏽
tinyurl.com/yxht3p94
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I used to scratch my head as to how they all allowed the world to go to hell in a handbasket in the 1930s and why not enough was done to prevent it. We all know now.
January 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I used to scratch my head as to how they all allowed the world to go to hell in a handbasket in the 1930s and why not enough was done to prevent it. We all know now.
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Exactly this.
The rash aggression from Trump, Musk & Zuckerberg is hugely helping the UK & EU to work together on a common defensive approach to it all.
The rash aggression from Trump, Musk & Zuckerberg is hugely helping the UK & EU to work together on a common defensive approach to it all.
How Elon Musk is unwittingly helping UK's Brexit reset
EU sources say they expect Musk to attack other leaders after his onslaught against Starmer
inews.co.uk
January 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Exactly this.
The rash aggression from Trump, Musk & Zuckerberg is hugely helping the UK & EU to work together on a common defensive approach to it all.
The rash aggression from Trump, Musk & Zuckerberg is hugely helping the UK & EU to work together on a common defensive approach to it all.
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Disgraceful
It's been quite something to watch supposedly 'patriotic' British newspapers actively cheerleading on a foreign administration that is openly working against our interests.
January 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Disgraceful
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'Our beaches are full of sewage, rubbish and sanitary products - Brexit is to blame.'
'Our beaches are full of sewage, rubbish and sanitary products - Brexit is to blame'
The EU previously acted as a watchdog on sewage pollution
buff.ly
January 2, 2025 at 8:11 AM
'Our beaches are full of sewage, rubbish and sanitary products - Brexit is to blame.'
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Don't judge a society on how rich it's elite are or on it's GDP.
Judge it on how it treats it's most vulnerable.
We are failing.
Urgent referrals of children in mental health crisis in England rise 13% in year www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Judge it on how it treats it's most vulnerable.
We are failing.
Urgent referrals of children in mental health crisis in England rise 13% in year www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Urgent referrals of children in mental health crisis in England rise 13% in year
Charity says NHS failure to help more young people sooner is a ‘shocking betrayal’
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Don't judge a society on how rich it's elite are or on it's GDP.
Judge it on how it treats it's most vulnerable.
We are failing.
Urgent referrals of children in mental health crisis in England rise 13% in year www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Judge it on how it treats it's most vulnerable.
We are failing.
Urgent referrals of children in mental health crisis in England rise 13% in year www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Polling shows strong support for VAT on private schools
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Labour’s private school tax plan strongly backed by public, poll shows
Government accuses Tories and rightwing media of being ‘out of touch’, as VAT policy due to come into force
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Polling shows strong support for VAT on private schools
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Thames Water is in high court demanding a settlement to their £15bn debt that will see them add £250 (60% increase) a year on to each of their 16m customers bills for ever.
They need to be told to get stuffed.
They need to be told to get stuffed.
December 17, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Thames Water is in high court demanding a settlement to their £15bn debt that will see them add £250 (60% increase) a year on to each of their 16m customers bills for ever.
They need to be told to get stuffed.
They need to be told to get stuffed.
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The UK has 500,000 almost always empty second homes, and 700,000 ones that are simply empty.
Slapping double, triple, quadruple Council Tax on these properties would not only help Councils but force people to sell them providing more homes.
It is a win, win.
Slapping double, triple, quadruple Council Tax on these properties would not only help Councils but force people to sell them providing more homes.
It is a win, win.
December 14, 2024 at 3:05 PM
The UK has 500,000 almost always empty second homes, and 700,000 ones that are simply empty.
Slapping double, triple, quadruple Council Tax on these properties would not only help Councils but force people to sell them providing more homes.
It is a win, win.
Slapping double, triple, quadruple Council Tax on these properties would not only help Councils but force people to sell them providing more homes.
It is a win, win.
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It is outrageous that the USA has one CEO shooting a year and 80 school shootings a year.
Last time I checked schoolchildren haven't been ripping anyone off for billions and then leaving them to die.
Last time I checked schoolchildren haven't been ripping anyone off for billions and then leaving them to die.
December 10, 2024 at 2:39 PM
It is outrageous that the USA has one CEO shooting a year and 80 school shootings a year.
Last time I checked schoolchildren haven't been ripping anyone off for billions and then leaving them to die.
Last time I checked schoolchildren haven't been ripping anyone off for billions and then leaving them to die.
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Nick Candy has donated at least one million pounds to Reform UK.
Here's what he thinks about paying tax and why he has so much money to give.
"He's not prepared to pay any tax."
Here's what he thinks about paying tax and why he has so much money to give.
"He's not prepared to pay any tax."
December 10, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Nick Candy has donated at least one million pounds to Reform UK.
Here's what he thinks about paying tax and why he has so much money to give.
"He's not prepared to pay any tax."
Here's what he thinks about paying tax and why he has so much money to give.
"He's not prepared to pay any tax."