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Reform is just the Tory party ‘reformed’ to be even more extreme and less responsive to the public good.
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First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented. Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
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The Representation of the People Bill MUST scrap First Past the Post
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the new Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our rotten voting system, which lea...
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/the-elections-bill-must-scrap-first-past-the-post?source=bluesky&
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A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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Take Big Money Out of Our Politics
British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/take-big-money-out-of-our-politics?source=bluesky&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=bluesky&share=831ef7b6-408e-42d0-892d-d451bc68cbd4
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/?utm_source=bluesky
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Declassified UK
27 days ago
Tomorrow! Online tickets available! Grab an online ticket to Challenging the War Machine, and join us for our first summit this Saturday! 🔗
secure.declassifieduk.org/CTWM
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The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. Giving him a royal visit right now sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. We can stop this if enough of us speak up. Will you add your name to the petition?
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
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Call off the King’s visit to the US for the 250th anniversary of America's independence
With the current political chaos in the US and Trump’s failure to adhere to international norms, and given his apparent obsession with the Monarchy, calling off this visit would send a powerful messag...
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/call-off-the-king-s-visit-to-the-us-for-the-250th-anniversary-of-independence?bucket=facebook-post-8_1_2026_USvisit_SMC_fb1&source=bluesky&utm_campaign=8_1_2026_USvisit_SMC_fb1&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=bluesky&share=1a0472bf-af57-4fdc-a191-5805a38b7640
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2 months ago
If the royal family is such a boon for the nation's coffers, imagine how great it would be for the economy if everybody else got given a few palaces and didn't have to work or pay normal tax.
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The Steady State
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😡 The Government wants to ban repeated protests & jail those who defy them. Stand up for our democratic right to protest - sign the petition now!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
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Don’t crush our right to protest!
The right to protest is the heartbeat of democracy. It lets us speak out, challenge injustice, and hold those in power accountable. The Government’s plan would give police sweeping powers to ban repea...
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/don-t-crush-our-right-to-protest?source=bluesky&utm_campaign=blast140177&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=bluesky&share=9d502291-6588-447b-9fc2-4529fadd7bce
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Harry Eccles
9 months ago
I don't want the UK to be ready for war, I want us to have functioning hospitals. I don't want the UK to be ready for war, I want us to have well funded schools. I don't want the UK to be ready for war, I want us to have an effective and compassionate welfare system.
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Sign the Petition
TAX WEALTH – DON'T CUT DISABILITY SUPPORT
https://chng.it/BFykXCsH4p
10 months ago
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Private shareholders made dividends of £3.6 billion from owning our trains in the last decade. Yet the government is leaving our trains fully privately owned. Sign We Own It's petition to demand they take our trains into public ownership:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...
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Petition: Take our trains into public ownership | We Own It
The government is taking railway operators into public ownership, but the trains themselves will remain in private hands. The government must take our trains into public ownership.
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/take-trains-public-ownership
10 months ago
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George Monbiot
11 months ago
A narrative is recited almost everywhere: that Rachel Reeves is being "forced" to cut benefits, and is faced with "hard choices" or "no choice". This story, a staple of neoliberal doctrine, is completely false, as
@richardjmurphy.bsky.social
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www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
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Is Rachel Reeves constrained by the City?
Is the City really stopping Rachel Reeves from doing what Labour wants, or is she just using it as a convenient excuse for her neoliberal austerity? This is the audio version: This is the transc...
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03/26/is-rachel-reeves-constrained-by-the-city/
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Equality Trust
11 months ago
How is it possible that the wealth of the super-rich has exploded, but we're facing billions in austerity cuts? How have banks, energy companies, and oil and gas made record profits while foodbank use has reached 3.1 million? We need to tax the rich.
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11 months ago
Liz Kendall says young people will be pushed to join the army to cut youth unemployment. Then when they get injured or wounded Kendall will deny them sickness and disability benefits.
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From the unitedkingdom community on Reddit: Liz Kendall says young people will be pushed to join the army to cut youth unemployment
Explore this post and more from the unitedkingdom community
https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1jet7rn/liz_kendall_says_young_people_will_be_pushed_to/
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12 months ago
Labour should at least consider fighting poverty instead of fighting the poor
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️🌈
12 months ago
IKEA is taking preorders
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson
12 months ago
In case you’re not sure why the NHS isn’t working any more, it’s because the service is being slowly dismantled by politicians who are turning it into a cash cow for private companies, starving it of resource so it doesn’t work properly, and enabling the private sector to expand rapidly 🚨
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services
Across the UK, living standards are falling and millions live in poverty, while the cost of living crisis has made affording the basics difficult. Public services we all rely on - our hospitals, schoo...
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/tax-the-super-rich-to-stop-cuts-to-public-services-1?source=bluesky-share-button&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=bluesky&share=5cdfeb13-fc26-468d-a386-6b0681a6b57a
12 months ago
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💢Marx Was Right.🕊
12 months ago
If “socialism never works” then why does the USA and the capitalists spend billions to stop Marxism, and assassinate leaders, install puppet dictarships for the rich and then spend more billions every decade to push capitalist propaganda to say “socialism doesn’t work”? Why not just let it fail?
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Big Issue
12 months ago
UN calls on Labour to increase benefits and scrap two-child limit in UK poverty crisis warning
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DWP should increase benefits and scrap two-child limit, UN says
The United Nations has urged the Labour government to scrap the DWP two-child limit and raise benefits in warning over poverty failures.
https://buff.ly/dTM0cYn
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Demand Spotify Remove Andrew Tate’s Harmful Courses on How to Traffic Women
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12 months ago
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Marwood
12 months ago
Good morning
#SocialistSunday
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- don't allow Musk to control info & manufacture consent
#CorbynWasRight
- policies for the many, not the few —Join the
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BladeoftheSun
12 months ago
Tax Evasion a problem 360x worse than Benefit Fraud.
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Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
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No second state visit for Trump
This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no-2nd-state-visit-for-donald-trump?source=bluesky-share-button&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=bluesky&share=f1aeea63-d47c-4a9b-acae-208d4c8ae348
12 months ago
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Privatised water has failed. Just look at your water bills or the sewage pouring into our rivers. Steve Reed - include public ownership as an option in your independent commission on the water sector. Sign the petition
weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...
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Steve Reed: include public ownership as an option in your independent commission on the water sector. | We Own It
Steve Reed must put public ownership back on the table.
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/steve-reed-include-public-ownership-as-an-option-in-your-independent-commission-on-the-water-sector
12 months ago
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If it's a Tesla chainsaw it might spontaneously combusts in his hands
#TheGodofCities
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about 1 year ago
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Oliver
about 1 year ago
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EuropeanPowell
about 1 year ago
Watch as mega company PEEL Group are given astronomical sums of public money to enhance its competitiveness in the Liverpool SEZ and Freeport which is 45km in diameter. This is exactly what I have been warning about for years.
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We Own It
about 1 year ago
Private finance was a disaster under Blair. New PFI contracts were actually banned by the Conservatives in 2018. 🔧 NHS repairs backlog = £13.8bn 💸 Amount still owed to PFI = £44bn Now Wes Streeting wants more PFI in our
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tinyurl.com/3b6bjnzc
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BladeoftheSun
about 1 year ago
Nigel Farage wants to get rid of the NHS and replace it with US Health Insurance which would be 4x more expensive and worse in every way. Except for the £600bn a year profit for him and his mates.
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💥 I’ve just signed the petition calling for a “National Commission on Electoral Reform” - Will YOU sign too?
actionstorm.org/petitions/nc...
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National Commission on Electoral Reform
https://actionstorm.org/petitions/ncer?ref=695468
about 1 year ago
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Bread John
about 1 year ago
I always wear a hat with a propellor on a first date in case I need to take off vertically to escape.
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Oliver
about 1 year ago
"DWP blasted for blowing half a million pounds defending disability benefit cuts: 'What a failure'
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DWP blasted for blowing half a million pounds defending disability benefit cuts
The DWP spent almost half a million pounds defending its "unlawful" consultation into plans to cut billions from disability benefits.
https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/dwp-disability-benefit-cuts-consultation-cost/
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Harry Eccles
about 1 year ago
Privitisation is a con 😱 Renationalise water NOW 💦 Repost if you agree 🔄
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Water bills in England and Wales to rise by £123 a year in April
Figures reveal a jump for billpayers in England and Wales despite questions over firms' performance.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yd9qzx79go
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about 1 year ago
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Harry Eccles
about 1 year ago
We need Levinson 2.0 Repost if you agree 🔄
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/22/g...
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Government Confirms No Leveson 2 Inquiry Into the Press - After 'Monumental' Admission of Wrongdoing By News UK in Prince Harry Case
Murdoch's newspaper group apologises for 15 years of privacy breaches in landmark settlement – but the Prime Minister's office quickly dismisses calls for a fresh investigation
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/01/22/government-confirms-no-leveson-2-inquiry-into-the-press-after-monumental-admission-of-wrongdoing-by-news-uk-in-prince-harry-case/
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2Tone4Real
about 1 year ago
Credit to Charlie Hebdo
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Petter Törnberg
about 1 year ago
Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with
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The Scales ⚖️
about 1 year ago
Sir Keir Starmer says he will be 'ruthless' at cutting public spending:
www.dumptheguardian.com/society/2025...
Here's what the Cambridge dictionary says about that:
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Dr Rachel Clarke
about 1 year ago
We have only 2.4 hospital beds per 1000 people, compared to 7.8 in Germany, 5.8 in France & an OECD average of 5.0. We also have 1 in 8 beds occupied by medically fit patients needing social care - an issue that Labour won’t definitively address until 2028 at the earliest. Simply disastrous. (2/2)
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about 1 year ago
Elon Musk’s fascist turn isn’t puzzling at all. It’s all about labour 🧵
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about 1 year ago
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Sign the petition: Keep our fields free of bee-killing pesticides!
One teaspoon of the neonicotinoids pesticide could kill 1.25 billion bees. And yet the Government could be about to let it back on English fields. Sign the petition: tell Ministers to keep this ban on...
https://38d.gs/afil
about 1 year ago
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Robert Reich
about 1 year ago
Today the great divide is not between left and right. It’s between democracy and oligarchy. Let me explain.
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The American oligarchy is back, and it’s out of control
It’s the third time in the nation’s history that a small group of hyper-wealthy people have gained political power over the rest of us. Here’s what we must do.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-american-oligarchy-is-out-of
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Peter Stefanovic
about 1 year ago
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says the public want to leave the ECHR Let him know he’s wrong by sharing this widely
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Prem Sikka
over 1 year ago
Tory Govt sewage-dumping South West Water £453m subsidy; £40m a yr since 2013. Company paid over £1.5bn dividends. It has 174 criminal convictions, paid fines of £4.54m. People fleeced - high bills, subsidies. Labour opposes public ownership of water
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Revealed: Government gave £450m in subsidies to sewage-dumping water firm
New documents show government handed taxpayer cash to South West Water while the company paid out billions to shareholders and dumped raw sewage into the ocean
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-government-gave-450m-south-west-water-subsidy-water-pollution
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