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Not happy about what’s going on around me - ex-anti-Brexit campaigner, forever seething!
It will take 25 minutes or so, get a cup of tea…………but if, like me, you value the BBC (despite its failings in UK current affairs programmes), I think filling in this consultation is worthwhile.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Britain’s Story: The Next Chapter - the BBC Royal Charter Review, Green Paper and public consultation
The government is consulting the public to aid decision-making on the terms for the BBC Charter’s renewal and any changes needed to help the BBC to continue to serve the public.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/britains-story-the-next-chapter-the-bbc-royal-charter-review-green-paper-and-public-consultation
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No more Dirty Business ! The public, MPs and Environmental Groups have said NO to 14 years of illegal Thames Water sewage pollution. Email Ofwat now, so that they can't ignore us
@weownit.org.uk
weownit.org.uk/act-now/emai...
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Email Ofwat - the public have said NO to illegal sewage until 2040
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/email-ofwat-the-public-have-said-no-to-illegal-sewage-until-2040%0A
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Who’s watched Dirty Business? C4 shocking story of the state of our rivers and the deliberate cover-ups ongoing.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
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Petition: Nationalise water companies to make water a non profit publicly owned asset
To make water a non profit making national asset that ensures we have a secure water infrastructure that ensures our water security for future generations.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/757426
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@benfenton.bsky.social
I could not attend the Richmond Society event a few days ago on the Future of Public Broadcasting. Your contributions greatly impressed a friend of mine who was present - do you have a summary, in your own words or otherwise, that you could share?!
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Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK
We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...
https://petition.parliament.uk/signatures/169929449/signed
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Charge a subsctiption for all the many, many people who’d like to access iPlayer from outside the UK. Simples.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
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BBC to pursue cuts of up to £600m as bosses point to fall in licence fee income
Job losses and programming cancellations expected after Tim Davie tells staff broadcaster is not a ‘protected species’
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/12/trumps-lawsuit-bbc-panorama-edit-florida-trial-in-2027?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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@reformwatch.bsky.social
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Juliet Mills
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Want to have to tactical vote yet again? No. The largest committee of MPs and Peers in Parliament are on to this - we need PR.
makevotesmatter.org.uk/2025-christm...
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2025 Christmas Appeal - Make Votes Matter
https://makevotesmatter.org.uk/2025-christmas-appeal
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Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/744215
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Can someone please get this onto Twitter/X? I don’t know if it’s doing the rounds there or not!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/744215
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A small task for Sunday ……https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/744215
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Something to do today!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/744215?fbclid=IwdGRjcAOOUaRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xNzM4NDc2NDI2NzAzNzAAAR4pRwMrWaXA9V1wQmbEI0MZp_JjuG8VrRLvoFz76ABWEWPYjKRIFrHqbb2Zng_aem_fYqDlnANIOebBg7IIy1-vQ
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Paul Bernal
4 months ago
The Lib Dems continue to do the right thing, and are doing far better than Labour at encouraging support.
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Ed Davey today on First Past the Post. The comments are so pathetic - who are these people?!
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Labour4PR 🌹🗳️
5 months ago
📢 "The huge support for electoral reform that now exists – among the public, within the governing party, and across Parliament – provides a unique political opportunity. A National Commission on Electoral Reform is a ready-to-go plan to seize this opportunity" 🌹
#Labour4PR
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Seizing the opportunity on electoral reform — Chartist
Joe Sousek outlines the need for a National Commission supported by the APPG Fair Elections The last general election was the most disproportionate in British history – and our politics has only fragm...
https://www.chartist.org.uk/seizing-the-..
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Make Votes Matter
5 months ago
Our Young Make Votes Matter event with the London Assembly is starting now! Watch the livestream here:
www.youtube.com/live/BDnIo7W...
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Labour4PR 🌹🗳️
5 months ago
Speaking to members at our
#Lab25
stall, it's clear as ever that electoral reform has the overwhelming support of: 🌹 Labour members 🛠️ Affiliated trade unions 📍 Constituency Labour Parties 🎪 Annual conference 🏦 Parliament's biggest APPG It's time for fair votes
#Labour4PR
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Labour4PR 🌹🗳️
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“I'm here to endorse the Labour for a New Democracy call for a National Commission in this parliament - and a manifesto commitment to a system of Proportional Representation to be introduced into Westminster elections in the next Parliament.” 🌹
@andyburnham.bsky.social
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Labour4PR 🌹🗳️
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“There’s nothing more unstoppable than an idea whose time has come - and PR’s time has come.” 💬
@andyburnham.bsky.social
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#Labour4PR
#Lab25
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What are Labour Thinking????? Remind you of anyone?
5 months ago
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Rafael Behr
6 months ago
On anti-Faragism, the point of the Lib Dems and Ed Davey finding himself unmarked in front of an open goal
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Resisting Faragism offers the Lib Dems a rare clarity of purpose | Rafael Behr
Ed Davey’s rallying cry in defence of moderate, liberal Britain might give some coherence to a party with a reputation for opportunism, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/24/resisting-farage-lib-dems-ed-davey
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Edmund Lee
6 months ago
Lib Dems are gathering signatures for a petition ...
#BalanceTheBBC
www.libdems.org.uk/bbc
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Balance the BBC
The BBC is our national broadcaster, people expect and deserve balanced news coverage.
https://www.libdems.org.uk/bbc
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Tim Altmann
6 months ago
Reform, with 0.6% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins
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Reform, with 0.6% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins
Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.
https://flip.it/okxIhl
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Iain Roberts
6 months ago
If the media reported the million serious things, the Lib Dems wouldn't need the stunts.
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Tim Kinsella #FBPE
6 months ago
www.libdems.org.uk/bbc
Wall-to-wall Farage is not balanced coverage Please sign!
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Balance the BBC
The BBC is our national broadcaster, people expect and deserve balanced news coverage.
https://www.libdems.org.uk/bbc
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Make Votes Matter
6 months ago
Highlights from the Westminster debate on
#DemocracyDay👇
Thank you
@rachelblakemp.bsky.social
for securing this important debate, and to
@richardfoordld.bsky.social
@lizzicollinge.bsky.social
@jamesmaccleary.bsky.social
for making the case for electoral reform.
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Peter Gleick
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Yes, America. Our government is now calling truth and history "corrosive ideology." It's only corrosive because it burns aways lies.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/09/15/national-parks-slavery-information-removal/
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James Bottomley
6 months ago
Farage firmly put in the lowly trash can he belongs in by the granddaughter of a real patriot and war hero of this country.
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Make Votes Matter
6 months ago
Today marks International
#DemocracyDay
. Democracy matters - and it cannot be taken for granted. Our voting system leaves swathes of people feeling powerless and fuels disillusionment, which can have dangerous consequences. Change can't wait. We need
#PRnow
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Get PR Done!
6 months ago
Today marks International
#DemocracyDay
. 🗳Demand a fair proportional representation voting system, so that all votes count!
#getPRdone
#MakeVotesMatter
#ProportionalRepresentation
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East Anglia Bylines
6 months ago
When YouGov asked voters to rank parties: Lib Dems were in 80% of voters’ top 3. Reform came fifth for 50%. But, under FPTP, Reform could still win a majority. This is not democracy. Stephen McNair reports
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At last: a serious way to rescue our failing democracy
When we are close to choosing a government that half the voters would never vote for, democracy is failing. MPs are calling for reform
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/democracy/at-last-a-serious-way-to-rescue-our-failing-democracy/
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Peter Stefanovic
6 months ago
“I want this Labour Government to succeed, and sometimes that means speaking the truth…when we've got it wrong we need to have the guts to listen to the country and change course”
@lucympowell.bsky.social
www.lucyfordeputy.co.uk
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Lucy Powell for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
The official campaign site for the campaign to elect Lucy Powell as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.
https://www.lucyfordeputy.co.uk/
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Get PR Done!
6 months ago
This petition for Proportional Representation has reached over 10,000 now…. Let’s get it higher! 💪
#getPRdone
#MakeVotesMatter
#FairVotes
#ProportionalRepresentation
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72..
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Bremain in Spain
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Anyone surprised? Reform UK Ltd conference was sponsored by crypto firm and tobacco company with Russian ties and via opaque off shore accounts It’s against the rules
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Reform conference sponsored by crypto firm and tobacco co...
Questions have been raised over Zebec’s shell company registration and Japan Tobacco International’s links to Russia
https://observer.co.uk/news/politics/article/reform-conference-relied-on-sponsorship-from-crypto-and-tobacco-companies
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Please sign this petition - Balance BBC.
www.libdems.org.uk/bbc
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...
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BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage
Nigel Farage’s party featured in considerably more News at Ten bulletins than Lib Dems over six months, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/12/bbc-under-fresh-pressure-over-extent-of-reform-uk-nigel-farage-coverage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
6 months ago
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Make Votes Matter
6 months ago
The more parties are performing well, the more random election results become. We end up with Parliaments that look less and less like what the country voted for - and even less like what people actually want. There's a more rational way of doing this. It's called Proportional Representation.
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Sarah Murphy
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Farage is *such* a spiv. It’s staggering that he isn’t seen by all as a grubby little crook. He’s done so much harm to our country but gets to breeze on through, never being held to account on any of it. If the excuse is - well he’s not in power - the answer needs to be… it’ll be far too late then.
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Norway’s election shows how multi-party politics doesn’t have to mean random results
electoral-reform.org.uk/norways-elec...
Electoral Reform Society – ERS
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Norway’s election shows how multi-party politics doesn’t have to mean random results
Norway went to the polls on 8 September for their general election. The Scandinavian country has now used proportional representation for over 100 years and the outcome of the election i
https://electoral-reform.org.uk/norways-election-shows-how-multi-party-politics-doesnt-have-to-mean-random-results/
6 months ago
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Make Votes Matter
6 months ago
Campaign for fair votes at the Wigan Diggers Festival this Saturday! MVM Sefton and West Lancs, along with local groups from Warrington and Manchester, will be running a stall and speaking to people about Proportional Representation. Email
[email protected]
to get involved.
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Make Votes Matter
6 months ago
"An electoral system that gave a perverse picture of national preferences when there was a two-party duopoly goes completely haywire when 4 or 5 parties score in the high teens or 20s." Exactly this. FPTP can't handle our multi-party reality. Now more than ever: it must be scrapped.
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Starmer should beware: in this volatile age, no majority and no leader is secure for long | Rafael Behr
Labour’s massive election victory already feels long ago. The PM needs to build a new electoral alliance – and quickly, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/10/keir-starmer-labour-reform-uk-nigel-farage
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Get PR Done!
6 months ago
This petition is a smidge off 10,000. Please retweet. Let's get it there. 💪
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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Electoral Reform Society
6 months ago
First Past the Post stands to make a mockery of the electorate at the next election, boosting some parties and punishing others, all based on tiny differences in vote share.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
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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...
https://www.politicshome.com/opinion/article/electoral-system-pushing-country-onto-rocks-agree-safer-course
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Make Votes Matter
6 months ago
📅 TOMORROW 📅 This autumn could be a game-changer for the campaign for Proportional Representation. Join our exclusive briefing to find out about our work in Westminster and the opportunities (and challenges) ahead. Sign up:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Angry at the BBC’s promotion of Reform? Please sign:
www.libdems.org.uk/bbc
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Balance the BBC
The BBC is our national broadcaster, people expect and deserve balanced news coverage.
https://www.libdems.org.uk/bbc
6 months ago
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Balance the BBC
The BBC is our national broadcaster, people expect and deserve balanced news coverage.
https://www.libdems.org.uk/bbc
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Ed Davey
6 months ago
The BBC are constantly fawning over Farage's every move despite Reform only having four MPs. Our national broadcaster should reflect the whole country, not just one man’s ego.
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George Monbiot
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3. Refusing to introduce Proportional Representation. Under our First Past The Post system, a party with a minority of the vote can achieve a huge majority (as Starmer did with 34%). There is no way Farage could become Prime Minister under a PR system. Only under FPTP.
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Clive Lewis please!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Who is in the running to be the next Labour deputy leader?
Candidates will need at least 80 nominations to stand chance of succeeding Angela Rayner in role
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/08/who-is-in-the-running-to-be-the-next-labour-deputy-leader?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
6 months ago
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