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Amelia

@ameliaashton.bsky.social
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Cult survivor, atheist, retired, travelling and enjoying new experiences.

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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why women choose the 🐻
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sign the petition. Let water companies go bust. Ofwat approved 36% bill increases for 2025-2030, companies want more. Prices doubled - in real terms - since privatisation. We got sewage in rivers, water outages, hosepipe bans. Need public ownership.
weownit.org.uk
We're telling Ofwat: let water companies go bust!
consultation to reject proposed water company bill increases. Ofwat.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Private equity owns 11 of England’s 20 biggest children’s care providers. Companies loaded with debt. Profiteering, high prices, profit shifting, tax abuse is rife. Paid £205m to shareholders/investors, leaving less for front line services. Public purse robbed. Must end privatisation
theguardian.com
Private equity owns 11 of England’s 20 biggest children’s care providers, research finds
Investigation comes amid growing calls for an end to ‘obscene’ profit-making in care sector
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
People will ask WHY do they load companies with debt. The answer is very simple, there is no tax on paying 'debts' and the people and companies collecting the 'debt' are located in Tax Havens. It means they pay no tax at all.
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Amelia @ameliaashton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
How are we supposed to forgive Brexiteers when Birthday presents to my granddaughter costs £30 to post then €25 for my daughter to collect!!???
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
England water companies have breached official guidance on discharging sewage at 65 popular swimming sites since May. All water companies have criminal convictions, violated terms of their licence. All defended by govts, allowed to trade, inflict harms.
morningstaronline.co.uk
Water companies have breached official guidance on discharging sewage at 65 popular swimming sites in England since May
WATER firms discharged more than 100,000 of hours-worth of sewage at 65 popular swimming sites in England since May.Sewage overflow pipes released a total of 117,001 hours between mid-May and July 21,...
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 26/07/2026
We don't have to look outside Britain to find how England's water should be run In the UK, Scotland has the lowest water bills, invests the most in infrastructure, and pays out NO dividends Andy Burnham and Angela Eagle, do the right thing - take Thames Water into special administration
A graphic that shows the different models of water ownership in Britain, with private ownership in England, Not-for-profit in Wales and public ownership in Scotland
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Matthew Wright @matthew-wright.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Beyond angry!! www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
Water bosses’ pay rises despite bonus ban and public fury over bills and pollution
Exclusive: Eight companies expect to be covered by the ban for 2025-26, the Guardian can reveal
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NoWaffleBrit @nowafflebrit.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The mass rape of vulnerable working class white girls by gangs of primarily Pakistani Muslim men is pure unfettered evil. This report outlines in great detail what has happened, why it happened and what we need to do to stop it from happening again. This is an important day. #restorebritain
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Most of the sewage spills into England's waterways in the last two years may have been illegal but gone unpunished. Tells a story about useless regulators, appeasement of capital creating health hazards, destroying marine life and biodiversity. People are treated as cash cows. Govts do nothing.
bbc.co.uk
Most sewage spills in England may be illegal, new research suggests
The new analysis from a prominent water campaigner emerged after secret court documents were leaked.
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Amelia @ameliaashton.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Private Equity Is Taking Over Your Veterinarian. PE devouring town centers, housing, healthcare, dentistry, care homes, pet care. Business model: high debt, price hikes, staff/wage cuts, monopolies built, low investment, tax abuse. PE owns 2000+ UK vets, little competition. Regulatory silence.
jacobin.com
Private Equity Is Taking Over Your Veterinarian
Private equity is taking over veterinary services, driving up prices, and putting the pets we love at risk through its relentless pursuit of financial extraction.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
PwC fined £3,248,437 for delivering dud audits at Babcock for the years 2019 and 2020. 3 years ago fined £5,625,000 for botching the same audit for 2017 and 2018. Fines passed on to clients in higher fees. Big firms deliver dud audits. None shut down. Regulator now reducing audit inspections.
frc.org.uk
Sanctions against PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Mr John Waters
Executive Counsel of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has issued a Final Settlement Decision Notice (FSDN) under the Audit Enforcement Procedure and imposed sanctions against PricewaterhouseCoope...
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Matthew Wright @matthew-wright.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Another result for Tory privatisation 😂 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
Wessex Water chief pockets above-inflation pay rise despite bonus ban over sewage spills
CEO’s pay packet surges to £791,000 as union says public ‘sick of obscene pay’ and bosses ‘feathering own nests’
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Here I am last night, serving the people of Clacton and earning my £98k salary by making my 14th trip to the US since becoming an MP, speaking to MAGA morons in Washington DC.
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Anne Warren @annewarren.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
@matthew-wright.bsky.social Congratulations Liverpool FC on raising another Winners Cup! 🏆🙌🎉 The British Hedgehog Preservation Society’s ‘Hedgehog Friendly Football’ Cup 2026! 🏆🙌🎉 “Please ensure sports nets are put away after use & raised at least 30cm off the ground.” #WorldCup 🦔⚽️🦔
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Kevin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺💚 #VoteGreen @kevbro1969.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
REMEMBER: #Reform are NOT on your side. Don't fall for their bluff & 'man of the people' act. It's ALL lies. #DontVoteReform #Farage
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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Definitely a missed opportunity!😡
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Amelia @ameliaashton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Trump says ships are flowing, more than ever before, so how are they avoiding the mines reported by The Telegraph? @matthew-wright.bsky.social Hormuz disruption will continue until 80 mines blocking route are cleared | Strait of Hormuz | The Guardian share.google/lzBsDsAcWfaH...
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Hormuz disruption will continue until 80 mines blocking route are cleared
Tanker owner trade body says centre of strait will stay shut for ‘some time’, and vessels forced to hug Omani coast risk running aground
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Also Tommy Robinson : "Russia is not the enemy of Britain"
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Reform don’t do the job. Rob Kenyon, #Makerfield Reform UK candidate was elected a Wigan councillor a month ago. He’s not attended a single meeting or done a single piece of work on it. Nigel Farage was elected MP for Clacton. He’s spent 2 years anywhere but Clacton.
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Amelia @ameliaashton.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I wasn't expecting that answer from AI
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 16/05/2026
🔥🔥🔥87 MPs have now signed our MPs' letter opposing OFWAT's deal to allow Thames Water to dump sewage in our rivers. Ask your MP to sign the letter now: vist.ly/54e5y
weownit.org.uk
The Thames Water creditors are closing in on a deal - urge your MP to stop them
An action to write to MPs urging them to reject the Thames Water creditors' attempts to takeover the utility, signing off on pollution till 2030
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
British Gas to pay a £20m into Ofgem’s Voluntary Redress Fund to settle force-fitting of prepayment meters probe. Will write off up to £70m of vulnerable customers' energy debt. Will BG pass the cost to customers in higher bills? Execs got bonuses for boosting profits, but not fined.
bbc.co.uk
British Gas pays £20m to settle probe into force-fitting of prepayment meters
Debt agents working for British Gas had broken into the homes of vulnerable customers to fit pre-payment energy meters.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Ken Murphy is Tesco’s UK CEO and the highest paid supermarket boss. He pays himself £10,800,000 a year, but is registered to pay tax in the Republic of Ireland. Yet he complains that 'costs' are too high so he can't afford to pay his workers.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Fujitsu UK pays staff bonuses, ZERO contribution to compensation for victims of the Post Office scandal. Fujitsu helped secure false fraud convictions of postmasters. Public purse paid £1.5bn+ compensation. No one prosecuted for knowingly lying to courts. Fujitsu still enjoys govt contracts.
computerweekly.com
Fujitsu UK pays staff bonuses as it sits on Post Office scandal contribution | Computer Weekly
IT supplier Fujitsu will pay bonuses to UK staff again this year as it continues to hold back its contribution to the costs of Post Office scandal.
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I love this.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Dog learning the spatula trick....
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Over on Twitter I’ve been waiting for Andrew Neil to say something *anything* about Orban & Hungary. He’s been uncharacteristically quiet 🤔
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve.news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
150 billionaires in the UK have £700bn Enough to build 2000 Hospitals Enough to build 7m houses Enough to pay every pension for 6 years 150 greedy little twats have this much money Then they use the Media they own to say your pensions/benefits/healthcare are 'too expensive'
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Amelia @ameliaashton.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
x.com/i/status/205... Wow! I truly believed buying clothes from recycled plastic bottles was a good thing. I will be going back to natural wool after reading this.
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Sama Hoole on X: "Myth: "I only wear vegan fabrics. Better for the animals, better for the planet." Let's check in on Doris's annual contribution. Once a year, in late spring, Doris is sheared. The procedure takes approximately three minutes. Doris does not enjoy it. Doris does not, by any https://t.co/fSnGkhkZBf" / X
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 02/05/2026
Who is behind the US spy-tech firm Palantir? How did they get a £330 million deal with the NHS? Is our data safe? We’ve spent years finding out. 🎧Listen to the full story now 👇 goodlaw.social/1e69ba
goodlaw.social
The Shadow Contract | Good Law Project
Exposing why a US spy-tech firm is at the heart of the NHS Listen on these platforms Support our investigative research Fund more investigations Keep me informed Spread the word
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit. British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit. Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit. It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
While Boris Johnson was mayor of London there were 72,000 knife attacks, 16,000 gun crime offences, and at least 62,000 racially motivated violent crimes. But apparently, those didn't count.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Oh shit, no! Whatever will we do if we can no longer attract the people who steal all our money and don't contribute any tax? www.thetimes.com/business/eco...
thetimes.com
Non-dom exodus as UK loses power to attract the richest
Britain’s ultra-high-net-worth population is predicted to grow by only 11 per cent in the next five years — with the performance lagging behind Europe and the US
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A detail everyone is ignoring or forgetting. Peter Mandelson masterminded Keir Starmer's reshuffle days before the scandal broke. That is, while he was the US Ambassador. This seems like quite an important detail!
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened. Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah. (h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
9th anniversary of the Grenfell fire is approaching. 72 people died, thousands more scarred. Main causes remain unaddressed. Lust for higher profits Unaccountable corporate power Performance related executive pay Failure of regulators Indifference of govts to the cry of the people Nothing changed.
leftfootforward.org
Successive governments have failed to learn lessons of Grenfell Tragedy
The conditions that facilitated the tragedy remain unchecked
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Amelia @ameliaashton.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The likely reason no feminist uttered a word of condemnation or protest is because after a quick search you discover this didn't actually happen. There are enough real atrocities in the world without making sh*t up.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Farage thugs manhandle man with pacemaker after he objects to the Reform leader's chauffeur parking in disabled bay that he needs to use. Lovely People. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
mirror.co.uk
Moment Nigel Farage henchmen manhandle disabled OAP in parking row
Henchmen working for the divisive Reform leader were seen on camera manhandling a retired engineer who was trying to park in a disabled spot to drop off his wife in Shetland
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
These people think they are so clever, but they are morons. Company Profits UK £658.7bn, they pay 13.8% tax. Welfare £333bn, nearly 50% is pension. Supermarkets profits £12bn Shoplifting from ALL the shops £1bn But they never blame the rich people ACTUALLY ripping them off.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
BBC Question Time appearances Zarah Sultana 0 Jeremy Corbyn 1 Mick Lynch 1 - Nigel Farage 38 Very, very biased selection, even more than Fiona Bruce.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Oil companies rake in €81.4m extra daily profits in the EU as fuel prices soar. Corporations profit from war, global tensions and pollution for benefit of the super-rich Must levy windfall taxes on corporations, wealth taxes on the super-rich.
greenpeace.org
Oil companies rake in €81.4 million extra daily in the EU as fuel prices soar - Greenpeace European Unit
EU governments must urgently tax fossil fuel profits to alleviate energy bills and to speed up investments in cheap, safe and home-grown renewables
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 09/04/2026
Is this the message the government wants to go into the local elections with?
Graphic that says "‘there are few things that you can imagine that are politically less advisable than saying to 16 million voters, I’m sorry your water bills are going to have to keep going up, and your rivers are going to be full of shit, because we have to keep allowing an American hedge fund to keep extracting money from this company that you used to own'
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Amelia @ameliaashton.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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