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Clara Paillard

@claraunite.bsky.social
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She/Her French scouser - Born @339ppm @unitetheunion Branch Secretary #ClimateJustice #SocialJustice #FossilFree #Decolonisation #Disability #Solidarity

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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The climate crisis is a working class and trade union issue that cannot wait For #WorldEnvironmentDay, I've written this article for @labour-hub.bsky.social that on the impact of the climate crisis on working people and surveys key organisations campaigning on this. labourhub.org.uk/2026/06/05/t...
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The climate crisis is a working class and trade union issue that cannot wait
Today is World Environment Day. Clara Paillard looks at the impact on working people and surveys the key organisations campaigning on this. On World Environment Day, is there much that the labour m…
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 01/04/2026
🚨Your water bills are going up again today, in England and Wales. Private water companies are sucking us dry: ❌Paying themselves billions in dividends ❌Paying their CEOs £1.7 million a year on average ❌Loaded up companies with debt. AND WE ALL PAY FOR IT. www.mirror.co.uk/money/water-...
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Water bills are rising for millions of homes today - see how much you'll pay
In England and Wales, water bills will rise by an average of £33 a year, or 5.4%, from April 2026
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Ministers are exploring triggering the break clause in Palantir's NHS contract. I've signed the open letter to Wes Streeting calling on him to get Palantir out of the NHS. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/we...
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Wes Streeting: Trigger the break clause and get Palantir out of the NHS - Foxglove
Wes Streeting: trigger the break clause and kick Palantir out of our NHS. ADD YOUR NAME NOW!
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Reform mayor courted US oil and gas executive about fracking in UK. Not only they are the enemy of migrants and workers but they are climate deniers flirting with big oil www.theguardian.com/environment/... @reformexposed.bsky.social
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Reform mayor courted US oil and gas executive about fracking in UK
Exclusive: Documents show Andrea Jenkyns asked how she could help firm after major gas find in Lincolnshire
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Reform UK Deputy Leader of Lancashire Councillor Simon Evans has reposted a Facebook post saying Natalie Fleet MP should be shot. The post also has a fake quote designed to stir anger. What is more disgusting is that she was groomed and raped as a teenager. Simon Evans must resign
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Campaign against Climate Change trade union group @cacctu.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This #HeartUnions week, @claraunite.bsky.social explains how the climate crisis is affecting workers now. If you care about climate and the environment, join a union - let's work together for a future which doesn't cost the earth www.cacctu.org.uk/heartunions
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Campaign against Climate Change trade union group @cacctu.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
It's #HeartUnions week! If you care about the climate, join a union. ❤️ www.cacctu.org.uk/heartunions
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
If we want to understand the ambition of the White House, we must return to this little-known story: that of international extractivism pushed to its extreme, of which Trump is now seeking to write a new chapter which, if he succeeds, could prove to be even more extreme.
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The main objective of the Trumpist expedition lies elsewhere: to resume the exploitation of Venezuelan oil wealth for the benefit of great American fortunes, an exploitation which had reached a first peak in the 1950s, during this "golden age" mythologized by the MAGA movement.
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
It is indeed oil that constitutes the essential motive for this power grab: the seizure and extraction of the world's largest reserves of black gold, long exploited with unprecedented profitability by American multinationals and their shareholders.
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Must read by @gabrielzucman.bsky.social ⬇️ Understanding the American intervention in Venezuela: The kidnapping of Maduro cannot be understood if ignoring the colossal sums of money associated with regime change in Caracas #oil #extractivism #Venezuela #US gabrielzucman.substack.com/p/comprendre...
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Comprendre l’intervention américaine au Venezuela
On ne peut pas comprendre l’enlèvement de Nicolas Maduro si l’on ignore les masses financières colossales associées à un changement de régime à Caracas.
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Jean Pisani-Ferry @pisaniferry.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Les motifs économiques de l'intervention américaine au Venezuela : un post éclairant de @gabrielzucman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/gabrielz...
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Comprendre l’intervention américaine au Venezuela
On ne peut pas comprendre l’enlèvement de Nicolas Maduro si l’on ignore les masses financières colossales associées à un changement de régime à Caracas.
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
🛢 Guide to Investigating Fossil Fuels: collaborative journalism piece with @gijn.org support ℹ️ 7 chapters to understand private/state owned companies & the broader industry, lobbying to greenwashing & government policies. What is the future of the #fossilfuel industry? 📖 Available as an ebook
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Guide to Investigating Fossil Fuels: Introduction
The aim of this reporting guide is to provide key context and practical advice to enable better investigations of the fossil fuel industry.
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
And this was ratified in October MA conference with 81% majority vote cultureunstained.org/2025/10/07/m...
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Museums ratify new ethics code requiring ‘transition away’ from fossil fuel and rights abusing sponsors
In a significant shift for the culture sector, museums and galleries in the UK this evening voted to adopt ambitious new ethics rules that call for the sector to ‘transition away’ from sponsorship …
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
" The guidelines recommend that museums should “Transition away from sponsorship from organisations involved with environmental harm (including fossil fuels), human rights abuses, & other sponsorship that does not align with the values of the museum.” "
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
So far the best list of resources I've found about the intersection of disability and climate justice! ♿️✊️🌏 Thanks to @desibility.bsky.social for compiling this! www.disabilitydebrief.org/climate-unde...
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Climate and disability resource guide: understanding
Disabled perspectives, climate activism, and resources for education and research.
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Strike Map @strikemap.org · 25/07/2025
SHUT IT DOWN 2 Five sites, one day. Not a wheel turned. Victory to the Brum Bin workers. #Megapickets work, pass it on. #StrikeMap
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Workers are currently paying the price of Oil Refinery closure! We must say loud and clear: it is Oil giants who must pay #MakeThemPay We need a #WorkerLed #JustTransition now! @unitetheunion.bsky.social
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Campaign against Climate Change trade union group @cacctu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
🔥Next week, 14-20 July - HEAT STRIKE week of action.🔥 The UK STILL has no legal maximum working temperature. How hot is it in your workplace? Take a thermometer in to check, put up a poster about health and safety at work, take a photo and post - hashtags #HeatStrike #TooHotToWork heatstrike.uk
Hand holding flyer saying 'too hot to work - heat strike'
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Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O’Flaherty, conducted a visit to the United Kingdom from 30 June to 4 July 2025, and a report was released today, including his thoughts on the state of trans rights in the UK at the moment. Read more here: www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
Graphic with a pink to purple gradient background. It says "he Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights said today that he  "is concerned about the current climate for trans people [in the UK]. ... He deplores that discussions tend towards the exclusion of trans people from many aspects of society, rather than ensuring that their inclusion and dignity are upheld." At the bottom are the Scottish Trans and Equality Network logo.
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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The committee seeks answers on: · the lack of full impact assessments. · the impact on women, younger people, and global majority people. · the risk of increasing poverty rate. · the inadequacy of the public consultation. · the lack of involvement of deaf and disabled people’s organisations.
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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨🚨🚨 The United Nations is calling for the UK Government to stop the Universal Credit (PIP) Bill because it will 'deepen the signs of regression' in disabled people's human rights. tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/...
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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The Government said it’d cost £99bn to publicly own our water. But this drew on calculations by — drumroll — water company lobbyists. The true cost is closer to zero. Here’s why. 🧵
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
APPEAL: As ex-GKN Florence workers’ struggle grows stronger to produce cargo bikes and solar panels under workers control – help them raise 2 million euros to start production ✊️ All info ⬇️ tinyurl.com/GKNappealUK Including link to event with GKN union rep DARIO SALVETTI ⏰️ Monday June 2 - 6.30pm
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Campaign against Climate Change trade union group @cacctu.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This evening! Fringe meeting on Firefighters and the Climate Emergency at @fbunational.bsky.social conference. Speakers inc. @fbu-ags.bsky.social @claraunite.bsky.social
Firefighters and the Climate Emergency
Ben Selby, FBU Assistant General Secretary
Clara Paillard, Unite Grassroots Climate Justice Caucus & CACCTU
Chris Baugh, GMB Branch Chair 
(personal capacity) & former Assistant General Secretary of PCS
Andy Warren, London FBU NE Area Organiser
Chair: Kasey LeGall, FBU B&EMM Secretary
Conference fringe meeting Thurs 22 May 6pm
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Jim Burke @barcajim3.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Don't normally bother with shite like this but I felt that a vote for Gary Lineker and him winning the award would annoy all the right people www.nationaltvawards.com/vote
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Vote | National Television Awards
Choose your winners in this year’s National Television Awards
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
If you have been stopped, challenged or harassed when using a single-sex space (such as toilets or changing rooms) since the UK's Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act. We need to hear from you. Let us know at: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo25 #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ
Has it happened to you? Have you been questioned, stopped or challenged using a single-sex space since the Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act? Let us know: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo25 Illustration of a toilet
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I've also joined the @GreenPartytu.bsky.social and I hope other may consider doing the same to ensure the Green Party moves further to the left and up their game on worker-led Just Transition
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I've decided to join the @Green.Party.org.uk as they are the only alternative Party I see to counter Reform and actuallly bring back Climate Justice to the centre of politics as Labour has totally failed for too long and is now a Party with racist and discriminatory policies. join.greenparty.org.uk
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Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party with the policies needed to tackle the climate crisis.
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The step-up in anti-migrant rhetoric from the government is shameful and dangerous. Migrants are our neighbours, friends and family. To suggest that Britain risks becoming “an island of strangers” because of immigration mimics the scaremongering of the far-right.
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
RALLY: Demand A Workers' Transition ⏰️ Wednesday 14th May 8:30an - 9.30an 📍Outside UK Parliament ✊️ RSVP tinyurl.com/JustTransiti... Climate activists and trade unionists are going to gather to demand a just energy transition is funded at the upcoming Comprehensive Spending Review #JustTransition
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RALLY: Just Transition Now
Rally outside UK Parliament: Demand the Government Fund a Just Transition On Wednesday 14th May at 8.30am climate activists and trade unionists are going to gather outside of Parliament to demand a j...
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Farage and Reform are not on side of the workers. Support our members building electric vehicles at Vauxhall Liverpool. The far right isn't on the side of jobs or working class communities. Share
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
🚨FREE FATOU - ACTION NEEDED🚨 Fatou is due to be removed tomorrow on Royal Air Maroc’s flight at 18:10 from Heathrow. PLEASE CALL AND EMAIL THE AIRLINE ASKING THEM TO REFUSE TO CARRY OUT THE REMOVAL. ☎️ phone/email script ⬇️ linktr.ee/FreeFatou
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Our sister Fatou has been detained and we are demanding her release.
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These Walls Must Fall @thesewallsmustfall.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
URGENT: Our friend Fatou Tamba has been taken from Derwentside detention to Heathrow to be deported to Gambia, where she faces persecution. This gov’t is trying to deport a vulnerable, innocent woman. Royal Air Maroc AT801 + AT579 Tag & shame @RAM_Maroc — cancel this flight! #Stopdeportation
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The Climate Crisis is a Working Class Issue - Building a Year of Trade Union Climate Action ⏰️ Online meeting Wed 7th May 7pm  ✍️ Register actionnetwork.org/events/the-c... Join the discussion on how we can build for a year of action, as agreed at TUC 2024 - in our unions, workplaces and communities ✊
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U.S. House Committee on Financial Services - Democrats @ushousefsc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Hours before his 90-day tariff pause announcement. The President of the United States is literally engaging in the world's biggest market manipulation scheme.
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Greater Manchester Law Centre @gmlawcentre.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
📢🚫NO to disability benefit cuts! #WelfareNotWarfare GMLC staff and volunteers joined Manchester DPAC, GM Coalition of Disabled People, GM Tenants Union, Unite, Unison and others today in central Manchester to protest against the government's proposed attacks on disabled people's lives.
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Kim Johnson MP @kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
My full statement on today's Spring Statement: #WelfareNotWarfare
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Charlie Mayfield, #KeepBritainWorking review boss, was invited by Today Radio 4 to talk about #Welfare cuts. Focus was on employer support for workers with mental health conditions. Well needed indeed but if you get ill, you go on occupational ir statutory sick pay not disability benefit #LCWRA
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
'Targeting “cost savings” on disability benefits is not only immoral, it is the opposite of everything a Labour government is supposed to be.' My column for the @theipaper.com ... inews.co.uk/opinion/what...
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What Rachel Reeves should do instead of cutting benefits
Labour was founded as the party of the working class
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
@paulnowaktuc.bsky.social TUC General Secretary on #Disability cuts planned by Labour: "We must not make the same mistake again. Pushing disabled people into hardship with cuts to support will only make the current challenges worse and will not win public support." www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Keir Starmer ally hits out at DWP benefit cut plan in rare public criticism
Trades Union Congress General Secretary Paul Nowak warned: 'A major lesson from the Tory years is that austerity damaged the nation’s health. We must not make the same mistake again'
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Boycott Bloody Insurance @insuranceboycott.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
EXPOSED: 💥The insurance companies complicit in the genocide and dispossession of the Palestinian people. boycottbloodyinsurance.org/reports/ Read the report and pressure your local institutions to switch insurers! 🍉 #BoycottBloodyInsurance
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
UN calls for ‘corrective measures’ to Tory disability benefit reforms, just as Labour prepares cuts of its own www.disabilitynewsservice.com/un-calls-for...
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UN calls for ‘corrective measures’ to Tory disability benefit reforms, just as Labour prepares cuts of its own
A report by the United Nations (UN) has called on the UK government to take “corrective measures” to address the impact of cuts to disability benefits introduced under Conservative governments, jus…
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Public and Commercial Services Union @pcsunion.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Our facilities management members employed by G4S and ISS have been back on the picket lines today, including at 22 Whitehall, Old Admiralty Buildings, 10 South Colonnade and 70 Whitehall. Solidarity to the strikers. #PCSonStrike
The photo shows 10 people on the picket line outside 22 Whitehall, 3 wearing high-vis jackets and 3 holding umbrellas.The photo shows 11 strikers at 10 South Colonnade holding a banner which reads PCS G4S members demand decent pay, sick pay and insourcing now. They are also holding PCS flags, wearing high-rising vis jackets and one is holding a placard which reads G4S pay up. The photo shows around 25 people stood outside 70 Whitehall wearing high-vis jackets, holding PCS flags and umbrellas.The photo shows around 20 people stood outside the Old Admiralty buildings holding a PCS on strike banner and wearing high-vis jackets and holding PCS flags and umbrellas.
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Boycott Bloody Insurance @insuranceboycott.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
BREAKING: 💣 Allianz insure arms company Elbit Systems. Elbit advertise their weapons as "battle-tested". Who on? Palestinian civilians 🤮 🍉 #BoycottBloodyInsurers
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Bonjour, de nombreuses personnes disent qu'après avoir supprimé leur compte twitter, leur user name a été recréé par un bot pretendant être eux et interactant avec des profiles qu'ils suivaient. Avez vous des conseils par rapport à cela?
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Culture Unstained @cultureunstained.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
BREAKING | Cabinet Office makes unprecedented disclosure of docs from Former PM’s meetings with billionaire Chair of the #Adani Group - including at the @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social on the day its sponsorship of a new energy gallery was announced! cultureunstained.org/2025/02/14/b...
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Cabinet Office discloses briefings shedding light on former PM’s meetings with billionaire Adani boss during alleged bribery scheme
Briefings for Boris Johnson’s meetings with Gautam Adani at Science Museum reveal museum’s role in Adani’s lobbying – and the scale of their weapons production ambitions
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
URGENT ACTION: Tell Ed Miliband to Say No to New Tree Burning Subsidies! We expect a government announcement tomorrow to renew Drax subsidies! This is the single biggest Co2 emitter in the UK. Burning Trees is no renewable energy! @axedrax.bsky.social Do it now ⬇️ actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
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URGENT ACTION: Tell Ed Miliband to Say No to New Tree Burning Subsidies
News reports suggest the Government is about to make the disastrous decision to hand billions more in subsidies to tree burners Drax and possibly also Lynemouth Power. This would be a decision to push...
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Paul Nowak @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The extreme hoarding of wealth is sociopathic. Example below. It amazes me that people can argue the toss that hospital cleaners shouldn’t get sick pay from day one, and argue just as vehemently that the super rich shouldn’t be asked to pay their fair share of tax.
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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Daily Mirror: Council house waiting list could reach 2 MILLION in the next decade The UK needs to build more public housing & tax those w/ surplus housing wealth. See our chart below on how many council houses we could've had today if public housebuilding had continued at 70s levels.
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