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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Britain's future relationship with Europe is being debated in Parliament on 12th October. I've just asked my MP to attend. Will you ask yours? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...
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Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell your Labour MP: We can’t drill for new oil and gas in a climate crisis. . Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell your Labour MP: We can’t drill for new oil and gas in a climate crisis.
Andy Burnham’s government is considering approving new drilling in the North Sea in the middle of a climate crisis. We cannot let this happen - write to your MP to get them to stand up for our generat...
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Tell East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT): Hands off Mark Dunne!. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
actionnetwork.org
Tell East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT): Hands off Mark Dunne!
Unite Branch Secretary and East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) Staff Side Chair Mark Dunne has been given notice of redundancy. Mark has been given notice that his contract will end on Tuesday 26 ...
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Can Andy Burnham really clean up politics? open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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Can Andy Burnham really clean up politics?
Peter Oborne says Burnham's chief-of-staff hire is "a classic oligarchical move" – but he still sees a chance for the prime-minister-in-waiting.
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I've signed the petition calling on Andy Burnham to bring Thames Water into public ownership. Will you sign and share? @weownit.org.uk weownit.org.uk/act-now/andy...
weownit.org.uk
Andy Burnham must take back Thames Water
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Britain’s voting system is broken. 70 MPs are backing an amendment to finally review it. But to make an impact, we need many more. I’ve urged my MP to support it with this tool. Can you contact yours too? actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
actionnetwork.org
Ask your MP to back the amendment to fix our broken voting system.
Last month’s elections have shown just how broken our voting system is. 70 MPs have just supported an amendment demanding a total review of this system, and a change to proportional representation. B...
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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...
you.38degrees.org.uk
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...
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men
Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Our ex-Tory MP sting shows just how weak Britain’s lobbying laws are open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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Our ex-Tory MP sting shows just how weak Britain’s lobbying laws are
The “cash for access” operation we uncovered is just the tip of the iceberg. Government needs to act — now.
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve told the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky&
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The worst line here, and the most worrying, is "It just could not happen in Britain"
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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🇬🇱🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Israel has launched a second attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, this time against a vessel carrying the British flag www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-has...
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Israel has launched a second attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, this time against a vessel carrying the British flag
When news of the attack on the Family Boat of the Global Sumud Flotilla broke, Zionists were quick to insist, without evidence, the fire was caused by a cigarette.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
So when Mandelson said there was more embarrassing stuff to come out he was somewhat underplaying it....
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
While most of us enjoy a Bank Holiday, I defy anyone to read this account of the life of journalist Mohamed Abu in Gaza by Rana Sabbagh and not fail to see the horrors committed with our silence and complicity with Israel www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-grave-...
bylinesupplement.com
The Grave that Lives Inside Him
Rana Sabbagh reports on the life of a Palestinian journalist for whom journalism has become about survival, and memory about resistance, with grief colouring everything
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Last year, 53 people became billionaires by inheritance. And over ten million people died of hunger.
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
84% of Labour Party members want the government to end the two-child benefit limit. In a country as wealthy as the UK, allowing child poverty to deepen is a political choice. Labour must choose differently. @compassoffice.bsky.social polling & motion in LabourList: labourlist.org/2025/08/end-...
labourlist.org
More than eight in ten Labour members support end to two-child benefit cap - LabourList
More than eight in ten Labour members support ending the two-child benefit limit, according to a new poll.
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 19/07/2025
'It is just another layer of debacle being heaped upon the burning shambles that has become the oversight and regulation of the water industry.' Feargal Sharkey reacts as it's revealed that serious water pollution incidents by water companies rose by 60% last year. @matthew-wright.bsky.social
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
“a deliberate, systematic starvation of an entire population” A statement by Doctors Against Genocide. #Gaza
A statement by Doctors Against Genocide which reads:

To all international humanitarian organizations,
The situation in Gaza is spiraling beyond any medical or moral threshold.
The limited stock of intravenous fluids in our hospitals is no longer sufficient to treat the waves of starving individuals arriving at emergency units — from infants to the elderly, they are collapsing from pure exhaustion and hunger.
This is no longer just a humanitarian crisis.
It is a deliberate, systematic starvation of an entire population.
We urge you —
Speak. Act. Intervene.
Nasser Medical Complex
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
UK had banking crisis in every decade since the 1970s. 2007-08 crash: Govt provided £1,162bn (£133bn cash + £1,029bn of guarantees) to bailout banks. £895bn QE handed to capital markets. Govt deregulating finance, post crash reforms being repealed. What would the next bailout cost?
leftfootforward.org
Rachel Reeves’ Mansion House speech offered nothing for most people
'The state needs to be hands-on, and not leave it all to the pirates of City of London'
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Please sign and re-post!!!
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
This is what happens to a country when, for decades, the narrative around welfare is that of scroungers, benefits cheats & feckless single mothers - it becomes politically popular to degrade benefits people rely on to the point you’re the stingiest, nastiest, most pathetic country on your continent.
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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @lisaburton.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Trump is a Putin stooge Both dictators, both hate democray & equality Trump conquered America by starting extreme culture wars. Now he is exporting this war to Europe in order to flip govts We need to realise that America is not withdrawing from Europe, but is actually trying to subjugate it
euobserver.com
Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory
On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, ...
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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
“On 27 May, an official document calling for regime change in European countries was published in Washington DC. Politicians all over Europe would do well to read this document carefully before they and their spin doctors start concocting strategies for their upcoming election campaigns”
euobserver.com
Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory
On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, ...
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Another reason to rejoin the Single Market! 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The word is "massacres"
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 08/07/2025
75% of Britons say they would support a wealth tax proposed by former Labour leader Lord Kinnock of 2% on wealth over £10 million Support: 75% Oppose: 13% yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
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Cllr Salman Shaheen @salmanshaheen.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Water should be run as a public good, not for private profit.
theguardian.com
Public ownership of water in England and Wales is best way to improve industry, people’s commission finds
Exclusive: Report says public ownership will mean cheaper bills, less pollution and more investment in infrastructure
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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 08/07/2025
Four decades of neoliberal policies later: “Almost one in three children in the UK live in poverty”—4.5 million children.
euronews.com
Children in England living in 'almost Dickensian poverty,' report says
Almost one in three children in the UK live in poverty and the report comes as the government faces growing pressure to scrap the two-child benefit limit. #EuropeNews
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
What on earth has happened to the Labour Party?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Grip of the state. The UK is less open and transparent than Colombia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Ireland, Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden. Weak parliament, press, civil society makes democracy difficult in a secretive state, facilitates elective dictatorships.
government-transformation.com
OECD: the top performing governments for open data
OECD's new report reveals which countries have come out on top when it comes to government open data initiatives.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 05/07/2025
A new UN report exposes the global infrastructure behind Israel’s genocide. UN expert Francesca Albanese names over 60 corporations—including Amazon, Microsoft, Caterpillar, Booking.com, and Maersk—as profiting from and enabling the extermination of Palestinians. Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Morning Bluesky. Russian propagandists are this morning claiming there was no historical country called Azerbaijan - and no ethnic group called Azerbaijanis - it was always part of the Russian Empire. A familiar line that was used with Ukraine.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
theguardian.com
‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula
Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Already over 6000 Neighbourhood Health Centres in England GP Practices have lost 20% real terms funding since 2016, if they hadn’t they would be better able to provide the care patients need Still 31m appts/month Fund GP practices properly & they’ll do the rest with less funding & quicker
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I've just signed the @weownit.org.uk petition to say NO to private finance deals for Neighbourhood Health Centres. Will you join me? Tell Wes Streeting - put patients first, don't put our NHS at the mercy of new PFI deals weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-n...
weownit.org.uk
No new PFI in Neighbourhood Health Services | We Own It
Wes Streeting: do not use a “Public Private Partnership” to finance Neighbourhood Health Centres
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Tonight. Share everywhere. 🙏
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
9.3m Britons, including 3m children, face hunger/hardship, rely upon charity/benefits. 25% of 16-24 olds in England have mental health problems. Govts subsidies corporations but cut benefits to people. Why? Cut corporate welfare, not human welfare. Need equitable distribution of income/wealth.
leftfootforward.org
Corporate vs human welfare: The story of Drax
There is no means-testing for corporate welfare payments.
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Michael Taylor @ausindimedia.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
“New wealth of top 1% surges by over $52.4 trillion since 2015 – enough to end poverty 22 times over.” Just once would do… if they bothered. theaimn.net/new-wealth-o...
theaimn.net
New wealth of top 1% surges by over $52.4 trillion since 2015
Oxfam Media Release New wealth of top 1% surges by over $52.4 trillion since 2015 – enough to end poverty 22 times over, as Oxfam warns global development “abysmally off track” ahead of crunch talks. ...
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Alice Rothchild, MD @alicerothchild.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Gaza on the Brink of Total Collapse: Israeli Occupation Forces Systematically Destroy Electricity Infrastructure and Cut Off Energy Sources pchrgaza.org/gaza-on...
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Gaza on the Brink of Total Collapse: Israeli Occupation Forces Systematically Destroy Electricity Infrastructure and Cut Off Energy Sources
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) warns of the imminent collapse of the remaining vital facilities operating in the Gaza Strip, particularly the healthcare services as well as water and sanitation infrastructure.  This comes amid the systematic destruction of the essential infrastructure, including the energy and electricity sectors, and the tightening of the siege […]
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Really fed up with everyone who is ignoring what's happening in Gaza. People who tacitly support this government really need to think about what that means. A whole population are being deliberately starved and bombed. Our government supports this. Get off the fucking fence!
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
RAF squadron targeted for a repaint by Palestine Action does not belong to the RAF. ultimately owned by Polygon Global Partners LLP, a Hedge Fund. How much of the RAF is owned by hedge funds, private equity? Finance sector benefiting from wars? A nation's defence outsourced without any debate.
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Dystopia UK: Genocidal RAF Squadron Targeted by Palestine Action is Owned by a Hedge Fund - Craig Murray
If you thought RAF jets were owned by the RAF, think again. The RAF squadron targeted for a repaint by Palestine Action due to its involvement in supplying Israel’s genocide, does not in fact belong t...
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... And EVERY country that helps Israel 🇮🇱 in ANY WAY is complicit. The people in this country find this abhorrent. We do not want to be shamed by association by our ( Labour!) government! This genocide is not in my/our name! I want no part in it.
theguardian.com
‘Gaza must be eliminated’: Israel’s airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda | Arwa Mahdawi
Here is a collection of 20 of the more outrageous statements by Israeli lawmakers or public figures since 7 October 2023
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
An Israeli military drone fired a missile at Palestinians walking down the street, killing at least 8 people. And while Israel murders people in the street what's our govt doing? Its supporting & arming Israel.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
At least 26 Palestinians killed in Gaza since dawn - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
middleeasteye.net
At least 26 Palestinians killed in Gaza since dawn
<article data-history-node-id="424962" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-26-palestinians-killed-gaza-dawn" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-26-palestinians-killed-gaza-dawn" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">At least 26 Palestinians killed in Gaza since dawn</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Twenty-six Palestinians have been killed in strikes across Gaza since dawn, Al Jazeera Arabic reported, citing sources in Gaza.</p> <p>The victims include six people killed by Israeli fire near a US-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid point north of Rafah and eight killed in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City.</p> <p>Two people were also killed in a strike on a tent housing displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi in the south.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
We need a wealth tax not a “Britannia Card” Julia Davies - impact investor, entrepreneur, and member of Patriotic Millionaires UK – argues for a wealth tax, not billionaires’ patronage. 👏👏👏
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We need a wealth tax not a “Britannia Card”
Julia Davies - impact investor, entrepreneur, and member of Patriotic Millionaires UK – argues for a wealth tax, not billionaires’ patronage
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SUPPORTING PALESTINE @apirus.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
newarab.com
Israel kills over 90 in Gaza in last 24 hours as army halts aid
Netanyahu on Wednesday evening ordered that all aid be cut off from north Gaza, despite the humanitarian situation worsening.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The concession made by the government are welcome but don’t go far enough
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John Earle @skembear.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Yvette Cooper's cosiness with Israel lobby helps explain absurd war on Palestine Action - Canary www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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Yvette Cooper's cosiness with Israel lobby helps explain absurd war on Palestine Action
The influential Israel lobby has a loyal friend in Yvette Cooper. Palestine Action must have a loyal friend in us!
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