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Fiona Simmons

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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...
europeanmovement.co.uk
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...
open.substack.com
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...
open.substack.com
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...
councilestatemedia.uk
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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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Haven't seen your posts for AGES - so sorry to hear about your dad Kev. Mine died at the beginning of COVID. Sending you and your family lots of love ❤️
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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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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Yes, the rise of fascism?
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Plenty of divide and rule though!
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Just the circus bit now
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Nice one Alastair!
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
😂
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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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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The UK, where the rules only apply to the poor.
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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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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Worth remembering that genocide isn't a red line for this lot.
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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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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We're not ungovernable. We are tired of the parade of incompetent, self-serving liars that are the majority of our politicians and associated media.
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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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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Our politicians are beneath contempt!
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
That's just brilliant Kev!💖
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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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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Isn't the Green Party a socialist party?
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Truly beneath contempt!
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Fiona Simmons @fionasimmons.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Shame about Cooper, once so promising, now firmly on the dark side.
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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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