iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 05/09/2025What the @greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenjennyjones.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social @elliechowns.bsky.social @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social et al are saying 000
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialThe Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 02/09/2025Draw the line. Join the Green Party today ⤵️ join.greenparty.org.uk?utm_source=s... 1061774707
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialDr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comDeforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study findsLocalised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find 11615
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/08/2025CEO-to-worker pay gap surges to 632 to 1 at US’s lowest-paying large firms. Starbucks CEO collected $95.8m, 6,666 times as much as the company’s $14,674 median pay. Workers rely on food banks and charity for survival whilst company engaged in union busting.theguardian.comCEO-to-worker pay gap surges to 632 to 1 at US’s lowest-paying large firms, study showsAt 100 firms in S&P 500 with lowest median pay, executives’ comp increased by average of nearly 35% over five years 916195
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Hong Kong billionaire, owner of Northumbrian Water, touted as Thames Water bidder. He won't provide necessary infrastructure investment. Any private owner would want profit, main cause of the crisis. Profits go abroad, misery stays home. Public ownership is the only way ahead. archive.ph/NCYXftelegraph.co.ukChinese suitor ‘would cut billions from Thames Water investment’CK Infrastructure touted as likely buyer if debt-laden water company is nationalised 24565238
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/08/2025US Senate Report Shows Private Equity 'Devastates' healthcare. Squeezes the life out of hospitals and doctor's offices, High debt, staff cuts, asset-stripping, profiteering, low quality care PE expanding in UK, owns hospitals, GP surgeries, care homes; cataract, hip/knee replacement surgeries.commondreams.orgNew Senate Report Details How Private Equity 'Devastates' Hospital Systems | Common DreamsUS Senator Chris Murphy exposes how private equity firms destroyed hospitals in his home state. 7277171
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Naziification of the UK. Reform UK would: Leave ECHR (join Russia and Belarus). Repeal the UK Human Rights Act. Disapply the 1951 Refugee convention. UN Convention Against Torture. the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention. Cancel the Good Friday Agreement. No one will be safe. 33448205
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Trump said: “a lot of people are saying ‘maybe we’d like a dictator", claims he isn’t one. Since the election he has probably made more laws than Congress; thinks he is King, will rule forever Sent soldiers into US cities, wants to annexe other countries. A dictator did that in the 1930s.independent.co.ukTrump says he is not a dictator but insists many people think the US could use onePresident criticized Democratic-led cities of being ungrateful for his administration deploying federal law enforcement to help curtail crime 1627196
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/08/2025UK electricity/gas infrastructure companies have spent £490m a year less than budgeted on maintaining system reliability and preventing failures. Gas privatised in 1986, electricity in 1990. Assets sweated. Electricity/Gas distribution companies have the highest profit margins in the UK.common-wealth.orgProfiting Amid the Energy Crisis: The Distribution Networks at the Heart of the UK's Gas and Electricity System 18263142
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Whilst this complicit, complacent government & ‘regulator’ do nothing but side with the sinner against the sinned against. What a complete sellout Starmer & his government are. 010
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Another betrayal of voters, ‘working people’, the struggling, the non corporates & pretty much the 99% by our LINO government. 000
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Since #Brexit, UK now has lower standards in politics and politicians (apologies to the exceptions to this seemingly ever apparent rule). 000
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Of course if they challenged & capped the charges extorted by/profiteering by utilities companies esp Gas & Water, rail & air operators & reversed employers NI hike life would become generally a lot more affordable for SME businesses & normal people, we might get some economic activity across the UK 030
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 20/08/2025If there’s a good, sensible, public spirited, cost-effective & kind way. And there’s its opposite, what way do you think they’ll choose 🤔? 020
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 18/08/2025 Now we need the same response to oil, gas & plastics industries to save our planet from the ever worsening climate catastrophe & plastic pervasiveness. 000
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialDr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Contrast two #Scotland wind projects: Beinn an Tuirc, owned by Scottish Power Renewables, returns about £2,500 per megawatt to the community whilst Tilley, a single turbine owned by the Tiree Community Development Trust, returns over £263,000 per megawatt. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...heraldscotland.comScotland - 'the Saudi Arabia of renewables'? - not yetThe Scottish Government must reform their approach to the development of offshore wind if there is to be any meaningful and last economic footprint… 44216
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 18/08/2025If only European & UK leaders would rally to the planet & all of us affected by climate devastation in the way that they rally against Putin. 001
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialJohn Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened. 371431613
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 18/08/2025It’s a complex mix e.g. big business/ private equity interests, toothless, inadequate or complicit regulators, escalating property, rent, fuel, utility, food & produce bills, rates & employers NI, infrastructure issues. Poor government. End result: affordability crisis for pubs & punters alike. 010
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialRachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Feargal Sharkey accuses Environment Agency of illegally draining River Lea www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comFeargal Sharkey accuses Environment Agency of illegally draining River LeaFishing club chaired by singer threatens court action over abstraction it says is putting rare trout population at risk 17732
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialStop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 18/08/2025👆💯 Any day now, oil giant Equinor is expected to reapply to develop Rosebank: the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK. Now it’s up to this government to make the right call and reject Rosebank. 👉 Join the #StopRosebank Day of Action, Sat 6th Sep. Link in bio. 02510
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialZero Hour: the campaign for climate and nature @zero-hour.bsky.social · 18/08/2025🥦 UK farmers face devastating crop losses, with broccoli yields down 50% due to heatwaves and climate extremes. 🚨 The climate crisis is a food security crisis. We need urgent, updated laws to protect farming and food production. 🐝 Join the campaign for the Climate and Nature Bill 👉 zerohour.ukbbc.co.ukHerefordshire farmer sees broccoli harvest hit by heatwave and lack of waterThe British Growers Association warns that supplies of broccoli are 'tight' thanks to the heatwave. 46439
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Successive UK govts have expected the City of London to revive the economy. This faith is misplaced. In 2024, £25.3bn new shares issued on the London Stock Exchange £92.1bn paid in dividends £57.1bn paid in share buybacks. Companies sweat assets, leads to low productivity. Yet no govt reforms.leftfootforward.orgOur state has become a guarantor of corporate profitsEquitable distribution of income and wealth would go a long way towards stimulating domestic demand and investment... 118694
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialBob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Sometimes there’s nearly as much plastic as seaweed … 😢 insideclimatenews.org/news/1508202... 22113
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I’m not sure @greenparty.org.uk or indeed normal people looking at the global climate picture juxtapositioned with Rachel Reeves and Steve Reeds announcements to date will be convinced this Govt IS doing all it can to protect our environment, build in resilience or mitigate harm. 000
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 18/08/2025But let’s all rush to invest in water greedy AI datacenters! 000
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Putting the company first (as ever) and pretending it’s customer centric. 000
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 18/08/2025This chancellor is killing more than just bats and newts with her rigid, tone deaf, blinkered approach. 020
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialProf Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Great piece by @johnharris1969.bsky.social Working temperature legislation is absolutely essential as summer heat is ever more supercharged Failure will lead to many deaths and a massive drop in productivity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAs summers of extreme heat become more common, the UK must protect its workers | John HarrisThere’s been fury in Spain over the tragic death of a street cleaner. It’s not hard to imagine something similar playing out in the UK, says Guardian columnist John Harris 1218
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialJohn Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Latest from me: on the bafflingly overlooked issue of work and rising heat www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAs summers of extreme heat become more common, the UK must protect its workers | John HarrisThere’s been fury in Spain over the tragic death of a street cleaner. It’s not hard to imagine something similar playing out in the UK, says Guardian columnist John Harris 34213
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialProf Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Everyone with even the slightest interest in the #climate should read the State of the Climate report 2024 It provides the most comprehensive global analysis of climate breakdown and its manifold impacts www.ametsoc.org/ams/publicat...ametsoc.orgState of the ClimateAn international, peer-reviewed publication released each summer, the State of the Climate is the authoritative annual summary of the global climate published as a supplement to the Bulletin of the Am... 06434
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialAnnie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Temperatures and carbon emissions continue to rise The Center for Carbon Management in Energy's director, Uni of Houston: “If all we do is keep inviting politicians to fancy hotels around the world to talk, we’re not going to get anywhere" insideclimatenews.org/news/1408202... More & more & more: 12414
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 18/08/2025#OtD 8 Aug 1845 UK Parliament passed an enclosure act taking away public land and appointing officials who could enclose more land without approval from MPs – one of 5,000 such acts passed. This dispossession created the working class stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1076... 28943
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Also bad for the environment - across the globe - too. 000
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 15/08/2025And insurance bills. And food bills. And water bills. As the planet struggles in the wake of untrammelled capitalism and capitulation. 000
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 15/08/2025How do they plan to be profitable when they’ve killed us all? 120
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 15/08/2025They stop treaties everywhere because their right to destroy the planet for profit is more important than anything else. Despicable. 010
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 15/08/2025And ignore the facts that white men are rapists and paedophiles too. Many protected by being part of the establishment no less. Dishonest Bob is so desperate to be leader he says literally anything to capture attention. It’s a stage he can’t or won’t choose a better way to achieve it. 010
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 15/08/2025If people stopped regarding hateful propaganda as truth it might help. And if vested interests stopped owning mainstream media. 000
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Because we have an ecologically illiterate, economically desperate government in hock/ thrall to vested interests? 000
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 15/08/2025It’s a global ‘murder suicide’. The planet & people being murdered by vested interests engaged in an accelerating suicide pact. All in the name of so-called growth. 000
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialagainstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Israel killing all the journalists is just like the mafia killing all the eye witnesses Ricky Hale and Council Estate Media www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-kil...councilestatemedia.ukIsrael killing all the journalists is just like the mafia killing all the eye witnessesYesterday Israel murdered prominent Palestinian journalist Anas Al Sharif along with his entire Al Jazeera crew: correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and... 011
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 11/08/2025What @premnsikka.bsky.social says 👇 Come on @theguardian.com - get your correspondents to do their job properly!theguardian.comLatest news, sport and opinion from the GuardianLatest US news, world news, sports, business, opinion, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice 000
Reposted by @iipu2.bsky.socialProf Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 07/08/2025🌍 Policy gap on climate action UN Environment Assembly attendees thought only 37% of people would give 1% of income to fight climate change. The real figure? 69%. The public is more ready than they think. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43... #ClimateAction 🧪 #SciCommnature.comUnited Nations Environment Assembly attendees underestimate public willingness to contribute to climate action - Communications Earth & EnvironmentPolicy officials often believe that only a minority of the public is willing to contribute to addressing climate change, but climate actions have broader public support, according to an analysis that ... 33819
iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 08/08/2025They have to think about their extremely rich donors and the tax breaks and subsidies they need in order to afford their next mansion/ yacht/ honour…🤔 000