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Judy

@mainbanana.bsky.social
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I’m interested in politics and the environment. Run a repair cafe, a recycling scheme and I’m a tree warden.

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havanttree.bsky.social @havanttree.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This planting season volunteers from other local nature conservation groups once again made a huge contribution. We're grateful for their support.We've supplied and planted 45 trees,15m of new hedge,using 80 plants,310 plants to infill and replant existing hedges. We won't mention all the watering
a cartoon of a lady watering a tree
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A beautiful evening Hayling Island
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The new forest fire from Hayling Island taken about an hour before posting
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This happened to a family member with dual citizenship.Big delays and time without any passport but The Passport Office did agree to dropping the middle name so it matched their other passport.Perhaps Gerald’s problem is indeed an arrogant official?
theguardian.com
Failed by arrogant British passport officials | Letter
Letter: Gerald Harrison on being trapped in the middle of bureaucracy with his British and Irish passports
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Tree and wildflowers maintenance working party Mengham Park Harold rd Hayling Island PO119LT. Please help if you can Sunday 8 March Monday 9 10-12 hbctreewardens@gmail.com
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Private equity companies linked to Manchester City owner, and Bono making millions in profit through taxpayer-funded special needs schools. 20%+ profit margins. Children are cash cows. Councils pay up to £350,000 a year to support pupils. Money ends up in offshore tax havens. archive.ph/sY2eJ
thetimes.com
‘Cash cow’ Send schools backed by firms linked to Bono and Sheikh Mansour
Analysis shows private equity funds, including offshore entities, are making millions while councils struggle to meet Send demand
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Private equity is buying hospices. What happens in the US will arrive here. Palliative care and impending death is seen as a profit opportunity. PE destroyed care homes and vets. Patient deaths have risen in PE owned hospitals and nursing homes. UK handing more of the NHS to PE. archive.ph/uO3aF
ft.com
Private equity makes risky $1.1bn bet on hospice care
Kinderhook’s acquisition of Enhabit comes with thin margins, heavy debt and increasing scrutiny
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
UK Dept of Work and Pensions deducted £32.4m from Universal Credit to pay poor people's water bills. People in the North hit the hardest. Water companies pay dividends, exorbitant exec pay, fleece customers, don't pay fines. Now allowed to rob the poor, with full complicity of the state.
thecanary.co
Northern communities are bearing the brunt of DWP and water company deductions
The DWP is allowing water companies to go after benefit claimants living in the most deprived areas to collect debt for water bills
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
£240m. With no tender. Palantir. I wrote to Wes Streeting last week demanding answers. Every day without any transparency deepens the scandal. Palantir out.
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
How did that get to be most read across the Guardian? #keirstarmer #smallphrophets
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Govt to spend £5bn to pay off 90% of the English councils debts for supporting children & young people with special educational needs. The real problem is privatisation and profiteering by corporations, huge wealth transfer from public to private How long before the write-off needs to be repeated?
bbc.co.uk
£5bn council SEND debts to be paid off by government
It comes days after the Local Government Association warned that eight in 10 English councils would face bankruptcy, if they had to honour deficits.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 05/02/2026
"Starmer didn't pick Mandelson in spite of his Epstein connections… He picked him because of them." Would he have made the same choice if Kamala Harris had won? "Absolutely not", says @lewisgoodall.com.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
democracyforsale.substack.com
BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
While Mandelson hits the headlines don't let Reform Ltd get away with its Epstein and lunatic far right connections
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
More superb reporting today from Sky’s Ridge & Frost on the shocking student loans scandal. Watch this staggering report. This has got to be fixed. We cannot allow young people to exploited in this way.
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Day 3 - Hayling island beach the authorities are still assessing.Foam insulation - lots of little bits sitting on the tideline - Are they thinking there’s not enough to bother with? Will it just go away….!
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Let’s get on with the clean up! It’s Day 2 plenty of volunteers ready to help ( many of us doing so already) #hayling#containerspill
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
shipping containers were lost during storm Goretti off St Catherine’s point Isle of White. The whole Hayling Island tideline yesterday is seeing the result lots of small pieces filmed here but others have picked up big lumps
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Crypto investor gives £9m to Reform UK as donations exceed those to Tories. Super rich don't donate, they invest to shape party policies to secure advantages for their class. Normal people can't match them. Direct donations to political parties must be criminalized.
theguardian.com
Crypto investor gives £9m to Reform UK as donations exceed those to Tories
Christopher Harborne’s record gift revealed in Electoral Commission figures prompts renewed calls for cap on political donations
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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
@bramblebotanist.bsky.social 👏
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Repair Cafe Hayling Island @repaircafehayling.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Come book your items to repair at the URC Hayling Island on Saturday 29th November from 10:30 to 12:00. This is the last one of the year! Repaircafehayling@gmail.com (Edited 23:10 via @skeetsapp.com)
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
key. 🛠️ Repair Cafe Hayling: LAST ONE Before Christmas! 🎄 Our final repair session of the year is on Saturday, Nov 29th, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM at URC Hall, Hollow Lane. Bring your broken textiles, electricals, and wooden items!Book your spot now: 📧 Repaircafehayling@gmail.com
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Washed up today Hayling
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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Book bundle giveaway! To celebrate National Tree Week, The Tree Council is giving away a bundle of six exquisite books and a Tree Council tote bag. Head over to our website to enter! > treecouncil.org.uk/seasonal-cam... This competition closes at midnight on Sunday 30 November 2025.
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Beach clean found object- any ideas what it is?
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Another of these mystery items has just washed up. What are they and where are they coming from? #oceanplastic
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Havant Borough Council planning system- what’s gone wrong
havantcivicsociety.uk
The Message to HBC is ‘When You’re in a Hole, Stop Digging’
This is a fairly weighty post. To download a four page printable copy of the text, click here. To recap In December 2023, Havant Borough Council signed a five-year contract worth up to £245,000 wit…
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
‘What would you say about his Hand…’I thought it was an article on that handshake! www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
CHANGING SOON! Get down to Havant station asap if you want to check the current posters about historic #Havant railway staff & the incidents that shaped their lives. With 10 staff to share, we're changing the posters regularly - inc at the end of July! #Railway200
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OldRailwayAccidents (@rwldproject.bsky.social)
🚨LOOK OUT #HAVANT!🚨 Delighted to see the first outputs from the Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project are available! If you're at Havant station, check out the posters (in the ticket hall) with…
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
What will Alan Mak do now he has been demoted to the back benches ? This has to be the end of his political career? Surely not a candidate for defection to the reform party?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Thames Water is now controlled by two US credit powerhouses: Silver Point Capital and Elliott Management. Their game - asset stripping, profiteering, slick PR, devour; to get high returns. Govt can put an end by bringing water into public ownership, but refuses. People's misery to deepen.
thecanary.co
Thames Water: Britain's biggest utility just got captured by toxic private credit markets
No rescue. No reform. Just control - seized through debt. That's the state of Thames Water, as Waterways Protection writes
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
@theguardian.com I did not like your blind date feature this week. It was cruel and unnecessary
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
GP surgeries owner Assura agrees to private equity takeover worth £1.61bn. All part of creeping privatisation of the NHS. Corporations focused profits, not care. People struggle to get timely GP appointments. NHS privatisation hoisted on people. No one voted for it.
independent.co.uk
GP surgeries owner Assura agrees to private equity takeover worth £1.61bn
The London-listed company will be bought by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and Stonepeak Partners.
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Sunday 2 March
groups.tcv.org.uk
Tree Planting at Springwood Community Centre
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Tree Planting at Bartons Road
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A message of hope - An exhibition in Havant today from the Ukrainian community
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A message of hope: An exhibition of art by the Ukrainian community led by Bridge to Unity and Creatful –our local arts based social enterprise here in the Havant area
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 28/02/2025
Special episode of The News Agents in your feeds tonight.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Labour’s 1.5m homes will be dominated by private equity firms charging huge rents. Profiteering, high debt, substandard service, tax dodges are private equity norm. Let councils, not-for-profit organizations build homes. Don't deregulate. Build homes, not slums.
thecanary.co
Labour's 1.5m homes will be dominated by private equity firms charging huge rents
Rachel Reeves seems intent on diverting more resources away from public housing and towards private investment via Build to Rent
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@The_PlugSeeker 🇺🇦 @theplugseeker.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The switch to EVs continues at a pace. Each month now a good 20-30% new cars in U.K. 🇬🇧 are fully electric. 👍 In Jan 2025, 29,634 new EVs were registered, that’s 21% of all cars. The total on road is now 1,333,236, which is 3.81% (or 1 in 26) PS anyone able to name this charger!
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Exploited migrant farm workers in UK paid for picks, not hours. Workers not paid for in-work travel, time spent moving between workstations, team meetings, receiving instructions on equipment use. Employers violating employment rights. Need effective enforcement, not deregulation.
theguardian.com
‘Exploited’ migrant farm workers in UK paid for picks, not hours
Call for investigation into unfair payment for labourers on seasonal visa scheme
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Trouser hem repair
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The next repair cafe on Hayling Island is Saturday 22 February. First appt 10.00 repaircafehayling.co.uk
repaircafehayling.co.uk
repaircafehayling.co.uk – Keeping things from landfill one repair at a time
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
A book I saw today…
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
So many fish egg cases and starfish along the tide line. A feast for the birds Hayling Island
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Judy @mainbanana.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Overtopping at Hayling beach yesterday.Last night’s flood warning predicted another high tide with powerful waves
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@The_PlugSeeker 🇺🇦 @theplugseeker.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
An early bit of EV Christmas news🎄Latest data shows that a massive 25% of cars registered in November in the U.K. were 100% Fully electric EVs🤗 There were 38,581 ! That makes 1,259,946 EVs now on U.K. roads, or 3.63 (1 in 28). Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas & a happy new year.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says “We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants” Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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