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MaryLou2

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Formerly a worker; an athlete & artist, carer & disability advocate. All round listener with opinions.

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 12/10/2026
This is how private interests manufacture consent for policies that are NOT in our interest Private companies have extracted £90 billion in dividends since privatisation - and loaded them up with £72 billion in debt It is time for Andy Burnham to bring our water into public ownership!
Graphic that shows that the new report purporting to show that it would cost £105 billion to nationalise England's water was funded by Water UK, an organisation that represents private water companies.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
One item at a time. #Erasmus+
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Towns in England at risk of running out of water until 2027. Over one trillion litres of water a year lost to leaks. No new reservoirs since privatisation. Record customer bills. Polluted rivers. No national planning. No national grid. Crisis deepened by privatisation. archive.ph/0XI5H
inews.co.uk
The UK towns at risk of running out of water until 2027
Extreme dry conditions are set to stay through the winter, experts warn
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Remember 6 months ago, when the entire billionaire press + BBC, Sky etc were enthusiastically predicting a next general election landslide for Reform UK ... "Reform UK suffer yet another by-election disaster" www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We’ll tell you what’s boring, Farage and the BBC… honking out Reform’s latest anti-asylum seeker bollox, as if it’s workable or wanted, and without any meaningful scrutiny. Yusuf on #r4today like a firehose of fascist idiocy, when this is the ugly truth behind their desperate outburst…
Mirror headline: 

Nigel Farage's latest announcement comes as Reform UK continue to struggle with falling poll ratings (O Gary Oakley/PA Wire)
Nigel Farage hits panic button and vows to ban all asylum seekers for five years after Reform poll plunge
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"From Aberdeen to Lambeth, Newcastle-under-Lyme to Holborn & St Pancras, Reform contested five by-elections yesterday. They lost all five… Five contests. Five defeats. That’s eleven out of eleven lost in a fortnight. Reform are not inevitable. Have a great weekend!" via Reform Are Not Your Friends
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 09/10/2026
It's not just the endless bill increases. It's not just that 1/3 of your bill goes to paying shareholder dividends and servicing debt. It's not just the 1/2 million sewage discharges in one year. It's the corrupt system, which rewards water bosses for failure, that people can't stand.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Congratulations to Navi Pillay! She was awarded the #Nobel Peace Prize this morning. The South African #HumanRights rights lawyer & jurist won "for her efforts to promote peace & international law." A life-long dedication to ensuring war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide are prosecuted.
cnn.com
Nobel Peace Prize goes to South African human rights pioneer Navi Pillay | CNN
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay led the UN commission that concluded Israel committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed he deserves to win. Fo...
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
via Anti Reform Hub
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
French Finance Minister Roland Lescure on the UK rejoining the European Union tells the BBC, "Come back. Anytime" My view: Across Europe, the message to Britain is increasingly simple: come back. We are stronger working with our closest neighbours — economically and in our shared defence.
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⁸ @mabelsblanket.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Never forget the 14 years of psychological warfare wreaked upon us by the Tories. They Broke everything, took all the money salted the earth & left! No ta.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 07/10/2026
LET THEM GO BUST ! Last year, Thames Water took out a £3bn loan - at 9.75% interest. And now they want another £2.4bn to keep going?! ENOUGH. If water companies can't survive without rip-off loans, they should be declared insolvent and brought into public hands through special administration.
Screenshot from The Daily Telegraph, 2nd October 2026: "Thames Water seeks £2.4bn lifeline after rescue plan stalls Troubled utility risks more financial turmoil if its army of hedge fund backers do not provide emergency cash", above a graphic of the Thames Water logo swirling down a drain.
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Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 @terrencewilliams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hats off to the Eye (as ever), for flagging the Conservative hypocrisy over our conference ban
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The super-power of Nigel Farage ... "AbsenteeMan" meme via Stephen Fisher
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/10/2026
It's not looking good for Nigel Farage 👀
huffingtonpost.co.uk
Reform UK Slump Continues As Labour Hit Near Two-Year Opinion Poll High
Nigel Farage’s party continues to lose support.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Over 25,000 emails from you to your MPs... All 650 MPs have been contacted. Some >100 times. All saying attend the parliamentary debate on the UK joining the EU. Keep sending those emails via this form. If you've already sent one, share this link with friends. 👇
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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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026
Farage is a sitting MP and yet he is allowed to have his own show on GB News. More than 8,000 people have signed the petition to demand that Ofcom take immediate action. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. 📊
bestforbritain.org
Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The UK has added 291,000 new solar PV installations in the 12 months to August 2026, the most in any 12-month period since 2012 It brings the cumulative installed solar in the UK to 23.2GW across 2,131,000 installations. It's also a 9% increase from August 2025, with 1.9GW of new capacity
solarpowerportal.co.uk
UK installs record 291,000 PV installations in 12-month period
This brings the cumulative installed solar capacity in the UK to 23.2GW across 2,131,000 installations.
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 26/07/2026
Is welfare spending ''out of control''? It's estimated to be 11.1 per cent of GDP this financial year. That's just 1.1 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen by 0.9 per cent of GDP since 2012-13 ⤵️
chart showing Social security spending as a proportion of GDP, by category: GB
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Should the U.K. rejoin the EU and reverse Brexit? Get voting! www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These groups need to be proscribed immediately. They are a threat to public order and the rule of law.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sign the petition. Let water companies go bust. Ofwat approved 36% bill increases for 2025-2030, companies want more. Prices doubled - in real terms - since privatisation. We got sewage in rivers, water outages, hosepipe bans. Need public ownership.
weownit.org.uk
We're telling Ofwat: let water companies go bust!
consultation to reject proposed water company bill increases. Ofwat.
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Here's some benefits claimants we need to crackdown on. £17.5bn Shell/BP £2bn Amazon £500m Glaxosmithkline £700m Tesco/Sainsbury's/Asda Nobody ever says these ridiculous benefits to billionaires are unaffordable, because they never even mention them. Lets cut THEIR benefits.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/09/2026
🤔 Nigel Farage leads a political party. He’s a sitting MP. And he now hosts his own weekly primetime show on GB News. 🚨Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias. 👇 Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action.
bestforbritain.org
Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Every time I write on disability benefits etc, I’m reporting facts. But I’m also challenging the idea of what a disabled life could look like. They say we’re lucky to have money to eat. I say we’re entitled to down sangrias in Valencia.” Me on media ableism: frances336.substack.com/p/how-to-cla...
frances336.substack.com
How to clap back against the British media’s attacks on disabled people
And why the long game is sometimes the best
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Reuters @reuters.com · 17/09/2026
UK think tank sees £8 billion in savings from means-testing disability benefit reut.rs/3T4kooo
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UK think tank sees £8 billion in savings from means-testing disability benefit
Britain's government could cut spending on its main disability benefit by a third if it limited eligibility by ​means-testing and it could use the savings to boost ‌support for people with the most severe disabilities, a think tank said on Thursday.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reform won #Durham promising to show Britain how it would govern. Now another three councillors have walked away, with one making an extraordinary allegation about what happened after she raised a serious safeguarding concern.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Reminder covering 0.4% of UK farmland in Solar Panels would provide 100% renewable energy. 20% is currently unused and 2% is golf courses. The being outraged at solar panels on farmland is a Right Wing trope to keep you outraged at Renewable energy.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 13/09/2026
The radical right wants you to think that immigrants are to blame for problems in this country. Do not fall for their false narrative. Immigration is good for our country.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 13/09/2026
NEW POLLING Tom Brufatto: With a new Prime Minister, determined to prioritise redistributive growth and to restore a sense of hope to the country, this research sets out the roadmap to the party’s recovery, and provides the political piece to complete the economic jigsaw smashed to bits by Brexit.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"You are the problem" meme via Expose Racism
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...
rnli.org
Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Ilikecaketoo (UK) @ilikecaketoo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Disgraceful that the RNLI have to say this today, but here we are 😞. If you would like to donate👇🏻. rnli.org/support-us/g... #RNLI #RNLISavesLives
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 09/09/2026
⚠️ Big news. The Met have launched a criminal investigation into Reform UK.
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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In 2021, when Nigel Farage called the RNLI a "taxi service for illegal trafficking gangs", Brits responded with a 3,000% rise in daily donations and a surge in volunteers also. The British public are fundamentally decent and do not want anyone to die at sea. rnli.org/support-us/g...
rnli.org
Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
United Utilities fined £964,225, pleads guilty to dumping raw sewage in seas. Crimes date back to 2023. Fined at least 223 times since 2010, paid £8m. Still committing crimes, bosses rewarded but none prosecuted, shareholders enriched. Revoke its licence. Nationalise water.
bbc.co.uk
United Utilities fined £900k over Fleetwood sewage discharges
A pipe collapse at Fleetwood Wastewater Treatment Works led to the sewage spillage.
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Richard Bates @discript.com · 01/09/2026
If you’ve ever wished that the UK, where it rains so much for half the year, managed its water resources better so we didn’t have hosepipe bans every summer, please add your signature to this petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Fund new reservoirs to increase future water supplies
England faces growing pressure on its water supplies due to factors like population growth, climate change and rising demand. The Government estimates 5 billion litres more water per day will be neede...
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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Politics Phil @politicsphil.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If you believe that, you will also believe that the Moon missions in the '70s were all about collecting cheese. BBC News - Nigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' during foreign donor talks filmed undercover www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Nigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' in foreign donor talks
The Reform leader also told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his family are "begging" him to leave his job.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Former Tory chancellor Kwarteng wants people to pay for private insurance to access NHS services. A plan to deny healthcare to millions. People already pay taxes, NIC. NHS drained by privatisation. Needs investment. Privatisation hikes cost - water, energy, social care.
thecanary.co
Kwarteng says people will need to pay private insurance to access future NHS services
Tory Kwarteng told GMB that private health insurance must "play a part" in the NHS's future, signalling a move away from a free public service
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/09/2026
Michael Crick is one of the journalists banned from attending Reform UK's conference. He writes, "One wonders if they’ve spent too much time in Washington and at Mar-a-Lago schmoozing with Donald Trump and his henchmen and admiring their bullying ways." 🎯
inews.co.uk
I embarrassed thin-skinned Farage. Now I'm banned from Reform's conference
Michael Crick: Three other critical journalists were also barred. It makes the party look authoritarian
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Fascism on the streets of Dover
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Enjoying the weekend? Thank a union — and Frances Perkins.
youtube.com
Why Do We Work 40 Hours?| Robert Reich
Enjoy weekends? Thank a union.
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