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mrerbi.bsky.social @mrerbi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If Sadiq Khan is a trans ally, why is he allowing JK Rowling’s Harry Potter to take over the Christmas lights in Oxford Circus? Email him now and ask him to pull the plug on transphobia. goodlaw.social/e1ae3f
goodlaw.social
Sadiq Khan: Pull the plug on transphobia
Tell the mayor of London to switch off JK Rowling’s Christmas lights
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
UK Govt’s new powers for water customers are a ‘stitch-up’. Toothless consumer panels can't check abuses, sewage dumping, profiteering or bonanza for shareholders/execs. Need real change, not gimmicks. End privatisation. Let customers/employees elect directors, vote on exec pay.k
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Labour’s new powers for water customers are a ‘stitch-up’, say campaigners
Exclusive: Documents reveal water firms have been allowed to advise on how they wish to be held to account
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
UK MPs accepted £400,000 of hospitality to concerts, sports, other events. Donors get access, buy influence. Despite £98,599 pay+exps, too many MPs have 2nd jobs, neglect duty to the people, obey paymasters. Parties also for sale. All part of political corruption, and poor state of the country.
theguardian.com
MPs ‘failing to learn lesson’ over freebies after accepting £400,000 of hospitality
MPs receive Harry Styles concert tickets worth £858, Chelsea flower show tickets worth £1,839, and £3,432 of hospitality at Brit awards
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
UK household energy bills to rise to average of £1,729 a year. Profiteering is rife. Rise will wipe out the promised £45 VAT cut. Will increase poverty. 120,000 people a year die in fuel poverty, sacrificed to appease corporations. Can't ease cost of living crisis without ending profiteering.
theguardian.com
British energy bills forecast to hit three-year high this winter
Expected quarterly price cap rise of 4% likely to wipe out benefits of Andy Burnham’s VAT cut on electricity bills
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Full nationalisation of water companies must be at the top of the government’s agenda to prevent catastrophic water shortages in the years ahead. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
UK government ‘irresponsible’ for not publishing emergency drought plans
Campaigners demand greater transparency into water companies’ plans not made public due to ‘security reasons’
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mrerbi.bsky.social @mrerbi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The treatment of Jason Arday was massively out of proportion to his faults. People who have committed terrible crimes have received less scrutiny, yet I don't believe anything he did or said even crossed the threshold of criminality. How many of us would have survived what he was put through? 🧵
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
England's water companies to hike customer bills by an extra £3.4bn. Over a trillion litres of water lost to leaky pipes Sewage dumped in rivers No new reservoirs since 1989 Exec pay and dividend bonanza Over 1,200 criminal convictions Still allowed to trade Captive customers fleeced.
bbc.co.uk
Water bills set to rise for many after firms permitted extra funding
Ofwat has given provisional approval for 13 water companies to charge customers more to pay for investments.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/08/2026
US accused of meddling in British politics with $500,000 grant scheme promoting ‘shared values’
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US accused of meddling in British politics with $500,000 grant scheme promoting ‘shared values’
Documents published on US embassy’s website prompt claims of attempt to export Maga propaganda to UK The US embassy in London is offering grants of up to half a million dollars for new “public education” programmes in what has been criticised as interference in British domestic politics. Using language that the pro-Trump Maga movement has sought to appropriate, a funding notice identifies a goal of fostering a “national conversation” about “shared civilizational values” underpinning US-UK ties. Priority will go to applicants aiming to celebrate “freedom of speech” and “limited government”. Continue reading...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Trump govt offers grants of $500,000 to change UK politics. Foreign money for right wing groups. Disguised as “public education” it promotes MAGA propaganda on abortion, regulation, hate speech, climate change, diversity and more. Is UK the 51st state?
theguardian.com
US accused of meddling in British politics with $500,000 grant for ‘public education’ courses
Documents published on US embassy’s website prompt claims of attempt to export Maga propaganda to UK
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mrerbi.bsky.social @mrerbi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
38d.gs/9vqv
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Stop these monster data centres before they wreck our neighbourhoods!
Are you worried about this too?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Turn failing water firms into not-for-profit cooperatives, MPs and mayors tell PM. Issues: Corporate debt would be transferred to co-ops. Co-ops would borrow for investment at commercial rates, not govt rates. High debt and debt servicing cost, higher bills. Need public ownership.
theguardian.com
Turn failing water firms into not-for-profit cooperatives, MPs and mayors tell PM
Labour politicians say mutualised model puts public in control without adding debt to government’s balance sheet
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
England water bosses’ pay rises despite bonus ban - public fury over bills & pollution. All circumventing rules, reclassifying bonuses as retention payments, making payments through other companies in the group. Govt was forewarned. Why no enforcement, fines, prosecutions?
theguardian.com
Water bosses’ pay rises despite bonus ban and public fury over bills and pollution
Exclusive: Eight companies expect to be covered by the ban for 2025-26, the Guardian can reveal
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Ex-Southern Water boss among four charged over alleged plan to manipulate water tests and avoid paying penalties. Southern Water separately been charged with dozens of offences. No water company is pristine. All have violated their licence conditions. They all need to be scrutinized.
bbc.co.uk
Ex-Southern Water boss charged over alleged plan to manipulate water tests
Matthew Wright is accused alongside three others of trying to save the firm millions in penalties.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I'm old enough to remember when the entire British right had a month long meltdown about "foreign interference" when Obama said something mildly disobliging about Brexit. The Trump administration pouring millions of dollars into far right political groups in the UK? Not a peep
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
State Pension age to rise to 68 for 5m Britons years earlier than expected. Many physically won't be able to work. Longer NHS queues. Many won't live long enough to draw the pension, wealth transferred to the rich who live longer. Cull of the working class. Rich can retire whenever they want.
independent.co.uk
Millions to retire later under state pension age increase plans
Around five millions workers could lose out under the plans, according to a report by the Office for Budget Responsibility
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young. All part of a right wing coup. Foreign money to spread Trumpism, subvert UK public choices. Puppets wrap themselves in the flag.
theguardian.com
Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young
Exclusive: Controversial grants are part of package criticised as misuse of public money to influence European politics
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
UK income tax personal allowance frozen at £12,570 since 2021. If increased in line with inflation, it would be £16,048 for 2026/27. As a result, in 2026/27 someone earning £17,000 will pay additional £696 in income tax and £278 in national insurance. All because govts appease the rich.
leftfootforward.org
We need to abolish state-sanctioned poverty
No one is ever born poor. They are condemned to poverty by societal policies which prevent millions from realising their full physical, mental, and intellectual capacities potentialities.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Never before has a politician announced their intention to run for re-election on an explicitly pro-sleaze, anti-transparency ticket. Never before has a politician gloried in having enriched themselves by breaking the rules, and then demanded a mandate to continue doing so indefinitely
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Nigel Farage’s 'Pro-Sleaze' By-Election Is A Sign Of Terminal Weakness
The Reform leader's desperate decision to call a back-me-or-sack-me by-election is a sign of a politician who knows he is finally being exposed for the man he really is, argues Adam Bienkov
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Facts you won't find in a Reform UK election leaflet ... meme via Robert Thomson
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In one chapter of his book entitled 'The Art of the Bribe', Nigel Farage donor and convicted fraudster George Cottrell describes how politicians can be bought www.ft.com/content/7a0f...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nigel Farage is a grifter. He always has been and he's continuing to grift. He knew he was heading towards a byelection anyway so has pulled the trigger early. The people Vs the establishment?! Reform are literally part of the establishment.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage resigns his seat in Clacton forcing a by election which he ... er plans to stand in. Huge performative cost to the taxpayers to feather his ego. I hope it backfires spectacularly
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The walls are closing in around the Reform leader and some of Nigel Farage's allies now believe he could soon be heading for the door www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-scanda...
adambienkov.co.uk
The Scandal That Will Bring Down Nigel Farage
The walls are closing in around the Reform leader and Farage's allies now believe he could soon be heading for the door
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evo1963.bsky.social @evo1963.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Incredibly unsurprising. Labour is nothing but the party of the status quo.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Nigel Farage failed to declare staff, security and housing gifted to him by a convicted fraudster and crypto gambler who was charged for his role in a “dark web” money laundering plot www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal
The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 05/07/2026
"He's raking it in for an MP. He is loaded." For a politician who plays the role of a 'man of the people' how long can Farage sway voters when he's promoting gold bars online, and owns a £4m property portfolio, all while voting against workers' rights? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/will...
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Will Nigel Farage’s finances end his ambition of becoming PM? | The News Agents
Nigel Farage’s finances are once again under scrutiny, after his earnings were revealed for work outside of politics, and that he had only declared two of five homes to Parliament. How much longer…
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 02/07/2026
Disgusting. After years of broken promises, Thames Water continues to pollute our waterways with raw sewage. London deserves clean, safe rivers, not more sewage and excuses. Water companies and regulators need to get their act together.
bbc.co.uk
High levels of E. coli recorded after Thames spill in West London
Fulham Reach Boat Club recorded levels more than 60 times the threshold for suitable bathing water.
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mrerbi.bsky.social @mrerbi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
With Keir Starmer resigning, a new PM is moving into No.10 soon. Let's make sure a message from us is waiting on their desk on day one! We need a wealth tax on the super-rich to fund housing, health, and our communities. Add your name so they can't ignore us you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
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Dear future Prime Minister: It's time to tax the super-rich
With Keir Starmer stepping down, a new PM will be taking over soon. Let's make sure they hear from us on day one. Sign the petition demanding a wealth tax on the ultra-rich to fund our communities, he...
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mrerbi.bsky.social @mrerbi.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Fossil fuel companies keep making billions while floods, fires and heatwaves are getting worse. It’s ordinary people like us paying the price. Their greed for fossil fuel profits knows no bounds. Add your name to the petition urging the government to tax fossil fuel giants - it only takes a minute.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
An event to discuss extreme heat was scheduled to take place at the London School of Economics today. It's been cancelled because of the extreme heat.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Nigel Farage has taken part in just one vote out of the 98 that have been held in the House of Commons over the last three months. That's a participation rate of around one per cent
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Bills up. Wages too low. Record profits for Oil & Gas. 50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population. Shit in our rivers. Pensioners jailed for protesting. Migrants thrown under the bus. Supporting a Genocide. That's Starmer's legacy.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Today’s independent front page Brexit has been a disaster – it’s time the guilty men felt some shame
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/06/2026
How Brexit has made Britain poorer – in charts
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How Brexit has made Britain poorer – in charts
Forecasters were wrong about an immediate recession but right that we would be worse off outside the EU
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mrerbi.bsky.social @mrerbi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Nigel Farage registered ‘absent’ from the last 77 votes in Parliament Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks... www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/whe...
thelondoneconomic.com
Working hard? Nigel Farage registered 'absent' from the last 77 votes in Parliament
Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks...
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mrerbi.bsky.social @mrerbi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Just 56 people hold more than the combined wealth of 27m Britons. They can buy politicians/govts. The poorest half holds just 4.6% of the wealth Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. Can't build good society without equitable distribution of wealth.
leftfootforward.org
Waging war on poverty and exploitation is the only way to build a resilient society
The problems caused by neoliberalism cannot be addressed by bigger doses of neoliberal policies which prioritise profits and corporate interests over people’s welfare
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
MPs oppose Wes Streeting’s decision to dictate what the NHS pays for drugs . Quite right too. To appease Trump Govt has agreed to pay £64bn extra for NHS drugs by 2036. No impact assessment published. No parliamentary scrutiny. Can use alternative sources, produce generic drugs cheaply locally.
theguardian.com
Dozens of MPs oppose Streeting’s new power to say what NHS pays for drugs
Health secretary’s ‘power grab’ to override Nice comes amid growing concern move may be illegal and benefit big pharma
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Wes Streeting supports welfare cuts to fund defence. He lets private equity make billions from outsourcing NHS, social care. Silence on corporate welfare spending. Since 2010 HMRC failed to collect £500bn in taxes. Capital gains and dividends taxed at lower rates than wages.
independent.co.uk
Labour warned against ‘ill-thought-out’ welfare cuts to boost defence budget
The suggestion has been branded ‘extremely concerning’
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
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mrerbi.bsky.social @mrerbi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Boycott the Bezos MET Gala
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mrerbi.bsky.social @mrerbi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
We will never forget who backed this war.
Trump and Farage
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Environment Agency is too weak to tackle an “out-of-control plague” of waste dumping. Lacks resources. Fees to visit official dumps by some councils encourages fly- tipping. Water companies are major offenders. Execs face no penalties. EA in cahoots with companies.
theguardian.com
Environment Agency too weak to tackle illegal waste dumping, MPs say
Regulator for England lacks powers to deal with what the public accounts committee calls an ‘out-of-control plague’
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mrerbi.bsky.social @mrerbi.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Cost of Privatisation Royal Mail letters sit undelivered 'for weeks', parcels prioritised RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets. Urgent letters missed. Fines passed to customers Profiteering: Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p. When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
bbc.co.uk
Royal Mail staff tell BBC letters sit undelivered as firm prioritises parcels
Staff and customers tell the BBC prioritising parcels can mean missed NHS appointments and late payment fines.
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mrerbi.bsky.social @mrerbi.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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