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nickhee.bsky.social
A European, now living in the UK
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Which is more effective? 2/2 Supporting street stalls and leafletting: 3 per year ? Attending marches : once per year Lobbying major industry players: almost never. Writing to my MP: once every 3 months?? Voting in local elections: once in 2 years? Voting in general elections : once in 4 years?

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1/2 Practical Democracy today, in the UK: which of my present actions are a waste of time?? Searching for unbiased / balanced news: Daily Expressing my views online : Daily Cursing political "debates" on the TV and radio: at least 3 per week Signing various petitions to Parliament : twice a month

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Thames Water is circling the drain - but the govt is letting private equity vultures KKR take over. This is everything wrong with our water system. Rivers poisoned, bills rising, profits up. Join me in urging @london.gov.uk to act: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ma... @compassoffice.bsky.social

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Hey British media, It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning. Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10

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Ask your MP to attend the debate on%rejoining the EUhttps%3//www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-rejoineu

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🔴The Times Was Forced to Correct a Misleading Article Claiming Electric Vehicle Demand Is Falling When It’s Actually Rising Britain’s ‘newspaper of record’ had two complaints over inaccuracy upheld against it in one day, reports @josiah.writes.news bylinetimes.com/2025/01/13/t...

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So the regulators could just "cap" the number of followers permitted by anyone on a platform NOT verified to be a reliable source... rather than banning them outright

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Isn't it the major influencers that need to be fact-checked, rather than the platforms that they publish on? Just putting my own 2p worth out there... (1)

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Isn't it the major influencers that need to be fact-checked, rather than the platforms that they publish on? Just putting my own 2p worth out there... (1)

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An essential listen, to better understand one way that insidious political influences really can have a major impact...

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment

Thank goodness for the @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social in the UK.

submitted 169 days ago • 4 comments

A useful summary of Musk's businesses from today's Herald Tribune, lest we forget!

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I'm thinking that the legislation around life assurance policies will have to be rethought, so that persons having an assisted death are not treated as a suicide and denied their insurance payout ...

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🔥 OK, let’s REALLY test out the power of this new Bluesky community. All of you #Rejoin folk out there… You saw that we just appointed Dominic Grieve & Caroline Lucas as co-Presidents… And you know our 23,000 membership is now growing fast… So - are we doing this? Are you IN? Then join! 👇👇

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From Politico London: "Dan Neidle, a Labour activist who says his tax work is impartial, suggests tweaking the policy so the harshest IHT charges apply to heirs who actually sell up". So would that be enough to stop the real farmers from moving their business to France then? #BAD

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Love these guys. So talented. www.facebook.com/share/14HrgR...

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Farmers know very well how to financially manage their affairs. So how come they are only now realising that Brexit would cause disastrous damage to their economic sector? Re-wilding will certainly not "feed the nation" !

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Being adrift: being without the means to go where you want to go... or in any other direction for that matter. Drifting: Being intentionally adrift. Not concerned or worried about the longer term outcome.

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Question. Why is nobody in the sunshine state of Florida using solar power? Economics? Regulations? Insuring solar panels against hurricane damage? Something is certainly very different to the situation in Europe ...

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