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Imagine the message it would send if Gary Lineker won 'Presenter of the Year' at this year's National Television Awards

Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out

And, the feathers it would ruffle

My lovely followers, you know what to do:

nationaltvawards.com/vote

🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep

#dogsofbluesky #skydogs #lhasaapso #dogs

The happy run of Music, to tell he has found the way to woods and that I should follow him. 😀😀

What's been happening without hope is not working either and is killing planet, killing industries and killing hope. Hope does make for better Commerce to average citizens than what is on offer or if it continues, what will be on offer if red is replaced with Turquoise.

This clearly isn't enough to even retain their core vote base seeing as the results are today.

There has never been a better case for a ruling party to bring in proportional representation than the results of this by-election.

Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives.

When Tory donor Frank Hester reportedly said Diane Abbott – the longest-serving Black MP – made him “want to hate all black women” and that she “should be shot”, Kemi Badenoch dismissed it as “trivia”. When Kneecap, made a similarly abhorrent past remark she wants them banned. #TwoTierKemi

Infographic showing the responses to the question "Do you think the following should be nationalised and run in the public sector, or privatised and run by private companies?" Headline: Public ownership is popular Water - 82% Energy - 71% Buses - 66% NHS - 87% Rail - 76% Royal Mail - 75% Polling by YouGov, June 2024

Just your regular reminder that the vast majority of us want public ownership of our key utilities.

Share if you agree 👍🏾

How to call your bank by dialling just 3 numbers… simply dial 1-5-9! Then you know it’s legit, watch the video for more info.

Please share, the more people know, the fewer will be scammed.

Why people will vote reform via @peterjukes.bsky.social

It is not but each to his own. I can vouch for the benefits of a non-UPF diet that I have seen in my own health markers and diabetes control ever since I moved away from UPF.

Just the thought of these makes me shudder.

Music, the Lhasa Apso dog, running towards his Human with ears flowing back and tongue out.

#dogsofbluesky #skydogs #lhasaapso #dogs

The purposeful run when Daddy is spotted after he was missing from Music's line of sight for a full 30 seconds. The joy, the happiness, it was a sight to behold. 🥰😍

5 Things Introverts Truly Cherish
1. Quiet moments to recharge
2. Deep, meaningful conversations
3. Peaceful spaces filled with calm
4. Friendships that don’t require constant upkeep
5. The freedom to just be without pressure

Water industry admits sewage monitoring damaging public trust The industry says powers to self-monitor water quality should be handed back to the regulator.

Private water companies are effectively marking their own homework. 🤔

Southern Water was fined £213m for lying about sewage data. 🤯

We need public ownership NOW. 💧

Teaching Kids Open Source Technology A Path to Innovation and Progress

In this rapid changing world, open source #foss technology is key. In this blog post, we reflect on the importance of #floss education and explain how #OS-SCi is helping #schools and #universities with open source #education and job #placements.
os-sci.com/blog/our-blo...

marimo was just featured on @nature.com!

Read the article to learn how issues of reproducibility and reusability are causing scientists at Stanford and elsewhere to choose marimo as their Python notebook of choice.

Daisy Cooper, "The Labour government should raise taxes on big corporations that are making billions in profit, who can afford to pay more to get our public services back on their feet"

"We've got to get growth back into the economy.. Renegotiate our relationship with the EU"

Ministers braced for showdown over ‘postcode pricing’ in energy market shake-up Ed Miliband’s looming decision on electricity market changes could see households facing regional bill disparities Britain’s most senior government ministers could soon be drawn into a deepening row over plans to charge some households higher electricity bills than others, as Ed Miliband prepares to decide on sweeping energy reforms. The energy secretary is understood to be close to making a decision on whether to move ahead with proposals to replace the country’s single electricity market with several market zones. Continue reading...

Ministers braced for showdown over ‘postcode pricing’ in energy market shake-up

Yeah I am fairly certain pretty much all who voted Labour will support these moves and not showing that intent is what's causing current perception that nothing has changed as per the article. They must act before they have nowhere to go but down.

True. Pultocrats are very good at playing the three dimensional chess while rest of us struggle with snakes and ladders.

I reckon you meant "negligible". That we won't know until its done and bear in mind it's the data analysis created by billionaires so its hardly reliable. The benefit is it will show intent and will place labour closer to working people and erode support of crazy party.

United left and center left, promise referendum on brexit / single market and unite with smaller parties to bring forth referendum on proportional representation.. shows intent of change while testing waters.

For start stop with cuts to benefit and raise the tax on billionaires by a mere 1.5%. The furore will be huge but markets will not tumble. Influx will allow for investment. Make waves about undoing small pockets of privatisation visibly and aggressively for which bebefit is felt instantaneously.

They should play like they have nothing left to lose which is the reality IMHO. Doing that will allow them to operate on the turf right knows nothing about and as things will change for better it will buy 5 more yrs. Its a gambit they have to take. Stop dealing in agenda set by Reform.

Thats the thing though... they are not doing a balancing act, they are playing scared and trying to win votes they can't and in doing so loosing what they have. Again it all comes down to intent... the fight they are scared of is happening now and they are losing.

Neither is best, Former is better but with no intent on display it is not the case. They are trying to appear to fix but by not taking obvious steps are alienating voters who lent them the vote on a mandate of change that is not forthcoming. They are paving way for the conman.

All comes back to Intent or more precisely the lack of it.

You are right people should not yet they do because "rich" are good at making the "not rich" believe they are at par thereby channeling hate towards those on benefits while aligning with the billionaires. To bring that cultural change you mention requires the majority labour is currently wasting.

I read it somewhere that problem is in the way oligarchs play the system to make moderately well to do people believe they are rich and will be impacted by the changes to taxation.

Fact is, no one, not one single person needs nor can they justify having billions as bank balance.