Gerri Ellis

@mrjamesob.bsky.social how about a Tobin tax - a tax on financial transactions? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_tax

After Jamaica’s Disastrous Storm, Solar Power Is a Bright Spot

People with rooftop solar panels got their power back almost immediately. The "entire neighborhood benefits," one resident said.

From NYT Climate:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/c...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social by new houses do you mean new flats with toxic leasehold tenure? Built to the abysmal safety standards of recent flats? We need leasehold reform, commonhold & yes MORE safety regulation!

Ask Emma Reynolds to base water policy on facts not water industry fake maths. Everyone deserves clean, affordable water. Lobbyists say it’ll cost £100bn to bring it back into public hands - but experts disagree. I’ve asked the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence ...

Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. Ask the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social could the China spy scare be a distraction from this much more clear cut spying scandal?

Screenshot of a Guardian headline: "Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk" Subheading: "Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds"

Absolutely terrifying - the government is leaving communities utterly exposed to the effects of the climate emergency. We urgently need a plan with binding targets for how this govt will protect us as extreme heat and flooding worsen in the years ahead.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social why are the muddled musings of Farage leading the LBC news bulletin today? He said “I don’t know” So what?

Reeves could scrap council tax & replace it with a centrally collected tax which could then be distributed to councils on basis of need.

The anti-vaxxer CDC shooter’s father - ridiculous.

www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/08/17/i...

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Maybe the micro payments never took off because the tech bros in those days were too dazzled by the addictive power of their shiny new algorithms.

Reform UK receives £100,000 donation from design firm that faced winding-up petition Exclusive: Interior Design Landscape, which faced closure by HMRC early this year, made donation in June

Great story this morning by @rowenamason.bsky.social.

Reform has taken £100,000 from an interior design company which had no contact details on its website and used stock images to illustrate its projects. HMRC has tried to wind it up.

Very odd.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The USA absolutely destroyed Nigel Farage today.

Can we do that in the UK too?

Call out his lies and he falls apart.

For someone who’s a self-styled housing campaigner he seems to have remarkably few solutions beyond ‘get the experts in & figure out how to sell it’. No mention of either the building safety or leasehold crisis, or land banking, or no. of empty homes

Why do you assume only female parents take on the responsibilities of child care?

This is brilliant

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs.

A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.

If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

Why sell them off at all while stock is still too low?

These kind of false advertisements should not be allowed. They are not honest.

Using 'Help To Buy' Slogan and claiming to sell a 'Dream' is very much part of the problem.

@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social #SharedOwnership

Sir Jon Cunliffe: put public ownership back on the table! From day one, the government’s “largest review of the water sector since privatisation” - a.k.a the Cunliffe Review - has ruled out the solution that 82% of the British public want: public ownership. ...

The Govt’s “largest review of the water sector since privatisation” ruled out public ownership - a solution 82% of us support - before even starting.
This review is a sham - but we still have a chance to be heard. Sign @labourlewis.bsky.social’s open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...

Where’s your boat, Nigel? Reform UK’s leader is “heavily invested in fishing” – so why hasn’t he registered it?

Nigel Farage says he owns a fishing boat and is "heavily invested" in the industry. But it's still not in the Register of Interests, 56 days after he said it.

Where’s the boat, Nigel?

Read more from @hopenothate.org.uk

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/06/04/w...

Why has everyone adopted the American term DEI? The UK tends to use Equal Opportunities but our media just swallows Trump talking points wholesale!

This seems so obvious - can’t help wondering why it wasn’t done sooner!

I wish @dailymail.co.uk was as indignant about the number of children leaving our schools, not only without good English, but also without critical thinking skills, eg on how to spot disinformation

Those voters get their views from media commentators that prefer clowns & pantomime politics to covering the real & complex problems we face.

Mistake - Getting caught.

Mexico is suing Google over renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

Only 6% of the Gulf of Mexico is in the USA, Donald Trump has no right to rename it.

It is going to be a costly loss for Google.

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