UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

UK #plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows

- Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We need politicians with guts to demand that manufacturers use less plastic, not more, yet in the last few days alone I've seen a TV advert for Vicks Vapour Rub in a plastic dispenser.
There's no good reason not to use the glass jars they used to use.
#PlasticPollution

Let’s also remember that the ECHR has protected British people from abuses of power by its own government.

We must protect the ECHR, not leave it

Why Conservatives and Reform UK LTD have policies that would make your electricity DEARER and why "drill baby drill" or new North Sea fossil fuels extraction are not only not going to help UK consumers, they'll actually waste money and time, delaying cheaper renewable electricity.
#CostOfLiving

As Pandora found, sometimes that's the only thing we can count on.

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Britain isn't in a debt doom loop, whatever some people say.

The Economist has claimed Britain is trapped in a “debt doom loop.” But they’re wrong. The UK does not face a government debt crisis. What we really face is chronic underinvestment, inequality, and an elite media pushing austerity to protect the wealthy.
youtu.be/myNUVF_Kl7o?...

She didn't even comment on, much less refute, the lie told by Penny Mordaunt to @bbclaurak when Mordaunt wrongly claimed that people had to be in a union to be allowed to teach.
That's never been the case.

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic 🚨UK will leave the ECHR if Tories win next election Kemi Badenoch has announced

When the Tories were last in office - according to international Human Rights Watch - UK was on course to make list of countries that abuse rather than protect human rights. Is it any wonder they want us to join Russia & Belarus as only European countries outside the ECHR
youtu.be/ceukUFLBrFo?...

If Labour were 'big' enough to introduce #ProportionalRepresentation
then we'd avoid extremist governments.
Ditching #FPTP is essential.

YouTube video by canzon18 Hey Sandy

They might be the same people who forgot this?
youtu.be/xe-22-BajRA?...

Thomas Paine quotation "To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavouring to convert an atheist by scripture"

Thomas Paine:

The corporate welfare point is a valid one, but how many people are even aware of it?

*Quis

Screenshot of a letter to Kemi Badenoch, the full text is linked in the subsequent post

Screenshot of a letter to Kemi Badenoch, the full text is linked in the subsequent post

Today I've joined parliamentarians from across the political spectrum in calling on Kemi Badenoch to rethink her dangerous position on the climate and net zero - a position which puts Britain's economic strength, national security, and environmental leadership at risk.

But David, isn't that a little selfish? Surely we must see the need to maximise profit at all costs?
I mean, how else is the world going to produce its first trillionaire? 🤔
Spoiler: this post may be ironic sarcasm. 🫤

We have been let down, not by schools or teachers, but by decades of unnecessary, ideologically-driven austerity.

Green leader calls for BoE to end interest payments to commercial banks Zack Polanski echoes Reform UK’s push for central bank policy change

Green party leader urges the Bank of England to stop paying interest on commercial banks' reserves.

ECB stopped paying interest on a portion of banks reserves.

The left has long urged Govt to stop this £20bn subsidy to banks, a consequence of QE.

What could govt do with £20bn?
archive.ph/LyP2e

Big brother is watching you, but please don't watch them?

Quid custodiet ipsos custodes?

YouTube video by Simon Clark 2025 has another controversial client list...

Do not accept political bull****
Check out this "massive conflict of interest" from a public relations firm dealing with #COP30
youtube.com/shorts/vMaCS...

YouTube video by canzon18 Hey Sandy

You must remember this song:
youtu.be/xe-22-BajRA?...

You have been warned.

Not to mention that mathematicians will try to tell you that 120 = 5!

100% of US citizens seem to struggle with spelling maths 😉

I've never heard of these (probably a US thing?) but it sounds like it's the whole 'designer' thing all over again. Same with trainers.
Who cares if it says Nike, Adidas etc on it.
Form follows function, as they say. As the folk song John Peel said about his coat 'he wore it for work not for show'

"I'd love to throw it in the bin."

At #LabourConference2025, Livvy from Young Make Votes Matter asked Labour members about their opinions on the First Past the Post voting system.

Here's what they had to say 👇

And any politician advocating abolishing these is either incompetent or criminally irresponsible.
Putting short term party gain before the long term health and life chances of the people of this country, or any other, is so shockingly cynical it beggars belief.
#ClimateCrisis #Netzero

State of the UK Climate 2024  Extreme weather events are now expected each year as a regular feature of our climate, bringing real impacts to communities across the country.

Climate Change Act and net zero policy are only currently credible pathways to address climate change impacts in UK, and lead gloablly

More extreme heat days
Wetter winters and flooding
Rising seas and warmer waters
Less snow and frost
www.rmets.org/metmatters/...

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

Commenting on comparisons of energy prices with other EU and G7 countries published by DESNZ today, Dr Simon Cran-McGreehin, @eciu.net said:

“Homegrown renewables offer a path to greater energy independence and price stability."
eciu.net/media/press...

Regardless of party political preferences, the changing climate affects us all.
Denying or downplaying it won't change that fact one little bit.

Individuals denying the truth is one thing.
Delaying action as a party leader is either incompetent or criminally irresponsible.
#ClimateCrisis