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Brexit bankroller Arron Banks, Cambridge Analytica and Steve Bannon – explosive emails reveal fresh links Brexit donor asked controversial Trump-linked data firm to 'come up with strategy' for fundraising in the US – and gave them access to personal information about British voters, according to new leake...

Brexit bankroller Arron Banks, Cambridge Analytica and Steve Bannon – explosive emails reveal fresh links | openDemocracy
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🚨Reform UK have declared war on public sector pensions, including firefighters and council staff.

Multi-millionaire Richard Tice wants to slash pensions, cut pay to cover existing schemes and put new recruits on worse terms. Tice plans pension poverty for hard working public sector workers.

Emergency demonstration at US embassy. Wed 5 March - 5:30pm

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EDF appears to consider reduced final stake in Sizewell C to as low as 10% | New Civil Engineer EDF previously confirmed in its 2024 half year results that Sizewell C is owned 76.1% by the UK Government and 23.9% by EDF. Despite the final investment

“EDF is strapped for cash & doesn't buy its own rhetoric that replication could make #SizewellC on time, significantly cheaper than #HinkleyC - and neither do we. A reduction in EDF's stake would leave UK govt with an even bigger void to fill"
#StopSizewellC
www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/edf-a...

Starmer is well aware of what needs to be done. Here is what he said when voting for Johnson's UK-EU deal.

Services "a gaping hole", "lack of ambition", "Imperfect", "thin", "a basis to build on".

Share, to show the PM that you back him going further and faster to improve our deal with the EU. ~AA

The £40bn nuclear project at risk of becoming another British white elephant The shadow of Hinkley Point C hangs over another much-needed power station

Says @stopsizewellc: “Our climate emergency demands urgent action and getting the biggest bang for the UK’s limited bucks, yet every pound of taxpayers’ money spent on #SizewellC is a pound lost to alternative quicker, cheaper clean energy projects”
StopSizewellC
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Go nuclear in search for growth, Labour MPs urge Starmer Backbenchers tell the prime minister to approve the proposed Sizewell C plant and build mini-reactors around the country

"#StopSizewellC said the project would hit taxpayers and billpayers: “These MPs must think the government has money to burn as, with a likely cost of at least £40 billion, it’s ludicrous to push for #SizewellC to go ahead at such a price” 1/2
www.thetimes.com/article/0b52...

UK borrowing jumps unexpectedly, adding to pressure on Rachel Reeves Increase to £17.8bn is well above City forecasts and is highest December figure for four years

"In order not to break Reeves’s fiscal rule that day-to-day spending is matched by tax receipts, and having ruled out increases to borrowing or taxes, the Treasury has indicated it is considering imposing spending cuts"
How to pay for #SizewellC?
#StopSizewellC
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Graph from the Times showing energy prices in different countries

The UK has some of the highest energy prices in the world.

Why?

Because our wholesale electricity price is set by the most expensive source.

So even if 99% of energy used was wind or solar, and 1% was gas, we’d still pay the gas price for all of it.

Graph from the Times.

Sizewell C | £19M roads contract brings total to £2.5bn awarded in first year of construction Among the recent contracts is a £19M deal with Ipswich-based Jackson Civil Engineering, which will f...

£2.5bn (of OUR money) in #SizewellC contracts awarded and no Final Investment Decision. How does that even work?
#StopSizewellC
www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/sizew...

French auditor recommends EDF delays UK Sizewell investment decision State body says nuclear energy group should ensure international projects do not delay domestic programme

"Asked about the FT report [#SizewellC's costs double to £40bn] Cour des Comptes said that the increase appeared “logical” given cost overruns at other such projects” #StopSizewellC
French auditor recommends EDF delays UK Sizewell investment decision www.ft.com/content/9a6f...

Cost of Sizewell C nuclear project expected to rise close to £40bn Final price tag for building new power plant is likely to be double 2020 estimate

Campaign group #StopSizewellC urged the government to “come clean” on the “massive true cost” of the project given that households would be paying upfront for its construction via a levy on energy bills. “This secrecy around #SizewellC is inexcusable.”
www.ft.com/content/0b48...

Economy shrinks by a further 0.1%

Brexit has cut UK trade by up to 15%...

Immigration is much higher post Brexit

But..the...boats🙄

WAKE UP and smell the roses...or take your kids' future further into the mire. Then explain how poor we all are in 20 years time

Apart from the super rich of course

That’s an excellent idea. Thank you for including me. If you are an artist/creator please reply to Chaz’s post, not this one. And check out his site too, he’s excellent.

Works wonders!

Sizewell B nuclear power plant back online after £75m project The Suffolk plant is back up and running after being powered down in October, EDF Energy says.

#SizewellB is the only realistic hope of #nuclear power on the grid in 2030 - a grid that #Labour has pledged to decarbonise. Only hope is to accelerate renewables and retrieve/redirect the scarce billions chucked at risky #SizewellC!
#StopSizewellC
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Forever guilty on all counts.

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I'm in full support of the Guardian/Observer journos striking today for the future of The Observer, threatened by The Scott Trust’s plan to sell to Tortoise Media. No logic behind the decision, while The Observer risks becoming a stripped-down website

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15,000 say no: Norfolk’s ‘megafarm’ plans face backlash Local residents and environmental groups warn of health risks, pollution, and climate impact from massive farm expansion

A plan to create one of Europe’s largest livestock farms, sparking 15,000 objections...

Local residents and environmental groups warn of health risks, pollution, and climate impact from plans to create a chicken and pig megafarm that will spread across the villages of Methwold and Feltwell.

A breezy day on the marshes

Climate change threatens rare temperate rainforests Up to two thirds of the world’s temperate rainforests could fall victim to climate change by the year 2100 according to a new study by researchers at the University of Leeds.

“The UK has more potential for temperate rainforest restoration than anywhere else in the world… UK rainforests are resilient to low & medium amounts of future warming”

But rapid climate action needed to save other temp rainforests

Ace new research by Leeds Uni: www.leeds.ac.uk/research-32/...

Please #repost/#share for the #bees.🙏🏼🐝

This matters.

So let’s talk about #honeybees in the context of ‘Saving the Bees’.
Let’s cut the bull and cut to the chase as there’s way too much confusion/misinformation out there which is a hinderance to, and detrimental to, genuine bee saving.
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Australia mistakenly included on list of countries joining US-UK civil nuclear deal, British government says Albanese government denies media reports it is signing up to collaboration to share advanced nuclear technology

#Nuclear embarassment for @Ed_Miliband at Cop29. Elsewhere, the Australian Envmt Minister called nuclear an "energy fantasy" describing the choice as "a slow, risky expensive transition to nuclear or fast certain transition to #renewables."
#StopSizewellC
www.theguardian.com/environment/...