@teichoscopia
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The Lords is still a home for cronies and donors. Removing the Hereditary Peers isn’t the end, it’s just the start. Demand a fair, elected second chamber now - sign @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to demand change. It takes 30 seconds action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/174863/...
Reform trying to rewrite history.
So many things, where does one start? Reform are such sore losers. If you can't even spell the name of the place right... And this just shows how far from reality these losers fly.
See the Green Party is still being ignored.
Elections bill will bring in once-in-a-generation change to voting – but misses big opportunity electoral-reform.org.uk/elections-bi... Electoral Reform Society – ERS
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.
Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.
Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.
Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.
Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
I hope every person on Earth listens to this.
America is not gone yet.
😂
There are a ton of reasons why mandatory ID cards are a terrible idea, especially if it's run by an awful American data mining org like Palantir.
Petitions themselves don't do much, but media pressure can help if the signatures get high enough.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Two tier policing at work
I'm so tempted to donate 1p just so I can leave a heartfelt message..
On my way home I witnessed a mother walking along with their son and daughter. Daughter clearly struggling, overlaiden with rucksack and other burdens trailing behind. Son walking hand in hand with mother ahead, carrying nothing,walking carefree.
All of this has happened before, and it will happen again.
Anti-woke=Misanthrope
Enough is enough. The House of Lords is a rolling scandal - sign @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to demand change. It takes 30 seconds. action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3342/pe...
Today's delight was this moorhen couple building a nest together. Adorable teamwork.
I don't know why it made me happy to watch them, but I hope it brings you joy too.
Tax dodging by rich could be ‘much greater than thought’, says UK audit office.
Offshoring wealth, tax dodge schemes.
Number of wealthy (income >£200,000; assets >£2m) increased. £5.2bn collected through enforcement despite reduction in the number of penalty notices.
Tax the rich. Make them pay.
Thames Water on collision course with govt over exec bonuses.
TW with £21bn debt, history of abuses & criminal convictions insists that it will pay bonuses, now calls them “retention payments”.
Govt must cancel it's licence, let it go bankrupt, prosecute execs, nationalise.
archive.ph/FpLe0
Fortunately, the govt is planning to stop them just handing taxpayer money to the people who caused the problem in the first place. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Most companies at least try to say publicly that their staff are their most important asset, even if they don't genuinely believe it. But Thames Water are just straight up insulting and devaluing their staff, mask off, in national news. It's completely insane.
"We have a bonus scheme to protect our most valuable resource, which is the senior management team."
I work in HR and this is genuinely one of the most baffling things I've ever heard a company say. For them to say it publicly sounds like it's from The Onion. My levels of WTF are off the chart.
I'm guessing that this particular poll was just for fun, but the answers could tell you something about how someone thinks.
Daily question from YouGov asking if one would support the procedure depicted in the TV show severance.
Question via YouGov. Frightening that it is being asked in the first place.
My least favorite tradition has arrived: I’m disgusted to present the official 2025 Batshittery Bingo Card.
If anyone gets bingo, we all die.
Another demonstration of how worthlessand useless Xitter's verification system really is.
This seems so symbolic of the USA today.
You mean "Reform & Tory attempt to tie the government in knots has been thwarted"?
Time to cancel my subscription and wait and see which direction it goes.
Maybe it is time to go live off the grid in a cabin in the woods until this passes.
