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Debbie Canning
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There's a new petition on @38degrees.bsky.social calling for urgent reform to Britain's lobbying laws.

Be great if folks can sign it and share! Thanks! 😀

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop foreign interference in British politics
British politics has a foreign interference problem. An undercover investigation by Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys has revealed how shockingly easy it is for secretive Chinese interests to pene...
you.38degrees.org.uk
December 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Today's Poll: If the govt needs to raise money and it were a hypothetical binary choice (it isn't) between raising taxes or cutting public spending... which'd you prefer it to do.

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/Anyf1K/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">I'm 45+: tax more
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/Anyf1K/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">I'm 45+: spend less
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/Anyf1K/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">I'm under 45: tax more
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/Anyf1K/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">I'm under 45: spend less

📊 Show results
June 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here.

These are the ones published since Labour won the election.

"We are happy to correct the record."
June 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Sky News release audio of Conservative Chris Philp admitting that Brexit makes it harder to return asylum seekers to countries in Europe

That's right, inside the EU, with freedom of movement, the UK had the ability to return asylum seekers to Europe

Brexit created the rise in small boat crossings
May 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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🔴 Remember the £330million contract given to Trump donor Peter Thiel's firm Palantir to build an NHS data platform?

Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it - because it's not very good

Scoop on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-...
Palantir's NHS data platform rejected by most hospitals
US spy tech firm's £330million software isn't much cop, experts say
democracyforsale.substack.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Ivan Dabbs Reform UK’s new councillor for Deanshanger & Paulerspury, West Northamptonshire.

He confirmed yesterday this was his account. What a bile factory his Twitter is.

He’s a very obvious Britain First supporter, having promoted their content and commented supporting it multiple times.
May 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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This petition to stop Trump addressing Parliament already has 57,000 signatures. Let's help it grow!

As we say in Brum, 'Stay up your own end, we don't want you round ours!'

Please sign and retweet, friends. Ta ♥️🔥

38d.gs/hzo3
Block Trump from addressing Parliament
I've just signed 38 Degrees' petition calling on Trump to be banned from addressing the UK Parliament during his state visit later this year. Will you join me and add your name too?
38d.gs
April 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I don't often ask people to write to their MPs. But I think they might listen to you on this, as it's so jaw-droppingly awful, and they're almost certainly unaware of it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please also write to the Environment Secretary: steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk Thanks.
What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? Toxic waste – and ministers don’t care | George Monbiot
Water companies let waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. When it is recklessly used as fertiliser, we are all at risk, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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North London: @chrischirp.bsky.social has lost her cat. Please check your garden, shed, garage etc. Full contact details below.
March 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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This is the sort of statement that a part on the eve of trial gives because it knows it is going to lose - and lose very badly.
Here’s the full apology by Murdoch’s NGN to the Duke of Sussex Prince Harry and Lord Tom Watson read out in court
January 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM