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@premnsikka.bsky.social is a voice of total reason in the House of Lords - measured & always economically on the ball. An Emiritus Professor of accounting whose talent and knowledge should be underpinning Rachel Reeves' budget.

I get that but Israel is a sovereign state outside of Europe.

It's never made sense to me.

Again, you have to ask 'why?'.

At a geographical level, Israel is not in Europe so why was it ever a member of the European Broadcasting Union?

None of it makes sense apart from projecting soft power to make its apartheid more palatable to western nations.

It is crap and our world feels smaller as a result.

Eurovision should be and has been a unifying event.

However, it has given us greater strength to support each other and find alternatives that aren't drenched in blood.

It's been a firm fixture of our calendar for decades. You have to ask why Israel were included in the 1st place?

We didn't attend Birmingham Pride this year after decades of attending too due to unsavoury sponsors linked to the Gaza genocide. Great performers have stepped away for the same reason.

Thanks for your update.

We completely boycotted Eurovision this year & will continue to do so until Israel are expelled.

Appreciate the risks of doing this but it's a dead event anyway until it takes a firm stand against genociders.

Thanks for the heads up. Just checked & couldn't find the settings so appreciate the clarification 🙏🏼

The result has just come in with an overwhelming vote for the rules to be changed enabling the merger to go ahead with over 92% approval 👏👏🏼👏🏿

Faultless technology throughout for everyone joining online.

This has to work & we have to work to promote cooperative values in everything we do membership.centralengland.coop/membership/s...

retail share of the market has been shrinking year on year.

My fellow council members and coop employees are like family.

The communities we've supported through a share of profits are like family.

The communities we've worked with & supported in Malawi & Palestine are like family.

Business change is essential in a world where customers' priorities are changing at an accelerating pace.

As a central cooperative community council member who has personally grown through my involvement, a successful merger is economically essential in a retail environment where the cooperative

that is welcome and testament to the cooperative heritage of both societies.

Attending the special members' meeting online.

The level of detail is thorough and extensive - at both a member, and most importantly, at an employee level.

This is about people's lives & the communities they live in.

Anyone still sitting on the fence thinking 'they won't come for me' needs to wake up.

Quickly.

We now need to actively defend our communities.

Not just refugees but any group that wants justice, including our LGBTQ+ allies.

Take self defence classes, keep fit & get networked.

We've taken them down in Stirchley.

And they've put them back up again.

Higher.

Using a cherry picker & thugs.

We've taken them down again.

And they've put them back up again, higher, with police protection.

And they've followed our people using vehicles false no plates
& dox'd them.

Just to add.

This is NOT AI 😊