Linden
lindenp.bsky.social
Linden
@lindenp.bsky.social
Trying to make a difference for the better. Kindness, equality, a good life and health for all, mutual support and action, standing up to bullies - that sort of stuff. Working with others to achieve it, because we are each small but strong together.
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🔴Keir Starmer’s Government Has Quietly Beefed Up Its Workers’ Rights Bill to Make It More Pro-Worker

A series of significant changes on workplace rights and the right to strike have been slipped out by ministers

bylinetimes.com/2025/03/25/k...
Keir Starmer’s Government Has Quietly Beefed Up Its Workers’ Rights Bill to Make It More Pro-Worker
A series of significant changes on workplace rights and the right to strike have been slipped out by ministers
bylinetimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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The labour government has announced £2 billion of new funding for social and affordable housing.
Labour announces £2 billion of new funding to support biggest boost in social and affordable housing in a generation
Ahead of the Spring Statement from Chancellor Rachel Reeves tomorrow, the Labour government has announced £2 billion of new funding to support the biggest boost in social and affordable housing in a g...
leftfootforward.org
March 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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🚨 BRAND NEW: The Government is investing £20,000,000 to support housing co-ops and community land trusts, putting local people in control of where and how homes are built. 🏡💪
March 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Kemi Badenoch is claiming thousands in taxpayer money to live in a six-bedroom farmhouse in her constituency.

leftfootforward.org/2025/03/kemi...
Kemi Badenoch claims thousands in taxpayer money for six-bedroom constituency home
The Tory leader claims over £2,000 a month for rent and £400 for council tax
leftfootforward.org
March 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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March 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect the climate, by putting an end to new oil and gas projects. Will you join me in signing the petition? www.stopcambo.org.uk/p/no-new-oil...
ACT NOW: No New Oil!
A once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect the climate.
www.stopcambo.org.uk
March 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
It was obviously a disgusting spectacle at the White House yesterday. Once the journalist asked, ‘Why aren’t you wearing a suit?’, they were off. Zelensky is a brave man - clearly not out for personal gain or status, but his country and people.
This is what is really happening:
March 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation

FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
January 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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🚨 FINALLY: After years of neglecting our pollinators and authorising the use of toxic neonictinoids, bees and other pollinators are being protected by this Government. 🥳

Bee health is non negotiable. 🐝💜🌹
December 21, 2024 at 9:45 AM
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Happy 180th Birthday to the co-operative movement!! 🥳

Our Co-op can trace its roots back to the first store opening in Rochdale on 21 December 1844. Co-operatives are a different way of doing business as the excellent article below by Co-op News describes👇💙

www.thenews.coop/the-night-th...
The night the lights were lit: 180 years of UK co-operation
David J. Thompson on the birthplace of the co-op in 1844
www.thenews.coop
December 21, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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November 18, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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November 18, 2024 at 4:54 AM
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🚨 BREAKING: At tonight's Mansion House speech, Rachel Reeves announced three vital steps to support the co-operative and mutual sector, helping drive the inclusive growth our country needs.
November 14, 2024 at 9:52 PM
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Ahead of the Chancellor's announcement in her Mansion House speech today, news on the creation of a new Co-operatives and Mutuals Council underlines the Government's commitment to growing this key sector.
November 14, 2024 at 10:30 AM