Melbourne Vole
@melbournevole.bsky.social
Environmentalist and conservationist. Loves market towns, long walks, cask beer and the work of Ian Nairn.
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Melbourne Vole
@melbournevole.bsky.social
· Jan 31
Ask your MP to attend my Water Bill debate
After years of bill hikes, shareholder pay-outs, and pollution, it couldn't be clearer that privatisation has created a crisis in our water system.
We can't leave the future of this critical natio...
actionnetwork.org
@labourlewis's Water Bill will have its first debate on 28th March.
This is our unmissable chance to put public ownership of water back on the table.
Ask your MP to be there and back the Bill: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
This is our unmissable chance to put public ownership of water back on the table.
Ask your MP to be there and back the Bill: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
Derbyshire Council is planning to close 8 publicly owned care homes. Hundreds of staff and residents are affected.
I’ve just signed a petition to the council leader to save our care homes. Please add your name and share. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
I’ve just signed a petition to the council leader to save our care homes. Please add your name and share. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save Derbyshire Care Homes
Derbyshire Council is planning to close 8 publicly owned care homes. Hundreds of staff and residents are affected.
I’ve just signed a petition to the council leader to save our care homes. Please add...
www.megaphone.org.uk
January 22, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Derbyshire Council is planning to close 8 publicly owned care homes. Hundreds of staff and residents are affected.
I’ve just signed a petition to the council leader to save our care homes. Please add your name and share. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
I’ve just signed a petition to the council leader to save our care homes. Please add your name and share. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
🚨 An undercover sting just exposed alarming loopholes in Westminster’s weak lobbying system: a fake Chinese company bought meetings with ministers and MPs, and it may not have even broken any rules! ✍️ Sign & share: 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
January 11, 2026 at 9:37 AM
🚨 An undercover sting just exposed alarming loopholes in Westminster’s weak lobbying system: a fake Chinese company bought meetings with ministers and MPs, and it may not have even broken any rules! ✍️ Sign & share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Investigate GB News bias and lies. No political party in the UK should be allowed to have its own TV channel. OFCOM needs to get a grip with the abuses carried out by this channel.
GB News’ recent Trump interview was outrageous - completely biased and full of lies. And GB News didn't challenge him ONCE. Ofcom MUST investigate them for breaching its rules. Sign now if you agree. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/gb-news-...
OFCOM: INVESTIGATE GB NEWS’ SHOCKING TRUMP INTERVIEW
GB News’ recent Trump interview was outrageous - completely biased and full of lies. And GB News didn't challenge him ONCE. Ofcom MUST investigate them for breaching its rules. Sign now if you agree.
act.38degrees.org.uk
December 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Investigate GB News bias and lies. No political party in the UK should be allowed to have its own TV channel. OFCOM needs to get a grip with the abuses carried out by this channel.
In our blood. In our water.🩸☠️💧Ask @EmmaReynolds to stop the poisoning of Britain, and ban #ForeverChemicals immediately! 🚫 Join the @38_degrees consultation submission to #BanPFAs👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...
Let’s flood the consultation to ban these poisons!
Linked to cancer, fertility issues, and birth defects -- forever chemicals (PFAS) are now found in our food, drinking water, and even our blood. When we reach 100k signatures, 38 Degrees will submit o...
you.38degrees.org.uk
December 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
In our blood. In our water.🩸☠️💧Ask @EmmaReynolds to stop the poisoning of Britain, and ban #ForeverChemicals immediately! 🚫 Join the @38_degrees consultation submission to #BanPFAs👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...
Hands Off Our BBC!
38d.gs/cicq
38d.gs/cicq
Sign the petition: save our BBC: don't let the likes of Trump and his UK cronies meddle with our public broadcaster
🚨Our BBC is under attack 🚨 We can't let those that want to see it torn up & replaced by the likes of GBNews or Fox win. Sign the open letter now to demand the new BBC boss is someone that will protect...
38d.gs
December 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Hands Off Our BBC!
38d.gs/cicq
38d.gs/cicq
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What seemed like support for hospitality, biz rates reform, #Budget2025 turns out to be the opposite. Proposed revaluations a disaster. Promises broken. #SaveOurPubs #bizrates
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protzonbeer.co.uk/comments/202...
December 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
What seemed like support for hospitality, biz rates reform, #Budget2025 turns out to be the opposite. Proposed revaluations a disaster. Promises broken. #SaveOurPubs #bizrates
protzonbeer.co.uk/comments/202...
protzonbeer.co.uk/comments/202...
Please sign.
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Please sign.
Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve told the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky
October 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve told the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky
Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve told the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky&
September 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve told the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky&
🍺 Wandsworth’s brewing spirit lives on!
I took John Hatch’s museum tour at the old Young’s site - beer tasting, brewing history & John’s infectious passion on Saturday. He kept brewing here 14 yrs after closure until Sambrook’s moved in. Don't miss it!
#BeerHistory #Wandsworth #Youngs #Sambrooks
I took John Hatch’s museum tour at the old Young’s site - beer tasting, brewing history & John’s infectious passion on Saturday. He kept brewing here 14 yrs after closure until Sambrook’s moved in. Don't miss it!
#BeerHistory #Wandsworth #Youngs #Sambrooks
September 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🍺 Wandsworth’s brewing spirit lives on!
I took John Hatch’s museum tour at the old Young’s site - beer tasting, brewing history & John’s infectious passion on Saturday. He kept brewing here 14 yrs after closure until Sambrook’s moved in. Don't miss it!
#BeerHistory #Wandsworth #Youngs #Sambrooks
I took John Hatch’s museum tour at the old Young’s site - beer tasting, brewing history & John’s infectious passion on Saturday. He kept brewing here 14 yrs after closure until Sambrook’s moved in. Don't miss it!
#BeerHistory #Wandsworth #Youngs #Sambrooks
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
July 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
The Govt’s “largest review of the water sector since privatisation” ruled out public ownership - a solution 82% of us support - before even starting.
This review is a sham - but we still have a chance to be heard. Sign @labourlewis.bsky.social’s open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...
This review is a sham - but we still have a chance to be heard. Sign @labourlewis.bsky.social’s open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...
Sir Jon Cunliffe: put public ownership back on the table!
From day one, the government’s “largest review of the water sector since privatisation” - a.k.a the Cunliffe Review - has ruled out the solution that 82% of the British public want: public ownership.
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actionnetwork.org
June 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The Govt’s “largest review of the water sector since privatisation” ruled out public ownership - a solution 82% of us support - before even starting.
This review is a sham - but we still have a chance to be heard. Sign @labourlewis.bsky.social’s open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...
This review is a sham - but we still have a chance to be heard. Sign @labourlewis.bsky.social’s open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...
Reposted by Melbourne Vole
🚨 Join us, Hugh, @domipalmer.bsky.social, @georgemcgavin.bsky.social—and campaigners across the UK—calling for #REALChange for a better Britain.
✊ Tell Keir Starmer to give the Climate and Nature Bill an emergency debate in Parliament.
✍️ Sign the open letter today 👉 action.zerohour.uk
🐝 #CANBill
✊ Tell Keir Starmer to give the Climate and Nature Bill an emergency debate in Parliament.
✍️ Sign the open letter today 👉 action.zerohour.uk
🐝 #CANBill
🚨 Tell Keir Starmer to give the CAN Bill an emergency debate in Parliament. #REALChange
YouTube video by Zero Hour: Climate and Nature Bill
www.youtube.com
May 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🚨 Join us, Hugh, @domipalmer.bsky.social, @georgemcgavin.bsky.social—and campaigners across the UK—calling for #REALChange for a better Britain.
✊ Tell Keir Starmer to give the Climate and Nature Bill an emergency debate in Parliament.
✍️ Sign the open letter today 👉 action.zerohour.uk
🐝 #CANBill
✊ Tell Keir Starmer to give the Climate and Nature Bill an emergency debate in Parliament.
✍️ Sign the open letter today 👉 action.zerohour.uk
🐝 #CANBill
Only a few days left until @labourlewis.bsky.social's Water Bill debate. This is our unmissable chance to put public ownership of water back on the table.Ask your MP to be there and back the Bill: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
Ask your MP to attend my Water Bill debate
After years of bill hikes, shareholder pay-outs, and pollution, it couldn't be clearer that privatisation has created a crisis in our water system.
We can't leave the future of this critical natio...
actionnetwork.org
March 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Only a few days left until @labourlewis.bsky.social's Water Bill debate. This is our unmissable chance to put public ownership of water back on the table.Ask your MP to be there and back the Bill: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
Hi #edmilliband, it's about time that you carried out your promise to meet with #zerohour.
🌍 Ed Miliband—after the Climate and Nature Bill debate on 24 January, you promised to work towards real change for climate and nature.
📅 Will you commit to a meeting with Zero Hour and take forward the spirit of the #CANBill via future legislation?
⏳ We’re counting on you.
👉 zerohour.uk
📅 Will you commit to a meeting with Zero Hour and take forward the spirit of the #CANBill via future legislation?
⏳ We’re counting on you.
👉 zerohour.uk
🌍 Ed Miliband—will you meet with Zero Hour to discuss urgent, joined-up climate and nature action?
YouTube video by Zero Hour: Climate and Nature Bill
www.youtube.com
March 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Hi #edmilliband, it's about time that you carried out your promise to meet with #zerohour.
Reposted by Melbourne Vole
I don't think people here have forgotten the murder of Andrei Litvinenko nor the chemical weapons attack in Salisbury that killed one British citizen, left others gravely ill & recklessly risked the lives & health of hundreds.
Foreign Leader Favourability Ratings amongst British Voters:
🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Favourable: 64%
Unfavourable: 16%
NET: +48%
🇺🇸 Donald Trump
Favourable: 22%
Unfavourable: 73%
NET: -51%
🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin
Favourable: 4%
Unfavourable: 89%
NET: -85%
Via @YouGov, 16-17 Feb.
🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Favourable: 64%
Unfavourable: 16%
NET: +48%
🇺🇸 Donald Trump
Favourable: 22%
Unfavourable: 73%
NET: -51%
🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin
Favourable: 4%
Unfavourable: 89%
NET: -85%
Via @YouGov, 16-17 Feb.
February 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I don't think people here have forgotten the murder of Andrei Litvinenko nor the chemical weapons attack in Salisbury that killed one British citizen, left others gravely ill & recklessly risked the lives & health of hundreds.
Looks like the crazy authors of Project 2025 have a regular booking with #bbcnewsnight #newsnight.
February 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Looks like the crazy authors of Project 2025 have a regular booking with #bbcnewsnight #newsnight.
It’s a coup!
Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
open.substack.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It’s a coup!
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
If you don’t want history to be re-written please share this video widely - because the only way to stop that happening is to constantly call this boll**** out with the actual facts
If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
February 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
Are surprised that lobbyists and big business are writing #RachelReeves ' speeches for her?
Reeves’s Heathrow third runway report was commissioned by London airport
Reeves’s Heathrow third runway report was commissioned by London airport
The chancellor is under fire after a study cited as evidence for expanding the terminal to boost the UK’s economic growth was ordered by Heathrow itself
Rachel Reeves was facing criticism on Saturday night as it was confirmed that a report she cited as…
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Are surprised that lobbyists and big business are writing #RachelReeves ' speeches for her?
It's ridiculous that building a third runway at Heathrow is now more urgent than building badly needed new hospital facilities.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this? | George Monbiot
Our rivers, our wildlife, the air we breathe: the government is sacrificing all to the insatiable god of GDP – and mocking our objections, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It's ridiculous that building a third runway at Heathrow is now more urgent than building badly needed new hospital facilities.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@labourlewis's Water Bill will have its first debate on 28th March.
This is our unmissable chance to put public ownership of water back on the table.
Ask your MP to be there and back the Bill: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
This is our unmissable chance to put public ownership of water back on the table.
Ask your MP to be there and back the Bill: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
Ask your MP to attend my Water Bill debate
After years of bill hikes, shareholder pay-outs, and pollution, it couldn't be clearer that privatisation has created a crisis in our water system.
We can't leave the future of this critical natio...
actionnetwork.org
January 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
@labourlewis's Water Bill will have its first debate on 28th March.
This is our unmissable chance to put public ownership of water back on the table.
Ask your MP to be there and back the Bill: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
This is our unmissable chance to put public ownership of water back on the table.
Ask your MP to be there and back the Bill: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
Reposted by Melbourne Vole
Labour's simplemindedness will be its downfall - and ours. You can't build and bulldoze your way out of the housing crisis. Unless you also change the system, you'll still leave millions without decent homes. My column today explains why.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market | George Monbiot
Private developers offer politicians a simple solution for bulldozing through this crisis – build more. But it won’t work, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Labour's simplemindedness will be its downfall - and ours. You can't build and bulldoze your way out of the housing crisis. Unless you also change the system, you'll still leave millions without decent homes. My column today explains why.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thanks @carladenyer.bsky.social for supporting this bill. It looks like @teamlabouruk.bsky.social will now just kick this issue down the road. #CANBill
Incredibly disappointed that MPs didn’t get the chance to vote on the Climate and Nature Bill - a crucial piece of legislation to prevent climate breakdown and protect our natural world. But thanks to all those who backed it - I'll keep fighting for urgent climate action #CANBill
January 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Thanks @carladenyer.bsky.social for supporting this bill. It looks like @teamlabouruk.bsky.social will now just kick this issue down the road. #CANBill