Rick Jones
@rickj0.bsky.social
Retired computer techie, Morris dancer, Lurker, ex-X Appalled at junk economics.
“Anything we can actually do we can afford.”
- John Maynard Keynes.
“Anything we can actually do we can afford.”
- John Maynard Keynes.
23,000. That's how many deaths can be blamed on Boris Johnson's chaotic Covid decisions and delays. Enough is enough, he must be stripped of his annual £115,000 handout. Sign the petition today: 38d.gs/clhk
Sign the petition: Strip Boris Johnson of his annual former PM allowance
23,000. That's how many deaths can be blamed on Boris Johnson's chaotic Covid decisions and delays. Enough is enough, he must be stripped of his annual £115,000 handout. Sign the petition today:
38d.gs
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
23,000. That's how many deaths can be blamed on Boris Johnson's chaotic Covid decisions and delays. Enough is enough, he must be stripped of his annual £115,000 handout. Sign the petition today: 38d.gs/clhk
I've just used Good Law Project's tool to tell Keir Starmer that his ID scheme is a recipe for repression. Will you do the same? goodlaw.social/364f2b
Tell Keir Starmer to scrap his ID card scheme
With his government in turmoil and Nigel Farage breathing down his neck, Keir Starmer has reached for the panic button, announcing a scheme for ID cards that would be compulsory to prove your right to...
goodlaw.social
October 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I've just used Good Law Project's tool to tell Keir Starmer that his ID scheme is a recipe for repression. Will you do the same? goodlaw.social/364f2b
💰Pay rises for water bosses, sewage pollution for the rest of us 💩 Let’s give them the recognition they really deserve! Join me and add your name to this cheeky spoof card “congratulating” the CEOs on their “achievements” this year 38d.gs/ajsl?utm_cam...
Water bosses: congratulations on your pay rises!
💰Pay rises for water bosses, sewage pollution for the rest of us 💩 Let’s give them the recognition they really deserve! Add your name to this cheeky spoof card “congratulating” the CEOs on their “achi...
38d.gs
September 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
💰Pay rises for water bosses, sewage pollution for the rest of us 💩 Let’s give them the recognition they really deserve! Join me and add your name to this cheeky spoof card “congratulating” the CEOs on their “achievements” this year 38d.gs/ajsl?utm_cam...
I just signed a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social petition: Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax
Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have just submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at Drax, powered by burning millions of trees.
The Government recently de...
actionnetwork.org
July 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I just signed a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social petition: Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
🌍 One Earth. One Team. The UK and EU must work together to tackle climate change, reduce energy costs, and protect our environment. bsky.app/profile/euro...
Brexit is putting bills up and water quality down.
It's time for a UK-EU partnership on Energy, Climate and Environment.
#OneEarthOneTeam
www.europeanmovement.co.uk/one_earth_one_team
It's time for a UK-EU partnership on Energy, Climate and Environment.
#OneEarthOneTeam
www.europeanmovement.co.uk/one_earth_one_team
July 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🌍 One Earth. One Team. The UK and EU must work together to tackle climate change, reduce energy costs, and protect our environment. bsky.app/profile/euro...
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The UK Government claims that it is "doing all it can" to bring about a ceasefire in Gaza.
The truth is, it is complicit in Israel's genocide on Gaza: here's why.
The truth is, it is complicit in Israel's genocide on Gaza: here's why.
July 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The UK Government claims that it is "doing all it can" to bring about a ceasefire in Gaza.
The truth is, it is complicit in Israel's genocide on Gaza: here's why.
The truth is, it is complicit in Israel's genocide on Gaza: here's why.
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BREAKING 🚨: We've just dropped a massive banner off Westminster Bridge to demand the UK Government #StopRosebank
It's time for Keir Starmer make the right choice 👀
It's time for Keir Starmer make the right choice 👀
July 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
BREAKING 🚨: We've just dropped a massive banner off Westminster Bridge to demand the UK Government #StopRosebank
It's time for Keir Starmer make the right choice 👀
It's time for Keir Starmer make the right choice 👀
I just signed a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social petition: Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax
Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have just submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at Drax, powered by burning millions of trees.
The Government recently de...
actionnetwork.org
July 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I just signed a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social petition: Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
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Trump's UK state visit was just announced for 17 September.
💥💥💥 JOIN THE PROTEST!
Let's make it absolutely massive.
stoptrump.org.uk
💥💥💥 JOIN THE PROTEST!
Let's make it absolutely massive.
stoptrump.org.uk
July 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Trump's UK state visit was just announced for 17 September.
💥💥💥 JOIN THE PROTEST!
Let's make it absolutely massive.
stoptrump.org.uk
💥💥💥 JOIN THE PROTEST!
Let's make it absolutely massive.
stoptrump.org.uk
We need to tax the wealthy, but a direct tax on "wealth" is in practice more complicated than many think. For a more practical approach see Richard Murphy's report: taxingwealth.uk
BREAKING: New polling from @yougov.co.uk shows 75% of Brits support taxing extreme wealth.
But today Keir Starmer once again brushed off calls for higher taxes on the super-rich.
When will the PM stop siding with billionaires and listen to the British public instead? 350.org/tax-their-bi...
But today Keir Starmer once again brushed off calls for higher taxes on the super-rich.
When will the PM stop siding with billionaires and listen to the British public instead? 350.org/tax-their-bi...
July 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
We need to tax the wealthy, but a direct tax on "wealth" is in practice more complicated than many think. For a more practical approach see Richard Murphy's report: taxingwealth.uk
Nigel Farage says abortion laws are “utterly ludicrous.”
MPs on the fence are paying attention to him.
We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights.
Join me and sign the petition now: 38d.gs/sogk
MPs on the fence are paying attention to him.
We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights.
Join me and sign the petition now: 38d.gs/sogk
Decriminalise abortion and make it a protected human right.
Women’s rights are under threat from the far right.
Nigel Farage just called our current abortion provisions “utterly ludicrous” – and others in power are paying attention.
A vote in Parliament could ...
38d.gs
June 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Nigel Farage says abortion laws are “utterly ludicrous.”
MPs on the fence are paying attention to him.
We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights.
Join me and sign the petition now: 38d.gs/sogk
MPs on the fence are paying attention to him.
We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights.
Join me and sign the petition now: 38d.gs/sogk
Labour are backtracking on a plan to help save birds: by blocking a new rule that would make developers put a £35 nest brick in every new home. They think it'll help win them votes - we need to show it would do the opposite. Sign the petition 38d.gs/ky2i
Sign the petition: Save Our Swifts
Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple £35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition ...
38d.gs
May 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Labour are backtracking on a plan to help save birds: by blocking a new rule that would make developers put a £35 nest brick in every new home. They think it'll help win them votes - we need to show it would do the opposite. Sign the petition 38d.gs/ky2i
Junk food giants are pumping millions into advertising junk food to kids - and McDonald's is one of the worst 👎I've signed a petition urging McDonald's to stop targeting children with junk food ads - please will you join me and add your name now? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/mc...
Sign the petition to stop McDonald's advertising junk food to kids
I’m 17 years old. I look around the streets where I live and junk food is always in the spotlight. When I walk to school, get on the bus, wait at a station, or just spend time in the town centre, I am...
you.38degrees.org.uk
May 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Junk food giants are pumping millions into advertising junk food to kids - and McDonald's is one of the worst 👎I've signed a petition urging McDonald's to stop targeting children with junk food ads - please will you join me and add your name now? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/mc...
If Trump won't hang Obama, maybe it's time to hang Trump ?? 😯
May 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If Trump won't hang Obama, maybe it's time to hang Trump ?? 😯
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Here is our analysis of the long-term implications of Thursday’s elections.
They are profound.
99-percent.org/clear-simple...
They are profound.
99-percent.org/clear-simple...
Clear, Simple and Wrong - 99%
Why serious politicians need to raise – and change – their game Thursday’s elections brought bad news for Britain’s main political parties but good news for the far-right. As the […]
99-percent.org
May 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Here is our analysis of the long-term implications of Thursday’s elections.
They are profound.
99-percent.org/clear-simple...
They are profound.
99-percent.org/clear-simple...
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️⚧️
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
April 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️⚧️
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
Donald Trump could be given the honour of addressing the UK parliament. We can't let him spout his idiocy and hate in the heart of our democracy. MPs are pushing back - now it’s our turn. Sign the petition to stop this national embarrassment: 38d.gs/yfl7
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 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Donald Trump could be given the honour of addressing the UK parliament. We can't let him spout his idiocy and hate in the heart of our democracy. MPs are pushing back - now it’s our turn. Sign the petition to stop this national embarrassment: 38d.gs/yfl7
Private shareholders made dividends of £3.6 billion from owning our trains in the last decade. Yet the government is leaving our trains fully privately owned. Sign We Own It's petition to demand they take our trains into public ownership:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...
weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...
Petition: Take our trains into public ownership | We Own It
The government is taking railway operators into public ownership, but the trains themselves will remain in private hands. The government must take our trains into public ownership.
weownit.org.uk
April 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Private shareholders made dividends of £3.6 billion from owning our trains in the last decade. Yet the government is leaving our trains fully privately owned. Sign We Own It's petition to demand they take our trains into public ownership:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...
weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...
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Ministers don't want the Water Commission to look at public ownership.
New research shows that under any price tag, taking over the firms saves at least £3 billion a year.
Support public ownership? Submit your view to the Commission before it closes. 👇
weownit.org.uk/act-now/wate...
New research shows that under any price tag, taking over the firms saves at least £3 billion a year.
Support public ownership? Submit your view to the Commission before it closes. 👇
weownit.org.uk/act-now/wate...
Tell the Water Commission — Public Ownership NOW! | We Own It
Email the government's commission on water to demand they call for public ownership.
weownit.org.uk
April 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Ministers don't want the Water Commission to look at public ownership.
New research shows that under any price tag, taking over the firms saves at least £3 billion a year.
Support public ownership? Submit your view to the Commission before it closes. 👇
weownit.org.uk/act-now/wate...
New research shows that under any price tag, taking over the firms saves at least £3 billion a year.
Support public ownership? Submit your view to the Commission before it closes. 👇
weownit.org.uk/act-now/wate...
Unbelievable. Rachel Reeves is thinking about cutting a tax on US tech giants to appease Trump and his band of billionaires. If anything we should be taxing them more - not less! Agree? Sign today: 38d.gs/techgiantsta...
Sign the petition: don’t cut taxes for US tech giants!
Trump’s threatening to raise tariffs for UK businesses and Keir Starmer is offering to cut taxes for US tech billionaires. Europe is fighting back - why isn’t the UK? Join me in calling on Keir Starme...
38d.gs
April 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Unbelievable. Rachel Reeves is thinking about cutting a tax on US tech giants to appease Trump and his band of billionaires. If anything we should be taxing them more - not less! Agree? Sign today: 38d.gs/techgiantsta...
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EXPOSED: Fake water nationalisation tag would still save £3 billion a year.
University of Greenwich research shows how taking back control of our water delivers a better deal for the public.
Sign our petition to bring water into public ownership:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/lets...
University of Greenwich research shows how taking back control of our water delivers a better deal for the public.
Sign our petition to bring water into public ownership:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/lets...
April 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
EXPOSED: Fake water nationalisation tag would still save £3 billion a year.
University of Greenwich research shows how taking back control of our water delivers a better deal for the public.
Sign our petition to bring water into public ownership:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/lets...
University of Greenwich research shows how taking back control of our water delivers a better deal for the public.
Sign our petition to bring water into public ownership:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/lets...
Donald Trump is ramping up his trade wars and crashing the global economy. He's not sparing the UK from his new tariffs, so why should we roll out the red carpet for him with a second state visit? Join more than 200,000 of us, add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
No second state visit for Trump
Unbelievable. Keir Starmer has handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and should not go ahead.
This is the...
you.38degrees.org.uk
April 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Donald Trump is ramping up his trade wars and crashing the global economy. He's not sparing the UK from his new tariffs, so why should we roll out the red carpet for him with a second state visit? Join more than 200,000 of us, add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen!
Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
Put Public Ownership of Water Back on the Table
Privatisation of water isn’t failing - it is the failure. The Government is mid-way through a major review of the water sector. But so far, it has refused to consider a potential solution that’s backe...
you.38degrees.org.uk
March 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen!
Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
.@greenpeace.org and @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social just lost $660M lawsuit from fossil fuel giant Energy Transfer for supporting peaceful protest.
I stand in solidarity with Greenpeace against this attack on our right to speak out #ImWithGreenpeace
Find out more: www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
I stand in solidarity with Greenpeace against this attack on our right to speak out #ImWithGreenpeace
Find out more: www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
Jury delivers verdict finding Greenpeace entities liable for more than US$660 million in Energy Transfer SLAPP trial - Greenpeace International
Free speech and right to protest on the line in the United States.
www.greenpeace.org
March 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
.@greenpeace.org and @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social just lost $660M lawsuit from fossil fuel giant Energy Transfer for supporting peaceful protest.
I stand in solidarity with Greenpeace against this attack on our right to speak out #ImWithGreenpeace
Find out more: www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
I stand in solidarity with Greenpeace against this attack on our right to speak out #ImWithGreenpeace
Find out more: www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
President Lula is planning to expand more oil projects in the Amazon. Join me and sign the petition to tell Lula NO: act.350.org/sign/lula-br...
Tell President Lula: Break up with Big Oil!
Brazil’s President Lula said he will approve more oil exploration near the Amazon River – the only water source that local Indigenous People and wildlife depend on. President Lula is hoping to fly und...
act.350.org
March 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
President Lula is planning to expand more oil projects in the Amazon. Join me and sign the petition to tell Lula NO: act.350.org/sign/lula-br...