Roland Scales

@roland-s.bsky.social

Old git. Vieux schnock. Pas si jeune que la photo. Particularly fond of traditional European folk music. (Anglo concertina. Hurdy gurdy. Jew's harp. Mouth organ. English and French bagpipes.)

Dear Andy Burnham: it’s time to scrap First Past the Post. Our voting system only breeds instability and chaos, and poisons our political culture. We know you agree. Now is the time to fix our democracy. Sign the open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/an...

Dear Andy Burnham: it's time for a fair voting system

Dear Andy Burnham: it’s time to scrap First Past the Post. Our voting system only breeds instability and chaos, and poisons our political culture. We know you agree. Now is the time to fix our demo...

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13 MILLION adults in England are locked out of an NHS dentist, and preventable tooth decay is the #1 reason kids end up in hospital. No more dental deserts. No more DIY dentistry. Sign the petition now to tell our new PM to fix NHS dentistry for good: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fi...

Fix and fund NHS Dentistry NOW!

Thirteen MILLION of us are still locked out of dental care. After two years of ministers promising to finally fix NHS dentistry, shocking new data just revealed that almost nothing has changed. That ...

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Thames Water's creditors are trying their luck. Their latest proposal is another brazen attempt to dodge regulations. I've just emailed my MP asking them to reject the proposal, and bring Thames Water into Special Administration. Email your MP now: weownit.org.uk/act-now/emai...

Email your MP - the Thames Water creditors' latest deal must be rejected

The Thames Water creditors' latest proposal still asks for regulatory leniency. Email your MP to get them to urge Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds to resist the deal

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Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

End the sewage pollution scandal

We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

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A new trade deal with South America called the EU-Mercosur deal would bring more food grown with banned pesticides into Europe, threatening our health and the livelihood of European farmers. Act NOW to protect Europe’s food standards #StopMercosur action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-02...

Keep Banned Pesticides Out of our Food

A new trade deal with South America called the EU-Mercosur deal would bring more food grown with banned pesticides into Europe, threatening our health and the livelihood of small, local farmers. We ne...

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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...

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.

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