skyrsix
@skyrsix.bsky.social
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New petition: "Prevent MPs who resign their seat from standing for re-election for 12 months" Deadline 3 February 2027, created by Benjamin Dobson #NewPetition
New petition: Prevent MPs who resign their seat from standing for re-election for 12 months
If an MP chooses to resign from the UK Parliament during a parliamentary term, they would be ineligible to run for election for any seat, including the one previously held, for a minimum period of 12 months.
petition.parliament.uk
🔴 MAGA’s harassment of Fauci is a medieval witch hunt driven by scientifically illiterate bullies desperate to feed the mob. Any country that believes in modern medicine, vaccines, and reason should stand with Fauci against this tirade of ignorance
The UK should offer political asylum to Fauci
Notes on a nauseating show trial...
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#PalantirOut There is clearly "state capture" at the top of the NHS (and government), but happily not across the board "FOI request showed NHSE plans to overhaul part of its evaluation methods after an official raised concerns" www.ft.com/content/bc58...
NHS England to revise Palantir platform data after staff concerns
Changes to two most widely cited claims come as scrutiny grows over US tech company’s contract
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Yet we're allowing local councils to agree planning permission for data centres.....madness! bsky.app/profile/skyr...
skyrsix@skyrsix.bsky.social · 4d agoMicrosoft wants to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops. Food insecurity and higher prices would follow. Poor hit the hardest. Despite warnings, no plan for water shortages. Need reservoirs, water storage, better water management. Companies can't do national planning.
‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops
Growers in dismay after scorching weather and lack of rain affect yields, sending wholesale prices rocketing
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It was always unlawful, under the Highways Act 1980. But I don't suppose Suella would know that, being a lawyer, MP and former Attorney General.
How can politicians see that football belongs to the people but not see the same when it comes to water? Humans can't survive without water, nobody should have the power to withhold, or even limit, an essential need for life. I refuse to vote for anyone who doesn't support renationalisation
Microsoft wants to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!
Microsoft want to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.
you.38degrees.org.uk
Ban all supermarkets from throwing away edible food and require donation petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75... Ok, we're not France. We're a Monarchy, so it won't get the signatures. But we do have to adapt to Droughts and this should be an integral part of any Plan by Burnham on Homelessness
Microsoft wants to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!
Microsoft want to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.
you.38degrees.org.uk
Thames Water CEO went unchallenged on the BBC on the claim that public ownership means water investment competes with health and defence. This is a myth! 99% of water investment comes from BILLS. Take 2 mins to complain to Ofcom and the BBC vist.ly/5d5xb
Ofcom and BBC, correct the record: Thames Water CEO misled the public about public ownership
Thames Water CEO lied about public ownership on the BBC. It is time Ofcom and the BBC corrected the record
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I just signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition to demand the government protects us all from the impacts of extreme weather and the #ClimateEmergency. Add your name too! action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/tel...
Tell the government: stop extreme weather destroying lives
Add my name Extreme heat. Droughts. Wildfires. Flooding. Homes destroyed. Lives shattered. Climate breakdown isn’t a distant threat. It’s happening now, and communities across the UK are on the frontl...
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Govt planning c. 100 new data centres by early 2030s, mostly in already water stressed areas. They have no legal obligation to disclose how much water they use. Meanwhile Govt launches £75m publicity campaign to urge us to reduce water use & privatised water companies waste 19% thro leaks. Madness
John Crace on absolutely top form, ripping Jenrick to shreds. Glorious one-liner after glorious one-liner - so richly deserved! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Even GB News cringes as Reform turns dementia patients into a political football | John Crace
Honest Bob was rattled at the idea of joining cross-party talks on social care. Why bother behaving as a serious opposition?
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This is a fucking disgrace
HappyToast@happytoast.co.uk · 6d agoThis has really pissed me off, if you're in the area and can afford it go and give the cafe owner some money to help fund the kids meals. And if he refuses buy yourself a nice coffee and tip him as much as you can. Fuck Reform taking food from kids in need. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
“The climate crisis, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, is making heatwaves more intense and more frequent. A fortnight ago, the Reform-led Suffolk county council voted to rescind a climate emergency declaration” #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Hundreds evacuated after ‘apocalyptic’ wildfire near Suffolk nuclear power station
Major incident declared, with Sizewell B power station monitoring blaze and RSPB nature reserve badly hit
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I just signed a petition demanding governments make rich polluters pay. Billionaires and fossil fuel giants are profiting while communities pay the price. Join me & add your voice. #ClimateJustice #PollutersPay www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved...
Oxfam GB | Make rich polluters pay
I just signed a petition demanding governments make rich polluters pay. Billionaires and fossil fuel giants are profiting while communities pay the price. Join me & add your voice. #ClimateJustice #Po...
oxfam.org.uk
Our Social Care system problem Andy Burnham keeps wittering on about. 😡 We Conservatives solved it ages ago! 🇬🇧
I remain stunned how a notably unsuccessful and, for years, consistently wrong person (David Frost) can still get a place in our House of Lords to legislate for the rest of us and also still get paid to write highly stupid, dangerous and wrong bollox. But it is the Telegraph
Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last wk.Aaaaaaannnd, 24 hours later, normal service is resumed... The Daily Telegraph has published a response column by a politician with, yes, *extremely* close links to climate-sceptic lobbyists and who recently said in parliament that climate change was *checks notes* “likely to be beneficial”
Precisely the main issue. My experience in education and training is that employers demand "employability skills" from school / college / university leavers... ...yet they offer precious few opportunities for summer placements, internships or day release to students. Employers are hypocrites!
And good luck finding businesses to offer meaningful work experience to hundreds of thousands of 14 and 15 year olds. As ever a failure to acknowledge that our big challenge with vocational ed is our labour market.
Laura McInerney@missmc.bsky.social · last wk.Don’t worry, I’m sure they’ve thought through how this will be staffed, funded, and the class size implications for GCSE options. They learned that from the last time, right? RIGHT? www.tes.com/magazine/new...
Unless the Palantir tool has a means of solving the problem of providing assisted accommodation for people fit enough to leave hospital but still needing care, it's not going to help with bed blockers. The best software tool in the world still can't provide social care.
HUGE surprise that Palantir’s tool hasn’t improved hospital discharge rates. Their business model isn’t about delivering a service - its only objective is wrapping its tentacles so comprehensively around our systems that they become the permanent gatekeeper to all our problems. Andy - get on it!
And this is why disabled and older people in England are currently forced to sit in their own urine because they can’t get to the toilet.
Badenoch is playing to her audience. She has to pick fights otherwise the few remaining tories will lose interest and join reform/restore or whatever far right extremists they generate next. She’s no longer a politician, just a performer playing to an ever shrinking crowd.
Burnham: Social Care is a huge challenge that demands a proper longterm solution. It can be done if parties work together. Most parties: PM is right and we'll work with him for a solution. Tories: PM is right and we'll work with him for a solution. BUT ONLY IF HE CAN DO IT FOR FREE. Grow TF up.