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Take just 2 mins to email your MP. Give them the facts about the Thames Water creditors' deal and urge them to write to Environment Secretary Angela Eagle. https://weownit.org.uk/angela-eagle-stop-creditors
Write to your MP: reject the creditors' last-ditch attempt to keep Thames Water privatisedWrite to your MP: reject the creditors' last-ditch attempt to keep Thames Water privatisedweownit.org.ukAfter being rejected 4 times, Thames Water's creditors are now submitting a 5th proposal to keep the failing utility in private hands. This time, they're promising to increase public control. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻. 1/2
There is no good reason why registering to vote in Britain is more difficult than in most other comparable democracies. MHCLG’s new ministerial team must ensure automatic voter registration is properly up and running in time for the next general election.
Takeaways from the Parliamentary Roundtable on Automatic Voter Registration — Unlock DemocracyParliament should represent the voters – all the voters. That is impossible while an estimated 6-8 million eligible people remain missing from the electoral register, disproportionately young people,…buff.lyThere’s no doubt the hereditary peers were democratically indefensible. Their expulsion was long overdue. Nonetheless it would be difficult to construct a democratic or constitutional defence of the second chamber Starmer leaves behind.
Starmer’s Lords legacy is his leadership in microcosmBold promises of radical change lacked coherence, yielding disjointed and contradictory results.buff.lyFirst Past the Post voting is causing chaos. Andy Burnham must quickly establish a National Commission on Electoral Reform to look into options for changing our voting system. Sign our petition with @makevotesmatter.bsky.social and @compassoffice.bsky.social 👇 actionnetwork.org/petitions/an...
Dear Andy Burnham: it's time for a fair voting systemDear 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...actionnetwork.orgThe Ethics and Integrity Commission is right – Britain's lobbying rules are not fit for purpose. As our CEO told the BBC, instead of today’s fragmented picture, the public should have a clear view of who is lobbying govt, on whose behalf & about what. Full clip here👇 buff.ly/e0LI1ta
We need to kick big money out of politics. Not just from overseas donors, or those who’ve returned from overseas for less than a year, but from all sources. Big money buys influence, no matter its origin.
With all the focus on Clacton, little attention will be paid to the 10,000 eligible voters estimated to be missing from the electoral register. The Representation of the People Bill is a big moment in ensuring this is one of the last elections where so many voters are left without a voice.
Automatic Voter Registration | Our campaign to Register Every Voter — Unlock DemocracyOver 6 million eligible UK citizens are not signed up to vote. Their voice goes completely unheard in our politics. Automatic voter enrolment systems are already in use in dozens of democracies…buff.ly🚨The UK-US pharma deal with Trump will cost 229,000 lives in England. The deal is so bad that the editor of the British Medical Journal says it suggests "We’ll kill our poor people to make your rich companies richer”. Dear Andy Burnham, tear up this deal as Prime Minister. Thank you.
Ministers' latest proposals tie political donations up in ever more complicated rules that are hard to explain, harder to enforce, & risk looking unevenly applied. There's a far simpler solution: cap every political donation at the same reasonable level, regardless of who gives it. buff.ly/r3Sd5Z5
Crypto billionaires face 12-month block on political dona...New bill proposes restriction for overseas voters returning to the UK in bid to protect electoral system from potential foreign interferenceobserver.co.ukThere are many problems with our current voting system, and politicians from across the political spectrum recognise this.
Special administration of Thames Water is CLOSE. But not yet close enough. The future of Thames Water - and, by extension, our water sector as a whole - hangs in the balance. ✍️ Can you take 2mins to urge your MP to take the next step on securing special administration for Thames Water?
Thames Water: urge your MP take the next step to special administrationwrite to MPs to push Thames Water into special administration, where we can win permanent public ownershipweownit.org.ukWhen it's within the rules for 128 members of the House of Lords to hold paid political advisory roles, it's clear the rules are inadequate. Our laws should be made in the public interest. Until the Lords Code of Conduct changes, voters will wonder what other interests might be being pursued.
The House of Lords has become a lobbying network for hireAlmost one in six peers holds a political advisory role that presents a significant lobbying riskbuff.lyFewer than 1 in 14 voters believe mega-donors expect nothing in return for their money. That tells you everything you need to know about the damage unlimited donations are doing to trust in politics. Capping donations would show voters politics isn’t for sale.
It's time for a cap on donations: Will Steve Reed and the Government act? - Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debateShaun Roberts, Director of Campaigns, Unlock Democracy Big money donations to political parties are doing huge damage to trust in […]buff.ly
Thank you to the Unions for telling Farage to stick his offer up his arse.👍🏽 #NotTodayFacist www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Unions rebuff Farage and say Reform ‘cosplaying’ as workers’ championsTUC, GMB, Unite and Unison leaders reject invitation to affiliate to Reform amid rising support for party among their memberswww.theguardian.comThe latest donation figures are a reminder that British politics is ever more heavily reliant on a small number of super-rich donors. Capping donations would help ensure political influence is earned through public support, not purchased through private wealth.
Reform party rakes in £9.2m from donors in three monthsThe bulk of Reform UK’s donations came from two cryptocurrency billionaires living overseasbuff.lyThe government commissioned a review into foreign interference in politics. Now it looks set to ignore one of its most important recommendations. Letting companies donate far more than they make in profit leaves our democracy wide open to abuse by foreign interests
Ministers to weaken proposed cap on corporate political donationsGovernment said to fear that a limit based on a firm’s profit, recommended in a report on foreign influence, could discriminate against small businessesbuff.ly
Many would-be disabled MPs face unnecessarily high barriers to standing for election. Almost 1 in 4 Brits (24%) report some form of disability, but only 1.85% of current MPs. That's why we're backing amendment NC1 to the Representation of the People Bill creating an Access to Elected Office Fund.
"What did the billionaire lining his pockets ask for in return?" At PMQs, Keir Starmer raised the obvious question about Farage’s £5m gift. But if big money buys influence, surely no party or politician should accept mega donations? Better yet, stop them at source: cap donations across the board.