Hannah Spencer, MP:
"Our already extortionate water bills in England and Wales went up by an average 5% this week, while sewage continues to be pumped into our rivers. Most people see that privatised water companies are taking us for a ride and want them renationalised, a longstanding Green party policy. But the government refuses to even consider it."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/03/weeks-green-mp-politicians-clue-cost-living-labour

#GreenParty #UKPol #SewageScandal #RenationaliseWater #Labour

What I learned from my first few weeks as a Green MP? Most politicians have no clue how tough things are out there

With this escalating cost of living crisis, so many are really suffering – yet Labour lacks the imagination, boldness and will to do anything about it, says Green party MP Hannah Spencer

The Guardian

Hannah Spencer:
"The Green party is clear: ordinary people should not pay for this crisis (US/Israel war on Iran). The government should guarantee right now that it will not allow energy bills to rise beyond the April-June price cap, and every single pound of reckless profiteering by energy companies must be repurposed to this end."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/03/weeks-green-mp-politicians-clue-cost-living-labour

#Iran #WarWithIran #UKPol #GreenParty #Labour #CostOfLiving

What I learned from my first few weeks as a Green MP? Most politicians have no clue how tough things are out there

With this escalating cost of living crisis, so many are really suffering – yet Labour lacks the imagination, boldness and will to do anything about it, says Green party MP Hannah Spencer

The Guardian
I've ordered by nice new blue passport, just in time for yje UK to seemingly be on our way back into the EU lol #rejoineu #ukpolitics #ukpol

Pope Leo XIV against Imperialism:
– 'The cross is part of the mission. The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked. The poor, imprisoned, and rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, yet in so doing He brings a new creation to light.'

Pope tweet: https://x.com/Pontifex/status/2039667158087877085
Video: https://x.com/ChristopherHale/status/2039736119546216572

#GoodFriday #Easter #Christianity

#JD20260403 #JDLinkBlog
#Iran #USA #Israel #EndlessWar #IranWar
#UKpol #USpol #EUpol #Palestine all for #Israel #Video #News

#Epstein #EpsteinWars

Syria’s MI6-backed president bows to King Charles https://thegrayzone.com/2026/04/02/syrias-mi6-president-king-charles/ #ukpol
Syria’s MI6-backed president bows to King Charles - The Grayzone

News and investigative journalism on empire

The Grayzone - News and investigative journalism on empire

But it's all OK, he has empathy and knows what it's like because he's gay.

So that's all good...

Oh, and don't forget he's targeting neurodiverse folk next...

Any reporter led newsroom targeting queer folks would be ripping that to shreds - even Attitude managed to do something when Starmer wrote before the election and they're not really a newsroom...

#UKPol

Ahhh Pink News have successfully taken reporting out of their newsroom with this going out unopposed... https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/04/03/wes-streeting-trans-puberty-blockers/

Young people can only be "questioning". Puberty blockers have been banned but the trial to "investigate their safety" (for trans kids only, cis people can continue taking the "risk"). They're taking away "routine" hormones for young people (routine?!?)... But treatment is not paused... You can still get conversion therapy. Sorry, "talking therapy"

#UKPol

Wes Streeting: ‘Every trans person deserves safety and respect – that’s not up for debate’

Writing for PinkNews, Wes Streeting says he wants to reassure trans youngsters that they have not been forgotten.

PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news

The story of the seven-year-old boy who nearly died after kayaking in Windermere has shaken a lot of people this week. His mum checked the official water quality rating before they went in. It said the water was excellent. He spent six weeks in hospital.

https://the.organise.network/surveys/Nationalise-or-reform-water-questions
#uk #ukpol #ukpolitics #sewage #SewageScandal #nationalisewatercompanies

Thank you! Can you answer a couple more questions about nationalising water?

@ChrisMayLA6 quite agree but taking as read the fact that Reform is full of deeply unpleasant individuals who are totally unfit to run anything, what I find even more shocking - and vindicates what Grenfell residents were saying even before the fire - is that this man is described as “former head of Homes England”.

Indicative of the utter contempt in which too many in positions of authority have for the people over whose lives they exercise power

#uk #ukpol #classpolitics

@ComicContext All #uspol and #ukpol in a nutshell.