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**michael** @proseandpassion@mastodon.social · Jun 9

michael @proseandpassion@mastodon.social

Public ownership of England’s water companies could cost close to zero, says thinktank
Exclusive: #CommonWealth report argues debt, pollution and underinvestment justify process known as special administration

- renationalise #water companies!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/09/water-companies-public-ownership-could-cost-close-to-zero-says-common-wealth-thinktank #UKpolitics #ThamesWater

The Guardian · Jun 9Public ownership of England’s water companies could cost close to zero, says thinktankBy Peter Walker

**Eduardo Medina** @edlinks@mastodon.social · May 8

May 8

Eduardo Medina @edlinks@mastodon.social

Primera puñalada por la espalda de #ReinoUnido a #Canadá. Que alguien le diga al tonto #KeirStarmer que no estamos en el Siglo XVIII y que no puede traicionar a un país de la #Commonwealth solo para satisfacer los intereses de #Londres.

De veras que no he visto un país más pirata y traicionero en mi vida. https://www.elmundo.es/economia/2025/05/08/681c9187fc6c83cc488b456d.html

ELMUNDO · May 8Trump logra su primer acuerdo tras su guerra arancelaria: Reino Unido cambiará su 'tasa Google' para beneficiar al acero y los cochesReino Unido se va a convertir en el primer país que firma un acuerdo comercial con Estados Unidos después de que Washington lanzara su guerra arancelaria el 2 de abril. Hace...

#UnitedKingdom #Trump #DonaldTrump

**Global News** @glnews_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net · Apr 29

Apr 29

Global News @glnews_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net

Calgary police identify victim of fatal weekend stabbing outside Beltline nightclub
Calgary police are trying to locate the owner of a dark-coloured Tesla who may be able to help in the investigation into a fatal stabbing outside the Commonwealth bar on Saturday.
#crime #police #stabbing #Calgary #Beltline #Commonwealth
https://globalnews.ca/news/11156286/calgary-police-identify-victim-stabbing-beltline-nightclub/

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**Greengordon** @Greengordon@spore.social · Apr 13

Apr 13

Greengordon @Greengordon@spore.social

@EugeneMcParland

How about #EU plus #commonwealth ?

"Donald #Trump is now badly wounded. Europe and the UK can seize an advantage"

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**David Megginson** @david_megginson@mstdn.ca · Mar 27

Mar 27

David Megginson @david_megginson@mstdn.ca

@kibcol1049 The Commonwealth could make an interesting trading bloc, if the Global South members participated as fully-equal partners with the rich members.

We'd need to avoid a British Empire v.2, with the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand having special status and making most of the decisions.

#Commonwealth

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**Silver Arrows** @SilverArrows@autistics.life · Mar 26

Mar 26

Silver Arrows @SilverArrows@autistics.life

@voxofgod the Commonwealth doesn't want the USA, that's not going to happen. Also, I'm kinda of getting the impression you think it's a bit like the EU? Commonwealth is basically just the old British colonies kinda maintaining some cultural (and sometimes head of state) ties after independence. In practice it just means some countries like Canada and Australia still have the UK monarch as a powerless head of state. We don't get freedom of movement like the EU gets. I don't think we even get special visa conditions.

In practical terms, being a member of the Commonwealth means your country gets to take part in the Commonwealth games. And maybe extra diplomatic help in other Commonwealth countries if you don't have an embassy there. Um. That's it afaik

Btw New Zealand is not disability friendly for immigration. There was a big story a few years ago where a British man was offered a high paying job there and was told he can take his wife and older child, but his disabled daughter was not given residency.

When trying to find the article, I found these:

https://news.sky.com/story/girl-12-denied-residency-because-her-autism-does-not-meet-acceptable-standards-of-health-in-new-zealand-12599259

https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/26/family-denied-visa-daughter-downs-syndrome-9022812/

https://www.liveaction.org/news/new-zealand-denied-residency-teenage-girl-syndrome/

Sky · Apr 26, 2022Girl, 12, denied residency because her autism does not meet 'acceptable standards of health' in New ZealandBy Megan Harwood-Baynes

#ableism #discrimination #newzealand

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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · Mar 24

Mar 24

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

Oh look Starmer, Canada has noticed our cowardice.....like the British Public has.

No British political leader is currently seen in a favourable light, but the PM is behind Farage and even Badenoch in the Polls! And he doesn't care!

The Canadians I spoke to, in shops, at bus stops and stations, at home and by
email, were generally less dramatic about the situation than Carney, who has
areputation as a leader to establish, and now an election to win next month.
There was some anger at the US - and at Britain’s failure to condemn Trump’s
threats against a Commonwealth country. “The king is proud to align himself
with a despot for ... a dangled trade agreement,” a Montreal academic told
me, referring to King Charles’s recent invitation to Trump to make a second
state visit to Britain. “A bold response from us in Canada would be to cut our
ties with the monarchy”

#UKPOL #UKpolitics #ElbowsUp

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · Mar 24

Mar 24

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

Canada is in the Commonwealth, but that doesn't mean the UK will openly support them against Gilead.

No, "don't say that about Canada, don't threaten them" from Westminster, too busy keep their heads down and hoping Trump doesn't notice us.

Until Trump started talking so insistently about making Canada his country’s

“51st state”, that would have been an absurd comparison. But not any more.

“The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country” said |
the new Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, in his first speech as Liberal

leader. “If they succeed, they will destroy our way of life.” Supposedly one of

the most harmonious - and strategically important - relationships between

rich western countries appears to have changed radically.

#CdnPoli #CanPol #USPOL

**Glyn Moody** @glynmoody@mastodon.social · Mar 23

Mar 23

Glyn Moody @glynmoody@mastodon.social

#Trump weighs in on report King Charles will offer U.S. membership to British #Commonwealth: ‘Sounds good!’ - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-commonwealth-offer-us-member-b2719470.html this had better be a joke, or there will be riots in the UK streets...

The Independent · Jun 13, 2016Field Day: PJ Harvey, Mystery Jets, John Grant and Beach House chase away the gloom for festival's 10th anniversary | The IndependentBy Roisin O'Connor

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C. @cazabon@mindly.social · Mar 22

Mar 22

C. @cazabon@mindly.social

@GottaLaff

I have no idea if this is true, either.

But as a Canadian, if Charles III even extends the invitation to the USA, regardless of whether they take it, Canada *must* immediately withdraw from the commonwealth, do the impossible and modify our constitution to remove the monarchy as our head of state, and drop every Royal from our currency and the titles of every government job, facility, or process.

There is *no* room in which both the current USA and Canada belong together, and if the UK wants to choose the USA, then we know when we're not wanted.

#Canada #USA #Commonwealth

**Linux Is Best** @Linux@mk.absturztau.be · Mar 22

Mar 22

Linux Is Best @Linux@mk.absturztau.be

Donald Trump said, the United States, could join the Commonwealth of Great Britain.

Who had that on their bingo card?

#Commonwealth #Britain #England #UnitedStates #DonaldTrump

**Ben Royce** @benroyce@mastodon.social · Mar 22

Mar 22

Ben Royce @benroyce@mastodon.social

'Donald #Trump suggested that the #US could join the #British #Commonwealth on Friday in a post to #TruthSocial, his #socialMedia platform.

The president shared an article from British #tabloid #TheSun reporting that #KingCharlesIII was making a "secret offer" to the #WhiteHouse, and that plans are in process for the #USA to become an associate member of the international organization.

"I Love King Charles. Sounds good to me!" Trump wrote in response to the report'

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-suggests-us-could-join-british-commonwealth-2048679

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**michael** @proseandpassion@mastodon.social · Mar 18

Mar 18

michael @proseandpassion@mastodon.social

As #Trumpocalypse menaces us in #Canada, we have a question for Britain: when will you stand up to him?
Jennifer Welsh

The UK has long benefited from its #Commonwealth. Though we will take steps to ensure our survival, the silence from London is deafening

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/18/canada-britain-usa-stand-up-donald-trump #UKpolitics

The Guardian · Mar 18As Trump menaces us in Canada, we have a question for Britain: when will you stand up to him?By Jennifer Welsh

**Putin's IBS** @kardinal691@mastodon.online · Mar 13

Mar 13

Putin's IBS @kardinal691@mastodon.online

According to #Bloomberg, the "coalition of the willing" may include nations across #Europe, the #Commonwealth, and #Asia. According to the plan, they will provide financial assistance, troops, planes, or naval vessels to help defend #Ukraine from new #Russian aggression.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-12/uk-and-france-race-to-draft-ukraine-troops-plan-trump-will-buy

#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691

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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · Mar 12

Mar 12

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

"oh, I hope Mr Trump won't be mean to us, if we just ignore the Canadians and what they're doing, perhaps Mr Trump will be nice to us?" - UK

Canada to impose 25% tariffs on nearly $30bn
in US imports as trade war flares - live

Canadian foreign minister condemns ‘unjustified’ trade war

and condemns ‘Trump's talks of annexing our country

through economic coercion’

#CDNPoli #CanPol #Tariffs

**HistoPol (#HP)** @HistoPol@mastodon.social · Mar 11 *

Mar 11 *

HistoPol (#HP) @HistoPol@mastodon.social

@BioSchweiz

Well, #Canada is still part of a European, #UK-based #Commonwealth, for one thing.

Then, there is #CETA. And #NATO.

Maybe #EuropeanUnion might not be an appropriate term anymore, maybe #TransatlanticUnion would be more appropriate?

In fact, I favor #CEUM, for the time being.
An #FTA, similar, to how the #EuropeanCommunity got started, back in the day.

@Snowshadow

**gentlegardener** @gentlegardener@mastodon.scot · Mar 10 *

Mar 10 *

gentlegardener @gentlegardener@mastodon.scot

I am a #hillbilly. From #Appalachia. And here’s the elegy for #rural localities from the folks they elected.

As much as $1 out of every $5 of public budgets in #rural #virginia counties comes from…taking money from rich states outside VA and sending it through the #federal gummint to #rural localities. More pronounced after 2020.

Common weal in the #commonwealth.
Aka wealth redistribution.
Aka the S word.

You’re welcome, y’all.

“Have you EVER said thank you (JD)?!?!?”

#cardinalnews

**Alliterative/Endless Knot** @AllEndlessKnot@toot.community · Mar 10

Mar 10

Alliterative/Endless Knot @AllEndlessKnot@toot.community

Today is #CommonwealthDay so the #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is COMMONWEALTH/MUTUAL/MAD/WILL #wotd #Commonwealth #mutual #mad #will

With the US descending into madness, Canada is increasingly turning to its Commonwealth ties for mutual support and good will, and this makes good etymological sense too. Common comes through Old French comun “common, general, free, open, public”, from Latin communis “common, general, universal, public”, ultimately traceable back to the Proto-Indo-European compound *ko-moin-i- “held in common” (with the prefix *ko- “together”), formed from the suffixed o-grade form *moi-n- of the root *mei- “to change, go, move”, which often has derivatives referring to the exchange of goods and services within a society regulated by custom or law. This root also came into Latin as mutuus “borrowed, lent; reciprocal, mutual”, which became Old French mutuel and was then borrowed into English in the late 15th c., originally with the sense “reciprocally given and received” with respect to feelings, eventually developing the sense “common” by the 1630s. This PIE root also came into the Germanic branch as Proto-Germanic *ga-maid-az “changed (for the worse), abnormal” (with the collective, intensive, and perfective prefix *ga-), which had the denominative form *ga-maid-jan, which came into Old English as *gemædan “to make insane or foolish” with the past participle gemæded “rendered insane”, eventually giving us the adjective mad.

Wealth (with the original sense of “state or condition of happiness, well-being, joy”) comes from Old English wele “well-being” + the noun-forming suffix -th denoting action, state, or quality, from Proto-Germanic *welon-, ultimately traceable back to the PIE root *wel- “to wish, will”, also the source of the Old English verb *willan “to wish” (which became the Modern English futural auxiliary verb will) and noun willa “desire, willpower”, which gives us the Modern English noun will.

**tagesschau** @tagesschau@ard.social · Mar 10

Mar 10

tagesschau @tagesschau@ard.social

Royaler Friedensstifter: Gerät König Charles III. zwischen die Fronten?

Am Commonwealth Day steht König Charles III. als Oberhaupt des Staatenbundes im Fokus. Zuletzt nutzte die britische Regierung ihn gleich mehrfach als diplomatischen Joker. Für Charles ein Drahtseilakt. Von Mareike Aden.

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/commonwealth-charles-weltpolitik-trump-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

tagesschau.de · Mar 10Royaler Friedensstifter: Gerät König Charles III. zwischen die Fronten?By Mareike Aden

#Commonwealth #CharlesIII #Trump

**apfeltalk** @apfeltalk@creators.social · Mar 7

Mar 7

apfeltalk @apfeltalk@creators.social

Apple Music präsentiert „The King’s Music Room“ mit König Charles III.
Apple Music hat eine neue exklusive Sendung angekündigt: „The King’s Music Room“, eine musikalische Reise durch die Commonwealth-Staaten, kuratiert von König
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/apple-music-praesentiert-the-kings-music-room-mit-koenig-charles-iii/
#Music #News #AppleMusic #AppleMusic1 #Commonwealth #KnigCharlesIII #Musikgeschichte #Musiksendung #Playlists #Radio #Streaming #TheKingsMusicRoom

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