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I like quirky things, politics (same thing sometimes), roses, some birds, witticisms and dad jokes. Saw that some ppl here want a bio. Now you know how boring I can be.😜😜
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Private equity bidders trump rival to buy doctors' surgeries, hospitals and hospices with £1.7bn Assura bid. NHS estate privatised by Tories/Blair, now bought/sold for profit. NHS pays escalating rents, less money left for frontline services. All part of creeping privatisation

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Cough...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Man in blue and white, "About Reform, do I smell a bit of BS?" #BBCQT "Because Reform are trying to tell us to trust you, the Farage show" "It's the guy who advocated for Brexit, let's not forget that" "Why is the economy in the state that it is now? Brexit"

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

2025: Zia Yusuf says it's not true that Nigel Farage is on the record saying to scrap the NHS #BBCQT 2012: Nigel Farage on the record saying he'd scrap the NHS and replace it with an insurance-based privatised health care system

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Oxford Labour coming out against the Congestion Charge & offering no policy alternatives, saying people want "less congestion" and "to be listened to." So like the recent Labour-sponsored Citizens Assembly which voted 74% in favour of a congestion charge?!? oxfordclarion.uk/citizens-ass...

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Chancellor talks about energy security but yet again - just another way of funding private capital. What about investing in renewables & nationalising our energy companies? What about energy efficiency & prioritising insulating homes of poorest households? Bring bills down. #SpendingReview

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

🚨 Chancellor Rachel Reeves MP: "Austerity was a destructive choice for our economy, choking off investment and demand" "Creating a lost decade for growth, wages and living standards"

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

UK govt can raise £bns in tax revenues to reduce inequalities, redistribute wealth, cut taxes for low/middle income families and invest in social infrastructure. One example: End National Insurance loopholes enjoyed by law/accountancy firms. Watch the video- How do you rate the Minister's reply?

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

MPs have taken more than £2.7 million in donations from people and companies linked to the private health sector! This shouldn’t be allowed! 🚨 Click to call for a ban on these donations- it takes seconds! everydoctor.eaction.org.uk/ban-donation...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Memo to Ed: nuclear is outdated, hugely costly & far too slow. Hinkley Pt C is already years late & tens of billions over budget. Nuclear isn’t zero carbon, it won’t be “always on”, we still haven’t found a safe way to dispose of waste & it poses huge security risks @sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 45 comments

NATIONALISE WATER NOW! Can this government get anything right? Nationalisation IS the answer and the argument we can’t afford it is NONSENSE! Get on with it!

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

I asked a BBC spokesperson to set out any examples of the corporation drawing up specific plans to secure the support of voters for other political parties in the UK, but they were unable to do so bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

submitted 6 days ago • 138 comments

Deserts are spreading across Britain, yet scarcely anyone in public life even seems to have noticed. This week's column seeks to open our eyes to something that has been too big to see. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

Radiology delays linked to ‘unsustainable’ NHS privatisation If current trends continue, annual spending on outsourcing could exceed £400 million by 2028, enough to fund 3,389 full-time consultant radiologists leftfootforward.org/2025/06/radi...

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

I stopped using Meta social media Apart from - annoyingly - Messenger and WhatsApp chats. Step away from #Meta. Meta is not your friend. Meta also is knowingly complicit in the destruction of democracies, as shown by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social in #TheGreatHack www.netflix.com/gb/title/801...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen. This would help our bees " via I Love Bees

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He can't run a five person parliamentary party, how could he ever think he can run a country? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 37 comments