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We all need to be more like Harvard

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

The UK is in decline where money wields power. Normal people toil and are just voting fodder. Laws and policies are crafted to give the appearance of sternness and fairness, but are rarely fully enforced on corporations and the rich. Must end political corruption

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

Trump’s assault on higher education in the states, as exemplified by banning international students from from Harvard, is appalling and sickening. Total madness. His budget is as bad. The Maga are oblivious to the shitstorm that is coming.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Inflation figures were entirely predictable when the ‘regulators’ let energy and water companies price gouge. For example, the standing charge my dead father’s house is 59p per day. The company is doing nothing, empty house, dead dad. Add in food costs and bang…

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

For gods sake Labour bin brexit. It’s shit awful. There are no gains. Ask Farage what we have won. He has no answer.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Labour tracking right to appeal to reform voters is not going to work. These people are lost. Starmer will now lose the remaining Labour voters in the centre, centre left (the left went yonks ago). He’s about to find out that he can’t out reform reform.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Depressing to see this sort of language being briefed out. Deliberately ignorant and unedifying. on.ft.com/3SvOYmO

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

Starmer's Britain. Not even subtle.

submitted 24 days ago • 164 comments

It will probably come as no surprise to anyone to hear that Reform UK’s policies add up to an agenda of fiscal recklessness that rivals, and may well exceed, the disastrous 49-day, hair-raising, market-tanking premiership of Liz Truss in 2022 econ.st/42WSuLG

submitted 26 days ago • 131 comments

‘Further & Faster’ Cutting services for patients This is not what people voted for when they voted for Labour But somehow Labour is Tory 2.0 Austerity in the NHS / Welfare leads to a poorer economy as more people unable to work @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social

submitted 26 days ago • 14 comments

Metro Bank plans £60m bonus for bosses, irrespective on performance. Ultimately paid by high charges to customers, staff/wage cuts, branch closures. Govt removed cap on bankers' bonus. Govts tells workers wage rises are inflationary but silence on exec remuneration, dividends, share buybacks.

submitted 26 days ago • 14 comments

Reform voter replies: 1. Most don’t know the difference between a local vs GE or how the basics of how our voting system works 2. Some don’t know what adult social care is… 3. Many cheered job loss threats (councillors can’t fire people) 4. Endless conspiracy, ask for evidence, nothing MAGA UK

submitted 33 days ago • 40 comments

Well this individual lacks self awareness. All those lifestyle choices levied at someone who really is poor apply here. Thank goodness she can now pay the cleaner. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/367...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

9.3m Britons, including 3m children, face hunger/hardship. Govt response - cut benefits, support services. Result - lower education, health & employment attainment; pressure on the NHS, public services. Loss of £38.2bn in annual output. Can't grow economy without eradicating poverty.

submitted 37 days ago • 12 comments

Private gas-fired stations charge 100 times normal rates for electricity when renewable energy in short supply. Private equity, foreign state-owned companies make huge profits. End the scam. Nationalise UK gas plants & entire energy production. Lower energy bills reduce poverty, business costs.

submitted 37 days ago • 14 comments

How fucking disproportionate is this? And motorists who kill cyclists get a suspended sentence and a pat on the back. Madness. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

There is no limit to his craziness www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

My husband spent over 24hrs on a chair in Basildon A&E last July. He was 66 at the time.

submitted 45 days ago • 14 comments

Reeves Pledges No Increases to UK Wealth Taxes in Next Budget. Rich fund political parties, meet ministers, get their way. Poor can't. Low/Middle income people pay higher taxes, suffer crumbling infrastructure. Can't rebuild economy without redistribution. archive.ph/C6kmb

submitted 45 days ago • 57 comments

A good time to bring up the vexed question of the NHS's buying power. As part of any UK/US trade deal US pharma companies want the NHS to be stopped from buying drugs directly, so that they can do the same here as in the US, where they routinely charge many hundreds of times the cost of medicines.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

UK median wage, £29,628. Net pay, £24,852; barely enough to survive. Top 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Bottom 50% less than 5%. Can't revive economy without boosting purchasing power of the bottom 50%. Workers need higher share of GDP. Progressive taxation.

submitted 49 days ago • 25 comments

Okay this is what I think will happen. Starmer et al will believe the orange man’s lies and cut a shit deal with the states. It will cost us no tax for tax dodging big US tech, a few crusts after a promise of the NHS and complete isolation from Europe as result. Tell me I am wrong….

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Private VAT fees. It’s been forgotten but here is a reminder. The reasons behind the hysteria are clearly outlined in this piece. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/364...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Govt for Sale. It will cost £5,000 plus VAT to engage in a Q&A session with Chancellor Reeves Only the ultra rich and big corporations can pay; influence policies, demand subsidies, privatisations Low/middle income people and SMEs can pray and buy worry beads. archive.ph/xBT3b

submitted 60 days ago • 80 comments

HE SAID TWO DAYS. Not one. Joke's on you, punks!

submitted 62 days ago • 10 comments

This is a sane take on the madness of emperor Trump: apple.news/AEDdcQiq3RPy...

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

New research has shown that teachers' pay lags considerably behind other professions

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

UK grocery inflation edges higher. Inflation caused by profiteering at energy, water, transport, grocery, landlords, banks, insurance, elsewhere. Higher interest rates force people to hand wealth to banks, don't address profiteering. End profiteering. Tax those with excess cash. archive.ph/GOMn0

submitted 64 days ago • 15 comments

The Government must act now to get a new regulator in place to protect British rivers and seas from being pumped with disgusting sewage. It’s time for Ofwat to go.

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Welfare cuts are a political choice. 685,500 Britons (1%) have wealth of £2.8trn. 48m (70%) have £2.4trn. Richest four have more wealth than 20m people combined. Govt could have taxed the rich, chose to cut benefits of the disabled/poor. Not acceptable. Tell your MP to oppose the cuts.

submitted 67 days ago • 27 comments

What is not mentioned in this piece is that public servants cannot access or withdraw their full pot. This limits what they can do and plan for in retirement. Both employees & employers pay in same as most decent private schemes. So none of it be handed on. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/how...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

To the Sunday Times idiot asking why Britain is so skint and we pay so much tax. Aside of inheritance on pensions and private school VAT, perfectly reasonable as both favour the super wealthy, the rest of the shit storm is down to years of Tory plundering and mismanagement.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Given the fiscal and trade deficits, at some point, Labour are going to have to stop rearranging the deckchairs and open a discussion on at least a Norway type deal with the E.U. They’ll never convince reform people but a growing economy might attract other voters.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Just what country needs more infrastructure in the South East. Check out the crap infrastructure not linking either side of Pennines. Labour are a clueless as the Tories were.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

🥺 #RejoinEUNow www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Welcome to Brexterity Britain. New Substack, sympathetic to some of the Government's case, whilst pointing out it is likely stuck unless it confronts Brexterity - Brexit plus a revenue crisis - directly. Without this it could sink into the Olaf Scholz quicksand. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyp...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: £2 trillion poorer than previously thought? 📗 Stuart Adam, Isaac Delestre, Carl Emmerson and @david-sturrock.bsky.social's new report finds that a major recent revision by the ONS to official estimates of household wealth is fundamentally flawed. Read the report: ifs.org.uk/publications...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

👇🏻the UK Government wrote off almost £10bn worth of unused PPE during pandemic, accounts show. www.bmj.com/content/384/...

submitted 77 days ago • 6 comments

If #Starmer wants to prove #Labour stands for working people, he can’t ignore this rebellion. No MP should vote to make life harder for the poor and disabled while the rich get tax breaks. Time to tax wealth properly, scrap corporate handouts, and fix this mess www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

Oh @teamlabouruk.bsky.social you have so got this upside down. Whatever happened to the broadest shoulders? Appalling, just appalling.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments