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Day 13 of Lois asking Steve Reed to join her at the football. ⚽ 25 reservoirs have been flogged off and will now be rebuilt at exorbitant prices. 🤯 When will Steve get the message - private water doesn't work. We need public ownership NOW!

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Labour MP Rosena Allin-Khan: "Food is being used as a weapon of war.. we have a moral responsibility to act & if we don't act immediately this will be on us.. we can impose sanctions.. we can stop selling arms to the Israeli govt & we should be revisiting our free trade deal with Israel"

submitted 37 days ago • 9 comments

How many more clear examples is it going to take? The Labour Party is done. Join.greenparty.org.uk

submitted 39 days ago • 25 comments

'Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer' - Animal Farm, Orwell.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

A government that cuts aid to fund war, and cuts public services instead of taxing the rich, can not call itself a labour government. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 118 days ago • 16 comments

submitted 123 days ago • 247 comments

A new week. A new meme 😂😂😂

submitted 132 days ago • 11 comments

How many who voted for Labour voted for a hostile environment? This race to the cess-pitt of the Far-Right has to stop. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 132 days ago • 8 comments

10,000 of 3,000,000 millionaires left the country last year - 0.33%. These people would rather leave than pay tax - good riddance I say. Let’s not change our approach to appease rich freeloaders.

submitted 150 days ago • 152 comments

“But it’s important to fight for justice for the children this scandal left high and dry. From my own experience, I know this to be true.” @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social on why it’s time Kids Company was vindicated:

submitted 158 days ago • 2 comments

So Streeting’s big NHS idea is “Community Diagnostic Centres”? My research showed that this Tory idea was hailed by the private health industry as an excellent privatising opportunity - & that existing centres were extensively privately delivered. Indeed many were just rebranded mobile scan trucks.

submitted 169 days ago • 12 comments

Jess Philips spends her entire career giving the left a kicking, but when the far right attack her only the left say anything in her defence. Let this be a lesson to everyone who thinks the establishment has their back. To the super rich, we are all expendable.

submitted 171 days ago • 10 comments

In Ancient Greece, would A Question of Sport have been called 'The Nudes Quiz"?

submitted 171 days ago • 2 comments

“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?” @josiah.writes.news bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...

submitted 193 days ago • 137 comments

Bluesky, EveryDoctor has just launched a petition and it’s an emergency, because patients’ lives are at risk in the NHS right now 🚨 Shall we see what Bluesky can do? Crosses all fingers and hopes very hard 👉https://bit.ly/CallOnWesToSaveTheNHS

submitted 196 days ago • 5 comments

Child Poverty % (children living in households below the minimum wage) Denmark 2.4% Finland 3.2% Norway 3.6% Sweden 3.6% The UK 32.1% All four of those countries have child benefits, paid by taxing the rich, that make it almost impossible for a child to be in poverty.

submitted 196 days ago • 110 comments

BREAKING: “There’s no higher service than the service you give to our country” Prime minister Keir Starmer addresses troops at an RAF base in Cyprus

submitted 196 days ago • 42 comments

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says “We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants” Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY

submitted 200 days ago • 275 comments

NO ONE EXPECTS TO NEED A FOOD BANK, ESPECIALLY AT CHRISTMAS But with 16 million people now living in poverty in the UK - a staggering 24% of the UK population @trusselluk.bsky.social urgently need our help to provide emergency food, support & hope to people this winter youtu.be/_4hqVhTzVcw?...

submitted 203 days ago • 14 comments

16 MILLION PEOPLE NOW LIVE IN POVERTY IN THE UK - a staggering 24% of the UK population. @trusselluk.bsky.social urgently need our help to provide emergency food, support & hope to people this winter Please join me in supporting them if you can👇🙏

submitted 200 days ago • 12 comments

If that disgusting racist and grifting liar Nigel Farage shouldn't have been on Question Time even once, nevermind 38 times. Give this a Like, or better yet a RP.

submitted 200 days ago • 90 comments

The WASPI Campaign Petition calling on the government to “Introduce a compensation scheme for WASPI women” now has 98,400 signatures! Let’s help them get it to the 100,000 they need TODAY #WASPI petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 206 days ago • 32 comments

BREAKING: Laura Kuenssberg “I want to be really clear on what you will do. The plans you inherited from the former Gov’t would mean more than 400,000 people would be denied as much as £400 a month. You want to make that saving” Work & Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall “We will deliver those savings”

submitted 212 days ago • 65 comments

Liz Kendall says some people off work have ‘self-diagnosed’ mental health problems. Speaking as a former psychiatry doctor, it’s difficult for people to receive a formal diagnosis when the government won’t invest enough in the NHS, isn’t it?🚨🚨🚨 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 212 days ago • 70 comments

“The economic cost of Brexit, reliably estimated at around 5% of GDP and with a total loss to government coffers by 2035 of over £300bn, is unlikely to be offset by attempting to ‘make Brexit work’ – a slogan which rather confirms that it hasn’t” westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

submitted 212 days ago • 111 comments

Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her. RP if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.

submitted 212 days ago • 92 comments

An industry worth £110 billion a year is being crippled by red tape, lost access to skilled European professionals and lack of access to the EU market www.theneweuropean.co.uk/how-brexit-m...

submitted 212 days ago • 41 comments

Taxpayers picked up a tab of £30million to subsidise Parliament's restaurants and bars in the last few years. While people struggle to make ends meet the nation's politicians have food and drink at half the price of places outside Parliament. www.dailystar.co.uk/news/parliam...

submitted 212 days ago • 6 comments

MPs have launched a review into pensioner poverty after the government admitted the cut to winter fuel payments could force 100,000 people into poverty Surely this is exactly the sort of review which should have taken place before MP’s were asked to vote? news.sky.com/story/mps-to...

submitted 213 days ago • 120 comments

Military conflicts account for about 5.5% of global emissions - more than aviation. Imperialism is killing all of us. There can be no climate justice without peace. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 213 days ago • 9 comments

The ICC arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif make clear that to continue selling arms to Israel is to aid and abet war crimes. It is utterly indefensible. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 215 days ago • 15 comments

World beating UK, energy prices nearly double anywhere else. Also the UK, every energy firm making 4-10x profits. I wonder if they are related?

submitted 214 days ago • 223 comments