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I just signed the petition to to demand the Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

We shouldn’t cut a single penny in support for disabled people - we should tax the wealthiest instead. Over 50,000 have backed my petition for wealth taxes, not cuts - as part of our campaign to get as many MPs as possible to vote down these cuts. Sign here: change.org/wealthtaxes-...

submitted 67 days ago • 5 comments

At the 2001 Laeken Summit, EU nations agreed to aim for a basic pension of 40% of average earnings by 2007 and work towards 60% thereafter. This was a non-binding commitment, not a directive State pension by 2017: £7,440 - UK £15,811 - France £26,366 - Germany £26,630 - Spain What a contrast 😱

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

They both keep their money in Tax Havens.

submitted 67 days ago • 21 comments

"My colleague Pecksniff recently asked the question: ‘Why, in one of the ten richest countries in the world, do we feel so poor. Where did the money go?’ The answer is easy: it went to the rich. But that is only the beginning of the issue. How did it happen, and what do we want to do about it?"

submitted 84 days ago • 13 comments

Council tax went up 12 years in a row under the Tory governments. #PMQs

submitted 88 days ago • 5 comments

Over 20,000 people have already backed my petition calling for a Wealth Tax, not cuts to disability support. As part of our campaigning to get as many MPs as possible to vote down these cuts, I’ll present this in Parliament ahead of any vote. Sign here👇 chng.it/zWMrwRvY8Y

submitted 89 days ago • 15 comments

All that fuss in 2023? ##priceincreases

submitted 88 days ago • 8 comments

If we lost the billionaires what would we lose? Absolutely nothing. What would we gain? $20tn, all our Public Services back, most of our Private ones, and 60% of our housing. Easy choice, isn't it?

submitted 90 days ago • 12 comments

Why the hell are we subsidising Elon ‘fucking’ Musk?

submitted 91 days ago • 8 comments

In 1900 the Labour Party was formed to provide a voice for the Trade Unions and Socialists who were sick of the Liberal Party which had completely sold out to business and the aristocracy. History repeats.

submitted 94 days ago • 5 comments

As an aside, because I’m appalled by Labours benefit reform, there was ZERO real engagement or outrage when the Tories killed hundreds of thousands with austerity and put 4m kids in poverty. But, 250k more people in poverty (including 50k children) to save a small amount is contemptible, frankly.

submitted 95 days ago • 26 comments

Without trade unions we wouldn’t have • a minimum wage • maternity & paternity rights • pension provision • holiday & sickness entitlements victories which have benefited every single person in this country Join a union👇 www.tuc.org.uk/joinunion

submitted 95 days ago • 14 comments

Unbelievable. Rachel Reeves is thinking about cutting a tax on US tech giants to appease Trump and his band of billionaires. If anything we should be taxing them more - not less! Agree? Sign today: 38d.gs/techgiantsta...

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Unbelievable. Rachel Reeves is thinking about cutting a tax on US tech giants to appease Trump and his band of billionaires. If anything we should be taxing them more - not less! Agree? Sign today: 38d.gs/techgiantsta...

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

“latest figures show the stark reality for UK’s food and drink businesses struggling to deal with the complexity and bureaucracy that comes when trading with Europe” The relentlessly ruinous idiocy of Brexit makes other cost-cutting efforts look absurd…and cruel. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 107 days ago • 36 comments

To revive economy UK govt must redistribute wealth. Bottom 50% of the population has 5% of wealth; bottom fifth has 0.5%. 1% have more than 70% population combined. Median wage is £29,604. Real average wage unchanged since 2008. Cut taxes on the bottom 50%. Tax wealth. End tax perks of the rich.

submitted 112 days ago • 57 comments

There is an alternative to Government welfare cuts - a 2% tax on wealth. There is no shortage of money here, we just need a fairer approach to tax - take more from the few not the many.

submitted 113 days ago • 175 comments

Scrap austerity – tax the super-rich instead Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/eco...

submitted 130 days ago • 95 comments

This Petition just needs 5,000 signatures to get over the 100k needed for consideration for a Parliamentary debate By almost every economic and financial measure Brexit has been disastrous for the UK - lets start the conversation petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 138 days ago • 49 comments

We're VERY close to 60,000 complaints. Help us make this complaint the biggest in Ofcom's history 👇 goodlaw.social/i1m8

submitted 138 days ago • 3 comments

Please Labour, Stop with this Reform-aping arseholery. We see it for what it is and we hate it. We’re v tired of the nastiness, the cowardice and the dishonesty of blaming immigration for govt failures. Put this nasty messaging in the bin and do better. Thanks UK www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 142 days ago • 92 comments

We’re recruiting! We’re looking for an EU campaigns lead – apply below 🌟 goodlawproject.org/vacancy/eu-c...

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

It isn't people on benefits who need to be justifying the pittance they get to live on. It is the billionaires, lets ask them where their money comes from, and how much tax they paid on it. Maybe even introduce a minimum tax. Now that would raise a lot of money.

submitted 157 days ago • 1 comment

RedNote is cracking me up…

submitted 162 days ago • 34 comments

A teeny weeny 2% tax on Britain’s super rich would raise £24 billion. Think of all the good we could with a sum like that - and it would only ever so slightly make the tax system more fair - plenty of room for improvement after that.

submitted 173 days ago • 166 comments

Private equity profiteering from children's misery. Compass Community has financialised foster care. Profits up from £3m to £10.8m. Fees double/triple compared to what councils could charge. Low pay, lack of workers' rights are hallmarks. End privatisation. www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...

submitted 175 days ago • 38 comments

Without trade unions & the workers willing to back them with strike action when needed we wouldn’t have • a minimum wage • maternity & paternity rights • pension provision • holiday & sickness entitlements victories which have benefited every single person in this country

submitted 183 days ago • 23 comments

Let's get this trending #BrexitHasFailed

submitted 182 days ago • 6 comments

The problem with Politics is there is no punishment for lying or failure, and you can take as much money as you like off anybody. Anyone else in any other job would be fired or in jail. That is the problem.

submitted 183 days ago • 76 comments

It's time to rejoin the Single Market, everybody is in it.

submitted 182 days ago • 32 comments

How about this? TAX THE CHURCHES TAX THE RICH KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OF SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE and MEDICAID AND THE VA!!!!! Agree? ✋

submitted 196 days ago • 1289 comments

NatWest to hike chief's pay to £6.5m as bank returns to full private ownership. In line for bonus to 150% of salary. What has the CEO done for this? Govts push real wage cuts on workers but none on company execs, dividends and share buybacks. It is class war. news.sky.com/story/natwes...

submitted 196 days ago • 29 comments

Jeremy Corbyn is suing Nigel Farage. RP if you can’t wait to see Nigel Farage bankrupt

submitted 197 days ago • 117 comments

The story behind this picture. This guy got bitten by a Rattlesnake it cost him £153k to save his life. They charged him $83,341.25 for antivenom that cost them $2,500. That is private healthcare and there was nothing he could do except pay.

submitted 197 days ago • 130 comments

Farage WOULD have us out of ECHR, residing on shit island with sewage all around us, zero deals from anywhere in the world as we would be under HIS dictatorship. A sad miserable, deprived hell hole of Farage rule. NEVER MUST HE SURVIVE. EVER! Civil war would erupt. SMUG BASTARD

submitted 196 days ago • 1 comment

Huge thanks to everyone who’s chipped in to make LBD interventions happen this year. We’re 100% funded by small donations & refuse big donors to protect us from becoming reliant on any individual source. Wanna help? Link in bio👆

submitted 197 days ago • 50 comments

“wealthy billionaires and corporations… hoard land as an asset, Britain now having among the highest concentrations of land ownership in the world. Half of England is owned by less than 1% of its population.”

submitted 197 days ago • 40 comments

Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as “middle class” protesters causing “chaos” - while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners The real two-tier politics in Britain? bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...

submitted 199 days ago • 23 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 202 days ago • 110 comments

History remembers that it is always incredibly rich and powerful people who already have far too much who always cause the most trouble to get even more money and power they don't need. But even after 2000+ years of evidence, we still allow such people to exist.

submitted 203 days ago • 14 comments

Sweden's remarkably clean power grid. In November, this was its electricity generation mix: Hydro 38% Wind 31% Nuclear 28% Bioenergy 4% Zero coal or gas. - Ember data

submitted 206 days ago • 604 comments

During the pandemic 17 firms supplied £119m worth of PPE that was deemed unusable in the NHS. Since the start of 2024, they’ve made £83.6m. How is this even possible? goodlawproject.org/firms-who-su...

submitted 206 days ago • 30 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 205 days ago • 90 comments

Wealth tax is the best way forward

submitted 205 days ago • 72 comments

No plan for more tax rises, says UK PM Starmer. Wrong pledge. Taxes need to rise on the rich, cut for the poor to reduce inequality. Top 10% have 57% of the wealth, bottom 50% own less than 5%, poorest 10% have 0.02%. Can't build good society on injustice. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 205 days ago • 72 comments

Why is the government not capable wiping the floor with Nigel Farage every single day like this? Alastair Campbell effortlessly destroys him over his Brexit legacy which by almost every economic and financial measure has been disastrous for the country

submitted 205 days ago • 566 comments

World’s top 1% own more wealth than 95% of population. Global South countries own 31% of wealth, despite being home to 79% of people. BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard hold $20trn assets, 20% of global investable assets. Colonialism/Imperialism never ended. www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

submitted 206 days ago • 13 comments

"Brexit has ruined this country, and now the majority of Britons thinks so too." RP if you are that majority.

submitted 207 days ago • 28 comments