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EXPOSED: Fake water nationalisation tag would still save £3 billion a year. University of Greenwich research shows how taking back control of our water delivers a better deal for the public. Sign our petition to bring water into public ownership: weownit.org.uk/act-now/lets...

submitted 35 days ago • 33 comments

The government is threatening to snatch away free school meals from the youngest children in its latest round of cuts. People did not vote Labour to see the party take food out of children's mouths. Sign the petition: r.ippl.es/school-meals/

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Bailouts won't fix the sewage scandal and won't reduce bills. Join me and @GoodLawProject to call on Steve Reed to stop water company greed goodlaw.social/uk6y

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Mustafa Barghouti explains the 2 choices Israel is offering: extend the 1st phase, give us back all our prisoners, & then we'll carry on with the genocide, or don't extend the 1st phase, don't give us back all our prisoners, so we'll carry on with the genocide.

submitted 74 days ago • 4 comments

Today, thousands of us demonstrated outside the US embassy with a message for Donald Trump: hands off Gaza. The resilience of the Palestinian people will not be broken — and nor will our solidarity. We will be here for as long as it takes until there is a free and independent Palestine.

submitted 86 days ago • 24 comments

At the US embassy today. This is Americas genocide as much as it's Israels

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Privatisation of the NHS US private equity and UK pension fund USS make bid for NHS landlord Assura. Assura was set up in 2003, owns more than 600 healthcare buildings worth £3bn. NHS burdened with rent. This is in addition to PFI payments. Less spent on front line services. archive.ph/QRaGZ

submitted 86 days ago • 39 comments

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Labour's rivers policy is unbelievable. 1. Steve Reed, the Environment Secretary, has decided our rivers are insufficiently polluted with chicken shit, so he’s loosening the rules. Never mind that it's the primary cause of rivercide in the Welsh border region. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧵

submitted 118 days ago • 50 comments

AI seeks to profit from NHS data, with a little help from a 'Labour Friend of Israel' Peter Kyle compared AI development to "the nuclear race" of the 1940s and 50s. How lovely. But of course, Kyle is a bit more involved than just that, finds @ososabio.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

What??

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

1) he doesn’t have any friends 2) Beverly Hills is unaffected so far 3) even if it was being ‘decimated’, the fact that his concern in this moment is only for rich folks and the ‘biggest most valuable homes’ tells you everything about this pathetic man.

submitted 124 days ago • 204 comments

Zuckerberg has vowed to remove Facebook's political bias. Do you believe him? And if he doesn't, what can we do about it? voxpoliticalonline.com?p=96486

submitted 124 days ago • 1 comment

Billionaires should not own social media platforms. Billionaires should not run our newspapers. Billionaires should not control our politics. A free media is a democratic media - a public good that is owned and run by us all.

submitted 126 days ago • 125 comments

Schools in England face ‘death by a thousand cuts’. Despite recent increases real college funding per student aged 16 to 18 in 2025 will still be 11% below 2010 levels, and 23% lower for school sixth forms. Future sacrificed to appease the rich. Tax the rich. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

submitted 124 days ago • 8 comments

Nigel Farage made £189,300 by promoting gold as a capital gains tax-free investment option. Legislator not plugging but profiting by promoting tax dodges for the rich. Collected £547,583 for non-MP work, plus £91,346 salary + expenses + second home as MP. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 124 days ago • 27 comments

Mark Zuckerberg sports $900,000 watch as he calls time on Meta fact-checking. Capitalism without social responsibility. Billionaires with no empathy for victims of misinformation, will polarise society. Trump sycophants will target free thinkers. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 124 days ago • 46 comments

This graphic sums up the Brexit tragedy for the UK. Why beg for trade deal with Trump and become the 51st state? Govt looking for economic boost must call a referendum, rejoin the EU. Farage created hatred for foreigners, now ready to accept millions from Musk www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 128 days ago • 16 comments

Private healthcare is lobbying Wes Streeting to sign a new PFI deal with them. Time is running out to ask Wes Streeting to say NO. Please add your name to this petition now. #NoNewPFI weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...

submitted 149 days ago • 2 comments

Reeves orders 5% cuts to all govt depts in ‘efficiency drive’. Austerity by another name - cuts in services, real public sector wages, benefits. Want to save money? End privatisation of the NHS, care sector, 30%-40% vanishes in profits, money buys less. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/reev...

submitted 151 days ago • 40 comments

In 1970, the UK finance sector assets were worth 50% of GDP By 2022 assets hit £27 trn; UK GDP £2.5 trn. The sector delivered speculation, crashes, frauds, dirty money, tax dodges. Didn't deliver sustained economic growth. Yet govts want bigger finance sector leftfootforward.org/2024/12/the-...

submitted 151 days ago • 11 comments

Today I wrote to LSE’s President, welcoming the decision to end disciplinary action against the LSE 7 & calling for accountability & a review of investments. Students have the right to peacefully protest without fear of punishment or Islamophobia. Universities must do better.

submitted 153 days ago • 3 comments

Labour’s approval rating has fallen to a record low of -41 (YouGov). A race to the bottom on immigration, keeping the two-child benefit cap, driving pensioners into fuel poverty, extending Tory austerity & actively facilitating genocide in Gaza isn’t the change people voted for.

submitted 152 days ago • 37 comments

Keir Starmer Plan to ‘Clean Up’ Political Lobbying Is Even Weaker Than the Conservatives. 103 lobbyists stood as general election candidates - 48 Labour, 35 Tory, 20 LibDems; aim to advance the interests of paymasters. What chance of transparency or fair politics? bylinetimes.com/2024/12/11/k...

submitted 152 days ago • 10 comments

HMRC ignoring ‘industrial’ levels of tax evasion by Chinese firms - not paying VAT, import, other taxes. 30,000 Chinese companies registered with bogus addresses/directors. Companies House and HMRC allowing company formations and VAT registration without adequate checks. archive.ph/KGkWa

submitted 152 days ago • 40 comments

The UK House of Lords was packed today with Tory peers as the Bill to abolish hereditary peerages is debated. They oppose change. Never saw so many when poverty, homelessness debated We need an elected second chamber, but it must not be a clone of the Commons or use First-Past-The-Post system.

submitted 152 days ago • 34 comments

World GDP is $105 trillion. Value of derivatives (clever bets on price of food, everything) is $667 trillion. It hikes prices, enriches few speculators, produces nothing of value to society. UK Govt thinks finance industry will deliver prosperity. Madness. leftfootforward.org/2024/12/the-...

submitted 153 days ago • 79 comments

Thames Water bosses collected £770,000 in bonuses. CEO got £195k bonus, doesn't rule out £2m bonus. Bonus for what? Sewage dumping; wanting 59% increase in customer bills; not investing; debt; borrowing to pay dividends. All approved by Ofwat and successive govts. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 153 days ago • 18 comments

Twitter has become a continually deteriorating sewer, that's the main reason I've created an account here on Bluesky.

submitted 152 days ago • 10 comments

Nigel Farage loves open borders - for the super rich youtu.be/SA8T29zWNCw?...

submitted 165 days ago • 106 comments

Private healthcare is lobbying Wes Streeting to sign a new PFI deal with them. Time is running out to ask Wes Streeting to say NO. Please add your name to this petition now. #NoNewPFI weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

Presenter: "Jon, just bring us up to date with what's been happening on the ground in Gaza in the last 2 or 3 days?" Jon Donnison: "People are dying every day"

submitted 158 days ago • 3 comments

The presenter: "The words 'Deny', 'Defend' and 'Depose' were carved into the shell casings" The reporter goes on to explain: "Those are a reference to tactics that are used by insurance companies in America to try to get out of paying for peoples healthcare"

submitted 158 days ago • 3 comments

Yesterday Israeli military drones shot people inside Kamal Adwan hospital, killing at least 7 Palestinians. Healthcare workers were among those injured.

submitted 157 days ago • 2 comments

Keir Starmer is asked if he regrets scrapping the universal winter fuel allowance. Starmer says the govt had to make tough decisions & taking money away from millions of pensioners was necessary in order to stabilise the 6th largest economy in the world #GMB

submitted 157 days ago • 10 comments

Starmer is asked why he thinks he's so unpopular & he says he's had to take tough decisions The tough decision would have been to take on the billionaires by introducing a wealth tax. Targeting pensioners, poor kids in poverty & people who use the bus are easy decisions for you

submitted 157 days ago • 5 comments

Please sign. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

submitted 159 days ago • 0 comments

We did, though. Just finalizing our third collective agreement.

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

Following the ICC's arrest warrants, how can the continued sale of arms to Israel possibly be justified?

submitted 168 days ago • 52 comments

EXPOSED: Labour health adviser says 'end nationalisation', 'smartphones can replace doctors' Blairite Paul Corrigan was speaking at an NHS reform event. This guy previously said failing NHS hospitals should be privatised. Now, Streeting has him in the DHSC. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

submitted 173 days ago • 6 comments

BREAKING: Counter-terrorism police have explained they won't be visiting Laurence Fox over his recent social media posts because they've got their hands full dealing with 60 year old women who post "free Palestine" x

submitted 174 days ago • 11 comments