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UK energy bills forecast to rise 5% from April. Add to this inflation-busting rises in water, phone, internet and more., people feel helpless. Can't grow economy with depleted household incomes. Must curb profiteering, impose windfall taxes. Ofgem protects companies, not people.

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

Life expectancy growth stalls across Europe as England sees sharpest decline. Inequalities; poverty; poor access to good food, housing, healthcare, dentists; junk food take toll. Austerity kills. Govts obsessed with it. Redistribution is off the political agenda.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Starmer and Reeves definition of private sector growth is unsustainable, what they are relentlessly preaching is all about enhancing the financial growth of a few Tech entrepreneurs, the banks and private equity/venture capital, and not better wages for real people. m.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Yo...

submitted 44 days ago • 5 comments

'I didn't judge it would be the best use of taxpayers money to pay an expensive compensation bill for something most people knew was happening' Chancellor Rachel Reeves defends the governments decision not to compensate more than 3.5 million WASPI women affected by increase in state pension age

submitted 67 days ago • 75 comments

@idrsunny.bsky.social Found you.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

The CEO of the Tees Valley Combined Authority, Julie Gilhespie, has ‘resigned’. In one fell swoop, tactical genius Ben Houchen, in a bid to stave off a ‘Best Value Notice’, has offered a sacrificial lamb to Angela Rayner | Ray Casey

submitted 70 days ago • 9 comments

I wish more people would pay attention to this.

submitted 70 days ago • 4 comments

UK 'doesn't have enough builders' for Labour's 1.5m homes. Successive govts neglected the provision of skilled labour. Even if new homes are built, majority of people can't afford to buy. No govt plan to increase real wages, curb profiteering by housebuilders. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 70 days ago • 62 comments

UK Labour govt to continue Tory policy - a planning ‘free-for-all’ allowing developers to convert office blocks into flats without planning control. New slums for the poor - Flats measuring 12ft x 12ft), poor ventilation, thin walls, lack of amenities. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

submitted 70 days ago • 17 comments

A Redwing takes a bath before going to roost. There are many birds waiting to use the pool, so it's a short energetic dip before roosting in the nearby willow scrub. #redwing #ukwildlife #ukbirds #wildlifegardening

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

Political funding from the rich & corporations is bribery to access policymakers, restrict public choices; enrich a few, harm many. Must be banned and criminalized. Political parties preach competition. Let them do so, attract members, raise money. eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/fig...

submitted 69 days ago • 16 comments

BREAKING: The UK Government says it will provide £50m in international aid to help vulnerable Syrians "in their hour of need"

submitted 69 days ago • 35 comments

CPTPP membership is going to be so “amazing” that Rishi Sunak’s government predicted it would grow the economy by a tiny 0.08% (it later emerged that even that may be an overestimate) and that was after 15 years of membership! Contrast 4% loss of GDP due to Brexit youtu.be/FR4m8rop98E?...

submitted 70 days ago • 25 comments

It’s being reported tonight that Reform’s Treasurer Nick Candy is planning to visit America to meet Elon Musk after reports he could donate £100m to the party. The meeting could apparently come within days. We need to make BlueSky the biggest social media platform on the planet

submitted 70 days ago • 57 comments

Kemi Badenoch tells viewers today that only the Conservatives can be trusted to negotiate trade deals which protect our farmers…so let’s take a look at those New Zealand and Australia deals they struck

submitted 69 days ago • 23 comments

@bbarbs1.bsky.social You'll have to see the address on the other site as not able to paste onto this one for some reason.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

@bbarbs1.bsky.social Found you on this as well.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 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 74 days ago • 34 comments

Feargal Sharkey reckons we should all be out protesting on the streets. I agree with him.

submitted 74 days ago • 4 comments

’ turns dark, and the Sky turns Blue The move from X to Bluesky – a lesson on how progressives can take back control yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/x-t...

submitted 73 days ago • 11 comments

No cases will be brought until at least 2027 so once again early warning for the corrupt individuals involved being given plenty of time to pack their bags, transfer their dosh and leave the country.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Police investigating crimes linked to the Post Office Horizon IT scandal looking at "dozens" of potential suspects Don't expect trials until 2027. Issues first raised 30 yrs ago How many big-wigs will say they are too old/fragile, have selective amnesia to escape trial? www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 73 days ago • 26 comments

Anyone who says Sunak and Starmer’s 74 deregulated SEZs and 12 Freeports are not the result of Brexit is lying to you. The quintessential reason for resurrecting them was to exit the EUs rules on State aid and a whole raft of regulations that corporations despise. Why? 1/2

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

After the Brexit referendum, I started digging, I wanted to know what was behind the UKs 'exit strategy', I didn't find any answers in the MSM, but a few good people with similar questions pointed me in the right direction. Thread

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

“Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers. The revenue per acre is too low to warrant the purchase, unless you are extremely wealthy and are avoiding inheritance tax”

submitted 79 days ago • 54 comments

PFI is sticking plaster politics - the type of politics both Starmer and Streeting said were a thing of the past. They were a thing of the past but they are going to also be a thing of the future unless people (anyone who is dependent on healthcare) uniting and saying NO!!!

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Nearly half the 1.5m UK children growing up in poverty in the private rental sector are pushed into it by housing costs. Private renters paying three times as much as mortgagor for the same housing. Yet govts cut real wages/benefits, don't curb profiteering morningstaronline.co.uk/article/priv...

submitted 78 days ago • 23 comments

2016: Michael Gove, "We can have green Brexit" 2024: ‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down

submitted 78 days ago • 54 comments

We're excited to see lots of our writers joining BlueSky! Tonight we'd like to introduce Meryl White, who writes a monthly cookery article for us, inspired by her grandmother's baking. She's written 73 pieces to date👏 Follow her here ▶️ @grandmaabson.bsky.social 1/5

submitted 78 days ago • 4 comments