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Raw sewage pumped into UK waterways for 4.7 million hours in 2024 www.bigissue.com/news/environ...

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

Who saw that coming..

submitted 13 days ago • 124 comments

It’s a national celebration.

submitted 14 days ago • 158 comments

GDP jump offers Rachel Reeves some light. Will govt end dept cuts, disability benefit cuts; two child benefit cap, income tax threshold freeze? Average real wage unchanged since 2008. Growth hasn't trickled down. Need stronger unions and progressive taxation to help low/middle income earners.

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

Here’s the real reason why DOGE is gutting the IRS. (Hint: it has nothing to do with “efficiency.”)

submitted 17 days ago • 508 comments

Lady in black, "Our water bill is to go up while the Welsh Water CEO has made £800,000 in just one year" "How much longer will politicians allow water companies to pollute our waters and our rivers, prioritising profits of wealthy shareholders?" #BBCQT

submitted 22 days ago • 20 comments

Thames Water names US private equity (PE) group KKR as preferred bidder. Worst possible outcome. Water industry woes started with PE. PE business model: profiteering, asset-stripping, low investment, staff/wage cuts, tax dodging. Govt must reject PE takeover. Must nationalise.

submitted 26 days ago • 49 comments

The Government has confirmed it plans to sell your health data. It says it will be anonymised but we are aware how easy it is to de-anonymise. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

submitted 26 days ago • 18 comments

Patriotic Millionaires UK ‘Tax our Wealth’ campaign visits Bristol. 👏👏👏 @patmillsuk.bsky.social

submitted 28 days ago • 11 comments

The Spring Statement highlights the UK's financial struggles - - yet Brexit's £140bn cost was ignored. It's time for a real EU reset plan. 🐘

submitted 30 days ago • 20 comments

This woman is a Turkish national. The offense she has committed is to express, in writing, an opinion which essentially overlaps on all major points with the official position of Turkey, a US ally. And for that she gets kidnapped on a public street by men in black who refuse to identify themselves?

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Kemi Badenoch is claiming thousands in taxpayer money to live in a six-bedroom farmhouse in her constituency. leftfootforward.org/2025/03/kemi...

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Some of the companies that didn't pay the minimum wage to some of their workers, until chased by regulators. Staffline Recruitment, Rank Group, Mitchells & Butlers, Easyjet, Greggs, Moss Bros, WH Smith, Lloyds Pharmacy, Marks and Spencer, Argos. Any forget to pay the right amount to bosses?

submitted 32 days ago • 20 comments

me reading national security secrets bc i've been accidentally added to a group chat

submitted 32 days ago • 335 comments

this x 1000 ⬇️

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Ed Davey, "And let me say this to Elon Musk who I know is my biggest fan" "We will make out of control social media giants like you pay more, so we can defend our children and young people from the harm you're causing them"

submitted 32 days ago • 8 comments

Musk’s X stands to benefit financially if the government pulls an £800m tax on US tech tech firms as part of an economic deal with Trump - Do we really want to financially support the man backing the far right across Europe? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Ben from Ben & Jerrys, "I don't think the US is a democracy" "It's supposed to be 1 person 1 vote, but it's $1 is 1 vote" "Congress represents money, not people"

submitted 34 days ago • 28 comments

New UK minimum wage for an over-21 full-time worker will be £22,222 a year before tax and NIC. A single person needs to earn £28,000 a year for minimum acceptable std of living. A couple with 2 children needs £69,400. Millions in poverty. Save for pension, buy home? Poverty institutionalized.

submitted 34 days ago • 25 comments

Are you listening, @schumer.senate.gov? She's talking about you. And that crowd in Tempe, AZ agrees with what she's saying. For the good of the country and democracy, step down as Senate Minority Leader. It's clear you don't have the fight in you, and we need a leader who knows how to fight.

submitted 34 days ago • 214 comments

Left: Kemi Badenoch claims council tax on expenses Right: That time Kemi Badenoch said she believes in personal responsibility, that government should nurture a fair society, and governments that try to do everything will run out of other people's money

submitted 34 days ago • 26 comments

Rachel Reeves: I will not 'tax and spend'. That means cuts in some govt depts. So far, two child benefit cap, winter fuel payment cut, freeze on income tax thresholds; proposed benefit cuts Must ditch the fiscal rules. Tax the rich. Can't grow economy without that.

submitted 35 days ago • 71 comments

Regulator accused of letting hedge funds control Thames Water. TW shares worthless, shareholders won't invest. Lenders in control, want public money, will continue to extract cash. OFWAT approved price hikes, likely to suspend fines. Must nationalise to end crisis. archive.ph/vr4UK

submitted 41 days ago • 22 comments

This is absolutely shocking if true. A government's treatment of its most vulnerable citizens is a key indicator of its humanity and the strength of its social fabric. Enough is enough

submitted 42 days ago • 192 comments

Economists urge Rachel Reeves to bend fiscal rules instead of cutting welfare. Govt doesn't want to tax the rich. But imposed two child benefit cap, cut winter fuel payments, froze income tax thresholds. Can't rebuild without boosting purchasing power of the bottom 50%. Must redistribute.

submitted 41 days ago • 44 comments

UK steel industry has called for capped energy prices in order to match France and Germany. Profiteering by the energy industry is creating inflation, poverty and destruction of other sectors. Ofgem/Govt must curb profiteering. Nationalise energy.

submitted 42 days ago • 15 comments

❗️🇺🇦Ukraine and 🇫🇮Finland signed a "Memorandum of Understanding", the purpose of which is to deepen cooperation between the two countries in the defense industry

submitted 44 days ago • 6 comments

Don't hurt the old, poor, sick, disabled. Partners in accountancy/law firms treated as self-employed, pay Class 4 NIC. Employer NIC avoided. Rules save partners £138,000 for every £1m of profit shared. Big four law firms dodge £4bn NIC a year, billions more elsewhere. We can't afford the rich.

submitted 44 days ago • 16 comments

Labour MP Nadia Whittome says to tax the rich instead of taking benefits away from the poor Ought to be a no brainer for a Labour government but here we are 🤷‍♂️

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One of my friends who died from COVID was an NHS surgeon Some words from his wife expressing her frustration at the VIP PPE lane set up by Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson Doctors wanted to help people. The Conservative party? They wanted to profit from the pandemic

submitted 45 days ago • 12 comments

Everyone together now!

submitted 45 days ago • 147 comments

As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”. The man is a fraud.

submitted 48 days ago • 108 comments

Politicians for Sale. UK political parties accepted £100m in donations in 2024. Donations are bribes made to exercise influence, subvert public choices and ensure that corporations/rich rule. Normal people can't compete. Can't cleanse politics without banning donations.

submitted 48 days ago • 31 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 48 days ago • 57 comments

It’s borderline criminal.

submitted 48 days ago • 2989 comments

If only there was some way of knowing why Musk is pushing for elections and “regime change” in Ukraine… but not Russia..

submitted 50 days ago • 29 comments

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

submitted 53 days ago • 1190 comments

JD Vance writes off the UK as a "random country" that "hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years", when its fought alongside the US in multiple recent conflicts. What will it take for the UK Government to realise these people are not our allies, and never will be

submitted 53 days ago • 100 comments

Jeez. JD Vance now calling UK 'some random country that hasn't fought war in 30 years'

submitted 53 days ago • 398 comments

❗️"Donald Trump is teaming up with dictators to turn America into an oligarchy. If Russia becomes the closest partner of the United States, it will make it easier for Trump, Musk, and their billionaire friends to steal from the American people," — Senator Chris Murphy.

submitted 54 days ago • 8 comments

It might be time to stop treating Farage as if he's some sort of special confidante of Trump. The human skid mark hasn't got a clue what's going on in the White House, as the Chagos situation demonstrated, or what on earth Trump will do next.

submitted 54 days ago • 292 comments

💯 this

submitted 55 days ago • 8 comments

🙏 A rally in support of Ukraine is taking place near Lancaster House in London, where the European leaders’ summit on Ukraine is set to be held – Suspilne

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