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Boss of England’s most polluting water provider United Utilities admits firm ‘isn’t good enough at stopping sewage dumping’. Dumped sewage for 3.6m hours. CEO got £1.4m pay. Company has 205 criminal convictions, allowed to hike bills by 32%. Must remove profit motive. Nationalise.

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

Elon’s mass harassment email to all federal employees underscores the importance of having unions to represent workers against abusive management.

submitted 9 days ago • 490 comments

More evidence of harms inflicted by private equity on US healthcare. Usual pattern: profiteering, hiking debt, low investment, poor patient care and safety. Yet UK NHS being handed to private equity without any evidence, 30%-40% public money vanishes in profits. Money buys less.

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

UK energy industry made £483bn profit since 2020. OFGEM's marginal pricing rules guarantee profits to the most inefficient/costly producer. 1 in 5 of all deaths are people in fuel poverty – including 110,000 pensioners. No curbs on profiteering. Real wages cut. WFP cut. Cost of living soaring.

submitted 11 days ago • 32 comments

Your regular reminder 👇 🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS 🏫 78% want publicly owned schools 💧 73% want publicly owned water 🚂 70% want publicly owned rail ✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail 🚍 67% want publicly owned buses 💡 65% want publicly owned energy

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The Labour Party went into the 2024 election promising to reform the discredited NHS contract fuelling the current crisis According to @thebda.bsky.social there has been no material progress to date & its deeply concerned the Treasury is now standing in the way of progress youtu.be/Hu0Okad5O1w?...

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

UK fails to improve on record low ranking in global table of corruption. More corrupt than Japan, Seychelles, Estonia, Uruguay, Hong Kong, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Singapore. Want to hire legislators, get govt contracts, launder money, escape regulation enforcement ... UK is the place.

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

A BBC report on the ceasefire in Gaza fails to fact check Israeli violations, while obscuring key context – this isn’t journalism, it’s neglect | Steve Pottinger @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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It’s time to be serious about tax evasion www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02... MPs have rumbled HM Revenue & Customs and the fact that our tax authority is really not serious about tackling tax evasion. It's time that they were. This is one thing that does not need to grow.

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

RMT exposes Southeastern’s failure to open ticket offices for 70,000 hours New analysis by RMT shows that Southeastern is routinely failing to meet its obligations to keep ticket offices open during advertised hours. open.substack.com/pub/rmtunion...

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When is a fine not a fine? When it is levied on England's water companies. Aug 2024: OFWAT announced £168m fine on 3 companies. ZERO Paid. Dec 2024: £18m fine on Thames Water for paying unjustified dividends. ZERO Paid. Regulatory indulgence emboldens companies, encourages more abuses.

submitted 23 days ago • 15 comments

Fighting for fairness. RMT Train manager members working for Avanti West Coast are back on the picket lines this morning continuing their fight for fair pay for rest day working. 📸 Liverpool Lime Street

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Some on benefits are 'taking the mickey', says UK minister. Some may do so, millions do not but will be victimised by cuts. What about those abusing the tax system, govt procurement, buying honours, impoverishing people with profiteering, selling dud products, crashing companies?

submitted 25 days ago • 81 comments

The outcome of this case will affect every one of us but is barely getting a mention in UK media. Why? Peaceful protest is a fundemental democratic right. The decision in @libertyhq.bsky.social’s important case is due any time now. This is why I’m standing with them👇 youtu.be/qk5aiRXRuU0?...

submitted 29 days ago • 12 comments

2019-2024: £44bn lost to fraud in UK Govt depts under the Tories - often run by members now in Badenoch's Shadow Cabinet. Contracts for cronies, PPE procurement, COVID loans & furlough scheme, Eat Out to Help Out, R&D tax credits. Ministers ignored concerns. Who is called to account?

submitted 30 days ago • 36 comments

With reports having found that Britain is THREE TIMES more likely to arrest climate activists than other countries everyone should watch this shocking film👇 The court’s decision in @libertyhq.bsky.social’s case is due anytime now youtu.be/qk5aiRXRuU0?...

submitted 33 days ago • 17 comments

Billionaire Roman Abramovich dodged taxes on cost of running his fleet of superyachts. Accountants and lawyers involved. Front companies in Cyprus and BVI used. Any pristine billionaires? Tax authorities chase little people, rarely go after bigger beasts. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 35 days ago • 22 comments

For all the hot air on how Britain is cracking down on SLAPPs, this story by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social shows how nothing has changed. Russian warlord Prigozhin’s lawsuit against Bellingcat’s @eliothiggins.bsky.social ruled not a SLAPP open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

submitted 35 days ago • 12 comments

Influence of super rich threatens democracy, say Patriotic Millionaires. The super rich are buying themselves more wealth and more power while the rest of the world is living in economic fear. Only people power can create possibilities of democracy. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 36 days ago • 11 comments

Thames Water credit rating slashed to negative, administration looms. £23bn assets in urgent need of repair. Uses obsolete technology. £15bn+ debt, money borrowed to pay dividends, no new reservoir since 1989, dumps sewage in rivers. Must be no public bailout www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 39 days ago • 43 comments

Government Confirms No Leveson 2 Inquiry Into the Press – After ‘Monumental’ Admission of Wrongdoing By News UK in Prince Harry Case WHY? Leveson 2 has never been needed more bylinetimes.com/2025/01/22/g...

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Public Demands Starmer Resurrects Leveson Press Corruption Inquiry Amid Collapse in Trust in UK Media – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/11/12/p...

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Thought UnitedHealthcare couldn’t get more awful? They’ve gone villain mode | Arwa Mahdawi

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Keir Starmer says UK Treasury will be "ruthless" on public spending cuts. It's continuation of Tory austerity. How many will be deprived of food, housing, healthcare, education ...? Lives sacrificed to appease corporations, the rich and neoliberal dogma www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 50 days ago • 67 comments

Why does the pay gap persist? 🤔 Fawcett Society: much gender pay gap isn’t explained by job type or industry. Discrimination, pay penalties for part-time work, & lack of flexibility for senior roles play a big part. @jennyrhodes42.bsky.social reports #EqualPayDay

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Reeves defends China visit, hails £600m UK investment over next 5 yrs. What? Can get £100bn boost by joining the EU HMRC failed to collect £500bn tax since 2010 Can boost economy by equitable distribution of income/wealth, but not on govt agenda. Need policy change www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 51 days ago • 57 comments

I fear there is deep truth here.

submitted 51 days ago • 1486 comments

UK MPs receive annual salary of £91,346 + expenses. Worker median annual wage is £29,664. Too many MPs take second Jobs, advance the interests of their corporate paymasters. People's welfare is secondary to self enrichment. Must ban all second jobs for MPs. leftfootforward.org/2025/01/mps-...

submitted 52 days ago • 45 comments

1/ If this was a new report saying puberty blockers cause irreversible harm -splashed across The Times etc with @BBCNews running umpteen ‘debates.’ But bcs it says the exact opposite - UK news blackout. The ONLY studies which claim PBs are dangerous are written by quacks, or pseudo-medical fronts

submitted 52 days ago • 4 comments

Tax the billionaires until there are no billionaires anymore and distribute the money amongst the rest of the populace. We can call it the Anti-Greed Redistribution Plan. Sound good?

submitted 52 days ago • 306 comments

Here is the key section of that train wreck of an interview by Robert Jenrick on #r4today. Robinson: Did you raise it when you were Home Office minister? Jenrick: We talked about it... I wasn't... My portfolio... But we talked about it. Only a minute, if you can bear it. ~AA

submitted 56 days ago • 213 comments

Is the reason why the Conservatives didn't apply the 20 recommendations from the Alexis Jay inquiry report Because as the FT write, compensation would have reached £10 billion And the Conservatives didn't want to pay for it?

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Our National Secretary Darren Procter visiting seafarer members onboard the Stena Brittanica during his visit to Harwich

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