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A private equity firm just bought £1.6 BILLION worth of the NHS. It will make bigger profits by hiking rents for hospitals and NHS facilities. Previous govts privatized the estate. That means less money for frontline healthcare. NHS already drained by PFI and private contractors.

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If we’re renationalising steel, could we also renationalise our national health infrastructure? (And can left-wing MPs saying “can we also renationalise water, electricity and Royal Mail”, not keep forgetting how much of our health and care infrastructure has been privatised?)

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: Centrists are extremely proud to nationalise British Steel because that idea was only bad when Jeremy Corbyn wanted to do it x

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UK businesses and consumers “could” benefit from lower prices on imports of everyday essentials … The savings to businesses “could” be passed onto consumers. I won’t hold my breath. www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Shithole America. This is what the rich did, and are doing. Both parties. And Americans are so propagandized, sad and stupid that the majority keeps repeating the same mistakes and policing others to do the same as them #classwar

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Americans at all wealth levels are more likely to die sooner than their European counterparts, with even the richest U.S. citizens living shorter lives than northern and western Europeans. That is the key finding of our new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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These Labour MPs, were newly elected in the last GE. All keen to suck up to the Business Secretary in the hope of catching Starmer's eye. Interestingly, each one of them support Labour's savage benefit cuts. They're not for the people, they're in it for themselves. Career before constituents.

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“The most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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The truth behind Spinderella

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A national scandal is quietly unfolding in the NHS. 1000s of doctors are being blocked from becoming Consultants & GPs because the Government is restricting training spots. The public aren’t being told. Unemployed doctors while NHS waiting lists soar is nothing short of madness.

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This is what they call a historic turning point “The independent forecaster Frontier Economics reckons that the impact of US tariffs will shrink UK GDP by 0.7%, while a deeper deal with the EU could instead lift GDP by 1.5%, despite US tariffs” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Donald Trump is now badly wounded. Europe and the UK can seize an advantage. The impact of US tariffs will shrink UK GDP by 0.7%, while a deeper deal with the EU 🇪🇺 could instead lift GDP by 1.5%, despite US tariffs. - Time to act in the national interest Starmer! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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No they never should never have sold British Steel, the power stations, the National Grid, BP, Water, British Gas, British Airways and much much more because they were invaluable and they got peanuts and now we are being ripped off forever. It doesn't matter by who.

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“Governments and businesses serve vastly different purposes, answer to different constituencies, and operate on entirely different timelines.” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g...

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Nigel Farage doesn't oppose us flogging off our key national & industrial infrastructure. He just wants to make sure its sold to his mates. The fact is, whether its steel, water, Royal Mail, energy, the national grid, none of it should have been sold in the first place #bbclaurak

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“In the face of Trump’s mayhem, Europe is the direction to which the UK must turn – and Keir Starmer knows it” Tom Baldwin www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Your assignment this week is to read a book that some “Mom for Liberty” would bring to a school board meeting and cry about.

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My latest article, How and Why the UK Duopoly Embedded 86 Deregulated Free Zones with 'Secondary Legislation' is up on Substack. Please subscribe and if you are able please take out a paid subscription❤️ open.substack.com/pub/european...

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So. Trump caved. Again. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/t...

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“A superb pint of cask ale is at the heart of what makes a great British pub,” www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...

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True story.

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Don’t stop at Scunthorpe steel — nationalise water, mail, all of rail and energy. Bring them all into public ownership.

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Nationalisation is on the table for British Steel In 2020, Keir Starmer promised public ownership of rail, mail, energy and water as well as ending outsourcing in our NHS and local government 💧⚡️🚄📮🏥 PUBLIC SERVICES are also national strategic assets www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I can’t imagine Trump thought his adversaries would start doing deals with each other rather than with him. www.reuters.com/business/aut...

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This is a lovely piece by David Runciman, of @ppfideas.bsky.social. At a time when universities are running away from the lecture, the podcasting boom shows the appetite for serious, long-form and, yes, didactic content by people with specialist understanding. www.theideasletter.org/essay/podcas...

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The self-financing state: an institutional analysis of government expenditure, revenue collection and debt issuance operations in the United Kingdom papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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That’s because there weren’t any.

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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

submitted 5 days ago • 3204 comments

No. You’ve been watching stock market fraud.

submitted 5 days ago • 3079 comments

Elect Farage and say goodbye to your state pension and the NHS. As ever, he hopes you will be distracted with scare stories about immigrants. He hopes you will vote for him. After all, the Brexit he sold you has been such a success.

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Freeports: what are they, and why did Labour sign off on them with the Tories? “Freeports represent a significant threat to the well-being of Britain” says Richard Murphy - so, why do they continue to go under the radar? David Powell explores in his debut article. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

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