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“BBC audio drama has a key role to play in the ecosystem of drama production in this country”

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£15,000 pay rise for OFWAT CEO. Must be for performance - water companies dumping sewage in rivers, unplugged leaks, record hike in customer bills, permitting companies to pay dividends Will probably get a job with a water company, previous CEO is director of Thames Water.

submitted 12 days ago • 34 comments

BBC's coverage of the Rachel Reeves story today is nothing short of a hatchet job to amplify right wing Tory smears. With only one fact (a date error on a cv), they have filled their fantasy story with gossip and smear at every opportunity on radio and tv, all day. #Newsnight #bbcqt #peston

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

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 20 days ago • 81 comments

If you put it, privately, to GB News that they were trying to import the racism and hatred of Trumpism into the UK I doubt they'd disagree. We need to stop them - now. action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...

submitted 20 days ago • 15 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 26 days ago • 36 comments

Faced with protests, Poland cut retirement age -65 for men, 60 for women. France reconsidering plan to hike retirement age from 62 to 64 by 2030. UK state pension age set to increase from 66 to 67. Rich retire whenever they want, poor work until they drop. leftfootforward.org/2025/01/pens...

submitted 28 days ago • 34 comments

The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on

submitted 28 days ago • 100 comments

It’s all beginning to feel a bit 1984. We’re in a battle against autocrats and oligarchs who are using money and misinformation to dismantle democracies. That’s why we’re looking for 1,984 new monthly supporters to make our biggest and boldest plans a reality (see link in bio)

submitted 28 days ago • 59 comments

When maximum sentence for chaining yourself to railings is over twice maximum sentence for racially aggravated assault, anyone who cares about justice should be appalled. This is a dangerous, undemocratic & disproportionate attack on longstanding right to peaceful protest in UK #DefendOurJuries

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

No! No! No! This is unacceptable! You can make promises with OUR money.. Stop raising bills, start slashing dividends! Pay it from your ever rising bonuses you greedy selfish gremlins! Nationalise water now! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

Over 50,000 excess deaths since 2023 due to delays in emergency care caused by cuts, underfunding, staff shortages and prioritising privatisation. There should be a monument made entitled 'Government Failure' Stop prioritising privatisation Fix the NHS 💙 👉 Invest 👉 Fix NHS pay 👉 End outsourcing

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

Sometimes I feel hopeless about what is happening to the NHS and what people are doing about it. I think we either need to go all in, find the millions of people who care and get a lot louder, or we give up. I want to go all in, but I can’t go all in alone. Share if you think we need to fight.

submitted 46 days ago • 30 comments

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 46 days ago • 57 comments

Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies. Billionaire wants to spread misinformation, harm with no responsibility. How long before US companies want immunities for tax abuse, money laundering? Other countries must protect their citizens. www.politico.eu/article/zuck...

submitted 47 days ago • 68 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 47 days ago • 45 comments

I have a ticket for Liverpool vs Accrington today in the Kop today that I’d like to give away for free to someone who doesn’t normally go (and because it’s last minute). I don’t know how easy that is for people to see on Bluesky. Please can you help with a repost? @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social

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submitted 48 days ago • 8 comments

Since the election 16,400 who have no right to be in the UK have been removed, including 2500 foreign criminals. The government set a target to increase this number back to 2018 levels and have now smashed that number by restarting asylum processing, redeploying 1000 staff & using charter flights.

submitted 49 days ago • 8 comments

As horrific fires rage in LA, news comes that world has breached 1.5 degree limit on global heating. When will political leaders join the dots & take urgent far-reaching action? Leave all new fossil fuels in the ground & prioritise building resilience - home retrofits, flood defences & much more

submitted 48 days ago • 37 comments

MPs second jobs are institutionalised bribery. They should be banned. Prime duty of MPs is to serve the people, not corporations or their bank accounts. Preventing MPs from selling their souls to the highest bidder is a necessary step in democratising parliament leftfootforward.org/2025/01/mps-...

submitted 48 days ago • 37 comments

Nazir Afzal, "When Keir Starmer and I left the CPS we had the highest rate of child sexual abuse prosecutions in our history.. That is Keir Starmer's legacy" "Boris Johnson said that investigating child sexual abuse was money spaffed up a wall"

submitted 48 days ago • 19 comments

The deal to bring 36,000 forces homes back into public ownership has been completed by the government. The properties were purchased for considerably less than their current value and the deal saves the tax payer £600,000 a day renting back these properties from the previous owner.

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submitted 48 days ago • 7 comments

Unbelievable. These clowns call themselves patriots whilst simultaneously suggesting that we bend over and sell our country to Donald f**king Trump?! Also why does Littlejohn’s photo resemble the mugshot of a rioter arrested for burning down an asylum hotel? We need to rejoin the EU. Fast.

submitted 48 days ago • 73 comments

Emissions caused by wealthiest 1% so far this year would take someone from poorest 50% three years to create. Richest responsible for misinformation, threats to govts, worker exploitation, tax dodges. Must curb their unaccountable power, takeover of the state. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 49 days ago • 14 comments

It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...

submitted 48 days ago • 192 comments

The private sector aren't 'helping out' the NHS They're profiting of it's crisis, whilst leaching valuable resources away from the NHS.

submitted 51 days ago • 9 comments

The Labour government has been busy pursuing popular policies, and improving the lives of some of the poorest. But polls suggest many think they haven’t achieved much. Stephen MacNair goes into the issues they have been tackling. How good is the record?

submitted 50 days ago • 19 comments

A good question from @thedauk.bsky.social Why do we have a desperate shortage of GP’s when there are 3,500 under and unemployed GP’s? It makes no sense dauk.org/work-with-gp...

submitted 51 days ago • 47 comments

Privatisation's thirst for profit will never be quenched. Time to take our water back. England's water industry controlled by organizations with over 1,100 criminal convictions, 90% foreign-owned. It dumps sewage, fleeces customers. Must end privatisation scam www.bigissue.com/opinion/wate...

submitted 52 days ago • 19 comments

Who is going to do all of the work for these private companies bringing down NHS waiting lists? Staff who have been poached from the NHS of course. The private health sector in the UK trains almost no staff, takes on NHS work and does so to create a profit for shareholders. 🚨🚨🚨

submitted 52 days ago • 21 comments

Please sign, and then share chng.it/dbsc5VNZCw

submitted 54 days ago • 6 comments

Company established by Musk in the UK 3 weeks ago on December 12th!! Why we wonder!! Pull your finger out @uklabourparty.bsky.social, grow some balls and stop even more "corruption" destroying what's left of our democracy Right now you have a majority the likes of which you might never see again

submitted 55 days ago • 136 comments

Possibilities of democracy have been hijacked by corporations and wealthy elites like Elon Musk. Political donations are effectively bribes to shape public choices, with no accountability of the donors. The only effective remedy is to ban all donations/bribes. leftfootforward.org/2025/01/how-...

submitted 55 days ago • 25 comments

UK Tory govt spent £50,000 to stop release of review into disabled man’s death. DWP wrongly stopped his benefits, leaving him with no income. He weighed 4.5 stone when body found, eight months after benefits were stopped. Govt tried to conceal murder. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 56 days ago • 43 comments

HMRC says it failed to collect around £500bn in tax since 2010. Others says £1,400bn. £570bn held by UK residents in financial accounts in tax havens. Tax dodged. Companies dodge taxes by profit shifting to low/no tax havens. No HMRC estimates. Govts hit the poor, don't upset corporations/rich.

submitted 60 days ago • 36 comments

UK's regressive tax system. Poorest 10% of households paid 48% of income in tax; richest 10% paid 39%. Poorest 10% paying 12% of income in VAT; richest 10% pay 3%. Council tax: Poorest 10% paying 7%; richest 10% pay 1.2%. No govt plans to end inequity. equalitytrust.org.uk/news/press-r...

submitted 60 days ago • 99 comments

Thames Water diverted millions of pounds pledged for environmental clean-ups to pay bonuses & dividends 187 criminal convictions since 1989, routinely dumps sewage in rivers/seas, neglects investment. Protected by successive govts, customers fleeced. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 66 days ago • 63 comments

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

submitted 70 days ago • 23 comments

New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton. (Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)

submitted 72 days ago • 232 comments

Grenfell was preventable. The architects refurbished the tower, making it into a deadly fire trap. Since the regulator isn’t holding them to account, we’re stepping in. Help us fight for a UK where safety standards are for everyone, and not just for a few? goodlawproject.org/campaign/gre...

submitted 73 days ago • 4 comments

In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant per person of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.

submitted 73 days ago • 82 comments

#WolfHall the last episode has been resonating with me all day today-acting, atmosphere, tension, emotions all superb. Bravo all concerned, especially Mark Rylance, a performance to be remembered. I think you did Ms Mantel proud.

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

The Mirror and the Light may just have pulled off the impossible. Absolutely stunning TV drama, and also worth appreciating public service broadcasting while we still have it.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Privatisation has failed. It is time to renationalise. Water Power Royal Mail Rail National Grid Telecoms Everything that we are going to use every day forever, we don't want to rent it at ripoff prices. We want to own it.

submitted 75 days ago • 51 comments