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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 5 days ago • 12 comments

Thames water shouldn't be getting bailouts and it shouldn't be hiking bills. It should be nationalised. Repost if you agree 👍 www.bigissue.com/news/environ...

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Every. Single. Bloody. Thing. They. Promised. About. Brexit. Was. A. Lie. And on they go demanding it be protected as if it’s something precious rather than the stupidest thing a country could have done to itself. Here’s what prejudice delivers… A barrelling shitshow of failure. 👇

submitted 6 days ago • 33 comments

We didn't vote for Reform lite. We don't want Reform lite. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 140 comments

I had insomnia the night Russia invaded Ukraine and watched it unfold in real time. And tonight watching, here in London, that's what it feels like again. A dark, implacable malevolent takeover. That's accompanied by almost total silence amid so much noise. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

submitted 12 days ago • 49 comments

Posting footage of deportations impresses no one. Reform voters don’t think it’s enough hatred and the rest of us turn away from yet more performative cruelty. The Labour vote disintegrates. If Labour can’t decide who it should be talking and listening to, then it ends up without an audience.

submitted 13 days ago • 99 comments

Witnessing Labour trying to mimic Reform with migrant raid videos is sickening & will simply reinforce Reform’s messages. Just months after race riots, it also risks encouraging further animosity. We need safe & legal routes for asylum seekers, not boasts about which party can be cruellest

submitted 14 days ago • 56 comments

Is this real?? Sckening - serving up people’s suffering to appease the populist Right. When will Labour learn you can’t out-Reform Reform? Instead, offer a far bolder agenda of green investment in local communities, public services in public hands, wealth taxes on super-rich, & a bit of hope FFS

submitted 15 days ago • 50 comments

Please Labour, Stop with this Reform-aping arseholery. We see it for what it is and we hate it. We’re v tired of the nastiness, the cowardice and the dishonesty of blaming immigration for govt failures. Put this nasty messaging in the bin and do better. Thanks UK www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 17 days ago • 93 comments

Bad news for TeSSla's owners. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 21 days ago • 116 comments

“Six months of red lines and rejection have dashed hopes that the new U.K. prime minister really wants to walk back the more extreme elements of the Tory Brexit settlement” www.politico.eu/article/brus...

submitted 21 days ago • 94 comments

So now we have it. Rachel Reeves's claim that a third runway at Heathrow Airport would boost economic growth comes from a report commissioned by .... Heathrow Airport. Instead of acting in the national interest, she's channelling corporate lobbyists. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 21 days ago • 102 comments

NEW: Last week Trump announced 'Stargate' a $500bn AI sci-fi inspired plan to boost US economy. This week, I turn the spotlight on the man who stood behind Trump, lesser-known tech bro, Larry Ellison, his special friend Tony Blair & how they're coming for the UK too open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

submitted 22 days ago • 37 comments

A brilliant analysis of the epic Brexit failure. Scorn for the liars and solidarity for the rest of us. “We lost something intangible and yet priceless, something we might never get back: an idea of our country.” Heartbreaking, enraging and yet, still hopeful. iandunt.substack.com/p/brexit-fiv...

submitted 23 days ago • 45 comments

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

submitted 24 days ago • 100 comments

This 👇

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

Privitisation is a con 😱 Renationalise water NOW 💦 Repost if you agree 🔄 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Millions of Londoners face staggering £200-plus rise in water bills this year How long are we going to tolerate this? www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

submitted 25 days ago • 54 comments

Private water companies choose to prioritise dividends over investment. They pocket our hard earned money, and pass the price of repairs onto us. This is daylight robbery. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 25 days ago • 12 comments

#HeathrowExpansion won’t deliver growth. Business demand is falling & more tourists leave than arrive. But it will trash climate commitments, drive more extreme weather, noise & air pollution & only benefit frequent flying super-emitters - the 15% who take 75% of flights. Labour should be better

submitted 26 days ago • 18 comments

Let’s be clear- Reform’s policies would be the final nail in the coffin for the NHS 🚨 open.substack.com/pub/jujuliag...

submitted 28 days ago • 13 comments

I keep coming back to the fact that Bluesky is superb for new, public good media. 🦋 On this platform, we can shed the billionaires’ media and grow our own quality citizen-focused media. Please follow all in this starter pack - it’s our UK citizen journalism plus other excellent public info news. 👇

submitted 29 days ago • 40 comments

First train of the day (GWR) Over priced, over crowded, tap not working in the loo, no soap, and the toilet squirts out when flushed. Privitisation ladies and gentleman... And you want to give these vultures our NHS?

submitted 29 days ago • 20 comments

In other news the OBR report the government keeps quoting from says Brexit is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - a huge reduction in the potential economic performance of the country at a time when every penny counts www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01...

submitted 33 days ago • 97 comments

Seriously bad news Starmer wants to woo giant companies like Blackstone and Amazon instead of caring about CONSUMERS, HOUSEHOLDS, THE BRITISH PUBLIC He's forced out chair of Competition and Markets Authority, replacing him with former Amazon boss www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

Kemi Badenoch explains how she will make Brexit work After Johnson tried it, Truss tried it, Sunak tried it, and now Starmer is trying it They're all trying to make it work, and all that's happening is the UK is becoming poorer

submitted 37 days ago • 112 comments

Thames among England water and sewerage firms slapped with new class action. £510m damages sought. Govts and regulators defend abusive practices of water companies, let them dump sewage in rivers and fleece customers. End the scam. Nationalise water. www.cityam.com/thames-among...

submitted 39 days ago • 14 comments

So screwed up that we must hope our MPs have a constructive debate about giving our disadvantaged young people opportunities on their own continent… and don’t descend into some idiotic DailyMail spat that prioritises Brexit bullshit and slams the door again on hope. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

submitted 40 days ago • 10 comments

This government backs privatised water, not the public or our rivers 💧Bailing out Thames Water at your expense 💧Refusing to consider public ownership in water review 💧Now taking LEGAL ACTION against anglers trying to restore ecosystem of a river ⁉️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 40 days ago • 5 comments

Tories now permanently stuck in Brexit-failure shit creek, demanding they flounce out of every institution with ‘European’ in its name, to avoid the rules and responsibilities that all our neighbours share. The notion that these evil morons should oversee our human rights is sinister in the extreme.

submitted 42 days ago • 198 comments

Caroline Lucas, "We keep being surprised by these phenomenon.. Floods in Valencia.. Hurricanes that hit the US" "What else does nature have to throw at us to wake us up to recognise that this is being massively exasperated by climate change" Well said @carolinelucas.bsky.social

submitted 45 days ago • 20 comments

Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now @emilybell.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 44 days ago • 90 comments

I don't really use TikTok that much, but I find it fascinating that our government is on the verge of banning an app for national security reasons that are still unclear in the same week that Meta, the largest social media company, says it's now fine to hate LGBTQ people and call us mentally ill.

submitted 44 days ago • 1510 comments

Privatisation's thirst for profit will never be quenched. It's time to take our water back Since privatisation, water companies have racked up massive debts while paying out huge sums to shareholders – and the public pay the price www.bigissue.com/opinion/wate...

submitted 45 days ago • 24 comments

The plan for Social Care is simple, it will be privatised like everything else. Soon the Government will own nothing, and provide nothing, but your taxes will be higher than ever. Privatisation needs to be destroyed not increased.

submitted 46 days ago • 9 comments

Looking at the way Starmer’s new NHS plans are being reported, you would think that there was a secret magical army of private healthcare staff on standby to save the NHS. In reality approx 90% of consultants working in the private sector also work in the NHS. Private companies poach NHS staff🚨

submitted 46 days ago • 17 comments

And now for the parody that makes a mockery of the real NHS England pathway

submitted 47 days ago • 3 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 48 days ago • 21 comments

Mark Zuckerberg doesn't just bend the knee to Trump, he throws himself prostrate on the floor in front of the throne. Darkness falls. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/b...

submitted 48 days ago • 84 comments

Why are we continuing with Brexit?

submitted 50 days ago • 59 comments

Choice A: invest in the NHS, strengthening the NHS Choice B: invest in the private sector, diverting NHS funds, weakening the NHS As a tax payer I do not consent to my money funding private healthcare. Reduce the waiting lists by funding the NHS.

submitted 49 days ago • 11 comments

Labour haven’t got more GPs The summer plan was for 1000 GPs via ARRS scheme so far just 65 have been recruited in the latest figures This is because it’s restricted funding & not given to practices to recruit directly GPs are unemployed due to no funding

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

If you want the NHS to succeed, it's actually quite simple. You invest directly in the NHS, fix NHS pay, and stop money flowing away into private practice.

submitted 49 days ago • 8 comments

FTSE 100 CEO gets more in less than 3 days than average worker pay for a yr. Median CEO pay £4.22m, 113 times average worker. Nothing to do with performance. Shareholder objections ignored. Need worker-elected directors on boards. Let workers vote on exec pay. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 49 days ago • 179 comments

The astonishing cognitive dissonance of a health secretary who insists he'll save the NHS - yet kicks the social care crisis into touch until 2028. 1 in 8 medically fit NHS patients cannot leave hospital for lack of social care. Of course A&E is overwhelmed 🤷‍♀️ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 49 days ago • 33 comments

Private equity profiteering from children's misery. Compass Community has financialised foster care. Profits up from £3m to £10.8m. Fees double/triple compared to what councils could charge. Low pay, lack of workers' rights are hallmarks. End privatisation. www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...

submitted 50 days ago • 38 comments

Jenrick’s repulsively racist post and Truss’s post below (both gone viral on X) are where the prejudice of a disastrous Brexit have led us. To a Tory party radicalised by its own failure, thinking hatred and vicious nationalism are the key to power. With Farage mopping up their voters anyway.

submitted 50 days ago • 59 comments

“Brexit made the UK an early victim of this reactionary politics which, instead of making this country great again, has already made it poorer and lonelier. Who knows what further damage may be awaiting our younger generations.”

submitted 57 days ago • 76 comments