Craig Fleming
@craigfleming.bsky.social
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Debate today with a Labour MP on the economy.
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
Is Labour being outflanked by Polanski and Farage? Reeves budget debate
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
youtu.be
Fiscal rules aren't economic law—they're a political straitjacket designed by & for the rich. Labour & Tories use them to scare us into accepting poverty & privatisation. We must break these rules to invest in people, not profit. Their consensus is our crisis. #RadicalChange
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With a huge majority in the Commons, the govt can override the Lords and push through any legislation but has chosen not to.
November 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
With a huge majority in the Commons, the govt can override the Lords and push through any legislation but has chosen not to.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
-Their property is protected by a publicly-funded police and fire service.
-Their goods are transported on publicly-funded roads and bridges.
-Their workforce is educated in publicly-funded schools and kept healthy by a public health system.
Unpatriotic, and a moral and social disgrace!
#TaxTheRich
-Their goods are transported on publicly-funded roads and bridges.
-Their workforce is educated in publicly-funded schools and kept healthy by a public health system.
Unpatriotic, and a moral and social disgrace!
#TaxTheRich
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
-Their property is protected by a publicly-funded police and fire service.
-Their goods are transported on publicly-funded roads and bridges.
-Their workforce is educated in publicly-funded schools and kept healthy by a public health system.
Unpatriotic, and a moral and social disgrace!
#TaxTheRich
-Their goods are transported on publicly-funded roads and bridges.
-Their workforce is educated in publicly-funded schools and kept healthy by a public health system.
Unpatriotic, and a moral and social disgrace!
#TaxTheRich
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The cost of food has risen by 37% in five years.
Meanwhile, Tesco’s operating profit jumped from £1.8bn in 2021 to £3.1bn in 2024/25, an increase of 72%.
Call it what it really is - GREEDFLATION.
Meanwhile, Tesco’s operating profit jumped from £1.8bn in 2021 to £3.1bn in 2024/25, an increase of 72%.
Call it what it really is - GREEDFLATION.
November 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The cost of food has risen by 37% in five years.
Meanwhile, Tesco’s operating profit jumped from £1.8bn in 2021 to £3.1bn in 2024/25, an increase of 72%.
Call it what it really is - GREEDFLATION.
Meanwhile, Tesco’s operating profit jumped from £1.8bn in 2021 to £3.1bn in 2024/25, an increase of 72%.
Call it what it really is - GREEDFLATION.
Fiscal rules aren't economic law—they're a political straitjacket designed by & for the rich. Labour & Tories use them to scare us into accepting poverty & privatisation. We must break these rules to invest in people, not profit. Their consensus is our crisis. #RadicalChange
Debate today with a Labour MP on the economy.
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
Is Labour being outflanked by Polanski and Farage? Reeves budget debate
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Fiscal rules aren't economic law—they're a political straitjacket designed by & for the rich. Labour & Tories use them to scare us into accepting poverty & privatisation. We must break these rules to invest in people, not profit. Their consensus is our crisis. #RadicalChange
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This is so powerful.
Private healthcare has already contaminated our NHS too much. Don't let it go any further.
vist.ly/4cmrj
#NHS #publicownership
Private healthcare has already contaminated our NHS too much. Don't let it go any further.
vist.ly/4cmrj
#NHS #publicownership
November 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This is so powerful.
Private healthcare has already contaminated our NHS too much. Don't let it go any further.
vist.ly/4cmrj
#NHS #publicownership
Private healthcare has already contaminated our NHS too much. Don't let it go any further.
vist.ly/4cmrj
#NHS #publicownership
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"Some absolutely outstanding work by activists to sneak these wraparounds onto copies of the Daily Mail in shops."
via Ian Almond
via Ian Almond
October 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"Some absolutely outstanding work by activists to sneak these wraparounds onto copies of the Daily Mail in shops."
via Ian Almond
via Ian Almond
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👀 Exclusive: How councils lost £15m of taxpayers' money – by buying back homes they sold
Big Issue reporter @gregbarradale.bsky.social here. I've been digging into Yo-yo Homes. They're costing taxpayers millions
Today we're publishing the full list of 120+ Yo-yo Homes we've discovered. Here's a 🧵
Big Issue reporter @gregbarradale.bsky.social here. I've been digging into Yo-yo Homes. They're costing taxpayers millions
Today we're publishing the full list of 120+ Yo-yo Homes we've discovered. Here's a 🧵
October 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
👀 Exclusive: How councils lost £15m of taxpayers' money – by buying back homes they sold
Big Issue reporter @gregbarradale.bsky.social here. I've been digging into Yo-yo Homes. They're costing taxpayers millions
Today we're publishing the full list of 120+ Yo-yo Homes we've discovered. Here's a 🧵
Big Issue reporter @gregbarradale.bsky.social here. I've been digging into Yo-yo Homes. They're costing taxpayers millions
Today we're publishing the full list of 120+ Yo-yo Homes we've discovered. Here's a 🧵
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I'll be speaking at the launch of this excellent report in about 10 mins! Link below
Average person’s life saw ‘no meaningful improvement’ over past year www.independent.co.uk/news/busines... Last chance to tune into our webinar on this topic with @graceblakeley.substack.com at 10am this morning: carnegieuk.org/event/how-is...
Average person’s life saw ‘no meaningful improvement’ over past year – charity
Carnegie UK found stagnating wellbeing and persistent hardship for millions of people since 2023.
www.independent.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I'll be speaking at the launch of this excellent report in about 10 mins! Link below
A deeply, disingenuous report. Parroted by people, pushing the narrative that the LP is doing positive things. Deeply troubling, misinformation spreaders!
October 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A deeply, disingenuous report. Parroted by people, pushing the narrative that the LP is doing positive things. Deeply troubling, misinformation spreaders!
This image, and the presentation of it, is deeply misleading. It omits context, scales down ambitions, and repackages minor developments or continuations of existing policy as major victories.
#LabourPromises #FactCheck #UKPolitics
#LabourPromises #FactCheck #UKPolitics
October 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
This image, and the presentation of it, is deeply misleading. It omits context, scales down ambitions, and repackages minor developments or continuations of existing policy as major victories.
#LabourPromises #FactCheck #UKPolitics
#LabourPromises #FactCheck #UKPolitics
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Another @zackpolanski.bsky.social banger
October 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Another @zackpolanski.bsky.social banger
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"Christians, Muslims, Jews, migrants and people from a global majority background face the threat of violence or harassment as they simply go about their lives each day. This is unacceptable for the UK in the 21st century."
@carladenyer.bsky.social on the increase in reported hate crimes.
@carladenyer.bsky.social on the increase in reported hate crimes.
October 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
"Christians, Muslims, Jews, migrants and people from a global majority background face the threat of violence or harassment as they simply go about their lives each day. This is unacceptable for the UK in the 21st century."
@carladenyer.bsky.social on the increase in reported hate crimes.
@carladenyer.bsky.social on the increase in reported hate crimes.
There is literally a serving Labour MP, who lobbied on behalf of water companies.
They are never going to change course, tax payers money and bill charges into the pockets of investors.
It's time to organise a 'PAYMENT STRIKE', as it's illegal to turn someone's water off!
#waterbillstrike
They are never going to change course, tax payers money and bill charges into the pockets of investors.
It's time to organise a 'PAYMENT STRIKE', as it's illegal to turn someone's water off!
#waterbillstrike
Are they actually joking ⁉️
5 private water companies want permission to raise your bills EVEN HIGHER
💧Bills already went up £10/month in April💧
There is no market, the rip off won't end until we end privatisation
Start by taking back Thames Water
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...
5 private water companies want permission to raise your bills EVEN HIGHER
💧Bills already went up £10/month in April💧
There is no market, the rip off won't end until we end privatisation
Start by taking back Thames Water
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...
Water bills: millions of households in England could face even bigger rises
CMA poised to give verdict after appeal by five firms for permission to increase bills higher than allowed by Ofwat
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
There is literally a serving Labour MP, who lobbied on behalf of water companies.
They are never going to change course, tax payers money and bill charges into the pockets of investors.
It's time to organise a 'PAYMENT STRIKE', as it's illegal to turn someone's water off!
#waterbillstrike
They are never going to change course, tax payers money and bill charges into the pockets of investors.
It's time to organise a 'PAYMENT STRIKE', as it's illegal to turn someone's water off!
#waterbillstrike
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A new day of nationwide strikes in France maintains pressure on embattled PM
The Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) counted the participants of yesterday's strikes at 600,000, across 230 towns and cities in France
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
The Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) counted the participants of yesterday's strikes at 600,000, across 230 towns and cities in France
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
A new day of nationwide strikes in France maintains pressure on embattled PM
The Confédération générale du travail (CGT) counted the participants of yesterday's strikes at 600,000, across 230 towns and cities in France
www.thecanary.co
October 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
A new day of nationwide strikes in France maintains pressure on embattled PM
The Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) counted the participants of yesterday's strikes at 600,000, across 230 towns and cities in France
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
The Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) counted the participants of yesterday's strikes at 600,000, across 230 towns and cities in France
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
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"For the next 15 years, give us a subsidy from public money, and remove the disincentive for us to stop dumping raw sewage, so our creditors are rescued from the consequences of their own greed" is not, I have to say, the world's most appealing pitch. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thames Water creditors ask for up to 15 years’ leniency from river pollution rules
Lenders say a ‘full return to legal, regulatory and environmental compliance’ under new rescue plan would not be completed until at least 2035-2040
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"For the next 15 years, give us a subsidy from public money, and remove the disincentive for us to stop dumping raw sewage, so our creditors are rescued from the consequences of their own greed" is not, I have to say, the world's most appealing pitch. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labo...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labo...
Labour is still failing us on social security
WHAT has defined this Labour government? For many, it happened early on, when one of the new government’s first decisions was to cut winter fuel payments for nearly 10 million pensioners.We all knew L...
morningstaronline.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labo...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labo...
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Almost two in three Labour members would back Burnham as leader
Starmer made poor policy choices
Two child benefit cap.
Winter fuel payment fiasco.
Disability benefit cuts.
Sticking to Tory income tax thresholds.
No curbs on energy/water profiteering.
Return of PFI.
No end to political corruption
Starmer made poor policy choices
Two child benefit cap.
Winter fuel payment fiasco.
Disability benefit cuts.
Sticking to Tory income tax thresholds.
No curbs on energy/water profiteering.
Return of PFI.
No end to political corruption
Almost two in three Labour members back Burnham over Starmer for leader, poll shows
The exclusive poll also reveals that around a third of Labour members polled no longer think Sir Keir Starmer is a good prime minister.
news.sky.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Almost two in three Labour members would back Burnham as leader
Starmer made poor policy choices
Two child benefit cap.
Winter fuel payment fiasco.
Disability benefit cuts.
Sticking to Tory income tax thresholds.
No curbs on energy/water profiteering.
Return of PFI.
No end to political corruption
Starmer made poor policy choices
Two child benefit cap.
Winter fuel payment fiasco.
Disability benefit cuts.
Sticking to Tory income tax thresholds.
No curbs on energy/water profiteering.
Return of PFI.
No end to political corruption
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A single person in the UK now needs to earn £30,500 a year to “participate in society” and "live with dignity", new research has found.
Single people must earn at least £30,500 per year to live well in the UK
www.bigissue.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A single person in the UK now needs to earn £30,500 a year to “participate in society” and "live with dignity", new research has found.
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NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/parl...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/parl...
Parliamentary democracy is faltering across Europe
JUST as Britain’s recalibrated relationship with the European Union is beginning to acquire more settled contours, politics in Britain conforms more to a continental model with a multiplicity of polit...
morningstaronline.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/parl...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/parl...
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😡This is madness!
The government is shelling out millions to Deloitte to advise on bringing PFI back into the NHS.
PFI deals signed under Blair are still damaging our NHS today, yet Wes Streeting wants to set another ticking time bomb under our NHS.
We have to stop this.
The government is shelling out millions to Deloitte to advise on bringing PFI back into the NHS.
PFI deals signed under Blair are still damaging our NHS today, yet Wes Streeting wants to set another ticking time bomb under our NHS.
We have to stop this.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
😡This is madness!
The government is shelling out millions to Deloitte to advise on bringing PFI back into the NHS.
PFI deals signed under Blair are still damaging our NHS today, yet Wes Streeting wants to set another ticking time bomb under our NHS.
We have to stop this.
The government is shelling out millions to Deloitte to advise on bringing PFI back into the NHS.
PFI deals signed under Blair are still damaging our NHS today, yet Wes Streeting wants to set another ticking time bomb under our NHS.
We have to stop this.
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Being disabled is a minority group you can join at any time.
Everyone believes they will be the exception. That it won’t happen to them, or when it does they will “try harder” than us
The truth is most people will become disabled.
Health is both fragile & temporary.
Engage in disability justice
Everyone believes they will be the exception. That it won’t happen to them, or when it does they will “try harder” than us
The truth is most people will become disabled.
Health is both fragile & temporary.
Engage in disability justice
September 25, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Being disabled is a minority group you can join at any time.
Everyone believes they will be the exception. That it won’t happen to them, or when it does they will “try harder” than us
The truth is most people will become disabled.
Health is both fragile & temporary.
Engage in disability justice
Everyone believes they will be the exception. That it won’t happen to them, or when it does they will “try harder” than us
The truth is most people will become disabled.
Health is both fragile & temporary.
Engage in disability justice
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Green Party - Nationalise the water companies, tax the super rich, invest in our public services, stop the genocide, lower bills.
The Telegraph - Greens are "hard left."
The Telegraph - Greens are "hard left."
September 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Green Party - Nationalise the water companies, tax the super rich, invest in our public services, stop the genocide, lower bills.
The Telegraph - Greens are "hard left."
The Telegraph - Greens are "hard left."
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July 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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How do we fix this mess?
September 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
How do we fix this mess?