Margaret Greenwood
@mgreenwood2024.bsky.social
Campaigning against NHS privatisation and inequality, and for the environment. Former MP for Wirral West.
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Today I spoke again at another huge national march for Palestine.
The ceasefire has given Gaza a chance to breathe. But we will not stop until there's real peace and justice.
Until those guilty of genocide face justice.
Until Israel’s occupation ends.
Until Palestine is free.
The ceasefire has given Gaza a chance to breathe. But we will not stop until there's real peace and justice.
Until those guilty of genocide face justice.
Until Israel’s occupation ends.
Until Palestine is free.
October 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Today I spoke again at another huge national march for Palestine.
The ceasefire has given Gaza a chance to breathe. But we will not stop until there's real peace and justice.
Until those guilty of genocide face justice.
Until Israel’s occupation ends.
Until Palestine is free.
The ceasefire has given Gaza a chance to breathe. But we will not stop until there's real peace and justice.
Until those guilty of genocide face justice.
Until Israel’s occupation ends.
Until Palestine is free.
The 10 Year Health Plan will embed privatisation: my letter to The Guardian www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS 10-year plan will embed privatisation and hollow out the health service | Letter
Letter: Government reforms could lead to the NHS going the way of social care, where the state is longer able, or willing, to deliver, says Margaret Greenwood
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September 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The 10 Year Health Plan will embed privatisation: my letter to The Guardian www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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UK billionaire wealth has more than doubled since 2010.
Workers’ wages have barely risen since 2008.
On Newsnight, I called for a tax on extreme wealth - that's the fairer alternative to cuts we need.
Workers’ wages have barely risen since 2008.
On Newsnight, I called for a tax on extreme wealth - that's the fairer alternative to cuts we need.
July 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
UK billionaire wealth has more than doubled since 2010.
Workers’ wages have barely risen since 2008.
On Newsnight, I called for a tax on extreme wealth - that's the fairer alternative to cuts we need.
Workers’ wages have barely risen since 2008.
On Newsnight, I called for a tax on extreme wealth - that's the fairer alternative to cuts we need.
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Even with the changes, the Disability Cuts Bill will see nearly half a million disabled people denied PIP over the next 4 years.
MPs shouldn't vote to cut support for disabled people who'll need help cutting up food, washing or going to the toilet.
I'm voting against the Bill.
MPs shouldn't vote to cut support for disabled people who'll need help cutting up food, washing or going to the toilet.
I'm voting against the Bill.
June 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Even with the changes, the Disability Cuts Bill will see nearly half a million disabled people denied PIP over the next 4 years.
MPs shouldn't vote to cut support for disabled people who'll need help cutting up food, washing or going to the toilet.
I'm voting against the Bill.
MPs shouldn't vote to cut support for disabled people who'll need help cutting up food, washing or going to the toilet.
I'm voting against the Bill.
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Sadly the UC & PIP Bill as it stands will still impose brutal cuts, pushing huge numbers of people who desperately need support into poverty.
It is clear that the Bill must be withdrawn. 👇
It is clear that the Bill must be withdrawn. 👇
June 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Sadly the UC & PIP Bill as it stands will still impose brutal cuts, pushing huge numbers of people who desperately need support into poverty.
It is clear that the Bill must be withdrawn. 👇
It is clear that the Bill must be withdrawn. 👇
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Disabled people’s organisations, including DPAC, Taking The PIP & Disability Rights UK, have rightly condemned Labour’s so-called “concessions” on disability benefit cuts.
It’s not a concession to condemn future generations to less support.
I’ll be voting against this Bill.
It’s not a concession to condemn future generations to less support.
I’ll be voting against this Bill.
June 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Disabled people’s organisations, including DPAC, Taking The PIP & Disability Rights UK, have rightly condemned Labour’s so-called “concessions” on disability benefit cuts.
It’s not a concession to condemn future generations to less support.
I’ll be voting against this Bill.
It’s not a concession to condemn future generations to less support.
I’ll be voting against this Bill.
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...scrap proposed disability benefit cuts. Growth must benefit everyone. (2/2)
June 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
...scrap proposed disability benefit cuts. Growth must benefit everyone. (2/2)
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Not long to go now! 🙂
Who's joining us this Saturday in London on the NHS bloc @peoplesassembly.bsky.social demo?
Let's send a message to this government to prioritise our NHS!
Details below - we look forward to marching with you 👊💙
Oh, and do spread the word! 🙏👍
Who's joining us this Saturday in London on the NHS bloc @peoplesassembly.bsky.social demo?
Let's send a message to this government to prioritise our NHS!
Details below - we look forward to marching with you 👊💙
Oh, and do spread the word! 🙏👍
June 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Not long to go now! 🙂
Who's joining us this Saturday in London on the NHS bloc @peoplesassembly.bsky.social demo?
Let's send a message to this government to prioritise our NHS!
Details below - we look forward to marching with you 👊💙
Oh, and do spread the word! 🙏👍
Who's joining us this Saturday in London on the NHS bloc @peoplesassembly.bsky.social demo?
Let's send a message to this government to prioritise our NHS!
Details below - we look forward to marching with you 👊💙
Oh, and do spread the word! 🙏👍
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“it’s common sense that children can’t do well at school if they’re hungry. That's why today I'm proud to announce that over half a million more children will get a free school meal every day”
Prime minister Keir Starmer
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Prime minister Keir Starmer
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'Free school meal boost will put £500 in parents’ pockets and help kids achieve'
Keir Starmer writes for the Mirror that 'it’s common sense that children can’t do well at school if they’re hungry' as he unveiled a major change to free school meal rules
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June 5, 2025 at 5:41 AM
“it’s common sense that children can’t do well at school if they’re hungry. That's why today I'm proud to announce that over half a million more children will get a free school meal every day”
Prime minister Keir Starmer
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Prime minister Keir Starmer
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Add your name to this petition & call for a wealth tax, not disability cuts.
The vote on disability cuts could take place in the next few weeks.
I've launched a petition for a Wealth Tax, not disability cuts.
I'll be presenting this in Parliament ahead of the vote.
It's already at nearly 70,000! Add you name below chng.it/ztV8MqDHVQ
I've launched a petition for a Wealth Tax, not disability cuts.
I'll be presenting this in Parliament ahead of the vote.
It's already at nearly 70,000! Add you name below chng.it/ztV8MqDHVQ
June 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Add your name to this petition & call for a wealth tax, not disability cuts.
There's a major reorganisation of the NHS underway, and the threat of potentially over 100,000 redundancies. Write to your MP demanding a full risk and impact assessment using this letter tinyurl.com/374zsenz
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June 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
There's a major reorganisation of the NHS underway, and the threat of potentially over 100,000 redundancies. Write to your MP demanding a full risk and impact assessment using this letter tinyurl.com/374zsenz
labouroutlook.org/2025/05/17/t... My article about what's happening to the NHS. Why the big reorganisation? Why does Sir Jim Mackey want to see support staff moved from NHS contracts to SubCos? And why are NHS hospitals still allowed to make up to 49% of their money from private patients?
The NHS Is Being Dismantled – Margaret Greenwood
Margaret Greenwood questions cuts to NHS budgets before publication of the NHS 10 Year Plan and warns against a growing presence of private firms in health provision.
labouroutlook.org
May 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
labouroutlook.org/2025/05/17/t... My article about what's happening to the NHS. Why the big reorganisation? Why does Sir Jim Mackey want to see support staff moved from NHS contracts to SubCos? And why are NHS hospitals still allowed to make up to 49% of their money from private patients?
Call it a reset? These cuts to NHS hospitals will damage patient care www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Hospitals in England reducing staff and services as part of NHS ‘financial reset’
Trusts having to ‘think the previously unthinkable’ to make savings demanded by new NHS England boss
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May 9, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Call it a reset? These cuts to NHS hospitals will damage patient care www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Well worth watching … Mark E Thomas debunking the myths of fiscal rules. Celebrate Beveridge. Time for bold government. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QY_...
Mark E Thomas at Sands
YouTube video by The 99% Organisation
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April 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Well worth watching … Mark E Thomas debunking the myths of fiscal rules. Celebrate Beveridge. Time for bold government. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QY_...
The Rational Policy-Maker's Guide to Rebuilding the NHS is now available to download. 99-percent.org/wp-content/u...
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March 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Rational Policy-Maker's Guide to Rebuilding the NHS is now available to download. 99-percent.org/wp-content/u...
How did the last Labour gov't turn round the NHS? They funded it in line with the needs of the population. Mark E Thomas sets out some of the detail.
March 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
How did the last Labour gov't turn round the NHS? They funded it in line with the needs of the population. Mark E Thomas sets out some of the detail.
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“I did not come into politics to inflict this on the most vulnerable people in our society, and I cannot vote for changes which will have this impact”
Connor Naismith Labour MP 👏
Connor Naismith Labour MP 👏
March 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
“I did not come into politics to inflict this on the most vulnerable people in our society, and I cannot vote for changes which will have this impact”
Connor Naismith Labour MP 👏
Connor Naismith Labour MP 👏
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At the Spring Statement, I raised serious concerns about proposals to restrict disability benefits. The Government's impact assessment published today shows 250,000 more people and 50,000 more children will fall into relative poverty. It is clear that the Government must reconsider its plans.
March 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
At the Spring Statement, I raised serious concerns about proposals to restrict disability benefits. The Government's impact assessment published today shows 250,000 more people and 50,000 more children will fall into relative poverty. It is clear that the Government must reconsider its plans.
Record 4.5m children living in poverty, UK data shows www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Record 4.5m children living in poverty, UK data shows
Government urged to scrap two-child benefit cap after chancellor announces welfare cuts in spring statement
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March 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Record 4.5m children living in poverty, UK data shows www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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New figures reveal 4.5 million children in the UK are growing up in poverty — the highest ever recorded.
Meanwhile, UK billionaires saw their wealth rise to £795 billion last year — another record.
We have resources to end child poverty. We need a wealth tax on the super-rich.
Meanwhile, UK billionaires saw their wealth rise to £795 billion last year — another record.
We have resources to end child poverty. We need a wealth tax on the super-rich.
March 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
New figures reveal 4.5 million children in the UK are growing up in poverty — the highest ever recorded.
Meanwhile, UK billionaires saw their wealth rise to £795 billion last year — another record.
We have resources to end child poverty. We need a wealth tax on the super-rich.
Meanwhile, UK billionaires saw their wealth rise to £795 billion last year — another record.
We have resources to end child poverty. We need a wealth tax on the super-rich.
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Rachel Reeves seems to think she’s found the magic money tree -growing in the gardens & down the roads of our poorest citizens & communities. She’s so busy shaking it she can’t see the vast forests of personal wealth being hoarded behind big gates www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Spring Statement: Reeves to make further welfare cuts but boost defence
The chancellor is set to expand cuts to benefits after being told the reforms would save less than planned.
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March 26, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Rachel Reeves seems to think she’s found the magic money tree -growing in the gardens & down the roads of our poorest citizens & communities. She’s so busy shaking it she can’t see the vast forests of personal wealth being hoarded behind big gates www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Government should not be balancing the books on the backs of the poor and disabled.
On @lbc.co.uk I called for a wealth tax instead.
A wealth tax of just 2% on assets over £10 million would raise £24 BILLION per year.
Let's tax extreme wealth, not punish the poorest.
On @lbc.co.uk I called for a wealth tax instead.
A wealth tax of just 2% on assets over £10 million would raise £24 BILLION per year.
Let's tax extreme wealth, not punish the poorest.
March 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The Government should not be balancing the books on the backs of the poor and disabled.
On @lbc.co.uk I called for a wealth tax instead.
A wealth tax of just 2% on assets over £10 million would raise £24 BILLION per year.
Let's tax extreme wealth, not punish the poorest.
On @lbc.co.uk I called for a wealth tax instead.
A wealth tax of just 2% on assets over £10 million would raise £24 BILLION per year.
Let's tax extreme wealth, not punish the poorest.
Quite right. Tge government must drop these savage cuts.
This Statement contains cruel attacks on disabled people.
The Government is taking the easy option of cutting support for millions of vulnerable people rather than making the wealthiest pay.
I’ll vote against these cuts to disability benefits. The government must drop them.
The Government is taking the easy option of cutting support for millions of vulnerable people rather than making the wealthiest pay.
I’ll vote against these cuts to disability benefits. The government must drop them.
March 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Quite right. Tge government must drop these savage cuts.
Well done @zarahsultana.bsky.social for speaking out on behalf of disabled people. Why does the Chancellor ignore the evidence of her government's impact assessment?
Disability benefit cuts will push over 250,000 people, including 50,000 children, into poverty.
So I asked the Chancellor — who earns over £150,000, accepted £7,500 in free clothes & took freebie tickets to see Sabrina Carpenter — if Austerity 2.0 is the "change" people voted for?
So I asked the Chancellor — who earns over £150,000, accepted £7,500 in free clothes & took freebie tickets to see Sabrina Carpenter — if Austerity 2.0 is the "change" people voted for?
March 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Well done @zarahsultana.bsky.social for speaking out on behalf of disabled people. Why does the Chancellor ignore the evidence of her government's impact assessment?
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- The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
- The National Insurance Contributions Bill
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- The National Insurance Contributions Bill
- British Sign Language Week
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March 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Did you know the Commons Library publishes briefings to help MPs prepare for debates? Read up on this week's topics, including:
- The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
- The National Insurance Contributions Bill
- British Sign Language Week
and more commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-for...
- The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
- The National Insurance Contributions Bill
- British Sign Language Week
and more commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-for...