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Cost of Privatisation
Royal Mail letters sit undelivered 'for weeks', parcels prioritised
RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets. Urgent letters missed. Fines passed to customers
Profiteering:
Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p.
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
Royal Mail letters sit undelivered 'for weeks', parcels prioritised
RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets. Urgent letters missed. Fines passed to customers
Profiteering:
Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p.
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
Royal Mail staff tell BBC letters sit undelivered as firm prioritises parcels
Staff and customers tell the BBC prioritising parcels can mean missed NHS appointments and late payment fines.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 16, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Cost of Privatisation
Royal Mail letters sit undelivered 'for weeks', parcels prioritised
RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets. Urgent letters missed. Fines passed to customers
Profiteering:
Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p.
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
Royal Mail letters sit undelivered 'for weeks', parcels prioritised
RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets. Urgent letters missed. Fines passed to customers
Profiteering:
Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p.
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
you.38degrees.org.uk
February 13, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
A free press shouldn't mean a free pass to abuse ordinary people.
It’s time for independent regulation that holds power to account.
Sign the petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
It’s time for independent regulation that holds power to account.
Sign the petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
Enough is enough. From phone hacking to harassing grieving families, we’ve seen the damage an unregulated press can do. 😡
Right now, the press marks its own homework. We need a new law to ensure fair...
you.38degrees.org.uk
February 9, 2026 at 6:04 PM
A free press shouldn't mean a free pass to abuse ordinary people.
It’s time for independent regulation that holds power to account.
Sign the petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
It’s time for independent regulation that holds power to account.
Sign the petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
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UK budget freeze on income tax thresholds
Over the next 5 yrs, 780,000 more people, the poorest, will pay income tax for the first time.
Someone earning £50,000 will pay £9,512 in tax, an increase of £1,247 because thresholds are frozen.
Can't grow economy by hitting low/middle income earners.
Over the next 5 yrs, 780,000 more people, the poorest, will pay income tax for the first time.
Someone earning £50,000 will pay £9,512 in tax, an increase of £1,247 because thresholds are frozen.
Can't grow economy by hitting low/middle income earners.
The government’s budget is simply managing decline
The budget does little to improve living standards or facilitate sustained economic growth
leftfootforward.org
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
UK budget freeze on income tax thresholds
Over the next 5 yrs, 780,000 more people, the poorest, will pay income tax for the first time.
Someone earning £50,000 will pay £9,512 in tax, an increase of £1,247 because thresholds are frozen.
Can't grow economy by hitting low/middle income earners.
Over the next 5 yrs, 780,000 more people, the poorest, will pay income tax for the first time.
Someone earning £50,000 will pay £9,512 in tax, an increase of £1,247 because thresholds are frozen.
Can't grow economy by hitting low/middle income earners.
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England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year.
Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.
People fleeced.
Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.
People fleeced.
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year.
Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.
People fleeced.
Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.
People fleeced.
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UK electricity bills up 163% since 2008. Wages haven't.
6.1m households in fuel poverty, £4.43bn debt
Profiteering: Energy sector average profit margin 23%, grid sector 38%, gas extraction 58%.
Profit last year £30bn. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
No govt checks profiteering.
6.1m households in fuel poverty, £4.43bn debt
Profiteering: Energy sector average profit margin 23%, grid sector 38%, gas extraction 58%.
Profit last year £30bn. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
No govt checks profiteering.
Electricity bills increased 163 per cent since 2008 as energy price cap rises - research - Insider Media
New analysis of UK energy costs showed that the average annual household electricity bill increased by 163 per cent between 2008 and 2024, reflecting a steep rise in household energy costs…
www.insidermedia.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:54 AM
UK electricity bills up 163% since 2008. Wages haven't.
6.1m households in fuel poverty, £4.43bn debt
Profiteering: Energy sector average profit margin 23%, grid sector 38%, gas extraction 58%.
Profit last year £30bn. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
No govt checks profiteering.
6.1m households in fuel poverty, £4.43bn debt
Profiteering: Energy sector average profit margin 23%, grid sector 38%, gas extraction 58%.
Profit last year £30bn. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
No govt checks profiteering.
😡 The Government wants to ban repeated protests & jail those who defy them. Stand up for our democratic right to protest - sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
Don’t crush our right to protest!
The right to protest is the heartbeat of democracy. It lets us speak out, challenge injustice, and hold those in power accountable. The Government’s plan would give police sweeping powers to ban repea...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
😡 The Government wants to ban repeated protests & jail those who defy them. Stand up for our democratic right to protest - sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
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Average real wage of UK workers is stuck the 2008 level.
Some bosses are collecting 1,112 times more than the average employee wage. Millions forced to rely on food banks and charity.
Workers have no say in income distribution. Govts do nothing.
Can't build economy/society on huge inequalities.
Some bosses are collecting 1,112 times more than the average employee wage. Millions forced to rely on food banks and charity.
Workers have no say in income distribution. Govts do nothing.
Can't build economy/society on huge inequalities.
The government must ensure fair distribution of income
'The average real wage of workers has hardly moved from the 2008 level whilst bosses never had it so good.'
leftfootforward.org
October 4, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Average real wage of UK workers is stuck the 2008 level.
Some bosses are collecting 1,112 times more than the average employee wage. Millions forced to rely on food banks and charity.
Workers have no say in income distribution. Govts do nothing.
Can't build economy/society on huge inequalities.
Some bosses are collecting 1,112 times more than the average employee wage. Millions forced to rely on food banks and charity.
Workers have no say in income distribution. Govts do nothing.
Can't build economy/society on huge inequalities.
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Michelle Mone should be forced to pay all the money back AND she should go to jail.
Like Lord Bamford, Nadhim Zahawi and all the rest.
If you rob somewhere, do you just pay the money back and not go to jail?
No you don't, should be same rules for everybody.
Like Lord Bamford, Nadhim Zahawi and all the rest.
If you rob somewhere, do you just pay the money back and not go to jail?
No you don't, should be same rules for everybody.
October 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Michelle Mone should be forced to pay all the money back AND she should go to jail.
Like Lord Bamford, Nadhim Zahawi and all the rest.
If you rob somewhere, do you just pay the money back and not go to jail?
No you don't, should be same rules for everybody.
Like Lord Bamford, Nadhim Zahawi and all the rest.
If you rob somewhere, do you just pay the money back and not go to jail?
No you don't, should be same rules for everybody.
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Shoplift from Tesco and get sent to jail. Rip off the NHS for £122m and get politely asked to pay the money back.
October 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Shoplift from Tesco and get sent to jail. Rip off the NHS for £122m and get politely asked to pay the money back.
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Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on £400,000 GB News earnings.
Poor attendance record in parliament, collects £94,000 salary+expenses.
Has used a trust fund in an offshore tax haven.
Previously described people who try to avoid tax as the “common enemy”.
Poor attendance record in parliament, collects £94,000 salary+expenses.
Has used a trust fund in an offshore tax haven.
Previously described people who try to avoid tax as the “common enemy”.
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on £400,000 GB News earnings.
Poor attendance record in parliament, collects £94,000 salary+expenses.
Has used a trust fund in an offshore tax haven.
Previously described people who try to avoid tax as the “common enemy”.
Poor attendance record in parliament, collects £94,000 salary+expenses.
Has used a trust fund in an offshore tax haven.
Previously described people who try to avoid tax as the “common enemy”.
Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...
Great Yarmouth to Host Britain’s Biggest White Power Concert in Years – HOPE not hate
Great Yarmouth is set to host the largest white power music gig held in the UK for at least 10 years, HOPE not hate can...
hopenothate.org.uk
August 31, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...
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Holding a placard is not terrorism
August 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Holding a placard is not terrorism
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Eleven major UK airports have increased their so-called "kiss and fly" charges - fees drivers pay when dropping off.
Companies ever ready to exploit people.
Airports have high prices. So-called duty free goods are often cheaper in the High Street.
Companies ever ready to exploit people.
Airports have high prices. So-called duty free goods are often cheaper in the High Street.
More than half of UK airports have hiked 'kiss and fly' drop-off fees - here's the full list
Eleven major airports have increased their so-called "kiss and fly" charges - fees drivers pay when dropping off a passenger as close to the terminal as possible.
news.sky.com
July 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Eleven major UK airports have increased their so-called "kiss and fly" charges - fees drivers pay when dropping off.
Companies ever ready to exploit people.
Airports have high prices. So-called duty free goods are often cheaper in the High Street.
Companies ever ready to exploit people.
Airports have high prices. So-called duty free goods are often cheaper in the High Street.
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The thing that really grinds my gears is that everyone had heard the creepy interviews, seen the evidence of felony and known he was accused of all sorts BEFORE voting for him.
It’s almost like, putting your morals to one side in order to get a few policies you support is never going to end well.
It’s almost like, putting your morals to one side in order to get a few policies you support is never going to end well.
July 19, 2025 at 7:02 AM
The thing that really grinds my gears is that everyone had heard the creepy interviews, seen the evidence of felony and known he was accused of all sorts BEFORE voting for him.
It’s almost like, putting your morals to one side in order to get a few policies you support is never going to end well.
It’s almost like, putting your morals to one side in order to get a few policies you support is never going to end well.
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The government is legitimising Reform with anti-migrant rhetoric while alienating long-time Labour voters by shifting to the right.
This won't defeat the far right, nor will it improve lives ruined by austerity - it's clearly a lose-lose strategy.
This won't defeat the far right, nor will it improve lives ruined by austerity - it's clearly a lose-lose strategy.
May 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The government is legitimising Reform with anti-migrant rhetoric while alienating long-time Labour voters by shifting to the right.
This won't defeat the far right, nor will it improve lives ruined by austerity - it's clearly a lose-lose strategy.
This won't defeat the far right, nor will it improve lives ruined by austerity - it's clearly a lose-lose strategy.
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The UK has dropped to its lowest position ever (22nd) on the
@ilgaeurope.bsky.social ranking of the best and worst places to be LGBTQ+ in Europe.
Ten years ago, it ranked in first place.
Our government must reverse, not further, this shocking decline in LGBTQ+ rights.
@ilgaeurope.bsky.social ranking of the best and worst places to be LGBTQ+ in Europe.
Ten years ago, it ranked in first place.
Our government must reverse, not further, this shocking decline in LGBTQ+ rights.
May 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The UK has dropped to its lowest position ever (22nd) on the
@ilgaeurope.bsky.social ranking of the best and worst places to be LGBTQ+ in Europe.
Ten years ago, it ranked in first place.
Our government must reverse, not further, this shocking decline in LGBTQ+ rights.
@ilgaeurope.bsky.social ranking of the best and worst places to be LGBTQ+ in Europe.
Ten years ago, it ranked in first place.
Our government must reverse, not further, this shocking decline in LGBTQ+ rights.
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While people struggle to pay bills, Thames Water bosses pat themselves on the back, racking up debt, dodging responsibility & passing the cost to us.
They profit, we pay.
It's not enough to just stop bonuses.
This only gets fixed with public ownership.
www.ft.com/content/1f6d... #thameswater
They profit, we pay.
It's not enough to just stop bonuses.
This only gets fixed with public ownership.
www.ft.com/content/1f6d... #thameswater
Thames Water executives to receive bonuses from £3bn emergency loan
Utility’s chair tells MPs that retention payments are needed to prevent rivals ‘picking off’ staff
www.ft.com
May 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
While people struggle to pay bills, Thames Water bosses pat themselves on the back, racking up debt, dodging responsibility & passing the cost to us.
They profit, we pay.
It's not enough to just stop bonuses.
This only gets fixed with public ownership.
www.ft.com/content/1f6d... #thameswater
They profit, we pay.
It's not enough to just stop bonuses.
This only gets fixed with public ownership.
www.ft.com/content/1f6d... #thameswater
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Keir Starmer’s anti-immigration rhetoric isn’t just a dog whistle — it’s a foghorn to the far right.
It echoes Enoch Powell & fuels hate. Last summer, a hotel housing asylum seekers was set on fire. This is the deadly cost of pandering to racism.
Shame on the Prime Minister.
It echoes Enoch Powell & fuels hate. Last summer, a hotel housing asylum seekers was set on fire. This is the deadly cost of pandering to racism.
Shame on the Prime Minister.
May 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Keir Starmer’s anti-immigration rhetoric isn’t just a dog whistle — it’s a foghorn to the far right.
It echoes Enoch Powell & fuels hate. Last summer, a hotel housing asylum seekers was set on fire. This is the deadly cost of pandering to racism.
Shame on the Prime Minister.
It echoes Enoch Powell & fuels hate. Last summer, a hotel housing asylum seekers was set on fire. This is the deadly cost of pandering to racism.
Shame on the Prime Minister.
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Why does Starmer's Labour Party seem determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?
Because it hates the left more than it fears the far right.
As a result it won't do the "left" things so many of its potential supporters are crying out for.
Because it hates the left more than it fears the far right.
As a result it won't do the "left" things so many of its potential supporters are crying out for.
May 3, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Why does Starmer's Labour Party seem determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?
Because it hates the left more than it fears the far right.
As a result it won't do the "left" things so many of its potential supporters are crying out for.
Because it hates the left more than it fears the far right.
As a result it won't do the "left" things so many of its potential supporters are crying out for.
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"The Labour party’s current course is creating the conditions for the Faragists to thrive and drag politics even further rightwards."
Keir Starmer's former adviser Simon Fletcher on where Labour is going wrong
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/02/l...
Keir Starmer's former adviser Simon Fletcher on where Labour is going wrong
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/02/l...
Local Elections: 'Keir Starmer's Rightward Shift Is Laying the Ground for Nigel Farage'
Labour's embrace of economic and political orthodoxy is forcing voters to look elsewhere for change, argues Keir Starmer's former adviser Simon Fletcher
bylinetimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"The Labour party’s current course is creating the conditions for the Faragists to thrive and drag politics even further rightwards."
Keir Starmer's former adviser Simon Fletcher on where Labour is going wrong
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/02/l...
Keir Starmer's former adviser Simon Fletcher on where Labour is going wrong
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/02/l...
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![From the Aesop fable The Quack Frog.
‘a frog, leaping out of the river and taking the advantage of a rising ground, made proclamation to all beasts of the forest, that he was an able physician, and, for curing all manner of distempers, would turn his back to no person living. This discourse, uttered in a parcel of hard cramp words, which nobody understood, made the beasts admire his learning, and give credit to every thing he said. At last, the Fox, who was present, with indignation asked him, how he could have the impudence, with those thin lantern-jaws, that meagre pale phyz, [sic] and blotched spotted body, to set up for one who was able to cure the infirmities of others.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h3dadagqbymbiy3kv6t4fuha/bafkreib245gyropbt5znqlyaiebdowjkdmmzewqls22jlbnk4kpaqjb5xm@jpeg)
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England's water industry owned by companies with over 1,100 criminal convictions since 1989.
Examples:
United Utilities 205
Thames Water 187
South West Water 174
Anglian Water 128
Yorkshire Water 125
Southern Water 119
People forced to hand more money to criminals?
Now they are not even fined.
Examples:
United Utilities 205
Thames Water 187
South West Water 174
Anglian Water 128
Yorkshire Water 125
Southern Water 119
People forced to hand more money to criminals?
Now they are not even fined.
The water industry shows how the state indulges corporations to the detriment of society
Since 1989, water companies have been the subject of over 1,100 criminal convictions, but governments are content for them to control the industry.
leftfootforward.org
February 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
England's water industry owned by companies with over 1,100 criminal convictions since 1989.
Examples:
United Utilities 205
Thames Water 187
South West Water 174
Anglian Water 128
Yorkshire Water 125
Southern Water 119
People forced to hand more money to criminals?
Now they are not even fined.
Examples:
United Utilities 205
Thames Water 187
South West Water 174
Anglian Water 128
Yorkshire Water 125
Southern Water 119
People forced to hand more money to criminals?
Now they are not even fined.
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Judge slams Ofwat and govt for not attending Thames Water hearing.
No one representing people/customers as lenders carve the company.
Thames has £19bn debt, wants to borrow another £3bn, only £1bn will be useable, customer bills will rocket, won't resolve the crisis.
Nationalise.
archive.ph/NVzcP
No one representing people/customers as lenders carve the company.
Thames has £19bn debt, wants to borrow another £3bn, only £1bn will be useable, customer bills will rocket, won't resolve the crisis.
Nationalise.
archive.ph/NVzcP
Judge slams Ofwat and government for not attending Thames Water hearing
Court will decide whether to approve emergency £3bn loan for UK’s biggest water utility
www.ft.com
February 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Judge slams Ofwat and govt for not attending Thames Water hearing.
No one representing people/customers as lenders carve the company.
Thames has £19bn debt, wants to borrow another £3bn, only £1bn will be useable, customer bills will rocket, won't resolve the crisis.
Nationalise.
archive.ph/NVzcP
No one representing people/customers as lenders carve the company.
Thames has £19bn debt, wants to borrow another £3bn, only £1bn will be useable, customer bills will rocket, won't resolve the crisis.
Nationalise.
archive.ph/NVzcP
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UK Minister - Govt will “ban bonuses if water company executives fail to meet high standards”.
Thames Water said it will circumvent ban by increasing the base pay of company execs.
Let customers to vote on exec pay. No offending exec would be rewarded, or escape accountability.
Thames Water said it will circumvent ban by increasing the base pay of company execs.
Let customers to vote on exec pay. No offending exec would be rewarded, or escape accountability.
The water industry shows how the state indulges corporations to the detriment of society
Since 1989, water companies have been the subject of over 1,100 criminal convictions, but governments are content for them to control the industry.
leftfootforward.org
February 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
UK Minister - Govt will “ban bonuses if water company executives fail to meet high standards”.
Thames Water said it will circumvent ban by increasing the base pay of company execs.
Let customers to vote on exec pay. No offending exec would be rewarded, or escape accountability.
Thames Water said it will circumvent ban by increasing the base pay of company execs.
Let customers to vote on exec pay. No offending exec would be rewarded, or escape accountability.