Alison
@alliebabe57.bsky.social
Small business owner, recent escapee from the other side 😂. Mother of two amazing sons and grandma to the most beautiful girl in the world. Leeds FC supporter and passionate socialist. No DMs.?
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“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs..”
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Fight back against fascism: how big money is threatening democracy
Fascism thrives when democracy falters. From funding Reform to vigilance, here’s how we protect our future
eastangliabylines.co.uk
January 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs..”
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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...
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...
UK Still Taxes the Poorest More Than the Richest - Equality Trust
New data from the Office for National Statistics shows that the poorest 10% of households in the UK are still paying a higher proportion of their income in tax than the richest.
equalitytrust.org.uk
December 29, 2024 at 10:56 AM
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...
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...
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“A huge 68% of respondents in Britain see a benefit in reintroducing cross-Channel freedom of movement in exchange for access to the European single market”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK and EU look to 2025 as year of reset but with little room for trade-offs
Sir Keir Starmer is invited to an EU summit in February - the first of its type since the Brexit negotiations.
www.bbc.com
December 29, 2024 at 7:54 AM
“A huge 68% of respondents in Britain see a benefit in reintroducing cross-Channel freedom of movement in exchange for access to the European single market”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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“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.”
The Brexit backlash – does it signal a progressive future?
Starmer fears ‘betraying Brexit’. Yet with polls showing a majority for moving closer to Europe, can the progressive majority find its voice?
sussexbylines.co.uk
December 29, 2024 at 10:29 AM
“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.”
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Britain taxes the poorest more than the richest.
This is why we are in such a mess. A failure to tax those who can afford it most. The rich leaching off the poor.
We need to stop letting the rich make the rules.
equalitytrust.org.uk/news/press-r...
This is why we are in such a mess. A failure to tax those who can afford it most. The rich leaching off the poor.
We need to stop letting the rich make the rules.
equalitytrust.org.uk/news/press-r...
UK Still Taxes the Poorest More Than the Richest - Equality Trust
New data from the Office for National Statistics shows that the poorest 10% of households in the UK are still paying a higher proportion of their income in tax than the richest.
equalitytrust.org.uk
December 29, 2024 at 12:31 PM
Britain taxes the poorest more than the richest.
This is why we are in such a mess. A failure to tax those who can afford it most. The rich leaching off the poor.
We need to stop letting the rich make the rules.
equalitytrust.org.uk/news/press-r...
This is why we are in such a mess. A failure to tax those who can afford it most. The rich leaching off the poor.
We need to stop letting the rich make the rules.
equalitytrust.org.uk/news/press-r...
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Blow for landowners - or as it might read good news for everyone else as govt scraps the 2031 deadline for discovering and reporting old rights of way bit.ly/3BWt7Ad
Landowner fury at plan to scrap deadline for UK rights of way
The ‘latest attack on the countryside and farmers’ will see the government ditch the cut-off date for public access to land to be registered across Britain
bit.ly
December 26, 2024 at 10:07 AM
Blow for landowners - or as it might read good news for everyone else as govt scraps the 2031 deadline for discovering and reporting old rights of way bit.ly/3BWt7Ad
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The UK economy is "headed for the worst of all worlds" as businesses expect activity to fall at the start of next year, according to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI)
news.sky.com/story/uk-eco...
news.sky.com/story/uk-eco...
UK economy heading for 'worst of all worlds', CBI warns - as businesses expect fall in activity
The CBI said in its growth survey that businesses cite Rachel Reeves' decision to raise employers' national insurance contributions (NIC) as a factor in their poor economic outlook.
news.sky.com
December 23, 2024 at 6:54 AM
The UK economy is "headed for the worst of all worlds" as businesses expect activity to fall at the start of next year, according to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI)
news.sky.com/story/uk-eco...
news.sky.com/story/uk-eco...
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This is tediously stupid now…
Really. Just stop with the idiotic headlines and the swagger and the EUphobic chest-thumping. Brexit is a shitshow. You know it. We know it. Even Trump might know it. Pipe down. Accept that you ballsed it. And leave us to deal with the embarrassing mess you all made.
Really. Just stop with the idiotic headlines and the swagger and the EUphobic chest-thumping. Brexit is a shitshow. You know it. We know it. Even Trump might know it. Pipe down. Accept that you ballsed it. And leave us to deal with the embarrassing mess you all made.
December 23, 2024 at 7:23 AM
This is tediously stupid now…
Really. Just stop with the idiotic headlines and the swagger and the EUphobic chest-thumping. Brexit is a shitshow. You know it. We know it. Even Trump might know it. Pipe down. Accept that you ballsed it. And leave us to deal with the embarrassing mess you all made.
Really. Just stop with the idiotic headlines and the swagger and the EUphobic chest-thumping. Brexit is a shitshow. You know it. We know it. Even Trump might know it. Pipe down. Accept that you ballsed it. And leave us to deal with the embarrassing mess you all made.
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The @DWPgovuk takes nearly a quarter of the child maintenance it collects from recalcitrant fathers and passes on to mothers, costing each child for whom it is paid £320 a year bit.ly/3DFkwlV (and yes I do know sometimes - rarely - it is the other way around)
Child maintenance fees ‘would make loan sharks blush’
Department for Work and Pensions accused of using the poorest in society as ‘cash cows’ by charging 24% interest on the collect and pay service
bit.ly
December 23, 2024 at 8:47 AM
The @DWPgovuk takes nearly a quarter of the child maintenance it collects from recalcitrant fathers and passes on to mothers, costing each child for whom it is paid £320 a year bit.ly/3DFkwlV (and yes I do know sometimes - rarely - it is the other way around)
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Truth this weekend
December 23, 2024 at 8:36 AM
Truth this weekend
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This is a person who Kemi Badenoch thinks should sit in the House of Lords.
The tweets start in 2009 - Young was 45 at the time.
Appalling misogyny, casual homophobia... the lot
The tweets start in 2009 - Young was 45 at the time.
Appalling misogyny, casual homophobia... the lot
December 21, 2024 at 8:08 AM
This is a person who Kemi Badenoch thinks should sit in the House of Lords.
The tweets start in 2009 - Young was 45 at the time.
Appalling misogyny, casual homophobia... the lot
The tweets start in 2009 - Young was 45 at the time.
Appalling misogyny, casual homophobia... the lot
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Here are just some of the now deleted Tweets previously put out by the man Kemi Badenoch has just made an ennobled peer of the realm
December 21, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Here are just some of the now deleted Tweets previously put out by the man Kemi Badenoch has just made an ennobled peer of the realm
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If anyone doubted that Badenoch is an idiot, the Toby Young nomination confirms it. Just the shabbiest, most dimwitted option available and she jumped right for it.
December 21, 2024 at 9:19 AM
If anyone doubted that Badenoch is an idiot, the Toby Young nomination confirms it. Just the shabbiest, most dimwitted option available and she jumped right for it.
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Kemi Badenoch boasts about handing a lifetime peerage to the "brave" journalist Toby Young, who was previously
- Sacked for sexist and homophobic comments
- Condemned by the press regulator for spreading "significantly misleading" information about Covid
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/kemi-baden...
- Sacked for sexist and homophobic comments
- Condemned by the press regulator for spreading "significantly misleading" information about Covid
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/kemi-baden...
Kemi Badenoch Boasts About Handing Peerage to ‘Radical’ Covid Sceptic With a History of Sexism and Homophobia
The Conservative leader praised Toby Young as 'brave', 'smart' and a 'true radical'
www.adambienkov.co.uk
December 21, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Kemi Badenoch boasts about handing a lifetime peerage to the "brave" journalist Toby Young, who was previously
- Sacked for sexist and homophobic comments
- Condemned by the press regulator for spreading "significantly misleading" information about Covid
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/kemi-baden...
- Sacked for sexist and homophobic comments
- Condemned by the press regulator for spreading "significantly misleading" information about Covid
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/kemi-baden...
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England & Wales water company execs pollute seas/rivers, get mega pay packets, blow similar amounts on fines.
Face no personal penalties.
Companies have 1,100+ criminal convictions.
Customers have no representation on boards, can't vote on exec pay.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Face no personal penalties.
Companies have 1,100+ criminal convictions.
Customers have no representation on boards, can't vote on exec pay.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Revealed: The water firm bosses who claim millions in pay and benefits
Among the most lucrative jobs in the sector belongs to brazen Chris Weston, CEO of struggling Thames Water, who accepted a £195,000 bonus for his first three months at the company.
www.dailymail.co.uk
December 21, 2024 at 6:58 AM
England & Wales water company execs pollute seas/rivers, get mega pay packets, blow similar amounts on fines.
Face no personal penalties.
Companies have 1,100+ criminal convictions.
Customers have no representation on boards, can't vote on exec pay.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Face no personal penalties.
Companies have 1,100+ criminal convictions.
Customers have no representation on boards, can't vote on exec pay.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Instead of huge bill rises English water companies must be nationalised immediately.
www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ne...
www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ne...
‘Sewage spillage has left me with 100 bales of rotting hay’
A farmer claims he has been left in the lurch by Southern Water after a sewage spillage ran through his farmyard and “soaked and ruined” it.
www.kentonline.co.uk
December 21, 2024 at 9:59 AM
Instead of huge bill rises English water companies must be nationalised immediately.
www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ne...
www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ne...
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Please repost if you believe that big-money political donations are intrinsically corrupt and should be banned and classed as the serious criminal offence of corruptly buying political influence.
December 20, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Please repost if you believe that big-money political donations are intrinsically corrupt and should be banned and classed as the serious criminal offence of corruptly buying political influence.
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Dear World,
Long term, what are you going to do to stop the richest man in the world from buying up all your governments one by one? Seems like kind of a big problem?
Long term, what are you going to do to stop the richest man in the world from buying up all your governments one by one? Seems like kind of a big problem?
December 20, 2024 at 1:51 AM
Dear World,
Long term, what are you going to do to stop the richest man in the world from buying up all your governments one by one? Seems like kind of a big problem?
Long term, what are you going to do to stop the richest man in the world from buying up all your governments one by one? Seems like kind of a big problem?
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THANK YOU to our supporters for everything you've achieved in 2024 🤩
Wishing you a very merry Christmas 🎄☃️
Looking forward to campaigning with you in the New Year ✊
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Wishing you a very merry Christmas 🎄☃️
Looking forward to campaigning with you in the New Year ✊
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THANK YOU for campaigning for public ownership in 2024 🤩
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December 20, 2024 at 8:29 AM
THANK YOU to our supporters for everything you've achieved in 2024 🤩
Wishing you a very merry Christmas 🎄☃️
Looking forward to campaigning with you in the New Year ✊
youtube.com/shorts/-g7Ak...
Wishing you a very merry Christmas 🎄☃️
Looking forward to campaigning with you in the New Year ✊
youtube.com/shorts/-g7Ak...
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Despite his election win Trump cannot and does not single-handedly control everything that happens in Washington. And a lot of Republicans really, really hate Spaceboy.
Unsurprising Pelosi calls Trump "Musk's puppet president" but seems the sentiment is rife.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Unsurprising Pelosi calls Trump "Musk's puppet president" but seems the sentiment is rife.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
How Trump and Elon Musk caused Congress' nightmare before Christmas
Still a month away from the White House, Trump and his billionaire backer threw Congress' plans to get home for the holidays into chaos over a government funding bill.
www.nbcnews.com
December 20, 2024 at 8:31 AM
Despite his election win Trump cannot and does not single-handedly control everything that happens in Washington. And a lot of Republicans really, really hate Spaceboy.
Unsurprising Pelosi calls Trump "Musk's puppet president" but seems the sentiment is rife.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Unsurprising Pelosi calls Trump "Musk's puppet president" but seems the sentiment is rife.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Sound about right.
December 19, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Sound about right.
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In case you missed it: The UK will finally find out why a young aid to Boris Johnson was given a peerage.
cc: @mrosenbaum.bsky.social
cc: @mrosenbaum.bsky.social
December 20, 2024 at 5:40 AM
In case you missed it: The UK will finally find out why a young aid to Boris Johnson was given a peerage.
cc: @mrosenbaum.bsky.social
cc: @mrosenbaum.bsky.social
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Thames Water took out £195.8 million in dividends last year which broke the @Ofwat rules and could not be justified bit.ly/41FELdr regulator will (try to!) recover £131m of them. It is one of four suppliers saying yesterday’s 35% price rise deal not enough
Thames Water fined £18m by Ofwat for breaking dividend rules
The water regulator has ordered the company to claw back £131m in dividends and warned against taking money out of the business
bit.ly
December 20, 2024 at 8:05 AM
Thames Water took out £195.8 million in dividends last year which broke the @Ofwat rules and could not be justified bit.ly/41FELdr regulator will (try to!) recover £131m of them. It is one of four suppliers saying yesterday’s 35% price rise deal not enough
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I miss it.
Brexiteers took away something they didn’t need to use from people who wanted to and did.
I call that selfish, spiteful and stupid.
Brexiteers took away something they didn’t need to use from people who wanted to and did.
I call that selfish, spiteful and stupid.
December 20, 2024 at 8:21 AM
I miss it.
Brexiteers took away something they didn’t need to use from people who wanted to and did.
I call that selfish, spiteful and stupid.
Brexiteers took away something they didn’t need to use from people who wanted to and did.
I call that selfish, spiteful and stupid.
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From the team at @webylines.bsky.social
Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches
Since April 2023 Sewage Watch has been keeping a running log of press coverage on the state of sewage dumping into our rivers and onto our beaches - Updated December 2024
Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches
Since April 2023 Sewage Watch has been keeping a running log of press coverage on the state of sewage dumping into our rivers and onto our beaches - Updated December 2024
Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches
Since April 2023 Sewage Watch has been keeping a running log of press coverage on the state of sewage dumping into our rivers and onto our beaches - Updated December 2024
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December 20, 2024 at 8:54 AM
From the team at @webylines.bsky.social
Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches
Since April 2023 Sewage Watch has been keeping a running log of press coverage on the state of sewage dumping into our rivers and onto our beaches - Updated December 2024
Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches
Since April 2023 Sewage Watch has been keeping a running log of press coverage on the state of sewage dumping into our rivers and onto our beaches - Updated December 2024