Marilyn Reed
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Marilyn Reed
@mazzla.bsky.social
Trapped in a Leasehold Retirement flat. Spend my days in constant dread of the next bill coming in on top of unregulated service charges.
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We did it!

Merseyside Reform candidate removed as social media posts surface week before election

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
Merseyside Reform candidate removed over social media posts
A spokesperson for the party called the posts "unacceptable"
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
June 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Pushing people into poverty is very bad economics.
Lifting them up into better lives is far cleverer because then they are less pressure on the State.
Nonsense economics from cruel Labour.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
US car tariffs would be bad for UK, Rachel Reeves says as Trump move casts shadow on economic plans - live updates
The chancellor says the government is in discussions with the US after Donald Trump announces new import taxes of 25% on cars and car parts.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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💥Leasehold Right to Manage reforms take effect TODAY💥

Amongst the other news today this is also VERY IMPORTANT and another step forward 💪

www.propertymark.co.uk/resource/lea...
Leasehold Right to Manage reforms take effect on 3 March 2025
The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2025 mark the latest significant step towards strengthening the rights of leaseholders and providing them with greater power...
www.propertymark.co.uk
March 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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I'm trying not to turn the heating on': The pensioner leaseholders seeing service charges rise by up to 2,500%

'Leasehold is a grotesquely unfair system that continues to destroy people's lives until the bitter end'

#LeaseholdScandal #Trapped

www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mortga...
Plight of pensioner leaseholders who have seen service charges TRIPLE
We have spoken to older leaseholders, including a 96-year-old who has seen her charge rise 223% since 2010 to £4,200 and another who has seen a 2,500% rise.
www.thisismoney.co.uk
February 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Bank of England wants to slash red tape on banks.

Translation - remove consumer rights, protections.

Already - Bank fraud compensation reduced to £85,000 from £415,000.

Capital requirements reduced.

Banker bonus cap abolished.

Guess who will bear the cost of bailouts?
archive.ph/7Uvj0
We’ll use Brexit freedom to slash red tape on banks, vows Bailey
Rules drawn up to prevent another global financial crisis may not be applied to smaller lenders
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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February 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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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
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
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The announcement to shut five further Lloyds bank branches and Halifax building society offices in the North East...

...has caused outrage from customers, local businesses and MPs warning of a ‘banking desert’ and harm to rural communities.
Outrage after further bank closures are announced in Northumberland
Lloyds' plan to shut five more North East branches sparks outrage, with MP warning of a ‘banking desert’ and harm to rural communities
northeastbylines.co.uk
February 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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NatWest Bank finalises £450m bonus pot, 25% higher than last year.

CEO remuneration expected to hit £6.6m.

Their profiteering is our poverty.

Govt tells worker wage rises are inflationary, but that doesn't apply to exec pay, dividends, share buybacks.

It's class war.
NatWest finalises £450m bonus pot as return to private ownership looms
The bank's annual results will come with the government on the brink of no longer being its single-biggest shareholder after nearly 17 years, Sky News can reveal.
news.sky.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Barclays Bank tells customers to contact food banks as IT glitch disruption enters third day.

It made £6.6bn pre-tax profit last year but can't produce a robust IT system.

I bet no one told directors to go to food banks.
news.sky.com/story/barcla...
Barclays tells customers to contact food banks as IT glitch disruption enters third day
The bank has apologised as hundreds of customers complain about service disruption and missing funds.
news.sky.com
February 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Govts for Sale.

UK Govt invites lobbyists and their clients to play major role in the deregulatory agenda.

Govt wants ‘growth at all costs’, agenda driven by corporations.

Govt pushing PFI, corporate profits guaranteed.

Any chance of social justice, equitable distribution of income/wealth?
Government lobbies lobbyists to deliver economic growth
Exclusive: Government is inviting lobbyists and their clients to play a major role in the deregulatory agenda
www.opendemocracy.net
January 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Average UK state pension (SP) is £10,500 a year.

In 2022, 110,000 pensioners died from fuel poverty.

28% of over 55-year-olds have no other pension saved, will completely rely on SP.

23% of 18-34-year-olds expect to solely rely on SP.

Crisis looming. SP must be aligned with the living wage.
Pensioner poverty in the world’s sixth largest economy is a political choice
The hardship inflicted on retirees now will surely visit future retirees unless steps are taken to alleviate misery.
leftfootforward.org
February 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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I’ve been following politics very closely for the past 5 years and can honestly say it’s never ever felt so bleak. I didn’t used to understand how the Nazis could have progressed to power. I do now. We are living it. It’s regressive, dark, sinister and feeling increasingly hopeless.
February 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Corporations holding Govts to ransom.

Astrazeneca demands subsidy or ... threatens to abandon UK investment plan.

You can raze mountains, divert rivers, clear forests, but companies have no loyalty to any place.

Time to revive the Corbyn plan - produce our own generic drugs.
AstraZeneca ditches £450m investment in UK plant
The drugs giant blames
www.bbc.co.uk
February 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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24% of London population living in poverty.

Even higher in other English cities.

Low wages, unchecked profiteering, people rely on benefits/charity.

1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

Can't build good society without redistribution.
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Quarter of Londoners are living in poverty, shock report finds
Situation worse for children, with more than one in three living below poverty line, with highest rates recorded in Bethnal Green, Stepney, Stratford and Bow
www.standard.co.uk
January 31, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Toxic assets: Housing association homes & shared ownership Leasehold concerns...

"I've complained, I've offered the flat back. I've emailed the CEO. But no one cares. I would literally give it away if I could"

#SharedOwnership #Leasehold
@theleaduk.bsky.social
national.thelead.uk/p/toxic-asse...
Toxic assets: Housing association homes and shared ownership
Leasehold concerns, sky-high service charges and strict sell-on rules. Inside the people becoming trapped from moving on and losing money after buying a shared ownership home.
national.thelead.uk
January 31, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Mega-rich Tory MP Chris Philp says Britons need better work ethic.

He was Treasury Chief Secretary under Liz Truss.

Under the Tories NHS hospital waiting list trebled. 2.8m chronically ill

38% of Universal Credit claimants are in work.

What brass neck.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Britons need better work ethic, says senior Tory MP Chris Philp
The shadow home secretary says the UK is in a global race and everyone needs to make a contribution.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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January 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Well now we have it - as @liamspender.bsky.social predicted permission has been granted by High Court for judicial review of LAFRA2024
Freehold investors scared of losing lucrative income stream from #leaseholders.
The battle continues 👊
@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social @nlc-movement.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Abramovich tax dodge must be probed, HMRC urged.

UK rarely tackles tax abuse by billionaires.

Pandora Papers, Paradise Papers, Bahamas Leaks, HSBC Leaks, LuxLeaks, Panama Papers, Offshore Leaks have led to little action.

Govts chase little people.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Roman Abramovich tax dodge must be probed, HMRC urged
A group of MPs is urging an investigation into £1bn that could be owed by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 31, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Can't grow UK economy through regressive tax policies.

Richest fifth pay 31% of gross household income in direct taxes; poorest fifth,14%.

Richest fifth pay 9% of income in indirect taxes; poorest fifth, 28%.

The poorest pay higher proportion of income in tax.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/labo...
Labour hasn’t delivered growth or happiness. It needs an economic reset.
Successive governments have tailored economic and tax policies to impoverish the masses
leftfootforward.org
January 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Statement from IMPRESS:

How can the public trust an industry where invasions of privacy and coverups remain commonplace?

yorkshirebylines.co.uk/letters/lett...
January 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Rat-infested Dartmoor prison may never reopen, pays Prince William’s Duchy of Cornwall £1.5m a year. Public purse pays cost of upkeep.

The Duchy owns many assets; exempt from corporation tax, and capital gains tax

Any chance of UK Govt looking at this welfare ... thought not.
archive.ph/UnpkE
Rat-infested prison that may never reopen pays Prince William’s Duchy £1.5m a year
HMP Dartmoor, which closed in August over toxic gas fears, has 24 years left on its lease
www.thetimes.com
January 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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8 major hospitals have declared critical incidents in the last 24hrs alone.

Some of the 100s of patients stranded on trolleys, in corridors & in the back of ambulances will likely die there.

This isn’t normal, inevitable or attributable to viruses alone. (1/2)

www.thetimes.com/article/89c4...
Hospitals declare critical incidents as flu cases surge
NHS trusts in Liverpool, Birmingham and others warn of lengthy waits in emergency departments as staff struggle to cope with patient numbers
www.thetimes.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM