@robainsworth1.bsky.social
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UK set for highest inflation in G7, OECD says.
Real average wage hardly moved since 2008. Profiteering is the main cause.
Start with controlling price of energy, water, rents. Even better nationalize energy and water, build social housing.
Real average wage hardly moved since 2008. Profiteering is the main cause.
Start with controlling price of energy, water, rents. Even better nationalize energy and water, build social housing.
Inflation to surge and growth to drop in fresh economic blow to Reeves
With a difficult Labour conference to come next week followed by the autumn Budget, the OECD’s conclusions have come at a bad time for Rachel Reeves
www.independent.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
UK set for highest inflation in G7, OECD says.
Real average wage hardly moved since 2008. Profiteering is the main cause.
Start with controlling price of energy, water, rents. Even better nationalize energy and water, build social housing.
Real average wage hardly moved since 2008. Profiteering is the main cause.
Start with controlling price of energy, water, rents. Even better nationalize energy and water, build social housing.
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All these right wing patriots fervently putting flags up everywhere seems somehow familiar...
August 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
All these right wing patriots fervently putting flags up everywhere seems somehow familiar...
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Millions of people in my country already have beliefs that are incompatible with my own
Many of them vote Conservative and Reform
Many of them vote Conservative and Reform
August 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Millions of people in my country already have beliefs that are incompatible with my own
Many of them vote Conservative and Reform
Many of them vote Conservative and Reform
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🚅Want to end the Great British Train Robbery?
✍️It only takes 1 minute to sign our petition.
🤑The rolling stock companies have made £3.6 billion in dividends over the past decade.
Now's the perfect time to demand they take our trains into public ownership.
✍️It only takes 1 minute to sign our petition.
🤑The rolling stock companies have made £3.6 billion in dividends over the past decade.
Now's the perfect time to demand they take our trains into public ownership.
Petition: Take our trains into public ownership | We Own It
The government is taking railway operators into public ownership, but the trains themselves will remain in private hands. The government must take our trains into public ownership.
weownit.org.uk
April 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
🚅Want to end the Great British Train Robbery?
✍️It only takes 1 minute to sign our petition.
🤑The rolling stock companies have made £3.6 billion in dividends over the past decade.
Now's the perfect time to demand they take our trains into public ownership.
✍️It only takes 1 minute to sign our petition.
🤑The rolling stock companies have made £3.6 billion in dividends over the past decade.
Now's the perfect time to demand they take our trains into public ownership.
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1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Keir Starmer-led Labour Govt is unpopular. Why?
It is following Tory or worse policies
Two-child benefit cap
Winter fuel payment cut
No change in income tax thresholds
No curb on profiteering
No end to water woes
Botched rail nationalisation
Must change policies
leftfootforward.org/2024/12/labo...
It is following Tory or worse policies
Two-child benefit cap
Winter fuel payment cut
No change in income tax thresholds
No curb on profiteering
No end to water woes
Botched rail nationalisation
Must change policies
leftfootforward.org/2024/12/labo...
Labour’s drift to the right could risk Keir Starmer being a one-term prime minister
The government's honeymoon has been short lived.
leftfootforward.org
December 21, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Keir Starmer-led Labour Govt is unpopular. Why?
It is following Tory or worse policies
Two-child benefit cap
Winter fuel payment cut
No change in income tax thresholds
No curb on profiteering
No end to water woes
Botched rail nationalisation
Must change policies
leftfootforward.org/2024/12/labo...
It is following Tory or worse policies
Two-child benefit cap
Winter fuel payment cut
No change in income tax thresholds
No curb on profiteering
No end to water woes
Botched rail nationalisation
Must change policies
leftfootforward.org/2024/12/labo...
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Sorry....I quoted the wrong link earlier.
Here's the right one 👍🏼
Happy to find Green Party member of House of Lords @greenjennyjones.bsky.social
here on Bluesky...
She's a one woman powerhouse working hard (unlike many in the Lords)
Strongly advise you to follow her and repost if you can 💚💚👍🏼👍🏼
Here's the right one 👍🏼
Happy to find Green Party member of House of Lords @greenjennyjones.bsky.social
here on Bluesky...
She's a one woman powerhouse working hard (unlike many in the Lords)
Strongly advise you to follow her and repost if you can 💚💚👍🏼👍🏼
December 1, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Sorry....I quoted the wrong link earlier.
Here's the right one 👍🏼
Happy to find Green Party member of House of Lords @greenjennyjones.bsky.social
here on Bluesky...
She's a one woman powerhouse working hard (unlike many in the Lords)
Strongly advise you to follow her and repost if you can 💚💚👍🏼👍🏼
Here's the right one 👍🏼
Happy to find Green Party member of House of Lords @greenjennyjones.bsky.social
here on Bluesky...
She's a one woman powerhouse working hard (unlike many in the Lords)
Strongly advise you to follow her and repost if you can 💚💚👍🏼👍🏼
@paulheatonsolo.bsky.social at Leeds tonight. The guy just never disappoints!
November 30, 2024 at 11:54 PM
@paulheatonsolo.bsky.social at Leeds tonight. The guy just never disappoints!
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In the week that MPs vote on assisted dying, please - please - can we all agree & act on the fact that the time to end the woeful underfunding of NHS palliative care is now?
If we truly cared about dying people, we wouldn’t neglect their final days.
Over to you, @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
If we truly cared about dying people, we wouldn’t neglect their final days.
Over to you, @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
November 25, 2024 at 7:32 AM
In the week that MPs vote on assisted dying, please - please - can we all agree & act on the fact that the time to end the woeful underfunding of NHS palliative care is now?
If we truly cared about dying people, we wouldn’t neglect their final days.
Over to you, @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
If we truly cared about dying people, we wouldn’t neglect their final days.
Over to you, @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
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US experience of private equity controlled hospitals.
A pattern of profiteering, inadequate staffing, service cuts, diminished care.
Yet UK govt is handing hospitals, GP surgeries to private equity.
Say no to privatisation of the NHS.
yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/11...
A pattern of profiteering, inadequate staffing, service cuts, diminished care.
Yet UK govt is handing hospitals, GP surgeries to private equity.
Say no to privatisation of the NHS.
yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/11...
ANALYSIS: When private equity in healthcare goes wrong
Experts say private equity-run hospitals often leave patients behind. The News looked into private equity and its role in Yale New Haven Health’s acquisition deal with Prospect Medical Holdings.
yaledailynews.com
November 25, 2024 at 8:26 AM
US experience of private equity controlled hospitals.
A pattern of profiteering, inadequate staffing, service cuts, diminished care.
Yet UK govt is handing hospitals, GP surgeries to private equity.
Say no to privatisation of the NHS.
yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/11...
A pattern of profiteering, inadequate staffing, service cuts, diminished care.
Yet UK govt is handing hospitals, GP surgeries to private equity.
Say no to privatisation of the NHS.
yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/11...
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BREAKING: It has been revealed that instead of paying for the King's coronation, we could have paid the wages of 2,057 nurses last year. I don't know about you, but I think it was worth sending nurses to foodbanks so the rich man could play fancy dress for the day x
November 23, 2024 at 12:12 PM
BREAKING: It has been revealed that instead of paying for the King's coronation, we could have paid the wages of 2,057 nurses last year. I don't know about you, but I think it was worth sending nurses to foodbanks so the rich man could play fancy dress for the day x
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Wow. Imagine the shock for the Daily Mail when it finds out Tory plans were for fines of £5k - later reduced to £3k - for each missed heat pump sale. What Ed Miliband has done is to reduce that to £500. As @torstenbell.bsky.social says today Headline should read “Miliband slashes Tory boiler tax”
November 22, 2024 at 8:17 AM
Wow. Imagine the shock for the Daily Mail when it finds out Tory plans were for fines of £5k - later reduced to £3k - for each missed heat pump sale. What Ed Miliband has done is to reduce that to £500. As @torstenbell.bsky.social says today Headline should read “Miliband slashes Tory boiler tax”
Time to get rid of these leeches
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
King Charles's Coronation cost taxpayers £72m
Government figures show that more than £20 million was spent by the Home Office policing the event.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Time to get rid of these leeches
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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daily reminder to support your local library, even if that’s just by checking out ebooks! 📚
November 17, 2024 at 1:04 PM
daily reminder to support your local library, even if that’s just by checking out ebooks! 📚
OK, time to see if this place is better than the other
November 17, 2024 at 5:19 PM
OK, time to see if this place is better than the other