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Immigration is a beautiful thing and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise ❤️
May 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Immigration is a beautiful thing and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise ❤️
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These workers woke up one morning to be told they would be taking up to an £8,000 pay cut. They are being made to pay the price for austerity and bad decisions by Birmingham City Council.
We will not stand by and watch workers and communities pay the price for government inaction.
We will not stand by and watch workers and communities pay the price for government inaction.
April 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
These workers woke up one morning to be told they would be taking up to an £8,000 pay cut. They are being made to pay the price for austerity and bad decisions by Birmingham City Council.
We will not stand by and watch workers and communities pay the price for government inaction.
We will not stand by and watch workers and communities pay the price for government inaction.
Except the biggest crimes which are committed by the very rich and go unpunished.
April 5, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Except the biggest crimes which are committed by the very rich and go unpunished.
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Solidarity to workers on the picket line at Capita in Glasgow and Manchester. You are moving Capita day after day and you have my absolute support as your general secretary and the support of your union, @unitetheunion.bsky.social ✊✊✊
#JobsPayConditions #Capita
#JobsPayConditions #Capita
April 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Solidarity to workers on the picket line at Capita in Glasgow and Manchester. You are moving Capita day after day and you have my absolute support as your general secretary and the support of your union, @unitetheunion.bsky.social ✊✊✊
#JobsPayConditions #Capita
#JobsPayConditions #Capita
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A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on to farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George Monbiot
Thanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A reminder that NHS England was created in 2012 by David Cameron as a tool to help get Private Healthcare control over the NHS.
It was never necessary in any way.
It was never necessary in any way.
March 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A reminder that NHS England was created in 2012 by David Cameron as a tool to help get Private Healthcare control over the NHS.
It was never necessary in any way.
It was never necessary in any way.
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A tenth of the donation (£312,204) came from companies that already provide services to the NHS🚨
Lobbyists with private healthcare clients donated more than £110,000 to MPs🚨
We will be releasing all info, including our report+ details about which MPs are involved, v soon. Please FOLLOW+SHARE THIS
Lobbyists with private healthcare clients donated more than £110,000 to MPs🚨
We will be releasing all info, including our report+ details about which MPs are involved, v soon. Please FOLLOW+SHARE THIS
March 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
A tenth of the donation (£312,204) came from companies that already provide services to the NHS🚨
Lobbyists with private healthcare clients donated more than £110,000 to MPs🚨
We will be releasing all info, including our report+ details about which MPs are involved, v soon. Please FOLLOW+SHARE THIS
Lobbyists with private healthcare clients donated more than £110,000 to MPs🚨
We will be releasing all info, including our report+ details about which MPs are involved, v soon. Please FOLLOW+SHARE THIS
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The upcoming budget appears to have cuts to Public Spending and to Benefits.
But there is loads of money available from getting rid of Brexit or taxing the rich instead.
RT if you want to tax the rich, and Like if you want to get rid of Brexit.
But there is loads of money available from getting rid of Brexit or taxing the rich instead.
RT if you want to tax the rich, and Like if you want to get rid of Brexit.
March 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The upcoming budget appears to have cuts to Public Spending and to Benefits.
But there is loads of money available from getting rid of Brexit or taxing the rich instead.
RT if you want to tax the rich, and Like if you want to get rid of Brexit.
But there is loads of money available from getting rid of Brexit or taxing the rich instead.
RT if you want to tax the rich, and Like if you want to get rid of Brexit.
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📣 Birmingham BMW strikes off after improved pay deal
By taking strike action, BMW’s Hams Hall staff ensured they received an acceptable pay rise & prevented their bonuses from being eroded. Defending & improving members’ jobs, pay & conditions is always @unitetheunion.bsky.social's top priority.
By taking strike action, BMW’s Hams Hall staff ensured they received an acceptable pay rise & prevented their bonuses from being eroded. Defending & improving members’ jobs, pay & conditions is always @unitetheunion.bsky.social's top priority.
Hams Hall BMW workers cancel strike after pay offer - BBC News
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says workers have now agreed a new pay deal with BMW.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
📣 Birmingham BMW strikes off after improved pay deal
By taking strike action, BMW’s Hams Hall staff ensured they received an acceptable pay rise & prevented their bonuses from being eroded. Defending & improving members’ jobs, pay & conditions is always @unitetheunion.bsky.social's top priority.
By taking strike action, BMW’s Hams Hall staff ensured they received an acceptable pay rise & prevented their bonuses from being eroded. Defending & improving members’ jobs, pay & conditions is always @unitetheunion.bsky.social's top priority.
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Journalist Michael Crick at the Democracy Network conference: "[We saw] the extraordinary announcement from Govt on Tuesday that foreign aid was being cut from 0.5% of GDP to 0.3%, a 40% cut.
"More extraordinary still, there was hardly any dissent from the ranks of the parliamentary Labour Party."
"More extraordinary still, there was hardly any dissent from the ranks of the parliamentary Labour Party."
February 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Journalist Michael Crick at the Democracy Network conference: "[We saw] the extraordinary announcement from Govt on Tuesday that foreign aid was being cut from 0.5% of GDP to 0.3%, a 40% cut.
"More extraordinary still, there was hardly any dissent from the ranks of the parliamentary Labour Party."
"More extraordinary still, there was hardly any dissent from the ranks of the parliamentary Labour Party."
Cutting foreign aid instead of taxing the rich is choosing to take food from the starving, whilst allowing the elite to dine.
We are one planet, one race, one family. Cutting foreign aid is an act of self harm.
Leave the needy alone. Tax the rich.
We are one planet, one race, one family. Cutting foreign aid is an act of self harm.
Leave the needy alone. Tax the rich.
February 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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This is trade unionism in action: Stagecoach West drivers stood together and secured a substantial increase in pay. @unitetheunion.bsky.social's mission to drive up jobs pay and conditions is once again putting money in our members’ pockets. ➡️ shorturl.at/XjCuG
January 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
This is trade unionism in action: Stagecoach West drivers stood together and secured a substantial increase in pay. @unitetheunion.bsky.social's mission to drive up jobs pay and conditions is once again putting money in our members’ pockets. ➡️ shorturl.at/XjCuG
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It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
A little bit of hope after a terrible week
A survival guide to the next four years.
iandunt.substack.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
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Who is going to do all of the work for these private companies bringing down NHS waiting lists? Staff who have been poached from the NHS of course. The private health sector in the UK trains almost no staff, takes on NHS work and does so to create a profit for shareholders. 🚨🚨🚨
January 7, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Who is going to do all of the work for these private companies bringing down NHS waiting lists? Staff who have been poached from the NHS of course. The private health sector in the UK trains almost no staff, takes on NHS work and does so to create a profit for shareholders. 🚨🚨🚨
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This is so reminiscent of the sadistic behaviour of the Nazis who carried out the #genocide of Jews. It's what happens when lethal violence is sanctioned by a state that has deliberately conditioned its operatives to think of their victims as subhuman. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
December 23, 2024 at 10:06 PM
This is so reminiscent of the sadistic behaviour of the Nazis who carried out the #genocide of Jews. It's what happens when lethal violence is sanctioned by a state that has deliberately conditioned its operatives to think of their victims as subhuman. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
My money is on the dog
December 22, 2024 at 9:58 PM
My money is on the dog
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Should billionaires and corporations be banned from buying political parties in the UK?
Like if yes.
RP if it's HELL YES.
Like if yes.
RP if it's HELL YES.
December 22, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Should billionaires and corporations be banned from buying political parties in the UK?
Like if yes.
RP if it's HELL YES.
Like if yes.
RP if it's HELL YES.
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If you want the bosses of the Water Companies to be arrested and their companies to be renationalised without compensation.
Spread the message.
Spread the message.
December 19, 2024 at 3:57 PM
If you want the bosses of the Water Companies to be arrested and their companies to be renationalised without compensation.
Spread the message.
Spread the message.
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All privatisations are are the same.
The politicians promise a better service at a cheaper price.
Instead, something we owned is stolen from us and an inferior service is sold back to us at a much-inflated price.
Think trains, water, energy, royal mail...
The politicians promise a better service at a cheaper price.
Instead, something we owned is stolen from us and an inferior service is sold back to us at a much-inflated price.
Think trains, water, energy, royal mail...
December 11, 2024 at 3:33 PM
All privatisations are are the same.
The politicians promise a better service at a cheaper price.
Instead, something we owned is stolen from us and an inferior service is sold back to us at a much-inflated price.
Think trains, water, energy, royal mail...
The politicians promise a better service at a cheaper price.
Instead, something we owned is stolen from us and an inferior service is sold back to us at a much-inflated price.
Think trains, water, energy, royal mail...
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Another brilliant letter from Guardian & Observer staff, past & present. This time from some of the most prominent names in foreign reporting who are "alarmed & dismayed" by the plans for the Observer
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
Why foreign correspondents are alarmed and dismayed at plans to sell the Observer | Letter
Letter: Current and former contributors to the international pages of the Guardian and Observer respond to an article by Ole Jacob Sunde, chair of the Scott Trust
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Another brilliant letter from Guardian & Observer staff, past & present. This time from some of the most prominent names in foreign reporting who are "alarmed & dismayed" by the plans for the Observer
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
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The stretch of the River Cam in Cambridge which has been designated bathing water, Sheep’s Green, failed the phosphate test, failed the nitrate test and failed the ammonia test.
You have been warned.
www.lbc.co.uk/news/feargal...
You have been warned.
www.lbc.co.uk/news/feargal...
'I'd stay well away from swimming there': Feargal Sharkey tests the River Cam after site was awarded bathing status
One of Britain’s top swimming spots is 'failing' on water quality due to pollution, according to environmental testing conducted by LBC.
www.lbc.co.uk
December 6, 2024 at 11:10 AM
The stretch of the River Cam in Cambridge which has been designated bathing water, Sheep’s Green, failed the phosphate test, failed the nitrate test and failed the ammonia test.
You have been warned.
www.lbc.co.uk/news/feargal...
You have been warned.
www.lbc.co.uk/news/feargal...
Reform isn't even a political party
Anderson is an idiot. A nasty idiot. Reform is a cesspit. A bunch of total wankers, funded by rich buffoons and bastards. It’s all a total grift. British people being scammed in plain sight; their fears and prejudices being harvested for power.
Repulsive.
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/bat...
Repulsive.
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/bat...
December 11, 2024 at 8:02 AM
Reform isn't even a political party
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"analysis of Thames Water’s accounts shows that there has never been a year since privatisation when shareholders contributed more cash than they took out."
Was there ever ‘shareholder support’ for Thames Water?
New writer Stanley Root’s analysis of Thames Water’s accounts shows that there has never been a year since privatisation when shareholders contributed more cash than they took out
westenglandbylines.co.uk
December 10, 2024 at 9:59 AM
"analysis of Thames Water’s accounts shows that there has never been a year since privatisation when shareholders contributed more cash than they took out."