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Trump Not Welcome | 17 September 2025
Stop Trump Coalition
stoptrump.org.uk
September 9, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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🚨 Turns out #Johnson is a greedy, chiselling, corrupt little grifter. Who knew...? 🙄
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals
Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:11 AM
🚨 Turns out #Johnson is a greedy, chiselling, corrupt little grifter. Who knew...? 🙄
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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PFI is back – and it will be at cost to us all
Every single PFI scheme was a financial disasterf for us and a windfall for millionaires and billionaires
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...
Every single PFI scheme was a financial disasterf for us and a windfall for millionaires and billionaires
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...
PFI is back – and it will be at cost to us all
The FT has reported this morning that:
The government has sounded out private finance investors about backing up to 200 neighbourhood health centres, in a move that could transform NHS care in England...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
September 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
PFI is back – and it will be at cost to us all
Every single PFI scheme was a financial disasterf for us and a windfall for millionaires and billionaires
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...
Every single PFI scheme was a financial disasterf for us and a windfall for millionaires and billionaires
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...
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PFI was never really about efficiency or innovation. It was about neoliberal ideology. It allowed politicians to shrink the visible size of the state, hide public debt, and hand guaranteed profits to the private sector. The public will still be paying the bill for decades to come
September 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
PFI was never really about efficiency or innovation. It was about neoliberal ideology. It allowed politicians to shrink the visible size of the state, hide public debt, and hand guaranteed profits to the private sector. The public will still be paying the bill for decades to come
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If we are serious about rebuilding this country, the lesson is obvious. The state must invest directly in its own future. Anything else is smoke, mirrors and private gain at public expense. And yet, Wes Streeting appears to be intent on reviving this failed model. Why is that?
Follow the money
Follow the money
September 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
If we are serious about rebuilding this country, the lesson is obvious. The state must invest directly in its own future. Anything else is smoke, mirrors and private gain at public expense. And yet, Wes Streeting appears to be intent on reviving this failed model. Why is that?
Follow the money
Follow the money
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NHS becoming a shell doling out contracts to private sector.
Cataract surgery contracts have profit margins of 32% - 43%, leaves less for other NHS services.
Govts won't expand NHS capacity.
Neighbourhood Health Centres to be handed to private sector.
State sponsored profiteering.
Cataract surgery contracts have profit margins of 32% - 43%, leaves less for other NHS services.
Govts won't expand NHS capacity.
Neighbourhood Health Centres to be handed to private sector.
State sponsored profiteering.
How successive government have created a new rentier economy
Governments appease corporations and the super-rich by following the old policies which benefit a few.
leftfootforward.org
September 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
NHS becoming a shell doling out contracts to private sector.
Cataract surgery contracts have profit margins of 32% - 43%, leaves less for other NHS services.
Govts won't expand NHS capacity.
Neighbourhood Health Centres to be handed to private sector.
State sponsored profiteering.
Cataract surgery contracts have profit margins of 32% - 43%, leaves less for other NHS services.
Govts won't expand NHS capacity.
Neighbourhood Health Centres to be handed to private sector.
State sponsored profiteering.
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Any updates on the investigation into the theft and self-enrichment committed by Michelle Mone during the covid pandemic? Or Michael Gove's VIP procurement contract list? Test & Trace?
Surely there'll be some arrests soon?
Surely there'll be some arrests soon?
September 9, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Any updates on the investigation into the theft and self-enrichment committed by Michelle Mone during the covid pandemic? Or Michael Gove's VIP procurement contract list? Test & Trace?
Surely there'll be some arrests soon?
Surely there'll be some arrests soon?
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Paul Nowak from Trade Union Congress butchering far right leading figures Farage and his agents Tice and Jenrick. #ukpolitics
September 9, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Paul Nowak from Trade Union Congress butchering far right leading figures Farage and his agents Tice and Jenrick. #ukpolitics
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Claudia Fisher is a Green Party councillor in Horsham.
She was also the former Field Organiser for the South East.
I'm really delighted to have her backing in the Green Party Leadership Race.
#BackZack
She was also the former Field Organiser for the South East.
I'm really delighted to have her backing in the Green Party Leadership Race.
#BackZack
July 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Claudia Fisher is a Green Party councillor in Horsham.
She was also the former Field Organiser for the South East.
I'm really delighted to have her backing in the Green Party Leadership Race.
#BackZack
She was also the former Field Organiser for the South East.
I'm really delighted to have her backing in the Green Party Leadership Race.
#BackZack
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UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese says US sanctions against her a sign of ‘guilt’
United Nations’ special rapporteur for Palestinian territories stresses all eyes must remain on Gaza as she urges ‘let’s stand tall, together’
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
United Nations’ special rapporteur for Palestinian territories stresses all eyes must remain on Gaza as she urges ‘let’s stand tall, together’
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese says US sanctions against her a sign of ‘guilt’
United Nations’ special rapporteur for Palestinian territories stresses all eyes must remain on Gaza as she urges ‘let’s stand tall, together’
www.theguardian.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese says US sanctions against her a sign of ‘guilt’
United Nations’ special rapporteur for Palestinian territories stresses all eyes must remain on Gaza as she urges ‘let’s stand tall, together’
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
United Nations’ special rapporteur for Palestinian territories stresses all eyes must remain on Gaza as she urges ‘let’s stand tall, together’
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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July 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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When people tell you they're arrogant barstewards, believe them.
July 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
When people tell you they're arrogant barstewards, believe them.
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👑Conspicuous Consumption 👑
This from the nation that has to cut disability benefits; the nation of food banks & hungry children.
Shameful.
#downwiththecrown #wealthtaxnow #billionaires #eattherich #charlesthelast
#conspicuousconsumption
This from the nation that has to cut disability benefits; the nation of food banks & hungry children.
Shameful.
#downwiththecrown #wealthtaxnow #billionaires #eattherich #charlesthelast
#conspicuousconsumption
July 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
👑Conspicuous Consumption 👑
This from the nation that has to cut disability benefits; the nation of food banks & hungry children.
Shameful.
#downwiththecrown #wealthtaxnow #billionaires #eattherich #charlesthelast
#conspicuousconsumption
This from the nation that has to cut disability benefits; the nation of food banks & hungry children.
Shameful.
#downwiththecrown #wealthtaxnow #billionaires #eattherich #charlesthelast
#conspicuousconsumption
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This has always been a lazy argument and points to the person making it wanting a stacked deck in their favour.
Yes, fuckwits like farage will be elected INITIALLY, but as we can see, they don't survive the scrutiny of office well and are soon voted out.
Yes, fuckwits like farage will be elected INITIALLY, but as we can see, they don't survive the scrutiny of office well and are soon voted out.
July 7, 2025 at 9:40 AM
This has always been a lazy argument and points to the person making it wanting a stacked deck in their favour.
Yes, fuckwits like farage will be elected INITIALLY, but as we can see, they don't survive the scrutiny of office well and are soon voted out.
Yes, fuckwits like farage will be elected INITIALLY, but as we can see, they don't survive the scrutiny of office well and are soon voted out.
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The state of uk politics and government, you cant fix that with a few elections, this is deeply integrated, its systemic, its through the entire institution
'it was never broken, it was built this way'
It needs dismantled
'it was never broken, it was built this way'
It needs dismantled
July 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The state of uk politics and government, you cant fix that with a few elections, this is deeply integrated, its systemic, its through the entire institution
'it was never broken, it was built this way'
It needs dismantled
'it was never broken, it was built this way'
It needs dismantled
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Grip of the state.
The UK is less open and transparent than Colombia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Ireland, Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.
Weak parliament, press, civil society makes democracy difficult in a secretive state, facilitates elective dictatorships.
The UK is less open and transparent than Colombia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Ireland, Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.
Weak parliament, press, civil society makes democracy difficult in a secretive state, facilitates elective dictatorships.
OECD: the top performing governments for open data
OECD's new report reveals which countries have come out on top when it comes to government open data initiatives.
www.government-transformation.com
July 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Grip of the state.
The UK is less open and transparent than Colombia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Ireland, Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.
Weak parliament, press, civil society makes democracy difficult in a secretive state, facilitates elective dictatorships.
The UK is less open and transparent than Colombia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Ireland, Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.
Weak parliament, press, civil society makes democracy difficult in a secretive state, facilitates elective dictatorships.
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If you take the #Blair years together with the ongoing #Starmer shambles, what you see is moral cowardice combined with an intellectual failure to renew the principles and practice of social democracy. The #Labour party has sunk into an abject state of torpor and defeatism and believes in nothing.
July 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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July 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Ordinary people who can question what they're doing, who can question their assault on democracy, who can question their use of force, and who can question the fact that they're even promoting things like genocide, are a threat to the power
youtu.be/Aziz8pfh9BY
youtu.be/Aziz8pfh9BY
The global war on education: from Trump to the UK the threat is real
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
July 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Ordinary people who can question what they're doing, who can question their assault on democracy, who can question their use of force, and who can question the fact that they're even promoting things like genocide, are a threat to the power
youtu.be/Aziz8pfh9BY
youtu.be/Aziz8pfh9BY
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Neil Kinnock also called Reform "the enemy".
Former Labour Leader Comes Up With Brutal Farage Nickname For New Corbyn-Led Party
Neil Kinnock also called Reform "the enemy".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Neil Kinnock also called Reform "the enemy".
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It's even worse than I thought. Not government by focus group, but government by dodgy fake focus group. What could possibly go wrong?
Morgan McSweeney (UK Labour's Dominic Cummings knock-off) is reportedly experimenting with 'synthetic voters' – "essentially fake focus groups of AI voters who can tell ministers more quickly and cheaply what the public thinks of policies" www.spectator.co.uk/article/can-...
#govtech #govcomms
#govtech #govcomms
July 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
It's even worse than I thought. Not government by focus group, but government by dodgy fake focus group. What could possibly go wrong?