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Reeves considers breaking manifesto pledge with income tax rise to fill £30bn gap Exclusive: Treasury discussions include possibly adding 1p to basic rate or raising higher or additional tax rates

Reeves considers adding 1p to basic rate or raising higher or additional tax rates.

There must be no tax rise for the bottom 50%.

Must tax dividends & capital gains at same rate as wages, restrict tax relief on pension contributions to basic rate only.

HMRC hasn't collected over £500bn since 2010

Why isn't my government in favour of public ownership of water?

I don't mince my words answering this and many of your most pressing questions on water.

Watch the full video: youtube.com/watch?v=s3Lb...

Support the campaign: actionnetwork.org/forms/water-...

No more talk of "maxing out the credit card."

We can - and must - spend to invest.

The 1% must also pay their fair share.

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(Footage from @novaramedia.com live stream)

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.

Private shareholders made dividends of £3.6 billion from owning our trains in the last decade. Yet the government is leaving our trains fully privately owned. Sign We Own It's petition to demand they take our trains into public ownership:

weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...

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.

🚅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.

EXPOSED: Fake water nationalisation tag would still save £3 billion a year.

University of Greenwich research shows how taking back control of our water delivers a better deal for the public.

Sign our petition to bring water into public ownership:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/lets...

Tony Benn born this day 1925 🌹

Selling off reservoirs, failing to invest, polluting our water – these aren't just acts of negligence. They undermine our national water security.

In an existential crisis we might call that what it is: sabotage.

In a time of national peril, sabotage has another name: treason. #sewagecrisis

Ask your MP to attend my Water Bill debate After years of bill hikes, shareholder pay-outs, and pollution, it couldn't be clearer that privatisation has created a crisis in our water system. We can't leave the future of this critical natio...

Privatisation has failed.

My Private Members Water Bill is an unmissable chance to put public ownership of our water back on the table as a solution.

In less than 2 minutes, you can make sure your MP attends my Bill’s crucial debate on 28th March: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

Reeves. Starmer will want a fall guy.

All Starmer’s failings play into the hands of Farage – the prime minister is the gift that keeps on giving | Aditya Chakrabortty From rightwing rhetoric to a lack of action on the cost of living crisis, Downing Street is only fuelling the rise of Reform, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Squandering a huge majority. Amateurs at the helm, and it shows.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Saying £770k in bonuses are needed to attract 'talent' while calling for a 59% hike in customer bills to cover debts caused by mismanagement is like a captain demanding a bonus for "steering the ship" after ramming it into an iceberg.

bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Winter appeal: More charities back our call to allow asylum seekers to work after win It follows Government policy change last week that will help reduce homelessness among refugees

As has long been Green Party policy

www.standard.co.uk/news/winter-...

London Renters' Union is organising a demo on Sat 14 Dec. Please support and share.

Rising rents destroy our communities.

Tenants in Europe are taking action and winning. Now, we must take to the streets to demand housing justice!

#RentControlsNow!

The Council tax system is completely broken, a thread🧵:

Introduced in 1993, Council Tax was intended as a more progressive compromise to the grossly unfair flat-rate Poll Tax. However, it has never fully addressed fairness issues and has only worsened over time.

EXCLUSIVE: Poll shows huge support for nationalisation of key industries and utilities Privatisation has failed.

Your regular reminder 👇
🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy

My word of the day (and personal recommendation) is ‘snerdling’ (18th century): nestling cosily beneath the covers and holding off the day a little longer.

Morning.

📺 "Too much of the tax burden is falling on work."

Ellie Chowns makes the case for a wealth tax on Question Time.

She's lovely and doesn't look her age.

This is Missy, a feral kitten I took in last year.

Stop Wes Streeting using our money to build up private healthcare

Take a minute to send a letter to Wes Streetting to stop using our money to build private health care #WeOwnIt
weownit.org.uk/act-now/stop...

Milton Keynes children 'pretending to eat from empty lunchboxes' More than one in three children in Milton Keynes are living in poverty, an organisation says.

Whilst the government relaxes rules on banker’s bonuses and clamps down on support for struggling families, thousands of children are going hungry at school.

Our political system is rigged in favour of the wealthy few. We need to build an alternative.