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Noam Chomsky alongside a quote: "The standard technique of privatisation: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital". Lines at the bottom read "Sign the petition before Tuesday 18th November to help stop new private finance in our NHS".

This government is considering introducing more private finance into our NHS.

They're promising to learn from past mistakes about PFI, but this promise has been made time and time again.

Sign our petition and tell them you don't want any more private finance in the NHS. Link in the first comment.

Why is a Labour Home Secretary perpetuating this myth in The Sun?

Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage

💰"PFI was a huge, expensive mistake [...] £80 billion repaid for an investment of £13 billion"

🙌Thank you @laverymp.bsky.social for raising questions about the private finance scam in the House of Commons on Tuesday.

✍️Say no to PFI in our NHS by signing the petition.

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200+ TfL staff face sudden deportation thanks to govt’s cruel sudden changes to the Skilled Worker visa

@rmtunion.bsky.social and @greenparty.org.uk stand with these workers

We heard from workers unable to sleep at night not knowing if they'll be forced to leave

Govt must shelve the changes

My brain rewrites this as Big Peacock Turd, with accompanying mental imagery

You would both do well in the land of the blind. And if you put your heads together, who knows what could be accomplished 👑

In the picture at the bottom

Thames Water want to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO. Thames water want to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years

Unbelievable - Thames Water wants to pollute ILLEGALLY for the next 15 years

If they get away with this, other water companies will copy

If you don't want sewage until 2040 (!) please sign our
petition to @ofwat.bsky.social

We'll be handing it in on 21st October

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

Hi anime phone people, and eyeball person. I'm in a shared body situation...

No to tech billionaires like Larry Ellison getting control of UK citizen data. No to mandatory digital IDs.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

PFI again? That worked out well last time 🤡

Image shows Keir Starmer, David Lammy and Yvette Cooper with the words: don't be genocide deniers.

BREAKING: A UN inquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

All eyes are now on the UK Government who must stop indulging in genocide denial.

It must fulfil its legal and moral responsibility by taking immediate, decisive steps to prevent and punish genocide.

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.

You're welcome

Screenshot of top of Carla's Huffpost article. Machine readable version available at link in next post.

UK living standards have collapsed while govt after govt have sat on their hands.

Now the vacuum they left is being filled by fascist agitators like Tommy Robinson and super-rich big-business-backed politicians like Farage.

There is an alternative–and we can all play our part in fighting for it.

Protestors hold placards reading IM PREAMING OF A DECENT RAIL and *NoMoreNorthern! All we ask:- #Noservicecuts!!! 1. Turn up 2.On time 3. Heat t Seat. Headlines below read: Privatisation UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation

Welcome to rip-off Britain!

£193bn paid to shareholders of the bus, train, mail, energy and water companies since the 1990s🤑

25% of average energy bill goes straight to corporate profits 💸

One in five bus services axed since 2019 😮

Enough! Public ownership NOW! @commonwealth

for believers in a supremacist movement it really is dehumanising to hear that someone considers you equal to people that you personally dehumanise

Date set for Rachel Reeves's budget on 26th November - now time for her to think seriously about how to tax wealth so we can fund our public services.

Here are a few ideas:

You might want to consider housebound disabled people who rely on deliveries to survive.
VAT is a regressive tax and should not be part of the solution.

Photograph of comedian Frankie Boyle on stage, next to a quote from The Morning Star from February 2024: "Health provision should be entirely nationalised and markets should have no place in something as important as healthcare provision."

Thought for the day...
✍️If you agree with Frankie, sign our petition.
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"the majority of those at risk of losing their personal independence payment (PIP) under the Green paper proposals are older people with physical health conditions – many of whom have worked all their adult life until they became ill."
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/mental-...

STOP the new 4 point PIP rule Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

The proposed 4 point exclusion to the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) benefit will affect 800,000 disabled people in the UK. After more than a decade of cuts this will push many of them (further) into poverty.
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Campaigners fight plans for 31-story student high rise at Scott House, Deptford Developer Tribe plans to demolish the Victorian building, evicting more than 60 residents, and build a tower block providing 502 student rooms. Campaigners say that Lewisham is failing to follow its ...

Campaigners fight plans for 31 story student high-rise at Scott House, Deptford.

"PBSA is like a pandemic, it's broken out all over London. It's bad news for local people".

www.salamandernews.org/scott-house-...

Alt text: Image is on a white background in black text: Has logo of Department of Work and Pensions In Text says Department of Work and Pensions Address on right hand side of image in black text says DWP Central Freedom of Information Team, Caxton House, 6-12 Tothill Street London SW1H 9NA Then has DWP email and DWP website Dated 15th April 2025 Has receipents name for freedom of information request Then case number In black text says Dear Thank you for your freedom of information request (FOI) received on 18th March You wrote please could you provide the following information The number of claimants in receipt of PIP Daily living component A) enhanced rate Standard rate For both of the above please state what percentage of these claimants were given less than 4 points under all the daily living activities under which their eligibility is assessed DWP Response: We can confirm that the department holds the information you are seeking and provides it below The table below shows the volume of claimainfs in receipt of the daily living component at the standard and enhanced rate in January 2025 as well as the proportion of these claimants who were awarded less than 4 points across all ten daily living activities Table shows; Claimants in receipt of enhanced daily living : 1,608,000 Proportion who scored less than 4 points across all daily living activities 13% Claimants in receipt of standard daily living: 1,283,000 Proportion who scored less than 4 points across all daily living activities 87% Source: PIP Administration data Figures are based on the PIP caseload as at end of January 2025 And only include daily living component

#PIP

This is truly shocking, the table below sets out from a freedom of information request how many disabled claimants in receipt of PIP daily living will lose out under proposed pip cuts

Happy spring northern hemisphere 🌱

Two DWP benefits to merge as major shake-up to welfare system confirmed Unemployment Insurance would replace JSA and ESA - it would be time-limited, although the Government has not said how long it could potentially be awarded for

www.mirror.co.uk/money/two-dw...

They are proposing to roll this into a new benefit called Unemployment Insurance. Unlike the current benefit, UI will be time limited (1 yr likely). ESA payments for people in this group is £138 a week, or over £7000 that will just disapear from disabled peoples welfare.

@owenjones.bsky.social

Lots of coverage of the decimation of PIP and health element of UC. But very little on plans for support group for New Style Employment and Support Allowance (New Style ESA).
The support group of New Styyle ESA is for where "your illness or disability severely limits what you can do".

Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’

Fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay the public trillions in damages for the costs of their planetary arson. Instead they are trying to shut down one of the most important and storied environmental groups in the world. It's shameless - and it's not over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thames Water hopes to agree deal with one of six bidders by end of June Debt-laden company agrees with Ofwat that review of bill rises can be delayed as it seeks buyer

As Thames Water poured 50% more raw sewage into rivers last year

Its possible buyers are "seeking reassurance that they would be able to avoid or manage future fines and punishments for poor performance"

⁉️⁉️⁉️ PERMANENT PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Just your regular reminder that public ownership is hugely popular. ✅
#PublicOwnership