@sallyM.bsky.social

Absolutely👍👍

My personal view re the Gorton and Denton by-election on Thursday 26th,

The vote is 💚 Green.

#GortonandDenton

Obvious by now, I know.

But as soon as Labour blocked Burnham, the signs were there.

🚨 Remember your voter ID

Out of Sight – the hidden profits and conflicts of interest behind the outsourcing of NHS cataract care. — Centre for Health and the Public Interest This report is the third in a series of studies looking at the outsourcing of NHS cataract care to the private sector.   In this report we look at how the very rapid growth in private secto...

Reasons to ensure private companies are nowhere near our NHS
Money corrupts 1/3
www.chpi.org.uk/reports/out-...

How many reasons do we need before politicians ensure that taxpayers money meant for a cash strapped NHS does not end up in shareholder profits?

Are we supposed to just swallow this? How do we get this into the public arena in a more impactful way?

Serious question 😬

3/3

Out of Sight – the hidden profits and conflicts of interest behind the outsourcing of NHS cataract care. — Centre for Health and the Public Interest This report is the third in a series of studies looking at the outsourcing of NHS cataract care to the private sector.   In this report we look at how the very rapid growth in private secto...

Yet more reasons 2/3

www.chpi.org.uk/reports/out-...

Out of Sight – the hidden profits and conflicts of interest behind the outsourcing of NHS cataract care. — Centre for Health and the Public Interest This report is the third in a series of studies looking at the outsourcing of NHS cataract care to the private sector.   In this report we look at how the very rapid growth in private secto...

Reasons to ensure private companies are nowhere near our NHS
Money corrupts 1/3
www.chpi.org.uk/reports/out-...

Open letter: UK must not abstain on UN Venezuela vote Stop Trump Coalition

stoptrump.org.uk/sign-venezue...

Secret Report Undercuts U.K. Condemnations of Pro-Palestinian Group

The Government proscribed Palestine Action as terrorists by claiming that secret intelligence justified doing so

Newly leaked intelligence report reveals that most of their activity:

- Couldn't be described as terrorism
- Isn't violent but focused on property damage
-Most of that damage is "minor"

Yes

DWP welfare cuts to result in 150,000 in poverty - despite major U-turn The modelling comes after Keir Starmer offered major concessions last week after a rebellion over 120 Labour MPs threatened the government with defeat in the Commons

DWP benefit cuts to push 150,000 people into poverty despite partial U-turn.

How many will die prematurely?

Last year HMRC failed to collect £46.8bn of taxes.

Please tell your MP to oppose the cruel cuts.

UK Business Secretary, Jonathan Reynolds says:

"I think everybody here, across parliament, wants a [welfare] system that protects the most vulnerable people".

In other news, an extra 150,000 people will be in relative poverty after housing costs if the government's welfare cuts come into effect.

How Elbit was shut down - Red Pepper Blyth Brentnall describes how a group of activists in the UK has managed to disrupt the activities of one of Israel’s biggest arms suppliers

Probably a good idea to read the (inspiring) history behind Palestine Action before Yvette Cooper forces sites to take down stories like this

www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...

David Lammy in parliament.

What's the link between David Lammy and United Health, an enormous American private healthcare company?🚨

Lammy received £67,674 from Labour Together between Jan 2023 + March 2025. Labour Together is a think tank previously run by Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney..

Jury acquits Palestine Action activists on defences of Necessity and Protection of Property | Garden Court Chambers Owen Greenhall of Garden Court Chambers and Mira Hammad of Garden Court North represented the defendants, instructed by Lydia Dagostino of Kellys Solicitors.

This. This is what terrifies our government authoritarians so much. 👇
Judges have been pressured to stop juries being allowed to hear these kind of defences - but that only works sometimes. Simply redesigning vandalism as terrorism presumably more effective gardencourtchambers.co.uk/jury-acquits...

Barclays Divest from Elbit Systems After Palestine Action's Direct Action Campaign Images available are free to use, with relevant credit After a year-long campaign against its premises by Palestine Action and local community groups, Barclays PLC has sold all of its […]

This is the kind of success story that Yvette Cooper is so terrified you might read, she’s going to try and make sure it vanishes and that publishing anything similar would be illegal palestineaction.org/barclays-div...

Is this seriously what we now call a cause for celebration?

It really doesn’t matter how badly politicians & organisations want to shut down protests of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, it won’t work, it won’t change opinions, it just amplifies your complicity in the violence.
We’ve all seen too much, you never get over seeing children burn.

A perfect summary here. Thank goodness we have one political party taking this on.

Unlimited money for war, none for Disabled People is not a vote winning message.

Nor will many Labour MPs vote for it.

I have never been a big fan of the "vote for us or get someone worse" brand of political argument, yet that is all Starmer has. It's bad politics. You lose supporters and reinforce the likes of Reform. The only person to blame for Starmer losing support is Starmer. That's politics. 2/

Well said.That argument is wearing thin. I voted labour not because I agreed with them but because I wanted the Tories out and they seemed the only way.
I lent them my vote. Next time it needs to be earnt and so far that’s not going well. 😕

I keep seeing people claim that Starmer is being "attacked" to "weaken him so Reform can win". It isn't an attack to defend people's rights. It isn't an attack to call out bad policy. If Labour loses to Reform, that will be on Starmer, not the people who refuse to vote for what Labour now is. 1/

“Reform give a windfall gain to a relatively small number of v wealthy people who were planning to stay here and pay tax, but will now pay the £250k instead.
That's tax that now disappears

There's no wider benefit (because these people were already going to be here)”

ReFUK banks on us being mugs

Looks as if the OBR’s central forecast of a 4% Brexit hit to 🇬🇧 GDP was about right.

Project Fear turns out to be Project Fact

But because we are British & Labour is scared of the people (🤡 Farage/Johnson/ ReFuk & 🤡 voters) who brought us lying Project Fear we continue to back Project Fear.
🤡 🇬🇧

Gosh. I’m amazed you support this. In the absence of decent palliative care and with many safeguards discarded, no proper parliamentary scrutiny.

Excruciating to hear Foreign Secretary attempting to make the case that because the UK Government wasn’t involved in US bombing of Iran, it can have absolutely no view at all of its legality - totally undermining rule of law #bbcr4today

What a 🧵 👏👏👏

And one that goes to the heart of any rejoin movement.

It’s not just the amount of the spending, but what Streeting wants to spend it on. He’s far too committed to technological solutions: vast amounts will be wasted on IT systems that won’t provide the benefits they claim, as well as increasing our dependence on deeply untrustworthy partners.

As for Farage, I would take a leaf from courageous politicians around Europe and actually face down fascism, and not pander to it.

Fight Farage on Brexit. That is is weakest terrain actually, not immigration or culture, where he's happy. Hang it around him like an albatross.