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Hi Oliver, hopefully this helps clarify.

This is an event for anyone and everyone who wants to unite and grow the left in Newcastle ahead of the all-out May 2026 local elections and into the future.

Feel free to join the Majority breakout session if you attend.

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📣THIS THURSDAY!📣

If you live or work in the Greenside, Crawcrook or Clara Vale area, come along to our community meeting on 4th Dec.

Have your say on local issues that are important to you. Open to all.

Register below ⬇️
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Britain’s left agrees on the destination — but still can’t find the roadmap ON JULY 5 last year, Keir Starmer stood outside 10 Downing Street with parliamentary majority of 174. If you’d been told that within 16 months Labour would be fourth in the polls, with the Greens second to Reform, you would have given your head a shake.  

The full article is here:

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Image of an article article with the headline “Britain's left agrees the destination - but still can't find the roadmap” above an image of Jamie Driscoll, Majority leader.

"Progressive policies are popular and urgently needed. But as Jamie Driscoll says, “we must guard against shoppinglistism.”

Competency and collaboration can unlock a fairer society, but it takes hard work.
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Labour ditches day-one protection from unfair dismissal in U-turn The right will now be introduced after six months, in a breach of Labour's election manifesto.

This government has once again proven it isn't on your side. It's on the side of big business and the rich. Join Majority today to fight for the workers rights that this Labour government has failed to deliver.

Opinion polls are useful - but they're not a crystal ball Throughout history, humans have tried to predict the future - but maybe we'd be better off focusing on the here and now

My latest article, on opinion polls. Will Labour now step down rather than split the anti-Reform vote?
On @thecanaryuk.bsky.social
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Labour has just betrayed its 2024 manifesto completely When push comes to shove Labour will sell out anyone to protect their jobs and the white colonialist infrastructure the UK is built on

It’s a pity that Starmer, Reeves and co haven’t followed Denmark’s other policies. They tax capital gains up to 42% vs Britain’s top rate of 28%. This funds free university and excellent public services, providing the world’s second highest standard of living.
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Great evening with @KeirMilburn, discussing his book Radical Abundance.

Money and power is being sucked out of our communities by unaccountable billionaires and corporations.

It’s time to reverse that with investment decisions guided by communities.
#WeAreTheMajority

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Book your spot for this very special book launch and interactive session with the author majorityuk.org/content.aspx...

📣TONIGHT!📣

Don’t let the cold put you off. There will be a warm welcome and heartwarming discussion about actual solutions to the problems we face.

To build the future, we must first imagine it.

Grab your place below ⬇️

Book your place today! £5 or free for Majority members
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📣THIS THURSDAY📣

Join Keir Milburn for an interactive book launch event.

There's more money than ever, it's just in the wrong hands. We'll discuss what a program of 'radical abundance' could look like in the North East.

Book your place today, tickets going fast. 👇🏼

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Majority promotes common ownership models for key utilities; PFI funnels public funds into private profit, defying that principle, and our politicians must act now to stop this waste disguised by false claims about how fiscal spending works.
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If this is the cost of “private finance,” the public is paying twice: once in cash, again in care. Until these contracts end or are restructured, patients and staff will keep footing the bill—while profits are secured far from the hospital floor.
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PFI was sold as risk transfer and efficiency. In reality, the risk stayed in the wards while the returns went offshore. The NHS pays, year after year, and the bill crowds out the essentials: doctors, nurses, beds, repairs.
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EveryDoctor’s analysis: annual accounts from 35 trusts and FOI responses from 34 more. The scale is national, the impact local: fewer staff, longer waits, and buildings that can’t be kept safe because cash is contractually siphoned elsewhere.
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Money meant for hiring, capacity, and safety is captured by opaque PFI structures. The founding principles of the NHS—publicly owned, publicly run, free at the point of use—are eroded deal by deal.
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Semperian (based in Jersey) led the pack—£197m in debt and interest collected in five years. BIIF (including BAE Systems’ pension fund), Sun Life Financial, Innisfree Group, United Healthcare, and Dutch fund PFZW all take a slice.

This isn’t investment—it’s extraction.
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“High risk” means urgent work to prevent catastrophic failure or major disruption to clinical services. When these fixes don’t happen, care breaks. Yet cash flows, predictably and generously, to private concession holders.

Who profits?
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Total £3.1bn on PFI debt + interest in five years would have cleared the entire £2.7bn “high risk” maintenance backlog. Crumbling wards and failing systems persist not for lack of funds—but because those funds are locked to profit.
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In just five years, trusts paid £1.2bn in PFI debt and £1.8bn in interest. That interest alone could fund the starting salaries of 50,044 doctors. Finance wins, patients wait. Staff burn out while money bleeds into private coffers.
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NHS trusts are locked into £21.1bn in payments to private firms over 20 years. That’s public money diverted from staff, patients, and repair work, drained by PFI contracts across 69 NHS trusts and 96 buildings instead of frontline care.

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📣Special event klaxon! 📣

Everything is broken. How do we take back control and build something better?

Join @KeirMilburn as we talk about his excellent book Radical Abundance on 20 Nov.

In true Majority style this will be an interactive event. Book tickets below ⬇️
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An in-person event wasn’t possible this week because of the Durham Lumière.

Sign up for this week’s ONLINE reading group here

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"📣 EVENT CHANGE 📣

Durham Reading Group on Thursday 13 November will now be held via zoom.

We’ll be discussing ‘Why nice guys finish first’, ‘Thinking fast and slow’ and ‘Self-determination theory’ from ‘Way of the Activist’.

Sign up below👇🏼

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