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Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.

Join us. The time is now.

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YouTube video by Garys Economics How to stop the economy from collapsing

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NatWest finalises £450m bonus pot as return to private ownership looms The bank's annual results will come with the government on the brink of no longer being its single-biggest shareholder after nearly 17 years, Sky News can reveal.

NatWest Bank finalises £450m bonus pot, 25% higher than last year.

CEO remuneration expected to hit £6.6m.

Their profiteering is our poverty.

Govt tells worker wage rises are inflationary, but that doesn't apply to exec pay, dividends, share buybacks.

It's class war.

YouTube video by Garys Economics What does Elon Musk want?

NEW: What does Elon Musk really want?

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A photo of the front cover of issue 1641 of Private Eye magazine with the caption "ON SHELVES NOW!" The headline reads "DONALD TRUMP: AN APOLOGY." The cover features a mock statement claiming that, in contrast to past descriptions of Trump as "a sleazy, deranged, orange-faced man-baby," the magazine now recognises him as "a political colossus, the voice of sanity, a champion of liberty, and the saviour of the Western world." The parody humorously describes him as "slim, handsome, and young," concluding with a note that "this statement has not been fact-checked."

Donald Trump. An Apology.

The new Private Eye is out now

Parliament is debating PR. Tell your MP to be there.

🚨 BREAKING: Next week, on 30th January, MPs will debate Proportional Representation.

We’ve got the most pro-PR Parliament in history. Now let's make this the biggest debate on PR ever.

Click here to contact your MP and ask them to attend 👉 actionnetwork.org/letters/pr-d...

MP’s second jobs are institutionalised bribery. They should be banned. 'Preventing MPs from selling their souls to the highest bidder is a necessary step in democratising parliament.'

Too many UK MPs take second jobs, serve corporations, get rich.

Claim it helps to serve people.

Oh ... Hardly any volunteer to work for charities, hospices, food banks, housing associations ... there is no money in it.

Must ban second jobs for MPs.
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Yes @girlonabrompton.bsky.social
Sadly true ...

One in six UK workers skipping meals to make ends meet, says TUC Trade unions body finds 17% have skipped meal in past three months, and as many as 10% do so most days

People struggling to pay energy bills whilst companies make record profits.

Sewage in our waters whilst water company CEOs & shareholders make billions.

People skipping meals whilst Labour Government refuse wealth taxes or to invest in our country.

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MPs second jobs are institutionalised bribery. They should be banned. 'Preventing MPs from selling their souls to the highest bidder is a necessary step in democratising parliament.'

UK MPs receive annual salary of £91,346 + expenses.

Worker median annual wage is £29,664.

Too many MPs take second Jobs, advance the interests of their corporate paymasters.

People's welfare is secondary to self enrichment.

Must ban all second jobs for MPs.
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Washington Post cartoonist resigns over paper’s refusal to publish cartoon critical of Jeff Bezos Pulitzer prize winner Ann Telnaes had drawn a cartoon of the paper’s owner kneeling before Donald Trump

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The word used by Labour to describe the Badger cull yet it still goes on.

Please sign the petition for the cull to end: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

World’s biggest bank shuns UK bonds over minimum wage fears JP Morgan cites ‘big uncertainty’ around pay increases as it avoids British debt

World’s biggest bank shuns UK bonds over minimum wage fears.

Pathetic. Millionaires at JP Morgan resent that the poor may be able to afford food, housing, education, pension.

Can't recall bankers concerned about dangers from their own speculation & profiteering.

It is class war.
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Labour’s drift to the right could risk Keir Starmer being a one-term prime minister The government's honeymoon has been short lived.

Labour’s drift to the right could risk it being a one-term UK govt.

It must connect with its historic mission, redistribute income and wealth, banish poverty, empower workers, promote equity and give people hope.

It must reject Tory policies.
leftfootforward.org/2024/12/labo...

Thames Water boosts executive bonuses despite rise in pollution and sewage spills Ofwat has blocked Thames Water from using customers’ money to fund “undeserved bonuses”.

Astonishing

❌ "I think that's a mistake and I think it was a mistake for Tony Blair back in the 90s."

Anushka Asthana talks about parties "not seeing Proportional Representation as a priority" when in government

🧭 From the #ItsBloodyComplicated podcast by @compassoffice.bsky.social

‘These water companies have got a damn nerve’: anger in England as 58,000 homes lose supply while bills surge Southern Water customers’ taps ran dry or lost pressure after a fault at one of its supply works “It feels awful,” said Samantha Hargreaves as she trundled her bottle-laden trolley past queues of cars waiting for drinking water in an Asda car park. It…

‘These water companies have got a damn nerve’: anger in England as 58,000 homes lose supply while bills surge

Ofwat: Water bills will rise by £94 in the next five years The increase in bills will pay for upgrades to pipes and reservoirs that water firms argue are sorely needed - but will also go towards paying investors.

"Why should Brits have to cut back on food and other essentials, as many fear these hikes will require, to pay a privatisation tax to wealthy overseas shareholders?"

Water privatisation has failed, and we are the ones paying for it

PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW

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New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton.

(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)

National parks celebrate 75 years since creation under 1945 Labour government ‘Like the NHS, National Parks and access to the countryside are much beloved by the nation’

Yesterday marked 75 years since National Parks were established under the 1945 Labour government.

The charity Campaign for National Parks has called on the government to build on Labour's historical legacy of national parks and open access to the countryside.

leftfootforward.org/2024/12/nati...

The cross-Channel reset: Trump, Putin, and shifting EU-UK opinion Voters in both the UK and major EU states are open to compromise. Leaders on both sides of the Channel should use this political space for an ambitious reset.

The cross-Channel reset: Trump, Putin, and shifting EU-UK opinion

New polling from the European Council of Foreign Relations shows the prevailing public view in Britain and major EU states is that the relationship should become closer.
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If you find yourself having offended some middle class women of a certain age

Fear not

Because Gregg has some handy tips…

More vile behaviour which led to a rare conviction in this case , this time from the East Essex Hunt – let’s look at day 9 of my countdown of the top 20 worst fox hunting crimes with @huntsabs.bsky.social

#RealBanNow

Private equity sharks cash in on foster care Three private equity firms running foster care agencies have made a combined £40 million in profit out of the plight of vulnerable children, we can reveal.

Private equity sharks cash in on foster care.

Just three made £40m profit from the plight of vulnerable children.

Foster carers paid £7.50 an hour, treated as self employed, denied workers' rights, rely on benefits.

Privatisation delivers exploitation.
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Tell Wes Streeting - NO new PFI in our NHS!

🚨Private healthcare companies are lobbying the Health Secretary to sign up to a new PFI deal.

⏰We’re running out of time to stop this deal.

📋Add your name to the petition now and show Wes Streeting YOU stand against new #PFI in our #NHS.
#NoNewPFI
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Since 2010, we have lost: • 200 Museums • 244 Courts and tribunals 279 school playing fields • 451 homeless services • 600 police stations • 673 public toilets • 750 Youth centres • 793 Playgrounds • 800 Libraries 926 football pitches 1,086 Swimming pools 1,416 Sure Start children's centres 8,000 Bus routes, and 25,000 NHS beds.

It was never “austerity”. It was a massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich.

(Figs via We Own It / @cathobbs.bsky.social)

Musk’s $100m to Farage will break our democracy Keir Starmer needs to fix Britain’s broken electoral laws now - if he doesn’t, we will all suffer the consequences

NEW 🚨 Britain's electoral laws are broken - but successive governments have done nothing

Musk's proposed $100million donation to Nigel Farage shows we are on the cusp of a real crisis for British democracy

But it can be fixed. Here's how, by me

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Is wealth inequality bad for growth?

Will Snell, Chief Executive @fairness.bsky.social, argues that it is 👇

Going Back to Class The Workers’ Party of Belgium is defying the trend of leftist movements losing touch with the working class by using community organising to build a Marxist party with mass appeal.

“The system is designed to make people feel small.

“And I think that the basic thing of the Left is to empower people, to make them feel part of something - a bigger collectivity, a class, a movement they can be proud of.”

My piece on the Belgian Workers Party tribunemag.co.uk/2024/12/goin...