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Socialist, like guitars and rowing (to rhyme with sitars and sewing). Author 'After the Miners' Strike', Open Book Publishers 2023, currently working on Volume 2. No DMs please unless I know you.

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The World’s 50 Richest Countries 2025 From glittering alpine lakes to the neon-lit skylines of East Asia, here are the world’s richest countries, according to UBS.

I think most people living in the UK would be astonished to know that this country is now more wealthy than Germany, and ranked 4th in the world

The millions struggling to eat and heat will be rightly wondering, where the f*ck it is?

www.forbes.com/sites/lewisn...

27.11.2025 18:41 — 👍 55    🔁 22    💬 8    📌 2

Errr - no. You're just in a bubble.

21.08.2025 09:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Huge enthusiasm for a new socialist party shows the left never went away | Morning Star FOUR hundred thousand and counting. Sign-ups to be part of founding the new party initiated by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana already surpass the membership of any existing political party in Britain...

A new mass-membership party of the left is being born in the UK. Keir Starmer, his acolytes and those for whom he is himself an acolyte, have designed their own downfall.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/huge...

28.07.2025 17:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No, you need to look at the HoC from 2015-19. The Tory government lost votes all the time.

28.07.2025 12:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"Loyalty, Discipline" rather than "antique socialist values"? "Readiness To Match The Future" = "Tomorrow Belongs To Me"? Know what you sound like, fanboy? You're why the Labour Party is disappearing down the pan before your very eyes.

28.07.2025 10:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oi, Kevin. Note this in your bio:

When Adam delved and Eve span
Who was then the gentleman?

Have you run that past Morgan McSweeney? Don't think he'd like one of his Starmeroids quoting dangerous socialist extremists like John Ball.

24.07.2025 10:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Am entire article about Labour losing support that does not even mention the genocide in Gaza. Valueless.

02.07.2025 09:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No, you're the idiot. Those discharges were in 2024, but SWW have not been included in the embargo on bonuses under that act. You're not good at this, Anonymous Starmeroid.

14.06.2025 17:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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South West sewage spill duration increased in 2024 South West Water said it is spending £760m over the next five years to tackle the problem.

Only a Starmeroid troll would make such a claim.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

11.06.2025 23:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

No mate, you agreed it was toothless under the tories. But then you claim it isn't now. Where's your evidence for that?

11.06.2025 23:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Got any evidence for that claim?

07.06.2025 08:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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South West sewage spill duration increased in 2024 South West Water said it is spending £760m over the next five years to tackle the problem.

Interesting that, for example, South West Water's 56000 sewage spills over a period of 544000 hours during 2024 still seems to be worthy of a nice fat bonus.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

07.06.2025 08:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ironically, in view of your tag, the statement you cite is dated 2023, i.e. it was a tory measure. And presumably toothless.

07.06.2025 08:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Brazenly expressing pride at committing war crimes ...

01.04.2025 08:51 — 👍 66    🔁 55    💬 2    📌 0
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#TaxTheRich #AbolishBillionaires

18.03.2025 09:56 — 👍 91    🔁 51    💬 1    📌 0

If your politician can support Israel they can support anything.

18.03.2025 23:37 — 👍 76    🔁 23    💬 4    📌 0
Post image 05.03.2025 09:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This demonstrates the Starmer government's complicity in appalling war crimes. If there is any justice in this world, they will be made to answer for this act of vicarious inhumanity.

08.01.2025 13:54 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

To try and make this clear as possible. There is a finite amount of drs, nurses and AHPs in the UK.

For every hour they work in the private sector, they will not be working in the NHS.

If we increase hours in the private sector as per Labour Policy, we will loose NHS capacity

06.01.2025 19:11 — 👍 28    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 1
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Government unveils plan to reduce NHS waiting list backlog The government pledged to cut the list of patients waiting more than 18 weeks for treatment in England by nearly half a million over the next year.

Questions for Starmer:

1) where do you think staff in the private sector come from? (Spoiler, it's from the NHS)

2) why would we invest in the private sector as a preference to investing directly in the NHS?

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

06.01.2025 11:51 — 👍 360    🔁 183    💬 25    📌 6
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FTSE 100 bosses make more money in 2025 by noon today than average worker in a year Bosses to hit milestone on third working day of 2025 with median hourly pay of £1,298, says High Pay Centre

Inequality...the root of all evil?

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

06.01.2025 08:35 — 👍 349    🔁 88    💬 17    📌 8
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Israel confirms it is holding Gaza hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safiya Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is being held on suspicion of "involvement in terrorist activities", Israel has said, and accused him of "holding a rank" in Hamas. They have not disclosed his whereabouts and hum...

Days after Israel confirms it is arbitrarily detaining Palestinian hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safiya at a notorious prison camp, the UK government remains silent.

This is an unforgivable failure of obligations to human rights and international law.

06.01.2025 10:53 — 👍 85    🔁 54    💬 5    📌 3

Starmer rejects his entire campaign strategy for election to the leadership of the Labour Party. But only when used by other people.

06.01.2025 12:13 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Ambulance handover delays in England may harm 1,000 patients a day Exclusive: 414,137 people believed to have experienced some level of harm in last year, Guardian analysis finds

The astonishing cognitive dissonance of a health secretary who insists he'll save the NHS - yet kicks the social care crisis into touch until 2028.

1 in 8 medically fit NHS patients cannot leave hospital for lack of social care.

Of course A&E is overwhelmed 🤷‍♀️

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

05.01.2025 19:48 — 👍 793    🔁 341    💬 32    📌 15
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Biden plans $8bn arms sale to Israel Last-minute show of support for US president’s close ally as he nears his final days in office

Instead of using the last days of his presidency to call for peace, Joe Biden has poured more money into arming Israel’s destruction of Gaza.

A shameful indictment of his administration and its complicity in genocide.

04.01.2025 17:34 — 👍 116    🔁 54    💬 5    📌 6
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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.

5.2m children, 36% of UK children, live in poverty.

Ending the two-child benefit cap would lift 500,000 out of poverty, cost £2.5bn.

Taxing capital gains at the same rate as wages raises £14bn.

Govts that gave £895bn QE to speculators, can also end poverty.
leftfootforward.org/2024/12/labo...

26.12.2024 09:42 — 👍 672    🔁 307    💬 37    📌 10
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Reeves says economic turnaround will take time and Farage ‘hasn’t got a clue’ Chancellor pledges renewed focus on growth after Bank of England warning that Britain is on brink of stagnation

Reeves says UK economic turnaround will take time.

Can't revive economy without improving people's purchasing power.

16m people live in poverty. Profiteering is rife. 1% has more wealth than 70% of population combined.

Needs action now. Tax the rich.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

22.12.2024 10:48 — 👍 605    🔁 235    💬 34    📌 14
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A THIRD of water bills up the spout! Huge spend on debt and dividends An average of 35p in every pound paid by customers for their water goes on interest payments and shareholder payouts

We are mugged.

More than a third of water bills service debt & dividends; leaks not plugged, sewage dumped.

50% at Wessex Water.

Water companies paid £85bn dividends, borrowed £60bn. OFWAT approved huge hike in bills.

Govt won't end the privatisation scam.
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...

22.12.2024 12:00 — 👍 1103    🔁 512    💬 47    📌 21
How come Labour can find money when it wants to?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy How come Labour can find money when it wants to?

How come Labour can find money when it wants to? youtu.be/vdnMDz3wuqs?... Labour found £6 billion in the last week to buy 166,000 houses for the Ministry of Defence. The spending wasn’t budgeted, so how did it fund the money all of a sudden?

22.12.2024 07:31 — 👍 220    🔁 120    💬 19    📌 7

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