dancer07.bsky.social @dancer07.bsky.social · 25/08/2026No point building council housing until they can no longer be sold to private buyers 002 2
dancer07.bsky.social @dancer07.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Thank goodness! I can finally go back to watching BBC breakfast! 000 0
dancer07.bsky.social @dancer07.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Andy Burnham should do exactly what the Tories did every time they changed their leader and Prime Minister. 011 1
dancer07.bsky.social @dancer07.bsky.social · 28/04/2026I believe there may be some elections in the offing… 000 0
dancer07.bsky.social @dancer07.bsky.social · 24/04/2026I really wish the media would differentiate between grown women who voluntarily made a choice to join Epstein’s harem for personal gain, and the children who were groomed and duped by him. Lumping them together undermines the paedophilia. 000 0
dancer07.bsky.social @dancer07.bsky.social · 09/04/2026My headline would be ‘they are starving children to death for political gain’ 000 0
dancer07.bsky.social @dancer07.bsky.social · 08/04/2026There are trillions of galaxies in the known universe 000 0
dancer07.bsky.social @dancer07.bsky.social · 16/02/2026I’m afraid that ship has sailed - the right seems to have successfully convinced a significant portion of the population that it IS a problem. It should be possible positively to promote measures to control illegal immigration while also forcefully making the case for controlled immigration. 000 0
dancer07.bsky.social @dancer07.bsky.social · 16/02/2026I just wish I received as many social media posts about successful immigration measures as I do from Reform and its acolytes - the worst failing of this Govt is not just that it has lost control of the narrative, but it seems not to have even noticed that the racists are winning the media war! 110 1
dancer07.bsky.social @dancer07.bsky.social · 13/02/2026My pension is rising 3.8% while NHS workers get s measly 3.3% - no wonder young people hate us! 000 0
dancer07.bsky.social @dancer07.bsky.social · 13/02/2026It doesn’t really matter why he is unpopular, does it? He has lost control of the narrative and anyone with any decency would step aside to see if someone else can make a better job of it. Any good they do is completely lost amid the hail of faux pas and lack of communication. & I’m a Labour voter! 000 0
dancer07.bsky.social @dancer07.bsky.social · 13/02/2026You are preaching to the converted on this site - but the Govt has lost control of the narrative. My racist cousin posts anti-immigration posts every day from many sources. I do not see the same energy from the Govt to counter the anti-immigration onslaught - and Reform will continue to rise. 000 0
dancer07.bsky.social @dancer07.bsky.social · 14/01/2026‘It can’t be under-estimated’ when they mean ‘it can’t be over-estimated’ 000 0
dancer07.bsky.social @dancer07.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Your Party’s People’s Front, or The People’s Front of Your Party. 000 0
dancer07.bsky.social @dancer07.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Jenrick’s political and social forbears built great fortunes for this country by massively exploiting the people and resources of third world countries, so it’s sour grapes for his sour Ozempic face to complain that some came here to claim back some of the fruits of their own exploitation. 000 0
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Average annual household energy bill hits £1,755. £4.43bn energy debt, people can't afford it. Since 2020 big energy companies made £514bn operating profit. 128000 a year die in fuel poverty Profiteering fuels inflation, poverty. Can't rebuild economy without ending profiteering.news.sky.comEnergy price cap warning as latest rise takes effectThe energy price cap remains vulnerable to gas price shocks and rising costs including green energy investment but households are being told they can still shield themselves from fluctuations ahead. 9266129 266
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Britons ripped off by the energy industry. No govt curbs profiteering. Nationalise energy, reduce inflation, poverty, business costs, rebuild economy. 20414195 414
dancer07.bsky.social @dancer07.bsky.social · 17/09/2025What on earth could they be charged with?? Going equipped with a projector?? 010 1
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Revolving doors. Thames Water paid £1m+ to corporate lobbyists part-owned by Starmer adviser. The aim is to reach policymakers, keep TW private. TW pays £200m a year to various advisers, cost borne by customers. Public ownership would end this chicanery. No need to pay dividends, lobbyists.theguardian.comThames Water paid £1m-plus to corporate spooks firm part-owned by Starmer adviserExclusive: Hakluyt – formerly run by Varun Chandra – has been advising utilities company as it tries to avoid renationalisation 7337168 337
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/09/2025High energy prices leave 1m UK households behind on bills. Energy debts doubled in 12 yrs. 6.1m households in fuel poverty. 128,000 people die in fuel poverty. Energy companies made £514bn operating profit since 2020. Can't build economy on poverty and death. End profiteering. Nationalise.theguardian.comRise in energy prices leaves 1m UK households behind on billsEnergy debts have more than doubled in last 12 years, finds report, as Ofgem signals it will raise cap on bills 7217100 217
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Privatisation cult destroying UK. UK gave away North Sea oil/gas, low fees/tax, collected $11 a barrel revenue, wasted on tax cuts for corporations/rich Norway didn't, levied higher tax, got $30 a barrel. Norway has $2trn sovereign fund. UK has economic crisis, still obsessed with privatisationleftfootforward.orgHow successive government have created a new rentier economyGovernments appease corporations and the super-rich by following the old policies which benefit a few. 28462201 462
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialRory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Here we go - Reform imports anti vax disinformation from US www.thetimes.com/article/59b0...thetimes.comDon’t follow RFK Jr on anti-vaccine path, doctors urge Nigel FarageAseem Malhotra, who criticised mRNA vaccines developed to fight Covid, will address Reform UK’s party conference — to the alarm of the medical profession 1826166 261
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Graph provides glimpse of England's housing problems. Social housing vanished. 2m council homes sold. 40% ended-up with private landlords, increasingly corporations. Housing seen as investment, high private rents, more poverty & need for benefits. www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications... 515183 151
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialEast Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 05/09/2025🚨 GDP is up. But wages are low, rents soar & work is insecure. Clive Lewis MP says what ministers won’t - "a quarter of private renters are handing over half or more of their income just to keep a roof over their heads. This isn’t prosperity, it’s daylight robbery with a tenancy agreement"eastangliabylines.co.ukRichness of life can’t be measured in GDP – what happened to joy?GDP is up, but who’s better off? Clive Lewis, Norwich South MP, argues poverty is growing, wages lag, rents soar. And that’s not prosperity 418064 180
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Kemi Badenoch’s ‘Free Speech’ Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference The ban on covering the party’s annual gathering came despite Badenoch’s repeated commitment to “fight” for free speech and a free press bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...bylinetimes.comKemi Badenoch's 'Free Speech' Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party ConferenceThe ban on covering the party's annual gathering came despite Badenoch's repeated commitment to "fight" for free speech and a free press 27650295 650
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on £400,000 GB News earnings. Poor attendance record in parliament, collects £94,000 salary+expenses. Has used a trust fund in an offshore tax haven. Previously described people who try to avoid tax as the “common enemy”.theguardian.comNigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earningsExclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum 44730472 730
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Thames Water to do fewer improvements under lenders' rescue plan. More unplugged leaks, sewage in rivers. Plan wants more cash from customers. No commitment on what shareholders will pay. No end to dividends. Nationalisation is the only durable solution.theguardian.comThames Water to do fewer improvement projects under lenders’ new rescue planNew consortium says infrastructure projects must be cut back to make beleaguered company viable again 15287152 287
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/09/2025£120bn a year of your money, nearly £300m a day, goes to just 150 billionaires as profit. They pay almost no tax on it. There's loads of money available. 27428 74
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Thames Water creditors pledge more investment to try to seal rescue deal. This can't dissolve the crisis. TW would be run for profit & dividend extraction, the very reason for the crisis. Capital would be raised from customers, but shareholders would keep resulting assets/income. archive.ph/4yA01ft.comThames Water creditors pledge more investment to try to seal rescue dealBondholders also intend to inject more equity into the utility as it seeks to avert nationalisation 716370 163
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Dictator-esque Nigel Farage plans backing torture, jailing kids and paying jihadis. Scrap UK human rights protections, lock up women and children, jeopardise peace in Northern Ireland, risk going to war with the church. Opposes worker rights, supports fracking. This after supporting Brexit.mirror.co.uk7 dictator-esque Farage moments as he backs torture and paying TalibanLaunching his hard-right mass deportation plan, the Reform leader said he would scrap Britain’s human rights protections and put peace in Northern Ireland at risk 29423235 423
dancer07.bsky.social @dancer07.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Probably apocryphal story about Bertrand Russell - a London taxi driver picked him up, recognised him. and said he asked him ‘What’s it all about?’ And the taxi driver then said ‘And do you know, he couldn’t tell me!’… 010 1
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Naziification of the UK. Reform UK would: Leave ECHR (join Russia and Belarus). Repeal the UK Human Rights Act. Disapply the 1951 Refugee convention. UN Convention Against Torture. the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention. Cancel the Good Friday Agreement. No one will be safe. 33448205 448
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Trump said: “a lot of people are saying ‘maybe we’d like a dictator", claims he isn’t one. Since the election he has probably made more laws than Congress; thinks he is King, will rule forever Sent soldiers into US cities, wants to annexe other countries. A dictator did that in the 1930s.independent.co.ukTrump says he is not a dictator but insists many people think the US could use onePresident criticized Democratic-led cities of being ungrateful for his administration deploying federal law enforcement to help curtail crime 1627196 271
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialArmando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 27/08/2025The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 1082253876 2.3K
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialSir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Please think of us your betters. Firstly we are losing our public schools as more & more close. Now we are losing our Nannies as many are so expensive only billionaire wrap singers & Angela Rayner can afford them. Jacob Rees-Mogg where are you? This is a NATIONAL CRISIS! 😥 2415530 155
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialThe New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Labour can’t agree on how to fight Farage. The party is split between Starmerites focused on delivery and a soft left demanding greater radicalism. @georgeeaton.bsky.socialnewstatesman.comLabour can’t agree on how to fight FarageThe party is split between Starmerites focused on delivery and a soft left demanding greater radicalism. 565 6
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/08/2025UK electricity/gas infrastructure companies have spent £490m a year less than budgeted on maintaining system reliability and preventing failures. Gas privatised in 1986, electricity in 1990. Assets sweated. Electricity/Gas distribution companies have the highest profit margins in the UK.common-wealth.orgProfiting Amid the Energy Crisis: The Distribution Networks at the Heart of the UK's Gas and Electricity System 18263142 263
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Thames Water fined £104.5m for sewage dumping on 6 Aug 2024. £18.2m for violating dividend payment rules on 19 Dec 2024. TW to pay 20% (£24.5m) by 30 Sept 2025, the rest ... may be by 2030. TW has 187 criminal convictions. In a rentier economy corporations are indulged for criminal practices.theguardian.comThames Water agrees payment plan for £123m sewage and dividend finesOfwat gives struggling firm, which is trying to secure funding to avoid nationalisation, breathing space 15218108 218
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Big pharma picking our pockets. Advanz, the sole supplier of liothyronine tablets (thyroid drug) in the UK, hiked price from £20 to £248 per box – an increase of over 1,110%. Corporations devour everything, have no ethics. Must return to Labour's 2019 manifesto - govt to produce generic drugs.gov.ukCourt upholds CMA’s £99m fine on pharma over excessive NHS thyroid drug pricesThe Court of Appeal has unanimously upheld the CMA’s finding that Advanz broke the law by overcharging the NHS for essential thyroid drug liothyronine. 9252129 252
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Royal Mail missing delivery targets after sale to Czech tycoon. Regulator lets RM deliver 2nd-class letters every other weekday, none on Saturdays. People pay more for worse service: Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p. When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.theguardian.comRoyal Mail still missing delivery targets after sale to Czech tycoon KřetínskýBoth first and second class mail lag behind Ofcom’s target in quarterly update after EP Group’s takeover 34282150 282
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialJWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Farage has now said very clearly he will remove judges he does not approve of and abolish UK citizens' human rights. No-one at the BBC, Sky or ITV - or inside the government - seems to think it is worth highlighting. This is exactly what sleepwalking towards autocracy looks like. 71973406 973
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/08/2025WH Smith overstated profits by 40%, £30m. Relates to accelerated recognition of supplier income - discounts from suppliers. Seems to similar to the 2014 Tesco scandal. Carillon did the same. The board, non-execs, audit cttee, internal/external auditors asleep. Who benefitted from false numbers?theguardian.comWH Smith shares plunge almost 40% after retailer’s £30m accounting errorGroup cuts profit forecasts and launches review after mistake relating to North American arm 713055 130
Reposted by @dancer07.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/08/2025CEO-to-worker pay gap surges to 632 to 1 at US’s lowest-paying large firms. Starbucks CEO collected $95.8m, 6,666 times as much as the company’s $14,674 median pay. Workers rely on food banks and charity for survival whilst company engaged in union busting.theguardian.comCEO-to-worker pay gap surges to 632 to 1 at US’s lowest-paying large firms, study showsAt 100 firms in S&P 500 with lowest median pay, executives’ comp increased by average of nearly 35% over five years 916195 161