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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Ultra-processed food increases risk cancer, heart disease & early death. 13.8% of premature deaths in England caused by UPF. Corporations harm people - UPF, food with extra salt/sugar/fats, tobacco, sewage in rivers - for profit. Make corporations bear the social cost of their harmful practices.
theguardian.com
Ultra-processed food increases risk of early death, international study finds
About 14% of premature deaths in England attributable to unhealthy food, the most among surveyed countries
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Pay package of UK CEOs grown faster this year than those of their US rivals. FTSE1 00 CEO median pay up 11%. Average real pay for workers unchanged since 2008. Govts say wage rises for workers are inflationary; ignore rise in exec pay, dividends, share buybacks. Its class war. archive.ph/wtgAn
ft.com
UK executive pay increases surpass US competitors
FTSE 100 companies race to catch American rivals’ bigger remuneration plans
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Regressive National Insurance (NI). UK employees pay 8% NI on incomes between £12,570 & £50,270. 2% above that. Rich pay a lower proportion of income in NI. Govt can charge higher rates in incomes above £100k, £150k, etc. Collect £bns. No need for austerity. Tax the rich.
leftfootforward.org
Here’s how Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement must offer hope
'The government needs to recalibrate policies'
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
"We're also seeing a complete block from the Israelis on humanitarian aid going into Gaza, something which has been condemned by the UN" What Israel is doing is collective punishment, a violation of intl law and a war crime. You're supposed to be a journalist. Do your job #GMB
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 06/03/2025
The chair of the BBC Board has called for a review of the BBC’s Middle East coverage. We’ve already done one. 👉 ‘National scandal’: The BBC’s Gaza cover-up www.declassifieduk.org/national-sca...
declassifieduk.org
‘National scandal’: The BBC’s Gaza cover-up
Britain’s ‘public service broadcaster’ is keeping the public in the dark about UK support for Israel’s assault on Gaza, new research finds.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
UK energy industry made £483bn profit since 2020. OFGEM's marginal pricing rules guarantee profits to the most inefficient/costly producer. 1 in 5 of all deaths are people in fuel poverty – including 110,000 pensioners. No curbs on profiteering. Real wages cut. WFP cut. Cost of living soaring.
bigissue.com
How the energy industry is profiting from our pain as bills are set to go up
Ofgem’s is set to announce the energy price cap next week, with bills forecast to increase again for households.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
HSBC made $32.3bn profit before tax in 2024. $26.9bn given to shareholders in buybacks & dividends. Jobs/branches slashed Banks fleece customers, engage in illicit financial flows; no curbs on profiteering, exec pay, dividends. Their profit is our poverty. Govt deregulated.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Five more water companies in England appeal against Ofwat’s curb on bill rises. OFWAT permitted average price rise of 36%. They want more People can't appeal, have to pay up, put up with sewage in rivers, exploitation. Corporations rule and no one is protecting people.
theguardian.com
Five water companies appeal against Ofwat’s curb on bill rises
Anglian Water, Southern Water, Northumbrian Water, Wessex Water and South East Water ask regulator to refer its ruling to the CMA
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
HBOS banking frauds dating back to 2002 not investigated by the FCA, Serious Fraud Office. Lloyds Bank promised to do so in 2017, publish report in 2018. To date, nothing. Now it wants to hide the full report. It also funded the City of London police Any UK regulator not corrupt? archive.ph/btDsi
thetimes.com
Campaigners call for Lloyds to publish unredacted report on fraud
Transparency Task Force writes to Dame Meg Hillier, chairwoman of the Treasury committee, expressing concern over the bank’s intentions
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
UK fails to improve on record low ranking in global table of corruption. More corrupt than Japan, Seychelles, Estonia, Uruguay, Hong Kong, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Singapore. Want to hire legislators, get govt contracts, launder money, escape regulation enforcement ... UK is the place.
transparency.org
Corruption Perceptions Index 2024
The Corruption Perceptions Index 2024 ranks 180 countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. Find out the scores and read our analysis.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
HSBC to hand new chief £15m remuneration deal. CEO pay soars whilst average real pay for workers is at 2008 level, when bankers crashed the economy. Govts tell workers wage rises are inflationary but that doesn't apply to exec pay, dividends, share buybacks. news.sky.com/story/hsbc-t...
news.sky.com
HSBC to hand new chief Elhedery £15m maximum pay deal
Georges Elhedery will be eligible for a total remuneration package worth just over £15m as part of plans to be unveiled by Europe's biggest lender later this month, Sky News can reveal.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist Prof James Hansen We will reach 2C by 2045 Collapse of critical ocean current AMOC as early as 20 years I would say it will be even sooner Humanity has destroyed their own future www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist
Prof James Hansen says pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, though other scientists disagree
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 15/01/2025
BREAKING: At least 5 Palestinians have been killed in new air strikes on Jenin: Ministry of Health. Israeli military said earlier it had attacked a target in the area.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Generating just one image from AI takes as much energy as fully charging your smartphone Imagine all the millions of images generated every hour and the emissions generated frying the planet for convenience www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/05/1...
technologyreview.com
AI’s carbon footprint is bigger than you think
Generating one image takes as much energy as fully charging your smartphone.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Thames Water customers face £263 bill rise, it is downing in £18bn debt. After extracting billions in dividends shareholders won't invest. Thames wants to raise capital from customers, but shareholders will own company and extract even more cash. Rip-off. metro.co.uk/2024/12/11/c...
metro.co.uk
Water customers face huge bill this Christmas
'A higher water bill is the Christmas present nobody asked for.'
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Finance Curse 2023: £18.8bn raised in new shares on London Stock Exchange. Share buybacks £46.9bn Major companies pay 70%+ of profits in dividends UK ranks 28 among 31 OECD countries for investment in productive assets Can't grow economy by indulging the City. leftfootforward.org/2024/12/the-...
leftfootforward.org
The government shouldn’t pin all of its hopes for economic growth on the finance industry
Such a strategy was tried in 1970s and came to grief in the mid-1970s secondary banking crash.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
UK 'doesn't have enough builders' for Labour's 1.5m homes. Successive govts neglected the provision of skilled labour. Even if new homes are built, majority of people can't afford to buy. No govt plan to increase real wages, curb profiteering by housebuilders. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK 'doesn't have enough builders' for Labour's 1.5m homes
Builders and developers say reforms are needed to recruit more tradespeople to build the homes being promised.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs, whatever.”
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Fight back against fascism: how big money is threatening democracy
Fascism thrives when democracy falters. From funding Reform to vigilance, here’s how we protect our future
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
UK Labour govt to continue Tory policy - a planning ‘free-for-all’ allowing developers to convert office blocks into flats without planning control. New slums for the poor - Flats measuring 12ft x 12ft), poor ventilation, thin walls, lack of amenities. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
theguardian.com
Labour condemned for allowing ‘new generation of slum homes’ in England
Government accused of permitting a planning ‘free-for-all’ by allowing developers to convert office blocks into flats without the usual controls
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The Media won't acknowledge this video of the farmers blocking an ambulance with its blue lights on so could you could RT it so people see it?
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This will probably come as no surprise to anyone but… www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/o...
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Jenny Jones @greenjennyjones.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
At the @unison.org.uk event on Water Company mismanagement, listening to Prof David Hall as he explains it need not cost the taxpayer a penny to take them into public ownership.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Latest accounts show that the National Insurance Fund Account has surplus of £82.6bn. Tories raided it to cut NIC, the well-off big beneficiaries. Freeports employers enjoying NIC holiday. Labour cut Winter Fuel Payment. Why do govts hit the poor? assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6745ed...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The Brexit Curse: UK tap water safety at risk as testing labs shut down, water companies are unable to use products to clean it. EU countries will share laboratories, UK products cannot be tested abroad; must be tested in in certified UK labs, there are none. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down
Exclusive: EU countries will share laboratory capacity but UK rules mean products cannot be tested abroad
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pandj.bsky.social @pandj.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
He won a big majority with not many vote! There's your problem.
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Humbly Jay @humblyjay.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Be Kind.
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Bob Lawrence 🔵 @trumpluvsobama.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Today's lesson discusses the American health care system for those in countries where their system provides care for free or reasonable fees. 👇
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This will (hopefully) never cease to be staggering to everyone else in the world.
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Jenny Jones @greenjennyjones.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Here's an important petition from @sascampaigns.bsky.social on banning bail out of water companies. Why should we keep paying them to do a very bad job? Please sign! www.sas.org.uk/water-qualit...
sas.org.uk
Ban the Bailouts
The Government is trying to pass a law that could force the public to bailout failing water companies. Help stop this scandal, before it’s too late.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Law doesn't deliver justice. Austerity, wage freezes, public service cuts imposed by parliament. 300,000 Britons die each year awaiting hospital appointment. 111,000 died last year in poverty; 128,000 died in fuel poverty, including. 111,000 pensioners, leftfootforward.org/2024/11/what...
leftfootforward.org
Whatever happened to the ‘rule of law’ in the UK?
Even if people can get access to the courts, at best they will get an interpretation of law, not justice.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The cost of austerity, low wages, lack of healthcare. 2.9m people in England with malnutrition. Hospital admissions up 39% in a decade. Malnourished children treated for scurvy, bow legs, rickets and heart murmurs. Neoliberalism condemning people to misery. eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/welfare...
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Who can afford longevity in a cost-of-living crisis?
We all need a healthy diet. So why are politicians normalising food banks and allowing malnutrition and associated illnesses to rise?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Thames Water creditors veto use of £3bn loan to pay fines. It is a serial offender, dumps sewage in rivers, leaks not unplugged, 187 criminal convictions since 1989. It wants higher customer bills, smaller penalties. Enforce environmental stds, let it collapse. Nationalise. archive.ph/FCMOJ
ft.com
Thames Water creditors veto use of £3bn loan to pay fines
Troubled utility faces fines of £400mn by March 2027 as it tries to avoid renationalisation
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 04/12/2024
"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent." Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on) youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as
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Yes, it's a genocide
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Mandelson should be nowhere near power Labour wake up and smell the roses...😡😡😡 "In the first 3 months of Labour govt, Mandelson’s lobbying firm Global Counsel helped 23 major clients to arrange meetings/communications with ministers or senior civil servants." liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/pet...
liveapp.inews.co.uk
Mandelson firm lobbies for TikTok, Shell and water industry in boom under Labour
Global Counsel has helped 23 client arrange meetings or other communications with ministers or senior civil servants
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Just goes to show.. you can be self absorbed, bigoted and twisted, self serving with absolutely nothing to offer or worthwhile to say… And still get a guest slot on Question Time 38 times👇🏼🙄
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pandj.bsky.social @pandj.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
My other favourite member of the House of Lords is prem sikka. Also well worth a follow
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
The fiction of the rule of law applying equally to all. Duchy of Cornwall doesn't pay inheritance, corporation and capital gains tax even though it trades. P&O Ferries knowingly violated employment law when sacking 800 workers. Faced no action from govt. leftfootforward.org/2024/11/what...
leftfootforward.org
Whatever happened to the ‘rule of law’ in the UK?
Even if people can get access to the courts, at best they will get an interpretation of law, not justice.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
UK politics infiltrated by ‘dark money’. Cash from dictatorships, shell companies, companies that never made profit, unincorporated associations with secret funders. Rewards for corruption - govt contracts, lax laws, favours. Must ban all political donations. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Revealed: UK politics infiltrated by ‘dark money’ with 10% of donations from dubious sources
Cash from dictatorships and shell companies is entering the political system via legal loopholes
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Tory Govt Put Forward ‘Crappy’ Laws, Say Tory Politicians. Yup. Cut real wages Increased poverty, reliance on food banks Increased NHS queues Cut real spending on education. Froze income tax thresholds Closed libraries, community centres Criminalised protests bylinetimes.com/2024/11/28/t...
bylinetimes.com
The Conservative Government Put Forward 'Crappy' Laws, Say Conservative Politicians
The last Government passed shabbily-drafted pieces of legislation which were only saved by amendments from Labour and the House of Lords, according to two senior Conservative figures
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Its easy to support & enable the murder of Palestinians when you don't even acknowledge they existed in the first place.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
"Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers.” 💰🧐
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Whose land? Tax avoidance and the broken economics of British farming
Noise in the billionaire press about inheritance tax changes hides a basic fact: the non-farming rich own too much land
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
"Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers. The revenue per acre is too low to warrant the purchase, unless you are extremely wealthy and are avoiding inheritance tax."
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Whose land? Tax avoidance and the broken economics of British farming
Noise in the billionaire press about inheritance tax changes hides a basic fact: the non-farming rich own too much land
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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
If the Prime Minister will not speak up for the people living through a genocide in Gaza and under siege in the West Bank, then we absolutely must continue to raise our voices for them. 📰 @samuelsweek.bsky.social writes for @labouroutlook.bsky.social:
labouroutlook.org
If Keir Starmer will not speak up for Gaza, we must continue to raise our voices for them
If our Prime Minister will not speak up for the people living through a genocide in Gaza, then we must raise our voices for them - Samuel Sweek, Peace and Justice Project.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Left: Helen Whately, "We handed over to Labour much lower debt than we had inherited" Right: Peter Kyle, "There are facts in public debate.. Debt was £800 billion in 2010, it was £2.6 trillion in 2024"
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 27/11/2024
👉NEW -- Despite Netanyahu arrest warrant, UK keeps sending arms and intel. International Criminal Court’s stance on Gaza should trigger an end to British military ties with Israel, critics say. www.declassifieduk.org/despite-neta...
declassifieduk.org
Despite Netanyahu arrest warrant, UK keeps sending arms and intel
International Criminal Court’s stance on Gaza should trigger an end to British military ties with Israel, critics say.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
He is deliberately scaring these people. It's not terrorism—but it is politically motivated abuse intended to cause fear. Americans will learn in the coming years that it would have been wise to listen to a Trump and Musk biographer who's called both men evil (at least in the way any human can be).
cnn.com
Elon Musk publicized the names of government employees he wants to cut. It’s terrifying federal workers | CNN Business
When President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on ...
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pandj.bsky.social @pandj.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
They like the fake soothsayer but not the truth sayer
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
National disgrace: A quarter of UK households with children under four don't have enough food. Result of neverending austerity, real wage cuts, two child benefit cap Stunts physical/mental development. Deprived children up to 7cm shorter than European counterparts. www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
bigissue.com
A quarter of households with children under four don't have enough food
The Education Policy Institute has warned children under five are more likely to experience food poverty than older children.
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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
📚Join @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social and special guests in Manchester and Rochdale on Saturday 14 December as part of the Monstrous Anger of the Guns promotional series. 🎟️ Manchester: bit.ly/3B3Y6df 🎟️ Rochdale: bit.ly/3CJuP8n
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