Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialGillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Trump's state/trade visit is next week. Oh, to be in London stoptrump.org.uk/protest/stoptrump.org.ukTrump Not Welcome | 17 September 2025Stop Trump Coalition 23113
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialInequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 09/09/2025🚨 Turns out #Johnson is a greedy, chiselling, corrupt little grifter. Who knew...? 🙄 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comRevealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business dealsExclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests 031
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialpatthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 09/09/2025PFI is back – and it will be at cost to us all Every single PFI scheme was a financial disasterf for us and a windfall for millionaires and billionaires www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...taxresearch.org.ukPFI is back – and it will be at cost to us allThe FT has reported this morning that: The government has sounded out private finance investors about backing up to 200 neighbourhood health centres, in a move that could transform NHS care in England... 175
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialpatthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 09/09/2025 PFI was never really about efficiency or innovation. It was about neoliberal ideology. It allowed politicians to shrink the visible size of the state, hide public debt, and hand guaranteed profits to the private sector. The public will still be paying the bill for decades to come 163
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialpatthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 09/09/2025If we are serious about rebuilding this country, the lesson is obvious. The state must invest directly in its own future. Anything else is smoke, mirrors and private gain at public expense. And yet, Wes Streeting appears to be intent on reviving this failed model. Why is that? Follow the money 084
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/09/2025NHS becoming a shell doling out contracts to private sector. Cataract surgery contracts have profit margins of 32% - 43%, leaves less for other NHS services. Govts won't expand NHS capacity. Neighbourhood Health Centres to be handed to private sector. State sponsored profiteering.leftfootforward.orgHow successive government have created a new rentier economyGovernments appease corporations and the super-rich by following the old policies which benefit a few. 20292176
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialGillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Any updates on the investigation into the theft and self-enrichment committed by Michelle Mone during the covid pandemic? Or Michael Gove's VIP procurement contract list? Test & Trace? Surely there'll be some arrests soon? 1217184
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialPolitics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Paul Nowak from Trade Union Congress butchering far right leading figures Farage and his agents Tice and Jenrick. #ukpolitics 511341
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Claudia Fisher is a Green Party councillor in Horsham. She was also the former Field Organiser for the South East. I'm really delighted to have her backing in the Green Party Leadership Race. #BackZack 413526
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialpatthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 11/07/2025UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese says US sanctions against her a sign of ‘guilt’ United Nations’ special rapporteur for Palestinian territories stresses all eyes must remain on Gaza as she urges ‘let’s stand tall, together’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.comUN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese says US sanctions against her a sign of ‘guilt’United Nations’ special rapporteur for Palestinian territories stresses all eyes must remain on Gaza as she urges ‘let’s stand tall, together’ 021
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialGillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025TRUMAN KNEW #socialism #poverty #fairness 213162
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialJohn Henry @priveteye.bsky.social · 11/07/2025When people tell you they're arrogant barstewards, believe them. 37214
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialGillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025thecorbynproject.com/news/solidar...thecorbynproject.comSolidarity with Francesca AlbaneseProject for Peace and Justice, founded by Jeremy Corbyn. A hub for discussion and action, building solidarity and hope for a more decent world. 25116
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialGillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025👑Conspicuous Consumption 👑 This from the nation that has to cut disability benefits; the nation of food banks & hungry children. Shameful. #downwiththecrown #wealthtaxnow #billionaires #eattherich #charlesthelast #conspicuousconsumption 43913
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialJohn Chambers @jowicha.bsky.social · 07/07/2025This has always been a lazy argument and points to the person making it wanting a stacked deck in their favour. Yes, fuckwits like farage will be elected INITIALLY, but as we can see, they don't survive the scrutiny of office well and are soon voted out. 4258
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialJojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 05/07/2025The state of uk politics and government, you cant fix that with a few elections, this is deeply integrated, its systemic, its through the entire institution 'it was never broken, it was built this way' It needs dismantled 3355
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Grip of the state. The UK is less open and transparent than Colombia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Ireland, Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden. Weak parliament, press, civil society makes democracy difficult in a secretive state, facilitates elective dictatorships.government-transformation.comOECD: the top performing governments for open dataOECD's new report reveals which countries have come out on top when it comes to government open data initiatives. 8261119
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialInequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 06/07/2025If you take the #Blair years together with the ongoing #Starmer shambles, what you see is moral cowardice combined with an intellectual failure to renew the principles and practice of social democracy. The #Labour party has sunk into an abject state of torpor and defeatism and believes in nothing. 372
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialGillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 06/07/2025#jeremycorbyn #zarahsultana #newparty 2205
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialpatthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Ordinary people who can question what they're doing, who can question their assault on democracy, who can question their use of force, and who can question the fact that they're even promoting things like genocide, are a threat to the power youtu.be/Aziz8pfh9BYyoutu.beThe global war on education: from Trump to the UK the threat is realYouTube video by Richard J Murphy 011
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialHuffPost UK @huffpost.co.uk · 06/07/2025Neil Kinnock also called Reform "the enemy".huffingtonpost.co.ukFormer Labour Leader Comes Up With Brutal Farage Nickname For New Corbyn-Led PartyNeil Kinnock also called Reform "the enemy". 343
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialsonnyrollins.bsky.social @sonnyrollins.bsky.social · 03/07/2025It's even worse than I thought. Not government by focus group, but government by dodgy fake focus group. What could possibly go wrong? 083
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialAnother Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025We need to fly less! #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency 1219
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Owners of collapsed oil refinery Prax Lindsey took £11.5m in pay & dividends. Workers will suffer. UK law on dividends is a mess, easily circumvented, as shown by BHS/Carillon, water companies. No central enforcer of company law, auditors ineffective. No corporate governance reform in sight.theguardian.comOwners of collapsed oil refinery Prax Lindsey took £11.5m in pay and dividendsDetails of payouts to Winston Soosaipillai and wife Arani emerge as calls grow for couple to financially support 625-strong workforce 4221119
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialJohn Henry @priveteye.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Those who make peaceful protest impossible make aggressive protest inevitable 112432
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/07/2025NOW 344 DAYS since our nuclear test veterans - national heroes now in their eighties - requested a meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer to discuss how he will honour the commitment Labour made to them in opposition. How much longer must they wait? 16826
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialCatherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 02/07/2025So do Red Tories in power. 021
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialGillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Oxfam and over 130 organizations demand an immediate end to Israel's deadly distribution scheme, a return to UN-led coordination, and the lifting of the brutal blockade on Gaza (text from Oxfam) : 14020
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialEuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 01/07/2025The era of corporate colonialism must end. Britain's ports, borders, and sovereignty are not for sale, no matter how much foreign corporations are willing to pay politicians to look the other way. 23816
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 01/07/2025How does anyone justify this? Seriously, how?apnews.com74 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces strike a cafe and fire on people seeking foodWitnesses and medics in Gaza say an Israeli airstrike on a seaside cafe has killed at least 30 people in Gaza City. 22344601550
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialClaire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 01/07/2025youtu.be/Eg6cT4YNzoo?...youtu.beWhy is Labour punishing disabled people but rewarding the wealthy?YouTube video by Richard J Murphy 11510
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialEdwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 01/07/2025Also vital: how exactly the "concessions" are presented to Parliament. So far, Labour have gone with variations of: "We would have punched much harder, but have been forced to stay our hand for now by troublesome rebels. We still believe in the moral case for punching." 1174
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Corporate Welfare. UK govts subsidise gas, oil, wind, solar, coal, biomass companies with cash and/or tax breaks. Free cash. No means testing. No equity stake, nothing repayable. Since 2020, 20 energy companies made operating profit of £514bn, shareholders enriched. We get big energy/tax bills.leftfootforward.orgCorporate vs human welfare: The story of DraxThere is no means-testing for corporate welfare payments. 10295151
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialGillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Genocide, ethnic cleansing and land-grabbing is what it has always been about. Netanyahu said it, trump's eager. When uk news keep insisting trump wants peace, they misheard - trump wants 'a piece'... of that beautiful coastline, for a garish trump resort🤮 #gaza #genocide 35119
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialProspect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 01/07/2025Succession actor Brian Cox was a longstanding Labour supporter, but quit to join the SNP in 2015. ”Starmer is a Little Englander... No one does anything about poverty.” www.prospectmagazine...prospectmagazine.co.ukBrian Cox: ‘Keir Starmer is a Little Englander’The ‘Succession’ actor on Adam Smith, child poverty and Trump’s crooked art of the deal 24622
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialPOLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 01/07/2025Europe must act quickly to face extreme heat as temperatures surpass 40 degrees and thousands of excess deaths are predicted in the coming days.ow.lyLethal heat is Europe’s new climate realitySome 4,500 people could die in the next three days due to soaring temperatures, an expert said. 36622
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialThe Independent @the-independent.com · 01/07/2025By trying to play things safe with its Kneecap coverage – and getting it very wrong with Bob Vylan… – the BBC has failed to represent the reality of public sentiment about Palestine, says its former newsreader 1222157
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialThe Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 30/06/2025Denmark plans to become the first country in the world to give its citizens copyright over their faces and voices in an effort to clamp down on “deepfakes” — videos, audio clips and images that are digitally doctored to spread false informationthetimes.comDanish citizens to ‘own their own faces’ to prevent deepfakes 24015
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialCharles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 25/06/2025www.democracynow.org/2025/6/25/he...democracynow.orgZohran Mamdani Claims Historic Victory Over Andrew Cuomo in NYC Democratic Mayoral PrimaryHere in New York, in a stunning victory, Democratic Socialist and New York State Representative Zohran Mamdani has defeated disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic mayoral... 0133
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialEdwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 25/06/2025Not to mention that there's no world in which the UK having more ways to deliver nuclear weapons makes us safer. If countries aren't intimidated by what we already have, more won't help! 1213
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/06/2025A masterclass in mockery and contempt for the unforgivably smug Hannan and the ideological idiocy of his Brexit vision…. “Whatever happened to punching the air at a self-inflicted 4% hit to GDP? It’s almost as if the leavers are ashamed of what they have done.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comDaniel Hannan celebrates his chronicle of Brexit idiocy foretold | John CraceBack in 2016, Dan prophesied about what the post-EU sunlit uplands would be like on this very day – no spoiler alert needed 28550190
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Thank you Steve Witherden 👏 932864
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialGrumpy @grumpybb.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Whilst we’re on the subject of idiots such as Hannan, a timely reminder…. 625648
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/06/2025River Action mounts court challenge over 'unlawful' water bill rise. Ofwat allowed inflation busting price increases without guaranteeing that the money would be spent on maintenance. People fleeced. Investment not made, sewage dumped, profits increased, dividends paid, exec pay hiked.bbc.co.ukOfwat facing High Court challenge after Cumbria campaignCampaigners are given permission to legally challenge Ofwat over the way it sets water bill rises. 825898
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialTom Jarman @tomajar.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Well said Zoe ... We mustn't stand back and ignore. I've written to my MP @simonforstroud.bsky.social - he's a good guy! 021
Reposted by @trav37.bsky.socialTom Jarman @tomajar.bsky.social · 24/06/2025This is the horror. Our Country. Great Britain. WTF!!!! 011
