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Ian Lumley

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Interested in Socialist Politics, Labour Party Member, Science, Atheism, Space Exploration, Type A Aortic Dissection Survivor

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Thousands of patients waiting over 24 hours in A&E 'corridor care' Known as

52,000+ patients waited longer than 24 hours to be admitted to hospitals across north-west England.

Many wait for up to 3 days. Govt doesn't publish full data

Tory austerity, NHS neglect, refusal to tax the rich inflicts misery.

And it continues. The NHS needs more capacity, not privatisation.

02.03.2026 07:45 πŸ‘ 204 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 7
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Rolls-Royce boss pushes for UK taxpayer support for new jet engine Firm, which has announced record profits and Β£9bn share buyback, has Β£3bn project for smaller commercial planes

Corporate Welfare.

Rolls Royce declares record profits, will hand up to Β£9bn to shareholders.

It wants public subsidy, free money, for its new engine.

Holds govt to ransom. Threatens to move manufacture if govt does not capitulate.

Govt must demand equity stake for any public money.

27.02.2026 08:04 πŸ‘ 305 πŸ” 133 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 10
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Reform accused of β€˜pitching for votes of misogynists and homophobes’ Charities have warned that scrapping the Equality Act would be a β€˜significant step backwards’ for discrimination protections in Britain

Suella Braverman says Reform would scrap the Equality Act 2010.

Law prevents discrimination on the basis of age, disability, gender, marital status, race, religion and sexual orientation.

Reform taking us back to Victorian era, removing hope.

Our predecessors fought hard for social rights.

18.02.2026 16:13 πŸ‘ 428 πŸ” 223 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 16
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Post-Brexit sales of British farm products to EU fall by 37% NFU warn it could take years to restore Brexit losses despite efforts to smooth negotiations on farming and other elements of UK-EU reset

Post-Brexit sales of British farm products to EU fall by 37%.

Brexit has brought no benefits and left the UK exposed in the era of tariffs and trade wars.

Farage and Tories lied about Brexit.

Govt can get economic growth by rejoining the EU. Our future is in Europe, not in being the 51st state.

09.02.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 265 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 5

It's really unlucky that the people charged with vetting Mandelson's Washington appointment didn't think to try a basic Google search. It would have saved them a lot of work

08.02.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 137 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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Public ownership of water is the only way to deliver security, efficiency, investment and value for money 37 years of privatisation has been a disaster

England's water companies promise Β£104bn investment by 2030.

Shareholders won't pay, customers will. Shareholders will own resulting assets, income streams.

Customers already paid, companies handed Β£85bn dividend to shareholders.

35% of customer bills pays for debt interest and dividends.

05.02.2026 09:50 πŸ‘ 252 πŸ” 124 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 3
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Mandelson was given secret spreadsheet to vet left-wing MPs in Labour power struggle Whistleblower's revelation shows extent of his direct involvement in bitter battle to gain control of the party ahead of 2024 election

Peter Mandelson was directly involved in helping Morgan McSweeney select Labour’s parliamentary candidates ahead of the 2024 general election.

This is despite his past misbehaviour.

It was all part of the purge of the left and push Labour to the right.
archive.ph/FXGiY

04.02.2026 15:26 πŸ‘ 334 πŸ” 164 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 18

Supporters of the House of Lords should tell us why Lord Mandelson, Baroness Mone, Lord Houchen, Lord Lebedev and Baroness Owen deserve to be unelected lawmakers for the rest of their lives

03.02.2026 10:23 πŸ‘ 257 πŸ” 113 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 11
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say it with me now...
FUCK ICE

Happening now in Dallas
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30.01.2026 03:45 πŸ‘ 4422 πŸ” 1410 πŸ’¬ 147 πŸ“Œ 78
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Water bills to rise again: Use our tool to find out by how much The average annual household bill in England and Wales will increase by Β£33 from April.

Water bills to rise again in England, well above the rate of inflation.

90% of water industry is foreign owned. Shareholders count the returns, have no contact with leaks, water shortages or sewage dumping.

Customers fleeced. Privatisation is a scam.

29.01.2026 09:31 πŸ‘ 358 πŸ” 183 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 13
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

28.01.2026 17:02 πŸ‘ 97511 πŸ” 40896 πŸ’¬ 4301 πŸ“Œ 5366
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Number of people in 'very deep poverty' at highest level in more than 30 years, charity warns Very deep poverty is defined by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as earning below 40% of the median household income. According to its latest report, 6.8 million people - almost half of all of those in ...

Tory Legacy

14.2m Britons live in poverty, highest in 30 yrs.

6.8m in "very deep poverty".

34% of universal credit claimants are in work. No curbs on profiteering.

Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.

1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

28.01.2026 08:14 πŸ‘ 407 πŸ” 220 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 15

It's a good job Nigel Farage didn't inadvertently overclaim a fiver on Universal Credit, because he'd really be in trouble then

25.01.2026 11:06 πŸ‘ 1427 πŸ” 393 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 4

Nigel Farage attended Davos as an adviser to an Iranian billionaire. Doesn't get much more anti-establishment than that, right?

24.01.2026 17:13 πŸ‘ 434 πŸ” 154 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 4
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ICE shoot a guy dead who they were already piled on top of.

We need trials for these criminals.

24.01.2026 17:13 πŸ‘ 234 πŸ” 110 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 18
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UK not ready to sign up to Donald Trump’s β€˜board of peace’, says Yvette Cooper Foreign secretary says Britain supports president’s Gaza plan but there are concerns around involvement of Putin

UK not ready to sign up to Donald Trump’s β€˜board of peace’, says Yvette Cooper.

The UN has been totally sidelined. Aid should be provided by UN agencies.

How long before Trump show is seen as an occupying force?

23.01.2026 08:11 πŸ‘ 233 πŸ” 74 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 9

The Β£380,000 in extra-parliamentary earnings that Nigel Farage somehow forgot to declare is fifteen times the average salary in Claction

22.01.2026 10:26 πŸ‘ 706 πŸ” 287 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 6
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Donald Trump’s imperialism is the latest tool to advance the hegemony of US capital Trump's policies are not isolationism. They're seeking to thwart the emergence of a multipolar world.

Trump wants to retain hegemony of US capital.

Tariffs shield US capital from competition.

Wants disintegration of the EU, supports far-right parties. Elon Musk wanted to hand $100m to Reform.

Up to 500% tariffs on BRICS countries to prevent their rise and possibilities of a multi-polar world.

15.01.2026 11:23 πŸ‘ 125 πŸ” 69 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

24m Britons live below minimum socially acceptable living standards.

Major parties make sound bites, no plan to address cost of living crisis.

Won't end profiteering, increase real wages, redistribute wealth, curb power of corporations/rich.

Need more working class people in parliament.

11.01.2026 08:51 πŸ‘ 312 πŸ” 106 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 4

What happened to Renee Nicole Good isn't generating a fraction of the outrage at what happened to Charlie Kirk. But it should.

08.01.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Shortage of NHS stroke specialists resulting in thousands dead or disabled, say doctors Exclusive: Lack of consultants in UK health service means patients do not get drugs or surgery in time, say senior medics

Shortage of NHS stroke specialists in England resulting in death or disability.

Between 10,000 and 20,000 patients died or sustained a serious disability because of treatment delays.

Lives destroyed by fiscal rules, austerity, appeasement of the rich and forcing people to go private.

06.01.2026 07:57 πŸ‘ 177 πŸ” 103 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4

Trump's attack on Venezuela will create global instability.

Will prolong the Ukraine war. How could the US condemn and sanction Russia?

Encourage Putin to kidnap Zelensky.

Encourage China to takeover Taiwan.

What is the point of the UN if rogue powers can do whatever they want?

04.01.2026 08:59 πŸ‘ 774 πŸ” 246 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 8

Psychopath Trump attacks Venezuela, kidnaps President and his wife.

The 21st Century bully wants oil, gas, minerals, puppet regimes.

What next - attack on Iran, Syria, Panama, Canada, Mexico, Denmark ... there is no limit to his stupidity.

The world must unite against new imperialism.

03.01.2026 10:46 πŸ‘ 848 πŸ” 272 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 13

OK, so Britain might have 354,000 homeless, 1.8m unemployed and 3.8m hungry kids. But on the upside, the FTSE-100 index hit an all-time high this morning.

02.01.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 152 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 2
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Billionaires added record $2.2tn in wealth in 2025 Just eight billionaires accounted for a quarter of the gains, led by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Larry Page

The world’s 500 richest people have total wealth of $11.9tn.

Their wealth up by $2.2tn in 2025. 8 billionaires accounting for a 25% of the gains.

No one becomes this rich by working.

They fund right-wing parties, oppose worker/human rights, cause more pollution than normal people.

01.01.2026 08:21 πŸ‘ 810 πŸ” 392 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 52
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Bottled water drinkers ingest 90,000 more microplastic particles each year New review finds people who drink tap water ingest only about 4,000 microplastic particles a year

Daily consumers of bottled water ingest over 90,000 more microplastic particles than people who drink tap water.

There are no warnings on bottles.

Either companies do not test their products, or conceal the harms to boost profits and exec pay.

What do regulators do?

30.12.2025 08:00 πŸ‘ 299 πŸ” 178 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 9

The Tories are very concerned about ancient Tweets from a UK national Egyptian democracy activist. But happy to dish out a knighthood to billionaire Mohamed Mansour - a minister during the Mubarak dictatorship - after he gave them a Β£5m donation.

29.12.2025 15:07 πŸ‘ 103 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2
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Grenfell firms still receiving multimillion-pound public contracts, analysis finds Survivors urge government to stop using suppliers cited in public inquiry into fire in which 72 people died

Grenfell firms still receiving multimillion-pound public contracts.

In 2027, 72 people died due to faulty cladding. No one charged.

Post Office scandal - postmasters fraudulently convicted of crime. Fujitsu still gets public contracts. After 30 years no one charged.

See the pattern of corruption.

29.12.2025 08:18 πŸ‘ 368 πŸ” 203 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 7
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Britain is facing renewed pressure from the White House to allow American chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated meat into UK supermarkets, as Donald Trump seeks trade concessions in exchange for reviving a collapsed US-UK technology deal.

and so it begins

www.farminguk.com/news/chlorin...

29.12.2025 12:15 πŸ‘ 591 πŸ” 308 πŸ’¬ 111 πŸ“Œ 45
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What if I told Terminator is real, it is gonna happen.

And the only difference is the billionaires will pretend to lose control of their machines.

26.12.2025 14:43 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1