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Andy Knowles

@cubitses

Another disappointed former Labour member turned Green.

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End tax breaks on oil and gas Sign the petition to stop the giveaway and demand a fair jobs plan needs major people power right now.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

07.03.2026 01:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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UK government should end rail outsourcing ‘racket’, says union RMT estimates six cleaning, security and catering suppliers made £150m profits last year

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

02.01.2026 08:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Keir Starmer to woo voters and MPs with new year plan to cut cost of living PM to highlight energy bill and interest rate cuts, plus end to two-child benefit cap, and to invite his MPs to Chequers

UK PM Keir Starmer to woo voters & MPs with plan to cut cost of living.

Can't be done without curbing profiteering, increasing real wages, democratizing the workplace, equitable distribution of income/wealth.

Start by ending privatisation of water/energy.

01.01.2026 08:32 👍 510 🔁 170 💬 47 📌 11
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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 👍 810 🔁 392 💬 41 📌 52
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Email Ofwat - say NO to 15 years of illegal pollution Email Ofwat - say NO to 15 years of illegal pollution

❌ Thames Water want to pollute ILLEGALLY for the next 15 years. Thousands of you have already said NO by signing our petition

✉️ Next? We're taking it to Ofwat's inbox

✍️Take 1min now to send an email to Ofwat, explaining why they must say no to 15 more years of illegal pollution

16.10.2025 09:09 👍 113 🔁 128 💬 4 📌 9
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Petition: Commit to a referendum in May 2028 asking the next government to rejoin the EU Polls show that many people of the UK believe leaving the EU was a mistake. It is time politicians stopped ignoring the views of the people. The government needs to consult the people about what to do...

Let's get this to 2k before the end of the weekend 😍🇪🇺

Please Sign and Share...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

12.12.2025 15:50 👍 27 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 1
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UK energy bill payers will hand £2bn a year to EDF for new power stations French government-owned company to receive funding for Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C

UK energy bill payers to hand £2bn a year in subsidies to EDF, owned by the French govt, for building two nuclear power stations.

That will come handy in keeping energy prices down in France, improving govt finances.

Dividends won't be taxed in the UK.

All because UK govts oppose public ownership

28.11.2025 19:04 👍 275 🔁 144 💬 19 📌 7
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This is how Rachel Reeves could deliver a progressive budget The chancellor has an opportunity to boost the public purpose and deliver redistribution

This is how Rachel Reeves could deliver a progressive budget.

Billions available without increasing the rate of income tax, National Insurance or corporation tax.

Just end some of the perks for a select few, anomalies and abuses. Redistribute to alleviate poverty, better infrastructure.

21.11.2025 17:24 👍 229 🔁 95 💬 13 📌 4
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United Utilities just hiked your bills—and saw a 131% profit surge United Utilities is paying more than half the profit to shareholders, exposing its ‘infrastructure investment’ claims as a PR smokescreen

Disgusting when Chief executive Louise Beardmore is paid £840,000 every year! United Utilities has reported a 131% increase in profit for the 6 months ending on 30/9. That follows ‘regulator’ Ofwat approving a five year plan to raise people’s bills in the North West by 32%, starting April 2025.

16.11.2025 17:43 👍 40 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 1
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Electricity bills increased 163 per cent since 2008 as energy price cap rises - research - Insider Media New analysis of UK energy costs showed that the average annual household electricity bill increased by 163 per cent between 2008 and 2024, reflecting a steep rise in household energy costs…

UK electricity bills up 163% since 2008. Wages haven't.

6.1m households in fuel poverty, £4.43bn debt

Profiteering: Energy sector average profit margin 23%, grid sector 38%, gas extraction 58%.

Profit last year £30bn. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty.

No govt checks profiteering.

09.11.2025 07:54 👍 483 🔁 286 💬 18 📌 24
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Petition: Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance, funding, and operations of free zones. Plus a public review to assess impacts, such as job displacement and value for taxpayers money

URGENT: 6 WEEKS LEFT - We're 743 signatures away from forcing a Government response
The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

04.11.2025 10:14 👍 215 🔁 236 💬 14 📌 22
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#C4News: "Israels arms imports from the UK have hot record high values in recent months"

07.10.2025 04:55 👍 38 🔁 41 💬 0 📌 5
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Say no to new PFI in our NHS - take action The government’s new 10-Year Plan for Health is proposing to bring disastrous private finance deals back into our NHS.

weownit.org.uk/act-now/new-...

27.09.2025 12:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fears of new PFI-style ‘disaster’ as firms handed £6m to advise on using private funds for NHS clinics Exclusive: Consultants and lawyers hired to advise on using public-private partnerships to build ‘neighbourhood health centres’ in England

The PFI disaster

Wes Streeting readies more of the NHS for privatisation. Hands £6m to advisers.

NHS will be a shell doling out contracts to private equity and corporations. Profits guaranteed.

Money will buy less. Higher taxes, lower value.

Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.

24.09.2025 07:22 👍 505 🔁 334 💬 28 📌 11
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How to raise £60 billion for public services: our ten tax reforms The UK’s super-rich have accumulated record levels of wealth in recent years, while our public services have been decimated and inequality has soared.

From taxing private jets to closing offshore loopholes, and more.

Here's how we could make our economy fairer and raise £60 billion to revitalise key services to deliver first class healthcare, education and more.
taxjustice.uk/blog/how-to-...

23.09.2025 20:26 👍 26 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
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UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation Analysis reveals ‘privatisation premium’ of £250 per household per year paid to owners of water, rail, bus, energy and mail services since 2010

Since privatisation in the 1980s, we the public have paid *almost £200bn* to shareholders

Your household has paid £250 extra a year since 2010 for this ideology

Excellent new study from @cmmonwealth.bsky.social 👇

Time to take back OUR public assets 💧💡🚌🚄📮

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

16.09.2025 15:00 👍 146 🔁 84 💬 3 📌 4
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Keir Starmer may have just served up the worst political slogan of all time | Simon Hattenstone ‘Delivery, delivery, delivery’ isn’t just vacuous nonsense – it’s emblematic of the prime minister’s leaden-footed approach to politics, says Guardian writer Simon Hattenstone

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

03.09.2025 08:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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UK water watchdog woos investors with ‘guaranteed revenues’ as it seeks £50bn Funds are needed to back projects to improve Britain’s crumbling water infrastructure

Ofwat/Govt promised this to England's water company investors.

“right to collect” revenues from customers, “opportunities for upside”, “capped liabilities” and “investment positive” ... “no exposure to competitive or market stranding risks”

This is a licence to fleece people.
archive.ph/brCru

05.08.2025 08:23 👍 250 🔁 115 💬 14 📌 6
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New wealth of top 1% surges by over $52.4 trillion since 2015 Oxfam Media Release New wealth of top 1% surges by over $52.4 trillion since 2015 – enough to end poverty 22 times over, as Oxfam warns global development “abysmally off track” ahead of crunch talks. ...

“New wealth of top 1% surges by over $52.4 trillion since 2015 – enough to end poverty 22 times over.”

Just once would do… if they bothered.

theaimn.net/new-wealth-o...

26.06.2025 04:29 👍 119 🔁 71 💬 7 📌 13

Thames Water's greedy creditors have *no leverage*

Investors have written down their stakes to ZERO

The company's debt can be WIPED OUT using existing legislation

The creditors can't offer a better deal than permanent public ownership

What is the government waiting for?

22.06.2025 13:10 👍 187 🔁 59 💬 6 📌 1
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Public ownership of England’s water companies could cost close to zero, says thinktank Exclusive: Common Wealth report argues debt, pollution and underinvestment justify process known as special administration

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

09.06.2025 05:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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John McDonnell calls for grassroots leadership challenge to Starmer government In opinion piece for the Guardian, former chancellor says party members, unions and MPs should ‘take back control’

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

28.05.2025 18:30 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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UK’s 50 richest families hold more wealth than 50% of population, analysis finds Equality Trust says billionaires getting ‘ludicrously’ richer, with top two now wealthier than whole of 1990 rich list

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...

20.05.2025 05:53 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Hastings Green Party photo

Hastings Green Party photo

Nathalie, Zack and members in Tower Hamlets.

Nathalie, Zack and members in Tower Hamlets.

Group of members posing for a photo.

Group of members posing for a photo.

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Bold leadership isn't just my leadership.

It's the thousands of you that I've been campaigning with on countless action days.

It's the leadership in your communities for people who don't yet even know the Green Party will give them the real representation they urgently need.

17.05.2025 15:39 👍 180 🔁 51 💬 7 📌 4
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Day 9 of Lois asking Steve Reed to join her at the football. ⚽

Something stinks about Thames Water's sewage plant upgrade costs. How can it be 15x more expensive than building a new one in other countries?

Perhaps Environment Secretary Steve Reed can tell her?
#LoisvSteve

14.05.2025 15:15 👍 246 🔁 245 💬 9 📌 12
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Petition: Take our trains into public ownership | We Own It The government is taking railway operators into public ownership, but the trains themselves will remain in private hands. The government must take our trains into public ownership.

Private shareholders made dividends of £3.6 billion from owning our trains in the last decade. Yet the government is leaving our trains fully privately owned. Sign We Own It's petition to demand they take our trains into public ownership:

weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...

23.04.2025 21:31 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Let's bring water into public ownership | We Own It

weownit.org.uk/act-now/lets...

18.04.2025 12:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our politicians seem to be terrified of us.  Why is that?
Our politicians seem to be terrified of us. Why is that? YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

Neoliberalism has failed, but the Labour government is wedded to it. No wonder they’re so frightened. They realise that we might rumble that they, too, are a bunch of failures.

youtu.be/rdm0ntUEwdc?...

05.04.2025 06:05 👍 281 🔁 102 💬 16 📌 6
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Petition: Hold a referendum on re-joining the European Union I want the government to hold a referendum on whether the UK should Rejoin the European Union.

Brexit hurt our economy more than COVID and PUTIN combined

#RejoinEU is the biggest boost poss to our economy.

In the face of cuts, when there's clear alternatives is unforgivable, and will further push people to Reform.

We can't afford Brexit.
Pls sign
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

26.03.2025 11:56 👍 133 🔁 85 💬 8 📌 2