Privatization picking our pockets.
Another Royal Mail price hike: Form 7 April 2026 1st class postage price £1.80, 2nd class 91p.
When privatized in 2013 by Tory/LibDem Govt: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets. Fines passed to customers. Execs get bonuses.
Ofwat £22m fine proposal for South East Water for repeated supply failures.
"Proposal" = companies with criminal convictions negotiate, may never pay.
Thames Water to pay 2024 fines by 2030 or never.
2024 fines on Yorkshire and Northumbrian Water quietly waived.
Execs never fined or prosecuted.
Interesting thing is that Greens won the Gorton and Denton by-election by adopting policies on which Starmer became Labour leader. Since then he has abandoned all pledges, alienated base party support and has been chasing Reform voters.
One reason why the City if full of sleaze and nothing is done.
The City of London Police is funded by banks and financial institutions. Police excel at aping the three unwise monkeys. What are the employment prospects of a police officer tackling corruption but losing millions of police funding?
In archaic City of London, corporations elect councillors.
Companies have votes depending on the number of employees working in the City. Corporate votes exceed human votes.
Votes are cast by corporate execs who also have a vote in place of their residence.
Multiple votes are illegal elsewhere.
UK democracy in action
The state unable/unwilling to provide people with clean water, timely healthcare, social care, decent housing, pension, affordable education, energy, decent roads.
Corporate profits guaranteed through PFI, privatisations, outsourcing, subsidies, regulatory inaction.
GSK CEO got 50% pay rise to £15.6m.
Did you?
Neoliberals moan about rise in minimum wage. Govts preach pay restraint to workers. Silence on profiteering, hikes in exec pay/perks, dividends, share buybacks.
The state devoted to welfare of the super rich.
Govts are subservient to corporations.
Water firms sent bailiffs to tens of thousands of homes for debts under £1,000.
Exorbitant water bills. One-third covers interest & dividend payments
Companies paid over £85bn in dividends, borrowed billions to pay. Sewage dumped in rivers, fines waived. No bailiff ever sent. No exec punished
Damning verdict on England social care as peer says system needs a 'reckoning'.
22 major reviews over 3 decades. Govts do nothing.
No integrated healthcare system. Social care privatised. Corporations profiteering. Public money buys less. Govt handing the NHS to them as well
End privatisation.
Ofwat £22m fine proposal for South East Water for repeated supply failures.
"Proposal" = companies with criminal convictions negotiate, may never pay.
Thames Water to pay 2024 fines by 2030 or never.
2024 fines on Yorkshire and Northumbrian Water quietly waived.
Execs never fined or prosecuted.
Regulator investigates £8.4bn private dentistry UK market.
Private equity dominates the market - rip-off charges, profiteering, local monopolies.
No body voted for private equity takeover, loss of NHS dentistry.
It happens because Govts favour corporations.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Did you vote for this?
Wages taxed at marginal rates of 20%-45% + NIC.
Dividends taxed at rates of 8.75% to 39.35%. No NIC.
Capital gains at rates 18% to 32%. No NIC.
Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
Democracy and social justice... whose?
South West Water admits criminal offence over Devon parasite outbreak.
Water unfit for human consumption, 150 people fell ill.
SWW already has nearly 200 criminal convictions. Licence not cancelled, no exec prosecuted, record high customer bills, sewage dumped in rivers.
Privatisation is a scam.
Someone whose only income is the state pension is below the £12,570 income tax threshold, but for how long?
They still pay council tax, VAT, excise duties, environmental levies and other indirect taxes.
Doesn't mean that there will be any real change.
Please read the linked article.
Higher taxes on wages and lower taxes on return on wealth predate the current Labour govt. The poorest paying a higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest predates the current Labour govt. That said, Starmer's Labour is perpetuating the same.
Millions of pensioners sucked into income tax brackets.
Did you vote for this?
Wages taxed at marginal rates of 20%-45% + NIC.
Dividends taxed at rates of 8.75% to 39.35%. No NIC.
Capital gains at rates 18% to 32%. No NIC.
Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
Democracy and social justice... whose?
Please see the linked article.
Regulator investigates £8.4bn private dentistry UK market.
Private equity dominates the market - rip-off charges, profiteering, local monopolies.
No body voted for private equity takeover, loss of NHS dentistry.
It happens because Govts favour corporations.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
South West Water admits criminal offence over Devon parasite outbreak.
Water unfit for human consumption, 150 people fell ill.
SWW already has nearly 200 criminal convictions. Licence not cancelled, no exec prosecuted, record high customer bills, sewage dumped in rivers.
Privatisation is a scam.
Who benefits the most form the UK's current form of democracy?
Did you vote for this?
24m people live below the minimum living standard.
Unchecked profiteering – energy companies made £125bn profit since 2020. 120,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.
Who/What governs the UK.
Young adults face unemployment, low wages, debt.
Govt can help, adopt Scottish policies
No university tuition fees.
No prescription charges (also in Wales)
Free bus travel for the under-22s, many on low minimum wage.
Treating young adults in England as second class is a political choice.
Fines for UK financial crime nosedive to ‘pitiful’ lows.
Penalties from the FCA drop by 78% in five years.
Regulator now has a duty to promote growth of the sector. It is a race to the bottom.
Financial crime not investigated. Bankers bonuses will increase from illicit financial flows. To
Global economy must not pander to “frivolous and destructive demands of the ultra-rich”.
They fund political parties, profit from socially and ecologically destructive growth.
UK example - deregulation, regressive taxation, concentration of wealth, inequalities, sewage in rivers.
Most Reform members believe non-white UK citizens born abroad should be forced or encouraged to leave.
What next? Concentration camps, badge to replace the Star of David, atrocities.
First non-white people. Who will be next?
Will history repeat itself?
Who benefits the most form the UK's current form of democracy?
Did you vote for this?
24m people live below the minimum living standard.
Unchecked profiteering – energy companies made £125bn profit since 2020. 120,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.
Who/What governs the UK.
Trump threatens to halt trade with Spain because its govt refused military base access.
The felon demands obedience and has tantrums when sovereign govts refuse to be part of his illegal war.
Tariff/Military wars are part of his delusions of world domination.
More need to resist.
Fines for UK financial crime nosedive to ‘pitiful’ lows.
Penalties from the FCA drop by 78% in five years.
Regulator now has a duty to promote growth of the sector. It is a race to the bottom.
Financial crime not investigated. Bankers bonuses will increase from illicit financial flows. To
