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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 7h

NHS England waiting list hits 7.41m appointments, 6.26m patients; lower than the Tory legacy.

Billions sucked out of the NHS through PFI, outsourcing, profiteering; more privatisation planned.

Thousands die awaiting hospital appointment.

Save lives, not fiscal rules.

Doubts over Labour promises as NHS waiting lists rise for third month

LABOUR’S NHS waiting list promises look increasingly unlikely after data published today showed a third consecutive rise in delays for planned hospital treatment in England.The number of treatments wa...

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12h

Fears rise over $3tn shadow banking crisis.

Private equity is a big part of unregulated shadow banking, and has it's tentacles in every sector.

Empires built on high debt, asset stripping, tax abuse, profiteering can't last.

And who will bail them out?
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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 1d

Those reading the same newspaper and watching the same TV stations.

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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 1d

How far the Tory party has fallen 🥲

Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch, who want Britain to abandon any pretence of taking global warming seriously need to see this.

I hate to say "in fairness to Margaret Thatcher", BUT as far back as 1989 she (a trained scientist) gave this warning to the UN General Assembly...

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Margaret Thatcher's Historic Speech on Climate Change | 1989 Address to United Nations

YouTube video by ITN Archive

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David ‘Paisley Cobain’ Burrows, and you’re listening to NPR @sodamasochist.bsky.social · 1d

The Tories and Labour are trying to be Reform wearing a different coloured tie. They aren’t an alternative. They won’t protect you.

Vote Green. We will.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 1d

Whilst racism would have played a part for some I think that the pressure in the fire hose that is the desire for change could have been pointed in any direction.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels

He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down

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Will Jordan, chief legal and policy officer at EQT, a leading US gas producer, also thought that any glut would be temporary, and said US demand was also rising on the boom in power-hungry artificial intelligence data centres.

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BP’s new chair signals more asset sales and demands faster restructuring

“Supply leads demand — you put the supply on the market and demand gets created.,” he said. “Over the long term we’re very bullish.”

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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 1d

I think that this is only the start

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Not only are we at record numbers of members and growing every day - this is our highest ever poll rating.

We're just getting started.

This is the politics of the 99% Vs the 1% for a country we can all afford to live in - plenty of room to grow.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.

Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations a mile stone

Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not religious but he seems like a decent bloke

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Pope Leo condemns economies that marginalize the poor while the wealthy live in a bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has criticized how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 1d

I found this very interesting right now

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How to Spot a (Potential) Fasc!st

YouTube video by Tom Nicholas

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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 1d

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Next year Greens have a chance to GO BIG!

YouTube video by Greens Organise

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Bank of England warns of growing risk of a “sudden correction” in global markets - financial crash.

AI boom will burst.
Share prices inflated
Real economy weak.
Trump creating uncertainties.
Shadow banking unregulated.
Govt deregulating banking.

Bankers get bonuses, people will pick up the tab.

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee

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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 2d

Who's up for abolishing landlords

#zackpolanski #Greens #ukgreens #ukpol

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So, should we abolish landlords? | Economics | New Statesman

YouTube video by The New Statesman

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Democide in our times

Austerity, wage & public service cuts kill, but are govt policy.

Millions can't get good food, housing, education, healthcare, pension.

Men in poorer UK areas live 9.7 yrs less than those in least deprived areas. Women 8 years.

Govts silent on the human cost of fiscal rules

The government must ensure fair distribution of income

'The average real wage of workers has hardly moved from the 2008 level whilst bosses never had it so good.'

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 2d

Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 7d

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.

Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The greens may be the threat that the right never saw coming.

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 2d

Craig Bennett, CEO of the Wildlife Trusts: “It is... shocking to hear the chancellor boast allowing people with privileged access to try & circumvent some of the processes that have been put in place by parliament, & to hear how she just dismisses ecological science as if it somehow doesn’t matter.”

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’ Rachel Reeves unblocked a development of 20,000 homes that were being held up by a rare snail, after being approached by a developer with whom she said, “we have a good relationship”. The government has been working on planning reforms that nature experts say put wildlife at risk. The reforms could include discarding the EU-derived habitats regulations that protect rare animals, and adding more pro-building amendments to the planning and infrastructure bill, which is going through parliament. Continue reading...

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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 2d

🇬🇧 The brexity Telegraph are raging because EU countries are going to enforce their laws in relation to british “overstayers”

Or “ILLEGALS” as Reform, Blue Tories & Red Tories generally like to call them

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Unofficial Daily Squib Bot @dailysquib-rss.bsky.social · 2d

Tories and Labour: We Promise This We Promise That

MANCHESTER - England - As the Conservative Party's conference winds down, it's more of the same - hope, and false promise.

www.dailysquib.co.uk

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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 3d

A crooks charter

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d

There is parade of dud audits, auditors let lying dogs sleep.

UK accounting regulator is changing the rules.There will be fewer investigations.

People will be deceived, fees will keep rising.

There is no transparency about the conduct of audits.

Regulators work for the industry.
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UK accounting watchdog to ease its probes of audit firms

FRC’s proposals follow sustained complaints from the industry about lengthy investigations

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 4d

The state we're in

UK full-time employee median wage, £30,816.
4.5m jobs pay less than the real Living Wage.
1.17m workers on zero-hour contracts.
34% of Universal Credit claimants are in work.
16m Britons live in poverty.

Can't build economy on poverty.

Must increase worker share of GDP.

The government must ensure fair distribution of income

'The average real wage of workers has hardly moved from the 2008 level whilst bosses never had it so good.'

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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 4d

My local supermarket has mince pies in already !

Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 4d

They’re taking the piss
Then sending it too us in pipes!

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