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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 19h

This is so powerful.

Private healthcare has already contaminated our NHS too much. Don't let it go any further.
vist.ly/4cmrj

#NHS #publicownership

I am an American citizen married to an English woman and living in the UK. My admonition to UK citizens is to fight to your very last breath to keep US-style healthcare out of your country, and to defend your NHS as if your life depends on it. Because it will. When my wife was living with me in the US, I couldn't get her to go to a doctor, because she was afraid of how much it would cost. And we HAD health insurance. I have witnessed your NHS treat her for a basal cell carcinoma, via surgery and subsequent radiation therapy. And this year she was diagnosed with mitral valve failure, which was brilliantly repaired by an NHS cardiac surgeon. Her care has been exemplary. And it hasn't cost us a single penny. When I tell my US friends all of this, their jaws drop. They would literally do almost ANYTHING to have such a system available to them. DO NOT let the US healthcare companies get their fingers into your NHS. You will regret it for generations.
(Screenshot from The Guardian)

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12h

UK ‘to lose 600,000 workers to illness without better health support at work’.

Without good food, housing, healthcare people suffer. Need poverty reduction targets.

6.26m people in England awaiti 7.41m hospital appointments.

Privatisation of the NHS means money buys less, longer waits.

UK ‘to lose 600,000 workers to illness without better health support at work’

Exclusive: Royal Society of Public Health says ‘fundamental shift’ needed in how firms help those with health conditions

www.theguardian.com

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 11h

Well said @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
Fed up of the BBC pandering to Farage

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h

Trump pardoned Binance cofounder Changpeng Zhao after Binance made a $2 billion investment in his family’s crypto venture.

Now Trump is claiming he has no idea who Zhao is.

Hello?

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 12h

It’s clear to anyone paying attention that Farage gets an easy ride from the media. They give him as much airtime as he wants but never hold him to account for the damage he’s done.

So much of what’s broken in Britain is thanks to Nigel Farage.

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Unite the union @unitetheunion.bsky.social · 11h

💰 “Households are being fleeced pure & simple. Energy bills up by 42% since 2021, whilst energy companies made £30bn profit in just 1 yr. The govt is turning a blind eye to these excessive profits. That must change. Everyday people cannot continue to pay” @unitesharon.bsky.social
shorturl.at/XJO5A

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11h

When you understand it this way, you see that the left has seldom had a share of power.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13h

I see from the replies that people are trying to make it complicated again. So just ask yourself this: does a particular party or faction stand up to billionaires and corporations, or does it roll out the red carpet for them?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13h

Partly because so many formerly leftwing parties have turned to the right, there's a lot of confusion about what right and left mean in politics. I hope this helps:

The right defends economic power.

The left resists economic power.

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 11h

Frightening, and Farage backs private healthcare😡

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13h

The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills.

Norway - 0
UK - 0
France - 0
Spain - 0
Portugal - 0
Denmark - 0
Australia - 0
Iceland - 0
Italy - 0
Finland - 0
Ireland - 0
Germany - 0
Netherlands - 0
Sweden - 0
Japan - 0
Canada - 0
United States - 643k

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 11h

There is since significant 2025 backlash in the US to Trump. NatCen are using US April 2024 data from 18 months ago before the Trump pro-deportation canpaign shift & anti-deportation shift, comparing it to UK July 2025 data

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12h

So the NatCen release says what 8/10 Reform supporters think vs. A 14% segment who are outliers. It does not include in the release that the UK public majority disagree with the Reform majority! This seems a significant fact too in comparing public attitudes?

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12h

It is unfortunate that the NatCen press materials seem to spin the result, rather than giving both answers. You have to get the whole report to find out where the balance of British public opinion is
natcen.ac.uk/news/people-...

People in the UK prefer a tougher approach on immigration compared with the US, but Americans more conservative on social issues | National Centre for Social Research

The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) has published the first report in a new series comparing public attitudes in the UK and US.

natcen.ac.uk

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12h

Less than half of society sees diversity as a strength may imply a 49/51 split against.

Strengthens 49%
Weakens 28%
Little difference 23%

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12h

It is interesting to compare this Telegraph news report to the NatCen data is reporting. The casual reader will be misled by the inference about public attitudes
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...

Access Restricted

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@DemocracyHere @democracyhere.bsky.social · 11h

😡😡😡

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Coko @coko.bsky.social · 12h

Can anyone explain why tRump chose to have debauchery as the theme for his party?!

tRump's an immoral pedo racist bigoted felonious grifting mother🤬

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Coko @coko.bsky.social · 12h

Sometimes, the truth should come with a shot 🍷

backwoodsunity.bsky.social @backwoodsunity.bsky.social · 12h

Over a month since the government shutdown started and Republicans still refuse to come to the table and negotiate. Congress still getting paid for no work while the working class still works without a paycheck. We have a sick country. 🤢 Poverty only exist because billionaires are too greedy.

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 11h

Nigel Farage says he wants to 'raise aspiration' by cutting the minimum wage for young people (currently £10), but reducing tax for young people earning over £100k. Presumably he wants them to just ask their stockbroker fathers to fix them up with a job in The City, like he did.

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MadAsHell-NeverTrumper 🌊💙🌈 @janl99.bsky.social · 1d

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 21h

Yep, he is really going to drop the sanctions hammer on Putin, yes indeed….

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump:

I think Putin wants to come in and he wants to trade with us and he wants to make a lot of money for Russia, and I think that's great. That's what I like.

I think we're going to get it done, yeah. I think he really wants to do business with the U.S.

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Jenn 🎶 🌿 🪻 🧶 🧵 ☮️ @swanljenn.bsky.social · 23h

A clearer idea of which water companies have been warned about PFAS. Since #r4today won't tell us.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Drinking Water Inspectorate ordered action over ‘forever chemicals’ risk

Analysis finds regulator for England and Wales raised issues with untreated water at facilities serving millions

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 23h

I think people would feel much more positive about tax/ tax rises/ the country in general if they knew that none of the money put into public services was being siphoned off into private shareholders’ pockets.💰🚨

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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 21h

Sky News Ridge tears into Tory MP Philp for cherry-picking knife crime data to claim rates fell under the Conservatives - only to be exposed as twisting the truth. #ukpolitics

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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 21h

We had the lovely Carol Fucker around for tea.
She’s the singer with 80’s band T’Cau.
After some cake she said I was a total c*nt.
She called the vicar a twat & told Bunty to go f*ck herself.
She left blaming Ramrod our lab for the rise of knife crime in the UK.
We adored her!🥺

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