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Margaret Greenwood @mgreenwood2024.bsky.social · 8d

The 10 Year Health Plan will embed privatisation: my letter to The Guardian www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

NHS 10-year plan will embed privatisation and hollow out the health service | Letter

Letter: Government reforms could lead to the NHS going the way of social care, where the state is longer able, or willing, to deliver, says Margaret Greenwood

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · Jul 15

UK billionaire wealth has more than doubled since 2010.

Workers’ wages have barely risen since 2008.

On Newsnight, I called for a tax on extreme wealth - that's the fairer alternative to cuts we need.

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Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · Jun 27

Even with the changes, the Disability Cuts Bill will see nearly half a million disabled people denied PIP over the next 4 years.

MPs shouldn't vote to cut support for disabled people who'll need help cutting up food, washing or going to the toilet.

I'm voting against the Bill.

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Rebecca Long-Bailey @rebeccalongbailey.com · Jun 27

Sadly the UC & PIP Bill as it stands will still impose brutal cuts, pushing huge numbers of people who desperately need support into poverty.

It is clear that the Bill must be withdrawn. 👇

I welcome the fact that some concessions have been secured, and the proposals to support those who can work with a little help are welcome, but the numbers it will help are nominal and sadly the Bill as it stands will still impose brutal cuts, pushing huge numbers of people who desperately need support into poverty. It is clear that the Bill must be withdrawn and a genuine consultation take place with disability groups on how the welfare system should be reformed to truly provide support. I simply can not support a piece of legislation that I know will push thousands of my constituents into poverty.

The concessions made—whilst welcome—will ultimately create a two-tier system. The amount of support someone receives will now depend on when they made their claim. That’s simply not fair, especially as those who need help, find themselves needing this support through no fault of their own. A proper consultation should have taken place with those most directly affected. Their voices should have been central to this process but sadly they were not and this needs to be urgently addressed. Further, the Government has yet to publish any impact assessment on the impact of these proposals on future claimants and the number of people, including children who will fall into poverty or experience worsening mental or physical health as a result, nor how many carers will lose carers allowance.

And whilst I recognise the financial challenges facing the Government—challenges that are the direct result of 14 years of mismanagement and underinvestment by the previous Government, there are alternatives. One of these, which I’ve long championed, is to introduce higher taxes on extreme wealth in order to properly fund our public services and strengthen the safety net.

And this isn’t just the view of ordinary working people—many millionaires themselves agree. A recent Survation poll found that 68% of people with over £1 million to invest, support a wealth tax on individuals with more than £10 million.

Rather than punishing those in need of support, the Government must look seriously at fairer ways to bolster the public finances. Wealth taxes are a fair, practical, and popular solution. That is what I will continue pressing for.

REBECCA LONG-BAILEY MP

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Jun 27

Disabled people’s organisations, including DPAC, Taking The PIP & Disability Rights UK, have rightly condemned Labour’s so-called “concessions” on disability benefit cuts.

It’s not a concession to condemn future generations to less support.

I’ll be voting against this Bill.

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Rebecca Long-Bailey @rebeccalongbailey.com · Jun 4

...scrap proposed disability benefit cuts. Growth must benefit everyone. (2/2)

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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · Jun 5

Not long to go now! 🙂

Who's joining us this Saturday in London on the NHS bloc @peoplesassembly.bsky.social demo?

Let's send a message to this government to prioritise our NHS!

Details below - we look forward to marching with you 👊💙

Oh, and do spread the word! 🙏👍

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Jun 5

“it’s common sense that children can’t do well at school if they’re hungry. That's why today I'm proud to announce that over half a million more children will get a free school meal every day”

Prime minister Keir Starmer

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

'Free school meal boost will put £500 in parents’ pockets and help kids achieve'

Keir Starmer writes for the Mirror that 'it’s common sense that children can’t do well at school if they’re hungry' as he unveiled a major change to free school meal rules

www.mirror.co.uk

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Margaret Greenwood @mgreenwood2024.bsky.social · Jun 6

Add your name to this petition & call for a wealth tax, not disability cuts.

Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · Jun 5

The vote on disability cuts could take place in the next few weeks.

I've launched a petition for a Wealth Tax, not disability cuts.

I'll be presenting this in Parliament ahead of the vote.

It's already at nearly 70,000! Add you name below chng.it/ztV8MqDHVQ

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Margaret Greenwood @mgreenwood2024.bsky.social · Jun 6

There's a major reorganisation of the NHS underway, and the threat of potentially over 100,000 redundancies. Write to your MP demanding a full risk and impact assessment using this letter tinyurl.com/374zsenz

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Margaret Greenwood @mgreenwood2024.bsky.social · May 17

labouroutlook.org/2025/05/17/t... My article about what's happening to the NHS. Why the big reorganisation? Why does Sir Jim Mackey want to see support staff moved from NHS contracts to SubCos? And why are NHS hospitals still allowed to make up to 49% of their money from private patients?

The NHS Is Being Dismantled – Margaret Greenwood

Margaret Greenwood questions cuts to NHS budgets before publication of the NHS 10 Year Plan and warns against a growing presence of private firms in health provision.

labouroutlook.org

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Margaret Greenwood @mgreenwood2024.bsky.social · May 9

Call it a reset? These cuts to NHS hospitals will damage patient care www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Hospitals in England reducing staff and services as part of NHS ‘financial reset’

Trusts having to ‘think the previously unthinkable’ to make savings demanded by new NHS England boss

www.theguardian.com

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Margaret Greenwood @mgreenwood2024.bsky.social · Apr 29

Well worth watching … Mark E Thomas debunking the myths of fiscal rules. Celebrate Beveridge. Time for bold government. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QY_...

Mark E Thomas at Sands

YouTube video by The 99% Organisation

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Margaret Greenwood @mgreenwood2024.bsky.social · Mar 30

The Rational Policy-Maker's Guide to Rebuilding the NHS is now available to download. 99-percent.org/wp-content/u...

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Margaret Greenwood @mgreenwood2024.bsky.social · Mar 30

How did the last Labour gov't turn round the NHS? They funded it in line with the needs of the population. Mark E Thomas sets out some of the detail.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Mar 27

“I did not come into politics to inflict this on the most vulnerable people in our society, and I cannot vote for changes which will have this impact”

Connor Naismith Labour MP 👏

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Rebecca Long-Bailey @rebeccalongbailey.com · Mar 26

At the Spring Statement, I raised serious concerns about proposals to restrict disability benefits. The Government's impact assessment published today shows 250,000 more people and 50,000 more children will fall into relative poverty. It is clear that the Government must reconsider its plans.

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Margaret Greenwood @mgreenwood2024.bsky.social · Mar 27

Record 4.5m children living in poverty, UK data shows www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Record 4.5m children living in poverty, UK data shows

Government urged to scrap two-child benefit cap after chancellor announces welfare cuts in spring statement

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Mar 27

New figures reveal 4.5 million children in the UK are growing up in poverty — the highest ever recorded.

Meanwhile, UK billionaires saw their wealth rise to £795 billion last year — another record.

We have resources to end child poverty. We need a wealth tax on the super-rich.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · Mar 26

Rachel Reeves seems to think she’s found the magic money tree -growing in the gardens & down the roads of our poorest citizens & communities. She’s so busy shaking it she can’t see the vast forests of personal wealth being hoarded behind big gates www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Spring Statement: Reeves to make further welfare cuts but boost defence

The chancellor is set to expand cuts to benefits after being told the reforms would save less than planned.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · Mar 26

The Government should not be balancing the books on the backs of the poor and disabled.

On @lbc.co.uk I called for a wealth tax instead.

A wealth tax of just 2% on assets over £10 million would raise £24 BILLION per year.

Let's tax extreme wealth, not punish the poorest.

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Margaret Greenwood @mgreenwood2024.bsky.social · Mar 26

Quite right. Tge government must drop these savage cuts.

Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · Mar 26

This Statement contains cruel attacks on disabled people.

The Government is taking the easy option of cutting support for millions of vulnerable people rather than making the wealthiest pay.

I’ll vote against these cuts to disability benefits. The government must drop them.

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Margaret Greenwood @mgreenwood2024.bsky.social · Mar 26

Well done @zarahsultana.bsky.social for speaking out on behalf of disabled people. Why does the Chancellor ignore the evidence of her government's impact assessment?

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Mar 26

Disability benefit cuts will push over 250,000 people, including 50,000 children, into poverty.

So I asked the Chancellor — who earns over £150,000, accepted £7,500 in free clothes & took freebie tickets to see Sabrina Carpenter — if Austerity 2.0 is the "change" people voted for?

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House of Commons @houseofcommons.parliament.uk · Mar 17

Did you know the Commons Library publishes briefings to help MPs prepare for debates? Read up on this week's topics, including:

- The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
- The National Insurance Contributions Bill
- British Sign Language Week

and more commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-for...

Research for Commons business

Explore documents and reports relating to this week's business in the House of Commons Chamber and Westminster Hall.

commonslibrary.parliament.uk

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Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · Mar 12

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