How Britain privatised itself into failure Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong

How Britain privatised itself into failure

Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble

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Can someone please explain why it is that too many politicians only seem to want the votes of the prejudiced and the ignorant? To the extent that they are actively repelling anyone capable of rational thought and decency. Why the pathetic need to appease the bigot vote, at everyone else’s expense?

Please explain to me how Margaret Thatcher forcing the sale of our national assets for a fraction of their worth was acceptable.

But forcing them to sell them back to us at a fraction of their worth isn't.

it doesn't make any sense.

Thatcher sold off more national assets than any other country. She underpriced them, and they were sold with zero debt. The £bn's of debt private owners have loaded onto them is money extracted for their own pockets.

And Labour plays at fixing this? 🤯

Like it or not, we can’t live without insects - David Suzuki Foundation When insects are killed or die off, everything in the food web is affected, from the birds, bats and lizards that feed on insects to the snakes, coyotes and cougars that feed on birds and lizards, and...

"Like it or not, we can’t live without insects"
via @DavidSuzukiFDN
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Pathetic post by pathetic man Rupert Lowe the eternal moaner, saying he wants his country back

Unlike Rupert Lowe-Life I don’t “want my country back” because I never lost it… it belongs to everyone in the UK irrespective of colour, race, religion etc etc

What I want to ensure is far right creeps like him, Farage, Reform mutants etc never gain power in UK and treat our country as theirs❗️🤷🏼‍♂️

Channel 4 to air BBC-commissioned documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack BBC last week announced it had dropped the film over concerns it may create a ‘perception of partiality’

Thank God for Channel 4 reporting what needs to be reported not what Right Wing puppet masters want us to hear👇🏼👇🏼

Why aren’t BBC, ITV, Sky etc highlighting this rather than plastering Farage and Reform, Trump, Isreal as a victim etc over our screens❓

Because they’re Cheerleaders for the Right Wing🤷🏼‍♂️

This is powerful indeed.

"Nato’s 5 per cent pledge: an obscene betrayal of global needs"

'MEDEA BENJAMIN argues that real security doesn’t come from tanks and missiles — it comes from strong communities, global co-operation, and urgent action on our shared crises'
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What would happen if Thames Water is temporarily renationalised? The government could put the struggling utility into a special administration regime – but what does this involve?

“Whatever way it’s done, it’s pretty much inconceivable the government will not recover its costs”

“Sorting out Thames Water in the public sector will be cheaper in the long run”

End the rip off, PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW

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

This👇👇👇👏👏👏

THIS Says it all!!!

That is EXACTLY what the Nazis said about the Jews! That they were NOT HUMAN!!! How on earth can that sentiment turn round SO very quickly, in historical terms, and be used by Israeli politicians against the Palestinian people?

I am not a religious person but this from the new Pope is extremely pertinent!

Petition: End the Badger cull and adopt other approaches to bovine TB control The Government’s TB Eradication Strategy allows the continued killing of badgers, a protected species, until the end of this Parliament, despite the Labour manifesto calling the cull “ineffective.” W...

UK petition. End the badger cull! The petition is only approx 2500 off 100,000 which will get it considered for debate in parliament. Please sign and share if you can. 🙌
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The fascism playbook hasn't changed—only the speed we're flipping through its chapters.

Oh so very true!
#davidatterborough #climatecrisis #openyoureyes

MIGRATION ISN'T THE PROBLEM REAL HOPE REAL CHANGE. Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

...INEQUALITY IS

"Rather than accepting Farage's lies that migration is the source of people's problems, Labour needs to tackle the issues that are making people's lives hard: low wages, high bills, and chronic underfunding of vital public services." Carla Denyer MP Green Party Co-leader | MP Bristol Central

Health and care worker visas are already at record lows leaving care homes at threat of closure.

Yet Labour want to crackdown further on work visa applications, blocking those who arrive in the UK to support people in our communities.

The cost to the UK of the richest 1% is £450bn a year.

That is 200x the cost of housing asylum seekers.
Double the entire benefits bill.
And nearly 2.5x as much as is spent on the NHS.

For just 700,000 very, very greedy people.

Lets talk about this cost.

Very Well Said….

FUN FACT: Since 2019, Nigel Farage's Reform has taken more than £2.3 MILLION from oil and gas interests - making up an astonishing 92% of the party's donations.

Reform are NOT for ordinary people.

They're in the pockets of the big oil lobby.

It needs to be liberated.

It's time to shift from relief to gratitude as Carney helps steer the climate transition Danielle Smith's agitations and the insatiable fossil fuel industry's demands will make climate action difficult, but Canada's new prime minister brings the right qualifications — and will have plenty...

“In Carney we now have the world leader who knows more than any of his peers about climate change. And who knows roughly 20x as much about climate and energy economics as anyone else in power. He may turn out to be a truly crucial figure in the fight to turn the climate tide.” @nationalobserver.com

How more trees in cities could have saved 400,000 lives in Europe ‘Expanding greenness’ could save millions of lives, a comprehensive new study finds.

“A new study has calculated that increasing trees and other vegetation in urban areas by 30% could have prevented more than 1/3rd of all global heat-related deaths between 2000 to 2019. In total, 1.16 million lives may have been saved with more greenery during this 20-year period.” Via @euronews.com

This is the people who should be in charge!

This is the real news story:
Disillusioned Labour votes far more likely to vote Green or Lib Dem (43% and 40%) compared to only 9% shifting to Reform.

Share widely to counteract all the misinformation that justifies a further shift to the Right by the gov.