Angela #Rayner: Hands off our allotments
We call on you to stop any further #sell-offs of our precious #allotments and to reverse any sales that can be reversed.
Listen to local people.
Once allotments have been sold off, they are lost forever.
#England can learn from #Scotland's population #health plan
The framework is important guiding light over next 10 years in recognising what determines the Scottish population’s health and wellbeing is more than health care: that sectors and approaches need to work together to improve #health (working well in their own silos is not enough), and that living a good life matters as well as length of life
Scottish university agreed to monitor students for arms company
Extremely disappointing #Heriot-Watt University doesn’t respect, prioritise #students over corporations
The Uni will monitor student #chat groups and #discussion #forums for talk of any planned #protest, monitoring #CCTV for signs of #groups #gathering, and having an “enhanced” physical presence on the day to “help safeguard the #Raytheon employees attending.”
No #PFI in Neighbourhood Health Services
We demand no “Public Private Partnership” (PFI) to finance Neighbourhood Health Centres
PFI's led to NHS paying up to 27x over for hospitals. Some #NHS Trusts STILL wasting 13% of their budgets on old PFI deals
Even the #Conservative government said ‘goodbye to PFI’ because it is bad value for money.
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-new-pfi-in-neighbourhood-health-services
Living in the shadow: #fear of #America policies
To #UK readers
Debates about #NHS & social programmes aren’t trivial
I’ve seen what happens when #privatisation & #political #cruelty masquerade as #reform (no pun). Fight for your public programmes
- Cherish your NHS
- Protect disability rights
Once they are gone, people most dependent on them don’t just fall through the cracks they disappear
https://bylines.scot/politics/world-politics/living-in-the-shadow-fear-of-america-policies/
I’ve voiced #ScotRail trains for 20 years. No one told me AI was replacing me
THE woman who has been the voice of ScotRail trains for 20 years only learned she was being replaced after a friend heard the new #synthetic #voice onboard.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25204424.voice-scotrail-20-years-replaced-ai/
Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services
#UK is the 6th largest economy in world. But huge amount of wealth is held by very small proportion of the population
Average wealth of top 10 richest people UK is now £21 billion, up nearly 50% in 5 years
If you earn £3600 every hour, it would take you over 665 years to save this amount
2% #wealth #tax on assets over £10 million could raise up to £24 billion/yr - just 20k of wealthiest
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/tax-the-super-rich-to-stop-cuts-to-public-services-1
Donald Trump says no right of return under his Gaza proposal
US President Donald Trump has said Palestinians would not have a right to return under his plan to #ethnically #cleanse Gaza.
#Trump’s comments contradict other officials in his administration who have sought to argue he was only calling for the temporary relocation of #Gaza’s population.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24924670.donald-trump-says-no-right-return-gaza-proposal/
Fight the Rich
Kshama Sawant
"I served as the only socialist on the Seattle City Council for ten years. In that decade, my council office led movements of working people to win historic victories, including the highest minimum wage in the country. I also saw firsthand how every part of the political establishment, led by big business and the Democratic Party, viciously opposed virtually every pro-worker piece of legislation we fought for. I saw how all the cogs of the capitalist machine — the establishment politicians, the courts, the police, the NGO leaders, and sadly many labor leaders — all work in concert together against the interests of workers.
I can tell you from my experience — and it is increasingly evident to working people — that this system is completely irredeemable, as are both U.S. political parties."
[Kshama Sawant is a revolutionary socialist, a founding member of Workers Strike Back, and a former Seattle City Councilmember who helped win the first $15/hour minimum wage in a major city and the Amazon Tax on wealthy corporations to fund affordable housing.]
Ethical alarms should be ringing over jabs for the jobless
Would taking a drug be voluntary or would it be mandatory for entitlement to #benefits? Recalling Labour’s previous support for conditionality & sanctions, one can see which way it would go
Would giving #drugs for obesity be precedent for other medical conditions?
Many #unemployed become #depressed. Will #DWP mandate #antidepressants, or lose benefits?
This is why I find so called 'smart' meters, currently, a nuisance
An #electric/gas meter has always been the property & responsibility of the power corporation
#SmartMeters have a 1 year warranty, after which the homeowner needs to pay to get it fixed!
Quite simply, life continues to get worse in the #UK
‘I’ve never been so driven’: Led By Donkeys on mocking Liz Truss, duping Matt Hancock and renaming Michelle Mone’s yacht
The group has campaigned on everything from the #PPE scandal to the deaths of children in #Gaza with their headline-grabbing guerrilla actions.
And they’re only just getting started
Attention #British citizens …
Americans (insured or not) still receive no-cost Covid vaccines.
WTF is wrong with the #UnitedKingdom's government? [Rhetorical question]
East Germany invented unbreakable drinking #glasses
#Superfes, East Germany’s unbreakable #glass. Superfest was designed to make them last 5 times longer than regular drinking glasses. They were found to be 10x more durable.
The reason for its decline was its strength
Glass retailers live off the fact their products break. A glass that doesn't break is a threat to #profits
UK sends private #healthcare shareholders profits of £10 million/week
Our NEW analysis reveals the #NHS lost £6.7 billion to private profits since 2012 due to #outsourcing - that is £10 million a week.
Outsourcing is NOT a neutral choice. It turns our health service into a wealth service for a handful of people.
Takes 30 seconds to email local candidates now.
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/we-send-private-shareholders-profits-£10-million-week
Labour and Tories would ‘both leave NHS worse off than under austerity’
Labour and the #Conservatives would both leave the #NHS with lower spending increases than during the years of Tory #austerity, according to an independent analysis of their manifestos by a leading health thinktank.
Both Tory & Labour represent lower level of #funding increase than the period of austerity
Yes, prime minister, it’s a scandal so many of us are signed off work
Maybe #Tories should stop making us ill
The numbers signed off work have surged in last 14 years because #Conservative governments us catastrophically unwell
The #UK does not have a #sicknote problem. It has a government-couldn’t-care-less problem
The normalisation of neglect: Covid, human rights and water quality
In the last 14 years, the British government has brought about destruction and chaos. Never before has there been so much mismanagement in public office, more so since Brexit and the Covid pandemic.
https://northeastbylines.co.uk/the-normalisation-of-neglect-covid-human-rights-and-water-quality/
Hospital admissions for waterborne diseases in England up 60%
Analysis follows widespread anger after record sewage spills
Environment Agency data shows raw #sewage discharged for more than 3.6m hours into rivers, seas last year – 129% increase on the previous year
Increased raw sewage in rivers means higher risk of infections as people likely to contact the #bacteria in human waste.
Oxford University analysis has debunked #NHS privatisation
Rresearchers looked at studies of healthcare #privatisation & found privatisation leads to poorer patient quality care
Every month, private hospitals send 550 of their patients to the NHS because of an emergency they had while in the private hospital!
Privatisation works for shareholders, not patients
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