Also as someone who helped destroy the Labour Party for bribes.
Oliver@oliver48.bsky.social · 4h agoMore sinner than saint (like most of Burnham's Friends of Israel packed Cabinet) meme via James Branch
Nelly Probin
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Democratic socialist, ex Labour activist now Green Party NHS campaigner Unite Community member Owned by two rescue cats Member of the awkward squad.
Oliver@oliver48.bsky.social · 4h ago
Privatisation was sold on the basis that people could switch to get better and cheaper energy...instead we just switch from part of the cartel to another and get screwed no matter what we do.
Neal Lawson: "I couldn't live on the meagre benefits people are getting. To suggest that we have to cut those.. actually that's where the engine of growth is, that's the people who spend.. how do you get people out spending.. not by cutting benefits of people at the bottom"
“Out for consultation” “key stakeholders” 🙄
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 2h agoUK energy bills could rise even more. Regulator is considering a Market Stabilization Charge to guarantee corporate profits. This would force energy companies to compensate consumers’ old suppliers for lost profits when people switch away. What would the govt do? Watch the Minister's reply.
The guarantee of profits when consumers switch suppliers is not how competition is meant to work. Heads the energy companies shareholders win, Tails we all lose.
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 2h agoUK energy bills could rise even more. Regulator is considering a Market Stabilization Charge to guarantee corporate profits. This would force energy companies to compensate consumers’ old suppliers for lost profits when people switch away. What would the govt do? Watch the Minister's reply.
A Muslim surgeon of Pakistani descent has won a Pride of Britain Award for his extraordinary work saving children’s lives. Asif Hasan has received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2026 Pride of Britain Awards, recognising decades of dedication to children with serious heart conditions #Migrants
Not only Gen Z - anyone with any sense whose seen the disasters and scandals of the alternatives
GreenJJNews @greenjjnews.bsky.social · 2d agoThe real reason Gen Z is flocking to the @greenparty.org.uk Young people are looking ahead at what their future could look like if we carry on burning fossil fuels and don't take climate change seriously. @zackpolanski.bsky.social @turnleftmedia.co.uk
A 1GW AI data centre is coming to the Liberty Steel site in Newport, beside the River Usk. The Usk is protected for its salmon, shad, lamprey and otters. Newport City Council approved three applications for the facility, yet no plans or ecology reports are available online. Why not?
Ahead of the budget, I met with constituents in Parliament to discuss measures that would *actually* bring down bills, including increasing Capital Gains Tax & making council tax fairer. Of course, we also talked tackling rip-off rents & how local groups can feed into & boost the work I'm doing.
This story went up late on Friday and got less attention than it otherwise might have done. A sentencing hearing on Friday was told three participants in the Tory election-betting scandal - dismissed at the time as "a flutter" - would have made nearly £50,000 if undetected www.ft.com/content/510e...
Tory gamblers stood to make nearly £50,000 from insider information, court told
Former Conservative director of campaigning and two others made scores of bets on date of 2024 general election
ft.com
Latest Democracy for Sale scoop - how Ministry of Defence commissioned Palantir to lead a review of how software is purchased from companies… like Palantir Experts calling for National Audit Office to examine what happened youtube.com/shorts/V6NdD...
Revealed: Palantir led secret review of how the MoD spends billions
YouTube video by Democracy for Sale
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A secret Palantir led government review, a no competative tender contract awarded to Palantir. Palantir told the government what they wanted and the minister Luke Pollard said yes, fine. Fascism has arrived.
Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 4h agoLatest Democracy for Sale scoop - how Ministry of Defence commissioned Palantir to lead a review of how software is purchased from companies… like Palantir Experts calling for National Audit Office to examine what happened youtube.com/shorts/V6NdD...
As calls for a governmental ‘X-odus’ grow, advocates of decentralised platforms like Bluesky argue they could give users more control over their online spaces @openrightsgroup.org citizensreunited.substack.com/p/calls-for-...
Calls for a governmental ‘X-odus’ grow as evidence of social harm mounts
With more politicians abandoning X, pressure is growing on the UK government to explore alternatives
citizensreunited.substack.com
Lies, damned lies and the Daily Mail.
Hacked Off@hackedoff.bsky.social · 4h agoPress disinformation alert: the Daily Mail’s headline said the Prime Minister “won’t spend more on defence”. UK defence spending is rising, to about 2.56% of GDP in 2026, up from 2.32% in 2025. Read and repost: www.hackedoff.org/blog-posts/n...
"Interestingly, the Labour party which was founded to be a mass movement of the people is now full of those who despise member-led movements and want all power centralised in party leadership - and that is why Labour will continue to shrink as the Greens grow."
Harry Eccles@harryeccles.bsky.social · 4d agoIgnore the MSM, the Greens are smashing it! 🔥 💚 harryeccles94.substack.com/p/the-greens...
Corporate penetration of the NHS’: Revolving door raises concerns over ADHD review. Instead of expanding NHS capacity, govts hand contacts to private providers making vast profits. The same providers meet ministers to influence terms of reviews. More privatisations follow. Public money buys less.
‘Corporate penetration of the NHS’: Revolving door raises...
MPs have pressed senior health officials on links to private companies that earn fortunes from care provision
observer.co.uk
Reform UK's Suella Braverman claims massive taxpayer-funded water bill at home equal to 18 baths a day Claim to have used 1,504 litres of water daily at her £1.2million four-bedroom pad in a five-month period. Reform have promised benefit cuts for the disabled, old, sick, poor, unfortunate.
Suella Braverman claims huge taxpayer-funded water bill equal to 18 baths a day
EXCLUSIVE: Benefits-bashing Reform UK MP Suella Braverman claimed £45,000 in parliamentary expenses towards her utility bills, newly-emerged files show - leaving the taxpayer on the hook
mirror.co.uk
A company led by overt fascists with clear sympathies and commercial to a US regime that is an adversary should not have access to information about MoD processes, or be awarded any business that puts the MoD in the position of relying on them.
Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · yesterday🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...
Don't expect any better commentary from Sky news either. The presenters and guest still think government spending is like a household budget. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so important.
@frapacioli.bsky.social · 5h agoThe level of discussion of the UK government’s finances on the BBC is risible. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Beware of finance industry lobbying. It hired PwC (the firm that delivers dud audits) to produce a report, claiming that UK banks face highest rates of tax. The report included taxes not borne by banks. Omitted countries that levy higher rates of taxes. Integrity never gets in the way of profits.
Is London really the most-taxed city? Banks accused of cherrypicking data
Lobby group’s figures, shared with John Healey, are misleading as they do not include major rival Paris, say campaigners
theguardian.com
A headline its own article doesn’t back up. The Daily Mail linked a planned anti-war youth strike to “riots” – and up to 16.2 million people may have been misled. Share the truth: www.hackedoff.org/blog-posts/m...
The Mail’s ‘Paris-style riots’ headline on the Young Greens isn’t backed by its own article
The Daily Mail’s headline said the Green Party’s youth wing called for "riots". Its own article describes a call to join walkouts and protests.
hackedoff.org
Excellent letter supporting Zack Polanski showing Green Party support all over the UK helping ensure he doesn't succumb to the same #ItWasAScam antisemitism Labour traitors & billionaire press lies which ended Jeremy Corbyn's leadership not least to scupper #TaxTheRich & #GreenNewDeal policies
Palantir being given access to this stuff is basically treason.
Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · yesterday🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...
Press disinformation alert: the Daily Mail’s headline said the Young Greens called for “Paris-style riots”. Its own article describes a call to join walkouts and protests, and quotes no call for violence. Read and repost.
The Mail’s ‘Paris-style riots’ headline on the Young Greens isn’t backed by its own article
The Daily Mail’s headline said the Green Party’s youth wing called for "riots". Its own article describes a call to join walkouts and protests.
hackedoff.org
The protests are huge in France. The people will not be silenced. It truly is the Socialist Spring for Europe.
“Israel is a very racist country, its government routinely commits horrific crimes” was a humdrum opinion, fifteen years ago: never uncontroversial, but well within mainstream though. Now, our whole political/media class believes it is insanely extreme. Who is it that has been radicalised, here?
