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The truth about the UK benefits system: We spend billions topping up poverty wages for big business — not supporting the vulnerable. That’s not welfare. That’s corporate subsidy. Time to end it. #CorporateWelfare #DignityWage

This is mealy-mouthed and refuses to call it what it is: racism. It doesn’t even have the decency to name me, let alone offer a direct apology. Supine journalism from The Observer, but sadly that’s what we’ve come to expect from the mainstream media.

"The Cunliffe Report is a joke. It protects water profiteers, screws over billpayers, and will do little to reduce pollution in our rivers and coastlines. The only solution is for water to be taken into public ownership" My new column for @theipaper inews.co.uk/opinion/the-cu…

Whilst the Daily Express front pages the human catastrophe in Gaza, our Prime Minister writes in the Sun about how he will stop refugees working for Deliveroo...

Keir Starmer has described the situation in Gaza as "intolerable on many levels", just not the one where Britain stops arming Israel

I’ve got an idea - let’s stop poaching workers from other counties to satisfy our demand, their countries need social care workers too and let’s stop treating care workers as crap, pay them a decent wage for the hard work they do and raise the standing of social care as a job

Since everyone now knows that we can renationalise water for ***£NIL*** (hopefully), we can start focussing on why a Labour govt is refusing to do this and pretending it would cost a fortune. Could it be that they represent the interests of billionaire asset owners, not us?

Keir Starmer and David Lammy both belong in The Hague.

Good to see @RichardBurgon and @garyseconomics making the case for wealth taxes. Austerity is a political choice. Balancing the books on the most vulnerable is cruel and unnecessary. We need wealth taxes. Now.

Another way to ensure that only legal workers worked for Deliveroo etc would be to ban Zero Hours Contracts and ensure delivery workers are given full employment rights. But that would mean Labour siding with workers not with billionaires so it won't happen.

BrewDog are Scab bastards

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The poorest households in Slovenia & Malta are better off than the poorest in the UK. UK has some of the least generous welfare across the OECD Yet govts push failed policies, real wage/benefit cuts, unchecked profiteering, oppose higher tax on the rich. niesr.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…

So little, so late, President @vonderleyen : After you have given Israel 21 months a free pass in Gaza, it will take more than words to prevent Israel from completing its genocidal mission and overt ethnic cleansing campaign. And even more, to repair what's left of the EU…

Every council should be building new or buying back council homes and should all be exempt from right to buy. It makes sense and will save the government money plus help councils become more sustainable in the future with an regular income from housing stock.

It is worthwhile campaigning for an honest independent MP.

To not put nationalisation as an option in the Cunliffe Review will be seen as ideological.

The retirement age should be lower. As a rule we all work too many hours for too many years.

This is new! @SteveReedMP is now claiming that it was his own officials in @DefraGovUK that came up with the £100bn cost of water re-nationalisation figure not the Privatised Water Industry. Time for an FOI Request I reckon

I agree - public schools like Eton, Gordonstoun, Radley and Winchester should be abolished.