On this day in 2013, Margaret Thatcher was given an overly ornate & pompous state funeral. This was done against the will of and at great expense to the public. The policies of privatisation she enacted are still costing us dearly today, and though thankfully still dead, her toxic legacy lives on.

It's hit £20,000 in just the first few hours. Thank you so much for your donations! 💚🙌🏽 Making hope normal again: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/we-deserve...

A petition calling on the #EuropeanUnion to suspend a trade agreement with #Israel has racked up more than one million signatures. Making it the fastest initiative to do so since the direct democracy mechanism was introduced in 2007 #BoycottIsrael www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/petitio...

From @onelife_livedwell on IG: The criteria took thirty years to catch up to what patients already knew. This means if you’ve ever walked into an appointment knowing something was wrong and walked out feeling unheard, you might just have been ahead of the science.💛 #mecfs #spoonie #patientled 1/

We need to win big on May 7. Thousands of Green candidates are standing across England and Wales. This is a real chance to change politics - to give communities a stronger voice and challenge parties backed by big money. Support the campaign 👉 crowdfunder.co.uk/p/we-deserve...

The DWP's Access to Work scheme has been found to contract service providers that treat ME as a psychological problem

We're making hope normal again right across England and Wales. 20 days today - help end Rip Off Britain. Vote Green. www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir. The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm So we’re taking legal action. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...

In public, Wes Streeting is furiously back-pedaling from his earlier Palantir cheerleading. But in private he is refusing to let us see what civil servants told him about Palantir So, with @petergeoghegan.bsky.social, we are taking him to court to try and force him to hand over the briefings.

I'll tell you who does 'rely on benefits'. It's the supermarket chains that pay their bosses millions of pounds a year while driving shopworker wages down to levels that force staff to claim Universal Credit.

Rachel Reeves warns other budgets may be cut to lift defence spending. Hitting the old, sick, disabled, public services doesn't produce a resilient society. How many will die? Govt created £895bn QE to rescue banks, why not the same to rebuild society? 2010-2025: HMRC didn't collect £500bn tax.

WOW. Our @younggreens.bsky.social now have 50,000 members - they are the biggest political youth movement in the UK. And we're growing. Every single day I am meeting more young greens out on the streets campaigning. This is how we make change happen. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

My Leafleting Days of Action - please come and support if you can! 📅 Saturday 25 April ⏰ Saturday 9 am - 12pm 📍Lake Cliff Gardens AND 📅 2 May ⏰ 10am - 2pm 📍 Lake Cliff Gardens Bring a spatula!

“I said Zia Yusuf gave a robust defence against the suggestion that Reform lied about promising to cut council tax. What did I say Roy?” “You said the arrogant little gobshite just told even more lies”

Who am I? And why should you consider voting me for Lake South 👇 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 Promoted by Robert May on behalf of Harry Eccles - both of 28a Victoria Road, Sandown, Isle of Wight PO36 8AL

Keir Starmer has lied and lied again over his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson. He must resign. Outrageous if true that senior government officials are considering whether to withhold documents from Parliament that show Mandelson wasn't given security clearance. The public needs the truth.

The Iran war is making everything more expensive for us, but some companies are cashing in. Don't think that's right? Sign the petition now demanding they are taxed more on their record profits to help us all with the cost of living. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ra...

Privatisation in 1989, govt granted the new water companies enormous free assets in the form of land & reservoirs. A condition was that they would invest in increasing the size & efficiency of sewage treatment works. All of them failed to do this yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/environ...

We find ourselves in a period of inequality marked by a ruling elite whose priorities rarely align with those who entrusted them with power by Thanasi Hassoulas

When Labour next tell you there is no money left and that's why they can't help people to heat their homes, show them this.

UK govt loan scheme for first-time home buyers in England mostly helped higher earners. Median employee wage is £31k, most people can't service mortgages. Social housing is scarce. Tories destroyed it. Councils could build cheaper by eliminating profit but lack capital.

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Life in the UK is unaffordable. Today, the Green Party announces our plan to fix it: 💡 No energy bill rise in July. 🏘️ Rent controls to protect households. 📉 Re-join the customs union to lower costs. End the affordability crisis. Vote Green in May.💚

So this article from the latest Private Eye states that Teesside Freeport is going to close down. I have said all along that free zones are Ponzi schemes for the asset classes in rip-off Britain. Thread

"You can't trust Wes Streeting with our NHS." via The Left

Tonight MPs will vote on the govt's latest attempt to crack down on the right to protest - this time through restricting recurrent protests. Myself and fellow Green MPs will be voting against these plans; peaceful protest is a cornerstone of our democracy and must be defended.

Could you be a Green Councillor? Last night, we held a Green Party Councillor Q&A session; @councillorq.bsky.social, @sue-mallender.bsky.social and @cllrrmallender.bsky.social spoke about their experiences as councillors, the highlights and difficulties, and how best to serve the local community.

Jeez. Labour MP’s have just voted to give police unprecedented powers to ban recurring protests turning a fundamental freedom into a privilege granted by the state. No protest movement has ever brought about change through one single march or action. How did it come to this?

All is not as it seems with the Filton re-trial. The UK press have a court order not to report on this: youtu.be/rkzxhQU6QIM Jurors deserve to hear the whole truth.

Disturbing. NHS staff should be able to freely raise concerns about the entrenchment of this utterly unethical spy-tech firm in our healthcare system. The largest municipal healthcare network in the US has dropped Palantir after significant protests. We must do the same, before it's too late.

Reform candidate James Bembridge has said 'hate is too weak a word for what I feel towards the NHS' - party of the people, is it?

In the 1930s, Oswald Mosley claimed to be a patriot, while his British Union of Fascists was secretly funded by the Italian government. We are just beginning to grasp how much of the far right in the UK today has been funded by Viktor Orbán and Russian oil money. Their "patriotism" is always a con.

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

Republicans: We need our guns because you can never trust the government Republicans: We need to educate our children to unquestioningly obey the government

Left: Faiza Shaheen slams the head of Palantir in the UK Right: Unanswered questions over what happened when Starmer and Mandelson visited Palantir

They're trying to silence those speaking up. Let's make sure they can't. Tell you NHS trust to say no to Palantir NOW⬇️ https://goodlaw.social/5c4e13

Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October. Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year. Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.

In 2024, as @greenparty.org.uk co-leader and newly elected MP I pushed for rent controls to be included in the Renters’ Rights Bill, but Labour wouldn’t listen. This Saturday, I’ll join thousands of tenants, and 50+ unions and grassroots groups, to demand rent controls now.

This is exactly the level of stupidity we need to get Reform into power.

“Brexit betrayal” - oh for god’s sake.. Every day, we’re paying to be poorer. We’re paying to be second class citizens on our own continent. We’re paying to queue. We’re paying for more red tape. We’re paying to be less secure and less trusted. Brexit IS the betrayal. And so is defending it.

Tory ex-chancellor Jeremy Hunt supports energy ‘social tariff’ to help less well-off. But its cost is often borne by other consumers. Should be funded by taxes on corporations and super-rich. Even better, nationalise energy, end profiteering to help households and businesses.

New #Unison report says more than 20,000 #NHS posts are going to be axed in an effort to close a £1.1bn budget deficit socialistworker.co.uk/news/thousan...

Good to see Lord Frost call for the rejection of the lousy Brexit deal negotiated by Lord Frost

18-24 year olds back the @greenparty.org.uk #VoteGreen May 7th local elections #JoinGreens > join.greenparty.org.uk

Private firms got £12bn NHS contracts. Private equity, offshore tax haven firms big winners. Donations to Ministers pay dividends. £1.6bn profit in 2 yrs. Enough to pay for 9,178 doctors or 19,428 nurses Health service “taken for a ride”. Say NO to privatisation. Must expand NHS capacity

Ursula von der Leyen points out this is the second fossil fuel crisis and that we need to move away from fossil fuels to renewables

Important story by Max Colbert here: 🔴 GB News Hosts Reform UK and Conservative Politicians and Activists Posing as Ordinary Voters The individuals were presented as ordinary members of the public, without informing viewers of their political affiliations, a new Byline Times investigation reveals

Sky hill bills. Rising rents. And more energy spikes coming down the track. We should be investing in renewable energy to lower our bills - and end Rip Off Britain. Join.greenparty.org.uk

The establishment is terrified of the Green Party’s momentum as we are the only party that is not compromised by vested interests. Solidarity with all council candidates unfairly smeared, it smacks of desperation - keep fighting for a fairer, greener country!

Love this! Thank you, Corinne 🤍☺️