#Labour 😕

Today, @linseyfarnsworthmp.bsky.social asked the Prime Minister about Reform's decision to close care homes, including The Leys in Ashbourne, leaving staff facing job reductions before Christmas. I urge the Council to reconsider these cuts and to ensure residents continue to get the care they need.

🤑Thames Water creditors are haggling with Ofwat. 💩They want permission to pollute our waters until 2040. But we've had a year of reasons why Ofwat should just say NO. 🎄As we enter the holiday season, we'll look back at all the times Thames has proved it must be taken into public ownership. 1/2

The latest data from the ONS showed an unexpectedly big drop in the rate of price rises, which is very good news! But more worryingly, wage growth is slowing even more sharply with further slowing in likely in the coming months, in bad news for living standards.

Great to visit Little Village & see the incredible work they do for families. They urgently need donations of toothpaste/brushes, sanitary pads, 0-6 month sleeping bags, and toddler bed sheets. Please drop donations at their hub on Tooting High Street.

There was a welcome fall in the *price* of food this month, as costs here dropped by 0.2 per cent on the previous month. But this chart reminds you that the big picture remains one of a huge rise in the cost of essentials, hitting those on lower incomes hardest.

🤭 #Labour

Yes, it's good news that inflation is falling... But it’s important to keep in mind that this doesn't mean the cost of living crisis is over! 👇 #Labour #Poverty #CostOfLivingCrisis

"Benefits bill has ballooned"... No it hasn't, this narrative is harmful to the discussion and your reporter should have done some actual research before making such an assertion! 👇 Really fed up of the constant demonising of people who claim benefits 😒 #WelfareNotWarfare #PIP #UC #Labour

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There are now 2.5 unemployed people looking for work for every vacancy. The jobs market is oversaturated with too many people looking for work and not enough jobs to fill. 1/3

NEW: Detectives have appealed for information after the same man is believed to have carried out three sexual assaults in Edinburgh on one night 🚨

16 and 17 year olds are struggling to get flu vaccines even if they offer to pay meaning those who want to be protected ahead of Christmas Day with their grandparents - if you have experienced this issue please do let your MP know so we can feed into ministers what’s happening on the ground.

Feeling overwhelmed this Christmas? Our psychological wellbeing resources offer self-care tips from chartered psychologist, Dr. Sue Jackson, and a directory to help you find support. 🔗 www.btf-thyroid.org/Listing/Cate... #anxiety #MentalHealth #thyroid #ChristmasAnxiety

We needed #Labour to do a real, proper and fair #WealthTax, instead they did a piddling mansion tax and not much else 🤦🏻‍♀️ And as for the HMRC... Well of course they got rid of those with the knowledge needed to deal with the financial affairs of the super rich 😕 #SuperWealthTax

Access to Work is a lifeline to disabled people, helping them to find and stay in meaningful work. Changes to this vital scheme will risk damaging disabled people's future opportunities & driving up unemployment as a result. Link to The Mirror piece in bio.

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Well colour me surprised 🙄 Nope, not really, could have told you this ages ago... oh yeah I did 8 months ago and again 1 month ago 🤦🏻‍♀️ #Labour

EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK’s first elected councillor in Scotland left his job as a police officer after being charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, The National can reveal

Real wage growth has ground to a halt over the past year and the outlook remains poor. Find our latest labour market analysis here 👉 buff.ly/I7Rng5S

Loneliness affects many older people, especially during winter. No one should face it alone. Age UK’s free guide explains where to find support and how to stay connected. Please share if it could help someone you know. Read it here: bit.ly/3KkCJsO

This is absolutely ludicrous, and something I didn't even know was an issue (been with my bank for many years now)!! Let's hope Martin's letter gets this sorted 🙏 #UC #Labour

Applications are still open to join the IFS for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in collaboration with the Administrative Fairness Lab. 📊 Find out more and apply here by midnight, Sunday 4 January 2026: econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

❗There’s been a 40% increase in emergency food parcels provided over winter in the last 5 years. Food prices have risen by 37% in the last 5 years, rents are skyrocketing, bills are crazy, and our social security system hasn’t kept up. People don’t have enough money to live.

Good that UK govt wants to lift 550,000 children out of poverty. BUT 16m people, including 5.2m children, live in poverty. 24m people live below socially acceptable living standards. Can't end child poverty without tackling parental poverty. Can't do that without reforming capitalism.

#UniversalBasicIncome #UBI It just makes sense!

Earlier this week Kemi Badenoch criticised the government’s use of relative low income as a measure of poverty. Our recently updated child poverty explainer looks at the various ways in which the scale of poverty can be measured.

Very Happy 100th Birthday to the absolutely legendary Dick Van Dyke 🎂🎁🥳 💖

If you strip the 2600 ARRS GP jobs (recruitment but not retained) then the job market has completely collapsed Yet Wes & NHS England sail on regardless ignoring the evidence ‘There is an iceberg ahead’ & General Practice will sink Read here www.gponline.com/nhs-data-rev...

Ohhhhh naughty boy #Tommeh, what a shame 🤭

All totally normal and above board 😉 #NigelFarage #FarageRiots #Reform #Grifter

As with everything, it's not a black & white situation, despite #Starmer saying 1M #NEETS are claiming benefits ✳️44% of all NEETs aged 16-24 don't receive out of work benefits ✳️Those with the lowest qualifications (GCSE max) dominates the NEET population ✳️8% of NEETS are aged 16-17 #Labour

Santa doesn’t always arrive by reindeer...sometimes he takes the bus 🎅🚌 Today, Saturday and Sunday @Sunshine_Fund Santa’s Bus Grotto is on Nelson Street by Grainger, offering free festive fun for families. Open till 5.30 each day, a local charity bringing sunshine to many lives

Wouldn't it be amazing if he actually did something useful with his grotesque fortune! I'm sure he won't want to help anyone other than himself, but I signed it anyway! #ElonMusk

We're currently hiring for an Associate Director to lead our programme of economic research on health and/or healthcare and to join the IFS management team. 📅 Find out more and apply here by 11:59pm, Sunday 11 January 2026: app.beapplied.com/apply/jfzr0z...

THIS (*shouting bloody loudly*) 👇👇👇 This is what we need a hell of a lot more of! 👏👏👏 Shame more MP's don't have the balls to stand up to #Reform and their nasty, vile, racist rhetoric! #Labour

The work and pensions secretary has bragged about cutting disabled people’s support, 3 days after launching a child poverty strategy which warned more than a million children in families where someone was disabled were living in “deep material poverty” www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mcfadden-bra...

Lord Offord talking out his 🍑 He's literally got no idea what he's talking about, maybe he should shut up & listen, he might actually learn something! The migration from ESA to UC has increased the no. of people claiming UC health element, it's not rising uncontrollably FFS. #BBCQT #Reform #Tories

Please remember this next time you hear Nigel Farage and Reform say we must leave the ECHR to control our borders

We'll be live at the slightly later time of 5:30 PM today to talk Royal Mail pensions and take your questions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3VW...

#Labour really should have been pushing the DWP to sort these figures out BEFORE they started attacking long term sick & disabled people! This answers their "spiralling out of control" rhetoric and proves that things aren't as bad as they're trying to make out. #Labour #PIP #UC #WelfareNotWarfare

Figures suggest that in 2024, 21,300 care workers were paid less than the minimum wage, likely higher once we account for unpaid travel time. The Fair Work Agency should play a central role in ensuring compliance with the Fair Pay Agreement, ensuring it is taken seriously by employers.

Parents warned about danger of 'baby sleep pillows' after infant deaths

📮 𝗥𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀, for your information.👇🏻

Damn good question!! #Labour #Greens

This thoughtful Substack is a must read. NHS data* reveal 'collapse' in GP jobs in England. Availability of GP jobs remains far below the level seen in 2022/23 Continued lies by ⁦‪Labour‬⁩ about 2600 new GPs with just over 1100 FTE in post but other GP jobs gone! open.substack.com/pub/davetris...

More "we're just normal people with concerns" type BS 🤢 These thugs have no interest in protecting women & children, they're vile racists out to target anyone who isn't white British! If anything I'd have thought children would find these people terrifying! #Reform #FarRight #Nazis #NotInMyName