The 51st state. Trump demands that the UK allows American chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated meat into its supermarkets. UK already agreed to pay more for US drugs, reduced tax on private equity managers, considering cutting tax on tech companies. 'Tacking back control', someone said.

“Restore working people”? Reform backs policies that cut worker protections, oppose unions, scapegoat migrants, and distract from low pay, housing costs, and corporate power. Wrapping elite interests in “working people” rhetoric doesn’t make it true - it makes it misleading.

Can you imagine if we were as strict on MPs expenses and billionaires tax avoidance as we were on Disabled People? The money would be raining down.

Monaco based tax-exile Jim Ratcliffe businesses received up to £70m UK subsidy in last 4 years. More promised. Free cash, not repayable, no means-testing, no equity stake taken. Sunday Times Rich List estimated his wealth to be £17bn. Benefit cuts for the poor, free cash for corporations/Rich.

Thames Water is teetering but wants to pay £2.5m bonus to execs. Wants to bypass regulations by classifying bonuses as "retention payments". Prices rose by 31%+ this year. Sewage dumped in rivers, leaks unplugged. Privatisation = Abuses and insanity. archive.ph/zbbaQ

Costs come down, bills don't, the advantage of privatised monopolies. Just 1 company, Centrica, controls gas prices. Just 3 control electricity prices. Before the 1970's the Government controlled it ALL.

Ever heard of Carillion? Contracted to build PFI hospitals but it went under = the state had to step in at an extra cost of £148m.The hospitals opened 5-6 years late. Private profit. Public risk. That's PFI. Now they want to bring it back 👉 bit.ly/Why-PFI-Aban...

Tories and Reform want to quit the European Convention on Human Rights. Since 1980, the ECHR court has heard 29 cases of immigrant deportation. UK won 16. No defeats in the last 5 yrs. Quitting ECHR won't fix illegal immigration, will destroy our freedoms and rights. archive.ph/eMg3O

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... "It would be easier to take a cab. I know I'm privileged, but it's more of a revindication. We need greener cities, with fewer cars," Bellerin says.

This ruling is a joke. PPE Medpro will go bankrupt and the Government won't get a penny. Michelle Mone should have to pay the £122m personally. RT if you want to see her pay it all back.

🚨 Govt is paying Deloitte £3m to advise on using public-private partnerships for new neighbourhood health centres. 👉 This is public money, being used to ask private firms whether we should privatise. 📰 Scan QR for more info FOI by @weownit.org.uk

WATCH THIS: The most amazing thing about this remarkable 2002 car commercial is that it didn’t seem to realize at the time, or perhaps didn’t care, how effectively it made the point that cars and car infrastructure are a HUGE waste of space in cities. Award-winning 2002 ad for Saturn car company.

If every single bicycle in the world disappeared cars would be just as slow as they are today. If every single car in the world disappeared bikes would be multiple magnitudes faster than they are today. A 40 minute urban bike ride would go down to 20 minutes.

Let's cut the confusion – if it’s not an e-bike, it’s an e-moto. www.eta.co.uk/news/e-bikes...

“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.” City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design. I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero

“In Paris, cycling continues to break all records! In 2024, cycle path usage jumped by 34%! Nearly 15,000 cyclists used Boulevard de Sébastopol every day! And we're going to keep going; brand new lanes will be completed by the start of the school year.” — Paris Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social

Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months city and police officials report. The city's most recent fatal accident occurred in early July of 2024. Helsinki's population in 2025 is around 1,354,890. Cycling infrastructure has been significantly upgraded in recent years.

📣Good news klaxon! 📣 This is what’s possible with public ownership! Paris took back control of its water in 2010. Now they have public water fountains across the city, 90% customer satisfaction levels and public bathing by the Eiffel Tower! #publicownership #water

Good ☁️🌦️ morning #Shrewsbury ⚡📦🚲 #ActiveTravel #Commute

I’m beginning to think this is really the source of all of our problems.

Paris Cycling Investment Helps Cut Pollution in Half. momentummag.com/paris-proves...

“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle & go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.” -Arthur Conan Doyle #BicycleBirthday May 22 (1859-1930)

Care home investors rake in billions from pensioners 96% of elderly care privatised. Private equity moving in. Focus on short-term profits, cut wages/staff, low investment, poor care. 27% price hike. £1.5bn taken by shareholders. Need integrated healthcare, not sharks. archive.ph/0HR8Y

Thames Water executives to receive bonuses from £3bn emergency loan. Bonus for dumping sewage in rivers, not plugging leaks, neglecting investment, fleecing customers. They are laughing all the way to the bank. Govt/Regulators do nothing. Let customers vote on exec pay. archive.ph/lcNyD

Curse of Private Equity What Happens When Private Equity Owns Your Kid’s Day Care. It devours - wage/staff cuts, price hikes, profiteering, asset stripping, low investment, tax dodges. It controls UK GP surgeries, NHS services, care homes, vets, supermarkets, water, rail, more. No happy ending.

What's happening isn't complicated, when money and power is concentrated into too few hands because you have no taxes and too few anti-monopoly laws what you get is fascism. It is inevitable.

Thames Water have been allowed to take a £3bn loan with an interest rate of 9.75%. This loan will be paid for by you, that money will go straight from your bills to the tax haven it is being lent from. Vanishing straight out of the UK, and they wonder why there is no growth.

Death Merchants: Private equity investment firms slammed for declining US healthcare quality and access. 11% increase in patient deaths. Aggressive staffing cuts, hiring inadequately credentialed staff, low investment, profiteering. Why is the UK NHS being handed to private equity?

If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it We cannot allow them to rewrite history. If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...

Number crunching: Ticketmaster’s donation to Music Venues Trust v compensation package of Ticketmaster CEO Michael Rapino From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Interesting, we built this road for cars, but hardly anybody uses it. Clearly, this is a waste of taxpayer money. Funny how the same logic gets thrown at bike lanes, ignoring how their lack of safety and poor design often keep people from using them.

He lied & lied & lied & lied & no-one in the NHS will ever see him as anything other than a grasping, greedy, crooked, venal, narcissistic charlatan. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Transporting people, hauling goods, delivering the mail or selling icecream: if the infrastructure is in place, these are the only SUVs you need in the city. #SmartUrbanVehicles #SustainableMobility

Imagine if instead of saying we must cut services for everyone, we said we must cut profits for the rich. They won't even suffer because they are already millionaires/billionaires. So I say, do that.

“Thousands of sixth form college teachers are on strike after being denied a pay rise given to other teachers. Their walkout shows that workers wanting fair treatment from this government will have to fight for it” @graceblakeley.bsky.social tribunemag.co.uk/2025/01/sixt...

Privatisation's thirst for profit will never be quenched. Time to take our water back. England's water industry controlled by organizations with over 1,100 criminal convictions, 90% foreign-owned. It dumps sewage, fleeces customers. Must end privatisation scam www.bigissue.com/opinion/wate...

Political donations are institutionalized bribery. Donors get access to policymakers, shape laws, tax privileges, lax regulations, govt contracts/subsidies, honours, power. Banning political donations is a necessary step for free and fair elections and democracy leftfootforward.org/2025/01/how-...

“A startling statistic emerged in Paris last month: during the morning and evening rush hours, on representative main thoroughfares crisscrossing the French capital, there are now more bicycles than cars – almost half as many again, in fact.” Leadership. #Paris www.theguardian.com/cities/2023/...

Private equity profiteering from children's misery. Compass Community has financialised foster care. Profits up from £3m to £10.8m. Fees double/triple compared to what councils could charge. Low pay, lack of workers' rights are hallmarks. End privatisation. www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...

Elon Musk has said he loves immigration because he gets cheap workers who can't quit. Elon Musk owns Nigel Farage and Reform UK. You have been told.

Make Jacob’s Christmas. Join a union youtu.be/jg0D2yNiqHM?...

Thames Water diverted millions of pounds pledged for environmental clean-ups to pay bonuses & dividends 187 criminal convictions since 1989, routinely dumps sewage in rivers/seas, neglects investment. Protected by successive govts, customers fleeced. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Anglian Water fined £300,000 for dumping raw sewage, killed thousands of fish, endangered human health Serial offender. 128 criminal convictions since 1989. Since 2010 fined 75 times, £3,952,134. Companies want higher bills, lower sanctions End the privatisation circus www.itv.com/news/anglia/...

Meanwhile over in “the other place” a Reform party MP is actually threatening to shut down the BBC - a public service broadcaster - because a political satire show made fun of party leader NigelFarage We can never allow this dangerous bunch anywhere near power

The Brexit Curse: UK tap water safety at risk as testing labs shut down, water companies are unable to use products to clean it. EU countries will share laboratories, UK products cannot be tested abroad; must be tested in in certified UK labs, there are none. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

When parliament facilitates democide. 16m Britons live in poverty. 300,000 a year die awaiting hospital appointment in England. 2011-2020: 1m died due to poverty, austerity, and pandemic. Last yr 111,000 Britons died in poverty. Whose rule of law is it? leftfootforward.org/2024/11/what...

If that disgusting racist and grifting liar Nigel Farage shouldn't have been on Question Time even once, nevermind 38 times. Give this a Like, or better yet a RP.

“Believe it or not, electric bikes offer more exercise than pedal bikes on average. That fact might sound strange, but the science is clear.” Why e-bikes actually give more exercise than “acoustic”bikes. (but both/either are excellent when it comes to better cities) electrek.co/2024/02/20/w...

You don’t have to be a “cyclist” to support safe bike infrastructure in your city. You don’t have to ride bikes at all. You just have to understand the FACT that bike infrastructure makes getting around easier & safer for EVERYONE, saves us all public money, & makes cities generally more successful.

Can’t wait until BHA finally join us on Blue Sky.