Alister Jack, the Scottish secretary who stood down as an MP when the election was called, had been considered for inclusion in a dissolution honours list compiled in recent weeks, according to sources familiar with the process.
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Children across the UK are getting shorter, fatter and sicker amid an #epidemic of poor diets, food insecurity and poverty, according to a report warning that millions are facing a “timebomb” of avoidable health conditions.
The average height of five-year-olds is falling, obesity levels have increased by almost a third and the number of young people being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes has risen by more than a fifth, the report by the Food Foundation said.
Aggressive marketing of cheap ultra-processed food, diets lacking essential nutrition and high levels of poverty and deprivation are driving the “significant decline” in children’s health, researchers found.
#ToryScum #ToryCorruption #CapitalismFails #poverty #food #FoodInsecurity #children #UK #UnitedKingdom #nutrition
Our NEW analysis reveals the NHS lost £6.7 billion to private profits since 2012 due to outsourcing - that is £10 million a week.
Outsourcing is not a neutral choice. It turns our health service into a wealth service for a handful of people.
Take just 2 minutes to send this research to your local candidates now.
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/we-send-private-shareholders-profits-£10-million-week
#NHS #SaveOurNHS #PeopleNotProfits #PrivatisationFails #greed #CorporateGreed #ToryCorruption #LabourCorruption
This is a scandal. Every day, the private English water companies are dumping huge amounts of disgusting raw sewage into our rivers and seas. Privatisation has been failing since 1989.
The shareholders receive £1.6 billion a year on average - that money could be invested in water infrastructure to stop sewage. 69% of us support public ownership.
Sign the #petition: stop sewage by taking back our water
https://weownit.org.uk/privatisation-profits-from-pollution/home
#England #water #pollution #PrivatisationFail #water #sewage #ToryCorruption
Over 100,000 people could be turned away at the #GeneralElection unless more is done to ** boost awareness of the need to bring photo ID**.
So far, less than 1 in 10 people without photo ID have applied for the government's free photo ID.
We’re calling on the Electoral Commission to take urgent action to stop hundreds of thousands from being barred from voting.
You can add your name in support of our letter
https://secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/150907/petition/1
#FairVotes #VoterSuppression #ToryCorruption #election #VoterID
The Tory's decision to change the voting system to First Past the Post had a major effect on the results of the Mayoral and Police and Crime Commissioners elections.
Voters were not able to choose a second preference, and most of the winning candidates did not get the support of the majority of their electors.
The UK’s party leaders must commit to introducing a fair voting system to elect Mayors and Police and Crime Commissioners.
https://secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/149429/petition/1
#elections #FPTP #ProportionalRepresentation #ToryCorruption #FairVotes
You’ve got a trend there, which is the state government moving responsibility for paying for healthcare away from collective resources, taxpayer income, back on to the individual.
It’s a trend which has been happening increasingly over the past 30 years with Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem parties in charge.
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Yet another #BrexitBenefit
The government will introduce physical checks for many plant and animal products coming into Britain from the EU on 30 April as part of its new border target operating model (Btom).
However, plant sellers and growers have consistently raised concerns that the checks could cause delays and lead to some plants being destroyed or damaged.
#ToryLies #BrexitLies #Gardening #RejoinEU #UK #ToryCorruption
The analysis follows widespread anger after record sewage spills were revealed this week. Environment Agency data showed that raw #sewage was discharged for more than 3.6m hours into rivers and seas last year – a 129% increase on the previous 12 months.
Increased raw sewage in rivers means there is a higher risk of infections, campaigners argue, as people are more likely to come into contact with the #bacteria in human waste.
#PeopleNotProfits #ToryCorruption #water #ToryCronyism #ToryScum #ToryFascism
But how to fix it? Three seismic shifts have unfolded over the last decade.
First, the welfare safety net has been systematically shredded, with the government abandoning responsibilities taken for granted since 1945.
Second, charities and food banks, which have taken over from universal credit as the last line of defence, are exhausted and justifiably angry about having to pick up the pieces with insufficient resources. They even fear their desperate relief efforts could provide cover for the government walking further away.
Third, unsure how they fit into a poverty-free, pollution-free future, the corporate sector has in the last decade donated less, not more.
Yet the many business leaders who are now championing a greater sense of environmental and social responsibility know they can, and should, play a bigger role.
#UnitedKingdom #poverty #hunger #FoodBanks #ToryScum #UK #ToryCorruption #CutsKill #ToryCorruption #ToryFascism
https://mastodon.scot/@Wen/112077041047719460 Wen@mastodon.scot - Tice says he will be ‘surprised’ if Reform UK does not get more Tory MPs joining – UK politics live
As that gem of a toad, Lee Anderson 'defects’ (the man is full of them), why should we not be surprised. I am sure that many will be considering their allegiance - after all they only joined the Tory party for a bit of righteous xenophobia, misogyny, asset stripping, larcenty and country smashing.
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#ThamesWater, Britain's largest water monopoly, has been lobbying Ofwat to increase your bills, pay more dividends to its overseas investors, and try to squirm out of its way of paying fines for dumping #sewage illegally.
https://weownit.org.uk/blog/times-nearly-thames-water so-lets-bring-it-public-ownership-permanently
#water #ToryCorruption #ToryCronyism #London #Corporate #Corruption
Court papers recently revealed the foreign office warned the UK government about Israel’s actions in Gaza, following its International Humanitarian Law assessment. It stated “the volume of strikes, total death toll, as well as proportion of those who are children raise serious concerns” and “the government’s current inability to come to a clear assessment on Israel’s record of compliance with International Humanitarian Law poses significant policy risks”.
However, the government hid this information from parliament and insisted it was confident that Israel was complying with international humanitarian law (because Israel said it was) so they could continue sending it bombs. Isn’t that reassuring?
https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/uk-government-ignored-foreign-office
#MiddleEast #WarCrimes #Israel #InternationalLaw #HumanitarianLaw #Gaza #war #UK #ToryCorruption #ToryFascism
An unprecedented medicines shortage in the NHS is endangering lives, pharmacists have said, as unpublished figures reveal that the number of products in short supply has doubled in two years.
Causes of the crisis are thought to include the plummeting purchasing value of the pound since the Brexit referendum
Breast Cancer Now, said her organisation had been contacted over the past 12 months by several patients unable to source the medicines they needed to control the spread of their disease.
#ToryLies #ToryScum #Brexit #BrexitBenefits #RejoinEU #NHS #SaveOurNHS #pharmacists #medication #ToryCorruption #Privatisation #PrivatisationFail #PeopleNotProfits
Under the current rules – introduced as the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1988 – manufacturers must submit furniture to independent testing on flammability. The regulations are estimated to have saved between 50 and 70 lives per year.
But now the Westminster government has proposed scrapping these rules in favour of a voluntary regime. Consultation on the plans closed earlier this year and ministers are now considering proposals.
The union warned that the government was using the pretext of dealing with lithium batteries and other hazards to launch a dangerous programme of deregulation.
#corruption #ToryCorruption #Capitalism #CapitalismFails #FBU #furniture #safety #FireRegulations #deaths #ToryGreed #flammability #FireSafety #deregulation #DemocracyLost #Dystopia #DystopianUK #UK #UnitedKingdom #ToryScum
The Tory government passed a statutory instrument that will increase the amount of money that an individual can donate to a party without declaring who donated it, from £7,500 to £11,180. We are concerned about any move that could see more money flowing anonymously into our politics.
The same statutory instrument increased the national election spending cap by 80%, from £19.5m to about £35m. This is the amount that party HQs can spend, there is another cap for how much local candidates can spend.
https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/new-political-funding-rules-sneak-in/
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Hamas launched its deadly attack against Israel on Vladimir Putin’s birthday. “The Hamas terror campaign in Israel is a huge win for Putin,” Bill Browder told me. “Not only has the press completely sidelined his murderous war in Ukraine as they focus on Israel, but now he’s seeing his oil revenue increase which is the main way he’s funding his war.”
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #ToryCorruption #corruption #Brexit #UnitedKingdom #UK #British #ToryFascists #ToryFascistDictatorship #Hamas #Israel #HappyBirthday #birthday #PutinBirthday
This is the latest example of the UK diverging from EU environmental standards. Recent analysis found that many toxic chemicals and pesticides banned in the bloc since Brexit are not outlawed for use in the UK. Ministers have also sought to rip up EU-derived sewage pollution rules for housebuilders.
In 2019, the last time the full water assessments took place, just 14% of rivers were in good ecological health and none met standards for good chemical health. The government has said it does not intend to deliver a complete update until 2025, the latest permissible date under the new WFD.
#ToryCorruption #ecocide #Brexit #BrexitBenefits #BrexitFails #ToryDictatorship #Orwellian #greed #ToryProfiteers #ToryFascists #ElectoralDictatorship #ToryFascistDictatorship
The president of the National Farmers’ Union, said she was “staggered” by the import figures for the first eight months of 2023.
The total number of consignments imported since 2021:
“When the medical advice is to eat British Lion eggs [stamped to show they have been produced in accordance with a code of practice], why on earth would they be importing eggs produced to standards that would be illegal in the UK?” she asked.
Gary Ford, the deputy chief executive of the British Egg Industry Council, echoed her concerns, saying it was “very disappointing” to see imports growing, “particularly at a time when British producers have been struggling due to poor returns”.
#ToryCronies #ToryCorruption #ToryLies #Brexit #eggs #FoodSafety #DystopianBritain #ToryDictatorship #BrexitFails #BrexitIsNotWorking #corruption #UK #UnitedKingdom #Rejoin #RejoinNow #EU #UK
It is time for Keir Starmer to face the facts - private interests are sucking the life out of our NHS and preying on people who are suffering.
78% of the public, including a majority of Conservative voters, want our NHS fully publicly owned and delivered.
We need private interests OUT of our healthcare. Our NHS should work for PEOPLE NOT PROFIT.
Media reports suggest this may be the last Labour conference before a general election is called next year.
So private healthcare interests will no doubt be trying to get in the ear of Keir Starmer at Labour conference this year.
It has never been more important to make sure Keir Starmer hears our collective voice LOUD AND CLEAR.
Got a minute? Send Starmer an email:
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/starmer-reinstate-our-nhs-fully-public-service
#Labour #Starmer #NHS #SaveOurNHS #Privatization #PrivatisationFails #ToryCorruption #ToryCronyism
