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Hospital admissions for waterborne diseases in England up 60%, report shows

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/29/hospital-admissions-for-waterborne-diseases-in-england-up-60-report-shows

#PeopleNotProfits #ToryCorruption #water #ToryCronyism #ToryScum #ToryFascism

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Time's nearly up for Thames Water. So let's bring it into public ownership - permanently

#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.

#Petition:

https://weownit.org.uk/blog/times-nearly-thames-water so-lets-bring-it-public-ownership-permanently

#water #ToryCorruption #ToryCronyism #London #Corporate #Corruption

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British nuclear missile test fails and crashes into sea

A recent Royal Navy test of the missile that carries Britain's nuclear deterrent failed within seconds, it has emerged, raising new questions about the deterrent's viability at a time of elevated #nuclear tensions.

First revealed by the Sun newspaper, the US-manufactured #Trident missile was launched from the #submarine HMS #Vanguard off the east coast of the US.

However, instead of flying the planned thousands of miles before coming down in the southern Atlantic Ocean, it crashed into the sea near the launch site.

https://www.euronews.com/2024/02/21/british-nuclear-missile-crashes-into-sea-in-failed-test

#UK #RoyalNavy #ToryCronyism #CutsKill

British nuclear missile test fails and crashes into sea

The submarine-based Trident deterrent fires long-range ballistic missiles that have not been successfully tested in some time.

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Mark Lansbury

UK - New political funding rules sneak in

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/

#UK #corruption #ToryCorruption #elections #campaigns #ToryDictatorship #ToryFascists #DemocracyNow #ToryCronyism #voting #FairVotes #money

New political funding rules sneak in

When people are asked about the problems with money in politics, few raise the issue of there not being enough. In fact, the public are deeply concerned about big money in politics with

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David Cameron’s Appointment to Cabinet 'Another Reminder Why the House of Lords Must Go'

Former Prime Minister David Cameron’s appointment as Foreign Secretary – despite having left Parliament in 2016 – has triggered fresh calls to abolish the House of Lords.

Cameron replaces James Cleverly, who has moved to ousted cabinet minister Suella Braverman’s former role of Home Secretary.

There is no constitutional requirement for a cabinet minister to be an elected MP, but it is very rare that senior offices of state are held by unelected politicians. Lobbyist Cameron has been handed a seat in the 800-odd member House of Lords for life to take up the role.

Today campaign group Republic demanded a written constitution and elected upper house following the move.

Republic’s CEO, Graham Smith, said: “This appointment joins a string of recent outrages that remind us of the urgent need to ditch the Lords in favour of an elected upper house.

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/11/13/david-camerons-appointment-to-cabinet-another-reminder-why-the-house-of-lords-must-go/

#ElectoralDictatorship #UnitedKingdom #UK #dictatorship #authoritarian #Tory #Tories #ToryDictatorship #ToryFascists #democracy #PR #DemocracyLost #ToryCronyism #BylineTimes #Lords #HouseOfLords #Republic #lobbying #lobbyist #Cameron #DavidCameron

David Cameron’s Appointment to Cabinet 'Another Reminder Why the House of Lords Must Go' – Byline Times

The disgraced former Prime Minister has been handed a seat in the Lords for life.

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Starmer: reinstate our NHS as a fully public service

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

Starmer: reinstate our NHS as a fully public service

It is time for Labour to step up and save our NHS from private profiteers.

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Mark Lansbury

Russian oligarchs enjoy luxury life in United Kingdom under sanctions exemptions

Sanctioned Russian oligarchs spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on luxury life in the U.K. thanks to numerous sanction exemptions, the New York Times reported on July 27.

In some cases, the oligarchs were allowed more than $1 million a year in living expenses, while in others, sanctions were removed after legal battles, the newspaper reported.

According to the New York Times, sanctions that are publicly announced by London are often softened by exemptions knowns as "licenses."

Thanks to such licenses, Ukraine-born Russian Israeli oligarch Mikhail Fridman reportedly spent almost $400,000 over 10 months to retain 19 staff members, including drivers, private chefs, and housekeepers.

https://kyivindependent.com/nyt-russian-oligarchs-enjoy/

#RussiaInvadedUkraine #UnitedKingdom #UK #corruption #ToryCorruption #ToryCronyism #sanctions #oligarchs #wealth #ToryScum #ToryFascistDictatorship

NYT: Russian oligarchs enjoy luxury life in UK under sanctions exemptions

Sanctioned Russian oligarchs spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on luxury life in the U.K. thanks to numerous sanction exemptions, the New York Times reported on July 27.

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Mark Lansbury

Tories in trouble: #Millennials now 'first generation to become MORE left-wing'

According to the study, those aged between 25 to 40 are the largest voting group in more than half of all constituencies across the UK. However, barely one in five them (21%) say they plan to vote for the Tories at the next election.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/millennials-more-left-wing-study-uk-349657/

#ToryFascistDictatorship #ToryCorruption #ToryCronyism #ToryScum #DemocracyNotAutocracy #ToriesOut #UnitedKingdom #England #corruption #DystopianBritain #dystopia #InformationWarfare #lies

Tories in trouble: Millennials now 'first generation to become MORE left-wing'

The current crop of millennials are bucking the trends that have been in place for decades - and it spells disaster for the Tories.

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Britons delayed at Dover to miss out on compensation if EU law scrapped

Passengers taking bus and coach trips to the continent stand to lose their right to compensation for delays in Dover under government plans to delete thousands of EU laws.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/19/britons-delayed-at-dover-to-miss-out-on-compensation-if-eu-law-scrapped

#BrexitFail #Brexit #ToryDictatorship #ToryCorruption #ToryCronyism #ToryGreed #EU #BrexitLies #DemocracyNotAutocracy

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Just 7% want Boris Johnson's resignation honours - do you want them?

The public are sick and tired of political patronage and seeing prime ministers pack the House of Lords with their friends and supporters.

Our exclusive new polling found that found just 7% of people support Boris Johnson’s plans to hand out dozens of new peerages, months after he left office.

It is time to end this squalid, undemocratic practice and replace the bloated Lords with a smaller elected second chamber where the people of this country, not ex-prime ministers, decide who shapes the laws we all live under.

Add your name to those opposed to these appointments:
https://action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/124207/petition/1?utm_medium=diaspora

#ToryCronyism #DemocracyNotAutocracy #BorisJohnson #Lords #UnitedKingdom #ElectoralDictatorship #ProportionalRepresentation #undemocratic

Add your name: Are you in the majority opposed to Boris's new peerages?

Enough is enough. There are reports that the former Prime Minister is trying to hand out dozens of peerages to his supporters - and we'll have to pick up the tab.

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Mark Lansbury

NHS trusts ordered to share patient data with US ‘spy-tech’ firm

Palantir, whose owner claimed the NHS ‘makes people sick’, will ‘collect and process confidential patient information’

Hundreds of NHS hospitals have been ordered to share people’s confidential medical records with an American spy-tech company owned by a billionaire Trump donor, openDemocracy can reveal.

#Palantir Technologies – the secretive Silicon Valley firm first funded by the #CIA – will collect patient information from all hospitals in England, according to internal NHS documents.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/palantir-peter-thiel-nhs-england-foundry-faster-data-flows/?utm_source=Diaspora

#GDPR #ToryFascistDictatorship #privacy #medical #MedicalRecords #NHS #ToryCorruption #ToryCronyism #confidential #spy #HealthCare #SaveOurNHS #NHS

NHS ordered to share patient data with US ‘spy-tech’ firm

Palantir, whose owner claimed the NHS ‘makes people sick’, will ‘collect and process confidential patient information’

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Mark Lansbury

No knighthood for Boris Johnson’s dad

Boris Johnson is trying to hand a knighthood to his own father Stanley Johnson. This absurd level of corruption cannot stand.

Johnson has nominated his father to become a ‘Sir’ as part of his resignation honours, the Times revealed. This is a list that outgoing prime ministers get to choose – but it is unprecedented to select their own family members.

Boris Johnson has a track record of nepotism in appointments, having previously put his brother and several close friends into the House of Lords.

https://r.ippl.es/stanley-johnson/

#ToryCronyism #BorisJohnson #corruption #StanleyJohnson #knighthood #honours #nepotism #ToryCorruption #DemocracyNotAutocracy #UnitedKingdom #England

Petition: No knighthood for Boris Johnson’s dad

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Our NHS and Tory Lies

Reality: Tories want to make huge profits from human illness and injury. Causing ...

  • Poverty
  • Sucking cash from ill individuals to fill Tory corporate pockets
  • Reducing UK life expectancy -- Reducing the 'expense' of payout our pensions
  • Increase human suffering

#NHS #SaveOurNHS #ToryFascistDictatorship #CapitalismFails #DemocracyNotAutocracy #Healthcare #ToryLies #ToryCronyism #ToryCorruption #CorporateTerrorism #ElectiveDictatorship #UK #UnitedKingdom

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Nadine Dorries: Keep your hands off our Channel 4

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has finally announced her outrageous plan to sell off Channel 4.

  • Channel 4 is ours
  • It doesn’t cost us a penny
  • It produces shows and films that bring us together - like Slumdog Millionaire, Father Ted, It’s A Sin.
  • It reinvests profits into nurturing new talent, working with small businesses and providing jobs across the UK.

That’s why an overwhelming 82% of the public don’t want Channel 4 to be privatised. Sign the petition to tell Nadine Dorries to get her hands off Channel 4 now!

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/stop-channel-4-sell-off

#ToryProfiteers #PrivatisationFails #ToryCronyism #ToryCORRUPTION #PublicOwnership #ToryScumOut

Nadine Dorries: Keep your hands off our Channel 4

Channel 4 is a profit-making, publicly-owned asset. It should stay that way.

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Stop the Vaccine Manufacturing Centre Sell Off!

The Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre was launched in 2018 using public money. The centre develops vaccines to help the UK deal with pandemics like COVID 19.

The Financial Times has just EXPOSED the government’s secret plans to sell off this crucial vaccine manufacturing centre.

But a final decision has not yet been made, which means we can still stop the sell off if we act now.

Sign this petition and tell the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng:

Stop the sell off of the Vaccination Manufacturing and Innovation Centre.

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/stop-vaccine-research-centre-sell-off

#ToryProfiteers #ToryCorruption #JohnsonTheCorruptPM #ToryCronyism #ToriesOutNow #vaccines #VaccineManufacturingCentre #WeOwnIt #petition #ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern #ToryCriminals

Stop the Vaccine Manufacturing Centre Sell Off!

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Stop Boris Johnson’s private takeover bill

Right now, Boris Johnson is forcing the Health and Care Bill through parliament.

He wants to give private companies a bigger role in our NHS so that companies like Virgin Care sit on NHS boards, paving the way for more privatisation and sleaze. (1)

We need YOU to help defend the NHS. DEADLINE to sign: Monday 22nd November

Dear Boris Johnson and Sajid Javid, don’t give private companies a bigger role in our NHS.

We call on you to get private companies out of our health service so the NHS can get on with the job of caring for people in this pandemic.

Petition:

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/stopthenhscorporatetakeoverbill

#ToryProfiteers #ToryCorruption #TorySleaze #ScrapNHSBill #SaveOurNHS #NHS #privatisation #PrivatisationFails #BorisTheButcher #BorisTheLiar #WeOwnIt #PublicOwnership #ToryQuietCoup #ToryCronyism #ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern #ToryCriminals #petition #healthcare #ourNHS

Stop Boris Johnson’s private takeover bill

He wants to bring in more American-style privatisation

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5 Million Sick on Tory Created, Medical Waiting List

Fund our NHS!

Over 5 million patients in England alone are waiting for treatment right this second. We don’t want this crisis to push people to go private, and create a two tier system like the US.

The Tory government has been underfunding our NHS for 10 years. And now, instead of investing in our NHS, it is propping up the private sector by paying them £10 billion (£200 million in shareholder profits) to run private hospitals using NHS staff to treat NHS waiting list patients. This is not a solution. NHS staff should be working in NHS hospitals.

We are calling for the government to commit to new funding for our NHS in its autumn budget update. That means:

  • Funding of at least £10 billion revenue a year to cover ongoing Covid costs and care backlogs
  • Funding of at least £10 billion capital this year to urgently maintain and upgrade hospitals and vital equipment like ambulances and scanners
  • Funding for the extra 90,000 NHS staff that are needed - increasing the number of doctors, nurses and healthcare staff through training and encouraging staff to stay with better pay, terms and conditions
  • Funding for hospital beds - reopen the 22,000 beds closed since 2010
  • Funding for A&Es - reopen the 100+ A&Es closed since 2010
  • No more selling off hospital land, no more outsourcing NHS staff
  • Funding and a plan for social care so that people are cared for when they leave hospital

Petition:
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/nhs-waiting-lists

#ToryProfiteers #BorisTheLiar #BorisTheButcher #ToryCronyism #ToryQuietCoup #PrivatisationFail #ToryProfiteers #ToryQuietCoup #SaveOurNHS #WeOwnIt #ourNHS #ToryTerrorism #NeverTrustATory #ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern

5 million waiting - fund our NHS!

Don't let the government use waiting lists as an excuse for more privatisation in our NHS!

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