Rail operator Avanti's contract extended by 6 months.

It delivers dismal service, makes high profits, pays £13.5m to shareholders. Govt gave it £17m bonus last August and now a new contract.

Why improve service?

Privatisation is a failure.
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The government wants a disabled person to work for free advising them on how to make our lives better because they haven't got a clue. I've got an idea, start by paying us actual money!

.Ellie Chowns speaking out about the problems with new voter ID laws and how it will prevent people from voting.

“That case has been strongly made, and I think that it certainly very much risks suppressing the votes, particularly of younger people.”

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Latest IPCC report… not even in the News today and humanity heading for climate chaos #dontlookup

• Tories to open 75 Sure Start Centres. They closed 1,189 Sure Start Centres

• Tories to open 5,000 NHS Beds. They closed 22,000 NHS Beds

• Tories to open 19 new NHS Diagnostic Centres. They closed 140 NHS Walk In Centres

This on top of the 50 new hospitals. Remember those?

From the NHS England 'covidrecovery' website that largely talks about eating, sleeping well, getting active and little else to help those with long COVID - this little gem.... apparently it's 'normal' to feel breathless, fatigued & have brain fog post-covid- so no need to worry!

Do you support or oppose the following: “Migrants arriving in the UK illegally on small boats across the Channel should be removed from the UK and blocked from returning in future” #Politics

When I was in prison the conditions made me mad. But what made me so much more mad was being lied to about the conditions by prison officers. It's the same with this death project. And still, even now, our prison officers are lying to us.
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Everything that a citizen might expect, is failing. From police and school inspections, to train fares and nurses’ salaries, to potholes and effluent.

That’s not all external factors, rotten luck, or one bad PM. It is thirteen years of utter mismanagement and underfunding. ~AA

Braverman is a psychopath.
US - ‘Rwanda operates a system including harsh and life-threatening prison conditions, arbitrary detention, serious restrictions on free expression, imprisonment of journalists, and no effective system of collective bargaining’.
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Tories wreck economies. It’s very simple and obvious.

'We discovered that influenza and #COVID19 destroy a previously unknown natural immunity that we need to resist invasive fungal infections,' says Nicole Sarden, a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary.”

#Covid #SARSCOV2 #fungus #immunedamage news-medical.net/news/20230112/…

We would absolutely second that but suggest that our #FPTP voting system is a major bulwark against radical long-term change in all these areas.

Is it a coincidence that unsustainable growth is the mantra of Britain's FPTP-supporting parties?

#FairVotes #FairCountry #GetPRDone

The NHS is broken.

The Met is broken.

Train operator Avanti is broken.

The Home Office is broken.

(I could go on…)

Govt - let’s ‘fix’ elections, where there was zero problem before, by rigging them so ppl need photo ID.

Tory priorities

Institutional racism, misogyny & homophobia in its police force,
An underfunded, overwhelmed NHS,
Strikes in all walks of life over unsustainable living costs,
A corrupt & incompetent govt at its root,

But it is the small boats that is the cause of all Brexit Britain woes.

'The opposite of woke is institutionalised racism, sexism and homophobia.' 

Following today's damning Met police report, James O'Brien thinks the media bears some responsibility.

And here is James O'Brien making that same point. “Turns out, maybe, that stuff we called ‘woke’ maybe is quite important.” ~AA

Curiouser and curiouser…

From the top barrister who kept the receipts and knows the covid regulations inside and out.

The @gmb team are currently looking for the briefing where the Prime Minister announced this permissive & discretionary interpretation of the rules…….

Refugees and Trans people aren't to blame for Britain's problems.
The Tories are.
The Tories are killing our country and killing our productivity and our culture.
They are killing our wages.
Fuck The Tories
#ToriesOut257