Chris Phelps MP talks about ‘work’ being the way out of poverty and into better mental health. But with widespread low pay and the outrageous cost of housing this is no longer true. And working a 50+ hour week and STILL being poor is a guaranteed route to despair. #bbcqt

A new resolution on cooperatives in social development – adopted by the United Nations General Assembly – calls for the proclamation of the second International Year of #Cooperatives in 2025 - #IYC2025 .

Learn more 🌐 bit.ly/unga-resolutio…
#Coops4SDGs #EveryoneIncluded #GlobalGoals @COPAC

Lucy Powell: The revelations about Mark Menzies(Fylde) are extraordinary, but they raise some very serious ?s about the misuse of funds.. there's a worrying pattern of cover up & inaction.. what & when did the chief whip, PM & party chair know.. has it been referred to the police

My point is: it's the same people over and over again, being quietly pardoned by the same party bigwigs over and over again. And everyone in govt knows.

You can't keep claiming it's a bad apple. It's symptomatic of a party that is morally rotten to its very core.

Following years of campaigning by our party and our movement, the Government is finally u-turning and dropping their opposition to creating a new offence to protect shopworkers from violence and abuse.

The voter ID thing is designed to stop young people voting.

Sign up here to get your VOTER ID before the upcoming local elections.

electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-ele…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Labour will never privatise the NHS.

We’ll work with the private sector to cut NHS waiting lists while we build the staff, the equipment and the technology the NHS needs to treat patients on time.

The longer, more detailed post, which also reflects on the last 4 years is here:

christinapagel.substack.com/p/hospitals-ar…

EXCLUSIVE: More secret tapes prove Post Office boss was briefed on 'covert operations team' that could access subpostmaster accounts remotely.

channel4.com/news/exclusive…

Anniversary Webinar for the United Nations GA Resolution on “Promoting the #SSE for #sustainabledevelopment will take place on April 18 (1:30 – 2:45 CEST), via Zoom highlighting progress made in the last year.

Translation will be in English, French & Spanish.

ilo-org.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

“Thames Water boss says bills need to rise by 40%.” Here’s why 👇

Listen to them tell you they are delivering “ record spending” on NHS

Read the Health Foundation report which tells us they are shortchanging the service by 40B a year

Compare and contrast the difference over 14 years 👇👇

And reject the lies 💥

Without clean water there can be no life on our planet.

But it has been turned into an income-creating asset of wealthy private corporations.

The moral, fiscal and political case for public ownership of water is overwhelming

Feargal Sharkey Jan Chamier 🇪🇺🇺🇦 Ofwat ALL of the water companies should be re-nationalised as the market is not competitive; it is a gravy train for all the CEOs and shareholders who have, over the last few years, extracted far more cash FROM the industry than they have invested in fixing problems.

'Plans drawn up for emergency nationalisation of Thames Water - latest updates.'

Who has the board anointed to run TW until a new CEO is found? Why Cathryn Ross former CEO of Ofwat the industry regulator responsible for this sorry mess, I sh*t you not!

telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/…

thenews.coop/uk/

Pretty depressing charts from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showing healthy life expectancy (eg the number of years one can hope to live in full health) has been falling or flatlining in pretty much every region of England/Wales/NI - long before Covid, and after it too... ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

2010: 70% of people satisfied with the NHS.

2024: Just 24% satisfied with the NHS.

This graph explains why.

Webinar tomorrow from World Health Organization (WHO)

Post COVID-19 Condition: Global epidemiology update with Prof Nisreen Alwan 🌻 and others

2pm UK time

#LongCovid

who.int/news-room/even…