The government reckons it can add £75 billion to the military budget by 2030 through cutting 72,0000 civil service jobs.
Working people must not pay for British ministers to jump on board the US war machine.

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💸 Rishi Sunak has announced that military spending will increase to 2.5% of GDP by 2030 - that's an extra £75 billion over the next 6 years!

How is this being funded? Taxes? NHS cuts? Borrowing? The back of the couch? The arms race is well and truly on!
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Bringing rail back into public ownership should only be the first step to completely integrating all of our railway into public ownership.
To see any improvement, eliminating the subsidy to the privateers should be used for investment.

No-one in the labour movement should welcome increased military spending. Far from being 'jobs-rich', military spending destroys jobs as well as lives.

Hunt defends civil service job cuts to increase defence spending
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It would be nice to hear an explanation why there is no money for the NHS, for schools or for pay, but there is more money for war.

UK to boost military spending says Sunak
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No.
Supporting Consumption without increasing Investment simply leads to inflation.
In this case, even higher home prices.

Can long-term mortgages help solve the UK’s housing crisis? ft.com/content/2fbede…

The sick and the poor will pay for Britain's participation in US wars.

😡 Today's news that Thames Water wants to hike bills by as much as 44% is an outrage 😡

🎧 We Own It's Matthew Topham explains why on LBC

🌊 RT if you think the govt should take Thames Water into public ownership with NO bailout at our expense

No.
Supporting Consumption without increasing Investment simply leads to inflation.
In this case, even higher home prices.

Can long-term mortgages help solve the UK’s housing crisis? ft.com/content/2fbede…

Forcing people into low paid jobs or lose benefits is not protection, except in the Mafia sense.

The privatisation of water has been a total and utter disaster.

Stop bailing out greedy private companies and bring our water into public ownership instead.

The efficiency of the privatisation model.

This is the great America that is giving another $14bn in aid to Israel so it can continue to commit genocide against the Palestinian people while 35million of it’s own people live in chronic poverty, The world really is fucked up.

Forcing people into low paid jobs or lose benefits is not protection, except in the Mafia sense.

If any Western economy was achieving these growth rates there would be a national holiday.
But Western pundits insist on calling the Chinese economy 'stagnant'.

There is a real risk of employment falling and job losses mounting, but.... 1/2

This means the wealth of the ultra-rich grew at your expense, while your real take home pay fell.
Stock markets have doubled while consumer price inflation rose by 20%.
But only wages bother policy makers.

Wealthy investors weather the inflation storms ft.com/content/9a19d8…

🔥Workers who can't strike can't bargain. And if you're not bargaining, you're begging.

❌But now the Tories are trying to ban effective strike action in sectors like fire and rescue, health, education and rail.

💪Workers themselves must defeat the anti-union laws. And we can.

This means the wealth of the ultra-rich grew at your expense, while your real take home pay fell.
Stock markets have doubled while consumer price inflation rose by 20%.
But only wages bother policy makers.

Wealthy investors weather the inflation storms ft.com/content/9a19d8…