A quarter of the average UK energy bill last year was profit for the big energy companies. Meanwhile, almost three million households in England suffer fuel poverty. No one should be choosing between heating and eating while energy companies rake in billions.

In a radical local intervention our Preston Labour council has announced a new £805,000 strategy to tackle poverty in our city. Key measures will include: ☑️ Free swimming for the young, old and those on lower incomes. ☑️ Direct payments of up to £400 for families most

Let’s call this out for what it is. Blacklisting. Victimisation. Everyone has the right to join a union, take industrial action and stand on a picket line.

You Shabana Mahmood MP Preet Kaur Gill MP work for us, UK taxpayers, not the other way around. Birmingham MPs in significant roles who were born in our city & have never met with any of the families of what remains England's longest unsolved mass murder of C20th! Truly disgusting

For a channel that claims to be "the people's channel" @gbnews it's rather instructive to note that only once (2022) you gave airtime to our families' plight for a Judge led Public Inquiry, whilst quite rightly, giving much airtime to other families pushing for same? Ben Leo

Nothing screams “innocent” like an 800 word denial for an 18 second video. Zero accountability from Job and Talent and Bham City Council as both deny the blacklisting that’s literally on video 👀 It’s despicable, illegal, and you’re bang to rights. itv.com/news/central/2…

Want to know the truth about whether Job and Talent employment agency and Bham City Council are complicit in the illegal blacklisting of workers? We know what we think, but if you want to judge for yourself, take 5 minutes and watch this video. We think you’ll find it revealing.

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 | 𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗛𝗔𝗠 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗜𝗟 𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗖𝗨𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗘𝗤𝗨𝗔𝗟 𝗣𝗔𝗬 𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬 This exposes mismanagement and incompetence at the council! 👀⤵️ It is a disgraceful tale of the council's incompetence coupled with bad legal advice. The

🤯 Simply staggering mismanagement & incompetence at Bham City Council 1 The council declares itself effectively bankrupt due to equal pay liabilities of between £650m & £760m 2 They snatch £8k a year from bin workers 3 They finally settle their equal pay claims for £250m So...🧵

“Five years ago today my daughter Abigail Reagan Cooley was declared dead at 4 years old. A couple days after my car was smashed into by a careless and distracted teenage driver, doctors determined that there would be no miracle for us. She is so dearly missed 💜 If you think

Michelle Moan should be sent to prison if she fails to pay our £122,000,000 back theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/o…

595 days since Glenbrook property bought & closed, what's was, the UK's oldest working cinema, Birmingham's The Electric. They want to demolish the 115yr old cinema for a block of flats. They're laughing at Brummies. Councillor Saima Suleman Hall Green North LeaderofBirmingham Richard Parker enough is enough!

Any other city would kill for 9 buildings that include The Birthplace of Black Sabbath & Heavy Metal, George Bernard Shaw & UB40's favorite cinema & the theater that discovered Sir Laurence Olivier. Except Birmingham it seems.

An article about the upcoming Judicial Review in The Mirror. #WASPI #notgoingaway #fairandfastcompensation ow.ly/2kLC50XceHT

Stirchley stands united against hate — join your neighbours this Saturday to celebrate community and reject the far right.

A disgraceful tale of Bham City Council's incompetence coupled with bad legal advice. The victims and those that have paid the price are the bin workers and local residents. The ongoing bin strike is a direct result of the council’s mismanagement of its finances. #Birmingham

Council tax rebates for all? Huge public apology? Some barred from public office or position again? Forced buyback of flogged assets? Services reinstated? imho, that's the bare minimum.

There's a by-election next week in #Birmingham #Moseley ward that will be a key test of how the public views the current Birmingham Labour council. Voters arriving at this hustings event last night were very keen to hear more about the #BrumBinStrike and pledge their support for our

“Ian is 15 years old. In 2019, Ian was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. After surgery and months of chemotherapy, Ian was declared cancer free; however, in November 2021, his cancer would return and spread throughout his body. This past week, he and his family would learn that there

We went to meet #Birmingham Birmingham Labour Sutton Vesey councillors Rob Pocock and Kath Scott 💫 today. We wanted to invite them to meet us and discuss our barristers' assessment of @BhamCouncil's incorrect claim that settling the #BrumBinStrike would create new equal pay