Spot the Difference 1994: Rail privatised. Punctuality 86.4% Amongst cheapest fares per mile in Europe Annual subsidy £1.7bn. 30 yrs later Punctuality 70.1% Amongst most expensive fares in Europe. Subsidy £11.9bn Shareholders enriched, people fleeced. leftfootforward.org/2024/10/why-la…

“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses” #HurricaneMilton #Ecocide

If Thames Water is valued at zero, it's the perfect time to nationalise it at its full value

At this point anyone who says it doesn't make financial or economic sense to address climate change should be treated as a lunatic

‘Societal Collapse In Just 15 Years?’ Please watch and share this video recorded in June 2024. In this talk @ProfBillMcGuire outlines the latest science, including planetary and social tipping points. Full video here: youtu.be/q7eiED--Bcw?si…

🚨 BREAKING: There IS enough money! NEW research has REVEALED that a TAX on the SUPER-RICH on wealth above £10 million could raise between... £130 billion and £184 billion! Just IMAGINE what this money could do for our country. Actually, we'll just tell you.🧵

Inheritance tax affects around the top 4% of the wealthiest of the population. Don’t let the right wing gaslight you into thinking the government will take 40% of your Granny’s bungalow sale when she pegs it.

Tax as a proportion of GDP: 🇫🇷 France: 46.1% 🇩🇪 Germany: 39.3% 🇧🇪 Belgium: 42.4% 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 38% 🇩🇰 Denmark: 41.9% 🇬🇧 UK: 35.3% Taxes are not too high in the UK. The problems are inequality, low wages and austerity.

Pursuing endless economic growth when ALL the science is pointing to it being incompatible with a future our families get to survive, is clearly psychotic. But then, corporate psychopaths who care about nothing but shareholder profit, now own our politics, media & our lives.

Imagine a system pushing society toward collapse as it exploits billions of people & devours entire ecosystems, just so some psychopathic elites can hoard mountains of meaningless profit while everything else dies. Now imagine being a journalist & never questioning that system.

S&P downgrades Thames Water debt into ‘junk’. Major shareholders have written off investment. Credit rating is junk. Water companies want price hikes of up to 84% to rescue them. No bill rises, no bailout, let them crash. Nationalise at low cost. archive.ph/ngN5B

#Budget Poll: The Chancellor's speech focused on 'big new funding for NHS, and school buildings' paid for by 'difficult decisions on tax, welfare and spending'. Do you support today's budget moves. Which of these is CLOSEST to your instinctive view?

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Everyone needs to know that these fires were made possible by global heating, which is caused by the fossil fuel industry, which has lied and blocked action for half a century. And that this will all get much, much, much worse until we end the fossil fuel industry

Kurt Vonnegut said “We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective” and damn if that isn't exactly how this is all playing out

Was just fully denied the right to travel today at Liverpool St Stn, on any train, because Network Rail staff collectively refused to deploy a ramp for me. Why? One of them claimed I was “rude” for telling him I didn’t need the lecture he was giving me on why they’d failed to …