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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 10h

📢 Living in the UK at the moment is just so depressing. Rubbish govt, evil right-wing opposition parties supported by flag-shagging morons, excruciatingly visible #inequality and #poverty on the streets, crumbling #NHS and social services, too many selfish gits in SUVs, and a largely vile media. 😞

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 16h

📣URGENT more than 14,000 people have signed our petition calling on Ofwat to REJECT Thames Water's latest ridiculous proposal.

🤑Their creditors want to pollute our rivers & seas illegally for the next 15 years.

✍️Ofwat makes its decision next week. Add your name, 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 & 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 today!

Thames Water wants to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.

Thames Water wants to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years

weownit.org.uk

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 13h

📢 And if you want to know who this #Labour govt will NOT be taxing more in the upcoming budget, this excellent report from @equalitytrust.bsky.social 🔽 will tell you... equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...

Billionaire Britain 2025 - Equality Trust

Introduction For the past 35 years, various governments have claimed to have variations on a similar set of goals for the UK economy: decarbonise; spread more wealth and growth out of London; end the ...

equalitytrust.org.uk

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 13h

🚨 Again, if only there was a handy list of super-rich people published in a major UK newspaper every year that the govt could tax to fill its financial hole, thereby avoiding the need to tax the far less rich 🙄
#TaxTheSundayTimesRichList #WealthTaxNow #TaxTheRich www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Rachel Reeves says tax rises and spending cuts on budget agenda, citing Brexit impact

Chancellor also blames austerity and ‘ongoing impact of Liz Truss mini-budget’ for growing shortfall in public finances

www.theguardian.com

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Fairness Foundation @fairness.bsky.social · 17h

In November's Budget, the Chancellor can reform taxes on wealth to achieve three wins - raising revenue, tackling inequality and boosting growth. Find out more at fairnessfoundation.com/win-win-win

Win-Win-Win

Taxing wealth for fairness, revenue and growth

fairnessfoundation.com

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Things that will give us a #Reform govt in 2029:
❌ Inflation/cost of living crisis
❌ Rent gouging/housing crisis
❌ Racism and govt failure to oppose or call out racism
❌ Difficulty in getting a GP or hospital appointment
❌ #Labour tribalism and refusal to work with other parties
❌ Loss of hope.

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 Your occasional pre-budget reminder that: if a govt finds itself in a financial bind and it chooses not to tax the super-rich, that govt will (by definition) be choosing to tax people with far less wealth and much less income instead. Politics is about making choices... #WealthTaxNow #TaxTheRich

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 1d

To be honest, we wish he wasn't leader or co-leader of #YourParty (he should be Hon Pres or some such title) but his residual following/name-recognition probably gives this latest new left-of-Labour party a better chance than most. And we tend to support parties and policies rather than leaders.

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 1d

To be honest, we wish he wasn't leader or co-leader of #YourParty (he should be Hon Pres or some such title) but his residual following/name-recognition probably gives this latest new left-of-Labour party a better chance than most. And we tend to support parties and policies rather than leaders.

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 1d

📢 We're in the #Green Party but we encourage people to join #YourParty 🔽 if you feel a bit more "red than green" in your politics - the important thing is that both parties do well and that they cooperate as far as possible to maximise the left vote in the UK whenever and wherever possible. 🤝

Your Party @thisisyourparty.bsky.social · 21d

🚨MEMBERSHIP NOW OPEN!🚨

This is Your Party - it's time to take it into your hands.

Join as a member now ⬇️⬇️

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Right to protest is under sustained attack in the west, report finds

Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says International Federation for Human Rights

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Right to protest is under sustained attack in the west, report finds

Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says FIDH

www.theguardian.com

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 2d

Reform UK's deputy leader has broken parliamentary rules by failing to register hospitality. So what's the story with Richard Tice, the French villa and the ex-Kremlin minister?

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/13/r...

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 THIS 🔽 is where the right-wing, race-baiting politics of #Farage, #Starmer, #Badenoch, and #Jenrick gets us - either as a direct result of what they say, or as a result of not saying what needs to be said in calling out the vile racist goons... www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 1d

📢 The #Green Party just hit 100,000 members 🙂
➡️ join.greenparty.org.uk

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 2d

Yep, always kick down, never punch up 😢

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 2d

And the #Green Party conference...?

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Fairness Foundation @fairness.bsky.social · 2d

Four flavours of fairness: Fairness was a common thread running through the Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem and Reform conferences this year. Read our round-up by @jasonbunting.bsky.social

Four flavours of fairness

Fairness was a common thread running through the Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem and Reform conferences this year

www.faircomment.co.uk

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 2d

📢 We wish #YourParty well. We also hope it agrees an electoral pact with the #Green Party. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Voters' voices are being shut out of British politics. Your Party has a radical plan to change that | Jeremy Corbyn

At our conference in November we will use a jury service-type model to allow members to discuss and decide policy, strategy and even the name of our party, says Your Party co-leader Jeremy Corbyn

www.theguardian.com

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 2d

🤔 If only there were some stratospherically rich people in the UK who could be easily identified and taxed a bit more to help out...
#TaxTheSundayTimesRichList
#WealthTaxNow
#TaxTheRich www.theguardian.com/business/202...

IFS warns Rachel Reeves against ‘half-baked dash for revenue’

Thinktank says UK could raise significant funds by tackling some of the longstanding ‘inefficiency and unfairness’ in tax system

www.theguardian.com

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 And down we slide into the pit of hell of our own making.
If only there had been signs, some scientific warnings...
Well done us 🙄 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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