Mark Hebden
unionlib.bsky.social
Mark Hebden
@unionlib.bsky.social
Ginger Viking Librarian Trade Unionist Cricket Fan
Labour Policy Meeting:
Random person: We should really make things better for everyday working people

Peter Kyle: OK, but how about we just do whatever the bosses want us to?
November 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Yeah Di Caprio... and stop pumping women half your age, it's weird.
🚁 Leonardo workers accept 8% pay rise over 2 years

There is power in a union and workers at Leonardo should be proud of the increased pay award they have secured.

@unitetheunion.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
That I can't get one, lol
15. What do you hate about dating?
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Is it someone from London writing a memoir.
I'm going with either the Ark of the Covenant or a Betamax VCR.
November 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”

You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Won't someone please think of the chattering classes in £5m homes in Richmond.

Pleading poverty while wearing a £250 jacket, fuck off Nick you arsehole

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
Rachel Reeves’s new council tax surcharge on homes worth £2m or more earns mixed reception in well-heeled London borough
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Workers hit once again during the cost of living crisis, the tax free allowance will be frozen, meaning we earn less in real terms, thanks to spiralling inflation, especially food prices!
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Love this accepted mantra of "you can't tax your way to growth"... Yes you can, and it's what happened in every developed nation during the high point of the mid 20th century when growth was consistently higher than the last 45 years of low tax low spend neoliberalism.
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Why doesn't Kemi Badenoch trust the deputy chancellor to respond to the budget speech?

Saying Rachel Reeves is the worst chancellor of all time is a bit rich from someone who supported Kwasi Kwarteng. #Budget
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A reminder that the actual living wage, not the government's fraudulent one, is £13.45. The government's new NLW of £12.71 is 74p an hour short. That's £25.90 over a week on a 35hr contract and £1347 a year. Meanwhile for 18-20 year olds (£10.85) the short fall is £4732 per annum #Budget
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Alarmed to hear Rachel Reeves talking about "selling government assets we no longer have any use for"

Look at everything that's been stolen from YOU since 2010 👇👇👇

*We need MORE publicly owned assets not fewer* to "break the cycle of austerity" #Budget2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XN4...
The truth about what 14 years of CUTS looks like
YouTube video by We Own It
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I see we've reached the "I hate disabled people" part of the budget.
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.

Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Dishonest of Rachel Reeves to highlight "the damage Conservatives did to schools and hospitals" when she plans to introduce new private finance in our NHS - PFI 2.0

Against her own manifesto, 40 Labour MPs and 53 accounting academics #Budget2025

weownit.org.uk/news/an-open...
An open letter to the Chancellor: abandon this dangerous and damaging proposal
In this open letter to the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, 53 academics of accounting and finance from UK universities explain why she should abandon the idea of new private finance for the NHS.
weownit.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
That fire in Hong Kong looks like the apocalypse.
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Me about to piss off a bunch of capitalists: If Bezos doesn’t want to pay his fair share in corporate taxes, I don’t see why we shouldn’t nationalise Amazon and make it a subsidiary of the post office.
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Is Lindsay Hoyle visiting Israel again instead of doing his job as Speaker?
November 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
So, I'm going to be taxed NICs on my salary sacrifice pension contributions and my personal allowance isn't changing.

Less money in my pocket as a working class man, that's a Labour budget in action I guess.
#Budget
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
So, I'm going to be taxed NICs on my salary sacrifice pension contributions and my personal allowance isn't changing.

Less money in my pocket as a working class man, that's a Labour budget in action I guess.
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Very odd for Lindsey Hoyle to not be present for the Budget.
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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There is a dishonest Labour MP trying to claim wealth taxes “don’t work”.

Wealth taxes DO work. I know, I used to live in Norway, where they have had a wealth tax for more than 130 years. All public services are much better and poverty is far, far less than in the UK.

1/3
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Keir Starmer currently explaining how he supports the White Ribbon campaign... yet to explain why he couldn't support his own MP, Apsana Begum, when she was going though vexatious legal complaints after years of domestic abuse. #PMQs
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Ugh, I'm gonna have to watch this shit show aren't I? #Budget
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Freezing tax thresholds is de facto a huge tax increase on the lowest paid in society #Budget
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM