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@muchechops.bsky.social

this is DESPICABLE: #Wealth-Tax now!
#profiteers-out-of-NHS #contracts-out-of-NHS #fleecers-out-of-our-NHS #renationalise-NHS
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Nearly 150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in England’s A&Es each year

Older people left in their own excrement and wet beds for hours and forced to watch others die, Age UK report finds

www.theguardian.com

October 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM Everybody can reply

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Ageing Hippy

@blueberrysyrup.bsky.social

What he said ⬇️

Labour MP Richard Burgon, Leeds East

Text from a post by Richard Burgin, Labour MP for Leeds, East:

“The toxic rhetoric around migration in recent weeks has emboldened far-right thugs - who are now abusing and intimidating people in the street they see as "foreign", who are now vandalising their homes, businesses and places of worship with racist graffiti, and who are spreading division in our communities.
As l've said before, I believe the scapegoating of refugees and migrants for society's problems is totally wrong. The real responsibility for the deep problems we face lies with the super-rich and those in power who have profited from our rigged economic system, who sold off our public services and attacked workers' rights.
They - not refugees and migrants - have driven down wages, starved our NHS, and fuelled the housing crisis.
That's why l'm campaigning for a wealth tax on the super-rich, to build huge numbers of council houses, to bring water and energy back into public ownership and to kick the profiteers out of our NHS.
But whatever people's views, we should all agree on this: racist intimidation, violence, attacks on people and their property and other criminal activity are completely unacceptable.
Every politician has a duty to speak out, to condemn this far-right thuggery, and to do all they can to stop the stoking of the hatred that fuels this wave of far-right violence and intimidation.”

September 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM Everybody can reply

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Vanyelle

@vanyellea.bsky.social

My friend reposted this. I'm so lucky for the type of people I have as friends. World, we need more people with these kinds of viewpoints 🥹❤️

We're all human. Don't push people out on the orders of the rich folk who don't know what it's like to starve or face true hardship.

A screenshot of Richard Burgon MP posting the following:

The toxic rhetoric around migration in recent weeks has emboldened far-right thugs - who are now abusing and intimidating people in the street they see as "foreign", who are now vandalising their homes, businesses and places of worship with racist graffiti, and who are spreading division in our communities.

As I've said before, I believe the scapegoating of refugees and migrants for society's problems is totally wrong. The real responsibility for the deep problems we face lies with the super- rich and those in power who have profited from our rigged economic system, who sold off our public services and attacked workers' rights. They - not refugees and migrants - have driven down wages, starved our NHS, and fuelled the housing crisis.

That's why I'm campaigning for a wealth tax on the super-rich, to build huge numbers of council houses, to bring water and energy back into public ownership and to kick the profiteers out of our NHS.

But whatever people's views, we should all agree on this: racist intimidation, violence, attacks on people and their property and other criminal activity are completely unacceptable.

Every politician has a duty to speak out, to condemn this far-right thuggery, and to do all they can to stop the stoking of the hatred that fuels this wave of far-right violence and intimidation.

September 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM Everybody can reply

Richard Burgon MP

@richardburgon.bsky.social

The toxic rhetoric around migration in recent weeks has emboldened far-right thugs - who are now abusing and intimidating people in the street they see as “foreign”, who are now vandalising their homes, businesses and places of worship with racist graffiti, and who are spreading division in our communities.

As I've said before, I believe the scapegoating of refugees and migrants for society’s problems is totally wrong. The real responsibility for the deep problems we face lies with the super-rich and those in power who have profited from our rigged economic system, who sold off our public services and attacked workers’ rights. They - not refugees and migrants - have driven down wages, starved our NHS, and fuelled the housing crisis.

That’s why I’m campaigning for a wealth tax on the super-rich, to build huge numbers of council houses, to bring water and energy back into public ownership and to kick the profiteers out of our NHS.

But whatever people’s views, we should all agree on this: racist intimidation, violence, attacks on people and their property and other criminal activity are completely unacceptable.

Every politician has a duty to speak out, to condemn this far-right thuggery, and to do all they can to stop the stoking of the hatred that fuels this wave of far-right violence and intimidation.

September 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM Everybody can reply

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Veronica du Lac (She/Her)

@krustyallslopp.bsky.social

Reverse austerity, kick private profiteers out of the NHS, scrap the child benefit cap, scrap bedroom tax, refund local authorities, refund D mental health and addiction services, put billions into housing and introduce a land value tax...

aidThompsin @aidthompsin.bsky.social · Aug 31

Starmer had one shot to fix the country.

Rejoin S/M, implement P/R, + press & social media reg => ultimately bring us down from the frenzied radicalisation & echo chambers.

He's fucked up on all of it.

He probably will be ousted.

August 31, 2025 at 7:22 AM Everybody can reply

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@tommoitfc.bsky.social

Please check this out this from
We Own It….we own increasingly less of our national national assets and must stop profiteers privatisation of the NHS.
Streeting has already received £250k of ‘donations’ from private health interests and cannot be trusted.
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Take action - Help expose the government's plans to privatise our NHS | We Own It

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July 18, 2025 at 5:43 AM Everybody can reply

Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈

@annieingarden.bsky.social

Join the dots @teamlabouruk.bsky.social. NHS staff can’t make the upstream changes we need, incl: fair pay, welfare safety net, healthy climate & environment, communities not pushed apart by careless “island of strangers” rhetoric, profiteers out of the lobbies. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Britain’s ‘medieval’ health inequality is devastating NHS, experts say

Exclusive: Health service estimated to be spending £50bn a year on effects of deprivation and child poverty

www.theguardian.com

June 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM Everybody can reply

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basildonparty.bsky.social

@basildonparty.bsky.social

A proper socialist plan for the NHS would include kicking out the profiteers who steal funding away while services crumble. A fully nationalised NHS would take dentistry and optometry back in-house and run them on the principle of being free at the point of use, as had been originally intended.

May 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM Everybody can reply

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basildonparty.bsky.social

@basildonparty.bsky.social

🚩✊ SAVE OUR NHS from Labour cuts
Fully fund services, kick out profiteers
Give workers a decent pay rise ✊🚩

Issue 1321 of the Socialist out now!
www.socialistparty.org.uk/the-socialis...

May 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM Everybody can reply

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azlarryan.bsky.social

@azlarryan.bsky.social

They want to save money? Let's end the outsourcing of services in the NHS and bring it all back in house. Kick out the profiteers! Even PFIs were a massive scam that crippled our NHS. Same with pharmaceutical companies, needs nationalising and integration into the NHS.

May 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM Everybody can reply

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Kathy O'Donnell

@kathyodonnell.bsky.social

... hard times, disability and old age with dignity and sufficiency. It means utilities out of the hands of profiteers and run by and for the public and an NHS that is wholly public and massively well-funded because we all need it at some time.
That, in one iteration or another is what change ...

May 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM Everybody can reply

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Nelly Probin

@lillmagill.bsky.social

And the NHS. Get the profiteers out of the NHS and return it to a publicly owned, publicly accountable service.
#NHS
#PeopleNotProfit

The Left Bible @theleftbible.bsky.social · Apr 13

This.

April 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM Everybody can reply

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Nelly Probin

@lillmagill.bsky.social

Don't forget the NHS. Get the profiteers out of the NHS and return it a publicly owned, publicly accountable service.
#NHS
#PeopleNotProfit

April 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM Everybody can reply

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Babs 🩵🐝⌛️🦋🔻

@babs05.bsky.social

#LabourAusterity #WelfareCuts #DisabilityCuts #Austerity2.0 #Starmer #centrists

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Jeremy Corbyn had a purpose. He wanted to end austerity and neoliberalism, re-nationalise utilities, kick profiteers out of the NHS, create a National Care Service, build social housing and increase govt investment. And, like all "centrist" commentators, Rafael Behr despised him.
Image: Headline from the Guardian.
"Keir Starmer won power without a purpose. Now he risks squandering it"
Rafael Behr
1:22 PM · Apr 3, 2025

April 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM Everybody can reply

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Cyril

@cyrillatham71.bsky.social

Privatising our NHS will be the nail in the coffin of any government. The people won't allow greedy profiteers to make money out of suffering. Any mps who buy shares in any company that does this, should be named publicly.

March 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM Everybody can reply

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Comr. Dr. Antho

@socialistantho.bsky.social

It's not just tax or cut. Sometimes it's as simple as kicking out the profiteers and bringing the entirety of services back into public ownership.

You want an efficient NHS or railway system? First look to the privatised service sectors and their profits.

Take the profits out of the equation.

March 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM Everybody can reply

Jane Lauppen

@janelauppen.bsky.social

I think it's time for #Starmer to go,he has failed the people & his whole modus op is investing into profiteers & allowing public money to flow out of the #NHS & not back into it. Which MP would be a caring leader to protect Britain & not shaft it? #saveournhs labour.org.uk/about-us/the...

Cabinet – The Labour Party

The Cabinet is made up of Keir Starmer and his top team in Parliament. Take a look at the Labour Government's frontbench and what they do.

labour.org.uk

January 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM Everybody can reply

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basildonparty.bsky.social

@basildonparty.bsky.social

🚩✊ SAVE OUR NHS
Fully fund services, kick out profiteers
Give workers a decent pay rise ✊🚩

Issue 1303 of the Socialist out now:
www.socialistparty.org.uk/the-socialis...

Also featuring:
Public sector pay, jobs and funding
Energy bills keep rising: what's to blame and how to stop it?

January 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM Everybody can reply

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Carolina Moon

@aozora-aonami.bsky.social

I wonder what she means by 'governed left'. They sold off everything of value to profiteers, killed thousands through austerity, wrecked the NHS, tore us out of the world's biggest trading bloc on our doorstep out of xenophobia, fomented hysteria over immigration- what's left wing about any of that?

December 6, 2024 at 11:57 AM Everybody can reply

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