Petition to Protect Rural Post Offices

Our post office and the one in the neighbouring village have closed in recent months, which harms our communities, especially the older residents and those without transport. I received the attached letter from my member of parliament today, who has started a petition calling on the government to …

This ITV podcast is a powerful indictment of how badly we treat people in social housing in the UK. The pod highlights a litany of failures by the British state. Read more and view the episodes here: thetrapped.co.uk

Come on Kier, wake up and get a move on! Step up Brexit reset, or European allies will lose patience, Starmer warned. The call comes after Bank of England’s governor Andrew Bailey said the UK should rebuild relations with the European Union as he warned of the economic consequences of leaving the …

This is an interesting article from Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace that ranks political parties’ election manifestos ahead of polling day on 4 July. After scrutinising the details, Labour scores four times higher than the Conservatives, but the Greens and Liberal Democrats claim first and …

Anyone interested in how Britain’s water companies are letting us down should read this article in The New Statesman. The piece by Will Dunn discusses how privatisation and the pursuit of profit lead to the devastation of England’s waterways.

Feeling ashamed listening to the UK Home Secretary. This is not who we are.

Our monthly electricity direct debit went from £70 to £251 in March. Our supplier, E.ON, announced they’d made £3.47 billion profit for the first 6 months of 2023. There’s something wrong with how we manage our utilities in the UK. Read more

Finally! This awful man has sucked up too much air time and newsprint.

YES! Boris Johnson resigns as an MP with immediate effect. Open a bottle of the good stuff. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live…

Who thought that swearing allegiance to the king is something we’d be told to do in 2023? I can’t believe how out of touch these people are. Read more on i news…

Is it time to renationalise our utilities?

If you live in the UK, you will have noticed the increased level of interest in the discharge of sewage into our rivers and seas. The government is concerned about the impact of this on the upcoming local elections and is talking tough but doing nothing. The situation with raw sewage also affects …

If you’re wondering who to vote for in UKs local elections

In case you’re still wondering who to vote for in this May’s local elections, here’s a list of Tory achievements during the last thirteen years: 1,000 sure start centres closed. 780 libraries closed. 700 football pitches closed. Food bank use is up 5,400%. Homelessness is up 1,000%. Rough sleeping …

This made me chuckle. Read the A-Z of Tory sleaze here

The UK government is missing in action

A Tory source tells the UK i newspaper: “The iceberg is getting closer and closer… and you’ve got Liz and Rishi doing a ridiculous leadership contest. We’ve got nothing, we’ve done nothing.” UK government ministers were accused of a “dereliction of duty” today for not providing anyone for the media …

Today, news outlets in the UK report that water companies have failed to monitor the amount of sewage discharged into the sea in popular resort towns. This is a disgrace, and I’ve supported a petition calling on the Government to renationalise the water supply as the industry, in its current form, …