
Joz Foster
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Infrequent writer. Trade Unionist. Member: GPEW & @unisontheunion.
West Midlands
Joined May 2019
Since Rachel Reeve's mini announcement, the hatred towards disabled people has ramped up and intensified over the weekend. Even higher levels of hatred towards the disabled & vulnerable is palpable across social media. This is the Govt manufacturing consent. It's sickening.
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Judge the next UK budget by how it improves the purchasing power of the bottom 50%. Can't revive economy without that. 16m live in poverty. 34% of universal credit claimants are in work. Bottom 50% of population has 5% of wealth, the bottom fifth, 0.5%. https://t.co/syjSiC8Ooa
leftfootforward.org
This is how to secure sustained economic growth
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They’re going to have to start speaking about @TheGreenParty now. The Polanski surge is not stopping anytime soon. https://t.co/B305vHIVYq
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Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet
Update: 128,000. Accept this is slightly wild now. https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp
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This week PPE Medpro missed its deadline to pay back the millions it was ordered to at the start of the month. The government has to keep pursuing the suppliers who ripped off the people, the money they earned, and the ministers who brought them in. https://t.co/KAEfTs1Yqb
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PPE Medpro was ordered to repay damages by 16:00 BST on Wednesday after breaching a Covid-19 contract.
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The factory owner would make £0 without the factor workers. Workers make the wealth. Tax the rich. Raise wages. Make work pay.
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Betfred’s online casino, to which an increase in remote gaming duty would apply, is based in Gibraltar — avoiding UK corporation tax. Fred and Peter Done are both on the rich list and worth a combined £3bn. If they’re worried about paying their staff they can pay themselves less
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FUN FACT: Supermarket giants like Tesco and Asda increased their operating profits last year by 66%. We're not in a 'cost of living crisis' - we're in a 'cost of GREED crisis'.
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On the day Zack Polanski announced his leadership campaign, the Green Party had 60,000 members. They now have 128,000 - an increase of 113%. He doubled the membership in just 5 months.
Update: 128,000. Accept this is slightly wild now. https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Catching up w @ZackPolanski on BBC this morning. Very pleasing to finally have a political leader point out what ought to be obvious - that the Institute of Fiscal Studies is just one voice amongst many on the economy, and that there is no such thing as “independent” economics.
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They’re going to have to start speaking about @TheGreenParty now. The Polanski surge is not stopping anytime soon. https://t.co/B305vHIVYq
join.greenparty.org.uk
Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet
Update: 128,000. Accept this is slightly wild now. https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp
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.@ZackPolanski is right, we don't need a wealth tax for public investment, we can do that anyway, but a wealth tax is one tool to help tackle inequality in our society. Zack is also right that we need to raise Capital Gains Tax, & we should always question the bias of economists!
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🚨 MRP | Greens to win Sheffield Central 🟢 GRN – 29% (+3) 🔴 LAB – 28% (-24) 🟣 YRP – 14% (new) ➡️ REF – 12% (new) 🔵 CON – 6% (-1) 🟠 LD – 6% (-1) Via @FindoutnowUK / @ElectCalculus, 10-18 Sep
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"We are coming for the Labour government and we are taking the fight to Reform.” Be part of it. Join the Green Party today! 👇
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ICYMI Green Party membership numbers have now overtaken the Conservative Party's! 🎉 📈 125,000 members and counting.
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Reflects grotesque levels of inequality more than anything else
🚨NEW: The top 0.1% of earners are paying more income tax than the entire bottom 50%, shocking data reveals [@thetimes]
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Zack Polanski is striking fear into the uk media establishment, They are trying to do the usual smear campaign, But people think he's great and he just rises above it and carries on campaigning, for the first time in a long time I feel real political hope
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NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago. So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year? Pls read part 2 of @thenerve_news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share! 1/
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It's no coincidence that Reform UK are being bank rolled by the very same billionaires who are putting up your bills and burning the planet. The small boats are a distraction. Stop blaming immigrants and start blaming an exploitative capitalist system.
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