March 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Our letter in @financialtimes.com calls on the government to resist spending cuts in the #SpringBudget. After years of stagnation, we cannot cut our way to growth. Public investment is essential for delivering sustainable growth and strengthening our economy.
Read the letter ➡️ bit.ly/4bV89zl
Read the letter ➡️ bit.ly/4bV89zl
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March 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Our letter in @financialtimes.com calls on the government to resist spending cuts in the #SpringBudget. After years of stagnation, we cannot cut our way to growth. Public investment is essential for delivering sustainable growth and strengthening our economy.
Read the letter ➡️ bit.ly/4bV89zl
Read the letter ➡️ bit.ly/4bV89zl
bringing this back up for no reason at all :) fuck rachel reeves, fuck kier starmer
#rachelreeves #welfarecuts #pip #springbudget #ukpolitics
#rachelreeves #welfarecuts #pip #springbudget #ukpolitics
I've begun reading 'The Conquest of Bread' and 'An Appeal to the Young' both by Kropotkin and they are both extremely enlightening and the words speak true to this day, even if the examples used being dated to the mid-late 1800s
political literature is always worth reading and i encourage it to all!
political literature is always worth reading and i encourage it to all!
![Second exerpt from 'The Conquest of Bread' which reads: 'All things for all. Here is an immense stock of tools and implements; here are all those iron slaves which we call machines, which saw and plane, spin and weave for us, unmaking and remaking, working up raw matter to produce the marvels of our time. But nobody has the right to seize a[Pg 11] single one of these machines and say: "This is mine; if you want to use it you must pay me a tax on each of your products," any more than the feudal lord of medieval times had the right to say to the peasant: "This hill, this meadow belong to me, and you must pay me a tax on every sheaf of corn you reap, on every brick you build."
All is for all! If the man and the woman bear their fair share of work, they have a right to their fair share of all that is produced by all, and that share is enough to secure them well-being. No more of such vague formulas as "The right to work," or "To each the whole result of his labour." What we proclaim is The Right to Well-Being: Well-Being for All!'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xwvgsebitonct73rbqrewzva/bafkreif3shptivudckmd46felulxoud3mgpohzh7uho2tw4mvsuanwhhpq)
March 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
bringing this back up for no reason at all :) fuck rachel reeves, fuck kier starmer
#rachelreeves #welfarecuts #pip #springbudget #ukpolitics
#rachelreeves #welfarecuts #pip #springbudget #ukpolitics
The UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has just confirmed £ billions in cuts to welfare payments in the #springbudget, while also announcing a £2.2 billion increase in military spending.
The money is out there – and if the UK government taxed the wealth of the super-rich, there would be plenty.
The money is out there – and if the UK government taxed the wealth of the super-rich, there would be plenty.
March 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has just confirmed £ billions in cuts to welfare payments in the #springbudget, while also announcing a £2.2 billion increase in military spending.
The money is out there – and if the UK government taxed the wealth of the super-rich, there would be plenty.
The money is out there – and if the UK government taxed the wealth of the super-rich, there would be plenty.
I'm saving this excellent explainer of the forthcoming budget. I sincerely hope all media organisations put more thought into any analysis into it
It'd be great if news organisations could be less hysterical about the whole thing
#SpringBudget
It'd be great if news organisations could be less hysterical about the whole thing
#SpringBudget
In less than two weeks, the Chancellor will unveil her Spring statement.
A sound Budget will be vital for the UK, but it is unlikely that most of our media will analyse it in a way that tells us whether it is sound.
This is how they should analyse it.
99-percent.org/how-to-analy...
A sound Budget will be vital for the UK, but it is unlikely that most of our media will analyse it in a way that tells us whether it is sound.
This is how they should analyse it.
99-percent.org/how-to-analy...
How to Analyse the Spring Statement - 99%
On March 26, Rachel Reeves is due to unveil her Spring Financial Statement. The Statement will create a framework within which the rest of government must work to try to […]
99-percent.org
March 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I'm saving this excellent explainer of the forthcoming budget. I sincerely hope all media organisations put more thought into any analysis into it
It'd be great if news organisations could be less hysterical about the whole thing
#SpringBudget
It'd be great if news organisations could be less hysterical about the whole thing
#SpringBudget
Just about to do the second Disability Cuts demo of the day but here's some BBC coverage of the earlier shift ✊ #SpringBudget
March 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Just about to do the second Disability Cuts demo of the day but here's some BBC coverage of the earlier shift ✊ #SpringBudget
Anyone else earning more than the average UK income willing to be taxed more for fairer distribution of resources rather than seeing more benefits cut? #SpringBudget
March 26, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Anyone else earning more than the average UK income willing to be taxed more for fairer distribution of resources rather than seeing more benefits cut? #SpringBudget
Wonderful. My partner and I look forward to being £500 per annum better off in 2029
#SpringBudget #RachelReeves #C4News
#SpringBudget #RachelReeves #C4News
March 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Wonderful. My partner and I look forward to being £500 per annum better off in 2029
#SpringBudget #RachelReeves #C4News
#SpringBudget #RachelReeves #C4News
Solidarity with anyone under the age of 22 with a disability that makes it impossible to work. Not all of them will have parents or a supportive network to support them financially. The terror they must be feeling. #SpringBudget #RachelReeves #Labour
March 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Solidarity with anyone under the age of 22 with a disability that makes it impossible to work. Not all of them will have parents or a supportive network to support them financially. The terror they must be feeling. #SpringBudget #RachelReeves #Labour
And making the #NHS "more productive" doesn't involve protecting NHS workers or patients from health-wrecking viruses with ventilation and suitable #PPE. No, let's allow #Covid to make more NHS workers ill and deny them benefits when they don't recover and lose jobs. That should do it. #SpringBudget
March 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
And making the #NHS "more productive" doesn't involve protecting NHS workers or patients from health-wrecking viruses with ventilation and suitable #PPE. No, let's allow #Covid to make more NHS workers ill and deny them benefits when they don't recover and lose jobs. That should do it. #SpringBudget
Sunday morning: watching politicians discuss the Spring Budget like it’s a murder mystery. Just say what you’re doing with the money. We’ve got plans to cancel.
#SpringBudget #PoliticsUK #JustSayIt
#SpringBudget #PoliticsUK #JustSayIt
March 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Sunday morning: watching politicians discuss the Spring Budget like it’s a murder mystery. Just say what you’re doing with the money. We’ve got plans to cancel.
#SpringBudget #PoliticsUK #JustSayIt
#SpringBudget #PoliticsUK #JustSayIt
Where is the Labour defence? Why aren't they on here making their case so that people can share their posts and help to clear up any ambiguities?
Why aren't they talking about the few good or reasonable aspects of the benefits changes they are making?
#UKPolitics #Labour #SpringBudget
Why aren't they talking about the few good or reasonable aspects of the benefits changes they are making?
#UKPolitics #Labour #SpringBudget
Agreed. It’s hard to see the Labour plan at the moment. They’re terrible at articulating anything and describing an end game. They allow people to make up their own scenarios (“we’re losing ALL of our benefits tomorrow”) and such like.
They need a communications person better than the current one🤷♂️
They need a communications person better than the current one🤷♂️
March 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Where is the Labour defence? Why aren't they on here making their case so that people can share their posts and help to clear up any ambiguities?
Why aren't they talking about the few good or reasonable aspects of the benefits changes they are making?
#UKPolitics #Labour #SpringBudget
Why aren't they talking about the few good or reasonable aspects of the benefits changes they are making?
#UKPolitics #Labour #SpringBudget
Today, the #SpringBudget
#Disabilitybenfits protest good luck won't be at any due to meeting but will catch up with them later
#Disabilitybenfits protest good luck won't be at any due to meeting but will catch up with them later
March 26, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Today, the #SpringBudget
#Disabilitybenfits protest good luck won't be at any due to meeting but will catch up with them later
#Disabilitybenfits protest good luck won't be at any due to meeting but will catch up with them later
UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed £billions in welfare cuts in the #springbudget — hitting the poorest hardest.
Instead of taxing the super-rich to fund public services, clean energy & more, billions will go to military spending.
A better future is possible⬇️
waronwant.org/news-analysi...
Instead of taxing the super-rich to fund public services, clean energy & more, billions will go to military spending.
A better future is possible⬇️
waronwant.org/news-analysi...
Global Green New Deal: 10 ways to secure a fairer, better future for all
The world is in crisis. Only a just transition to fairer, greener economies and societies — through a Global Green New Deal — can ensure a dignified life for all.
waronwant.org
March 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed £billions in welfare cuts in the #springbudget — hitting the poorest hardest.
Instead of taxing the super-rich to fund public services, clean energy & more, billions will go to military spending.
A better future is possible⬇️
waronwant.org/news-analysi...
Instead of taxing the super-rich to fund public services, clean energy & more, billions will go to military spending.
A better future is possible⬇️
waronwant.org/news-analysi...
The UK Chancellor will set out the #SpringBudget this week.
Dr Daniele Girardi (@kcl-spe.bsky.social) explains how the Spring Statement works and what is expected to be announced…
#KingsQs 🧵⬇
Dr Daniele Girardi (@kcl-spe.bsky.social) explains how the Spring Statement works and what is expected to be announced…
#KingsQs 🧵⬇
a piggy bank with coins falling into it
ALT: a piggy bank with coins falling into it
media.tenor.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The UK Chancellor will set out the #SpringBudget this week.
Dr Daniele Girardi (@kcl-spe.bsky.social) explains how the Spring Statement works and what is expected to be announced…
#KingsQs 🧵⬇
Dr Daniele Girardi (@kcl-spe.bsky.social) explains how the Spring Statement works and what is expected to be announced…
#KingsQs 🧵⬇
Where did the hundreds of billions that funded the pandemic response and vastly benefitted Tory friends magically come from?
Wasn't it created by the Bank of England on demand, as if we had a Fiat currency that can be created and destroyed by the BoE at will?
Can't we use that again?
Wasn't it created by the Bank of England on demand, as if we had a Fiat currency that can be created and destroyed by the BoE at will?
Can't we use that again?
March 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM
#WealthTaxNow #SpringBudget @teamlabouruk.bsky.social This is not the party I followed since my teens in the 80s #Green is the #socialist socially responsible choice now #Labour #UK #politics
Rachel Reeves is right that the world has changed - so why won’t she change her strategy to reflect it? Rigid adherence to arbitrary fiscal rules & refusing wealth taxes is a political choice that’s causing huge pain & harm, as well as laying out the welcome mat for the populists at Reform UK
March 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
#WealthTaxNow #SpringBudget @teamlabouruk.bsky.social This is not the party I followed since my teens in the 80s #Green is the #socialist socially responsible choice now #Labour #UK #politics
We welcome the gov’s plan to invest £2bn in affordable housing. Housing is a gendered issue, and more social housing is urgently needed.
But we're concerned this comes ahead of expected social security cuts in tomorrow’s budget.
#SpringBudget
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
But we're concerned this comes ahead of expected social security cuts in tomorrow’s budget.
#SpringBudget
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reeves to put £2bn into affordable housing to ‘sweeten the pill’ of cuts
Chancellor will announce plans to fund 18,000 social homes before fraught spring statement on Wednesday
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
We welcome the gov’s plan to invest £2bn in affordable housing. Housing is a gendered issue, and more social housing is urgently needed.
But we're concerned this comes ahead of expected social security cuts in tomorrow’s budget.
#SpringBudget
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
But we're concerned this comes ahead of expected social security cuts in tomorrow’s budget.
#SpringBudget
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This budget is madness. Instead of making disabled people poorer, the government could fairly tax the rich. These are clear political choices in the interest of money and power. #Budget2025 #SpringBudget #UKBudget
March 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This budget is madness. Instead of making disabled people poorer, the government could fairly tax the rich. These are clear political choices in the interest of money and power. #Budget2025 #SpringBudget #UKBudget
“Robbing Peter” by Joe Cunningham, 2015. The title comes from a traditional patchwork design with alternating colors, where segments are "robbed" from one block to form the design of another. The #springbudget made me think of this quilt, big blocks of govt. spend squeezing out smaller ones. #quilts
March 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
“Robbing Peter” by Joe Cunningham, 2015. The title comes from a traditional patchwork design with alternating colors, where segments are "robbed" from one block to form the design of another. The #springbudget made me think of this quilt, big blocks of govt. spend squeezing out smaller ones. #quilts
We urge the Chancellor of the Exchequer to prioritise investment in mental health charities providing essential services and financial support mechanisms to safeguard the #MentalHealth and well-being of millions.
Read our full #SpringBudget statement: amhp.org.uk/spring-budge...
Read our full #SpringBudget statement: amhp.org.uk/spring-budge...
Spring Budget 2025
With the Spring Budget Statement due tomorrow, the Association of Mental Health Providers is deeply concerned about recent governmental decisions.
amhp.org.uk
March 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
We urge the Chancellor of the Exchequer to prioritise investment in mental health charities providing essential services and financial support mechanisms to safeguard the #MentalHealth and well-being of millions.
Read our full #SpringBudget statement: amhp.org.uk/spring-budge...
Read our full #SpringBudget statement: amhp.org.uk/spring-budge...
Seriously?
Rachel Reeves has just announced universal credit to be cut by half for sick people.
No wonder @adrianramsay.bsky.social called the #SpringBudget "morally repugnant."
Rachel Reeves has just announced universal credit to be cut by half for sick people.
No wonder @adrianramsay.bsky.social called the #SpringBudget "morally repugnant."
March 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Seriously?
Rachel Reeves has just announced universal credit to be cut by half for sick people.
No wonder @adrianramsay.bsky.social called the #SpringBudget "morally repugnant."
Rachel Reeves has just announced universal credit to be cut by half for sick people.
No wonder @adrianramsay.bsky.social called the #SpringBudget "morally repugnant."
#RachelReeves is paying her dues now; after 2029, when @uklabour.bsky.social are booted out & Reform come in, she will go to the private sector to a much higher salary. We, ordinary citizens, will be left behind to deal with the mess. They just don’t care #SpringBudget
March 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
#RachelReeves is paying her dues now; after 2029, when @uklabour.bsky.social are booted out & Reform come in, she will go to the private sector to a much higher salary. We, ordinary citizens, will be left behind to deal with the mess. They just don’t care #SpringBudget
77% would rather see higher taxes on the rich than cuts in public spending. #SpringBudget #WealthTax #TaxTheRich
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Budget 2025 latest: Reeves’ staggering unpopularity laid bare in new poll ahead of spring statement — The Independent
The Chancellor of the Exchequer is under pressure to deliver in her spring statement
apple.news
March 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
77% would rather see higher taxes on the rich than cuts in public spending. #SpringBudget #WealthTax #TaxTheRich
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Our chief economist @gemmatetlow.bsky.social on today's #springbudget announcement
March 6, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Our chief economist @gemmatetlow.bsky.social on today's #springbudget announcement