The 99% Organisation

Healthcare Privatisation - Should We Care? - 99% Why we should be concerned about the Nature, Extent and Impact of Healthcare Privatisation in the UK This is an approximate transcript of the meeting in Parliament on 24 February […]

Vitally important analysis here.

Healthcare Privatisation -- Should We Care? 99-percent.org/healthcare-p...

The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves

Last week’s Spring Statement makes little sense given both domestic realities and new global challenges.

We have more articles about and by @99organisation in the media.

Our next meeting will focus on our economic work. Take a look and come along.

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A bunch of puerile frat boys, getting off on killing people. I do not have the vocabulary to express my disgust for this.

How Labour could be an effective progressive party again If Labour blunders on, it will lose the next election.

An article setting out what it would take for Labour to be an effective progressive party again - Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate share.google/7HR97QhMgMQO...

If Labour Meant Business - 99% What it would take for Labour to become an effective progressive party again, and how they could do it Hannah Spencer of the Green Party is now MP for Gorton […]

Yes, the Labour Party urgently "needs to decide what kind of country it is trying to build — does it want to be a centre-right party with a high tolerance for racism or does it want to be a dynamic progressive party?"

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Labour's asylum policies will destroy lives and drive away voters Labour's asylum and immigration policies risk violating international law and are politically self-defeating, writes Daniel Sohege.

My latest piece for the @bigissue.com is out today, on how Labour's attacks on those seeking asylum are not only inhumane, potentially illegal, and seriously counterproductive, but also politically incoherent for a party which claims to be "progressive".

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Deforestation is no longer inevitable In the past, forests around the world were cut down on a massive scale. We lost some of the world’s richest ecosystems.

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If Labour Meant Business - 99% What it would take for Labour to become an effective progressive party again, and how they could do it Hannah Spencer of the Green Party is now MP for Gorton […]

I think Sadiq Khan is right about the threat being existential.

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“Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton”
Sadiq Khan

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The Real Battle for Control of the UK - 99% The battle in the UK is not the traditional competition between parties, but a much more dangerous struggle between a small number of billionaires and the bulk of the UK […]

Very simple: his sound bites are treated as reality, and his blunders are ignored in almost all media.

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The Real Battle for Control of the UK - 99% The battle in the UK is not the traditional competition between parties, but a much more dangerous struggle between a small number of billionaires and the bulk of the UK […]

Yes. It is even more evident today than when we wrote this.

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Rachel's plan is working, it's just not working for the majority.
No change there.

Malice in Plunderland – a New Kind of Government? - 99% Many members of today’s cabinet are market fundamentalists who believe that ‘mass democracy’ amounts to nothing less than oppression of the ultra-wealthy. In British politics, the Left is traditionall...

My guess would be that he wants to complete the transition of the UK into a Plunderland.

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9/ If someone calls transparency “censorship,” translate it: “Let us target voters in private, with no public receipt.” Democracy cannot survive as a dark market. The choice is simple. Turn on the lights now, or learn what happened after it was too late.

A long excellent thread. Economic renewal is possible, if the government had the courage and political will of the 1945 government.

If Labour Meant Business - 99% What it would take for Labour to become an effective progressive party again, and how they could do it Hannah Spencer of the Green Party is now MP for Gorton […]

Great analysis here.

If Labour Meant Business 99-percent.org/if-labour-me...

For me the question is how will Labour ever rebuild trust. They are now a tarnished brand.

A principled and articulate Green Party are pointing out Labour’s duplicity every day.

As revealed by my colleague @adambienkov.bsky.social last year, the BBC drew up a strategy to appeal more to Reform voters.

Might be waiting a while for them to do the same for Green voters...

If Labour Meant Business - 99% What it would take for Labour to become an effective progressive party again, and how they could do it Hannah Spencer of the Green Party is now MP for Gorton […]

Yes, they could finish themselves off, if they are not prepared to change.

If Labour Meant Business - 99% share.google/XmJ0D2oPfwd2...

Time for a Progressive Tax System? - 99% How you probably pay a higher rate of tax than the wealthiest in society We are often told that the UK tax system is progressive: the better you are doing […]

Agreed.

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MPs hear evidence during debate on NHS privatisation in Parliament MPs have demanded that Health Secretary Wes Streeting “listen to experts” who warned against implementing his “disastrous” plans to further privatise the NHS.At a debate chaired by Labour MP Richard B...

99% rebuts 7% privatisation figure and says
'we need to be thinking 30%...some specialties, more than 50% of treatments already paid for privately.. ophthalmology ...dentistry.'

MPs hear evidence-debate on NHS privatisation in Parliament morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mps-... #morningstaronline

This is damning.
Full report is here: 99-percent.org/wp-content/u...
and shorter piece here: 99-percent.org/healthcare-p...

MPs hear evidence during debate on NHS privatisation in Parliament MPs have demanded that Health Secretary Wes Streeting “listen to experts” who warned against implementing his “disastrous” plans to further privatise the NHS.At a debate chaired by Labour MP Richard B...

99% rebuts 7% privatisation figure and says
'we need to be thinking 30%...some specialties, more than 50% of treatments already paid for privately.. ophthalmology ...dentistry.'

MPs hear evidence-debate on NHS privatisation in Parliament morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mps-... #morningstaronline

Richard Holden on Politics Live.

I'm old enough to remember when Conservative politicians used to back the UK. Nowadays, it seems they will back anyone other than the UK, purely for reasons of having a stick with which to beat the PM and, hopefully, gain some political advantage. This is not business as usual.

#politicslive

MPs hear evidence during debate on NHS privatisation in Parliament MPs have demanded that Health Secretary Wes Streeting “listen to experts” who warned against implementing his “disastrous” plans to further privatise the NHS.At a debate chaired by Labour MP Richard B...

Here's another piece on our NHS event in parliament on #NHSprivatisation noting the key finding in our report:

'private involvement in the NHS to be about 30 per cent, rather than the more widely known figure of 7 per cent'
@keepournhspublic.bsky.social

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mps-...

If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...

MPs hear evidence during debate on NHS privatisation in Parliament MPs have demanded that Health Secretary Wes Streeting “listen to experts” who warned against implementing his “disastrous” plans to further privatise the NHS.At a debate chaired by Labour MP Richard B...

Here's another piece on our NHS event in parliament on #NHSprivatisation noting the key finding in our report:

'private involvement in the NHS to be about 30 per cent, rather than the more widely known figure of 7 per cent'
@keepournhspublic.bsky.social

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mps-...

Right, so the Conservative Party has given up on international law AND #democracy
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Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches Since April 2023 Sewage Watch has been keeping a running log of press coverage on the state of sewage dumping into our rivers and onto our beaches. Updated March 2026

Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches

Since April 2023 Sewage Watch has been keeping a running log of press coverage on the state of sewage dumping into our rivers and onto our beaches. Updated March 2026

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Tell the Energy Secretary: attend the Colombia summit Governments will meet in Colombia in April for the first ever international conference focused solely on the fossil fuel phase-out. Fossil fuels and the companies that make billions from them are an e...

I’ve written to the Energy Secretary to tell him he must be at the first international conference to phase-out fossil fuels.

We have a key opportunity to end the fossil fuel era & make sure it takes corporate courts with it. Write to Ed Miliband here: act.globaljustice.org.uk/tell-energy-...

Thank you @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social here’s a powerful blueprint for turning this government back to its progressive roots and into a positive force for the 99% and for the UK. How do we get it to them?

@compassoffice.bsky.social @openbritain.bsky.social @dminghella.bsky.social