Unions to demand Labour changes course in national demonstration

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 People take part in the People’s Assembly Britain is Broken national demonstration in central London, November 5, 2022

People’s Assembly demo on June 7 will warn ministers to stop the cuts and invest or face oblivion

UNIONS will confront Labour’s cuts agenda next month with a national demonstration demanding the party change course.

The People’s Assembly held a press conference today to call on the whole labour movement to march with it at the No More Austerity demonstration in London on Saturday June 7.

The march takes place days before Chancellor Rachel Reeves is to announce her first multi-year spending settlement on June 11, and is intended to maximise pressure on the government to drop Ms Reeves’ self-imposed fiscal rules, tax wealth and profits and raise spending to address funding crises across health, education, local government and many other sectors.

Labour MP Diane Abbott said the disastrous result of this month’s council elections were leading an increasing number of MPs to realise the need to stand up to Mr Starmer and change his policies, she said.

“The result of the Runcorn by-election and the council elections have had an extraordinary effect on my colleagues,” she told the Morning Star. “They can see their majorities crumbling before their eyes, and there’s nothing that concentrates the mind of an MP more than the threat of actually losing their seat and the salary that goes with it.”

More MPs had started to understand that the Starmer clique only knew how to do one thing — attack the Labour left — and was incapable of addressing the bigger challenges of government, she said.

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Keir Starmer says that the Labour Party under his leadership all feel a small part of Scunthorpe.
Keir Starmer says that the Labour Party under his leadership all feel a small part of Scunthorpe.
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Thoughts of the Day 12 May 2025

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Image of British Gas sign.
Image of British Gas sign.

I’ve been helping a disabled friend with her billing troubles with British Gas. I feel a little responsible because I advised her to go with a fixed deal with British Gas.

So for her first week British Gas charged for 4756 kWhs of gas. We complained and asked for a proper review. Their review wasn’t clever enough to realise that Ofwat’s average gas use for 1-2 people in a flat or house is 7500 kWhs a year or that my friend’s only gas appliance – a combination boiler rated at 24 kW max – is simply not capable of using that much gas in a week. There are also mistakes on the bill, in statements of gas used and transactions.

So I rang up to ask about these issue, put on hold many times and disconnected at 27 minutes and 5 seconds. British Gas has a poor reputation for dealing with complaints apparently.

We will be threatening legal action.

So there you go British Gas, my review ;)

13/5/25: I don’t have the figures to hand and think that the 4756 kWhs was instead just short of 5000kWhs for a week, more like 4986.

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The next decade …

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Looks like the next decade is going to be increasing temperatures every year continuing what we’ve experienced …

I hope that some of the cnuts will swing …

ed: all of them

ed: I expect that I will be taking part in that, stringing them up

ed: I suppose we ought to plan who and how to hold them responsible.

Look and listen, the point is that climate destruction is happening now. The Capitalists are responsible for this, they decided to profit by destroying the planet.

How should we hold them responsible? Are you sure that we shouldn’t be far more severe? They did decide to destroy all life remember.

ed: I’m not sure that you can imagine how severe I want to punish them

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