Staggering BP profits spark outrage
Fossil fuel giant BP has one again reported eye watering profits. In the first quarter of 2023, BP made £4 billion.
The news has sparked outrage amongst opposition politicians and groups campaigning on the climate and cost of living crises.
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Staggering BP profits spark outrage
Tuition fees: How the left has responded to Keir Starmer’s U-turn
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Left wing faction Momentum compared Starmer’s shifting position to that of Nick Clegg, who famously went into the 2010 general election pledging to abolish tuition fees only to triple them when in government. A spokesperson for Momentum said: “This move wouldn’t just fly in the face of party democracy and the wishes of Labour Students. It would be a betrayal of millions of young people in desperate need of hope. The Labour leadership should learn from Nick Clegg’s failure, not repeat it.”
The former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn made similar comments. He tweeted: “Young people should not be saddled with a lifetime of debt just because they want to get an education. Abolish tuition fees, restore maintenance grants and deliver free education for all.”
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Tuition fees: How the left has responded to Keir Starmer’s U-turn
Don’t underestimate nurses’ resolve, Pat Cullen tells government
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Cullen commented that, although the outcome of today’s meeting appeared to be set, nurses will remain in dispute with the government over pay and staffing.
“Tuesday’s meeting with Steve Barclay appears a foregone conclusion,” said Cullen. “Different unions and different professions came to different, but respectable, conclusions on this pay offer.
“The deal being accepted by others does not alter the clear fact that nursing staff, as the largest part of the NHS workforce, remain in dispute with the government over unfair pay and unsafe staffing.”
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Don’t underestimate nurses’ resolve, Pat Cullen tells government
Breaking: Labour councillor exposes himself running hate account mocking left-wing candidates
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Right-wing Liverpool Labour councillor Tom Cardwell has been outed apparently running a hateful troll account attacking local political opponents.
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The ‘GorstSpam’ Twitter account was set up to attack Garston councillor Sam Gorst and other Liverpool Community Independent (LCI) councillors and candidates who left Labour over the Labour-run council’s swingeing cuts to services for the most vulnerable – and has put out vile misogynistic and homophobic content.
And Cardwell exposed his link to the account when he tweeted one message pretending to be Gorst, then immediately deleted it and was stupid enough to put the same message out on the ‘Spam’ account moments later
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Breaking: Labour councillor exposes himself running hate account mocking left-wing candidates
Phillips deletes tweet about buying house at 20 – she told FT she was in ‘squat’ at 22
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Right-wing Labour MP Jess Phillips has deleted a tweet in which she said she bought her first home at the age of twenty and described how it changed her and her children’s ‘fortune’
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Phillips has previously told the Financial Times, presumably in an oddly-placed effort to boost her working-class credentials, that at age 22 she was living in a ‘squat’
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Phillips deletes tweet about buying house at 20 – she told FT she was in ‘squat’ at 22
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