Tag: privatisation

On Wednesday 16 August, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released the latest employment figures. And while much of the ...

It’s only August, but the Tories are already hitting your new year 2018 finances where it hurts

While many people are enjoying their summer holidays, the government has announced some new year blues for many of us. ...

The message our NHS just sent to a patient shows how close we are to seeing it collapse [TWEETS]

by Fréa Lockley

Ali Schofield, a terminally ill cancer patient, was "disgusted" to receive an advertisement for a private healthcare clinic from her ...

People are in hysterics after a privatised service screws over the group that sold-off Britain

by James Wright

People are in hysterics after a privatised telecoms service screwed over the group that helped sell-off Britain. On social media, ...

Watch Theresa May tell a barefaced lie to the victims of the Grenfell Fire [VIDEO]

Theresa May hoped we’d all be too busy with our summer holidays to notice this new privatisation row

by Emily Apple

Theresa May's government has been accused of using the summer holidays to sneak out the privatisation of a highly sensitive ...

May’s government is trying to drive a rail passenger group ‘bankrupt’ for daring to take it to court

The government has been accused of trying to force bankruptcy on a rail passenger campaign group, after a court ruled ...

More chaos for Theresa May’s government, and this time it was right outside a senior Tory’s office [VIDEO]

After the events at Prime Minister's Questions the day before, the government faced more chaos on Thursday 20 July. And this ...

Labour’s David Lammy has declared war on an ‘out-of-touch’ council. But there’s a catch [IMAGES]

David Lammy has written to a London council over its plans for one of the largest privatisation deals in history. ...

On the NHS’s 69th birthday, Jeremy Hunt’s stealth privatisation plans for it have just started unravelling

On Wednesday 5 July, the NHS celebrated its 69th birthday. But the ongoing crisis in it and alleged "stealth privatisation" ...

In his first speech, this ex-postman vows to take back what George Osborne ‘stole’ from us [VIDEO]

by James Wright

Former postman Hugh Gaffney has vowed to take back what George Osborne has "stolen" from us. The newly elected Scottish ...

32 seconds of footage have returned to hound Boris Johnson after the Grenfell Tower fire [VIDEO]

by James Wright

32 seconds of footage have returned to hound Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson after the Grenfell Tower fire. Johnson was responding ...

A nurse exposes the state of the NHS under the Tories. And it’s heartbreaking. [VIDEO]

by Ed Sykes

Everything's fine in the NHS, right? That's what the Conservative government keeps telling us, anyway. But that's not exactly true. And one ...

A private NHS contractor has gone bankrupt. And in doing so it sums up the Tories’ health policies

The bankruptcy of a private NHS contractor has left staff out of pocket and the health service scrabbling around ...

Southern Rail’s boss should be resigning. Instead, the company’s just doubled his pay [VIDEO]

Passengers have branded Southern Rail "outrageous". Because the boss of the embattled rail company has just seen his pay double. The ...

A commuter was forced to ‘drag himself onto a train’ just to get to work [VIDEO]

One man's story of his commute to work has highlighted a major problem within the UK rail network. And it ...

The government claims to care about pensioners. But they will suffer the most when the latest NHS axe falls

by Ben Janaway

17 August 2017

NHS England has ‘waved the white flag’ on its operation targets. Under new proposals, elderly patients could wait "unacceptably long" for ...

Water company fined £20m for treating rivers like ‘dumping grounds’ for raw sewage

11 September 2017