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Scandal as NHS plasma supplies sold off by Tories for £230 million sold on to Chinese for £820 million

May 1, 2017

In 2013 the Tories sold off the state owned NHS blood plasma supplier, Plasma Resources UK (PRUK) to US private …

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How Theresa May’s preferred US system to replace the NHS featured in the Nixon Watergate scandal

April 25, 2017

  Theresa May’s secretive plans to replace the NHS in England with private US healthcare system Kaiser Permanente have been revealed …

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Theresa May’s secretive plans to replace NHS in England with private US healthcare system Kaiser Permanente

April 23, 2017

UPDATE: We now have no less than Professor Stephen Hawking expressing public concern about the threat to the NHS by …

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Brexit leadership wants to attack the poorest – not reduce immigration. An open letter to Leavers …

October 11, 2016

Dear Leavers, Polling shows us most of you voted to leave the EU for two main reasons. Firstly, you wanted …

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Tories hand discrimination helpline over to private security company accused of racism

September 5, 2016

Here’s a racist joke: “I went to my local the other day only to find a black barman. So I …

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New Education Secretary sold off school playing field to developer before handing school over to Tory peer

July 14, 2016

Just months after the successful 2012 Olympics, Justine Greening – the new Education Secretary – backed the sell-off of six tennis …

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10 things more likely to happen to you than winning the Vote Leave Euro 2016 competition

June 7, 2016

The Vote Leave campaign is running a competition offering £50 million in prize money to anyone who can correctly guess the result of every …

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The shocking scale of Osborne’s fat-cat Academy School CEOs’ pay exposed

March 16, 2016

How much do bosses at YOUR children’s school earn? An investigation by Schools Week and Watchsted reveals huge pay deals for George …

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Private firm run by Tory chair of Lloyds bank leaves NHS patients hungry, hospital wards dirty

February 10, 2016

Tory peer Lord Blackwell trousers £150,000 as chair of a private company called Interserve on top of the £580,000 salary he gets as …

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Victorian Tory education policy: no disabled, no redheads and young children in forced isolation

April 19, 2015

(not satire – it’s Tory Britain!) The Tories are rapidly taking us back to Victorian times in many ways – not …

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Lib Dems: break up the NHS and charge people for GP visits

April 5, 2015

(not satire – it’s the Lib Dems!) I’m not sure why so many people are surprised that the Lib Dems so readily …

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Never mind probation officers – let’s replace MPs and Lords with ATM-style machines

March 31, 2015

(not satire – it’s the UK today!) I think MPs might have just shot themselves in the foot. Because they’ve …

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Tories rush to hand over lucrative school to party donor before election

March 24, 2015

(not satire – it’s the Tories!) (UPDATE: The Cameron government has decided today to hand the school over to one …

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Surprising polls show British public considerably more left-wing than main parties

March 14, 2015

(not satire – it’s the UK today!) Polling shows the British public is considerably more left-wing than most of our mainstream parties. …

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UK government is trying to suppress depictions of The Profit too

January 14, 2015

(satire?) The UK coalition government has been trying to suppress depictions of The Profit –  especially when it comes to their …

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Patients told to soil themselves while hospital pays Tory MP £50k pa for 10 hours work

January 11, 2015

(not satire – it’s the Uk today!) No wonder the private company which took over the NHS Hinchingbrooke hospital has failed. …

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Of course privatised Hinchingbrooke Hospital failed. It’s run by bankers.

January 10, 2015

(not satire – it’s the UK today!) Privatised NHS hospital Hinchingbrooke in Cambridgeshire has failed. Hinchingbrooke’s private owners – Circle Holdiings …

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BREAKING: UK passenger trains to become part of Bisto Gravy Division

January 4, 2015

(satire?) The coalition government has confirmed today that all privatised passenger rail services across the UK are to be consolidated and become …

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Private firm wins NHS contract despite charging £7m MORE than NHS

January 3, 2015

(not satire – it’s the coalition government!) The government has awarded an £80 million NHS contract to a private firm …

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Scientists link axial tilt of Earth at winter solstice to dramatic increases in executive pay

December 21, 2014

(satire?) Scientists have confirmed the discovery of a direct link between the hitherto unexplained increases in salaries of fuel company executives at the winter solstice and …

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UKIP Deputy Chairman’s hate-filled tirade against our “diseased” NHS

December 10, 2014

(not satire – it’s the UKIP!) UKIP’s Deputy Chairman and potential parliamentary UKIP candidate for Basildon – the former disgraced …

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Private companies tortured children – now running children’s homes and services

October 25, 2014

(not satire – it’s G4S and SERCO) Private companies G4S and SERCO have agreed to pay out £100,000 in compensation for …

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The government bill which will allow public forests to be handed over to private developers

October 21, 2014

(not satire – it’s the UK today) Well this is a bit worrying. An innocuous sounding bit of legislation called the …

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Read the suppressed report into botched NHS operations by private company

October 16, 2014

(not satire – it’s the UK today!) An NHS hospital decided not to release the findings of a report into …

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Here’s why Cameron’s so quiet about the Chinese crackdown on demonstrations. They own him:

October 1, 2014

(not satire – it’s the UK today!) The only official protest about the democracy demonstrations taking place in China at …

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NHS ‘already privatised’ – ‘hospitals need to close’: private NHS consultants

September 20, 2014

(not satire – it’s the NHS today!) Contrary to what the Lib Dem/Tory government have been assuring us, the NHS …

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Meet MAXIMUS (the new ATOS) and its list of scandals in the US

September 13, 2014

(not satire – it’s the UK today!) UPDATE: There will be a day of action across the UK against Maximus …

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Cameron handing billions of our money over to firm run by fellow Old Etonian

September 9, 2014

(not satire -it’s the UK today) The amount of taxpayers’ money which the UK government has handed over to private …

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Police officers now being used as bus ticket inspectors for private companies

September 1, 2014

(not satire – it’s the UK today!) Here’s a video of a police officer being used to inspect passengers’ tickets …

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NHS should be run like Tesco: Tory MP who defected to UKIP

August 28, 2014

(not satire – it’s the UKIP!) The former Tory MP for Clacton Douglas Carswell – who has just defected to UKIP …

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