Category: General
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This was my first EC, and the first of the newly elected EC. It only lasted 2 hours and the agenda was restricted to 1) to hear the report of the Returning Officer; 2) to elect the EC Chair; to ratfy the EF standing orders; to elect two Vice Chairs; to agree a new process…
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The recent elections to the Executive of the Unite union, one of the Labour Party’s largest affiliates, returned a decisive majority for candidates aligned with General Secretary Sharon Graham. Sharon Graham: friendly, approachable and actually replies to emails! Her ‘Back to the Workplace’ candidates now hold 40 out of the Executive’s 61 seats, with 18…
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Partly to my surprise I have now been elected to the Unite EC! Thank you to Unite members ray for the interview, Jamie fror getting my election address down to 299 words, Kit for help with graphics, and Rob for the photo. And all the branches who nominated me. Once there at the EC I…
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US firm Palantir already has a £300 million contract to connect NHS data. They have said themselves that they are “buying our way in” to the NHS, and recent revelations in the BMJ shed a little bit more light on what exactly that involves. Much weight has been placed by Starmer’s ministers on a pilot…
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The NHS signed on with US firm Palantir to provide its ‘Federated Data Platform’ in November 2023 at a cost of £330 million. Although until recently Palantir operated at a loss, it is rapidly becoming profitable thanks to contracts from the US government, including ICE, and the US military. Its software was been a key…
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This is the much-vaunted Fair Work Agency, or what survives of it after Starmer’s repated wattering down of what was promised to the unions. Well done Sharon for laying it on the line. The Fair work Agency was supposed to enforce worker’s rights and give a meaningful inspection regime for low pay, bogus self employment,…
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Thanks to Ray Goodspeed of Left Horizons for doing this interview. On NHS issues – what I was trying to say is that we have many, many issues in the NHS, but the model bequeathed to us from the previous regime simly does not work, The idea was that if a member has a problem…
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If you have a house infested with rats you don’t move out and leave the rats running the house. You get rid of the rats. The unions fund the Labour Party – that is the actual party, the offices, the staff, the leaflets and even the postage, The rich donors do none of that. They…
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Nothing better shows the stupidity and emptiness of Starmer, Streeting and Reeves’ commitment to the NHS than the bombshell announcement of the abolition of NHS England in March 2025. Starmer was all dressed up, as he often is, in Hi-Vis as he made a speech at the Dettol research centre in Hull. The centre piece…
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