Setting the record for longest strike within the health&social care sector, returning to work after 90 days. Myself and fellow ‘CareUk’ strikers. Solidarity with all those still fighting unscrupulous bosses, we will win in the end. #awakeonasleepin
@UberUKI_Support Are we just repeating ourselves now? Fair enough….
I have done, (as evidently other disappointed customers have), they won’t do anything.
Thanks for your LACK of understanding.
I won’t be using your services again
@ubereats_uk just recieved a Mcdelivery, part of which was missing, the rest was cold. Refund for missing items processing, nothing for cold food, chatting with bot on the app is of no help.
@UberUKI_Support I have done, (as evidently other disappointed customers have), they won’t do anything.
Thanks for your LACK of understanding.
I won’t be using your services again
@UberUKI_Support McDonald’s. I have already contacted via the routes on the app and uber. None of which are satisfactory, getting standard replies from an AI chatbot.
I hear the press have got hold of some pictures and so I have been forced to make this statement. Needless to say, I apologise. https://t.co/mNRsQ57iTF
🚨 NEW: The Green Party 2024 manifesto in full
Immigration:
- End immigration detention unless a public safety danger
- Allow asylum seekers to work during application process
- End the hostile environment
- Remove minimum income requirements for spouse visas
- Provide safe routes for those fleeing persecution
- Replace the Home Office with a new Department of Migration
- Abolish 'no recourse to public funds' condition
Nuclear weapons and NATO:
- Dismantle nuclear weapons, cancel Trident, remove foreign nukes
- UK to sign the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
- Increase focus on global peacebuilding
- Commit to 'No First Use' of nuclear weapons
Climate aid:
- Increase international aid to 1% of GNI by 2033
- Increase climate finance for Global South to 1.5% of GNI by 2033
- Contribute to a new Loss and Damage Fund
Social support:
- Increase Universal Credit and legacy benefits by £40 a week
- Abolish the two-child benefit cap
- End the ‘bedroom tax’
- Introduce universal basic income
- Restore disability benefits, immediate 5% uplift
- Reform eligibility tests like PIP
- Free transport for 16-18 year old pupils with special needs
Housing:
- Spread small developments across local areas
- Ensure new developments include local service investments
- All new homes to meet Passivhaus or equivalent standards
- Include solar panels and heat pumps in new homes
£29bn over five years for home insulation to EPC B standard
- £4bn over five years for other building insulation
- £9bn over five years for low-carbon heating systems
- Provide 150,000 new social homes annually
- Implement rent controls and end no-fault evictions
- Tenants' right to demand energy efficiency improvements
- Private tenancy boards for dispute resolution
Democracy/human rights:
- Replace first past the post with proportional voting
- Replace House of Lords with elected chamber
- Votes for 16-year-olds
- End violence against women and girls
- Scrap laws eroding protest and free expression rights
- Support self-identification for trans and non-binary people
- Scrap Prevent, tackle hate crime and restore trust in police
- Invest £2.5bn in renewing the court system
Energy:
- 70% of UK electricity from wind by 2030
- Deliver 80GW offshore, 53GW onshore wind, and 100GW solar by 2035
- Invest in energy storage and efficient distribution
- Community ownership of energy sources
- Cancel recent fossil fuel licenses, stop new projects
- Remove oil and gas subsidies
- Introduce carbon tax on fossil fuels
Economy:
- Invest £40bn annually in green economy
Introduce carbon tax
- Public ownership of railways, water, and major energy companies
- Invest £12.4bn in skills and training for green economy
- Encourage community ownership in energy projects
Implement Wealth Tax on high-value assets
- Reform Capital Gains Tax
- Align tax rates on investment and employment income
- Remove Upper Earnings Limit for National Insurance
- Set up regional mutual banks
- Provide £2bn annually for business decarbonisation grants
- Encourage community ownership in zero-carbon transition
International:
- End occupation of Palestinian land
- Uphold self-determination and international law
- Support Ukraine against Russian invasion
- Re-join the EU when politically feasible
- Bilateral ceasefire
- End arms sales to Israel
- Secure release of hostages
- Ensure equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians
- Reinstate funding for UNRWA, support South Africa’s ICJ submission
Education:
- Abolish university tuition fees
- Increase school funding by £8bn, with £2bn for teacher pay
- End high-stakes testing in all schools
- Abolish OFSTED
Work:
- Repeal anti-union laws, introduce Charter of Workers’ Rights
- Implement 10:1 pay ratio
- Raise minimum wage to £15/hour
- Equal employment rights from day one
- Move to a four-day work week
Health:
-New NHS dentists’ contrac taiting lists annually
- Guarantee access to NHS dentist
- Guarantee rapid GP access
- Boost NHS staff pay, restore junior doctors’ pay
- Increase primary medical care funding by £1.5bn by 2030
- Restore public health budgets with £1.5bn annual increase
- Fund smoking cessation, drug treatment, and sexual health services
- National Commission to reform UK drug laws
-New NHS dentists’ contract
- Invest £3bn annually in NHS dentistry by 2030
- Fund community hubs for free dental nursing
- Support mental health rights
- Increase mental health care funding
- Access to evidence-based mental health therapies within 28 days
- Trained counsellor in every school and sixth-form college
- Tailored mental health services for diverse communities
- Support for neurodivergent children in schools
- Legalise assisted dying
- Aim for no more HIV transmissions by 2030
Caring:
- Introduce free personal care
- Increase pay rates and career structure for carers
- Add £3bn for high-quality children's social care
Arts, sports and culture:
- Invest £5bn in community sports, arts, and culture
- Keep local facilities open
- Remove VAT on cultural activities
- Limit media ownership to 20%
- Implement 2012 Leveson Report reforms
Animals:
- Create Commission on Animal Protection
- Ban all blood sports
- Protect marine life in UK waters
- End badger culling
- End factory farming, enforce maximum stocking densities
- Ban close confinement and unnecessary mutilation of farm animals
Transport:
- Increase subsidies for rail and bus travel to £10bn
- Free bus travel for under-18s
- Invest £19bn in foot/cycle paths and electrification
- Public ownership of railways
- Increase local control and funding for bus services
- Aim for 50% of trips in towns/cities to be walked or cycled by 2030
- Introduce frequent-flyer levy
- Ban short domestic flights
- Halt airport expansion
Nature:
- Introduce Rights of Nature Act
- End sewage discharge by taking water companies public
- Expand access to green spaces with Right to Roam Act
- Protect 30% of land and seas by 2030
- Ban bee-killing pesticides
- Enact Clean Air Act for the right to clean air
Agriculture/farming:
- Triple financial support for green farming transition
Improve biodiversity and soil health
- Reduce pesticide use
- Provide free school meals daily to all children
- Offer free breakfast clubs in primary schools
- Include food growing, preparing, and cooking in curriculum
- Reduce food waste
"We are prepared to borrow to invest."
Oh wow I’ve just seen my mentions and this has blown up. thanks everyone. It’s such a huge privilege to get to talk about these topics on @thismorning ❤️🙏
Peace Offering.
Tonight in Doncaster I was met by an hostile left wing crowd as I went to speak at Don Valley Conservative Association.
To diffuse the situation I took a plate of food out to the protesters.
They refused my offer of kindnesses