The Left Hook

🥊 Punching up at power.
✊ Workers over billionaires. People over profit.
🔴 Democratic socialist. Pro-union. Anti-austerity.

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We're The Left Hook: left-wing commentary on British politics.

We're for fair wages, secure homes and public services that work, in a country run for all, not the wealthy few.

Expect evidence over spin, scrutiny of every party.

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PM Andy Burnham voices 'sorrow and regret' for Britain's role in the slave trade, but rules out reparations and offers poorer nations easier debt terms. Slave owners were compensated. The enslaved got nothing. Why restructure the debt, not cancel it?

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@AliKh1886 Paying an 18-year-old less for the same shift isn't a trade-off, it's a discount for bosses.

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@nypost Billionaires pouring fortunes into sinking a billionaire tax and somehow Bernie's the one in the headline?

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@novaramedia @NaomiAKlein @AyoCaesar Which is why the planet can't be left on billionaires' balance sheets - clean public power and fast.

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@Daily_Express Help confirmed, lovely, but help every Budget is a plaster when public energy and capped bills are the cure.

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@ZohranKMamdani Rent, bills and healthcare are the whole fight on both sides of the Atlantic and Britain's renters are watching.

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From today the law puts full-rate VAT on public and workplace car chargers, while petrol and diesel keep their fuel duty cut. Renters with no driveway get punished for going electric. Clean travel should cost less, not more. Back public charging, not pumps.

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Treasury minister Emma Reynolds says employers aren't 'working people', and the right is in meltdown. Calm down. Bosses and workers want different things from every pay packet. That's why workers need strong unions, not sympathy for owners.

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"I don't think employers are working people"

- Treasury Minister Emma Reynolds, Labour.

I really thought that Labour could not sink any lower than Starmer but every time one of them opens their mouth they manage to prove me wrong.

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@VivekGRamaswamy Calling public healthcare and affordable rent communism is a great way of admitting you've got nothing better.

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@RichardBurgon Police found time to arrest hundreds of placard holders, funny how that energy never reaches sewage-dumping water firms.

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@SenWarren Break it up, sure, but the real cure is taking healthcare out of the profit business altogether.

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Need care in England with over £23,250 in savings? You'll usually foot the bill. PM Andy Burnham promises free personal care for older people after the next election, funded by trimming the pension triple lock. Why should pensioners pay, not the super-rich?

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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says a National Care Service and more council homes create a 'black hole'. Her party's plan? Over £70bn a year of cuts. Care for the old and homes for the young aren't the hole. Untaxed wealth is. Tax it and build.

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@MichaelARothman Medicare for All and public supermarkets as a hellhole? Americans paying ruinous premiums might fancy that “hellhole”!

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@BBCPolitics Most cuts from welfare, none from the untaxed fortunes at the top! The Tories never change the target do they.

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@ZackPolanski Big Oil lobbying ministers is the best case yet for public ownership to wind the North Sea down fairly, no new licences.

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@GBNEWS All that Sunday grilling on missiles, and still no question on why the super rich face no wealth tax.

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@Heritage Free healthcare, affordable homes and strong unions sound less like the end of the dream than the start of it.

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@implausibleblog Squeezing claimants while capital gains get the soft rate is a choice … and the wrong one.

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Labour promised to scrap 'discriminatory' age bands on the minimum wage. Now Chancellor Healey says 'one step at a time'. The same jobs scare was used against the minimum wage itself. Jobs didn't vanish. Same shift, same pay for 18 to 20-year-olds. Now.

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Healey hints manifesto pledge on young worker pay not certain before election
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