What’s really going on UK?

Just vibes🟢

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

UK water companies made £340m by pouring billions of litres of industrial and commercial wastewater into sewage treatment works.

Treatment works are not designed to remove most chemicals, leaving pollutants to pass into rivers, seas and farmland.
https://t.co/sEQ1iwaMYd

[electionmapsuk @electionmapsuk]

Town (Newcastle-under-Lyme) Council By-Election Result:

🌹 LAB: 46.2% (+18.0)
➡️ RFM: 26.7% (-0.4)
🌍 GRN: 12.3% (-9.2)
🌳 CON: 11.8% (-4.3)
🔶 LDM: 2.9% (-4.0)

Labour GAIN from Reform UK.
Changes w/ 2026.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham oversaw a £55m taxpayer loan to businesses owned by Manchester City's owners while he was Greater Manchester Mayor

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 IN FULL: The Holborn and St Pancras by-election results

🔴 Sagal Abdi-Wali (Labour): 12,292 – 45.1%

🌍 Zack Polanski (Green): 8,928 – 32.8%

🌳 Ewan Cameron (Conservative): 1,922 – 7.1%

➡️ Peter Newman (Reform UK): 1,612 – 5.9%

🔶 Patrick Stillman (Liberal Democrats): 924

⬛ Tyler Johnson (Restore Britain): 692

⚙️ George Galloway (Workers’ Party): 314

🇪🇺 Briony Kapoor (Rejoin EU): 236

🤪 Barmy Brunch (Official Monster Raving Loony Party): 87

✝️ Helen Spiby-Vann (Christian Peoples Alliance): 63

🌍 Clare Fischer (Climate Party): 51

🟣 Ben Walker (UKIP): 51

⚪ Ketankumar Pipaliya (UK Voice): 23

☭ Jonathan Silberman (Communist League): 9

⚪ Tom Darwood: 7

Turnout: 27,211 (38.8%)

Labour HOLD.
Changes w/ GE2024

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Failures of privatisation.

Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 jobs

RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets. Regulator keeps lowering them

Postage: 1st class, £1.80, 2nd class 91p.
When privatized in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd 50p.

Poor service, triple price.
https://t.co/wgNErAR4Fi

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Labour-run Camden Council’s investment holdings in Israel-linked tech firm Palantir have increased by more than 1,200% since October 2023, new figures show.

The figures were obtained by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and first reported on by @declassifiedUK.

Camden Council’s leader, Sagal Abdi-Wali, is running for Labour against Green leader Zack Polanski in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection on Thursday, hoping to win Keir Starmer’s old seat. Abdi-Wali has led the council since May this year.

Palantir shares in the council’s local government pension fund were worth £3.65m as of December 2025, up from £276,444 in October 2023. The company has provided Israel’s defence ministry with technology amid the genocide in Gaza.

The council has holdings in 60 companies accused of complicity in Israeli human rights abuses in Palestine, the new figures also show, and the value of these has risen from £104m to £133.5m since June 2024.

As of 31 December 2025, Camden’s pension fund had more than £2.4bn of registered investments, including more than £10m in arms firms also tied to the Israeli military.

In January 2025, more than 4,000 people signed a petition demanding an audit of the pension fund and possible divestment from arms companies, triggering a council debate. The matter was subsequently referred to its pension committee.

A council-commissioned audit later identified £15.9m of investments across 46 companies as having significant human rights concerns related to conflict zones.
But the council’s wider holdings in companies identified by PSC as complicit in Israel’s occupation and violations of Palestinian rights have continued to rise in value.

Abdi-Wali has not commented on Gaza or divestment, according to a review of her public statements cited by Declassified, and did not respond to requests for comment.

Camden Council’s pension fund investment policy says it is committed to responsible investment.

A spokesperson for the council told Declassified that it has strengthened its approach to environmental, social and human rights concerns.

“We have a duty to act with the best long-term financial interests of members but, alongside this, we also expect environmental issues, social values, and human rights to play a central role in decision-making,” they said.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

UK govt plans £1bn energy bills help for poorer households.

Must cut energy profit margins, levy 100% windfall tax on excess profits.

UK energy sector is mostly foreign-owned. Dividends paid without any UK tax deduction.

End the perks, raise billions.
https://t.co/RN7CVPptkz

[Tax Justice UK @TaxJusticeUK]

Britain can’t rebuild on vibes. It needs investment.

That means getting serious about the Tax gap. Because right now £59Billion— enough to pay for free school meals AND affordable childcare AND build 1.45M social homes— is being lost to non-payment.

👉 https://t.co/HUMOFBAPYm

[The National @ScotNational]

NEW: The Conservatives will review devolution and strip the Scottish parliament of powers if they win the next General Election🚨

[Eleanora (formerly LeftieStats) 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats]

🗳️ Holborn and St Pancras projection:

🔴 LAB: 42% (-7)
🟢 GRN: 29% (+19)
🔵 CON: 10% (+3)
➡️ REF: 9% (+3)
🟠 LIB: 7% (+1)
⚪️ OTH: 3% (-19)

Labour HOLD (13% swing to Green)

+/- vs GE2024

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Drax’s planned datacentre to burn 4.9m tons of wood to produce its electricity, double the CO2 emissions of all flights from Gatwick airport.

Drax, a highly profitable company gets subsidies to burn wood & produce electricity

How many lives will it ruin?
https://t.co/60T13JDnA7

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Tories have pledged to halve employers' National Insurance from 15% to 7.5% for workers aged 21-24 to "rescue" young people

[The National @ScotNational]

NEW: The Tories would cut the SNP Government's planning powers in order to impose new nuclear in Scotland, the shadow energy secretary has said

MP Andrew Bowie said the party would 'legislate to ensure that Scotland can host new nuclear power generation'

[What’s really going on UK? @EvilTheCreator2]

The Conservatives plan to scrap Section 106, the CIL, and the Future Homes Standard. Experts warn that the move will slash affordable housing contributions, strip local infrastructure funding, and lock buyers into higher energy bills.
https://t.co/hhHHAOJTvD

[electionmapsuk @electionmapsuk]

Westminster Voting Intention:

LAB: 27% (+3)
RFM: 22% (-3)
CON: 20% (+1)
LDM: 11% (-1)
GRN: 11% (=)
RES: 3% (=)
SNP: 3% (+1)

Via @YouGov, 4-5 Oct.
Changes w/ 27-28 Sep.

[What’s really going on UK? @EvilTheCreator2]

https://t.co/1OK2f7lV6N

[What’s really going on UK? @EvilTheCreator2]

Charity leaders have fiercely condemned Conservative plans to slash the UK foreign aid budget by 90%—reducing it from £9 billion to £1 billion a year to fund domestic prison spaces.

NGO networks warn that the cuts would vaporizing Britain's remaining international credibility.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

The Green Party have just finished their autumn conference, and they got a LOT done!

Dropping their opposition to nuclear energy, demanding a fully publicly owned NHS that extends to GPs, dentistry, ophthalmology etc and demanding that nature is seen as a national security issue.

However, the media remain in meltdown over the Zionism is Racism motion, and their billionaire owners probably aren’t happy about some of the Greens’ new proposals. So lets take a look at 10 of the most important proposals passed!

1. A fully publicly owned NHS

The Greens are calling for a fully publicly owned NHS. They are demanding that GPs, dentistry, ophthalmology and allied health all be returned to public hands.

This comes at a time when NHS privatisation is at an all time high. Labour introduced PFI, the Tories ramped up privatisation, and Labour are now once more continuing it. However, the Greens are demanding a return to the original NHS constitution. This is an awesome policy demand.

2. Abandoning opposition to Nuclear energy

This is an interesting one. Many of my friends have never understood why the Greens are opposed to nuclear energy given its potential. Many still see it is as expensive and inefficient. Either way, dropping opposition to it being part of a complete energy strategy is a HUGE change for the greens.

3. A three-year freeze on rents

This was a policy announced by Zack. At a time when the cost of living crisis is taking over, and extortionate rents are crippling a generation, the Greens have stepped forward to demand rent controls. A three-year rent freeze would give renters the chance to pause for breath in the knowledge that their rents wont rise against until at least the end of 2029.

4. Nature as a security issue

A lot of the commentary online centres around the Greens losing their focus on the environment, but this simply isn’t true.

The Greens are asking the biodiversity and nature crisis be treated as a national security issue, and get given the focus it deserves. This proves that ecology remains at the heart of the Green agenda.

5. Mutualising the BBC

Rather than abolishing the BBC or privatising it, the Greens are calling for its return to public control as well as ownership. This would give the British people much more control over their state broadcaster, rather than handful of posh toffs. The licence fee would be abolished and replaced with direct public funding.

6. Water back in public ownership

As Labour promise to think about public ownership somewhen in the future, the Greens are promising to do it right now. This forms part of the nature as a security issue policy and it is a HUGELY welcome policy.

7. Halving animal farming

At a time of nature crisis, the Greens want to move to bring in security for farming, but also to remove the focus on intensive animal farming which is bad for the planet. Farmers will be supported to transition to more sustainable agriculture and this will also contribute to Britain's food security.

8. Food price intervention

The Greens have called for direct intervention into food pricing, meaning that prices are kept fair for the consumer (and for producers and farmers) to stop the gross profiteering and to ensure food security for the people.

9. Local Authorities encouraged to support BDS

This motion allows councils to support and enact BDS. BDS is the ability to boycott, divest and sanction, such as in the case of opposing genocide by divesting from Israeli firms.

10. Zionism is Racism

This is the final motion I will discuss as it has dominated the political discussion since the motion.

Essentially, this motion calls the ideology of Zionism racist, and calls for one state with fair and equal treatment of all in it (regardless of race, religion or ethnicity). Who could argue with that? The only alternative is an apartheid state and genocide as we are seeing now.

The motion does not call all Zionists racist as the media have suggested, but calls the ideology which ultimate calls for the removal of Palestinians from their land as inherently racist. The motion recognises that not all Zionists are Jewish and that not all Jews are Zionists, and does not conflate the political ideology with the religion.

The Greens will always fight all forms of racism and oppression, including the racist oppression of the Palestinian people. The Greens continue to stand against all forms of oppression and to call for all peoples (Jewish, Palestinian and indeed all peoples) to have the same security, rights and legal protections.

What a conference!

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Tories have promised to build a £10bn Israeli-style Iron Dome called the “Britannia Shield”

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham's permanent "No 10 North" will now be based at Manchester First Street instead of the former retail park