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NHS issues ‘worst ever’ flu warning this winter, putting a major strain on services, as virus peak ‘yet to come’

And here's what the Health Secretary Wes Streeting things about it. He thinks the NHS uses winter crises "as excuse to ask for more funding"
https://t.co/fYISCI8JNK

NHS issues ‘worst ever’ flu warning this winter as virus peak ‘yet to come’

Brits have seen the winter flu season start earlier and an NHS director has said that we could be facing one of the worst ever which is putting a major strain on services

The Mirror

Story from today's Washington Post

Meanwhile the US and UK keep on funding and arming the genocidal Israeli regime

Labour said they were laser-focused on growth and everything else had to give way to that priority

It was the 1st of their 5 'missions'

🔹1) Kickstart economic growth to secure the highest sustained growth in the G7

Reeves Recession
Starmer Stagnation

https://t.co/JUHyKadgrs

UK economy had zero growth between July and September

The downward revision will be a blow to Labour which has made boosting the economy its top priority.

BBC News

Not sure it was ever low-level, but it's certainly been going on a long time

Steve Bell on Peter Mandelson's miasma of sleaze from 14 years ago

What is our government saying about tens of thousands of dead, maimed, freezing and starving children in Palestine this Christmas?

Here is our Silent Knight

Do Starmer and his cabinet think people will get used to the idea that they represent corporate interests and lied to get elected?

Do they think people will just shrug and accept it, and vote for them again because “they are not Tories”?

Paul Mason said any Labour leader whose approval rating dips below -30 should resign

For once, I agree with him

We lost legal aid, now we’ve got a dangerous right wing authoritarian as prime minister, locking people up for peaceful protest, using the state of the economy and public services to impose austerity and to remove our right to trial by jury
Alongside Prem Sikka's article, worth reading this by Nick Shaxson on how a bloated finance sector shapes laws, rules, thinktanks, culture, causes lower growth, steeper inequality, distorted markets, crime, corruption, & hollows out other sectors
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/oct/05/the-finance-curse-how-the-outsized-power-of-the-city-of-london-makes-britain-poorer
The finance curse: how the outsized power of the City of London makes Britain poorer

The long read: The City of London and the services it sells around the world are hailed as the crowning glory of the UK economy. But as the financial sector blooms, everything else withers

The Guardian

Gov hopes to grow the finance industry which distorts the economy, causes crashes, fraud, dirty money, tax evasion.
They know financialisaton hurts the economy & people, but they are in thrall to big money

https://leftfootforward.org/2024/12/the-government-shouldnt-pin-all-of-its-hopes-for-economic-growth-on-the-finance-industry/

The government shouldn’t pin all of its hopes for economic growth on the finance industry

Such a strategy was tried in 1970s and came to grief in the mid-1970s secondary banking crash.

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