You MUST listen to this. A lady called Philipa Bateman phoned in to "BBC Any Answers" last week and talked about her experience of the lockdown and her opinion of @BorisJohnson. WARNING ⚠️ this is POWERFUL! Please share.

🚨BREAKING @TheGreenParty calls for Thames Water and South East Water to be taken into public ownership WITHOUT COMPENSATION by Christmas Thames Water is insolvent, and South East Water has repeatedly failed to supply water to thousands of homes This is wonderful from the Greens

Andy Burnham's been talking about fixing social care in Britain for a long time. Now, as Prime Minister, he’ll build a National Care Service, free at the point of use, to give older people the care they deserve.

In the next Parliament, Labour will build a National Care Service. This will be the biggest change to the provision of care in Britain since we established our NHS in the 1940s. At Labour Party Conference, Prime Minister Andy Burnham explained why. Everyone knows that Britain’s social care system is broken. And for decades, politicians have failed to fix it. That’s left millions of older people facing care costs which are too much to bear, and living in conditions which are not up to scratch. It’s also increased pressure on our NHS. Visit any hospital and you will see the impact: older people who should be supported at home forced into A&E, and beds occupied by people who could leave hospital, but can’t get access to the help they need as they recover. We won’t let this system continue. So, the Labour way of looking after older people in our country will be a fundamental change. By setting up a National Care Service, we’ll build a way of delivering care with the same principles as the NHS: where everyone contributes and everyone is covered. Older people will be able to access good quality, free personal care with support for their needs. And our National Care Service will deliver care in the home wherever possible, giving older people the respect they deserve. We’ll pay for it by adjusting the triple lock. The triple lock will stay the same throughout this parliament. Labour pledged it in our manifesto and we’ll keep that promise. From April 2030, we’ll adjust it, but it will always continue to rise. We will guarantee that the state pension will rise every year by either inflation or by 2.5% - whichever is higher. Nobody’s pension will go down, and the state pension will be on a sustainable footing for the years to come. We will start laying the groundwork for the National Care Service now, and introduce it in the next Parliament. So this is Labour’s deal. A state pension that rises every year. And a high-quality National Care Service to give peace of mind in later life.

These are Green Party-supporting accounts — perhaps even members. They think joking about me being “repeatedly stabbed in the dark” is funny. This isn’t edgy banter. It’s grotesque — and, frankly, it’s scary. I won’t be intimidated into silence. @ZackPolanski, what do you have to say about this?

"We are the party that wants to tax the very richest, bring our public services back into public hands and end rip off Britain," Green Party leader Zack Polanski says "We are sure about who we stand up for," he adds Follow live: bbc.in/3U46z9N

Very few on the left have agreed with me over the last decade. But a major reason for 40 years of increasingly dysfunctional politics in this country is because of the puerility of the BBC. When you have 80% market share, and think this is informed debate, of course the country has problems.

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The Green Party might want to look a little more closely at the social-media activists who spring into action and swarm whenever they or Polanski are criticised. They may find rather too many retired political obsessives spending their days attacking women online — because punching us in the face would get them arrested — alongside, as a friend put it, angry young men who want to like Andrew Tate but also want to be cool. It’s ugly, and a nasty political culture to have flourishing around a party that was once the exact opposite.

I'm grappling with the impact of the proposed changes to the triple lock. It is impossible for any savings to arise until 2031/32 at the earliest, as 2030/21 is the baseline, I think? After that, savings only arrive if following a period of weak wage growth, it picks up again and outstrips both inflation and 2.5% for a period. So you need tough years followed by good years before any saving can arise. Does @ifs (or anyone else) have the probability of this proposal producing no savings at all by 2040? If we do enter a halcyon period where strong wage growth outstrips inflation (which must be what the Government would aim for), then Burnham has just announced a Social Care Policy and a change to the triple lock that generates no future savings to pay for it! @julianHjessop can you help at all?

Thousands of young people could lose key disability benefits Govt could limit the Personal Independence Payment (Pip), and further strip Motability support. Hope the govt sees sense and doesn't repeat Starmer policies. Why not end corporate welfare? independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…

Notice how silent Andy Burnham has been on wealth taxes. He’s targeted pensioners by scrapping the triple lock. And now young people by scrapping the disability element of UC. Yet not a word on the unproductive assets or unearned wealth of the super rich. It’s very revealing.

DAN DAN DAN DAN DAN DAN. Stop clutching your fucking pearls mate. When did you start working as the comedy police exactly?

Change doesn’t happen because those in power suddenly decide to be bolder - it happens when. Greens push them to be better. And on climate, that couldn’t be more urgent. Vote Green to keep fossil fuels in the ground, where they belong