Trending
Steve's Avatar

Steve

@bigpike

Social worker and author who practised mainly with children and families. Concerned about inequality and social injustice. Pike fisher and author. Other interests include travelling and rock music.

1,449
Followers
698
Following
170
Posts
26.11.2024
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Steve @bigpike

Preview
Take Big Money Out of Our Politics British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

13.03.2026 15:10 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The fact that Starmer filters every decision he makes through "what will the far-right voter think about this?" makes him unfit to lead the Labour party. Many of his cabinet colleagues also.

08.03.2026 10:57 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Let's hope so!

07.03.2026 13:40 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hard to disagree.

01.03.2026 20:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm way to the left of the Lib Dems but can't fault their SEND proposal.

20.02.2026 13:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Beware - this 'bloke' will do nothing to benefit ordinary people but everything to benefit the rich!

18.02.2026 17:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Perhaps its time for Horden and many other areas to turn to the Greens.

18.02.2026 16:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
The Labour Together scandal goes right to the heart of No 10 – Starmer has nowhere to hide | Peter Geoghegan He can sack who he wants to protect himself, but all roads currently lead back to the prime minister, says Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale

Starmer needs to commission an independent inquiry into Labour Together- or he too becomes implicated in an increasingly unsustainable cover-up

New by me in @theguardian.com on why PM needs to act on Labour Together hiring a PR firm to smear journalists

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

17.02.2026 16:12 👍 276 🔁 112 💬 14 📌 9

“A Labour Government has lost its way when it is making policy designed to chase Nigel Farage’s tail instead of doing what’s best for the country.”

13.02.2026 16:05 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

One of the richest men in the UK, living in Monaco to avoid billions in tax, suddenly gives a rare interview and awkwardly echoes Reform bullshit, shortly after meeting Farage. Im sure it’s coincidence and not a billionaire trying to tilt the scales toward an ally of the billionaire class.

12.02.2026 20:13 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0

Palantir was this week called “ghastly” and “a highly questionable organisation” by MPs in the House of Commons.

12.02.2026 20:08 👍 8 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Rayner coup will trigger election, Starmer allies warn rebels PM’s supporters say new Left-wing agenda would require fresh mandate

Utter bollocks, left wing is what we expected from the Labour party but we got Starmer's neo-liberal nazi-lite crap instead.

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/cc5575c...

06.02.2026 18:19 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Preview
Towards critical child protection: for a relationship-based and humane practice with children and families In the UK social work with abused children and their families has long been subject to changing conceptions, policies and practices. Post-war concerns about child cruelty, ‘battered child syndrome’...

Towards critical child protection: for a relationship-based and humane practice with children and families www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

06.02.2026 13:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Peter Mandelson: I try to undermine Jeremy Corbyn 'every single day' Ex-minister speaks out against Labour leader as Blairite peers express fury about Corbyn’s position on Brexit in Lords debate

"Peter Mandelson, the architect of New Labour, has said he is working every day to undermine Jeremy Corbyn"

It's a good time to remind people, a lot of the smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn, in the media, was orchestrated by Peter Mandelson.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
1/3

03.02.2026 21:13 👍 81 🔁 40 💬 10 📌 4

No more needs to be said .....

03.02.2026 12:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Starmer needs to go now!

29.01.2026 13:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Labour row erupts after Andy Burnham blocked from byelection race Allies of Greater Manchester mayor say No 10 has ‘chosen factionalism’ as decision leads to a furious backlash

Labour row erupts after Andy Burnham blocked from byelection race www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

25.01.2026 13:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Remembered Burnham is Blairite! 😡

22.01.2026 18:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So true!

20.01.2026 17:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Food for thought?

20.01.2026 17:10 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Starmer needs to go further!

19.01.2026 18:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Some people say Keir Starmer has been dealt a bad hand.

We're still in January and he's already signed a defence deal with Palantir - knowing full well how unpredictable and dangerous the US President is.

We're way past the point of giving pleading appeasement speeches.

19.01.2026 10:15 👍 1230 🔁 391 💬 69 📌 20

At last - Starmer shows some backbone!

18.01.2026 17:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post image

Morning song for my day. This is for all the Maggots in the world.

youtu.be/GVcY--XzeIc?...

16.01.2026 16:45 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
Greens look set to clean up as Labour switchers move left Labour voters liked the insurgent party even before the arrival of their new leader. As local elections approach, Zack Polanski appears ready to break through in the areas Keir Starmer neglected

It looks like it's now too late for Labour to learn that becoming Tories was never going to be a strategy to win over their base. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

15.01.2026 10:38 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Let's hope he'll be gone!

09.01.2026 16:44 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
Greens open to Labour pact - but only if Starmer goes, says Polanski | LBC Zack Polanski has said the Green Party would be willing to make an electoral pact with Labour to stop Reform winning elections, as long as Sir Keir Starmer was not leader.

Greens open to Labour pact - but only if Starmer goes, says Polanski

flip.it/Dpqayj

Yet another reason Starmer has to go!

09.01.2026 16:37 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 6 📌 1

What is the UK slipping towards?

07.01.2026 18:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seems a sound analysis to me!

06.01.2026 15:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hard to refute this analysis of Starmer's comments about events in Venezuela.

05.01.2026 18:30 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0