The oil and gas monopolies are ramping up pressure on Labour to expand fossil fuel drilling in the North Sea, using the Iran war as an excuse. This isn’t to lower bills or boost national security, but to reap enormous profits at the expense of the planet.

Green leader Zack Polanski recently gave a speech fleshing out his party’s economic programme, and how they plan to implement it. But taxing the rich and borrowing from capitalist creditors cannot solve the crisis of the system.

In this week’s edition of ‘Broken Britain’, readers of The Communist expose the parasites running water companies into the ground, the shoddy state of the UK’s transport infrastructure, and the impacts of the oil crisis on rural residents.