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Whether water is in private hands or public ownership, it needs public control.
Worker/Customer elected directors on company boards and OFWAT.
Worker/Customer vote on exec pay. No exec will get undeserved pay or bonus.
Govts pay lip service to democracy
leftfootforward.org/2025/06/nati...
Worker/Customer elected directors on company boards and OFWAT.
Worker/Customer vote on exec pay. No exec will get undeserved pay or bonus.
Govts pay lip service to democracy
leftfootforward.org/2025/06/nati...
leftfootforward.org
June 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Whether water is in private hands or public ownership, it needs public control.
Worker/Customer elected directors on company boards and OFWAT.
Worker/Customer vote on exec pay. No exec will get undeserved pay or bonus.
Govts pay lip service to democracy
leftfootforward.org/2025/06/nati...
Worker/Customer elected directors on company boards and OFWAT.
Worker/Customer vote on exec pay. No exec will get undeserved pay or bonus.
Govts pay lip service to democracy
leftfootforward.org/2025/06/nati...
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‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Millionaire-Owned Media Told You About Never Actually Happened.
9,500 millionaires reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06m millionaires.
Fake stories create panics, want people/govts to be slaves of the rich.
Tax the rich.
9,500 millionaires reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06m millionaires.
Fake stories create panics, want people/govts to be slaves of the rich.
Tax the rich.
The 'Millionaire Exodus' the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened
The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent"
bylinetimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Millionaire-Owned Media Told You About Never Actually Happened.
9,500 millionaires reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06m millionaires.
Fake stories create panics, want people/govts to be slaves of the rich.
Tax the rich.
9,500 millionaires reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06m millionaires.
Fake stories create panics, want people/govts to be slaves of the rich.
Tax the rich.
‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Millionaire-Owned Media Told You About Never Actually Happened.
9,500 millionaires reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06m millionaires.
Fake stories create panics, want people/govts to be slaves of the rich.
Tax the rich.
9,500 millionaires reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06m millionaires.
Fake stories create panics, want people/govts to be slaves of the rich.
Tax the rich.
The 'Millionaire Exodus' the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened
The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent"
bylinetimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Reeves is delivering austerity for the UK youtu.be/TwQxdCLjL9s?... Rachel Reeves' Spending Review is a sham. She is claiming to deliver a lot, and she isn't, whilst failing to provide for children in poverty and simultaneously keeping the wealthy in the style to which they are accustomed.
Reeves is delivering austerity for the UK, unless you're wealthy, when it's still bonanza time
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
June 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reeves is delivering austerity for the UK youtu.be/TwQxdCLjL9s?... Rachel Reeves' Spending Review is a sham. She is claiming to deliver a lot, and she isn't, whilst failing to provide for children in poverty and simultaneously keeping the wealthy in the style to which they are accustomed.
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You are botting to an old mum who remembers Harriet Harman…..slashing single mums income to look hard after being elected. 4.5 million kids in poverty. Then Yvette Cooper architect of WCA tick box torture to label humans.
You deal with blackrock and palantir. Sold us all out.
You deal with blackrock and palantir. Sold us all out.
May 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
You are botting to an old mum who remembers Harriet Harman…..slashing single mums income to look hard after being elected. 4.5 million kids in poverty. Then Yvette Cooper architect of WCA tick box torture to label humans.
You deal with blackrock and palantir. Sold us all out.
You deal with blackrock and palantir. Sold us all out.
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It is as if Labour hate children and most especially children with needs or those in poverty, and is intent on doing everything they can to make life as hard as possible for them and all those who care for them. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
Labour really are bastards, and are intent on proving it
On Friday, I described Labour as bastards. I don’t regret doing so. No one seemed to disagree with me. I did so with regard to the plan Labour now seems to have to continue with the two-child benefit ...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
May 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
It is as if Labour hate children and most especially children with needs or those in poverty, and is intent on doing everything they can to make life as hard as possible for them and all those who care for them. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
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The UK has GPs desperate to work, and Labour won’t employ them www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
The UK has GPs desperate to work, and Labour won’t employ them
If you listened to Wes Streeting and the government, the problem with supplying more appointments in the NHS is all down to a shortage of GPs, and they are years away because of the time it takes to t...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
May 26, 2025 at 6:39 AM
The UK has GPs desperate to work, and Labour won’t employ them www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
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£536m NHS cataract contracts given to private operators. 5 companies dominate, 3 private equity (PE) owned.
£169m profit. Average profit margin 32%; range from 17% to 50%. £68m interest paid on PE debt
NHS becoming a shell doling out contracts.
Profiteering = money buys less.
Expand NHS capacity
£169m profit. Average profit margin 32%; range from 17% to 50%. £68m interest paid on PE debt
NHS becoming a shell doling out contracts.
Profiteering = money buys less.
Expand NHS capacity
Out of Sight – the hidden profits and conflicts of interest behind the outsourcing of NHS cataract care. — Centre for Health and the Public Interest
This report is the third in a series of studies looking at the outsourcing of NHS cataract care to the private sector. In this report we look at how the very rapid growth in private secto...
www.chpi.org.uk
May 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
£536m NHS cataract contracts given to private operators. 5 companies dominate, 3 private equity (PE) owned.
£169m profit. Average profit margin 32%; range from 17% to 50%. £68m interest paid on PE debt
NHS becoming a shell doling out contracts.
Profiteering = money buys less.
Expand NHS capacity
£169m profit. Average profit margin 32%; range from 17% to 50%. £68m interest paid on PE debt
NHS becoming a shell doling out contracts.
Profiteering = money buys less.
Expand NHS capacity
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I am going to find it hard to forgive a man as deeply racist as Keir Starmer.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
How dare Keir Starmer tell my family that we have caused incalculable damage to the UK?
These are Guardian headlines, published late this morning:
I find these words exceptionally difficult to note when said by someone who claims to have the moral authority that comes from being the p...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
May 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I am going to find it hard to forgive a man as deeply racist as Keir Starmer.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
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The oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Horizon scandal, 92 year old, was offered 29% of the compensation she asked for. Now receives offer of 60%.
Scandalous. Why is their agony being prolonged? Pay them.
No victim should get less than what Post Office execs have retired on.
Scandalous. Why is their agony being prolonged? Pay them.
No victim should get less than what Post Office execs have retired on.
Oldest Post Office victim says new compensation 'not good enough'
Betty Brown's offer was increased from 30% to 60%, but still below what she claimed when her life was
www.bbc.co.uk
April 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Horizon scandal, 92 year old, was offered 29% of the compensation she asked for. Now receives offer of 60%.
Scandalous. Why is their agony being prolonged? Pay them.
No victim should get less than what Post Office execs have retired on.
Scandalous. Why is their agony being prolonged? Pay them.
No victim should get less than what Post Office execs have retired on.
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Heathrow hotels quadruple prices as flight cancelled.
Stranded passengers at Sofitel hotel near the airport asked to pay £700 a night for a standard room.
Holiday Inn quadrupled prices.
Capitalists have no ethics/compassion. No regulator would investigate.
Boycott price gougers.
archive.ph/tOFkD
Stranded passengers at Sofitel hotel near the airport asked to pay £700 a night for a standard room.
Holiday Inn quadrupled prices.
Capitalists have no ethics/compassion. No regulator would investigate.
Boycott price gougers.
archive.ph/tOFkD
Heathrow hotels quadruple prices as stranded passengers drive demand
Customers with few alternatives complain of ‘price gouging’ after flights cancelled
www.ft.com
March 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Heathrow hotels quadruple prices as flight cancelled.
Stranded passengers at Sofitel hotel near the airport asked to pay £700 a night for a standard room.
Holiday Inn quadrupled prices.
Capitalists have no ethics/compassion. No regulator would investigate.
Boycott price gougers.
archive.ph/tOFkD
Stranded passengers at Sofitel hotel near the airport asked to pay £700 a night for a standard room.
Holiday Inn quadrupled prices.
Capitalists have no ethics/compassion. No regulator would investigate.
Boycott price gougers.
archive.ph/tOFkD
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People are alienated by politicians who very obviously do not care about them, whatever they say. Why should anyone be surprised about that?
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
Of course people are in anguish. Our politicians do not care about them
Channel 4 has an article out today on its feature on current political opinion in Grimsby - which it has chosen without very good representative reason - to be its UK representative town.
The article...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
March 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
People are alienated by politicians who very obviously do not care about them, whatever they say. Why should anyone be surprised about that?
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
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I am seething with anger at Labour’s abuse of people with disabilities, made so abundantly clear yesterday. No doubt they think this performative cruelty will work well for them with Reform voters. I loathe them for it. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
Kendall’s performative callousness
Liz Kendall claimed yesterday that the benefits budget will fall by £5 billion by 2029, which is mysteriously the supposed sum by which it is being suggested that the Office for Budget Responsibility ...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
March 19, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I am seething with anger at Labour’s abuse of people with disabilities, made so abundantly clear yesterday. No doubt they think this performative cruelty will work well for them with Reform voters. I loathe them for it. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
I am seething with anger at Labour’s abuse of people with disabilities, made so abundantly clear yesterday. No doubt they think this performative cruelty will work well for them with Reform voters. I loathe them for it. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
Kendall’s performative callousness
Liz Kendall claimed yesterday that the benefits budget will fall by £5 billion by 2029, which is mysteriously the supposed sum by which it is being suggested that the Office for Budget Responsibility ...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
March 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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I don’t apologise for being so angry www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03... What else can I be but angry?
I don’t apologise for being so angry
I might appear to be angry of late. The reason is that I am.
I am incandescent with Labour and its callous indifference to people.
I am frightened by Starmer's refusal to condemn fascists in the US ...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
March 19, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I don’t apologise for being so angry www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03... What else can I be but angry?
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Hedge fund manager Crispin Odey, funded Jacob Rees-Mogg and Tories, faces ban from working in financial services, fined £1.8m by the UK regulator for a "lack of integrity".
FCA says he attempted to "frustrate" a disciplinary process into sexual harassment allegations.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
FCA says he attempted to "frustrate" a disciplinary process into sexual harassment allegations.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Crispin Odey: Hedge fund millionaire banned by City watchdog
Crispin Odey has also been fined £1.8m by the Financial Conduct Authority for a
www.bbc.co.uk
March 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Hedge fund manager Crispin Odey, funded Jacob Rees-Mogg and Tories, faces ban from working in financial services, fined £1.8m by the UK regulator for a "lack of integrity".
FCA says he attempted to "frustrate" a disciplinary process into sexual harassment allegations.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
FCA says he attempted to "frustrate" a disciplinary process into sexual harassment allegations.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Keir Starmer to drive through welfare cuts for UK’s most severely disabled people, more than 600,000 benefit claimants could lose out on an average of £675 a month.
Awful, inhumane.
No cuts to corporate welfare, won't tax the rich.
People sacrificed to gods of neoliberalism.
Awful, inhumane.
No cuts to corporate welfare, won't tax the rich.
People sacrificed to gods of neoliberalism.
Starmer to drive through welfare cuts that could affect UK’s most severely disabled
PM faces backlash over plans to tighten eligibility, potentially leaving over 600,000 claimants £675 a month worse off
www.theguardian.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Keir Starmer to drive through welfare cuts for UK’s most severely disabled people, more than 600,000 benefit claimants could lose out on an average of £675 a month.
Awful, inhumane.
No cuts to corporate welfare, won't tax the rich.
People sacrificed to gods of neoliberalism.
Awful, inhumane.
No cuts to corporate welfare, won't tax the rich.
People sacrificed to gods of neoliberalism.
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UK bananas come from an island that doesn't grow any.
Bananas selling for £1 start life with 13p cost. Another 47p added through intragroup transactions, booked in tax havens. Supermarket incurs cost, sells for £1.
No tax paid on 47p profit.
HMRC makes no estimate of tax lost via profit shifting.
Bananas selling for £1 start life with 13p cost. Another 47p added through intragroup transactions, booked in tax havens. Supermarket incurs cost, sells for £1.
No tax paid on 47p profit.
HMRC makes no estimate of tax lost via profit shifting.
UK governments are failing to curb corporate tax abuses and leaving people to pay the price
Governments remain obsessed with austerity and choose not to inconvenience the rich or curb tax abuses by corporations.
leftfootforward.org
March 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
UK bananas come from an island that doesn't grow any.
Bananas selling for £1 start life with 13p cost. Another 47p added through intragroup transactions, booked in tax havens. Supermarket incurs cost, sells for £1.
No tax paid on 47p profit.
HMRC makes no estimate of tax lost via profit shifting.
Bananas selling for £1 start life with 13p cost. Another 47p added through intragroup transactions, booked in tax havens. Supermarket incurs cost, sells for £1.
No tax paid on 47p profit.
HMRC makes no estimate of tax lost via profit shifting.
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Starmer, Reeves and the benefits minister Liz Kendall are so indifferent to the suffering of those with disabilities that they proposed freezing their benefits next year - when they have had a 2.8% pay rise. Callousness of this order is off the scale. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
Labour ministers who thought that freezing benefit payments was appropriate are not fit to hold public office
As the Guardian notes this morning:
Ministers have left the door open to a humiliating U-turn on their highly contentious plans to cut benefits for disabled people, amid mounting uproar over the prop...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
March 16, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Starmer, Reeves and the benefits minister Liz Kendall are so indifferent to the suffering of those with disabilities that they proposed freezing their benefits next year - when they have had a 2.8% pay rise. Callousness of this order is off the scale. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
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The UK benefits system is broken. One third of benefits are not paid and by far the biggest recipients of state aid are the wealthiest people in the country www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
The UK benefits system is broken. One third of benefits are not paid and by far the biggest recipients of state aid are the wealthiest people in the country
As the FT notes this morning:
Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to slash spending on Britain’s “broken” and “indefensible” health-related welfare system, which is costing the government £65bn a year and is o...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
March 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The UK benefits system is broken. One third of benefits are not paid and by far the biggest recipients of state aid are the wealthiest people in the country www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
The UK benefits system is broken. One third of benefits are not paid and by far the biggest recipients of state aid are the wealthiest people in the country www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
The UK benefits system is broken. One third of benefits are not paid and by far the biggest recipients of state aid are the wealthiest people in the country
As the FT notes this morning:
Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to slash spending on Britain’s “broken” and “indefensible” health-related welfare system, which is costing the government £65bn a year and is o...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
March 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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It costs about £470 million a day to run the NHS, so if the £500m Streeting is promising by eliminating NHS England does materialise, it should keep the service going for one day.
March 17, 2025 at 7:14 AM
It costs about £470 million a day to run the NHS, so if the £500m Streeting is promising by eliminating NHS England does materialise, it should keep the service going for one day.
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Trump is ending the rule of law in the USA.
First they came for.....the Venezuelans.
Then one day they might come for you, and me.
It's all so inevitable.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
First they came for.....the Venezuelans.
Then one day they might come for you, and me.
It's all so inevitable.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
First they came for the Venezuelans
As the New York Times has reported, on Saturday, a Federal judge ordered that Trump should not expel Venezuelans from the USA using an 18th-century wartime law.
Yesterday he did so in defiance of the...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
March 17, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Trump is ending the rule of law in the USA.
First they came for.....the Venezuelans.
Then one day they might come for you, and me.
It's all so inevitable.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
First they came for.....the Venezuelans.
Then one day they might come for you, and me.
It's all so inevitable.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
Good. They get negligible say and wealth, they may as well stand back.
Fatuous cunts like James can fight instead - he does very well out of our system.
Fatuous cunts like James can fight instead - he does very well out of our system.
So in classic Monday morning fashion, I can't find a thing I'm sure I saw over the weekend. About a book by a 27-year-old about why his generation wouldn't fight wars because being occupied might make your life 'shitty' but it's better than being dead. Ring any bells?
March 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Good. They get negligible say and wealth, they may as well stand back.
Fatuous cunts like James can fight instead - he does very well out of our system.
Fatuous cunts like James can fight instead - he does very well out of our system.
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Appears Starmer does not understand
“Life costs more for disabled people. Huge numbers already live in poverty as a result of these extra costs. The impact of any disability benefit cuts would be devastating”
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“Life costs more for disabled people. Huge numbers already live in poverty as a result of these extra costs. The impact of any disability benefit cuts would be devastating”
apple.news/AsAvQsOlRRBK...
Disability benefit cuts could plunge 700,000 households into poverty, Labour warned — The Big Issue
Keir Starmer reportedly called the benefits system the 'worst of all worlds' as he briefed MPs on the government's plans to slash the welfare bill
apple.news
March 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Appears Starmer does not understand
“Life costs more for disabled people. Huge numbers already live in poverty as a result of these extra costs. The impact of any disability benefit cuts would be devastating”
apple.news/AsAvQsOlRRBK...
“Life costs more for disabled people. Huge numbers already live in poverty as a result of these extra costs. The impact of any disability benefit cuts would be devastating”
apple.news/AsAvQsOlRRBK...