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🚨 Today’s painful price rise is a stark reminder of why we need to reform our broken energy system - if we’re to get our bills down.
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February 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
🚨 Today’s painful price rise is a stark reminder of why we need to reform our broken energy system - if we’re to get our bills down.
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What kind of system puts prices up for consumers - even when it causes hardship and when energy companies are literally increasing their profits.
All services that people need to survive or an inability to access them increases suffering should be publicly owned or not for profit - there sorted!
All services that people need to survive or an inability to access them increases suffering should be publicly owned or not for profit - there sorted!
UK energy is massively over-priced to guarantee that energy companies make profits and households remain impoverished. It's time the government changed the rules that are so heavily rigged against the interests of people in the UK. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...
It’s time to change UK energy pricing
I originally wrote this post as a Twitter thread in 2022. It was then posted on this blog and was checked by energy expert Mike Parr, who is a regular commentator on this blog.
A few price details m...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
February 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
What kind of system puts prices up for consumers - even when it causes hardship and when energy companies are literally increasing their profits.
All services that people need to survive or an inability to access them increases suffering should be publicly owned or not for profit - there sorted!
All services that people need to survive or an inability to access them increases suffering should be publicly owned or not for profit - there sorted!
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“Here was a Vice President whose administration has spent these last weeks lauding or at least cordially embracing a Russian regime where freedom of speech does not exist, whilst chastising and insulting democratic allies where it most certainly does.”
Bingo
Bingo
Have written about JD Vance’s Munich speech. In what may prove to be the biggest week for European security since 1991, it’s time Europe listened to what Trump and his Vice President are telling us. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
We need to listen to what Trump and Vance are telling us.
This may have been the biggest moment for European security since 1991.
open.substack.com
February 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“Here was a Vice President whose administration has spent these last weeks lauding or at least cordially embracing a Russian regime where freedom of speech does not exist, whilst chastising and insulting democratic allies where it most certainly does.”
Bingo
Bingo
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Foreign influence and industrial pumping of disinformation on a scale we’ve not previously seen.
He’s tweeted re UK politics over 200x in the last 9 days.
He’s the richest man in the world and owns one of the world’s biggest social ‘media’ platforms.
We must fight back
www.ft.com/content/dd4b...
He’s tweeted re UK politics over 200x in the last 9 days.
He’s the richest man in the world and owns one of the world’s biggest social ‘media’ platforms.
We must fight back
www.ft.com/content/dd4b...
Musk examines how to oust Starmer as UK prime minister before next election
Technology billionaire interested in building support for another political party, notably Reform UK
www.ft.com
January 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Foreign influence and industrial pumping of disinformation on a scale we’ve not previously seen.
He’s tweeted re UK politics over 200x in the last 9 days.
He’s the richest man in the world and owns one of the world’s biggest social ‘media’ platforms.
We must fight back
www.ft.com/content/dd4b...
He’s tweeted re UK politics over 200x in the last 9 days.
He’s the richest man in the world and owns one of the world’s biggest social ‘media’ platforms.
We must fight back
www.ft.com/content/dd4b...
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The apple doesn’t fall from the tree… Errol Musk, father of insane billionaire conspiracy nut knows f all about British politics…
But British media insist on amplifying every batshit word he says… what episode of black mirror is this?
But British media insist on amplifying every batshit word he says… what episode of black mirror is this?
January 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The apple doesn’t fall from the tree… Errol Musk, father of insane billionaire conspiracy nut knows f all about British politics…
But British media insist on amplifying every batshit word he says… what episode of black mirror is this?
But British media insist on amplifying every batshit word he says… what episode of black mirror is this?
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Today is an object lesson in the radicalisation of the British right-wing press. Britain is being disparaged and insulted by a foreign far-right conspiracy theorist. But the Mail, the Express, the Telegraph and even the Times choose focus their criticisism on the British prime minister instead.
January 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Today is an object lesson in the radicalisation of the British right-wing press. Britain is being disparaged and insulted by a foreign far-right conspiracy theorist. But the Mail, the Express, the Telegraph and even the Times choose focus their criticisism on the British prime minister instead.
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The greatest free kick of all time 😂
November 21, 2024 at 9:18 AM
The greatest free kick of all time 😂