@jarrovian.bsky.social
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What Brexiters never understood was that our EU membership fee wasn't just a payment. IT WAS AN INVESTMENT. By paying it, we were given the possibility to earn much, much more through trade and targeted funding. We were never going to be better off outside the club.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
May 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
What Brexiters never understood was that our EU membership fee wasn't just a payment. IT WAS AN INVESTMENT. By paying it, we were given the possibility to earn much, much more through trade and targeted funding. We were never going to be better off outside the club.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Corporate Welfare.
Centrica, owner of British Gas, makes massive profits by ripping off people.
It wants more subsidies and guaranteed profits from gas storage.
Privatisation empowered companies to hold govts/people to ransom.
Centrica, owner of British Gas, makes massive profits by ripping off people.
It wants more subsidies and guaranteed profits from gas storage.
Privatisation empowered companies to hold govts/people to ransom.
Gas storage facility could close without government help, Centrica boss warns
UK's largest gas storage facility will miss £2bn investment without help, boss of Centrica tells BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 19, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Corporate Welfare.
Centrica, owner of British Gas, makes massive profits by ripping off people.
It wants more subsidies and guaranteed profits from gas storage.
Privatisation empowered companies to hold govts/people to ransom.
Centrica, owner of British Gas, makes massive profits by ripping off people.
It wants more subsidies and guaranteed profits from gas storage.
Privatisation empowered companies to hold govts/people to ransom.
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Meanwhile, in another book shop...
May 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Meanwhile, in another book shop...
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Slot machine firms target UK’s poorest areas, channel funds to billionaires.
Poor buy dreams but corporations always win, encourage addiction, don't bear the cost of harms.
Councils need powers to stop these vampires. Govt pushing deregulation.
Must tax vampires. Make them bear the social cost.
Poor buy dreams but corporations always win, encourage addiction, don't bear the cost of harms.
Councils need powers to stop these vampires. Govt pushing deregulation.
Must tax vampires. Make them bear the social cost.
Slot machine firms target UK’s poorest areas and channel funds to billionaires
Exclusive: Politicians including Andy Burnham call for councils to be given powers to stop new sites opening
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Slot machine firms target UK’s poorest areas, channel funds to billionaires.
Poor buy dreams but corporations always win, encourage addiction, don't bear the cost of harms.
Councils need powers to stop these vampires. Govt pushing deregulation.
Must tax vampires. Make them bear the social cost.
Poor buy dreams but corporations always win, encourage addiction, don't bear the cost of harms.
Councils need powers to stop these vampires. Govt pushing deregulation.
Must tax vampires. Make them bear the social cost.
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carp-ing from the sidelines
May 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
carp-ing from the sidelines
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Successive UK govts have attacked the working class - benefit cuts, power to snoop on bank accounts of benefit claimants.
How do they treat the rich dodging taxes, hiding assets, engaging in illicit financial flows?
Evidence is damning. Watch the Minister's reply.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZev...
How do they treat the rich dodging taxes, hiding assets, engaging in illicit financial flows?
Evidence is damning. Watch the Minister's reply.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZev...
House of Lords Unexplained Wealth 13 May 2025
YouTube video by Prem Sikka
www.youtube.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Successive UK govts have attacked the working class - benefit cuts, power to snoop on bank accounts of benefit claimants.
How do they treat the rich dodging taxes, hiding assets, engaging in illicit financial flows?
Evidence is damning. Watch the Minister's reply.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZev...
How do they treat the rich dodging taxes, hiding assets, engaging in illicit financial flows?
Evidence is damning. Watch the Minister's reply.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZev...
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Judging by the Tory opposition to a trade deal with the EU before it's even been announced, their position seems to be: we should have a good trade deal with every country and bloc in the world....except our closest neighbour and biggest trading partner
May 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Judging by the Tory opposition to a trade deal with the EU before it's even been announced, their position seems to be: we should have a good trade deal with every country and bloc in the world....except our closest neighbour and biggest trading partner
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THE STRONGEST WOMEN IN THE WORLD ARE FROM PALESTINE!
May 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
THE STRONGEST WOMEN IN THE WORLD ARE FROM PALESTINE!
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In the coming days we're going to see a lot of people spreading the usual myths about how rejoining the EU is "impossible".
Be ready to debunk them with rejoin.info
A knowledge base of all the most common questions and answers about rejoining!
Be ready to debunk them with rejoin.info
A knowledge base of all the most common questions and answers about rejoining!
rejoin.info
The Rejoin EU knowledge base
rejoin.info
May 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
In the coming days we're going to see a lot of people spreading the usual myths about how rejoining the EU is "impossible".
Be ready to debunk them with rejoin.info
A knowledge base of all the most common questions and answers about rejoining!
Be ready to debunk them with rejoin.info
A knowledge base of all the most common questions and answers about rejoining!
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Human rights campaigners call on Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to remember their own humanity and recognise that the UK is an island of neighbours not strangers
“Neighbours, not strangers” say human rights campaigners
Human rights campaigners call on Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to remember their own humanity and recognise that the UK is an island of neighbours not strangers
northeastbylines.co.uk
May 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Human rights campaigners call on Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to remember their own humanity and recognise that the UK is an island of neighbours not strangers
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“Faragism is what you get when the established political class seems so bereft of answers that a shameless opportunist is able to swagger into the resulting void, offering his own prejudices as the answer.”
May 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
“Faragism is what you get when the established political class seems so bereft of answers that a shameless opportunist is able to swagger into the resulting void, offering his own prejudices as the answer.”
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925,000 UK children will be plunged into poverty.
Housing benefits do not cover rents, govt froze local housing allowance rates.
What will families go without?
Govt has refused to control rents or curb profiteering.
Govts never explain human consequences of their policies.
Housing benefits do not cover rents, govt froze local housing allowance rates.
What will families go without?
Govt has refused to control rents or curb profiteering.
Govts never explain human consequences of their policies.
Labour's housing benefit freeze leaves 1m children at risk of poverty
Labour's decision to freeze local housing allowance rates will leave almost one million children in households hit by housing benefit cut.
www.bigissue.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:43 AM
925,000 UK children will be plunged into poverty.
Housing benefits do not cover rents, govt froze local housing allowance rates.
What will families go without?
Govt has refused to control rents or curb profiteering.
Govts never explain human consequences of their policies.
Housing benefits do not cover rents, govt froze local housing allowance rates.
What will families go without?
Govt has refused to control rents or curb profiteering.
Govts never explain human consequences of their policies.
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Sheltering in schools or hospitals won’t be possible for many of those returning to Northern Gaza amid the ceasefire, Bellingcat's @godin.bsky.social found that more than 80% of former shelters have been damaged or destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/02...
Satellite Imagery Shows Schools and Hospitals Destroyed in Northern Gaza - bellingcat
Thousands of people have begun returning to their abandoned homes in northern Gaza after Israeli forces opened the Netzarim corridor, which separates the northern and southern parts of the territory, ...
www.bellingcat.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Sheltering in schools or hospitals won’t be possible for many of those returning to Northern Gaza amid the ceasefire, Bellingcat's @godin.bsky.social found that more than 80% of former shelters have been damaged or destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/02...
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my column on Margaret Thatcher's big 1979-83 National Insurance/VAT rises:
- tax as share of GDP was 30.7 per cent in 1979
- it rose to 36.7 per cent in 1982 before dropping subsequently
- but in 1990 the ratio was still higher than at the start of her Tory government
www.ft.com/content/1450...
- tax as share of GDP was 30.7 per cent in 1979
- it rose to 36.7 per cent in 1982 before dropping subsequently
- but in 1990 the ratio was still higher than at the start of her Tory government
www.ft.com/content/1450...
Financial TimesFinancial Times
News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics
FT.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
my column on Margaret Thatcher's big 1979-83 National Insurance/VAT rises:
- tax as share of GDP was 30.7 per cent in 1979
- it rose to 36.7 per cent in 1982 before dropping subsequently
- but in 1990 the ratio was still higher than at the start of her Tory government
www.ft.com/content/1450...
- tax as share of GDP was 30.7 per cent in 1979
- it rose to 36.7 per cent in 1982 before dropping subsequently
- but in 1990 the ratio was still higher than at the start of her Tory government
www.ft.com/content/1450...
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Thames Water is at present spending £15mn a month on lawyers and other advisers and the eventual bill for a restructuring could top £200mn, the company’s chief financial officer told London’s high court.
www.ft.com/content/40b5...
www.ft.com/content/40b5...
Thames Water burns through £15mn a month on lawyers and advisers
Troubled utility tells court hearing for emergency loan that restructuring costs could top £200mn
www.ft.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Thames Water is at present spending £15mn a month on lawyers and other advisers and the eventual bill for a restructuring could top £200mn, the company’s chief financial officer told London’s high court.
www.ft.com/content/40b5...
www.ft.com/content/40b5...
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Here is a new ruse.
To appease public anger fines are announced on England & Wales water companies but are not paid.
Companies are allowed to fix the amount & timing of their own fines.
Any wonder companies dump sewage, don't plug leaks, fleece customers.
It is "corrupt", what would you call it?
To appease public anger fines are announced on England & Wales water companies but are not paid.
Companies are allowed to fix the amount & timing of their own fines.
Any wonder companies dump sewage, don't plug leaks, fleece customers.
It is "corrupt", what would you call it?
The water industry shows how the state indulges corporations to the detriment of society
Since 1989, water companies have been the subject of over 1,100 criminal convictions, but governments are content for them to control the industry.
leftfootforward.org
February 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Here is a new ruse.
To appease public anger fines are announced on England & Wales water companies but are not paid.
Companies are allowed to fix the amount & timing of their own fines.
Any wonder companies dump sewage, don't plug leaks, fleece customers.
It is "corrupt", what would you call it?
To appease public anger fines are announced on England & Wales water companies but are not paid.
Companies are allowed to fix the amount & timing of their own fines.
Any wonder companies dump sewage, don't plug leaks, fleece customers.
It is "corrupt", what would you call it?
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Just saw this posted on FB and had to share.
February 4, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Just saw this posted on FB and had to share.
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British Virgin Islands accused of ‘shameful’ attempt to avoid financial crime crackdown.
UK has responsibility for good governance, does little.
UK Crown Dependencies and the City of London are global fiddle factories.
40% of the world's dirty money is laundered by them.
Govts protect them.
UK has responsibility for good governance, does little.
UK Crown Dependencies and the City of London are global fiddle factories.
40% of the world's dirty money is laundered by them.
Govts protect them.
British Virgin Islands accused of ‘shameful’ attempt to avoid financial crime crackdown
MPs write to premier over BVI proposals for new register of who owns firms registered on islands
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
British Virgin Islands accused of ‘shameful’ attempt to avoid financial crime crackdown.
UK has responsibility for good governance, does little.
UK Crown Dependencies and the City of London are global fiddle factories.
40% of the world's dirty money is laundered by them.
Govts protect them.
UK has responsibility for good governance, does little.
UK Crown Dependencies and the City of London are global fiddle factories.
40% of the world's dirty money is laundered by them.
Govts protect them.
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NatWest Bank finalises £450m bonus pot, 25% higher than last year.
CEO remuneration expected to hit £6.6m.
Their profiteering is our poverty.
Govt tells worker wage rises are inflationary, but that doesn't apply to exec pay, dividends, share buybacks.
It's class war.
CEO remuneration expected to hit £6.6m.
Their profiteering is our poverty.
Govt tells worker wage rises are inflationary, but that doesn't apply to exec pay, dividends, share buybacks.
It's class war.
NatWest finalises £450m bonus pot as return to private ownership looms
The bank's annual results will come with the government on the brink of no longer being its single-biggest shareholder after nearly 17 years, Sky News can reveal.
news.sky.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:53 AM
NatWest Bank finalises £450m bonus pot, 25% higher than last year.
CEO remuneration expected to hit £6.6m.
Their profiteering is our poverty.
Govt tells worker wage rises are inflationary, but that doesn't apply to exec pay, dividends, share buybacks.
It's class war.
CEO remuneration expected to hit £6.6m.
Their profiteering is our poverty.
Govt tells worker wage rises are inflationary, but that doesn't apply to exec pay, dividends, share buybacks.
It's class war.
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Labour MPs have set up an internal group to focus on the rising threat from Reform UK as Nigel Farage’s right-wing populist party this week took the lead in a major national opinion poll for the first time.
www.ft.com/content/ffde...
www.ft.com/content/ffde...
Financial TimesFinancial Times
News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics
FT.com
February 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Labour MPs have set up an internal group to focus on the rising threat from Reform UK as Nigel Farage’s right-wing populist party this week took the lead in a major national opinion poll for the first time.
www.ft.com/content/ffde...
www.ft.com/content/ffde...
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Brexit Curse
Efforts to keep potentially disease-ridden meat out of the UK undermined by post-Brexit border checks.
Illegal meat sold on "most High Streets".
Brexit has been a disaster.
Must rejoin, boost economy, health, worker rights and stand-up to Trump.
Efforts to keep potentially disease-ridden meat out of the UK undermined by post-Brexit border checks.
Illegal meat sold on "most High Streets".
Brexit has been a disaster.
Must rejoin, boost economy, health, worker rights and stand-up to Trump.
Illegal meat on most UK High Streets, official says
Post-Brexit checks are undermining efforts to keep out potentially disease-ridden meat, official says.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Brexit Curse
Efforts to keep potentially disease-ridden meat out of the UK undermined by post-Brexit border checks.
Illegal meat sold on "most High Streets".
Brexit has been a disaster.
Must rejoin, boost economy, health, worker rights and stand-up to Trump.
Efforts to keep potentially disease-ridden meat out of the UK undermined by post-Brexit border checks.
Illegal meat sold on "most High Streets".
Brexit has been a disaster.
Must rejoin, boost economy, health, worker rights and stand-up to Trump.
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1.9m pensioners in England live in poverty.
Low wages, high living costs, low state pension take toll.
Winter fuel payment cut deepens the crisis.
Full UK post-2016 state pension, received by 26%of retirees, is less than 50% of the minimum wage.
Poverty kills.
www.pensionsage.com/pa/Nearly-2-...
Low wages, high living costs, low state pension take toll.
Winter fuel payment cut deepens the crisis.
Full UK post-2016 state pension, received by 26%of retirees, is less than 50% of the minimum wage.
Poverty kills.
www.pensionsage.com/pa/Nearly-2-...
Govt urged to take action as pensioner poverty concerns persist
1.9 million pensioners (16 per cent) are living in poverty, according to research from the Fabian Society
www.pensionsage.com
January 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM
1.9m pensioners in England live in poverty.
Low wages, high living costs, low state pension take toll.
Winter fuel payment cut deepens the crisis.
Full UK post-2016 state pension, received by 26%of retirees, is less than 50% of the minimum wage.
Poverty kills.
www.pensionsage.com/pa/Nearly-2-...
Low wages, high living costs, low state pension take toll.
Winter fuel payment cut deepens the crisis.
Full UK post-2016 state pension, received by 26%of retirees, is less than 50% of the minimum wage.
Poverty kills.
www.pensionsage.com/pa/Nearly-2-...