jillsawyer
@jillsawyer.bsky.social
Retired leftie by the sea -into politics; science; nature and literature. Infuriated by politicians and liars -love wildlife and my cat.
But our press continues to give that person a free ride
People that use tax avoidance schemes, offshore accounts, divide the people, impoverish the country, and ask dictators to impose sanctions upon us, should not be members of parliament, let alone considered for Prime Minister.
It’s called hypocrisy.
It’s traitorous.
Full stop.
It’s called hypocrisy.
It’s traitorous.
Full stop.
September 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
But our press continues to give that person a free ride
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Some people have more than one job & get paid by companies that advise already obscenely wealthy people just how to avoid paying tax bsky.app/profile/maxb...
September 6, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Some people have more than one job & get paid by companies that advise already obscenely wealthy people just how to avoid paying tax bsky.app/profile/maxb...
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Matt Hancock used his personal email account to help a 'VIP' supplier win a £25 million PPE Covid contract
The company, which supplied the NHS with tens of millions of pounds worth of completely unusable PPE, later went bust, owing taxpayers millions
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/m...
The company, which supplied the NHS with tens of millions of pounds worth of completely unusable PPE, later went bust, owing taxpayers millions
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/m...
Matt Hancock Used His Personal Email Account to Help ‘VIP’ Supplier Win £25 Million COVID PPE Contract
Excalibur Healthcare, which supplied the UK Government with tens of millions of pounds worth of unusable PPE, ultimately folded owing taxpayers £22 million
bylinetimes.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Matt Hancock used his personal email account to help a 'VIP' supplier win a £25 million PPE Covid contract
The company, which supplied the NHS with tens of millions of pounds worth of completely unusable PPE, later went bust, owing taxpayers millions
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/m...
The company, which supplied the NHS with tens of millions of pounds worth of completely unusable PPE, later went bust, owing taxpayers millions
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/m...
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A New World Order? Trump or Europe?
Trump's policies are causing European nations to seek improved collaboration with each other, and thus showing the potential for increased European cohesion | Chris Hammond writes for @kentandsurreybylines.co.uk
Trump's policies are causing European nations to seek improved collaboration with each other, and thus showing the potential for increased European cohesion | Chris Hammond writes for @kentandsurreybylines.co.uk
A New World Order? Trump or Europe?
Trump's policies are causing European nations to seek improved collaboration with each other, and thus showing the potential for increased European cohesion
kentandsurreybylines.co.uk
March 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen!
Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
Put Public Ownership of Water Back on the Table
Privatisation of water isn’t failing - it is the failure. The Government is mid-way through a major review of the water sector. But so far, it has refused to consider a potential solution that’s backe...
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April 1, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen!
Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
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This thread shows how close US is now getting to a constitutional crisis - as opposed to constitutional drama.
Once the executive freely disregards court orders without sanction then US pretty much has a constitutional crisis.
Things are coming to a head.
Once the executive freely disregards court orders without sanction then US pretty much has a constitutional crisis.
Things are coming to a head.
HAPPENING NOW: A federal judge who ordered the unfreezing of USAID contract spending is voicing frustration as a Trump administration lawyer repeatedly refuses to say whether they have actually taken any steps to implement his 12-day-old order.
February 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This thread shows how close US is now getting to a constitutional crisis - as opposed to constitutional drama.
Once the executive freely disregards court orders without sanction then US pretty much has a constitutional crisis.
Things are coming to a head.
Once the executive freely disregards court orders without sanction then US pretty much has a constitutional crisis.
Things are coming to a head.
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Grooming gangs and csa are weaponised as part of certain bad faith actors attempts to make them seem race, religion or "integration" based. They aren't. Main offenders are actually white anyway. When you make them about race you risk ignoring other abusers like these.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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January 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Grooming gangs and csa are weaponised as part of certain bad faith actors attempts to make them seem race, religion or "integration" based. They aren't. Main offenders are actually white anyway. When you make them about race you risk ignoring other abusers like these.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Nearly two-thirds of Britons say very rich have too much influence on politics www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Nearly two-thirds of Britons say very rich have too much influence on politics
Opinium survey of 2,000 adults found concern about the impact of growing wealth inequality in the UK
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Nearly two-thirds of Britons say very rich have too much influence on politics www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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Why do BBC give Laura Kuenssberg free rein to write this drivel?
"The big picture is tough. The country's debts are massive and taxes are huge."
It's not even wrong/biased. It's just vacuous twaddle that adds absolutely nothing to public understanding of the issues.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"The big picture is tough. The country's debts are massive and taxes are huge."
It's not even wrong/biased. It's just vacuous twaddle that adds absolutely nothing to public understanding of the issues.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rachel Reeves: Why is she suddenly in a rush, asks Laura Kuenssberg
The chancellor raised taxes in the Budget - but now she wants to get rid of barriers to business. Why the change of focus?
www.bbc.co.uk
January 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Why do BBC give Laura Kuenssberg free rein to write this drivel?
"The big picture is tough. The country's debts are massive and taxes are huge."
It's not even wrong/biased. It's just vacuous twaddle that adds absolutely nothing to public understanding of the issues.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"The big picture is tough. The country's debts are massive and taxes are huge."
It's not even wrong/biased. It's just vacuous twaddle that adds absolutely nothing to public understanding of the issues.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A tiny 2% wealth tax, on 20k people would raise £24 billion per year to spend on the things that urgently need fixing in our country.
We need some tax justice - the more money you have the less tax you pay and vice versa - that’s absurd.
We need some tax justice - the more money you have the less tax you pay and vice versa - that’s absurd.
January 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
A tiny 2% wealth tax, on 20k people would raise £24 billion per year to spend on the things that urgently need fixing in our country.
We need some tax justice - the more money you have the less tax you pay and vice versa - that’s absurd.
We need some tax justice - the more money you have the less tax you pay and vice versa - that’s absurd.
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🔴Twenty Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/24/w...
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/24/w...
Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Been Telling You About
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
🔴Twenty Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/24/w...
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/24/w...
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WOW: Pamela Hemphill, who served prison time for Jan. 6 said she will not accept Trump’s pardon. “We were wrong that day. We broke the law. Accepting a pardon would only insult the Capitol Police officers, rule of law and, of course, our nation,” Hemphill told the BBC. thehill.com/regulation/c...
Jan. 6 rioter declines Trump pardon: ‘We were wrong that day’
Pamela Hemphill, who served prison time for actions she took on Jan. 6, 2021, said she will not accept President Trump’s pardon and that his supporters were “wrong” for storming the Capitol four ye…
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January 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
WOW: Pamela Hemphill, who served prison time for Jan. 6 said she will not accept Trump’s pardon. “We were wrong that day. We broke the law. Accepting a pardon would only insult the Capitol Police officers, rule of law and, of course, our nation,” Hemphill told the BBC. thehill.com/regulation/c...
This is the problem; the moans of the rich are always heard because they are loud and always listened to; the rest of us not so much.
Rachel Reeves says she'll amend the finance bill to soften planned changes to the non dom tax regime after intense lobbying from wealthy UK residents 🤨
“We have been listening to the concerns that have been raised by the non-dom community,” she says.
“We have been listening to the concerns that have been raised by the non-dom community,” she says.
January 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This is the problem; the moans of the rich are always heard because they are loud and always listened to; the rest of us not so much.
I hope he’s right; there’s not much other hope around
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The jig is up
Global corporations are now ending the pretense that they’re socially responsible. That’s progress, in a way.
open.substack.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I hope he’s right; there’s not much other hope around
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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A word for America. See also UK under the Tories
Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
January 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A word for America. See also UK under the Tories
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This is the only flag I’m flying today. For Janey. #Trumpisacunt Let’s make it trend.
January 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
This is the only flag I’m flying today. For Janey. #Trumpisacunt Let’s make it trend.
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Remember all these headlines describing a brief rise in government borrowing costs as being "market mayhem", followed by a week of demands for Rachel Reeves to quit?
Well one week later and it turns out UK gilts are now outperforming every other G7 country this year, aside from the US
Well one week later and it turns out UK gilts are now outperforming every other G7 country this year, aside from the US
January 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Remember all these headlines describing a brief rise in government borrowing costs as being "market mayhem", followed by a week of demands for Rachel Reeves to quit?
Well one week later and it turns out UK gilts are now outperforming every other G7 country this year, aside from the US
Well one week later and it turns out UK gilts are now outperforming every other G7 country this year, aside from the US
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Dear BlueSkyers. Sadly I'm getting many reports of scammers pretending to be me here, incl messaging people with 'investments' . Pls share/help me spread word that, as you know, THIS IS MY ONLY BLUE SKY account (proved as my handle is an official MoneySavingExpert one). All others are scams
January 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Dear BlueSkyers. Sadly I'm getting many reports of scammers pretending to be me here, incl messaging people with 'investments' . Pls share/help me spread word that, as you know, THIS IS MY ONLY BLUE SKY account (proved as my handle is an official MoneySavingExpert one). All others are scams
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Six days on a small boat in rough seas: my terrifying, death-defying escape from the Taliban
Six days on a small boat in rough seas: my terrifying, death-defying escape from the Taliban
In an instant, Sam Pordale went from a world of privilege to becoming a refugee in imminent danger. He talks about how he lost everything and began to rebuild his life
On 15 August 2021, 21-year-old Sam Pordale and his father found themselves part of a…
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Six days on a small boat in rough seas: my terrifying, death-defying escape from the Taliban
The key word is denial. Deniers make statements and do stuff that flies in the face of all the evidence to the contrary, but they know it’s real. Climate change denial for instance.
January 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The key word is denial. Deniers make statements and do stuff that flies in the face of all the evidence to the contrary, but they know it’s real. Climate change denial for instance.