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Corporate welfare is out of control.
One example - Drax produces electricity by burning trees, most expensive electricity, UK's biggest single polluter.
In 2024, Drax had £1.06bn operating profit, paid £100m dividend, £300m in share buyback.
Received billions in subsidies for decades. Why?
One example - Drax produces electricity by burning trees, most expensive electricity, UK's biggest single polluter.
In 2024, Drax had £1.06bn operating profit, paid £100m dividend, £300m in share buyback.
Received billions in subsidies for decades. Why?
December 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Corporate welfare is out of control.
One example - Drax produces electricity by burning trees, most expensive electricity, UK's biggest single polluter.
In 2024, Drax had £1.06bn operating profit, paid £100m dividend, £300m in share buyback.
Received billions in subsidies for decades. Why?
One example - Drax produces electricity by burning trees, most expensive electricity, UK's biggest single polluter.
In 2024, Drax had £1.06bn operating profit, paid £100m dividend, £300m in share buyback.
Received billions in subsidies for decades. Why?
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The rule of law for whom?
Private equity managers taxed at lower rates.
NHS drugs prices be hiked by 25% to appease companies.
Bankers' bonus cap abolished.
Chancellor ready to override Supreme Court judgment, cut compensation to victims of car loan scandals.
Bank frauds not investigated.
Private equity managers taxed at lower rates.
NHS drugs prices be hiked by 25% to appease companies.
Bankers' bonus cap abolished.
Chancellor ready to override Supreme Court judgment, cut compensation to victims of car loan scandals.
Bank frauds not investigated.
Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few
leftfootforward.org
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
The rule of law for whom?
Private equity managers taxed at lower rates.
NHS drugs prices be hiked by 25% to appease companies.
Bankers' bonus cap abolished.
Chancellor ready to override Supreme Court judgment, cut compensation to victims of car loan scandals.
Bank frauds not investigated.
Private equity managers taxed at lower rates.
NHS drugs prices be hiked by 25% to appease companies.
Bankers' bonus cap abolished.
Chancellor ready to override Supreme Court judgment, cut compensation to victims of car loan scandals.
Bank frauds not investigated.
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Former PM Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office.
Secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture,
Used senior contacts in the Saudi govt to pitch for a consultancy firm.
Lust for private wealth is the main cause of UK decline.
Secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture,
Used senior contacts in the Saudi govt to pitch for a consultancy firm.
Lust for private wealth is the main cause of UK decline.
Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds
Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Former PM Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office.
Secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture,
Used senior contacts in the Saudi govt to pitch for a consultancy firm.
Lust for private wealth is the main cause of UK decline.
Secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture,
Used senior contacts in the Saudi govt to pitch for a consultancy firm.
Lust for private wealth is the main cause of UK decline.
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Oh good, all the shit people are coming out against the ECHR. They can't offer anything meaningful, so hope to create a new Brexit type issue. Our political class is utterly bereft of intellectual thinking.
"Moderate Tory", Seb Payne, on "why he changed his mind" on the ECHR.
It would be better to just be honest and say: Because my boss told me, I am tired of swimming upstream, and I really want to be an MP. So, I've decided to go with the flow.
Instead of these unedifying mental gymnastics.
It would be better to just be honest and say: Because my boss told me, I am tired of swimming upstream, and I really want to be an MP. So, I've decided to go with the flow.
Instead of these unedifying mental gymnastics.
August 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Oh good, all the shit people are coming out against the ECHR. They can't offer anything meaningful, so hope to create a new Brexit type issue. Our political class is utterly bereft of intellectual thinking.
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Private equity curse
UK grocers Asda and Morrisons crushed by debt anvil.
Asset-stripping to pay for debt and PE profits.
Staff cuts, low investment, market share struggles.
PE has devoured high street, care homes, vets, healthcare.
Govts subsidize PE by giving tax relief on interest payments.
UK grocers Asda and Morrisons crushed by debt anvil.
Asset-stripping to pay for debt and PE profits.
Staff cuts, low investment, market share struggles.
PE has devoured high street, care homes, vets, healthcare.
Govts subsidize PE by giving tax relief on interest payments.
ALEX BRUMMER: Buyout grocers crushed by debt anvil
Private equity deals left both grocers weighed down with a monstrous amount of debt and unable to compete with rivals.
www.thisismoney.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Private equity curse
UK grocers Asda and Morrisons crushed by debt anvil.
Asset-stripping to pay for debt and PE profits.
Staff cuts, low investment, market share struggles.
PE has devoured high street, care homes, vets, healthcare.
Govts subsidize PE by giving tax relief on interest payments.
UK grocers Asda and Morrisons crushed by debt anvil.
Asset-stripping to pay for debt and PE profits.
Staff cuts, low investment, market share struggles.
PE has devoured high street, care homes, vets, healthcare.
Govts subsidize PE by giving tax relief on interest payments.
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Did you vote for this?
Cut in real wage/benefits
Queues for NHS appointments
Lousy social care
Crumbling schools
Poor housing
Corporate profiteering/abuses
Tax abuses by corporations/rich
Sewage in rivers
Political corruption
It happens because Govts indulge corporations and the rich.
Cut in real wage/benefits
Queues for NHS appointments
Lousy social care
Crumbling schools
Poor housing
Corporate profiteering/abuses
Tax abuses by corporations/rich
Sewage in rivers
Political corruption
It happens because Govts indulge corporations and the rich.
August 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Did you vote for this?
Cut in real wage/benefits
Queues for NHS appointments
Lousy social care
Crumbling schools
Poor housing
Corporate profiteering/abuses
Tax abuses by corporations/rich
Sewage in rivers
Political corruption
It happens because Govts indulge corporations and the rich.
Cut in real wage/benefits
Queues for NHS appointments
Lousy social care
Crumbling schools
Poor housing
Corporate profiteering/abuses
Tax abuses by corporations/rich
Sewage in rivers
Political corruption
It happens because Govts indulge corporations and the rich.
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People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.
July 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.
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UK more corrupt than Uruguay, Estonia, Seychelles, Iceland, Hong Kong.
Honours, crony contracts for party donors.
Bribes secure the laws you want. Dirty money, no problem, City thrives on it. Rule of law, tell that to Grenfell fire victims.
Can't arrest decline without ending political corruption
Honours, crony contracts for party donors.
Bribes secure the laws you want. Dirty money, no problem, City thrives on it. Rule of law, tell that to Grenfell fire victims.
Can't arrest decline without ending political corruption
Corruption Perceptions Index 2024
The Corruption Perceptions Index 2024 ranks 180 countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. Find out the scores and read our analysis.
www.transparency.org
June 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
UK more corrupt than Uruguay, Estonia, Seychelles, Iceland, Hong Kong.
Honours, crony contracts for party donors.
Bribes secure the laws you want. Dirty money, no problem, City thrives on it. Rule of law, tell that to Grenfell fire victims.
Can't arrest decline without ending political corruption
Honours, crony contracts for party donors.
Bribes secure the laws you want. Dirty money, no problem, City thrives on it. Rule of law, tell that to Grenfell fire victims.
Can't arrest decline without ending political corruption
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We need details on this.
June 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
We need details on this.
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The BBC has gone from being one of the best most impartial broadcasters (at least where the British Government wasn't involved) to being Fox News UK in the last 20 years.
It is an absolute disgrace and I can't believe they even dare to talk about impartiality.
It is an absolute disgrace and I can't believe they even dare to talk about impartiality.
May 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The BBC has gone from being one of the best most impartial broadcasters (at least where the British Government wasn't involved) to being Fox News UK in the last 20 years.
It is an absolute disgrace and I can't believe they even dare to talk about impartiality.
It is an absolute disgrace and I can't believe they even dare to talk about impartiality.
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It’s still hard for me to believe that after so many years of deranged posts like this, we’ve still never had a serious national conversation about this man’s mental health.
May 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
It’s still hard for me to believe that after so many years of deranged posts like this, we’ve still never had a serious national conversation about this man’s mental health.
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Rubio and Vance tweeting in defense of the German far-right party, the AfD.
We are in a very, very dark place.
We are in a very, very dark place.
May 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Rubio and Vance tweeting in defense of the German far-right party, the AfD.
We are in a very, very dark place.
We are in a very, very dark place.
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No President can turn in his economy as Trump has done and not send it into recession or even depression. The question is, how do we manage the chaos that follows from that?
youtu.be/xJ1WQzqzaao?...
youtu.be/xJ1WQzqzaao?...
The USA will have a crash, and the world will follow. What do we need to do to prepare for that?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
April 23, 2025 at 6:07 AM
No President can turn in his economy as Trump has done and not send it into recession or even depression. The question is, how do we manage the chaos that follows from that?
youtu.be/xJ1WQzqzaao?...
youtu.be/xJ1WQzqzaao?...
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The Teeswork Freeport corruption in short.
2 businessmen paid £110 for a £100m site.
We paid £462m to clean it up they paid nothing
They made £100m selling scrap metal from clean up, we received nothing.
Michael Gove covers it up.
2 businessmen paid £110 for a £100m site.
We paid £462m to clean it up they paid nothing
They made £100m selling scrap metal from clean up, we received nothing.
Michael Gove covers it up.
April 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The Teeswork Freeport corruption in short.
2 businessmen paid £110 for a £100m site.
We paid £462m to clean it up they paid nothing
They made £100m selling scrap metal from clean up, we received nothing.
Michael Gove covers it up.
2 businessmen paid £110 for a £100m site.
We paid £462m to clean it up they paid nothing
They made £100m selling scrap metal from clean up, we received nothing.
Michael Gove covers it up.
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The Trump regime is working to deter dissent.
Anyone who goes against Trump could end up on a target list.
This is having a chilling effect on five major pillars of society — universities, science, the media, the law, and the arts.
It's straight out of the fascist playbook.
Anyone who goes against Trump could end up on a target list.
This is having a chilling effect on five major pillars of society — universities, science, the media, the law, and the arts.
It's straight out of the fascist playbook.
April 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The Trump regime is working to deter dissent.
Anyone who goes against Trump could end up on a target list.
This is having a chilling effect on five major pillars of society — universities, science, the media, the law, and the arts.
It's straight out of the fascist playbook.
Anyone who goes against Trump could end up on a target list.
This is having a chilling effect on five major pillars of society — universities, science, the media, the law, and the arts.
It's straight out of the fascist playbook.
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You have to be crazy or completely corrupt to look at the UK with its billionaires who don't pay any taxes and its ripoff Energy Companies, polluting scumbag Water Companies and come to the conclusion that Disabled People and immigrants are the problem.
March 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
You have to be crazy or completely corrupt to look at the UK with its billionaires who don't pay any taxes and its ripoff Energy Companies, polluting scumbag Water Companies and come to the conclusion that Disabled People and immigrants are the problem.
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“Beautiful thing to watch.”
March 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“Beautiful thing to watch.”
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New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is meeting this perilous moment in American history — taking an exceptional stand for ALL of us.
The United States is a nation in crisis, and Sen. Booker is standing and speaking out in fierce opposition to an onslaught of evils being perpetrated by the…
The United States is a nation in crisis, and Sen. Booker is standing and speaking out in fierce opposition to an onslaught of evils being perpetrated by the…
April 1, 2025 at 3:50 AM
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is meeting this perilous moment in American history — taking an exceptional stand for ALL of us.
The United States is a nation in crisis, and Sen. Booker is standing and speaking out in fierce opposition to an onslaught of evils being perpetrated by the…
The United States is a nation in crisis, and Sen. Booker is standing and speaking out in fierce opposition to an onslaught of evils being perpetrated by the…
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Who would have guessed the right wing rags & commentators hysteria over VAT on private schools was just that.
All done to attack Labour because they were disgusted the wealthy, for once, had to pay more
No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils
All done to attack Labour because they were disgusted the wealthy, for once, had to pay more
No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils
No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils
Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Who would have guessed the right wing rags & commentators hysteria over VAT on private schools was just that.
All done to attack Labour because they were disgusted the wealthy, for once, had to pay more
No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils
All done to attack Labour because they were disgusted the wealthy, for once, had to pay more
No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils
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Good morning all! 🇺🇦
Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻
Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻
March 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Good morning all! 🇺🇦
Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻
Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻
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Dominic Grieve nails it.
Former Conservative MP and British Attorney General Dominic Grieve:
March 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Dominic Grieve nails it.
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That asshole in the White House will NEVER speak for me.
Smash that 💙 if you stand with President Zelensky.
Smash that 💙 if you stand with President Zelensky.
February 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
That asshole in the White House will NEVER speak for me.
Smash that 💙 if you stand with President Zelensky.
Smash that 💙 if you stand with President Zelensky.
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80 percent said no — so let’s stop pretending the AfD speak for ‘The People’
euobserver.com/eu-political...
euobserver.com/eu-political...
80 percent said no — so let’s stop pretending the AfD speak for ‘The People’
There are two takeaways from Sunday's election in Germany — it was the highest turnout in two generations, and four-in-five Germans refused to vote for the racist far-right.
euobserver.com
February 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
80 percent said no — so let’s stop pretending the AfD speak for ‘The People’
euobserver.com/eu-political...
euobserver.com/eu-political...