Just seen a clip from tonight's Question Time. In a majority Conservatve audience, when asked who supports sending refugees to Rwanda, NOT A SINGLE PERSON RAISED THEIR HAND. #RefugeesWelcome#UKPolitics#QuestionTime#FuckTheTories
🤔🤬 #ThamesWater#UKPolitics#Greedflation
"Since 1991, it’s (Thames Water) accrued a debt of £54billion.
In the same time, they’ve paid out £57billion to their shareholders."
‘I’m not friends with politicians’: Krishnan Guru-Murthy on success, swearing and barefaced lies - The Guardian
"He started as a broadcaster before going to university and is now celebrating 25 years at Channel 4 News. He discusses the BBC, bias, war reporting – and what he learned from his father”
@jbenjamint@simon_brooke its a good point, whether investment is funded by customers or taxpayers
One of the motivations for privatisation was to shift the burden of investment required by EU legislation from (progressive) taxation to (regressive) billing
Essentially a shifting the burden from the wealthier to all consumers regardless of their ability to pay
"..a dangerous myth has been deliberately manufactured into an apparent piece of common sense: that wages must be suppressed if surging prices are to be contained"
Owen Jones is very good here on how inflation has mainly been caused by profiteering, not wage increases.
#Tories will lose next #election, continuing to break things on their way out. #Labour take over and begin to fix it, but of course it takes longer than one election cycle to fix so many years of mismanagement. While they try, Tories and their media friends shout at them for failing to fix it. Tories win again next time. Same old same old :( https://bird.makeup/users/edwinhayward/statuses/1673978200030949378
>Exclusive: Special report will raise issues encountered during initial inquiry into Johnson rule breaches
>"Boris Johnson’s allies are expected to be named in a report published on Thursday about potential “contempts of parliament” committed following the official Partygate inquiry"
>"Conservative MPs and a peer who are accused of trying to disparage the privileges committee during its 14-month inquiry into Johnson’s Partygate denials are among those likely to be referenced, sources said"
How sad, what a shame, never mind ...?
or in other words -
It was independent and cross-party disciplinary Committee of seven, with four Tories in it that defends UK Parliamentary democracy that censored Boris Johnson. It would be fascinating to see more ten day bans as that could trigger bi-elections (won't happen sadly)
Broken #Britain, where a pupil who had been excluded was recently reported to the #police by his #school for climbing over a barbed-wire fence to take home “the slops” from the waste food bins.
Oooh Thames water might collapse. In the wake of all those energy companies that actually did collapse. It's almost as if the method of privatisation of our essential utilities was not fit for purpose. #UK#UKPolitics#utilities#ThamesWater
Yesterday we sent an open letter to the UK government from 80 experts and civil society groups.
It isn't possible to scan messages in a way that only gets the 'bad guys'. Client-side scanning turns everyone's chats into dangerous spaces for privacy and security.
🔴 Over 80 international civil society organisations, academics and cyber-experts warn the UK government that the Online Safety Bill threatens the security and privacy of billions of people who use apps like WhatsApp and Signal.
Encrypted messaging protects people’s security online. But powers to scan private messages in the Online Safety Bill will expose people to hacking and abuses of private information.