#wealthtax #billionaires

There were 115 prisoners mistakenly released in the final year of the last Conservative Government alone. Interesting that it only becomes a major national scandal the second these releases can be blamed on a Labour government

Reeves and her govt could make a radical difference and completely rewrite the Ofgem rules on pricing calcs in favour of the end user. But no, she will strip away another layer of treasury income. Don’t expect prices to reduce quickly - energy companies will just carry on profiteering.

There have been 263 UK prisoners released in error over the last year, but apparently it's only newsworthy when they happen to be a non-UK national. Offenders are not more dangerous by virtue of being 'foreign'. Media outlets need to stop helping the far-right poison our discourse with xenophobia.

...asks the country with 5 trillion school shootings every year. 🤦‍♀️

Oldest victim of Post Office scandal, 92, receives final compensation payout. At last. But ruined lives can't be restored. £1.2bn paid to 9,100 victims from public purse. Not a penny from PO execs, Fujitsu, lawyers, accountants, advisers who benefited from persecution of the victims.

Judgement lands in Belgium tomorrow on the misuse of public money case against Farage’s mistress. And some are still wondering where she got 850000 quid from 🤣🤣🤣 Any odds on the news making it to the bbc ?

Politico: "Reform's Richard Tice insisted on Times Radio that the upstart movement never promised to cut council taxes — despite presenter Stig Abell reading out Reform election leaflets pledging just that." These people are very happy to lie. It is the Trump playbook: sowing confusion at any cost.

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

Wright of Derby: From the Shadows review – science, skeletons and a suffocated cockatoo

So the suspect in the Huntingdon train knife attack is UK-born Anthony Williams, & the LNER employee who was critically injured while protecting travellers (& will hopefully recover) is Samir Zitouni. Good luck to Reform politicians & fans as they try their hardest to make this about migration.

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A rail worker credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing on a train has been named as Samir Zitouni. The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic".

This is the hero, the railway worker who saved countless lives during the stabbing attack in Cambridgeshire. His name is Samir Zitouni. Remember him and will him through. 🙏

Reform UK have performed so many u-turns on policy, here’s there new logo.

“There are some people who hate London, and hate New York,” Mayor Sadiq Khan told me, on Bloomberg TV. “There's a reason why they demonize London, and now, indeed, New York. Why? Because we are progressive cities. We are liberal cities. We are multicultural cities. And we are incredibly successful.”

Spot on.

A Look Inside #Europe’s Most Enchanting #Libraries by Photographer Thibaud Poirier #photography #booklover Link for more: www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/06/ench...

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“Speaker Johnson, many Americans are wondering why you’re unable to see or hear any developments in the news. Some are speculating that you were kicked in the head by a horse; others theorize that you’ve been huffing spray paint. Which is it?”

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

Nigel Farage currently railing against Parliament being full of "professional politicians". He founded UKIP in 1993 and was first elected as an MEP in 1999, twenty-six years ago. Less than 5% of current MPs (31 to be precise) have a longer career in politics than Farage. ~AA

(Via 'Films For Action' on Facebook)

I’m in this piece talking about the Manchester links with the fifth Pan African Congress…

Why the fuuck are the BBC news asking Furhage for an opinion on the train attacks ? He will pour petrol on it and it just panders to his own agenda. Why not the Greens or Plaid or SNP? It's open propaganda on the part of the state broadcaster

If you want kids to read: -Reopen the closed libraries -Give them free books -Sponsor author visits in schools with high % pupil premium or FSM students -Work on adult literacy Then Y8s will have a chance of passing this test www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tony Benn on the monarchy " … “I don't think people realise how the establishment became established. They simply stole land & property from the poor, surrounded themselves with weak minded sycophants for protection, gave themselves titles & have been wielding power ever since!” #downwiththecrown

🚨WE NEED YOUR HELP!🚨 Our walls have heard 130 years of Manchester stories, laughter, music, and a fair few pints. 🍺 We’re proud to be part of this city’s soul, but we need your support to help protect The Marble Arch for generations to come. (1/2)

👏 "There are over four million kids in child poverty in the UK and there are four and a half million people who can't get a dentist appointment." "We spend 90% of the political capital and discourse and media focus discussing 37,000 people."

Man with stubble, "Small boats arrivals are 37,000. There are over 4 million kids in child poverty. And 4.5 million who can't get a dentist appointment" #BBCQT "We spend 90% of the media discourse on the 37,000. How much more could we achieve if we put that effort into the 4.5 million?"

Support Marble Arch v McGoff group whose proposed high-rise 17 storey tower alongside the Grade II listed landmark threatens its famous sloping mosaic floor, its vaulted ceiling, its very foundations Much loved cask ale icon, always there. Housing, yes, but not the destruction of heritage/community.

the former prince will now go by his new name, Andrew Saxe-Offender

www.petitiononline.uk/save_the_dog... Please sign, the PubCo needs to know the strength of feeling!

As Rachel Reeves’ letting agent apologises for not applying for a rental licence, Chris Mason has taken a short leave of absence until he can manage to stop sobbing hysterically.

Yes, because Badenoch’s was a criminal offence carrying a custodial sentence, whereas Reeves’ was not.

I'm so hoping this claptrap about Rachel Reeves has led to some proper journalists (there must be at least one) digging into the paperwork of all the Tory MP's who are also private landlords.

Wow. That’s a whopper and she wisely didn’t stick around for any follow ups.

Narrator: So much for the claim that they were only going after undocumented persons committing dangerous crimes.

This is farcical. Katie Lam didn't speak "imprecisely". She accurately stated the Conservative party's existing policy, which they tried to pass as a Bill in Parliament earlier this year, and which Badenoch's spokesman defended himself just last week.

This is really poor by BBC researchers and producers. Goodwin hasn't been an active academic for a number of years, yet is described as one (thus legitimating his relentless Reform activism and constant bad faith misrepresentation of evidence). 1/?

It is sad that Northern Catholics are excluded from rugby in school. Rugby is the only sport that brings thousands of northeners to Dublin to support a predominantly Catholic Irish team. It is played on an all Ireland basis & has been one of the top 3 teams in the world for the last 5/6 yrs.

Zia Yusuf complaining about councils being underfunded While sitting next to Danny Kruger who since 2019 was part of the government that underfunded the councils Yusuf is complaining about

It irritates me that a lot of the british media are using headlines like 'Thousands of British tourists remain stranded in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa' Completely over looking the rest of the poor bastards that live there who have lost everything.

Lights are on but nobody is home. We have a broken Roomba for President.