This says it all about the UK.

Fearing a change in Labour leadership, Thames Water creditors rush a takeover plan. Want regulator to go easy on abuses. Still want dividends. Customers will be fleeced. There can be no market-based solution. No competition Captive customers No substitute goods Must nationalise. archive.ph/eJoHP

Disastrous PFI pushed through the Highways (Financing) Bill to “fund large-scale road schemes.” Previous PFI schemes resulted in £6 repayment for every £1 of private investment. Govt guaranteeing corporate profits Cheaper alternatives: Govt borrowing Public bonds Tax corporations/rich

Wealth of 157 UK billionaires now equals £670bn, 22% of GDP. Return on wealth (dividends and capital gains) is taxed at lower rates than wages. Extreme concentration of wealth facilitates political power, corruption, economic control. Wither democracy.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

The puurfict example of the way that finance is consuming every aspect of our lives

Lloyds Bank pre-tax profits rose by 33% in the first quarter to £2bn. Punishing customers, rewarding execs and shareholders. £1bn HBOS frauds go back to 2002-2007, Lloyds promised a report by 2018. No report, no compensation, no regulator/govt concerned. archive.ph/F9yLs

Lib Dems push for ban on MPs taking money from X, citing Maga threat. That won't cleanse UK politics. Must ban all political donations and second jobs for MPs. They must not receive personal benefit from any political bribe. Anything less won't free politics from the clutches of super-rich.

Well this a significant milestone. It should make reform curious voters stop and do whatever they do instead of thinking

Trump: ‘When oil prices go up, we make a lot of money’. Thousands killed, children orphaned, infrastructure destroyed, UN emasculated to enable US companies to make bigger profits - capitalism thrives on destruction. Trillions of atoms, billions of years of human evolution and the world got Trump.

We have a plutonomy www.theguardian.com/environment/...

South West Water admits criminal offence over Devon parasite outbreak. Water unfit for human consumption, 150 people fell ill. SWW already has nearly 200 criminal convictions. Licence not cancelled, no exec prosecuted, record high customer bills, sewage dumped in rivers. Privatisation is a scam.

War! What is it good for! youtube.com/shorts/l3_OY...

If you’ve spent 20 years inside a major bank, your mental model of “what’s realistic” is shaped by that environment. Risk looks different. Regulation feels like friction rather than protection. “Market confidence” becomes sacred. Then, “Time to help corporations at the public’s expense.”

Farage / far right anger over by-election result entirely understandable. Because having wanted to emphasise the commonwealth and the white working classes, the two got together to defeat him. Which is complete humiliation.

We tried to teach people like Farage the basic principle “No taxation without representation” 250 years ago, but some people never learn.

Nigel Farage is saying the by-election - which Reform was defeated 41% to 29% by Green Party (14,980 to 10,578) was "stolen". Not "fraud" but on Reform calculating the % of eligible voters born abroad: Farage says it is "shattering news" that naturalised citizens + Commonwealth nationals can vote

When you start an illegal war to distract from the other illegal things you've done.

Corporate Welfare. Rolls Royce declares record profits, will hand up to £9bn to shareholders. It wants public subsidy, free money, for its new engine. Holds govt to ransom. Threatens to move manufacture if govt does not capitulate. Govt must demand equity stake for any public money.

Private equity is buying hospices. What happens in the US will arrive here. Palliative care and impending death is seen as a profit opportunity. PE destroyed care homes and vets. Patient deaths have risen in PE owned hospitals and nursing homes. UK handing more of the NHS to PE. archive.ph/uO3aF

Private equity companies linked to Manchester City owner, and Bono making millions in profit through taxpayer-funded special needs schools. 20%+ profit margins. Children are cash cows. Councils pay up to £350,000 a year to support pupils. Money ends up in offshore tax havens. archive.ph/sY2eJ

1,200+ people became sick after swimming in designated bathing waters in England, 75% of those official swimming spots rated “good” or “excellent”. Sewage dumping continues. No penalties on water company execs. The state can't guarantee clean water. archive.ph/QGyF2

Political donations ensure that interests of the super-rich are writ large in govt policies. Capital gains & dividends are taxed at lower marginal rates than wages. No NIC is levied. Income of private equity bosses taxed as capital gains. Bribery pays but normal people can't play the game.

This has been replicated across the whole country. As an old person I remember what this were like before Thatcher and Blair. Even so, hearing the list for just one small place is shocking. youtube.com/watch?v=xRu-...

The Representation of the People Bill doesn't cap political donations. Super-rich can buy/bribe political parties to protect their interests. The poor can't. The bottom 50% of the population owns less than 5% of wealth and the bottom 20% has only 0.5%. 24m live below minimum living standards.

Carney's incredible secret sauce seems to be - say what the problem is, whose fault it is, what you will have to do about it and what it will cost.

Suella Braverman says Reform would scrap the Equality Act 2010. Law prevents discrimination on the basis of age, disability, gender, marital status, race, religion and sexual orientation. Reform taking us back to Victorian era, removing hope. Our predecessors fought hard for social rights.

The Wes Streeting problem youtube.com/watch?v=P_99...

Well said youtube.com/watch?v=srRX...

There has to be so way of meaningful fining the owners for this sort of thing. It shouldn’t be just the cost of doing business

SEND for the bankers www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02... Fiscal rules look like they will be used to deny children and others with special educational needs the chances they need in life. And, yes, I am very angry about that.

Welcome to the Plutocracy

Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records. Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'. Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

There is no excuse for this. If your this bad a judge of character you should be no were near power.

Appalling!!!

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Post-Brexit sales of British farm products to EU fall by 37%. Brexit has brought no benefits and left the UK exposed in the era of tariffs and trade wars. Farage and Tories lied about Brexit. Govt can get economic growth by rejoining the EU. Our future is in Europe, not in being the 51st state.

UK Ministers to crack down on profiteering in care sector. Promise made over a year ago. No legislation. Corporations are profiteering everywhere - water, energy, mail, healthcare, dentists, banking, vets ... Political parties funded by corporations, don't bite the hand that feeds them.

When you're so coked up and stupid you put the scope on backwards:

Every American needs to watch this:

Barclays cuts ties with Mandelson lobbying firm. Vodafone may too. This is public posturing, isn't it. For years they used Mandelson to gain political advantage despite his history - forced to resign as minister, ambassador, his links with Epstein were known. Now trying to reinvent themselves.

A rare thing these days - something to make you smile 😊

Zack Polanski, "Palantir.. £240 million contract last month" "That was lobbied by Global Counsel which is Peter Mandelson's lobbying group" "The idea that a defence company from the US has its fingerprints all over our healthcare system, alongside Peter Mandelson"

"You know what punishment would most affect these millionaires and billionaire pedophiles? Take away all their money, compensate the victims, and redistribute the rest to social infrastructure, including Universal Basic Income." x.com/hashtag/EpsteinFi…

William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them. They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear. While helping to consign us all to catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thd ever excellent Ann Pettifor on economics, global politics and climate change. youtube.com/watch?v=psMM...