Jonathan Broomfield

Arsenal, Leicester Tigers, Systems Thinking (Seddon, Deming, Ackoff et al), nothing original but retweets of stuff I like and that I think is worth sharing.

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

That Bird! 🤣😂

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The UK is increasing the Pension age to 68.

Poland has lowered theirs to 60.

Their pension is higher as well.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Always we have lies about immigration, here are some facts.

[Sam @SamCKx]

If Keir Starmer does resign, history will look back on his reign and scratch its head as to why the hell he was so hated.

On paper, he's probably delivered more to working British people in such a short time than any PM for decades.

After inheriting an absolute mess: NHS waiting lists fallen. Worker's rights improved. Rail operators nationalised. Improved relations with EU and improved UK's global reputation. Removed non-dom tax status. Halved childcare costs. Boosted state pensions. Lowest homicide rate in 50 years. Lifted 550k children out of poverty. Immigration vastly reduced.

We are in the age of billionaire funded misinformation, whose sole purpose is to topple democratically elected leaders, and insert leadership that favours the wealthy elites over the working people. Looks like the game plan is working...

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

If you're against a wealth tax on multimillionaires but favour means testing for the disabled, check the internal coherence of your thought process

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

On a stretch of the River Roding in Barking strewn with waste and detritus, a barrister named Paul Powlesland did something the British state has spent decades failing to do: he cleaned it and made it look like a river again. He now faces legal action.

Yep. He and a group of volunteers hired a digger for £1,000 of their own money and hauled more than 200 bags of filth out of the water - packaging, broken appliances, used needles, even weapons. By any sane reckoning it was a small act of public good, civic spirit at its most potent and wholesome.

For his trouble, he received a letter from the Environment Agency informing him that he is under investigation for working without a permit, an offence that carries up to two years in prison.

The same Environment Agency that found the will to come after a volunteer for cleaning a river without the right paperwork has not, on that same river, prosecuted a single one of the illegal sewage spills that have fouled it for years. Not one. It's too fat, scrofulous, and indolent to fight the sort of people who'd do this. But it has energy to spare for the man with the digger and the bin bags because they expect he's likely to be a reasonable sort of Englishman who pays his taxes and honours procedure, however unreasonable it may be, when levied upon him.

Protecting rivers? They have no interest in that.

This is the thing about our institutions that the public grasps in its bones and the people who run them never will. Our institutions fail, and the manner of their failing is the worst part of it - the bloodless, box-ticking, permission-withholding callousness of bodies that have forgotten they exist to achieve anything at all.

They should all be cleared out; every decision-making body in the building responsible for the dereliction of duty, and for daring to persecute a member of the public, must be hollowed out. The whole thing started from scratch.

Better yet, I'll tell you what an outfit like Progress will do once it gains power; we'll put people like @paulpowlesland in charge of the very body now threatening to jail him. The institutions meant to look after this country - the Environment Agency and a dozen like it - are dying of exactly the defensive, do-nothing culture that sent that letter. They need to be run by people like him who actually give a toss. People with the brains to understand the problem and the plain human instinct to go and fix it themselves, while the rest stand on the bank writing their little sociopathic missives to the ones who already did.

I don't know the first thing about Paul. I've never met him. I don't know what his political preferences are, the shape of his beliefs, what else we would agree or disagree on. None of that means a thing to me. He's a good man, and the right kind of man to make things work; and Progress is an attempt to make the country work, not a club made to serve a certain type or belief profile. A country is made to work by the people who, whatever their politics, cannot walk past a problem without trying to solve it. There are such people everywhere in Britain - on the rivers, in the schools, the wards, the workshops - and almost none of them are running anything, because the institutions have been built to keep that exact kind of person out.

Drop the case against him. Then go further: find the hundred other Paul Powleslands the country is currently ignoring or threatening, and give them the keys. Put the responsibility and the authority, together, in their hands. Britain will be cleaned up - its rivers, and a great deal besides - in no time. It will be done by the people willing to get in the water, not by the ones writing letters about permits from the bank.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

You can have Universal Healthcare, Housing, Pensions, Good Wages, Holidays, Cheap food/energy/fuel...

Or you can have billionaires and trillionaires ripping you off.

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Trump The Peacemaker.
https://t.co/CHb4VKcq2E

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

It's trillionaires who don't pay any tax.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

They are genuinely trying to prosecute people for cleaning up the rivers, while doing nothing to stop the people polluting them.

The UK Government is sick.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

They convinced you that 20 days holiday a year is generous.

That working until you're 67 is normal.

That one full time job just isn't enough to actually live on.

They're making you slaves so they can have 3 castles, 8 yachts and a spaceship.

[Dmdav @Dmdav1]

If we can’t afford state pension can we afford MPs pensions ?

Can we afford severance pay for MPs not re-elected ?

Can we afford the PMs pension & the life time public duty costs they have.

Can we afford MPs expenses ( over & above basic levels )

All in this together?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

I hate people who scam the Welfare system, who cost BILLIONS...

Just by themselves.

Here's some of the worst offenders, about 200 companies cost you 3x as much as all the Disabled People they rant on day and night about put together.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

People think organized crime is some Italian mob boss who will send someone round to break your legs if you don't pay protection money

Actually it is Big Business who buy up Energy, Food, Insurance, Banking, Healthcare, Housing and raise the prices until they have all your money

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Unlike William and Kate, I couldn't afford to put my son's name down for Eton. But I did manage to get him on the waiting list for an NHS dentist, which is at least a start.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Blaming asylum seekers for homelessness? What about the 720,000 empty homes in England, and the 1,627,450 second homes in England alone.

Blaming asylum seekers for expensive food shops? What about the £3,100,000,000 profit Tesco made last year?

Blaming asylum seekers for expensive energy bills? What about the £438,000,000,000 made by just 20 energy companies in profit?

Blaming immigrants for not getting an NHS appointment? What about the 260,000+ migrant workers keeping the NHS going? And what about the 25% real term cut in NHS funding, think that could do it?

Blaming people on welfare for a lack of money to fund the NHS? What about the £36,000,000,000 tax gap due to avoidance and evasion by the elite?

It's time to realise it's not immigrants, asylum seekers or people on welfare causing you any harm, it's capitalism and the mega rich hoarding all the wealth.

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

A Trillion Dollars.
https://t.co/CHb4VKcq2E