@kmolley@spookynik@premierinn Booked my flights a couple of weeks ago (speculatively). Entered the ballot - needless to say I wasn’t successful - going anyway. If anyone has a couple of tickets for me and my wife… Not sure how we’d get round the ID checks, have to think about that. Else it’s local a bar!
‼️ Jim Ratcliffe:
🔹 Backed Brexit
🔹 Moved his tax residence to Monaco
🔹 Abandoned plans to build the British 🇬🇧 Grenadier in Wales and moved production to France
🔹 Now lectures Britain from Denmark about why the country is on the slide
And who does he blame? Immigrants and people on benefits.
The billionaires who helped hollow Britain out always point down, never at Brexit, tax flight, chronic underinvestment or their own decisions.
*Toughness* seems to mean somebody poorer paying the price.
@Negscratch@Jenny_1884 Brexiteers - They can’t quote any benefits they’ve seen since leaving, nor can they list anything tangible they’d really like to see. It’s a state of mind for them - end of.
@henrywinter@Infrared_44 Pure speculation but… have City promised to make him a very wealthy teenager? Not like them to wave a wad of cash around is it…?
Apparently the new Reform mega donor Ben Delo is threatening to sue people who mention his previous conviction tied to money laundering.
So best not keep sharing it.
Earlier this week, Labour passed legislation to strengthen our democracy and crack down on foreign money in British politics.
5 Reform MPs voted against it, including Farage.
Curious this is one of the few pieces of legislation he bothered to vote on? 🧐
Victim card alert🚨 Nigel Farage (who broke parliamentary rules on the first day of his return as an MP yeaterday) is complaining that Reform are under investigation every day for breaking the rules.
Here’s a tip Nige, maybe you should stop breaking the rules.
#pnqs#politicslive
The Big Four banks made £29 billion in six months. That is £6.7 million every hour while your mortgage and your standing charge did not move an inch.
BP doubled its profits because a war raised the price of the stuff you cook with.
Healey is “considering” a windfall tax. Dimon, Fraser and the City have already started the phone round. That is the Budget. Not the speech in October. The calls this week.
A country that can find £4.7 billion for a defence hole the Treasury itself opened can find the same sum in the profits of the firms that billed the public for the crisis.
Tax the windfall. Build the homes. Take the water.
Or admit the government is a complaints desk for people who already own the country.