People in #Gaza are on the verge of famine.
@UNRWA needs to be able to reach as many people as possible with critical aid. Delivery via land remains the most efficient & safest way.
Safe, unimpeded & sustained access throughout the #GazaStrip is a matter of life & death.
As of yesterday, care workers entering the UK on visas must leave their families behind.
These people come here to care for our sick and dying at their toughest moments.
Yet the Government are taking delight in tearing them away from their loved ones.
It’s a total disgrace.
After 47 years of prosperity we told the EU ‘thanks, we’ll take it from here’ and promptly drove the bus off a cliff. There was no consensus and no plan. It was all up to the driver, who quit the next day, followed by a succession of drivers, all worse than the last. What a state
Millions of us have had to put up with a decade and a half of hundreds of elected people in one party run roughshod over this nation, leaving decrepit towns, third world roads and corruption on a gargantuan scale.
But we're supposed to lose our fucking minds over the election of one man in Rochdale?
Since Suella Braverman and Priti Patel started their Rwanda Deportation Scheme, 21 Rwandan’s have been granted asylum in the UK.
Because Rwanda is not a safe country for Political opponents, Journalists or anyone critical of the regime.
That’s another £400m wasted.
BREAKING
🔹Lord John Nash, put into the House of Lords by David Cameron. He and his wife have donated £800,000+ to the @conservatives party. Follow @newstatesman@willydunn as they report
🔹BUSINESSES in which Nash has a declared interest have RECEIVED PUBLIC SECTOR CONTRACTS of £3.8 BILLION in 8 years.
🔹Softcat, in which he holds shares valued at £88 million has received public sector contracts of £2.97 BILLION.
🔹Dividends on Softcat 2023 profits alone would have earned him £2.2 million.
🔹Many of the contracts are with the NHS.
🔹Companies in which Nash is an investor have also received grants of public money
🔹4 companies in which Nash has declared a financial interest were also the recipients of government loans from the Future Fund.
🔹Sorted Holdings, of which Nash was a shareholder until July 2023, received an £11.6m loan from the Future Fund and co-investors in 2021.
🔹As a life peer, Nash also has the opportunity to vote on how the government procures goods and services from companies.
🔹He has voted on amendments to the Procurement Bill SEVEN TIMES in the past 18 months.
🔹Margaret Hodge, the Labour MP, former chair of the Public Accounts Committee and member of the UK Governance Commission, said it was “completely inappropriate that an individual with political power and influence should be placing himself in a position to be accused of a conflict of interest at this scale”.
🔹Hodge added that for a peer and former minister to receive millions of pounds from companies that profit from state spending “simply adds to the public’s view that everybody in politics is only in it for themselves”.
There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing by Nash or any of the companies to which he is connected.
Full story....⏬️
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Ofcom’s decision to investigate the GB News show featuring Rishi Sunak is greeted with scepticism. The watchdog says it received around 500 complaints about the show, but that would mean every viewer wrote nearly seven letters each