Brett Nainggolan

[Dr Martin @MartinRemains]

Companies that had no money, that had just been incorporated, that no history at all in PPE, were paid up front so that they in turn could buy dodgy, shit, cheap PPE, that they then marked up to make massive profits. It is crooked, corrupt and criminal.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Britain has 157 billionaires whose combined wealth is equivalent to 22% of GDP. Of all the objections to a wealth tax, the idea that it would 'create new divisions' is one of the least tenable.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Corporation Tax is set at 25%.

But HMRC collects just 13.2%.

This is mostly because companies like Amazon, McDonalds, Starbucks, Vodafone, BP, Shell...

Pay little or none at all.

Make the billionaires pay their tax and raise £80bn a year

This is how Burnham could raise money

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Both Switzerland and Norway have wealth taxes. They haven't 'destroyed liberty', 'disincentivised saving', 'killed entrepreneurialism' or even forced the rich to leave those countries.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Just shoplifted £10bn worth of stuff from Tesco.

Said to the Police Officer who came, "It was an honest mistake."

He said, "You know what we won't even investigate and you can just keep it all."

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Water companies reclassify bonus as retention payments, circumvent rules

Anglian Water CEO gets £1.3m retention pay

AW won't meet its regulatory targets

44% rise in customer bills, sewage in rivers, 182m litres a day lost to leaks, criminal convictions.
https://t.co/kH6O9Cob74

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Water companies have been banned from paying bonuses. So Anglian Water has given its chief executive a £1.3m 'retention payment' instead. I would accuse them of taking the piss, but they're dumping most of that into the River Ouse.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Zack Polanski, "The hoarding of assets is causing inequality in the country"

"If you're the poorest billionaire in the country with £1 billion, you're making £1 million passive income every week"

"That's unsustainable when we have nurses queuing up at food banks"

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Pension age to rise to 68 from 2037, Treasury tells @OBR_UK under plans set by previous Conservative government https://t.co/xKRtCgSmvZ Labour govt is now consulting on what state pension age should be

[SunderlandLollipops 💙 @SunderlandLolly]

Not one person deciding the pension age will EVER have to live on the state pension of £12.5k (only HALF the min wage). And NONE OF THEM will be working to 68.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Peter Kyle says national security was a very important part of why the govt has nationalised British Steel.

The UK's national grid is owned by the likes of BlackRock & Abu Dhabi. How does that impact our national security? What about our energy? Water?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

You want to ask WHY? can't we afford things that we used to do.

Maybe it is those untaxed billionaires stealing all the money and paying no tax.

We could deal with them, but no.

[Jen Wood - est optimum simpliciter @unojen_wood]

We should demand an itemised rundown on how an app - track and trace - cost £29billion:
What did it involved. who got paid and how much they got paid.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

People need to think really carefully about this.

A Cabinet with no accountability to the public
A Cabinet only accountable to the PM
A Cabinet that cannot be challenged by elected MPs in Parliament

A Dictatorship

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Thames Water increased its bonus payouts to £4.1m for senior managers.

It has £19.7bn debt, fleeces customers, dumps sewage in rivers, loses billions of litres of water to leaky pipes.

But bosses rewarded .. for what?

Govt/Ofwat do nothing.
https://t.co/bmvqFV8ESF

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

It's amazing, in the UK a handful of rich people steal £10bn, it's 'wasted' with 'honest mistakes' lets just forget about it.

Someone steals some nappies, that's a dangerous thief needs to go straight to jail.

The people in charge need to go to jail, they are the real criminals

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

The Guardian of course have just made the Standards investigation a slam dunk

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

LAndy Burnham says a wealth tax would be ‘creating new divisions’

He’s not even on the pitch.

The super rich have taken our assets for decades and we want them back.

That fight isn’t going to come from Andy Burnham.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The Covid Inquiry concludes the Tories were a bit careless and lost £10bn down the back of the sofa

No it was blatant corruption, money given in dodgy contracts to Tory Donors

The money isn't wasted, it wasn't lost. It was stolen.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Labour should ditch triple-lock pensions promise, says OECD.

Full state pension is less than 50% of minimum wage

2m pensioners live in poverty

100,000 pensioners die in poverty each year.

OECD backs democide, silent on equitable distribution of wealth.
https://t.co/HMDOPfGbDb