Elon Musk is bidding to buy Twitter with $43 billion. Country of Sri Lanka is facing debt of $45 billion to survive. There is something fundamentally wrong with the world.
Israeli colonial violence against Palestinians is constant. It is not just during Ramadan, and not just “in response” to shooting attacks in Tel Aviv. It is every day, at every checkpoint, inside every home, every jail cell, and on every piece of stolen land.
Today, benefit payments will experience their biggest drop in value in 50 years. Let’s be clear: Rishi Sunak has chosen to cut the benefits of struggling families in real terms during a cost of living crisis, whilst his own family dodged millions in tax.
Are we all now interested in defining 'genocide'?
Let's be clear: if what's happening in Ukraine counts as genocide, then what Saudi Arabia is doing in Yemen (with US and UK backing), what Israel does in Gaza, and what the US and UK did in Iraq was also genocide. No ifs, no buts
Rishi Sunak and his wife have done nothing illegal. The people who cheaped out building and managing Grenfell did nothing illegal. The people who owned slaves in the 19th century did nothing illegal. Its time to stop worrying about what's legal and asking about what's right..
BREAKING: Members of the government who decided the public should be fined £10,000 for illegal parties have been fined £50 for their own illegal parties. Don't you love British justice? x
BREAKING: Rishi Sunak’s wife received a £12 million dividend from a company with a Russian office that helps to "fund bullets that are killing children and civilians". Time to confiscate Sunak's yachts x
This isn’t a cost of living crisis. It’s class choice.
⛽️ BP profit - £13bn
💡 Energy companies profit - £40bn
🛒 Supermarkets - record profits
🗳 MPs £2,000 pay rise
They are taking the piss and and it’s beyond the point of needing to make a stand.
Join a union.
The average person is picking between heating or food whilst these rich pricks are getting 76k goody bags. No one in my family even earns that in a fucking year
This is really important.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has claimed that 1m fewer people are in poverty now than 10 years ago.
Technically he is correct but this involves more slight of hand than a Dynamo show and underlines a massive issue in how we measure poverty.
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Lmao and this is what #hewantswealth is claiming people can “money management” themselves out of? There comes a point when the economy is BROKEN, and we have to just admit that.
Zelensky is one of those inspirational stories of the down-to-earth guy who rises from nothing to become a coke-snorting, oligarch-funded Churchill-quoting president who bans the political opposition while hiding billions in the BVI.
What is there not to admire about the man?