Michelle Mone has yet to pay a penny of the ยฃ122m she owes the government for ripping off the NHS. But she has somehow contrived to hang on to the private jet and the superyacht.
At last, Baroness Mone & husband to be sued for the millions they took while putting โNHS staff and patients in danger with substandard kit whilst lining their own pockets with taxpayers' money at a time of national crisis."
https://t.co/sK6PD7GINY
Andy Burnham should push for the UK to rejoin the European Union
He should appoint a Brexit Minister whose sole job is to counter the nonsense and lies around Brexit, providing clear data and facts, especially on the harm it does to our country
He should appoint an Immigration Minister whose focus is to address managed immigration to the UK, and make the case for the contribution and need for migration, how it add value to our nation; not demonising migrants
And he should appoint an Information Minister whose sole objective is to clean up lies and misinformation on social media, on TV, and in print publications
And if a paper has a front page splash with big letters that is clearly a lie, then the paper by law should have their apology on the front page with similar big letters
We need to clean up information, address better migration, and be honest about the impact Brexit has on all of our lives
The country needs growth, and vision, and hope, and the fastest way to do that is being part of the EU, being a team player, and sharing that prosperity around the country
Ash Sarkar on #PoliticsLive "The role of private equity in our social care system" @AyoCaesar ๐
"We've got a hugely expensive social care system. Adult and children social care is a massive part of local authority budget"
"It's part of the reason why so many local councils are in debt"
"And private equity is just siphoning money out of the system"
"In just three years, in three regions of England, private equity sucked out ยฃ250 million in profit"
"Something that Andy Burnham and whoever his pick of chancellor might be, is to say, we're not going to have such a huge role for private equity in the social care system"
"We're going to have strong limits on how much profit can be extracted"
"We're not going to have leveraged buyouts where private equity uses a tiny bit of their own money and then loads the company with debt"
Here's David Cameron in 2016 explaining that if we leave the EU we'll be economically worse off and so have less money for public services
Here we are in 2026, worse off, and with less money for public services
On the 10th anniversary of Brexit Mike Galsworthy at the March for Rejoin, reminds us why we should rejoin the European Union #RejoinEU
"Why rejoin the EU?"
"Because the EU is the power that stands up for our values and gives us opportunity, and is the anti-tyranny force, in this world that is now dominated by Trump and Putin"
"It's where our natural team is and it's based on the values that we ourselves wrote into it after WWII"
"It's our home, it's our family"
Scary ! France's most famous weather presenter @EvelyneDheliat presented a landmark prediction in 2014 on TF1 of what French weather could be like in a 2050 heatwave
Here she runs the tape back on her 2014 self and compares it with ๐ญ๐จ๐๐๐ฒ'๐ฌ actual figures๐
My English s/t
Govts handing NHS to private equity (PE).
Eyecare contracts handed to PE backed firms, profit margins of 32% to 43% from NHS work.
Profiteering means less available for NHS services.
NHS capacity not expanded, permanent dependence on private providers.
https://t.co/I0XaUBp0QC
Bills up.
Wages too low.
Record profits for Oil & Gas.
50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population.
Shit in our rivers.
Pensioners jailed for protesting.
Migrants thrown under the bus.
Supporting a Genocide.
That's Starmer's legacy.
Brexit was not democratic
10 years ago I, a British citizen, wasn't allowed to vote in a referendum which took away my rights as a British citizen
If hundreds of thousands like me had not been denied this fundamental right, the knife-edge result would have been different
"The government have actively avoided looking for evidence Russia interfered."
The Intelligence & Security Committee's Stewart Hosie said the government didn't investigate alleged Russian interference in the Brexit vote, and no one wanted to touch this "with a ten-foot pole".
Starmer has done nothing to rectify this situation. Please repost if you want the government to conduct a full scale inquiry into Russian interference in British politics over the last twenty years. Russia is waging a hybrid war against the UK and this government, like its Tory predecessors, is failing to protect us against the political half of that attack.
"... we spend less than virtually every other major country in Europe on social security"
Well done to @FisherAndrew79 for challenging the narrative that we have a generous welfare system
Italian PM Giorgia Miloni slams President Trump for claiming she begged him for a photo,
"Then there are certain matters that warrant an immediate response"
"Donald Trumpโs statements are completely fabricated.
I am, quite frankly, stunned"
"I do not know why the President of the United
States behaves in this way towards his own allies"
"After all, this is not the first time this has happened"
"I can only say that it is a pity he does not show the same resolve towards the enemies of the West, towards the enemies of the United States, towards leaders with whom he is , in fact, much more accommodating"
"But there is one thing he must remember: Italy and I never beg"
3 seismic by-elections where the Reform threat was all we heard about.
Caerphilly, Gorton & Denton, Makerfield.
3 times it wasnโt even close. Decent people moved together to the best anti-Reform option & humiliated Farage.
When will our public debate reflect our anti-racist majority?