🚨 WATCH: Green MP Ellie Chowns attacks Andy Burnham for approving Jackdaw gas field instead of keeping fossil fuels "in the ground"
Burnham: "Can I just say that the gas would still be needed? It would just be imported from somewhere else if we didn't use our own"
#PMQs
Well after today’s announcement from the Bank of England, there is something very, very, very wrong in the system.
So … let me get this straight:
* British Gas made a profit of £1.3bn between January & June
* BP announced profits of £6.95 billion between April and June alone
* Shell has profited by £9.4bn in a year
The MEN at the top:
* John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid received £6.5m bonus on top of his salary
* Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica was paid almost £2m last year in salary and benefits
* Centrica's non-executive directors were paid almost £1m
* Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on £1.15m.
* E.On boss Michael Lewis is on £1m
* EDF's Simone Rossi is also on £1m
* And their top execs enjoyed a share of £4.65m
* Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned a £1.3m pay package
* Welsh Water bosses awarded themselves bonuses of over £930,000
* Severn Trent bosses awarded themselves bonuses of £5.56m
* Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a £727,000 bonus on top of her £2m annual salary
Meanwhile there are...
* People who haven't had breakfast and/or lunch TODAY, because they can't afford it.
* People using FoodBanks because food is becoming more of a luxury than a necessity.
* Children celebrating a birthday without presents.
* Parents worrying about new school uniforms - and some schools enforcing rules which are not cost-effective.
* People who can't get to work because they can't afford to put petrol in their cars/pay for public transport anymore.
* People who are working so much they're making themselves ill, and they STILL CAN'T AFFORD to pay their bills.
* People who have been given fines by these same energy/water companies because they couldn't afford to pay their bills in the first place - increasing their debt.
* Customers being told to do STAR JUMPS TO KEEP WARM for crying out loud!
* Hose pipe bans when gallons of water leak away everyday.
* Elderly people NOT DRINKING because they're worried about running out of water!!!
All this and energy prices are set to rise up to 75% in October...
THIS IS MADNESS!.. I'm all for supporting profits … I'm not for supporting greed at the cost of lives of others.
Something needs to change.
Why is customers' money being used to make life more comfortable for those who are making life more intolerable for the rest of us?
I actually don't understand how the energy companies are allowed to get away with this and why the government aren't stopping them instead of handing out money.....
This is so depressing.
A Green Party election leaflet from Holborn and St Pancras wrapped in a foreign flag, boasting endorsements from The Muslim Vote and Camden Muslim Alliance.
This is just naked sectarianism.
🚨 IRAN SENTENCES SINGER TO 74 LASHES FOR PERFORMING WITHOUT HIJAB
Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi has been sentenced to 74 lashes, a 2-year travel ban and a 2-year ban on artistic activities over her viral December 2024 Caravanserai Concert, where she performed without a hijab.
Eight musicians and production crew members received the same punishment. The concert was streamed online and drew millions of views.
@selenaryan_
Gov sent emergency alerts to millions of phones telling us not to have a bbq in the woods when suns out, that should have been used to alert any phone within a 10mile radius of the nearest mast this lad went missing from soon as it was reported!
For anyone still confused at how Nike got here:
They paid a biological male to do an ad for female sportswear.
A total mockery and betrayal of their customers because of a blind allegiance to woke ideology.
There is no market for this and they’re finding that out the hard way.
I'm rewatching Dr. Phillip Resnick's testimony from yesterday, and I keep coming back to the same question: Does #LindsayClancy's claim that she suddenly heard a command voice actually fit with the rest of the evidence?
Resnick is Lindsay's own expert and a nationally recognized forensic psychiatrist. He testified that it would be very rare for postpartum symptoms to first appear eight months after giving birth. That makes what Lindsay says happened on January 24, 2023 even more important.
According to Lindsay, she suddenly heard a command voice after Patrick left the house on errands that she helped coordinate. The voice supposedly told her that if she didn't do what it said, neither she nor the children would be safe. But I've struggled with the logic of that from the beginning. If the voice was threatening the safety of her children, why would obeying it mean killing the very children she was supposedly trying to protect?
ADA Buchanan then confronted Resnick with his own writing about malingering in Faking It. Resnick has written about the importance of a concurrent delusion when evaluating homicidal command hallucinations. As he explained, if a voice suddenly tells you to kill your mother, your moral fiber should cause you to hesitate. But if you also have a delusion that your mother is an evil wizard, you are more likely to act on the command because the hallucination is consistent with an existing delusional belief.
Where is that concurrent delusion with Lindsay?
There is no evidence that Lindsay believed Cora, Dawson or Callan were evil, dangerous or posed a threat to her or anyone else. In fact, Resnick categorized the killings as altruistic filicide, meaning he believes Lindsay killed her children out of a distorted sense of love. She wanted to die and believed the children would be better off dead than alive without her.
It raises another question for me. If Lindsay's underlying belief was that her children were better off dead because she intended to die, then how much explanatory work is this alleged command voice really doing?
Buchanan also made an important point on cross about resistance. When people hear voices telling them to do something as horrific as killing their children, they can resist those initial commands, seek help or take steps to protect the children from themselves. Andrea Yates is an good example. Before ultimately killing her five children while profoundly psychotic, Yates repeatedly sought hospitalization and attempted suicide. Her history documented an escalating struggle with severe mental illness before the murders.
Lindsay's story is very different. According to her, this was the first and only time she ever heard a command voice. She didn't call Patrick, her mother, a doctor or 911. She didn't try to get herself away from the children or get the children somewhere safe. Instead, after Patrick left on errands she helped arrange, she allegedly heard a command voice for the first time and acted on it.
We're being asked to accept a previously unreported command hallucination as part of the explanation for why Lindsay killed her three children. It is absolutely fair to test that claim against her clinical history, behavior before and during the killings, what she actually believed about the children, and even the principles described by her own expert.
The more of that evidence I hear, the harder it is for me to believe Lindsay Clancy was hearing voices.