Dr Leighroy Jenkins

I like people and stuff! Frontline NHS Mental Health worker. She/her

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Energy bills up 6.4% — while network providers raked in £4 billion in “excess” profits over four years.

Water bills up 26% — while firms paid £78 billion in dividends since privatisation & racked up £64 billion in debt.

End this scam. Bring water & energy into public ownership.

[JimmyTheGiant @jimthegiant]

Amazon paid just £18.7m tax on £27bn UK sales.

Their FIRST EVER TAX BILL.

They rely on: roads, postal infrastructure, educated workers, police, NHS (for staff), consumer protections, contract law, and more—paid for by us. But contribute next to nothing.

[paulusthewoodgnome 🇺🇦 🦋 💂🏻‍♂️ @woodgnomology]

Eleanor Laing avoided paying £180K capital gains tax on the sale of her Westminster flat by declaring it as her primary residence under capital gains tax rules but registered it as her second home with the Parliamentary Fees Office to claim interest on her mortgage. #politicslive

[SophieSpring97 @SophieP25397]

Please enjoy this video of Marine Le Pen calling for "lifelong ineligibility" for elected officials convicted of "misappropriation of public funds".
https://t.co/qQOTaFDaQM

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

1.2bn is the price Murdoch is prepared to lose just to run the Sun. That's the value he places on its ability to influence British politics...

We need to reform media ownership laws to prevent billionaire foreigners from buying influence over the direction of our country.

https://t.co/fZJOGWNbR0

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

An update: the Home Office has signed ANOTHER contract with Fujitsu Services, this time worth £3.7m over the next 5 years.

Sub-postmasters are still waiting for compensation from the Horizon scandal and the govt had a choice of 32 other suppliers. So why choose Fujitsu again?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

In 1968 Finland banned for profit education, the few private schools that exist in Finland have to reinvest any profit they make or pay it back to parents.

It has been in the Top 3 in education for the last 20 years.

There should be no profit in education or healthcare.

[LBC @LBC]

'She seems to have believed online racist lies.'

James O'Brien is stunned that Kemi Badenoch has fallen for claims that Adolescence depicted a 'non-white killer' as white, despite the creators making it clear that it's not based on a real case.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Super interesting.

Norway has 17 billionaires. The UK has a population 12X larger and yet it has...55 billionaires.

Yet Norway has a higher rate of tax and has a wealth tax. Its higher rate of capital gains tax is also much higher (its equalised with dividends). 1/2

[Jake 🌹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ToryWipeout]

Did we have any fuss in 2023?

[Dick Mackintosh🌹#StopTheWar @DickMackintosh]

Gary's latest video is brilliant in explaining the last 40 years of Thatcher's privatisation strategy, which installed Pinochet-style wealth class domination in every sector of the economy..

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This is sickeningly chilling:

Adolf Hitler’s rise to power was marked by a systematic campaign to dismantle democratic institutions, suppress dissent, and undermined democratic elections, while dehumanizing minority groups.

Shortly after taking power in 1933, Hitler’s regime began reshaping how German history and culture were presented to the public while demanding loyalty instead of institutional allegiance. The Nazis purged museums, universities, libraries, and cultural institutions of anything that contradicted their ideology. School curricula and museum exhibits were rewritten to glorify the Aryan race and erase Germany’s responsibility for World War I. Any content deemed "degenerate" or "un-German" was removed.

Hitler then undermined judicial independence by pressuring judges to conform to Nazi ideology and calling for the expulsion of those judges who did not. Hitler and his propaganda machine frequently claimed that protesters and political opponents were not genuine, but rather paid agitators working for foreign interests—especially Communists and Jews. This narrative helped justify violent crackdowns and mass arrests.

His regime also crushed independent journalism, replacing it with tightly controlled propaganda that manipulated public opinion. Hitler sent thousands of people who were perceived threats to concentration camps without trials or due process.

Most significantly, he cast aside the constitutional limits of the Weimar Republic, which destroyed any remaining constitutional limits on his rule.

[LBC @LBC]

‘Get angry!... It’s outrageous that we haven’t done anything.’

@MartinLewis explains why he blames ‘the last 20-25 years of governments’ for the soaring cost of household bills.

[The London Economic @LondonEconomic]

EXCLUSIVE: Shadow environment secretary Victoria Atkins accepted free tickets worth £450 to the Cheltenham Festival just weeks before her colleagues criticised Rachel Reeves for accepting free tickets to a Sabrina Carpenter concert.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

So. This is the state of American democracy.  

The richest guy in the world is handing out million dollar checks in order to win a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat and elect an anti-choice judge.  

We MUST overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Ok - I won't see anything funnier today

The man who lived rent free due to the Bamfords, had free takeaway delivery during Covid , had a 'free wedding reception' etc..........

[Dr Leighroy Jenkins @JenkinsLeighroy]

@ZackGold16 @Halcruttenden You want to pay for health care then? You want us to be subservient to Putin? If current parties aren't working let's try the far right with people who assault women and are horrifically racist?

[Trevor McArdle @McardleTrevor]

Boris Johnson has supported the US administration’s description of us as, “freeloaders”

Meanwhile, Carol puts together a short list of Boris’s freeloading 👇

The man’s a disloyal fool with no sense of shame

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Billionaire who happily fires federal workers and cuts social security and healthcare for the poorest in society draws the line at mocking his falling share price.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Julia Davies, "It might sound like wealthy people pay more in tax, that's because they disproportionately have more of the wealth of the UK" @PatMillsUK

"I'm speaking here as a wealthy person, so I would have to pay the proposed 2% wealth tax that we're talking about"

"No matter what the lobby groups who don't want to tax wealth will tell us, it is not going to be a problem for wealthy people to pay that"

"Who it is a problem for the moment is working people and small-medium sized businesses"

"So while we are delaying implementing more measures to fairly tax wealth, we are increasing the strain on working people and small to medium sized businesses"

"We have increased national insurance on working people.. We should have applied national insurance to income on wealth. That would have brought in a lot of money and it wouldn't have put our small businesses under strain"

"I represent a group called Patriotic Millionaires, we absolutely don't think wealth is a dirty word, suggesting that asking for fair taxation of wealth is saying wealth is something dirty is nonsensical"

"Asking for fair taxation of wealth is not punishing anyone. Asking working people to pay more national insurance and income tax, that is punishing people"