After a *three year* battle, @thurrockcouncil has been ordered to reveal exactly how it borrowed and invested £1bn of taxpayers' money.
It's a decision which will hopefully have wider implications for the transparency of public bodies across the UK.
https://t.co/6gxwXdBpfu
A pensioner breaking down because she can’t pay her bills;
a full-time working mum scared she’ll lose her home;
an 8 week-old baby living in a flat with no heating or hot water.
This is the reality outside Westminster. The first of our special reports🧵https://t.co/IGKH2EBl3e
So because a bunch of unelected right wing zealots trashed the economy, we’re back to austerity & all its miseries? Please RT if you want a general election now.
@Josephineperry @sjpartridge MPs can only access healthcare in their constituency, all party conferences to be held at a seaside town where there is sewage dumping, all catering to be from a school, food offered to match school menu and everyone gets 30mins for lunch, just like a nearby OS high school.
@lewis_goodall Such a great way to order dinner at the pub. No queuing at the bar. One of the few covid positives, along with online parent- teacher evenings.
We all clapped our nurses during the pandemic - we called them heroes - now let’s stand shoulder to shoulder with them and help them win the fair pay rise we know they deserve
Let’s all get behind @theRCN. They have always been there for us, now let’s be there for them
By giving @thurrockcouncil access to emergency refinancing, the government has tied nearly £850m of public money to a series of secretive, failing and, in several cases unsecured, investments.
Yet no department deems that worthy of an on-the-record explanation
BREAKING: Thurrock Council has been given permission to borrow nearly £850m from the public purse as an “urgent solution” to meet its debt repayments, mostly to other local authorities
You want to see courage: Women in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan hold a protest in support of Iran. One sign says: “Iran has risen, now it’s our turn” https://t.co/UxBQDSxwJI
Liz Truss said several times in her radio round that no family would pay more than £2,500 this year for energy bills.
This is just *not* the case - and here’s why 👇🏼
Cherry Hinton Brook, looking downstream from Sainsburys #Cambridge
Never, NEVER, happened before.
Brought to you courtesy of @Cambswater and all the developments approved by @CambridgeLabour