Lonesome Pie

Trying to avoid another fine mess. Lots of them about.
Fallen out with Labour. Still an Owl.
Thankful for Hendo's.
JBG

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Just me walking up the road so I can turn round and march back down again like a tit for the camera.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Royal Mail boss’s pay package triples to £6.9m.

Cost of postage stamps rocketing

RM hasn't hit delivery target for 1st-class post since 2017, 2nd-class mail since 2020.

Ofcom continues to reduce targets.

Bosses rewarded for fleecing people.
https://t.co/5KHpChLSlV

[Richard @ricwe123]

That particular moment when a British surgeon was giving testimony to the UK Parliament.

He describes how IDF drones arrive right after airstrikes in Gaza, targeting and shooting the injured, including children,right on the spot......

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Baroness Michelle Mone and husband made approximately £200 million personal profit from supplying defective medical gear to the NHS.

They were handed the contract with no competition or process despite having zero experience in the sector.

Nobody is in jail. They keep the cash.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Sally died because the supported living home she lived in forgot to give her her medication for 300 days. An inquest found she died from neglect but the CQC failed to bring forward a prosecution

The problem isn't just the regulator. Its the fact that we've privatised social care

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff.

He supported Iraq invasion; ex chair of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants.

Next?
https://t.co/8Cnj0hIu62

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Judge tries again to convict the defence barrister of in the Elbit Systems criminal damage case of contempt for informing the jury of their rights to acquit after he had ruled the barrister should not do so https://t.co/Z300S67Gwo in unprecedented and extraordinary case.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israeli drones are dropping grenades on children in South Lebanon.

Read that again.

Dropping grenades.

On children.

The “ceasefire” is a lie.

[Football Away Days @AwayDaysFB]

Ian Wright is an absolute hero for saying how we all feel about this World Cup…

“I've just read that the Somalian referee has been denied entry. Every few hours it's another story, another story about fans denied, players denied, officials denied, journalists denied, now refs," Wright said.

"You know something I'm laughing but it's not funny, it's actually not funny and something has to be said.

"The expensive tickets, the most expensive tickets ever, expensive accommodation, transport through the roof. It has to be said.

"Is this how the hosts behave really for the greatest game, the greatest tournament in the world, is this how the hosts behave?

"Are we not hearing more? Are we seeing how Qatar got dragged, are we not hearing more? Is this the spirit of football, really?

"You know who I feel for? I feel for the American fans who are desperate for this, American soccer fans who are desperate for this, how embarrassed they must be. How embarrassing for them this must be.

"This is the World Cup, this is a World Cup of chaos. Whoever wins this World Cup is going to have to go through some serious chaos to get this done.

"I hope we can do it, but something has to be said now. This is the World Cup."

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Stop the ‘Great Israeli Real Estate Event’ taking place in London on 14 June. Palestinian land is not for sale. Such sales are illegal & unethical. This event should not be allowed to go ahead

[sarah @sahouraxo]

This isn’t Lebanon.

This is Gaza right now.

Israel is dropping bombs on tents packed with families in the middle of the night in Khan Younis.

This is what they call a “ceasefire.”

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

The top civil servant at the Health Department "worked for or held shares in 12 companies that benefited from public contracts with DHSC or related health organisations"

She was elevated to the top role by Wes Streeting

She should resign. And we must end NHS privatisation.

[Robert HJ Marshall @roberthenryjohn]

This is outragious inequality. . . .
The whole of Britain should be ashamed, especially Royalty!

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Pro-Palestine prisoner Umer Khalid, a 22-year-old with muscular dystrophy, has been dragging himself across his prison cell floor because he has been denied a wheelchair.

He hasn't had access to a shower for over 20 weeks.

He has been waiting for a neurology appointment for over 12 weeks while experiencing chest pain and breathlessness.

This is happening in a British prison right now.

I've written to David Lammy to demand answers:

[Dr Ellie Chowns MP @EllieChowns]

Israel's escalating military campaign in southern Lebanon has already killed thousands of people and forced more than a million from their homes.

This utter disregard for civilian lives is inexcusable. We saw these patterns in Gaza - it cannot happen again in Lebanon.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

Billie Eilish, Finneas, Cillian Murphy, Joaquin Phoenix, Annie Mac, Peter Gabriel, and more come together for Palestine.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Fortunately, Britain has a Bermuda-registered mass circulation newspaper owned by a French-domiciled billionaire, a television station owned by a Dubai hedge fund and a political party backed by a Thailand-based crypto tycoon to remind us of the importance of patriotism

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Over 12,000 people have now signed our petition. Not signed yet? Just go here👇

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it.

Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at.

Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets.

That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting.

This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid.

So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram.

The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck.

And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Israel is currently destroying Tyre — a 5000 year old city, home to hundreds of thousands of people.

Zero condemnation from a single British politician.

Endless impunity; a time of barbarism and monsters.