MH Innovation

Michael Huxley - retired Innovation specialist, successfully developing new ideas.
100% woke. Loves nature, photography, mending stuff &
engines

[MH Innovation @MHInnovate]

@carolvorders @GreenJennyJones Several years ago, St the revamp of the environmental standard ISO14001, British Standards we're promoting it as forcing companies to deliver Corporate Responsibility.
I pointed out Director's hands were tied by Companies House rules of prioritizing profit over everything.

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

"There is no money lol"

Keep one number in your head the next time you get a version of this line from a government minister.

The British state runs 438 quangos - arm's-length bodies, boards, commissions, authorities - that between them spent close to £400 billion in a single year. That is close to a third of everything the government spends, roughly £1 in every £3 of your money, disbursed by people you did not elect, cannot vote out, and in most cases could not name if your life depended on it.

Nearly half a million people work in this shadow government. It sets standards, hands out grants, runs inquiries, issues guidance, polices whole industries, and shapes the country in a thousand ways that never trouble a ballot paper. It does almost nothing productive and is profoundly extraction, obstructive, and wasteful.

When one of these bodies fails - wastes a fortune, quietly captures itself, makes a decision that wrecks lives - there is no one for the public to remove, because the entire purpose of the arm's-length model is that the arm is held at a length from the voter.

I write often about a peculiar disease in this country, and the quango is the purest symptomatic manifestation of that disease's financial form: authority without accountability. Quangos raise this principle to the perfection of its art.

After all a minister who answers to Parliament can be sacked (even if their landing is often made soft). A government that fails can be turned out (even if, as per present convention, the morons comprising it often make out like the bandits they are). But a third of the state's spending now flows through a layer built precisely so that no one who controls it ever has to face you or answer your questions.

They hold enormous power over your life and your money and carry no responsibility for either - the exact inversion of how a free and functional country is meant to work.

And the government's response to this outrageous overspend, announced this week, is perfect in its way. Confronted with an arm's-length empire it cannot account for, it has decided to appoint more teams - to review it. A fresh layer, to scrutinise the old layer, answerable to no one in particular.

The bonfire of the quangos is promised by every government and lit by none, because the machine learned long ago that it will outlast any minister rash enough to threaten it. Instead it's more money, more waste, more white-collar corruption.

Sod the reviews, and the whole pantomime theatre that surrounds them. The principle that anchors our work at Progress, the principle, that runs through our whole programme, is that power and accountability must travel together, always, with no exemptions for the well-connected. Every pound the state spends will answer to a person the public can name and remove. Bodies that cannot justify their existence will be abolished; the functions worth keeping will be folded back into departments where a minister carries the can. The arm comes back within reach of the voter, or it does not survive.

438 bodies, half a million staff, a third of all you are taxed - and not one of them afraid of you. Fix that, and you have begun to fix the country. Leave it, and nothing else you vote for will ever quite take.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

"What's happening in Gaza is a Holocaust and what's being designed by the Israel government is the final solution to the Palestinian problem. As a Holocaust survivor my reaction is not in my name."

Holocaust Survivor Stephen Kapos

CC: LBC @Lewis_Goodall @hasanthehun

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

So let me get this straight:

When immigrants take jobs, it’s a national crisis.

When AI takes jobs, it’s innovation.

Can someone explain why we’re supposed to fear people willing to work, but celebrate technology designed to replace workers?

[Sustainable Energy Forum @Eddystone506]

Inconvenient Brexit truths:

1) the sum total gain of Brexit trade deals is essentially £0

2) the cumulative GDP foregone to date is ~£500 billion

3) no trade deals can EVER make back the losses

4) irrespective of low EU growth, we'd have grown MORE if we'd Remained

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇺🇸🤔Epstein case revelations: U.S. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert stunned Newsmax after reviewing the unredacted Epstein documents:
“It’s far darker than anyone could have imagined: emails about torture, constant references to ‘consumption,’ a place literally called the ‘Cannibal Restaurant,’ and code words like ‘jerky’ and ‘human meat’ being tossed around as if it were nothing.”
Yes. She directly asked whether we are dealing with cannibalism. With literal human consumption.
This is no longer some fringe theory. A sitting member of Congress is openly saying what no one else dares to say: these monsters not only abused and trafficked children — they may have eaten them as well.
And the women? Ghislaine Maxwell, Rachel Chandler, and an entire network of female predators were deeply involved in delivering children into this nightmare machine.
This isn’t “elite pedophilia.” This is satanic depravity. This is ritualized evil in suits and private jets. The documents are so horrifying, she warns, that the public may not be ready for them. But you know what?
We are more than ready. We are furious.
Enough redactions. Enough excuses about “national security.” Enough protecting these flesh-eating demons. Release every page. Name every name. Burn their world down.
The American people deserve the truth — even if it makes us sick.
Especially if it makes us sick.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

FOR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE NHS DENTISTRY HAS SIMPLY CEASED TO EXIST

On Monday 15 June a debate will take place in the House of Commons on the shocking state of NHS Dentistry.

Nearly 14 million adults are now unable to access NHS dentistry in England - FOURTEEN MILLION! Just think about that.

People in agony are pulling out their own teeth - this isn’t just Victorian, IT’S MEDIEVAL.

We cannot allow this shocking and shameful situation to continue.

CONTACT YOUR MP NOW using this handy link provided by @TheBDA and ask them to attend this important debate. Tell them to demand that ministers provide a plan to save NHS dentistry and offer the resources to back it up!

THIS IS NOW MAKE OR BREAK FOR NHS DENTISTRY - if urgent action is not taken by the government NHS Dentistry risks becoming little more than an emergency service.

[Just Dave now @justdavenow89]

Almost like Farage and Boris Johnson lied to us....

[sarah @sahouraxo]

“The problem is not Netanyahu.”

“The problem is the whole of Israeli society.”

“About 70–75% of Israelis say there are no innocents in Gaza.”

“No innocents — in a land of children.”

“Israel kills children as a hobby.

“As a hobby.”

—Professor Norman Finkelstein

[The Associated Press @AP]

Spanish lawmakers gave Pope Leo XIV a standing ovation after he called for respect for migrants’ rights and international law in a historic address to parliament that signaled a new level of acceptance of the Catholic Church in the overwhelmingly secular country.

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

Rob Kenyon has missed his first meetings as a councillor in Makerfield because he refuses to sign the paperwork to have a DBS check done.

What is he hiding?

Never Vote Reform

[Jerry_Saiyan @JerryWillResist]

Keep talking about the Epstein Files #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

1,300+ deaths a month in England due to long A&E waits, tenfold rise in a decade.

Years of austerity take toll as govts cuddle fiscal rules to appease the City of London.

NHS budgets drained by PFI and privatisation of services.

Democide normalised.
https://t.co/EMNiJto9KN

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Nationwide building society doubles CEO’s pay to £4.7m.

Workers got 3.8% rise.

Members denied a binding vote on exec pay.

A member prevented from standing for board election by insiders.

Has Nationwide become a private fiefdom?

Need governance reforms
https://t.co/W9ixXOmTXn

[JulsSocialist-FreePalestine-BLM-BDS-Gay-Atheist @JulsJulsblues]

@MichaelLamberta @christinemsmit2 £37 billion was the total two-year budget allocated to Test and Trace, NOT THE ACTUAL AMOUNT SPENT - WHICH WAS £39 BILLION
DIDO HARDING HAS A LOT TO ANSWER FOR

[KoKoPopz @Ko_Ko_Popz]

@MichaelLamberta @carol_woke

[Tory Crimes @strummer175]

@MichaelLamberta @pjhroberts

[Michael Lambert @MichaelLamberta]

Anyone ever find out what happened to our £28,000,000,000 spent on Test & Trace which didn’t really work or the billions spent on PPE which had to be burnt because it was out of date or unsuitable? And what happened to the charming Michell Mone, still on her yacht?

[MH Innovation @MHInnovate]

@hoffman_noa didn't Farage support the selection of Mandleson as Ambassador?

[John Hurlston @HurlstonJohn]

@LeeAndersonMP_ @DPJHodges I have 3 Questions Trigger
Who was the vice chair of the Tory Party when Asylum was given
Was it Trigger Anderson or someone else.
The Immigration minister
Was it Travel Lodge Bob or someone else.
The Home Office Minister
Was it Suella Braverman or someone else.
Answers Trigger

[MH Innovation @MHInnovate]

he's shown that he can be bought. completely unstable for a PM

[Dr Tony O’Sullivan @DrTonyOSullivan]

Wes Streeting is unfit for PM role

From unsavoury to unethical
▪️his support for Palantir controlling NHS data; failure to address NHS crisis
▪️close connection with mentor Mandelson
▪️appointing Samantha Jones in 2025 to Permanent Secretary to the Dept of Health, knowing she was director/ shareholder in Keys Group, second largest owner of children’s homes
▪️Keys increased fees by 10% in 2024/5 and extract £60.8m before tax in 2025/6 👇🏼
https://t.co/UsibNpejHO