Rich1006

Retired chef. Follow Glasgow Warriors & NRL. Love cooking, sport & books.

[Raphael Dogg @raphaeldogg]

Just a reminder that Mandelson is still a lord, Reed is still in the Cabinet, and Reid and Simons are still MPs. Despite the sequence of scandals hitting this government, nothing has been changed.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

The Guardian documented quadruple-tap by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon. Three waves of ambulances were struck. Paramedics came for the injured. They were struck. Backup crews arrived. They were struck too

In six weeks of war, Israel has killed at least 91 medical workers. Israel claims Hezbollah uses ambulances, but has never provided evidence. The quadruple-tap is not an isolated incident. It is a pattern

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Kick Palantir out of our NHS!

[Jon Harding @_i0n]

Why did Starmer accompany Mandelson to Palantir HQ Where are the minutes of the meeting? Did Mandelson go as a lobbyist for Palantir, or an advisor to Starmer.

Why have the minutes of the meeting been lost (hidden from us)?

If we care about the NHS we must demand answers

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

SHE REPORTED FRAUD AT ONE OF BRITAIN'S BIGGEST COMPANIES. NOBODY CARED. THEN IT ALL COLLAPSED.

Emma Mercer started her new finance job at Carillion in early 2017. Six weeks in, she found something that made her stomach drop.

The books were wrong. Costs were being hidden. Profits were being made to look bigger than they were. On projects worth hundreds of millions of pounds, the numbers simply did not match reality.

She told her boss. He brushed her off. She told the CEO. Same response. She went to HR because she had run out of people willing to listen.

A board member later described her in writing as a whistleblower who did not feel she was listened to.

She was right about everything. Every single thing.

But instead of launching an independent investigation, the board quietly scrapped the idea of outside scrutiny and handed the job back to @KPMG, the company's own auditors.

The same firm that had been signing off Carillion's accounts as healthy for 19 consecutive years. The same firm collecting £29 million in fees from the very company it was supposed to be independently checking.

MP Frank Field said it plainly in Parliament. KPMG were asked to mark their own homework.

They gave it top marks.

Eight months after Emma Mercer raised the alarm, Carillion collapsed. January 2018. The biggest compulsory liquidation in British history.

Here is what that actually meant for real people:

3,000 workers lost their jobs overnight. 28,500 people in Carillion's pension schemes saw their retirement savings cut. A £2.6 billion pension black hole left ordinary workers worse off for years.

Taxpayers handed over £150 million just to keep hospitals, schools and prisons running while the mess was cleaned up.

Meanwhile, Carillion's former Finance Director Richard Adam sold every single share he owned on the day the 2016 annual report was published. He walked away with £750,000. The shares were worthless months later.

It took the regulator five years to act. When it finally did, KPMG was fined £21 million, a record. Investigators also discovered KPMG staff had faked meeting minutes and altered spreadsheets to deceive the regulator during its inspection. The lead audit partner was banned from the profession for 10 years.

The fine was less than what KPMG earned from Carillion.

One woman told the truth in her first six weeks on the job. She was ignored, sidelined and described as a problem. The executives who ignored her kept their bonuses. The auditors who backed them up kept their fees. The workers who had nothing to do with any of it paid the price.

This is how British corporate accountability works.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Dennis Skinner in 2012: "... when posh boys are in trouble, they sack the servants"

[Media Lens @medialens]

Pleasurably painful compilation from Peter Oborne on why it is, of course, completely impossible to believe a word Keir Starmer says.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Peter Mandelson was friends with Jeffery Epstein. Instead of asking him about this, the media asked him about Jeremy Corbyn's supposed 'Antisemitism'.

Emily Maitlis, Lewis Goodall, Jon Sopel, Trevor Phillips, Robert Peston, Andrew Marr & Sophy Ridge hang your heads in shame

[Daniel Grigg @Daniel_Grigg]

Just to be clear, 172 Labour MPs demanded Corbyn go a year before he got 40% at a general election.

But not 1 thinks Starmer should resign for this disgrace.

No wonder the party polls 17% now.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

British journalist and television presenter, Ranvir Singh opens up the real truth while discussing the Mandelson scandal:

“I’m afraid it taps into that very deep feeling, that the people we vote for are not the people who are running the country. The people we vote for are the front face, a shop window, but there are these unknown, unelected, highly paid, very influential people who are more powerful than the prime minister. We see the tip of the iceberg. We think we’ve got a democracy that’s open and fair. We don’t.”

Well said. 🎯

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Isreal bombing ambulance crews live on Channel 4.

The UK and the USA are still supporting this.

Keep sharing, and don’t stop talking about Israel’s war crimes.

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

The health secretary wants to keep us in the dark about Palantir’s systems for handling sensitive health records.

So we’re taking legal action with Democracy for Sale to fight back:
https://t.co/ouleOyKU6X

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

HEGSETH: “Threatening commercial ships transiting international waters is piracy.”

ALSO HEGSETH: “Two oil tankers were seized overnight. We’re going to take their 50 million barrels of oil and sell it.

The hypocrisy is unbelievable. These are not serious people.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been exposed.

Israeli soldiers opened fire on thousands of starving Gazans as they ran in desperation for a piece of food during the war on Gaza.

A moment the world must never forget.

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

As Business Secretary, Peter Mandelson passed classified government information to convicted paedophile and “best pal” Jeffrey Epstein.

Mandelson had two deputies at the time: David Lammy and Pat McFadden.

Lammy has vehemently defended Mandelson in the past.

[Rich1006 @Rich10061]

@Alee93ale Yes.

[EveryDoctor @EveryDoctorUK]

Rishi Sunak declared a £15,900 donation from TPP, a firm that has since secured hundreds of millions in government contracts.

Should politicians take money from private healthcare interests?

We’re tracking the links further.
Donate to help us expose the truth: link in our bio.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Never forget The most brutal scene in human history: the world saw starving Gazans shot for running toward food. The world saw the footage. The world read the reports. The world knew the truth. And the world allowed it

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

The Telegraph’s New Owner Makes Staff Support Of Israel Mandatory

As part of the ongoing consolidation of corporate media outlets into the hands of a smaller pro-Israeli ruling elite, German CEO Mathias Döpfner is taking over the UK’s Daily Telegraph. Despite claiming to champion freedom of speech, it has been revealed by journalist Owen Jones that opposition to Israel will not be tolerated at the news outlet going forward.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel just blew up a public high school in Marwahin, South Lebanon.

Not a military base.

A school.