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This space confuses the algo

[`.•💜´¯ 𝒮and `.•💜´¯ @SWSandy_]

Knowlton Church today, Happy New Year

[Lynn Williams @Carer49]

We’re already in Victorian era poverty with the rise of linked diseases and ill health. Further cuts, more people will die.

[Harry Cole @MrHarryCole]

It’s an unsubtle back door to force everyone to sign up and verify their ID. Only way you can stop under 16s joining with any measure of success.

Started with bookies and porn.. now it’s socials.. and on and on it goes

See how it works yet?

[Not A Number @myhiddenvalue]

True

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

SAINSBURY'S BOSS WANTS A PAY RISE WHILE YOUR BREAD COSTS MORE THAN EVER

Simon Roberts runs Britain's second biggest supermarket. Last year he took home £5.4 million. That is nearly 200 times what his average shop worker earns. Now the board wants to raise the ceiling on what he can pocket to £7.3 million if targets are hit.

The timing is special. @sainsburys own annual report warns customers are under increasing pressure from the cost of living. Food prices are still being squeezed by post-Iran war energy costs and rising wages imposed by the Labour government.

Those same rising wage costs, by the way, helped trigger 18,000 retail job cuts across the sector in the last year. The workers kept their jobs got a 5 to 6.5 percent pay rise. Still below the real living wage of £13.45 an hour. Roberts got a pay rise too. His base salary alone crossed a million pounds.

Over at @Tesco, Ken Murphy collected £10.8 million last year. That is 420 times what a typical Tesco shop-floor worker earns. His bonus targets were quietly adjusted after he missed a food waste goal. The new target is growing market share by an unspecified amount. No, really.

Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP asked supermarkets last month to consider limiting prices on basics like bread, eggs and milk in exchange for lighter regulation. M&S boss Stuart Machin called it completely preposterous. Others said it was Cuba without the sunshine.

Nobody asked the checkout staff what they thought.

@ShareAction plans to quiz Sainsbury's and M&S at their annual meetings next month about the gap between boardroom packages and what workers actually take home. Big shareholders who were consulted on Roberts' new pay deal were described as overwhelmingly supportive. Comfortable position from which to be supportive.

What do you think? Should CEO pay at listed companies be capped as a multiple of the lowest wage in the business?

Link in the comments.

[Nicola 💙 @nikpet1]

Moving the sick and disabled from legacy benefits to Universal Credit have cost them more than extra finance burden but for some their lives.

[joe wells @_josephwells]

It’s a competition now to see who can be crueler to benefit claimants

[Donna McLean @Donna__McLean]

So what?! A proposed new datacentre in England will produce more emissions than an international airport. And it's just one of many. We are turning the clock back on climate science for the sake of big data and AI slop without any thought for the impending carbon footprint.

[michelle maher @mmaher70]

Report in 2014 on sanctions not working on getting people into work
'there are concerns that welfare conditionality can have unintended consequences, including: distancing people from support; causing hardship and even destitution; displacing rather than resolving issues such as street homelessness and anti-social behaviour; and negative impacts on ‘third parties’, particularly children'.
#Labour #socialsecurity

https://t.co/0VFEjmlpRU

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

We’ve moved very quickly from “two-tier policing doesn’t exist” to “two-tier policing does exist and it’s a good thing”.

[`.•💜´¯ 𝒮and `.•💜´¯ @SWSandy_]

@Hossylass @MLoopyP A lot of that is affected by diabetes type 1 actually

[`.•💜´¯ 𝒮and `.•💜´¯ @SWSandy_]

@Hossylass Autocorrect changed it

[`.•💜´¯ 𝒮and `.•💜´¯ @SWSandy_]

@Hossylass Ignorant post office course type 1 should be counted for pip, if you diabetes is in crisis like many are you will be profoundly sick, falling asleep unwittingly, be confused, have sight problems etc.

[Hoss @Hossylass]

PIP isnt compensation for dealing with a health condition.
Its for the additional costs of disability - and the costs for type 1 diabetes are covered for free.
This post shows a lack of understanding of the level of impact of disabilities that most people on PIP endure.

[Kathy Parr @KathyParr101]

Dear Camilla Tomily,
Please could you remind Jeremy Hunt, who wishes to abolish the essential triple lock, that the state pension is a poverty level income, half the amount of the UK legal living wage and one of the lowest pensions in Europe.
Abolish Net Zero instead.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Fun fact: The underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨WOW. KILLER DIGWA WAS NOT EVEN SEARCHED PROPERLY BY POLICE

HE STILL HAD A KNIFE ON HIM WHEN THEY TOOK HIM TO THE POLICE STATION

They didn't even bother to disarm him

This is how biased the Policing is

[Lynn Williams @Carer49]

Oh @lewis_goodall - really? Going after disabled people? Are our families always the scapegoat for the failure of Govts - plural - to improve everyone’s lives? Social care a mess, disability and carer poverty is deeply ingrained. Society & infrastructure remain inaccessible

[Muhammad Butt @muhammadbutt]

just parent your fucking kids.

limit their access, monitor what they watch, have regular conversations about misinformation. it’s not hard.

[Lembit Öpik @lembitopik]

Labour Minister David Lammy made the ludicrous statement: “equality doesn’t mean treating everyone the same.” Such a stupid man shouldn’t be in politics