THESloughTimes

We welcome your news, scandals, sleaze and corruption stories(even if a few years old)
We can't clean-up Slough, but we can inform the public RIP Paul Janik🙏❤️

[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

[Slough Observer @sloughobserver]

Two men charged with attempted murder after firearms incident in Slough https://t.co/Hn7LwVkKt6

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Left: Keir Starmer, "I'm stepping down after two years leaving the country in a better position that I found it"

Right: Police arrest an 83-year-old woman for holding a sign, after Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper proscribe a protest group, which Labour's Baron Hain said was shameful in the House of Lords

Under Starmer, the face of terrorism in the UK is elderly old women holding up signs. What a disgraceful legacy

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

"A high court judge has just greenlit criminal proceedings against Rajiv Menon KC, one of the UK's most prominent human rights barristers...this unprecedented move has sent shockwaves through the legal profession and is actively terrifying junior defence lawyers."

Courts aren't just gagging defendants – now they're threatening independent lawyers with prison for reminding jurors that, when deciding on a case, they can use their conscience.

Justice Jeremy Johnson has continued with his attempt to have Rajiv Menon KC, the human rights barrister who represented one of the recently sentenced Filton 4, convicted of contempt of court.

Footage: @ranjanbalakumaran

[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

[Slough Borough Council @SloughCouncil]

Due to the extended red heat health warning, we are also extending our cool spaces service.
Our cool spaces are now available for anyone who is having difficulty with the temperatures at home on Friday and Saturday as well as today.
If you need them, please use them.

[THESloughTimes @Slough_Times]

The important answer - who brought it is still a secret - why? Another South Asian developer known to the Leader and Cabinet?

[Slough Observer @sloughobserver]

Plans to turn former council HQ into temporary accommodation given go-ahead https://t.co/GUnV7SVqwm

[THESloughTimes @Slough_Times]

Crime capital of Slough and the area has no CCTV - great work @SloughCouncil another successful regeneration

[Slough Observer @sloughobserver]

Police appeal after assault outside Slough Co-op https://t.co/zb7vkz12OU

[THESloughTimes @Slough_Times]

Mental health cannot be measured or treated the same as other sickness, so a clear loophole to lavish sickness policy of the public sector after 3 yrs employment

[THESloughTimes @Slough_Times]

@SloughCouncil how does this compare to productivity? Are we the Slough tax payer subsidising lazy staff who want extra time off?
Slough residents have seen no delivery since the s114 suggesting the authority is failing to performance manage its staff?

[Slough Observer @sloughobserver]

Mental health is most common reason why Slough council staff are off work https://t.co/DOKDfdOrO5

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

In the 1970s and 1980s, over 30,000 people in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis C via contaminated blood products.

When Andy Burnham became Health Secretary on 5 June 2009, terminal patients and activists targeted him immediately. They staged a protest outside his constituency office on 19 June.

Instead of acting, Burnham's department blocked statutory public inquiries, signed off letters denying government liability, and left the archives un-declassified under the standard 30-year rule.

Yet in 2017, conveniently on his very last day as an MP before becoming Manchester Mayor, he went on TV calling the scandal a 'criminal cover-up'.

His speech went viral. The media and victims' groups praised his passion, completely forgetting he himself had sat at the top of that 'covering-up' department. He chose to stay silent until there was zero political risk.

And this is not the only instance.

The Mid-Staffs Scandal (2005–2009), one of the worst care failures in NHS history, saw up to 1200 NHS patients die from systemic neglect. Patients were left in filth and drank from dirty flower vases.

Who was the Health Secretary tasked with handling the aftermath?
Andy Burnham.

His administration ignored 81 separate requests from grieving families, MPs, and health organisations for a full public inquiry, opting instead for a highly restricted, private independent review.

Why?
To protect Labour from an NHS crisis right before the 2010 election. The full statutory public inquiry was only granted after Labour lost— by the incoming Conservative Health Secretary.

Burnham didn't cause the scandals, but he did choose how to handle them. He suppressed the truth when he held power, then played the hero once he left office.

The ultimate political opportunist.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Former CEO of Pennon, owner of South West Water, got £270,000 bonus after parasite outbreak that contaminated drinking water.

SWW dumps sewage in rivers, fleeces customers, neglects investment.

OFWAT didn't stop the bonus.

Let customers vote on exec pay
https://t.co/odlPmzeQ93

[Slough Observer @sloughobserver]

Sir Keir Starmer confirms that he will step down as Prime Minister in statement https://t.co/dYAia6k6PJ

[🇵🇸 Arabian @Arabian__KGB]

🚨🇵🇸 Farmers in the Beit Furik plain, east of Nablus, are being blocked from harvesting their own lands. Reports indicate that Israeli forces and settler groups are obstructing access to farmland, threatening livelihoods, food security, and generations of hard work. 🌾💔

The right to work the land should never be denied. The world must pay attention.

By the way this is in West Bank not Gaza and remember #Israel is the only democracy country in the Middle East 🤡 🤡🤡😂

#Palestine 🇵🇸 #BeitFurik #Nablus #WestBank #HumanRights #FarmersRights #FoodSecurity #Justice #EndTheOccupation #MiddleEast #FreePalestine #StandWithPalestine 🚨⚠️🌍

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

“What’re you in for mate?”

“Cleaning a river without a permit. What about you?”

@EnvAgency is really plumbing new depths of malevolent uselessness here.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

The UK at the UN yesterday "We are horrified by footage of Israeli forces killing a 7mth old baby"

Horrified enough to take action, like halting all arms exports, imposing sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy, & ending all military ties?

So really you're not horrified at all

[tim anderson @timand2037]

The British regime dealing with a terrorism suspect, apparently.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

A jury has refused to convict four pro-Palestine activists accused of criminal damage at a West Midlands arms factory said to produce military aircraft parts for Israel.

Iain Evans, 33, Hana-Yun Stevens, 24, Bea Sherman, 23, and Hisham Alkhamezi, 23, were charged with criminal damage after breaking into a Wolverhampton facility owned by US-based aerospace firm Moog in August last year.

After more than 17 hours of deliberation, the jury at Birmingham Crown Court was discharged after failing to reach a verdict.

During the trial, footage was shown of activists driving a Land Rover through the factory’s front gates before smashing solar panels and skylight windows on the roof, Declassified UK reported.

The four defendants admitted to breaking into the facility but argued that their actions were not unlawful since they were seeking to save lives by stopping the shipment of components for aircraft used in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Prosecutors said the case “is not about Israel, it’s not about Palestine… It’s simply about whether they unlawfully damaged property”.

The jury was shown a social media post explaining the reasoning behind the action where the four defendants all wore t-shirts featuring the names of Palestinians killed by Israeli airstrikes, including the author Refaat Alareer.

Defence counsel Mira Hammad told the court there was “no mystery about why the [four defendants] were there”. It was “on their t-shirts. It’s right there in… the tweet [discussing] military aircraft parts to Israel”, she added.

Evans, who used to work in the aerospace sector, told the court: “We believed the longer we stayed up there, the more lives we would save. The idea was that the longer we stay on the roof, the longer the factory would be shut down.”

After the verdict was delivered, a one-minute silence was held outside the courthouse for those killed in Gaza.

All four defendants were granted bail until a further hearing on 3 July, while the Crown Prosecution Service decides whether to seek a retrial.

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

In 6 months - 2,800 arrests were made in the UK for supporting Palestinian Action.

None were made for over 2,000 British-Israeli dual nationals who have served in an IDF that's slaughtering thousands of innocent children in Palestine & Lebanon.

Please RT until this is reversed.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

MPs urge Fujitsu to make immediate payment to Post Office Horizon victims.

£1.5bn paid from public purse, more to the come. Fujitsu paid zero.

Compensation to Capture victims mounting.

Urging won't do, need emergency legislation to force Fujitsu to pay.
https://t.co/Dsj7tURKN4