@AlisonMoyet@stuzi_pants Interestingly Norwegian Wood is a song in which the female definitely has the upper hand.
As for you 'getting Wood' . . . Let's just say it sounds as if you are due a rise.
In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
Bills up.
Wages too low.
Record profits for Oil & Gas.
50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population.
Shit in our rivers.
Pensioners jailed for protesting.
Migrants thrown under the bus.
Supporting a Genocide.
That's Starmer's legacy.
@BladeoftheS Interestingly Hendrix was vilified in some quarters for 'mangling' the Star Spangled Banner'.
The song contains the lines:
'And the rockets' red glare
The bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night
That our flag was still there'
Jimi knew a thing or two.
Today I led a debate in Parliament to ban ALL MPs’ second jobs.
Nigel Farage didn’t show up to defend any of his - including the latest one, raking in £22,500 an hour to promote a gold dealer.
The gravy train must end. Watch the debate below.
MPs criticising the US-UK Pharma Deal in the Commons this afternoon. This deal is a democratic scandal.
@LaylaMoran up first saying the government has agreed to divert “an eye watering amount of NHS money to very large American corporations without a vote”
Britain's core economic problem isn't immigration or welfare. It's that millions no longer earn enough to live securely. Low pay crushes growth, demand, productivity, the NHS and public finances. Until politicians admit that, they're treating symptoms while the disease spreads.
Trusted to be stupid enough to leave the ECHR.
It’d let all the criminals in.
The ECHR underpins our police data-sharing frameworks with other European countries. Leave that and you make the UK a blind spot on the map.
Might as well hang up a sign: “criminals welcome”. 🤦🏻
Bees are responsible for pollinating about one in three bites of the food we eat. They’re far more important to humans than any AI tool or data center.
UK getting air conditioning won't prevent wildfires, won't prevent drought, won't prevent crop failures, won't prevent wildlife die-off, won't prevent our energy infrastructure from overheating and failing, and ultimately won't prevent the global catastrophe that is coming for us
As a wildfire burns in Derbyshire, Richard Stupid Tice confirms it is just weather. But definitely not because Reform have received £24 million from people with fossil fuel interests since 2019.
Every panellist on Question Time tonight was peddling the lie that we have to cut Welfare to spend it on Defence
The Welfare budget is the same percentage as it has always been, the military budget the highest in 50 years
Tax billionaires or make do, like everything else has to