Tesco has 20,000 employees on their basic £13ph
The majority of these claim income support.
That taxpayers money should be deducted from Tesco's annual pretax profit of £2.4 BILLION
We should NOT all be helping Tesco shareholders.
Same for ALL major low pay employers.
BURNHAM?
🚨 This is not the cost of wind. It is the cost of failing to build the grid.
Britain can generate clean electricity in Scotland and other remote areas but our ageing network cannot carry enough of it to the cities and industries that need it.
So consumers pay three times:
1. Wind farms are paid to switch off.
2. Gas plants are paid to switch on elsewhere.
3. Households fund the belated grid upgrades that should have been built years ago.
On Tuesday alone, this failure reportedly cost £29 million: £3.4 million to switch off wind turbines and £25.6 million to fire up gas plants.
The National Audit Office says 50 of 56 essential grid projects are forecast to be late. Annual constraint costs could reach £7.8 billion, taking the cost to roughly £100 per household by the end of the decade.
And the cause? The NAO traces it partly to the Conservative government’s 2015 decision to adopt a more “market-led” approach to grid planning leaving Britain without an agreed plan while necessary upgrades were delayed.
This is Thatcherism’s infrastructure legacy: underinvest, delay, fragment responsibility and make the public pay vastly more later.
The wind is not wasting energy. Political failure is wasting wind.
Build the grid. Expand storage and interconnection. Stop blaming renewable energy for the cost of government incompetence.
Wealthy want UK govt to ditch pension triple lock, cut welfare spending
Silence on corporate welfare
Profiteering
HMRC not collecting £59bn last yr
Poorest 20% paying higher proportion in income in taxes than the richest 20%.
They hit the poor, old, sick
https://t.co/YPcbjL5JXe
“I swear by almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to myself alone, making as much money as I possibly can while doing absolutely fuck all for the poor dimwits who voted for me, so help me God”
Ah-
Now if you think Iceland (in Single Market & even Schengen) has “independence” in that arrangement…
…then it is clear that the UK joining the Single Market would be a move that gives/retains UK independence, in your judgment.
Good to have on record.
🔥 The EU 🇪🇺 is banning Brazilian beef and chicken after Brazil 🇧🇷 failed to prove compliance with antibiotic rules. Britain 🇬🇧 has not.
NI must follow the EU ban, widening the UK divide. Accepting meat rejected by Europe also threatens Burnham’s SPS reset.
Shared food safety 👉 or Brexit divergence?
https://t.co/vwqmhDSTQ8
These people have no shame.
Nigel Farage — Fee paying — Dulwich College
Richard Tice — Fee paying — Uppingham School
Robert Jenrick — Fee paying — Wolverhampton Grammar School
Danny Kruger — Fee paying — Eton College
Suella Braverman — Fee paying — Heathfield School
Sarah Pochin — Fee paying — Haberdashers’ Monmouth School for Girls
Zia Yusuf — Fee paying — Hampton School
Nigel Farage v the establishment.
Educated at the £30k a year Dulwich College, a trader with Credit Lyonnais. Joined the Conservatives in 1978.
Fast forward to last week, where he spent 3 hours dining at Harry’s of Mayfair, the ultra-luxury private members club instead of voting in Parliament.
It was revealed this week that his close aide and donor Posh George had been gifting and donating to him. He’s called Posh George for a reason - a financier from a family educated and rubbing shoulders with royalty.
His speech yesterday was made at the top of Millbank, the HQ that has been used by Cameron and Blair.
Oh, and watch out for photos of him sipping champagne wearing his MCC tie at Lords this week too.
And he wants you to believe he’s one of you, Clacton.
Mobile internet coverage in UK worse than any EU or G7 country.
Inflation-busting price increases.
UK ranks 57th for network performance.
70th for download speeds.
55th for the m quality needed for activities such as video calls, streaming and gaming.
https://t.co/9NMrMBdFnw
Martin Lewis evidence to MPs on energy, broadband & water regulation: ‘it’s crap, confusion tends to rule’
Just a small part of the evidence given at the Commons Public Accounts committee you can watch the full session here https://t.co/FTPGGKZEV9
I think that @BBCNews, @SkyNews@ITVNewsPolitics and @Channel4News should all be reporting on Reform UK and Russian bribery.
RT if you agree!!
Why are the media ignoring such a blatant story?!
Another day another news blackout from most of our media on the story of a Farage ally in European Parliament and leader of his party in Wales taking bribes from Russia to spout their lies and BS … Nathan Gill should be a household name by now. But the media that gave you phone hacking and helped give you Brexit are making sure he remains under the radar in case it demands their new pal Nigel …
The absurdity of JD Vance coming to Europe to lecture us on the death of free speech is laid bare. The Trump appointed head of Federal Communications Commission threatens ABC’s licence over his mild Kirk comments and Kimmel is gone. Free speech? Pah. https://t.co/eps1VaFnFj