Ian Docherty

Harp, piano, violin, flamenco and classical guitar teacher.
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[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Thames Water creditors offer £75m social tariff boost to win over Burnham.

Cost will be passed to other customers.

Profit motive responsible for the crisis would remain. Customers will be fleeced, dividends will be paid.

Public ownership is the future.
https://t.co/Zsm0ORqZC4

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Labour will work with Reform.
Labour will work with the Tories.

But not the Greens, even when local people want it.

Standing up for Palestinians is a red line. Working with Reform isn't.

Want a party that won't pick on disabled people & taxes the rich?

https://t.co/i9idDx4vyY

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Kemi B from northwest Essex gets £2,700 a month in housing benefit on a six-bedroom Grade II listed farmhouse, even though she's in a relationship with a highly paid investment banker. We need to put a stop to these kinds of welfare abuses.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

2025-26 Public Duty Cost Allowance paid to former UK PMs.

Max allowance, £115k

John Major £115,000
Tony Blair £115,000
Gordon Brown £114,647
David Cameron £107,295
Theresa May £114,303
Liz Truss £98,131
Boris Johnson £115,000

Rishi Sunak declined PDSA.
https://t.co/PtsbosRtlq

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

Message to @andyburnham

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

You claimed £39,000 a year in taxpayer-funded London rent, more than the entire benefit cap allows any family in the country, while living 50 miles from Westminster in a multi-million pound farmhouse.

That’s not “standing up for people who work.”

That’s Benefits Street with a bigger budget and better PR.

Taxpayers have had enough of you.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

🚨BREAKING
The Financial Times has just revealed that Thames Water’s US hedge fund creditors are close to agreeing a ‘last and final’ deal to take over the company.

A handover to US hedge funds. A continuation of the privatised chaos. And a huge reward for the people who have run our water into the ground.

The deal would see them allowed to pollute our rivers and seas without consequence - in exchange for an upfront payoff.

This deal is absolutely outrageous, in every regard.

112 MPs have already called for special administration of Thames Water.

A cross-party group of MPs - who scrutinise the Environment Department - have said that the creditors’ proposal should be rejected and Thames Water should be brought into special administration.

And the former Environment Secretary rejected a previous version of the creditors’ deal in June. This new version is not better in any way.

@andyburnham promised to reverse Thatcher’s legacy of privatisation. He promised public control of life’s essentials.

This really is the moment of truth for Andy Burnham. If he allows the water supply of 16 million people to be sold off to US hedge funds - how can we take him seriously about any of his promises?

NO DEAL to the Thames Water creditors. Special administration now.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Only 6.4% of stroke survivors receive enough therapy.

Result of slave-like obedience to fiscal rules.

Opens the door to privatisations.

Fiscal rules suspended to rescue banks/businesses but not for saving lives.

People suffer but markets are appeased
https://t.co/ElyQD3LNdY

[Turn Left Media @TurnLeftMediaUK]

🚨: 100,000 signatures calling on parliament for an inquiry into the UK's complicity in Gaza genocide.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

For last 24 hours I’ve seen footage of horrific scenes from Gaza, just absolute human misery. Yet..it’s not there on any news outlet’s home pages, not discussed on our witless political shows. We’re just going to ignore it? Is that the plan?

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Minister tells energy suppliers to do more to help households tackle unpaid bills.

12m+ households in fuel poverty. £7bn debt, caused by profiteering.

Companies pass cost of bad debts to other customers.

Govt can help by price controls, nationalisation.
https://t.co/MsYPbuK1by

[Chris Healey She/Her 🏳️‍🌈 〓〓🏳️‍⚧️ @soupdragon99]

Leek and Potato soup £1.50? no not a tin, freshly prepared in the House of Commons!
Baked jacket potato £1.50 with cheese an extra £1.
Why don't they cut their own benefits? they are quick enough to try and target the sick, disabled and elderly.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Polanski is one of few politicians in the UK who can congratulate Abdul El-Sayed without stinking of hypocrisy.

[\○/ @pickledpuffin]

Dear @BBCNews stop referring to Zia Yusaf as "shadow home secretary " he's self appointed and hasn't even won the title of MP.

Stop foisting this trash on us.

[Greens4Palestine @Greens4P]

The Green Party doesn’t have a “Friends of Israel” group.

We’re the only major party that doesn’t.

Perhaps that’s why we’re the only party that willing to oppose settler colonialism.

Perhaps that’s why we’re the only party willing to oppose genocide.

https://t.co/WWZNWpEdOs

[Peter Geoghegan @PeterKGeoghegan]

🔴 EXCLUSIVE: After *five-year* legal battle, Democracy for Sale has forced the government to reveal who referred firms to lucrative Covid PPE ‘VIP lane’ for 'politically connected'

30+ senior Tories are named, plus ex Duchess of York, and many more 🧵
https://t.co/qNBcKuqMmE

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

Kemi Badenoch.
Britain is overspent, over borrowed,
over taxed and drowning in an out of control welfare system.

From the woman who claims £39,400 per year in personal expenses.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

The budget is a missed opportunity to loosen the shackles of neoliberalism.

Can't solve problems caused by neoliberalism with more of the same.

Appeasing corporations and the super-rich, extra tax perks for the rich, but little for ordinary people.
https://t.co/NTUtsrnX5k

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

UK Chancellor pledges cheaper marmalade and gherkins in pre-Budget package of 'everyday fixes'.

Fiddling at the edges.

Need redistribution of income and wealth.

End profiteering in housing, energy, water, essentials.

Increase tax personal allowance.
https://t.co/JiEmmBVQgH

[Norman Patterson @NormanPatt]

Working people in Britain can't afford to put their heating on because of politicians who get their heating paid for them by the very people who can't afford to put their heating on!
It's time to stop the expenses gravy train.