Simon Reed

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Two-tier Britain:

▪️Corporate tax evasion continues while the rest of us endure the highest tax burden since 1948.
▪️Winter fuel allowances cut for millions of pensioners while we continue to pay for the heating in MP’s second homes.
▪️Governments continue to tell us to ‘save the planet’ and hit us with green taxes and net zero restrictions while government representatives continue to fly on private jets and get driven in motorcades and energy guzzling AI data centres get plastered around the country.
▪️Supermarkets continue to show record profits while farmers struggle to make a living.
▪️Energy companies show record profits while millions of households endure fuel poverty.
▪️Water companies pay their directors huge salaries and bonuses while reservoirs are sold off and the UK is losing a staggering 3 billion litres of water each day through leaky pipes.
▪️Free accommodation for illegal migrants (with taxpayers’ money given to hotel and accommodation corporations) while millions of people struggle to get onto the property ladder or face enormous mortgage or rental costs.
▪️Huge sums of taxpayers’ money is spent on wars, weapons manufacturers and PFI & PPE contracts while our public services and infrastructures continue to rot.

Two-tier Britain: A place where our tax monies are spent on mega corporations rather than on the people.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Student Henry Nowak who was handcuffed as he lay dying after being stabbed told officers "I can't breathe", bodycam footage shows.
Absolutely horrific.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

It doesn’t matter what the ‘crisis’ is…ultimately, a select group of individuals get stinking rich from a crisis. We have a parasite class. Feeding off the misery of millions of people - often facilitated by the governments whom they donate to. Follow the money. Always. 💰

[Simon Reed @Chopper01Reed]

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[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Student loans inquiry shows ‘massive scale of frustration and upset’.

£292bn debt is a tax on ambition. Millions can't start family, buy home.

Most EU countries, and Scotland, don't charge Uni tuition fees.

England must do the same. Write-off debt,
https://t.co/udS6binCLe

[Simon Reed @Chopper01Reed]

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[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Labour promised to cut energy bills by £300 a year. It was bullshit. Energy bills continue to rise. A massive rise is due in July. For 18 months, Ed Miliband has continued to talk complete gibberish about this.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

“Under a Labour government we would freeze energy bills. We wouldn’t allow them to go up.”

~ Keir Starmer

Yet another lie.

A typical energy bill will rise by £221 a year from July.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Typical UK household energy bill to rise by £221 a year to £1,862.

Blamed on Iran war.

Will fuel inflation, poverty,

Govt can
End profiteering
Decouple price of electricity from gas
Abolish VAT on domestic fuel
Transfer levies to general taxation
https://t.co/v9LKRrORAV

[Simon Reed @Chopper01Reed]

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[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Britain is a place where the government spends £30bn on carbon capture machines, bans new oil & gas licences in the North Sea and yet imports £billions of oil & gas from Norway (from the same sea), spends £57m on sun geoengineering research & plasters farmland with solar panels.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

We don’t even have the basic infrastructures and maintenance in the UK. Reduced oil refineries. Billions of litres of water lost in leaking pipes. Reservoirs sold off. One million potholes. Road signs covered in dirt. Weed strewn pavements. Inadequate energy grid networks. One of the lowest capacity levels of gas storage. On every level, we are paying our taxes for a massive government funnelling of money to their corporate cronies while our basic services and infrastructures continue to decay. It’s absolutely shameful.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Point the finger at the government rather than each other. Britain has turned into a total mess. Nothing works. Everything is bogged down in governmental petty bureaucracy or punishment politics.

Pensioners, small businesses, students, farmers, fishing communities and the disabled are wilfully hammered by the Labour government. Over £100bn of taxpayers’ money is now spent per year on interest payments for the national debt, £30bn is being spaffed away on carbon capture machines, The cost of living for basic essentials like water, energy and food is through the roof.

We are taxed to the hilt and yet public services and core infrastructures are rotting. We have water, energy and food security concerns despite having the national resources to be secure in all of these.

We have a Prime Minister who is the most pompous and conceited individual ever to walk through the doors of 10 Downing Street. We have successive governments literally asset stripping the country to give everything away to multinational corporations. We have massive amounts of poverty and homelessness. We have thousands of migrants arriving across the channel while £millions are spent every day on housing them in 5 star hotels. We have an NHS that is in a total mess with millions of people living in excruciating pain because they can’t get treated for months on end. We have governments who are more concerned with sucking up to the likes of BlackRock rather than fixing the mess that they created. And we even have a government who ram through plastering solar panels on thousands of acres of prime farmland while spending £50bn on sun dimming experiments.

It’s an utter disgrace what has happened to Britain and for all of this, I blame successive governments.

Britain is broken. You can feel the decline everywhere, except in the deep pockets of the greedy corporations who have been allowed to plunder the assets of Britain.

We are an island full of natural resources & with a temperate climate. We should have energy security, vibrant agriculture and fishing industries, blue collar industries to be proud of, manufacturing centres of excellence, but instead, it's all being destroyed, sold off or closed down. The industrial and community fabric of so many communities has been wilfully destroyed or neglected for decades.

We have infrastructures and public services that are rotting despite having the highest tax burden in history.

We have an ongoing cost of living crisis where supermarkets & utility & energy companies fleece consumers on a daily basis while showing record profits.

And for all of this, I blame governments for being more concerned in political game playing, consolidation of power, suppressing freedom of speech, indulging in petty punishment rules and surveillance culture, facilitating corporate greed rather than addressing the many concerns and challenges faced by individuals and communities right across the country.

The first job of any government should be to wholeheartedly serve and protect the citizens that they are supposed to represent. Instead, we have successive governments who are punishing the public and are in thrall to billionaires, global technocrats and asset stripping corporations like BlackRock.

Britain is broken – but not for the corporations who are asset stripping and plundering Britain - facilitated by governments - at our own expense. Shameful.

Rant over.

[Simon Reed @Chopper01Reed]

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[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

“Let’s spend £4.5 trillion on net zero over the next 25 years despite the UK only accounting for less than 1% of annual global CO2 emissions. Let’s increase taxes to pay for net zero. Let’s ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea but spaff away £40billion buying North Sea oil and gas from Norway. Let’s buy coking coal shipments worth £7.2million from Japan but ban UK coal mining. Let’s plaster thousands of acres of farmland with solar panels but spend £50million on sun dimming experiments. Let’s give huge renewable energy construction contracts to China. Let’s give Drax an estimated £1.8billlion in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11billion it has already received despite Drax burning an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Let’s give £1billion this year alone to wind power companies not to generate power from their wind turbines. And let’s spend £30billion of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines but put pensioners, farmers and the disabled into financial peril by claiming there’s a £22bn black hole.”

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Say no to government controlled digital ID.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Here’s an idea…

Rather than the government mandating digital ID on all of us, we should be mandating digital ID on the government to monitor exactly where they spend our tax money and the meetings they have with corporate lobbyists. We don’t serve them. They serve us.

[West Sussex F.L. @WestSussexFL]

Congratulations to East Dean on their 2-1 Bareham Trophy Final win over Bognor Rovers on Wednesday night🏆

Thank you to everyone who came along!

[East Dean Football Club @eastdeanfc]

🏆Cup Winners 🏆

[West Sussex F.L. @WestSussexFL]

Bit late but the final score was 2-1 to East Dean, winners of the 25/26 Bareham Trophy

[West Sussex F.L. @WestSussexFL]

Bareham Trophy Final this evening!!!

East Dean v Bognor Rovers

📍Arundel FC
KO 7:30pm

[Simon Reed @Chopper01Reed]

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[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Subsidising meals in the House of Commons for MPs and parliamentary pass holders is thought to cost the UK taxpayer up to £7 million a year. Despite an ongoing cost of living crisis, we are paying for our MPs to scoff on fine dining.

https://t.co/zL3qa436UY

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

The Post Office with help from Fujitsu, accountants, lawyers illegally convicted postmasters for fraud.

£1.5bn+ compensation paid from public purse. Perpetrators paid ZERO.

No one prosecuted for lying in courts. Fujitsu gets govt contracts.

Who governs?
https://t.co/xFPWpQcHhj

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Instead of the government wanting to enforce digital id on all of us, we should be demanding digital id surveillance on the government - so every meeting with corporations and transparency on where our tax money is going is disclosed. They serve us. We do not serve them.