Elon Musk has so much money he could feed everyone on the planet for 11 years with direct food aid & delivery. He has that much money, to feed 8 billion people for 11 years.
Elon is only rich on paper. His soul is rotten to the core.
"Feargal Sharkey brands 'ยฃ100billion' cost of nationalising water 'nonsense'."
And that is because it is nonsense, pure unadulterated, made up nonsense.
https://t.co/ReGvCOqqOm
Musk just became the worlds first TRILLIONAIRE.
Meanwhile, public services are stretched to breaking point. Poverty is rising. Meanwhile, extreme wealth continues to grow.
The economy isn't working for ordinary people.
A wealth tax could raise billions to invest in our communities, strengthen public services, and build a fairer future.
Tax wealth. Fund public services. Tackle inequality.
It's time for those with the broadest shoulders to contribute their fair share.
#WealthTax #TaxTheRich #PublicServices #WealthInequality
@premnsikka The EU told the UK to double it's state pension to bring it into line with other EU states. Another reason for Brexit that you were never told about like banning offshore bank accounts, so that the rich bastards paid their fair share of income tax.
This is Callum Peacock. He battered his girlfriend with a golf club, threw bleach and paint at her, and burned a memorial shirt of her deceased grandmother but has avoided an immediate prison sentence.
The 19-year-old defendant, from St Helens, subjected his partner to a cruel three-hour ordeal inside their home.
Police officers arrived at the flat to find the victim covered in white paint and curled up in a ball on the bathroom floor.
She was audibly sobbing and shrieking through a hole in the door, which was still smouldering and smoking.
During the assault, the teenager hit her with a broom handle and a golf club before putting her in a chokehold from behind.
When she tried to hide in the bathroom, he smashed the door with the golf club and used an aerosol and a lighter to set fire to it.
He then threw dumbbells and a bottle of bleach at her, causing the liquid to splash onto her body.
In what was described in court as an extremely selfish act, he took hold of a memorial t-shirt featuring a photograph of her deceased grandmother.
He set fire to the garment right in front of her while telling her that her nan would rot in hell.
The attack came just two days after another incident where he struck his girlfriend with a hammer following an argument.
Following his arrest, he openly threatened his victim in front of police officers, stating that he was going to smash her face in when he got out.
But he has now walked free from court after a judge handed him an 18-month imprisonment suspended for 18 months.
The court heard he had already spent nearly five months in custody on remand, which the judge noted was the equivalent of a nine-month sentence for a teenager with no previous convictions.
He was also given a five-year restraining order and a rehabilitation activity requirement of up to 20 days.
Another kick in the teeth, metaphorically speaking to the brave young woman who endured his cowardly attacks.
The justice in this country cares more about the accused than the victims.
This really worries me
A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood
But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one
I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x
One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency
Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home
He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E
He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor
As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit
If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't
I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system
This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal
My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption
A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus
It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad
Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention
Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do
https://t.co/RMi7L44fUy
A six year old girl was in her home during a domestic incident. Police were called. A uniformed officer arrived to help.
That officer, PC Dean Dempster, took her away from his colleagues to take her statement. And then he sexually assaulted her.
When his devices were seized the next day.. thousands of images of children being abused. Over 100 at the most serious level. Children's underwear at his home. His own face superimposed onto child abuse images.
He spent the night after assaulting her deleting evidence from his phone.
Nine years. Sex offenders register for life.
A six year old girl called the police for help and was abused by one of the officers who showed up... ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ตโ๐ซ
How are parents supposed to explain that to their children and why are we still acting surprised when predators actively seek out roles that give them access? #police #Fail #awareness #predator #share
Richard Burgon just exposed the most glaring double standard in British policy
"Imagine if this weekend in London there was a Russian real estate event selling Ukrainian land. The government would ban it immediately.
Instead, we have an Israeli real estate event openly advertising the illegal sale of land in occupied Palestinian territories. The government recognizes Palestine. Why isn't this banned?"
The Government keeps claiming that taking water into public ownership would cost too much.
Yesterday we, along with our fab supporters + Feargal Sharkey + WASP, the campaigners behind Channel 4's Dirty Business, delivered a message loud and clear to them. Their figures are nonsense.
If you want MPs to have a serious debate about water, sign the petition: https://t.co/Tzm892YRIG
Sainsbury's boss eyes bumper ยฃ7.3m payday as shoppers reel from higher food prices.
Up from ยฃ5.4m last year โ 200 times average employee pay.
Govts preach pay restraint to workers, silence on exec pay, shareholder returns.
Let workers vote on exec pay.
https://t.co/S0tClkOEur
Crazy that we hear about Train Drivers who get ยฃ60,000 a year for driving a train.
But we never hear about the boss of Tesco who gets ยฃ30,000 a day and doesn't even pay tax in the UK.
Or the ยฃ250m a day that the likes of Amazon, Vodafone, BP and Shell don't pay in tax.
This is discrimination against Travellers and Gypsies, and it should not be allowed. The car is fully taxed, has a valid MOT, is insured, and is registered in her name.
The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them ยฃ2,000 for a review.
They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead ๐.
Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.