Who Agrees with Rowan Atkinson that one of the most important things in life is “The Right To Express Yourself Freely”
I certainly do, it is the bedrock of our democracy and society!
Denmark has some of the highest tax rates in the world. They use taxes to give ordinary people access to vast high-quality public services.
Danish people report amongst the happiest in the world.
Strange how they use higher taxes of the elite to improve the lives of everyone.
TORY MP Harriett Baldwin claimed £2,130 on expenses to pay for her utility bills between 2019 and 2021.
In 2013, Baldwin attempted to claim back a £50 donation to a hospice.
➡️RETWEET if you think Baldwin should pay for her own utility bills.
#Expenses
Nadine Dorries last spoke in the House of Commons A YEAR AGO.
Since then, we have paid her £84,754 as MP +
£11,281 for the time she was a Minister. She may also have claimed the Minister's severance pay of £17,000.
She isn't ill, so how is she still getting paid?
Norway has a £1 trillion + wealth fund for ordinary people, built over many years by taxing fossil fuel giants at 78%.
Last year alone Norway collected $89bn in tax from fossil fuel giants.
They then used that fund to pay people’s energy bills.
There is another way.
Tory stealth taxes come home to roost: number of higher-rate income taxpayers risen 40% in 3 years. Almost 5.6m — 1 in 6 taxpayers — will pay higher rate since Sunak froze threshold at which people start paying 40%. In 1990 40% rate was paid by just 6.5% of taxpayers. Now a marginal rate intended only for high earners is being paid by teachers, nurses, police.
• Tories announce 5,000 new NHS Beds. They shut 22,000 NHS Beds.
• Tories announce 19 new NHS Diagnostic Centres. They shut 140 Walk In Centres.
• Tories announce “historic” 15 yr plan to fill NHS staffing. They have presided over almost 50,000 nurses missing in action.
Sainsbury’s CEO gets paid almost £4m in bonuses, on top of his salary. He’s on £2,298 per hour, while Sainsbury workers are getting £11 per hour.
And we get told workers salaries are driving inflation.
Rubbish, it’s the greed of the elite driving inflation.
Those MPs saying there is no alternative to remortgage costs rising by £3k (average) pa, have their second homes paid for by you. Along with their energy; travel & subsidised food & drink.
Let’s scrap subsidies for MPs. See if they are still ok with interest rate rises.
• Firefighters don’t get subsidised food for saving lives
• Nurses don’t get free parking for saving lives
• Doctors don’t get free travel for saving lives
• Teachers don’t get free energy for teaching children
Tory MPs get the lot & then reject the pay claims of heroes.
BP and Shell have this week announced grotesque profits of a combined £11.7bn for just three months.
In Norway that would mean a bumper £9.1bn in tax (78% tax) receipts.
Instead in the UK it means £6.1bn in dividends for shareholders.
At this moment, Gas Companies can buy wholesale gas for the exact same price they paid for it 1,687 days ago back in 2018.
We need organised protest and resistance to put a halt to their rampant price gouging of ordinary people.
They’re filling their pockets.
One month ago a Policing Board report suggested that there was no longer a need for all police officers in NI to carry a firearm. This was welcomed by Amnesty International.
A reminder that some people are out of touch with reality & should be ignored.
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