Harry R. Scrak

𝕆𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕔 𝔾𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕣. 𝕃𝕚𝕗𝕖'𝕤 𝕚𝕤 𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕥 𝕤𝕠 𝕕𝕠𝕟'𝕥 𝕨𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕖 𝕚𝕥 𝕓𝕪 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕣𝕪𝕚𝕟𝕘

[The Ex-Believer @TheExBeliever]

Can’t get dumber than this.

[billy macdermott @billymacdermott]

@RaggedTP @grok so how come they kept the foreskin and threw the rest away ?

[Devutopia @D_Raval]

The triple lock debate is built around a pensioner who mostly doesn't exist.
The perception: the full new State Pension of £12,548 a year, topped up by a comfortable private pension.
The data: 59% of pensioners are still on the old basic State Pension, where the full rate is £9,615 a year. 38% have no occupational pension at all. 13% live on the State Pension and benefits alone.
And the next generation has less. Final salary schemes are closing. The median pension pot accessed last year was around £20k. Turned into an annuity, a guaranteed pension for life bought with the pot, pays roughly £1,500 a year.
Burnham's pension change is being debated for the pensioner in the headlines. It lands on the one in the data.
(sources ⬇️ )

[Pete Sanford @PeteSanford]

BROKEN BRITAIN?

LET ME EXPLAIN WHO IS BREAKING US

People keep asking why the UK feels broken — why public services collapse, why councils go bankrupt, why families drown in rent, the NHS is on its knees.

Here’s the truth nobody in Westminster will say out loud: Britain isn’t Poor.

It’s Being Drained.

Drained by a tax system designed to protect wealth, punish workers, and let global investors treat our country like a vending machine.

The UK’s £3 trillion debt isn’t an accident — it’s a transfer of wealth.

Every year, over £100 billion goes straight to bondholders in interest payments, money that should be fixing GP appointments, repairing schools, supporting disabled people, building social housing, funding mental health care, keeping youth services alive, and stopping councils from collapsing. Instead, it’s siphoned upward to pension funds, banks, sovereign wealth funds, and global investors.

The poor pay tax, the government pays interest, the wealthy collect the money — that’s the pipeline.

And here’s the kicker: the poor can’t escape it.

They can’t move, can’t hide income, can’t shift profits to Luxembourg, can’t hire accountants to “optimise” tax, can’t buy property through offshore trusts.

They pay PAYE, NI, VAT, council tax — every unavoidable tax that hits the bottom hardest.

Meanwhile the wealthy live in a world where tax is optional, debt is profitable, and the system bends around them.

If everyone paid fair tax, the UK would transform every single year.

HMRC’s own numbers show £30–40 billion is lost annually through avoidance, evasion, loopholes, and “creative accounting”.

If that money actually arrived, NHS waiting lists would fall, councils would stop collapsing, social care would stabilise, schools wouldn’t be begging parents for glue sticks, homelessness programmes would get funded, public transport would improve, debt would stop spiralling, and interest payments would shrink.

Every year gets better -- Every family feels the difference.

Every public service breathes again.

But it doesn’t happen, because the people who benefit from the gaps are the ones with access to power.

The system is biased because capital is mobile and people are not.

If you tax workers, they stay.

If you tax wealth, it can leave.

So governments squeeze the immobile group — ordinary people — and tiptoe around the mobile group — global capital.

No threats, no conspiracies, just structural leverage.

And nowhere is this clearer than London property.

London isn’t a housing market anymore — it’s a global asset class.

Investment giants like BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield and Sovereign Wealth Funds buy entire blocks, entire developments, entire neighbourhoods, often through offshore companies, trusts, shell entities, and complex ownership chains.

And here’s the part that should make people furious: many of these structures legally minimise UK tax to almost nothing.

Global investors avoid UK tax in ways that are all legal and all outrageous: buying the company that owns the building instead of the building itself to avoid stamp duty; holding property through Jersey, Luxembourg or Cayman entities to shift profits offshore; loading UK subsidiaries with “internal debt” so profits vanish as interest payments; using REIT structures so rental income becomes tax‑free; exploiting double‑tax treaties so gains are taxed at ultra‑low rates abroad; using nominee directors to hide beneficial ownership.

The average person pays tax on their wages. These guys buy a skyscraper and pay less tax than a nurse.

And politicians won’t touch it — ever. Because the same investment firms fund political events, hire ex‑ministers, lobby aggressively, threaten “capital flight”, own media influence, promise “growth”, offer “partnerships”, and bankroll think tanks.

No MP wants to be the one who “scared off investment”. So the loopholes stay open, the tax system stays soft, and public services stay starved.

Meanwhile ordinary families pay the price: rising rents, collapsing councils, NHS delays, school shortages, social care crises, unaffordable housing, stagnant wages, higher taxes, shrinking services.

Not because Britain is poor, but because Britain is bled dry by a system designed to protect wealth at the expense of everyone else.

The injustice is simple: the people who benefit most from Britain contribute least to Britain, and the people who rely on Britain the most are punished the hardest.

This isn’t left or right. It’s structural. It’s systemic. It’s deliberate. The UK tax system was built for a world where capital moved slowly, companies stayed put, landlords were local, wealth was visible, and ownership was simple. None of that is true anymore, but the rules never changed.

If people understood this, they’d be furious — not at each other, not at the poor, not at the working class, but at the architecture that funnels wealth upward, protects global investors, and leaves public services to rot.

Britain isn’t broken. It’s being broken.

And until people see the system for what it is, nothing will change — because no politician will ever go against the donors, lobbyists, and financial interests who benefit from keeping things exactly as they are.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

In the last 50 years, pensions have been cut, benefits have been cut, wages have been cut, free milk at school cut, Free University cut, University grants cut, Social Housing cut, Unemployment benefit cut.

Everything has been cut and each time it is cut something else needs to be cut.

But always Billionaires take more and never get taxed.

Cut billionaires, CUT THEM HARD.

[Bevan Boy 💚 @mac123_m]

This isn't a cost of living crisis.
This is a cost of greed crisis.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

People don't understand why our world is the way it is.

So let me explain.

In the 1960's and 1970's Rupert Murdoch and his group of Far Right billionaires wanted to own the whole world.

But countries still owned many things and they weren't for sale.

So Rupert Murdoch got Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and a whole other bunch of Right Wing Privatisation ghouls elected to sell everything to them.

You are now living in the result of a world owned by these evil billionaires, and the only solution is take back all the things they should never have been allowed to steal.

[Crewkerne Gazette @CrewkerneGaz]

Channel 4’s allegations over Reform UK foreign donations get the Father Ted treatment: Nigel Farage faces the Bishop, James Orr and Dan Jukes perform financial miracles, Zia Yusuf spills the tea, and Lee Anderson launches a 30p milk-float getaway. All above board.

{satire}

[Miss.G.Ooner @essexbird_82]

🎵£400 million down the drain, relegation looms again 🎵

[Harry R. Scrak @goonergrove]

Oh dear don't laugh at spurs

[𝕹𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖓 𝕲𝖔𝖔𝖓𝖊𝖗 🔴 @Northerngooona]

🤣 tough day for the ‘title contenders’

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The average MP is claiming more than £40,000 a year in personal benefits, including for ridiculous things like new phones, electricity, heating and food.

Which everyone has to purchase.

Why don't we talk about this benefit fraud?

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

This. ⬇️

[Kev_AFC @Kev_AFC]

I’d rather 💩 in my hands and clap 👏

[Bevan Boy 💚 @mac123_m]

Modern life IS catching us out.
Everyone is hand to mouth with zero savings.
They pump shit into our water whilst charging a fortune.
Our roads are knackered.
Our streets are filthy.
Groceries are extortionate.
FFS do something real. Stop tinkering. ✋️

[KeithTheGooner @KeithTheGooner]

My cousin’s old schoolfriend’s ex works for Roc Nation and just said that Vini Jr was trying to watch the Arsenal game on the Arsenal app to check his teammates out but it wouldn’t work and now he’s not coming

[Gazwthegooner @Gazwthegooner]

This really can’t be that hard to fix. That said there’s no excuse in this day and age for it not to be working in the first place.🤬

[Harry R. Scrak @goonergrove]

@CarlBovis_AFC @Arsenal I have the same on https://t.co/BDkxRe7lj6 with this on screen message

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