With schools crumbling, NHS waiting lists near record levels, and poverty rising, what do the Conservatives do?
Tax changes that benefit the richest households twelve times more than the poorest, with plans for more massive cuts to public services.
It's time to boot them out.
Want to know why Michelle Donelan was forced to make an extraordinary apology to two academics earlier today?
It's a bizarre tale involving Policy Exchange, a secret government dossier and a libel case paid for by the taxpayer
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In the UK we need to have a serious talk about #procurement#Corruption#Transparency and how our #taxes are being spent
There are dark goings on. Why is there not more outrage about how the government and public bodies are using our money / our taxes?!!
People are suffering, destitute, dying – yet a few well connected people and companies are getting very rich of the backs of people’s suffering. Below just scratches the surface:
Why isn’t there huge outrage about what is happening to procurement in our #NHS?
Why are we talking about Palantir’s £480m contract which gives them access to our NHS data?
Why is there not more discussion and debates in Parliament about this very questionable, controversial US spy-tech firm being given the #NHS’s biggest ever contract, despite warnings from data privacy campaigners.
Palantir, owned by billionaire Donald Trump donor Peter Thiel, also won 5 other NHS deals without tender
Why has the outsourcing company Atos that runs back-office operations at NS&I and has billed the Govt/taxpayer £1.2bn since 2016, but is failing to run its customer services properly, won 10-year contract supporting digital transformation in UK hospitals
Experts continuously warned the technology Babylon Health (virtual appointments and diagnostic chatbots such as its GP at Hand), promoted as the future of the NHS by Matt Hancock was unproven and overhyped, yet they continue to win contracts. The company now faces collapse after losing almost all of its $4.2 billion valuation. Not to mention defence procurement.
@VoteTrueAndFair believes we need an urgent overhaul of public procurement. As without public procurement reform - a government’s most effective tools for sustainable public sector reform, they cannot translate public policy into tangible results for all of us.
António Guterres: "it is important to also recognise the attack by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of occupation.. their people displaced & their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution.. have been vanishing"
Suella Braverman used £25k of expenses to pay her parents Energy Bills for 5 years when she occasionally stayed there rent free.
Then she calls other people scroungers.
This is an out and out lie & disgraceful from the UK Gov
Hamas (notwithstanding the terrorist attack) DO support a 2 state solution. It is the Likud Party who have continuously rejected such a solution as is well documented
You need to take this tweet down @JamesCleverly
You do know flying or displaying the Cross of St. George, other on the saint’s day or from public buildings, is used to warn about the user having a small cock! The more displayed and when the Union Flag is added, indicates and even smaller, micro cock.
Lastly, when flown from a moving vehicle, particularly a white van, it’s a warning of infertility and erectile dysfunction.
Stephen Flynn, “Turning off electricity and water to Gaza is collective punishment. Limiting the free access of food and medicines to Gaza is collective punishment. Preventing people from fleeing, including British citizens from Gaza is collective punishment. Dropping leaflets in northern Gaza telling people to flee or they will be deemed partners of Hamas, is a precursor for further collective punishment. All of us in this chamber, know that collective punishment is prohibited by international law. Will Rishi Sunak agree a ceasefire is required in the region?”
Rishi Sunak, “I would characterise the situation differently”
PLEASE READ:
Hannah Arendt who escaped the Holocaust in 1933, wrote in her work “The Banality of Evil” these poignant words which echo across borders today:
“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it