https://t.co/ZU4cKmXUcA Since Thatcher in the 70’s and worsening under Blair’s new Labour in the 90’s the privatisation of the NHS has been well underway by stealth for decades. Really worth a watch. #HandsOffOurNHS#OurNHS
Stop the ‘Great Israeli Real Estate Event’ taking place in London on 14 June. Palestinian land is not for sale. Such sales are illegal & unethical. This event should not be allowed to go ahead
Who actually benefits?
You? Your family?
The community where you live?
Are you aware if there may be a massive data centre in your area?
How do you get the facts?
EXCLUSIVE: The UK Government has been told it risks sending a 'dangerous message' that Palestinian lives are not valued by allowing an event selling land in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank to go ahead in London https://t.co/zrmwq5HsIn
EXCLUSIVE: Scotland would be 'sitting on a £1 trillion pot' if Westminster had handled the country’s North Sea oil wealth differently, according to new analysis
@PeterStefanovi2 Yet they are screaming child safety!?! This all stinks to high heaven! Resource draining Data centres getting peppered around the country….. this is Orwellian and people need to wake up or sleepwalk into dystopia….😡
Whilst we are talking energy. Drax powerstation in Britain was switched from coal to wood burning. It now burns approximately 5,000 acres of woodland every day. Let that sink in.
Clean energy projects in Scotland are set to pay £1 billion to use the UK’s electricity network while projects south of the border will be paid to connect, it has been revealed https://t.co/Zw0EIjFQiD
EXCLUSIVE: An interactive map has revealed that developers are proposing a rash of AI data centres right across Scotland – prompting concerns about the impact on electricity prices, communities and the environment https://t.co/ci1CCxPLX6
🚨🏴 Scotland is facing a massive data centre explosion and most people have no idea.
In a small village in Fife called Auchtertool.
A giant 600 megawatt AI hyperscale data centre called Cato is being proposed on farmland right next to Auchtertool in Fife, just 7 to 8 miles from the existing Queensway Park data centre in Glenrothes.
This monster project will cover around 61 acres, the size of about 35 football pitches.
One project alone using as much electricity every year as half a million Scottish homes, roughly 20% of the entire country's electricity consumption.
These hyperscale AI data centres are popping up across Scotland, sucking up massive amounts of power, water for cooling, and farmland, while we already pay some of the highest energy bills in Europe.
Scotland and its people have become the AI testing ground for the tech bro's
Are you happy with that?
Hopefully you will make a stand against this with me and others like @JamesMelville
Who has been fantastic at highlighting this all week, please have a look at his page.
To oppose this, go to the Fife Council planning portal and submit your objection now.
The application is 26/01243/PPP.
You can also contact your local councillor, your MSP, and your MP to raise concerns about the impact on our grid, bills, and countryside.
Every voice counts.
Ive put all the links in the comments including a MP template letter and planning documents.
Please share this with family and friends.
Thank you
@UnionNatioPop IMO this is a global agenda, the system wants vulnerable children within our populations so they can exploit them. Poverty is a political choice, that creates vulnerable children. Heartbreaking 💔
Dear @Keir_Starmer
The Scottish Parliament has passed a mandate to ask Westminster to devolve the powers required to hold a Scottish independence referendum.
We the people of Scotland wish democracy to be upheld with the immediate powers transfered.
Please RT if you agree.
I feel there is a small percentage of the population that has the power and ability to end child poverty, but they are the same group that wants there to be young vulnerable children in our society…..
ENGLAND IS CHARGING £384,020 A YEAR TO LOOK AFTER A VULNERABLE CHILD. PRIVATE EQUITY IS POCKETING THE DIFFERENCE.
The @FT just reported that providers charge the state an average of £384,020 per child per year in residential care. That is multiple times the cost of sending a child to Eton. It is more than the cost of a young offenders institution.
Local authority spending on children in residential care nearly doubled from £1.6 billion in 2020 to £3.1 billion in 2024. The number of children in those settings rose by only 10%. So no, this is not a demand story. The National Audit Office called it a "market failure."
Private equity owners pocket the difference because the incentive is to extract as much profit as possible from state payments, and that often comes at the expense of quality. The 15 biggest private providers make an average 23% profit margin. 83% of children's homes are now owned by companies including private equity groups.
MPs are calling it "outrageous profiteering." Councils are being slowly bankrupted. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson (@bphillipsonMP) promised she will "go further and harder" on profit caps if providers don't stop. That was November 2024. The changes have not materialized.
Meanwhile the kids are still there. Still vulnerable. Still worth £384,020 a year to someone's portfolio.
Britain managed to build a welfare state after a world war. It cannot apparently stop hedge funds charging £15,000 a week to house a traumatised child.
Sources: @FT | @NAOorguk | @BBCNews | Local Government Association | Institute for Government |