Drewski 💙

Promise everything. Deliver nothing. Blame someone else.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Another investigation into Royal Mail failure to deliver post.

Previous ones approved higher prices, lower post delivery targets.

RM hasn't hit delivery target for 1st-class post since 2017, 2nd-class mail since 2020.

Another failed privatisation.
https://t.co/OZmHdNUTtW

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Billionaire Trump donor, private equity boss in line to make millions from Thames Water bid.

Attempted to fund Robert Jenrick’s bid for Tory party leadership.

Wants to be exempt from sewage dumping fines.

Will extract returns, customers will be fleeced.
https://t.co/hHJRLYs4pJ

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

Ben Delo was pardoned by Trump last year, after pleading guilty to violating US money-laundering rules via his crypto firm.

He's now moving to UK to donate to Reform - in a move set to deepen its financial dependence on crypto-billionaires.

My analysis: https://t.co/maRks88jMO

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Ofwat warns England water companies over executive pay and governance.

This is just a PR circus.

Companies have reframed bonuses, customers have no say on exec pay.

For years companies have dumped sewage, fleeced customers, no exec prosecuted.
https://t.co/fcwdf35Svl

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Shell’s oil traders get earnings boost from Iran war. Share price down today as ceasefire is bad for profits.

Corporations and speculators profiting from war whilst people pay the bills.

Govts must levy windfall taxes.
https://t.co/pUfki7SjY0

[Fife4Europe 🇪🇺 #FBPE #RejoinEU #FollowBackFriday @EuropeFife]

EUobserver: EU hits back after Vance and Kremlin attempt to boost Orbán before vote
https://t.co/FBSykilBpK

[Bob Morgan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 💙 @Bbmorg]

The Tories trashed the UK military to save their wealthy donors paying taxes.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

China billionaire owner of Northumbrian Water wants to bid for Thames Water.

NW has 50+ criminal convictions, dumps sewage in rivers, fleeces customers.

90% of England's water is foreign owned.

More of the same can't solve problems.

Must nationalise.
https://t.co/7ieMtHE0Rs

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Oil company shares soar to all-time highs, war turbocharges price per barrel.

Up $130bn in the two weeks, war expected to deliver massive profits, fuel inflation, cost of living crisis.

Govt must act, fix prices, levy windfall tax, prosecute profiteers.
https://t.co/TDtPrjaDrI

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

🧐 I thought Trump said this war was already won. I thought, too, he said he didn’t need our warships — and considered our service personnel cowardly — and now he’s begging for their support in the illegal wars he’s prosecuting on Israel’s behalf.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Blaming asylum seekers for homelessness? What about the 720,000 empty homes in England, and the 1,627,450 second homes in England alone.

Blaming asylum seekers for expensive food shops? What about the £3,100,000,000 profit Tesco made last year?

Blaming asylum seekers for expensive energy bills? What about the £438,000,000,000 made by just 20 energy companies in profit?

Blaming immigrants for not getting an NHS appointment? What about the 260,000+ migrant workers keeping the NHS going? And what about the 25% real term cut in NHS funding, think that could do it?

Blaming people on welfare for a lack of money to fund the NHS? What about the £36,000,000,000 tax gap due to avoidance and evasion by the elite?

It's time to realise it's not immigrants, asylum seekers or people on welfare causing you any harm, it's capitalism and the mega rich hoarding all the wealth.

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Complex ‘highly aggressive’ tax structure avoids £600,000 tax for Reform deputy Richard Tice https://t.co/J7dp0qX5te “Voters should be reassured to have a successful businessman who knows how to make money for shareholders” he responds. He is one of the shareholders.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

The Tories’ ludicrous position on energy was exposed on #bbcqt.

Harriet Baldwin argued drilling more oil and gas in the North Sea improves “energy security”.

Fiona Bruce challenged her:

“If North Sea gas is sold on the international market, how does drilling more make the UK more secure?”

Baldwin had no answer … bc there isn’t one.

The Tories sold off our oil and gas instead of managing it like Norway.

Then Brexit took the UK out of the European Union Internal Energy Market and doubled down on gas priced on global markets.

Now they claim drilling more gas we don’t control will make us secure.

❌ It won’t.

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

Thirty years after Dunblane, Farage was asked in Parliament to retract calling the handgun ban "ludicrous." He declined.

He has never said it was right. His position has not changed.

#ReformUK #UKPolitics

[sue#NHSLove💙💙💙#FBNHS suesuezep.bsky.social @SueSuezep]

Tories moaning about the state of the UK is breathtaking. After 14 years trashing the place, they’re suddenly critics? The hypocrisy alone should ignite spontaneous combustion. Do they think we’ve forgotten? The bloody nerve of it.

[Bryan Smith #RejoinEU same handle on BlueSky @BpsmithUk]

TLDR?
Kemi Badenoch said "Labour will cut Defence spending by £2.7billion". #FullFact say that's a lie.

Keir Staremer said "Labour is increasing Defence Spending & will spend £270billion on Defence over this Parliament". #FullFact say thats true.

#ToryLies don't change.

[JimmyTheGiant @jimthegiant]

Greens: Want evidence based drug decriminalisation policy to reduce harm

*Media & political class loses their shit*

Farage: want to legalise guns for no apparent reason

*Media & political class silent*

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Reform UK's Crypto Provider on Register That Housed North Korean Money Laundering – Byline Times https://t.co/2QKmokCg2i

[Luke Charters MP @lukejcr]

Right. Let’s try to follow this.

Kemi Badenoch and the Tories spent 14 years underfunding our armed forces… 

Then she claimed the RAF were just “hanging around”.

She called for more involvement in US-Israeli strikes… then quickly rowed back when energy prices started rising.

She got muddled about fuel duty… despite voting against Labour budgets that froze it.

And let’s not forget she was in government when diesel hit £2 a litre…

MaKe iT mAkE sEnSe 🤯

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

It was your beloved Margaret Thatcher who sold off the North Sea oil and gas licences.

It's nothing to do with net zero.

Has your racism also pickled your memory too?