Jon Bickley

🎶 London Folk Music Enthusiast 🎻 | Celebrating Traditional Tunes & Modern Folk 🎸 | Sharing the Heartbeat of London's Folk

[Social History Curators Group @SHCG1]

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[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Rishi Sunak made £122m to add to his own personal wealth, which he paid 0.4% tax on.

Meanwhile the average person in the UK got £487 poorer and paid 37% tax.

That right there is THE problem in the UK.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

“We’re broken economically” says Nigel Farage whose Brexit is calculated by Bloomberg to be costing the UK £100bn a year in lost output

[Martin Simpson @msimpsonian]

June gigs…

[Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve]

@Nigel_Farage

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

Guess who’s back.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Broken Britain:

Teachers, GPs ‘staggering’ under extra demands caused by poverty.

In the absence of govt action schools, health services offer crisis help - food, clothing, money, advice.

Schools, GP surgeries, set up food banks

Who will tax the rich?
https://t.co/6EMVdQLGcn

[Alan Bearman Music @AlanBearmanMus]

Our latest newsletter features a new summer themed tour from Awake Arise (@LadyMaisery + @JimmyASidG), news of an eagerly awaited new solo album from @emilygportman plus lots of new tour updates. Have a read a get in touch:
https://t.co/ERujY0pvwo

https://t.co/Nw7JxUus4X

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Once upon a time it was accepted that the Government provided Water, Energy, Telecoms, Rail, Mail and all the essentials, and that they taxed everybody.

We need to get back to that.

[Fresh On The Net @freshnet]

https://t.co/Y5fB7dLJbX We are open! MUSICIANS! BANDS! SINGERS! PRODUCERS! RAPPERS! SONGWRITERS! Send us a track via the link below and the team will check it out! All genres welcome!

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Brexit Curse.

Almost half of UK adults struggle to get prescription drugs amid shortages.

Deeply worrying for patients’ physical health, alongside the stress of not knowing if essential medicine will be available.

That wasn't on the side of the red bus.
https://t.co/bSDEVGpAwd

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

The money IS there to end child poverty. Tories are relaxed about spending £2.5bn on National Service Scheme. That money could help end two- child benefit cap and lift 1.1million children out of poverty. Plus the economic benefits would be immense. https://t.co/QPZi2nEtGi

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

While an MP Nadine Dorries was paying £100K+ to her 4 staff.

She has 3 daughters and a sister.

All had been previously employed with her expenses before.

But she is complaining about fraud in the Daily Mail

[James Woodfield @JamesWoodfield]

“Why would the govt want to introduce such a power only to leave it sitting idly by?”
A good question, especially as Sunak set up a hedge fund in the Cayman Islands, registered in a building described by Obama as “the biggest tax scam in the world.”
https://t.co/xbuoagjvQ9

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

George Osbourne‘s best friend made £36m in 24 hours when George Osbourne privatised Royal Mail.

But how much did George Osbourne make from the crooked deal that saw the VIP list make £3bn in the first 24 hours?

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Bloomberg has calculated that Brexit is costing the UK £100bn a year in lost output— that’s roughly £40bn less to invest in the UK. It’s £40bn less to invest in our hospitals & our schools & public services that we all rely on. To ignore this fact is just completely insane

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

On this day 8 years ago Nigel Farage unveiled his racist Breaking Point poster.

On this day 8 years ago Jo Cox was murdered by a far right lunatic incited by rhetoric like Farage spewed.

Let us focus on Jo's hope not Farage's hate