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[Susan Bowie 🧶🧡🎗️🌹 @docsuzy]

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I’m desperate to find a GP successor for my great wee rural practice in Shetland. I’m retiring in April. We have advertised with no success so far. Please share widely

[Moejohno🐟💙💙💙🇮🇪🇪🇺TakebackBritain @moejohno]

After the announcement from the Bank of England today there’s something very, very wrong with the system.

British Gas profit £1.3bn
BP profit £6.95bn
Shell profit 9.4bn

People at the top Millions in bonuses.

Greed while people work 24/7 & still can’t pay bills use foodbanks

[sammy @_itzsammy]

They call it a cost of living crisis. But when companies keep raising prices while reporting record profits, it starts to look like a cost of greed crisis.

[Anne ..BAIRNS NOT BOMBS @AWeeWumman]

When we're told that "Scotland isn't a net contributer" to uk...Remember, we have all the essential resources the rest of uk needs.
The oil, gas, electricity, water..
Don't be told we have nothing of value and that we couldn't manage.

[Debbie @glenys1971]

Well after today’s announcement from the Bank of England, there is something very, very, very wrong in the system.

So … let me get this straight:

* British Gas made a profit of £1.3bn between January & June

* BP announced profits of £6.95 billion between April and June alone

* Shell has profited by £9.4bn in a year

The MEN at the top:

* John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid received £6.5m bonus on top of his salary

* Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica was paid almost £2m last year in salary and benefits

* Centrica's non-executive directors were paid almost £1m

* Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on £1.15m.

* E.On boss Michael Lewis is on £1m

* EDF's Simone Rossi is also on £1m

* And their top execs enjoyed a share of £4.65m

* Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned a £1.3m pay package

* Welsh Water bosses awarded themselves bonuses of over £930,000

* Severn Trent bosses awarded themselves bonuses of £5.56m

* Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a £727,000 bonus on top of her £2m annual salary

Meanwhile there are...

* People who haven't had breakfast and/or lunch TODAY, because they can't afford it.

* People using FoodBanks because food is becoming more of a luxury than a necessity.

* Children celebrating a birthday without presents.

* Parents worrying about new school uniforms - and some schools enforcing rules which are not cost-effective.

* People who can't get to work because they can't afford to put petrol in their cars/pay for public transport anymore.

* People who are working so much they're making themselves ill, and they STILL CAN'T AFFORD to pay their bills.

* People who have been given fines by these same energy/water companies because they couldn't afford to pay their bills in the first place - increasing their debt.

* Customers being told to do STAR JUMPS TO KEEP WARM for crying out loud!

* Hose pipe bans when gallons of water leak away everyday.

* Elderly people NOT DRINKING because they're worried about running out of water!!!

All this and energy prices are set to rise up to 75% in October...

THIS IS MADNESS!.. I'm all for supporting profits … I'm not for supporting greed at the cost of lives of others.

Something needs to change.

Why is customers' money being used to make life more comfortable for those who are making life more intolerable for the rest of us?

I actually don't understand how the energy companies are allowed to get away with this and why the government aren't stopping them instead of handing out money.....

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Come on @andyburnham - actions speak louder than words. You said you would fix the cost of living crisis. So fix it then. Petrol & diesel prices are rocketing. Germany, France and Italy have all significantly slashed fuel duty. Why haven’t you done the same?

[Míng Kerr⊗Normalist @Guiseppim]

When Scotland decided to roll out free care services, it did so from Scotland's fixed, devolved budget.
When England decides to roll out free care services, in England only, it does so by reducing the future pensions of all nations.
Pooling and sharing only ever goes one way...

[Celtic FC Foundation @FoundationCFC]

💭 🇮🇹 Reflecting on the Road to Milan adventure...

Having raised more than £55,000 for Celtic FC Foundation, Kenny McKeown and Gerry Regan look back on the group's unforgettable 500-mile journey through the Alps from Basel to the San Siro 🚴

Read their blog below 👇
https://t.co/ASo7IxqnTO

[Football Away Days @AwayDaysFB]

Ian Wright is an absolute hero for saying how we all feel about this World Cup…

“I've just read that the Somalian referee has been denied entry. Every few hours it's another story, another story about fans denied, players denied, officials denied, journalists denied, now refs," Wright said.

"You know something I'm laughing but it's not funny, it's actually not funny and something has to be said.

"The expensive tickets, the most expensive tickets ever, expensive accommodation, transport through the roof. It has to be said.

"Is this how the hosts behave really for the greatest game, the greatest tournament in the world, is this how the hosts behave?

"Are we not hearing more? Are we seeing how Qatar got dragged, are we not hearing more? Is this the spirit of football, really?

"You know who I feel for? I feel for the American fans who are desperate for this, American soccer fans who are desperate for this, how embarrassed they must be. How embarrassing for them this must be.

"This is the World Cup, this is a World Cup of chaos. Whoever wins this World Cup is going to have to go through some serious chaos to get this done.

"I hope we can do it, but something has to be said now. This is the World Cup."

[Black Dog 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @hotwings100]

Why is everyone not getting angry with MPs receiving subsidised food and drink, when we still have food banks in the country?

This should be an easy one to fix!

[Mirror Politics @MirrorPolitics]

Nigel Farage's Reform UK handed almost £15m by offshore millionaires - while patriotic Brits pay taxes
https://t.co/ijVgN4GwKx

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

The British media is doing everything it can to make this mendacious, corrupt, incompetent, lazy, security risk the PM. Ask yourselves why? Why do they want that so badly, who benefits? It's not going to be the British people.

Follow the money, always follow the money.

[🫐 @emxcormxck]

Kevin bridges made a good point when he said instead of a referendum for Scottish independence, Scotland, Wales n NI should vote as to whether we should keep England or not

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Farage says Brexit failed because,

"It was never implemented properly".

Asked what he would have done differently he said,

"Done it properly" he was pressed for details but suddenly had to leave for an urgent appointment. (Presumably not in Clacton)

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Dear Reform-voting ladies…

Do you know you’re voting for a party that wants to:

❌ Scrap the Equality Act - your legal protection against workplace discrimination & unequal pay

❌ Kill the Online Safety Act - the law protecting you from revenge porn

❌ Vote AGAINST the bill to stop workplace sexual harassment

❌ Stack the party with anti-abortion politicians - some opposing termination even in cases of rape

❌ Push “pro-family” policies that put women back in the home

I guess the question is…

Do you hate immigrants more than you love your rights?

[Alan Lester @aljhlester]

Wow! It looks like there are other multi-million pound gifts to Farage that haven’t yet been revealed. Astonishing. Levels of personal corruption never before seen in UK politics.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

To emphasise a perspective not seen outside of the Farage obsessed UK media French TV news reported actual facts, these being.

Following the British local elections

154 UK Councils are led by Labour

12 are led by Reform.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Israel's Ambassador to the UN:

"We have the legitimacy to target civilian targets in Iran.”

There it is folks…

Israel openly and brazenly admitting that they target civilians, which is a war crime.

[Dave Doogan MP @DaveDooganSNP]

⚡️💸 Scotland is a net exporter of electricity, yet households here are hit with some of the highest standing charges in the UK.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland’s energy must be in Scotland’s hands, and that can only happen with #independence.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit.

British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit.

Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit.

It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.