Wilko owner won't plug £70m pension deficit.
Company paid £150m dividends.
Deficit as company didn't meet its obligations.
Scheme to be rescued by PPF. Max limit 90%. Workers to lose some rights.
Change law - make pension schemes a priority creditor.
https://t.co/woBpLlYALV
While some chose to throw bricks, others build with them. However troubling a situation, look for the people who are helping; you'll always find them x
Private equity vampires.
Macquarie now owns UK’s gas network.
Its hand at infrastructure jugular-controls National Grid, Southern Water, destroyed Thames Water.
Pattern of high debt, profiteering, tax dodging, asset-stripping.
Anyone check its history?
https://t.co/mDWcsJGBgE
I asked my first question to the new Prime Minister today on the UK's future relationship with the EU and the EU/UK Trade and Coperation Agreement. I am delighted that he has already commenced discussions. We have to rebuild trust with our friends and neighbours. 🇪🇺
The Daily Mail has now published more than 80 articles on Angela Rayner selling a former council house. And none on the four Tory MPs who made profits of £5.4m selling second homes subsidised by parliamentary expenses.
Royal Mail to stop using its own freight trains after almost 200 years.
10,000 lorries will use roads, increase pollution, congestion and ill-health but company doesn't bear the social cost.
Done to increase private profits.
Govt committed to net zero?
https://t.co/KYb4r60XEx
Dyson to cut nearly one third of UK workforce.
Dyson collected EU/UK subsidies, supported Brexit.
Then moved HQ to Singapore. Paid £4bn in dividends over the past five years.
Dyson has personal fortune of £20.8bn built by workers.
https://t.co/s7YWpgM0Y5
This lift that was out for months awaiting parts is out of service yet again.@LNER is spending a fortune on fixing what wasn’t broken - York Station Gateway, that makes everything worse for disabled ppl- need to find the funds to replace these ageing lifts.
#DisabledByTheRailway
BREAKING
New PPE Scandal from @RussellScott1
Owen Paterson repeatedly lobbied ministers on behalf of Randox.
Firm awarded contracts worth up to £777m for Covid testing services
Randox made huge profits of £275m in 2021 + £190m in 2022
Paterson gets “civil penalty”
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