SocialSam_Witch 🌟☮️⚖️🤹‍♀️

🚺Daughter, sister, wife, mother 🚩#TradeUnionist ✊from #Liverpool 💃 🎶 🥂Be the change you want to see in the world 🏴‍☠️🌈 VMO 💚🤍💜 1984

[SocialSam_Witch 🌟☮️⚖️🤹‍♀️ @smarshall2002]

Useful numbers if things are getting too much #mentalhealth #help #Covid19UK 🆓🆘🆗

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Since 1980, UK councils sold 2.8m social homes, 1.9m in England for £51bn.

In 2024 England homes were worth £430bn.

Councils didn't receive full sales proceeds, couldn't replenish housing stock.

Social homes down from 6.8m to 5.4m.

Huge housing crisis.
https://t.co/pOUoJsmCE9

[Rush @exRAF_Al]

The same Lewis Hamilton who used a corporate leasing structure to save money on taxes (around £3.3 million in VAT) when acquiring his Bombardier Challenger 605 private jet in 2013? The same Lewis Hamilton who bought the £16.5 million jet through his British Virgin Islands company (Stealth Aviation Ltd) and who then set up an Isle of Man leasing company (Stealth (IOM) Ltd, to import it into the EU and sub-leased it to a UK jet management firm (TAG Aviation), which in turn provided it back to Hamilton and his Guernsey company under charter agreements? *That* Lewis Hamilton?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The UK believe 20% of population is black (3%); 15% is Muslim (4%); 5% transgender (0.6%); 15% gay and lesbian (1.8%); 20% of the country is vegan or vegetarian (4%)

Misinformation from the Media

[michelle maher @mmaher70]

Jeremy Hunt speaks about parking people on welfare
Never questioned by any journalist
Facts
To get Universal Credit or JSA, all money stopped if;
1/ You left your last job
2/ You don't attend week long courses by DWP
3/ You have to apply and prove, you've applied for 5 to 10 jobs a week
4/ You have to attend a job centre every week to discuss job search
5/ You can't refuse a job
6/ DWP generally expects you to travel up to 90 minutes each way (up to 3 hours total per day) using public transport. This means there is no strict mileage limit; what matters is the time it takes to commute.
No one can sit on welfare
#trevorPhillips #bbclaurak

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We’re trapped in a rigged economy where there are no affordable escapes left, and paying more doesn’t guarantee quality. Every shabby apartment feels overpriced, every meal out is mediocre, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Nothing but expensive mediocrity everywhere.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

A la izquierda, millonarios en Mónaco, con Koenigseggs de 5 millones aparcados en la cubierta de un superyate de 75 millones de dólares.

A la derecha, un niño palestino hambriento en Gaza, intentando pescar en un trozo de madera, baleado esta mañana por "Israel".

Capitalismo, solo un sociópata puede defender este sistema.

[Basic Income UK @basicincome_uk]

Disabled children shouldn't grow up hungry because their families face extra costs. That's exactly why UBI+ matters: a secure income for everyone, with additional disability and caring bolt-ons. Dignity, not sanctions. Security, not poverty by design.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

This is a reminder that supermarkets made £230,000,000,000 last year, making £12,000,000,000 for shareholders

[Unite NW70209 Branch @nw70209]

Workers at the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel have won a historic strike ballot after facing hostility from IHG since the beginning of their campaign

There'll be picket lines in the coming weeks & we know trade unionists across Manchester & the NW will be ready to show their support

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Sainsbury's boss eyes bumper £7.3m payday as shoppers reel from higher food prices.

Up from £5.4m last year – 200 times average employee pay.

Govts preach pay restraint to workers, silence on exec pay, shareholder returns.

Let workers vote on exec pay.
https://t.co/S0tClkOEur

[Thomas H. 💙 @THemingford]

The debate is always about getting people into work.

Millions are already working.

The real question is why so many people can do everything society asks of them and still find themselves trapped in debt, insecurity and constant financial anxiety.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

UK Ministers to weaken proposed cap on corporate political donations.

A cap £100,000 means that the rich can buy political parties, power, influence; won't check political corruption.

Must ban political donations. Let parties be funded by membership fees
https://t.co/Tvwk9nFXjO

[Basic Income UK @basicincome_uk]

If cutting support pushes 400,000 more people into poverty, it's not a saving — it's a cost shifted elsewhere.

Poverty drives ill health, housing insecurity and pressure on public services.

UBI+ would provide a secure income floor while protecting disability-related support.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"Too much of our public funding is going to private companies to make massive profits to give to their shareholders"

Spot on @KimJohnsonMP

Keir Starmer promised that Labour would launch the biggest wave of insourcing in a generation. But like with everything else, he was lying.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

We’re in final stage of capitalism where global capital can’t expand or sustain past profits. It’s now consuming public institutions and key systems, sacrificing democracy, welfare, infrastructure, education, healthcare, and ecosystems for short-term gain.

[Samuel Watling @watling_samuel]

"Blair won 3 general elections so you need to listen to him" yeah well Harold Wilson won four so I guess it's time for a 98% marginal tax rate on unearned income and price controls on milk.

[Mark Seddon @MarkSeddon1962]

'All 55 miners charged with riot at the Battle of Orgreave were found innocent. The cases completely collapsed in court in 1985 after it was revealed that the South Yorkshire Police had fabricated statements, committed perjury, and presented discredited evidence.' All credit to Michael Mansfield KC & Gareth Pierce. @Miners_Strike @DurhamMiners

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

Emily Thornberry has today said the government has let down the Palestinian people, and allowed Israel to act with impunity.

The audacity.

Here she is in October 2023 refusing to condemn Israel cutting off power and supplies to Gaza.

Don’t let these people rewrite history.

[XF @UCHE_BAMBAM]

@1ssve @_frostbiteQ Surprise feedback is not management. It is ambush. Nobody should walk into a room employed and leave unemployed having just heard the reasons for the first time. That is not a performance problem, that is a leadership problem.