Stephen Mason 🐝🐺

Born & raised in MCR but crafted by the NE. Passionate about europe, democracy, freedom, nature conservation and rewilding. RTs & Likes not endorsements

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

GDPR protects your data. Your health data. Your personal data. All of it.

Companies could make billions from that if it were accessible.

See what they are doing?

[Evolve Politics @evolvepolitics]

I’m absolutely certain it’s just a massive coincidence that Andy Burnham will be providing £millions in free labour specifically to Labour donor Lord Sainsbury - who also donated £164,000 directly to Burnham’s leadership campaign,

[Carol Murray @CarolMu87140380]

It’s like the seventies all over again. In 1978 I worked in John Menzies for £19 a week as a “ back to work” scheme. I did the same job but others received a full wage.
At the end of the six months there was no job for me!
Nothing new on offer here.

[haymansafc 🌸 @haymansafc]

Re: State Pension means testing:

Those of us who are banking on a state pension on top of our private pensions have budgeted our planned lifestyles on our forthcoming pensions.

To take that away would be completely unacceptable.

#Pension #Pensions #Retirement

[🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 @greenprogressve]

Housing secretary Angela Rayner took a £20,000 speaking fee from an estate agents’ lobbying group.

The payment was made just weeks before Rayner ruled out introducing rent controls in England.

[Paul @PFR187]

Free labour for Sainsbury's during the busiest period of the year instead of having to actually hire and pay them a living wage?

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Historians will one day wonder how on earth they got away with it — and, even more astonishing, how it got them knighthoods and places in the House of Lords.

[Margaret Clarkson @kirschmj]

Splendid

[Dr Asif Qasim MA PhD FRCP @DrAsifQasim]

Student loans - where the government operate like loan sharks and leave students with lifelong debt

Why is the interest rate double that of a mortgage or car loan?

[Charlie Evans @CharlieEvans0]

The jobpocalypse is a very real and sad thing. Millennials may be materially poorer than their parents, but Gen Z have an exponentially worse deal - who don't even have an entry to market.

Education needs rethinking and reshaping.

[George Aylett @GeorgeAylett]

This is the Prime Minister who promised to replace neoliberalism with a new economic model, btw.

[Chas Manthium ⭐🇪🇺🎥 @Chasmanthium]

@mac_puck Drilling in the North Sea/off Scotland only makes sense if the product is added to the strategic reserve. Licences should only be allocated on that basis. If producers won't comply, then no permission to drill.

[Pippa Musgrave @PippaMusgrave1]

@mac_puck We had a strategic gas reserve. The Tories privatised it and then they let the privatised firm close the storage plant as 'it was to expensive to maintain'

[Yorkshire Wolds Weather @WeatherWolds]

Afternoon Clouds. 19°C and a light Easterly breeze. Skylarks.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

England Mayors to get powers to overrule local councils on planning decisions.

Local democracy?

New homes not accompanied by investment in water/energy infrastructure, NHS, transport, environment.

No playing spaces for children in high-rise builds.
https://t.co/wAguUlRn7q

[Frank Place 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @BotFinderUK]

£37bn budgeted for Test & Trace.
£9bn written off on PPE.
£203m to PPE Medpro.
Brexit: GDP ~4% lower long-term.
Fraudulent Covid loans to drug dealers.
But please, tell me again how Britain’s fiscal problem is pensioners and disabled people receiving enough money to live on...

[Spirit Of Attlee @SpiritOfAttlee]

Monaco’s favourite industrialist just took full ownership of the plant that supplies the chlorine keeping ninety eight percent of British drinking water safe.

Jim Ratcliffe. Tax resident where the UK can’t touch him. Already banked a hundred and twenty million of public money for Grangemouth. Badenoch calls the private buyout a rescue and sneers at the Prime Minister ranking pork scratchings.

Fourteen years the Conservatives ran the energy system that hollowed chemicals out. Coutinho held the brief. One commercial deal later and they claim the adult table.

Ordinary people in Runcorn need the jobs and the security that no deal can cancel. That requires public power generation that actually brings industrial costs down, and democratic control of the essentials. Not more sermons from the extractors.

[Socialist Labour Party @soclp_uk]

🚨Buying influence. What Harry Styles tickets has to do with reducing poverty is beyond us.

MPs receive Harry Styles concert tickets worth £858, Chelsea flower show tickets worth £1,839, and £3,432 of hospitality at Brit awards.

https://t.co/i7zxCYpnGn

[Frank Place 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @BotFinderUK]

The working-class case for leaving the ECHR is certainly an interesting one.
Voluntarily weaken your own rights because some extremely wealthy politicians assure you they'll look after them instead.
I'm sure Reform and the Tories will put the interests of ordinary workers first.

[Wojciech @DidoWojtas]

@nexta_tv If all this Maria le pen goes to the government
That’s all that can happen
We are already seeing what is happening in Germany AfD