Steven Gibbons

Green & red in politics. Atheist. Try 2 b idealistic. Worked in M.H./ with young people in past & looking at counselling. Want positive change without rancour

[Steven Gibbons @StevenPG71]

@MichaelRosenYes In the book on Transactional Analysis by Eric Berne, 'Games People Play', there is a game called 'Blemish', which is where, if you have a psychological problem or difficulty, you point out (often loudly) that issue in another, drawing attention away from yourself.

[Steven Gibbons @StevenPG71]

@JDIrwinbooks It's very hard. Death makes you reflect on the transient nature of things. Our cat died 2 days ago. It was very sudden (know this isn't comparable). My take on the human condition is to be empathetic as much as you can, and hope for the same in return. Take care Julie.

[Steven Gibbons @StevenPG71]

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[KKS @The93Dr]

@ZiaYusufUK Yeah, it was Matt who incited the #FarageRiots2 , nothing to do with The Fag Ash Fuhrer asking for pure cold rage and white lives matter....see, @bbc this is what you get for platforming these imbeciles constantly

[SallyAnnC🌻 @SallyAnnC3]

@ZiaYusufUK Farage should apologise to Henry Nowak’s family. He is a disgrace.

[Sonia Prince @Die__Trying_]

@EricLDaugh 2024: Texas Governor Abbott closed 700 polling places, redrew districts along racial lines, & enacted the most extreme voter ID law in America.
THEN: Attorney General Ken Paxton removed over a MILLION voters fr the polls within 90days of Election Day: a violation of federal law.

[Steven Gibbons @StevenPG71]

@ADavies61517 @docrussjackson To be fair to Dan Neidle on this, he's pointed out that many in Polanski's position have not paid Council Tax or been aware of the need to (been in receipt of bills) so it is a problem.
But yes, media very ready to run more with this than Farage.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

ONE WOMAN TRIED TO STOP BRITAIN'S BIGGEST CORPORATE COLLAPSE

Emma Mercer was new to her finance job at Carillion, one of Britain's biggest construction companies. Six weeks in, she found something that should have stopped everything. The numbers in the company accounts were made up. Debts were hidden. Profits were invented. Projects worth hundreds of millions of pounds were lying on paper.

She told her boss. He ignored her. She told the CEO. Same. She went to HR because she had nobody left to tell. A board member later put it in writing. Emma was a whistleblower who did not feel she was listened to.

She was right about every single thing.

So what did the board do? They cancelled the independent investigation and gave the job to KPMG @KPMG instead.

The same company that had been checking Carillion's accounts every year for 19 years and calling them healthy. The same company being paid £29 million by Carillion to do it.

MP Frank Field @frankfieldteam said it out loud in Parliament. KPMG were asked to mark their own homework.

They gave themselves top marks.

Eight months after Emma raised the alarm, Carillion collapsed. January 2018. The biggest company bankruptcy in British history.

Here is what that meant for real people. 3,000 workers lost their jobs overnight. 28,500 people saw their pensions cut. There was a £2.6 billion hole in the pension fund that ordinary workers had paid into for years. Taxpayers spent £150 million just keeping hospitals, schools and prisons running while the mess was cleaned up.

Meanwhile, the former Finance Director Richard Adam sold every share he owned on the exact day the 2016 annual report was published. He walked away with £750,000 in his pocket. The shares were worth nothing a few months later.

The regulator @FRCnews took five years to do anything. When it finally did, KPMG was fined £21 million, the biggest fine ever handed to an auditor in Britain. It also came out that KPMG staff had faked meeting notes and changed spreadsheets to fool the regulator when it came to inspect.

The lead auditor was banned from the profession for 10 years.

The fine was still less than what KPMG was paid by Carillion.

One woman walked into a new job and told the truth in her first six weeks. She was ignored and pushed aside. The executives who ignored her kept their bonuses. The auditors who backed them up kept their fees. The workers who had nothing to do with any of it lost their jobs and their pensions.

Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP said it at the time. The board claimed they never saw it coming. Emma Mercer saw it in a month and a half.

This is how British corporate accountability works.

Sources:
BBC News @BBCNews
The Guardian @guardian
Financial Times @FT
Private Eye @PrivateEyeNews
Accountancy Age @AccountancyAge

[Steven Gibbons @StevenPG71]

@MickCoffey2 @MichaelRosenYes @heather_c_c @LauraTrottMP I struggle to imagine this. As Helen is hardly a sharp one.

[Steven Gibbons @StevenPG71]

@LordJohnMann Maybe don't tweet when you're drunk, John.

[Steven Gibbons @StevenPG71]

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[Steven Gibbons @StevenPG71]

@Liammski @DrMarianaClaire @blaiklockBP @TiffSandwiches @GWRHelp Outing your own kink fetish there.

[Steven Gibbons @StevenPG71]

@PeterStefanovi2 It's depressing hearing people use this word without knowing what it means.

[Steven Gibbons @StevenPG71]

@NigDavT @Stewartpau37634 I sense he's on the fence...

[Steven Gibbons @StevenPG71]

@PeterStefanovi2 I know you have seen this before, but this is also grist to the mill...

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

OH. MY. GAWD. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇

[Steven Gibbons @StevenPG71]

@carolecadwalla https://t.co/yXVZCUWJUv

[Steven Gibbons @StevenPG71]

@simon_schama Up there with David Starkey on the hot historian takes front there...

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Just in case you’re having a bad day, remember this is how they weigh koalas 😍

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

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[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

@RabbiPoupko 1. Invent a god.
2. Make up story that the god said we can have some land.
3. Tell story how we went into the land and defeated the people living there.
4. 1000s of yrs later, tell world this is the truth so this gives us the right to have that land, no matter who's living there.