Married with two Kids and four grand kids, support Liverpool FC and Boxing i like to travel and meet new people, Socialist involved in Cooperative housing
Following in the footsteps of France and Switzerland's Government who banned Palantir from Government contracts, Spain has now banned Palantir from signing ANY contracts in Spain.
Lets get Palantir OUT.
🚨 🚩 The Brexit earthquake didn’t begin in 2016, it began in 1964.
That year, Britain 🇬🇧 scrapped Resale Price Maintenance. A huge political earthquake that everyone has forgotten about.
It was sold as giving consumers lower prices. What it actually did was shift power dramatically from manufacturers and small producers to giant retailers.
Tesco and the supermarkets won big. Independent shops, high streets, and primary producers (including farmers) began a long, slow decline.
This was the moment we started prioritising cheap imports and corporate scale over domestic production and resilience. The foundations of today’s broken food system, where farmers are squeezed and we rely on fragile global supply chains were laid then.
Brexit was the latest tremor in a 60-year earthquake.
The end of high streets and the hollowing out of British industry didn’t start with Brexit or EU membership, it began in 1964 when Resale Price Maintenance was scrapped.
That decision empowered giant retailers to undercut everyone else, shifted power away from producers, and encouraged reliance on cheap imports. We lost the ability to protect and nurture our own manufacturing and farming base.
This resulted in a consumer economy that worked while we were rich but left us vulnerable when times got harder. We don’t make enough, we can’t afford to make enough, and food security is now at risk.
I proudly boasted about having claimed "zero personal expenses". Which is not surprising when you consider that there is no such thing as 'personal expenses' for MPs, so nobody has claimed any. But I have claimed over £150k in office expenses.
The 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote is a good time to remember the man who negotiated the biggest act of self-harm in our history, selling out farming & fishing, erecting huge barriers to trade and making everyone worse off, just because he fancied a bash at being PM.
"Picturesque river polluted with sewage just 13 days after being given official bathing status."
Yep the River Avon at Salisbury was designated as a bathing spot on 15th May and just 13 days later on the 28th the EA have to issue a pollution warning due to E. coli levels. What a shambles.
https://t.co/nC3WWbwgt6
"Water firm faces £44.7m 'enforcement package' for sewage failings."
Yet more BS from Ofwat, these companies have illegally being dumping sewage they should loose their operating licences, directors should be going to jail.
Govt needs, could and should fire the entire board of Ofwat today.
https://t.co/6CGmzWtLzo
Over the last 36 hours, we have witnessed the very soul of Nigel Farage — his essence.
It has been over a month since he went into hiding, since serious questions began to be raised over his undeclared £5M donation.
A month since he appeared in front of TV cameras or underwent any questioning at all.
At 8am yesterday morning, Farage released a video, from a field somewhere, calling for rage. Calling for an end to the mythical two-tier policing.
Make no mistake, those were very carefully chosen words — he understood what he was unleashing, and his wish was granted last night in Southampton.
On Tuesday, the Home Secretary made a statement to the House regarding the murder of Henry Nowack. There was, as always, an opportunity to question Shabana Mahmood — was Nigel Farage in attendance?
No, of course not.
Today, Farage was granted a question at PMQs — the showpiece spectacle of the political week in which the country's news and politics fanatics tune in to watch — was Nigel Farage in attendance?
Yes, of course he was.
He had somehow found his way into work after missing 77 separate votes in Parliament because … he would, at least for three minutes, be the centre of the country's political attention.
His question was about the murder of Henry Nowack and the violence that erupted [on his command] last night, but he would not condemn it or call for calm.
Instead, he 'suggested' that this rioting might escalate.
This afternoon, he has performatively written to the BBC because someone on Newsnight dared to accuse him of inciting the violence — playing his perpetual victim card. Again.
And there we see the soul of Nigel Farage — a craven, desperate for attention, evil, petty and pointless man.
END RANT.
Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote in Parliament for the last 11 weeks.
During that time he will have collected about £50,000 in wages and expenses.
But he will tell you Disabled People and immigrants are the problem.
No, it's rich lazy parasites like him.
Yet another glaring example of how utterly failed the water industry is. All it took was one hot weekend and not one but two water companies have been brought to their knees, incapable of doing the most basic job possible, supplying their customers with water.
And we tolerate this nonsense.
If this was a Political Leader from any other country doing this the EU would have sanctioned them and their country into oblivion.
Then they would have tried to drop a bomb on their head as well.
Israel does it, nothing.
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.
The NHS plans to cut recruitment to avoid “financial ruin” and instead use AI to help doctors treat patients.
The NHS was affordable in 2000-2010.
The reason it isn't affordable now is because of privatisation and billionaires tax dodging.
So instead you get 'treated' by AI.
🚨 BBC News: Farage: “I bought the £1.4m house with my I’m a Celeb money.”
Corporate accounts show the fee was still in the company after the purchase.
Same week he’s under inquiry for the £5m Thai crypto Brexit bung.
The stories keep changing but the smell doesn’t.
If there was a cost of living crisis the Energy Companies, Water Companies, Supermarkets and Banks would be going bankrupt.
Instead they are making record profits.
If you're not stupid you can work it out.
Jacob Rees-Mogg put at least £100m in a tax haven, Nadhim Zahawi £20m, Lord Bamford owes more than £500m.
You only need to crackdown on a few dozen tax avoiders like these and soon you have £22bn.