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And this is why women used to retire at 60 from work,because we never retire in reality! 1950s women deserve their pensions now, not 6 years
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New documents released by the Scottish government under a freedom of information request show that data centres could cause water shortages, higher energy bills and power cuts.
Sky's @emmabirchley explains.
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📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233
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If you are not following Rabbi Jeff... you should be.
JUST IN: It has been revealed that Jared Kushner bought the land in Albania from a drug trafficker linked to money laundering and a criminal network accused of human trafficking.
@grok, start with true false
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The minimum wage is £12.71 an hour.
Nobody on this panel is on £12.71 an hour.
@nowak_paul on #BBCQT
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UK banks were given £1.6 billion yesterday. When will this bank robbery end?
taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026…
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Late stage capitalism:
A supermarket throws perfectly good food in the dumpster, pays its workers so little they can barely afford groceries, then asks customers to donate to the food bank at checkout.
And we're supposed to admire how fucking efficient this system is.
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Tesco profits shot up from £883m to £2.3bn.
An extra £1.4bn+ in profit while families STRUGGLE to afford basic groceries.
It’s not a cost-of-living crisis, it’s a cost-of-greed crisis—backed by government INACTION! 🛑
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The UK does not have a welfare crisis. It does, instead, have politicians who want to scapegoat the most vulnerable people in our society. Unscrupulous neoliberal politicians and commentators are our problem. Those in need are not. youtu.be/C89jDlwF1vs?si=LMYt…
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🔴84% of care home beds in England owned by PRIVATE firms [@LDNdailynews]
For-profit companies own 381,524 of England’s care home beds, thinktank finds.
More than 8 out of 10 care home beds are provided by profit-driven companies, including more than 50,000 by large operators owned by private equity firms, research reveals.
Private companies now own and run 84% of beds in care homes in England used by older people, as local councils have almost totally withdrawn from a key area of social care they used to dominate.
👉londondaily.com/84-of-care-h…
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So Conservative MPs including cabinet ministers saw the Covid epidemic as a means to enrich their friends and backers while hospital staff died due to lack of or sub standard PPE. Talk about a dereliction of duty. Criminal and corrupt.
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Carragher suggesting that Schar blooded how own nose. Any chance of anything remotely resembling impartiality tonight, @skysportspl? Maybe if it is just getting Seamus Coleman to refer to Everton players by their surnames? #NUFC
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too damn right, my wife is a care worker, works her butt off, yet couldn't ever afford to repair her car she was forced to use between clients- then I found out she was getting less than 50p mile I got her to quit and now does same job in one home without all that driving, still paid peanuts but at least we're not subsidising those creeps (bosses not clients) and she gets NO benefits
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It’s the cover up that is almost worse than the scandal.
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: After *five-year* legal battle, Democracy for Sale has forced the government to reveal who referred firms to lucrative Covid PPE ‘VIP lane’ for 'politically connected'
30+ senior Tories are named, plus ex Duchess of York, and many more 🧵
democracyforsale.substack.co…
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HUGE: Democracy for Sale have obtained a comprehensive list of the ministers who referred companies to the “VIP lane” after a five-year freedom-of-information tug of war:
democracyforsale.substack.co…
ALT Raab recommended a Cambridgeshire toy maker who had only a single employee at the start of the pandemic. Jenrick, now Reform UK treasury spokesman, is listed as ‘possibly’ referring an export packing firm. Graham Brady, then chair of the 1922 committee of backbench Tory MPs, referred an interior design company near his Altrincham and Sale West seat. Brady told Democracy for Sale that he had “no recollection of this but given the location, I assume I was passing on an approach from a constituent. I have no involvement with the company and never have had.” Owen Paterson, who later left parliament after a lobbying scandal, referred a Birmingham biotech firm working on pregnancy complications. None of these firms were given contracts. Then health secretary Matt Hancock is named against 27 companies, three of them marked ‘possible’. Former Conservative party chairman Lord Feldman is recorded against 21 (three ‘possible’) and Cabinet Office minister Lord Agnew against 14 (four ‘possible’).
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🚨 The full Covid PPE 'VIP lane' list is FINALLY out after a 5-year legal battle.
£1 BILLION in taxpayer cash was completely WASTED on useless PPE.
VIP lane firms were 10x more likely to win contracts.
The unmasked referrers:
Matt Hancock: 27 companies
Dominic Raab: Referred a toy maker with 1 employee
Michael Gove: Referred a donor who got a £164M contract
Sarah Ferguson (Duchess of York): Referred a dissolved pharma firm
4 New former Ministers Exposed: Raab, Buckland, Hart, and Robert Jenrick of ReformUk
The well-connected got rich. The public paid the price and we are still paying it till today. Credit @PeterKGeoghegan
