There is a new, highly profitable asset class in England, traded between corporations, whose units are each worth £100,000 on the books. What are these units? Children in care.
An almost unbelievable story. But all too real.
This week's column.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Actually genuinely staggered by the regression in the Conservative Party to the scandals and lunacies of the mid 90s. Sex education dangers, too many students, too many lanyards. To be fair there are MPs and longstanding party members who feel the same, who want to see a rout.

Cruelty to people carefully stage managed to appeal to the worst in the electorate in the hope it distracts us from voting based on their performance in government. Whipping up hatred, and using it for cover.

“The nightmare of an apocalyptic world has come. Machines hunting down people. Weaponized AI is already being used in Gaza. The Palestinian people are the experiment for this insane and deeply flawed and dehumanizing technology.”

—American actor Mark Ruffalo

Support Ukraine even when it’s not popular anymore.

Social media has moved on but the reality of the trenches has not.

Victoria Derbyshire I'm spitting out tax avoidance figures of Zahawi, Sunak’s wife, Michael Ashcroft, Bamford and many other Tories

One rule for the Tories and another for who they seem to regard as the “serfs”

Covering it on my show tomorrow LBC

The Labour Party Seriously, are people really buying this crap?
⚠️WARNING⚠️
Here's what's happening to the UK behind the headlines.
While you sleep, your villages, towns, cities, and collective sovereignty (that's people power) are being sold off to private equity and fossil fuel companies.
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This is well-said.

Yeah those Unions - with their holiday pay, wages , sick pay, not being serfs. They are the problem. If we let those billionaires just fill their boots and fill our rivers with sewage and have complete control and became utter serfs - we'd all be far better off 🤣🤣🤣

Who'd have thought UK would reach a point where it was controlled by an oligarchic family.

In 2012 ⁦Michael Gove⁩, then SoS for Education, brought in legislation which prevents councils from building special schools. He was warned this would have disastrous consequences. He didn’t listen. This is the result. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Corporate profit margin increase since the pandemic:
Electricity/Gas supply 363%
Health/Social work 118%
Transport/Logistics 47%
Water/Sewage 44%
Mining/Quarrying 43%
Wholesale/Retail 36%

No govt curbs on profiteering.

Corporate power is cause of poverty
leftfootforward.org/2024/05/corpor…

Something really really sickening about privatising and profiting from children so harmed already they are in care.

“i had to leave everything behind. everything. they bomb us day and night. destroy everything. why?!”

russians continue erasing a Ukrainian city of Vovchansk. SUSPILNE NEWS 📰 follows evacuated people and shares their absolutely heartbreaking stories

Never forget, this bland, Pan Faced coward who ran away and then sneaked back in through the back door is the prick solely responsible for the absolute shit we're in. And he's swanning around the world on luxury jets at our expense.

It's not that these Tories are awful.

(They are. They are staggeringly incompetent, dishonest and corrupt. Many of them have knowingly led the country toward poverty and isolation for their own short term gain, and therefore can reasonably be described as traitors.)

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If you’re angry at Angela Rayner for selling her council house…

But not angry at where this non-story came from

i.e. from the billionaire Tory peer who got out of paying UK taxes by being a non-dom while sat in our House of Lords

…then you’re part of the problem.

“We went from a comfortable family to destitution”

The reality after 14 yrs of a Conservative government that’s inflicted cruelty on the vulnerable to deflect from the criminal negligence it inflicts on them.

Bastards.

Enough was enough YEARS ago.

After 10 years bombing the country and hundreds of billions of dollars spent destroying its power plants, hydroelectric dams and energy infrastructure, tonight Russia has finally succeeded in cutting electricity to almost all of Ukraine, blackouts across whole country.

This is what Russia’s war on Ukraine is REALLY about…

And if they control those minerals with China controlling most of the rest expect a throttle hold on the West’s “green” revolution.