A SUPERB thread from investigative journalist Russell Scott listing some multi million pound properties bought by Tories & associates after profits made through VIP PPE Lane contracts

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Should James Daly MP report this to the police?

Or is there nothing to see here? 🤔

Brexit is sick

“Drug shortages, now normal in UK, made worse by Brexit, report warns.”

“Some shortages are so serious they are imperilling the health and even lives of patients with serious illnesses, pharmacy bosses say.” theguardian.com/science/2024/a…

Macquarie, the vampire kangaroo, already picking over the corpse of Thames Water 💧 a situation it created, has its fangs in Southern Water and now it's coming after your gas supply.

You have been warned.

cityam.com/macquarie-plan…

FT: 16 monopolies have paid out a total of £78bn (adjusted for inflation) in dividends since privatisation and racked up £64bn net in debt over the same period. No prizes for guessing who will end up footing the bill. Water privatisation = almighty rip-off.

'Don't even think about wild swimming here... Treat the river as if it is a biohazard'.

Steve Backshall broadcaster, author and naturalist reveals the utterly shocking if not potentially lethal lab results he got from water testing in the River Thames. 🤮🤮🤮

Rishi Sunak Promised To Cut NHS Waiting Lists. They've Gone Up By 330,000 huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/rishi-su…

As National Parks turn 75, a new report highlights only 6% of their land is recorded as being in good health for nature - with the Yorkshire Dales having less tree cover than York and waterways across these special places heavily polluted by sewage released from storm overflows.

Analysis by Institute for Fiscal Studies found that children who were eligible for free school meals and had access to a Sure Start centre boosted their GCSE results by three grades - equivalent to difference between getting two Cs and three Ds and getting five Cs.

It’s (not just) the economy, stupid conservativehome.com/2024/04/08/its…

Only eleven wealthy tax evaders were prosecuted in the latest year; not one person has yet been prosecuted for the vast state-sanctioned PPE swindle.

Yet carers on tiny incomes face the full hammer of the law. Why is the story always the same? theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Imagining a world where a Labour MP sends dick pics to a perfect stranger on the internet…

Then compromises his colleagues by sending said stranger their phone numbers so they too can send dick pics

…as then is applauded for his bravery.

The Conservative Party is ‘Institutionally Corrupt’ Say Voters.

bylinesupplement.com/p/the-conserva…

ARRESTED FOR WHAT?!
Ordinary people are already being stopped, searched, and arrested on flimsy grounds, but peaceful protesters are now faced with being silenced by Serious Disruption Prevention Orders.
Are you OK with this?
#PeacefulProtestIsNotACrime
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Ok, all you young people, don't let this truly atrocious Govt steal away your vote!

Britain hits lowest ever score on global corruption index independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

SUNLIT UPLANDS LATEST: Better chance of getting a dentist in a war zone. Quite literally. ~AA

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

For fourteen years I opposed austerity and warned it had no economic basis and was just designed to hurt poor people and slow the economy it led to appalling Brexit which also had no economic basis. That made the country unprepared for a pandemic. And then their sponsors…

Are you saying that “multiple tonnes” of “unsafe meat”, “entering the country undetected”, “in wheelie bins”, “hidden in coaches”, and “unrefrigerated vehicles” making its way to your takeaway was NOT what you voted for? ~AA

inews.co.uk/news/illegal-m…

‘The New York Times analysed 1,200 contracts worth nearly $22bn and found that roughly half went to companies run by friends and associates of Conservative party politicians, or with no experience in that area.’ 1/n theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

UK max monthly state pension (not everyone gets it) £885.

Luxembourg £5,211
Spain £2,714
Belgium £2,703
Switzerland £2,181 (paid 13 times year)
Iceland £1,908
France £1,567
Cyprus £1,510

2.1m UK pensioners live in poverty. 68,000 a year die from poverty.
almondfinancial.co.uk/pension-breake…