Just what Poo-Tin wants from his stooge.
Retired Trade Unionist and agent of change. Still hate Thatcher. CLL survivor thanks to our NHS.
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Just what Poo-Tin wants from his stooge.
Trebled Tuition fees, after promising to get rid of them, that guy?
When was the last time you had your blood sugar checked? It might be worth looking into, a new study says. Forty-four percent of people age 15 and older living with diabetes are undiagnosed, according to data analysis published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. https://cnn.it/3VaUfl8
Military coup in wings?
Why would any foreign country invest in a nation that did this?
Looks like Hercule and Pawroit š
Is that his style choice in Nappies?
On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - Ā£40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges Ā£40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg "Click to view full size")
![The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg "Click to view full size")
English water companies spent Ā£16.6m fighting legal action against regulators and campaigners over environmental breaches. Abuse of bill payers. Companies pay lawyers instead of investing in infrastructure to prevent sewage dumping.
Peak rail fares scrapped on ScotRail trains. Scotland also has: Public ownership of water, lower water bills than England's. No university tuition fees for local students. No prescription charges, abolished in 2011. No two child benefit cap from March 2026. England must follow.
And in Wales. Health inequality or race discrimination?
Velvet cushion every time
Free prescriptions unless you're in England?!
The month before a shooter opened fire on children gathered in a Minnesota church this week, the Trump administration cut funding in the state for efforts to identify potential mass shooters and head off their violence. https://cnn.it/4lS986O
Emporer Trumpalpatine
The UK electricity is already the most expensive in the world. Price set to rise again in October as Ofgem's pricing formula lets companies rip people off. Who protects the people?
Whipped up non story by the rich Tory elite. Only 0.3% actually left. So that's zero then. Scare story to affect policies that are not beneficial. #taxtherich
Hierarchical systems for you.
It makes sense once you realize that every accusation is a confession.
The real threat.Gaslit & distracted by certain people focusing on just 4% of total UK immigration remember: Ā£232M to Michelle Mone Ā£1.6 Bn for a barge Ā£21 Bn in covid fraudsters Ā£37Bn lost on Test and Trace Ā£8.7Bn duff PPE Ā£471M paid to destroy PPE in storage =Ā£69b of taxpayers cash
Why āspend before taxā is the key to unlocking a future for young people www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08... If we understand that we can demand secure homes, good jobs, free education, affordable childcare, and a liveable planet now, and not in some imagined future when the books ābalanceā.
Another scandalous tin can to kick down the long road of eventual death.
Oh look the unacceptable face of capitalism which relies on corporate welfare with their employees minimum wage life being subsidized by charities. Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor.
Call to fix water company exec pay at ten times the level of their lowest-earning workers. Need focus on total remuneration, not just pay. Exec pay should be subject to a binding vote by employees, and customers (wherever possible). Democratise big business to curb inequalities and abuses.
Deranged clown
"The right wins when people believe that a hero is coming to save them. If the left is going to win, we have to provide an alternative: one that empowers people through collective struggle, rather than the false promises of powerful men." graceblakeley.substack.com/p/no-one-is-...
Supermarkets do this too. Our mid 20s son shopped for us wearing an fp3 mask and was asked to remove it by Morrisons to prove his age. Wouldn't and left shopping there. Happened on a fair few occasions. We complained and we're told it's policy end of. Less reasons to shop at Morrisons.
UK Environment Secretary must apologise for āmisleadingā Scottish water claims. Claimed water āpollution levels in Scotland are worse than they are in Englandā. Water Commission found 66% of Scotlandās water bodies to be of good ecological status; 16.1% in England; 29.9% in Wales.
Ā£100 standard fine for littering Ā£1.3 million extra pay for discharging untreated sewage into waterways for 232,054 hours in 2022
England's water companies circumvent rules on exec pay. Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra Ā£1.3m via offshore parent firm. UK company law is weak The payment not disclosed in annual accounts. End the circus. Nationalise water.
Racists always start with 'I'm not racist' but...
Scum lower than vermin.
If your contributions were paid into a private one your dependents would benefit. How come state pension fails to be an exemplar model when they regulate the private sector pension schemes?
Shouldn't state pension be an exemplar model to the private sector and comply with FCA regulations?
Time address what happens to state pension entitlement if death comes first !?
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
Deeds Not Words
Deflection story. Playing the victim role.
No Deal
All the better if it splits the far right vote.
Don't Look Up
Poorer families spend a greater proportion of their budgets on essentials, especially food& energy, leaving them more exposed to the cost of living crisis From end-2019 to end-2024, ONS data suggests the poorest tenth of households experienced a cumulative 3% extra inflation than the richest tenth.
If that number were military personnel instead we'd be at war.
Reform implies improvement, doesn't it? That's the way it should go. The word has been misused so much it now means something else...
And for those already excluded by the previous administration (born after 1958) how does this change translate?
How ambitious is the Governmentās newly announced affordable homes programme? It is significantly bigger than recent funding packages, and almost as big (in annual terms) as the programme delivered by the last Labour government ā¤µļø
And how far back can he, and the likes of Farij, trace their family trees?
Getting stuck into @graceblakeley.substack.com this morning. From the off, it chimes so much with our MPG book, Outsight: 'This sense of unfreedom is grounded in the deep disparities of power that exist in capitalist societies - many of which are completely invisible.'
Phone hacking... not so?!
He's so tiny
He's at Warp Factor 9 isn't he?
Look at Cuba
A whole 'Pack'?
A video of Elon Musk's "Heil Hitler" salute has been projected on to the facade of the Berlin Tesla factory.
Keir Starmer to Badenoch at #PMQs: āShe talks about special needs. She's got a nerve. [Tory MPs] have asked me questions at these PMQs about the appalling situation of special needs under their watch. āWe're going to fix that mess, like we're fixing every other mess!ā
If a man canāt give a Nazi salute at a party for a racist convicted fraudster and proven sex offender, then what kind of sick world are we living in, I ask you.
Oh, come on! At the inauguration? Are you f*cking ketamine with this?
Taking from the poor to give to the already rich. It's like Robin Hood in reverse.
š§¼ āYou canāt hand wash your way out of this quad-demic because it is mainly spread by what you breathe in and what you breathe out." - Dr @evonnetcurran.bsky.social retired infection control nurse. inews.co.uk/news/health/...
Thereās something grotesquely circular about the way that LA became a focus of capital specifically because of the quality of light and weather a hundred years ago, that capital grew, capital disregards climate change, and LA is now burning.
Doesn't he mean in Belgium, where he's a tax paying resident?
They usually hold office or head an aristocracy.
UK working families at greater risk of poverty than 20 yrs ago. Austerity takes toll. Need rise in real wage/benefits; free school meals & childcare; lower transport costs, redistribute income/wealth. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/work...
Survivors of Telford abuse crimes & the mums of two women murdered by boyfriends say of the Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips that āno one in public life has done more to support victims and survivors and to advocate for their interestsā www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
'To boldly go'...back to work!?
Elon Muskās fascist turn isnāt puzzling at all. Itās all about labour š§µ
Everything stated in this post is a provable fact. You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts. Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.
Breaking News: President-elect Trump failed in his appeal of a $5 million judgment that he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll and defamed her.
Surely that'll be AAA I?
May The Farce be with him.
Let the bodies pile high, Johnson.
No idea what any of that is apart from smoked salmon š
It's still astonishing that my consultant is still of the opinion that my face fitting FFP3 mask is of no use to me as a Leukaemia patient?!
Ah. www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...
Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Worth notingā¦ That the next most signed petition after asking for a 2nd EU referendum (4.1m) Was when 1.8m Brits petitioned to stop Trump making a state visit to the UK And that was prior to the 34 felonies, fascism and sexual assault liabilities Possibly needs a re-runā¦
Wales this weekend ā climate collapse happening before our very eyes . We need to get serious . Itās why Iām petitioning for a ban on fossil fuel ads . lovera.ge/ban-ffa š§µ
Sisko has a 'B' in his bonnet.
Leaders who go to war with their own electorate are doomed.
Spawn of Satan?
Bereaved families demonstrate outside UK Covid-19 Inquiry. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/matt...
Ding dong....
Popped over to the other place for 5 minutes and realised how poisoned it really is. Chock full of junk and right wing idiots. Not long before I switch it off for good.
Tories reduced it every year from RPI to CPI for 14 years. How much did that reduce pensions by??? Circa Ā£2,500 ???
Victoria Derbyshire nails Jeremy Clarkson over his Inheritance Tax scam. Hilarious to watch him squirm.
Please spare a thought for James Dyson, the Brexit-voting billionaire who bought up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax then moved his business to Singapore. He's the real victim here.
Hey farmers.... Here's an idea....
I'm old enough to remember the miners'strike when the Tory Brexit supporting farmers were cheering on every single swing of the baton from Thatcher's storm troopers. So seriously .... they can do one.
Turned š“
If the 1% affected are so unhappy with 20% over 10 years, maybe it should be reviewed and levelled up to 40% payable immediately?
Only the richest 4% of people pay Inheritance Tax. Only the richest 1.5% of farmers will pay HALF Inheritance Tax spread over 10 years. This is a protest funded by the obscenely wealthy who want to pay no tax at all.
Hard to trust when you've been conditioned against it.
