Pete Hampson

Company linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes Statement by administrators puts PPE Medpro’s total debts at £188m, including £39m said to be owed to HMRC

Pillars of society…..

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Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

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New industrial robots added in China last yr, 295,000; UK 2,500.

China has 567 robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers; UK 104 .

China investing 40.4% of GDP in productive assets; UK 18.2%.

UK won't win the economic race with neoliberalism or without state intervention.
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BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

BBC now suggesting they didn't interview Zack Polanski on Laura Kuenssberg when he was elected because they weren't on air then. Which is technically true because he was elected on a Tuesday. However, they did air just days later on Sunday and featured interviews with Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch

A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...

Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

Seen in a comment on a Reddit thread ...

"The way I see it, the Tories gave us active incompetence, Labour is giving us passive incompetence, Reform would give sp[e]ctacular incompetence."

#UKPol #UKPolitics

Not him, of course.

Labour is in a mess. Is there anything Starmer can do to turn things around? Our panel responds – part one Over a year into power, Keir Starmer’s government is floundering. But it still has a large parliamentary majority and time on its side — here’s what it could do, says our first group of panelists

Labour is in a mess. My advice to the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to restore the government as a transformative, democratic “big green state”, rather than a technocratic managerial one serving private wealth.

In today’s Guardian...

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UK Government: Keep your promise to protect workers Zero hours contracts, unfair ‘fire and rehire’, waiting months or even years to be able to access benefits – the world of work in our country is weighted against actual workers. It’s billionaire bosse...

A new law could give millions of us better rights at work, but corporate lobbyists & politicians are trying to gut it. Tell the Government: protect workers, not profits!
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~25 people arrested for extreme violence at Tommy Robinsom protest in London yesterday.

~425 arrested for peaceful protest in Parliament Square last weekend.

Why is the UK establishment - not to mention UK media - assisting the violent far-right?

#standuptoracism

For the first time in my life the social norms that kept a lid on nationalist fascist racism; that reclaimed the flag; have stalled.

The lack of actual vocal leadership for us to rally around - for the pro-democracy, pro-rule of law, anti-violent, majority - is now becoming an existential problem.

Health department sounds out private investors to fund NHS centres in England Move could transform how care is delivered but threatens to reignite fierce debate over contentious PFI model

Privatisation of the NHS.

Govt asks private finance investors about backing 200 neighbourhood health centres.

PFI is a disaster. Guarantees corporate profits. £1 investment, £6 repayment. Higher taxes, bigger govt debt, poor value for money.

Cheaper for govt to build. Nothing learnt from the past

Britain is not a country of racist bigots.

Time for the decent majority to "take back control".

Repost if you agree.

Waiting for Yvette Cooper and Starmer to make a statement that Qatar has a right to defend itself

Is impartiality still a thing at the BBC?
Asking for a friend.

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Zack Polanski has been on Question Time 0 times.
Nigel Farage has been on Question Time 38 times.

But they both lead parties with 4 MP's.

When is Zack getting his 38 appearances?

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

BBC Question Time appearances

Zarah Sultana 0
Jeremy Corbyn 1
Mick Lynch 1
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Nigel Farage 38

Very, very biased selection, even more than Fiona Bruce.

If you're young
Or old
Or a woman
If you've got a disability
Or, you've a SEND
If you're LGBTQ+
Or you're from an ethnic minority
If you need care
Or you're in the forces
And if you're in Northern Ireland
Then Farage's plan to abolish human rights law is going to screw you

South Park, always has a message.

‘Past mistakes must be avoided’: anxiety as Labour eyes public-private funding for NHS Decision on neighbourhood health centres expected in autumn but approach divides policy experts

UK Govt to kick off public-private partnerships in England.

It is new name for Private Finance Initiative. Private sector invests £1, gets £6+ back. The state guarantees corporate profits.

Nothing learnt?

Govt can create money, borrow, do QE, tax the rich ... why hand free cash to corporations?

Record salaries for UK chief executives as pay rises for third year in a row Report finds more than £1bn handed out to just 217 FTSE 100 bosses in the last financial year

Record salaries for FTSE 100 CEOs, pay up for third year in a row.

Median pay £4.58m; £58.9m at Melrose; £18.9m at Person.

122 times the salary of the average full-time UK worker.

16m Britons live in poverty. Millions rely on food banks and charity.

37% of Universal Credit claimants are in work.

A gif of Met police carrying away and arresting an elderly woman today in Parliament square

Shame on Labour for putting our police in this position

Can there be anything more symbolic of a government’s moral failure than it arrests and imprisons those who protest against a genocide?

Why are the wealthy so well off? The accumulation of wealth has been driving inequality for decades. In the first of two articles we explain the injustice of our wealth taxation

The rich don’t get rich by working harder. They get rich because the tax system is designed to reward wealth, not work.

This article explains how – and what we could do instead.

Based on a blog post by Prof Richard Murphy.

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A betrayal of the victims of the Holocaust A view from Israel

A betrayal of the victims of the Holocaust
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UK business secretary dismisses wealth tax as ‘daft’ Jonathan Reynolds rules out targeting assets of the rich to plug growing hole in public finances

A wealth tax is daft apparently but a tax on the poor, to pay for a new nuclear power station - that’s OK, it’s not like they have better things to spend their money on, is it...

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