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Farage’s pledges to slash taxes don’t add up, top economists warn Nigel Farage has pledged billions of pounds of tax cuts and painted Reform UK as the true ‘party of workers’

Farage’s pledges to slash taxes don’t add up, top economists warn

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“ The use of spreadsheets to record the actions of the PPE Buy Cell before 16 April 2020 means that there may be some offers/contracts which went through the HPL but which have not been recorded or subsequently identified as having done so.”

🔴Matt Hancock and Three Conservative Peers Referred 60 Suppliers Onto the PPE COVID VIP Lane

Officials have told the COVID Inquiry that not all VIP suppliers have been ‘recorded’ and the true scale of its operation remains unknown

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It is not safe to go to the USA.

Blow as UK tries to get back intelligence access surrendered during Brexit The UK has been pushing for access to European intelligence databases, which include asylum data and real-time information about criminal suspects, which officials say would be a game-changer

Small boat blow as UK tries to get back intelligence access surrendered during Brexit

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All of the cuts in the UK are to protect Brexit and the astronomical and massively increasing wealth of the billionaires at the expense of everyone else.

Why would anyone except the 0.01% be happy with that?

Many Government budgets are getting 7% cuts.

Why don't we cut MP's by 7%, or their budgets and their numbers by 7%, to get 15%.

Or King Charles' £500m by 7%, or 100%.

While the only budget actually going up is Defence which goes on bombs which are nearly 90% profit.

Lets crackdown on these benefits.

EXCLUSIVE: Poll shows huge support for nationalisation of key industries and utilities Privatisation has failed.

Your regular reminder 👇

🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy

Dictator shit

Israel has chosen to mark the first days of Ramadan by blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Still, our government refuses to implement sanctions and defend international law.

There is no other way of putting it: this is a resumption of genocide — and our government is complicit.

MAGA are mad at Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit for an official White House meeting.

Meanwhile:

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic FACTS & TRUTH MATTER

TRUTH AND FACTS MATTER

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GSK proposes raising chief’s pay to as much as £21.6mn a year UK drugmaker says Emma Walmsley is underpaid compared with global competitors as it abandons diversity targets

GSK to increase CEO pay packet from £10.6m to £21.6m a year.

Corporate wealth is generated by workers. Will their pay increase by the same rate? No chance.

Govt tells workers wage rises are inflationary. But hikes in exec pay, dividends, share buybacks are OK

It is class war.
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The US president’s comments, made while sitting alongside Emmanuel Macron in the Oval Office, came on the third anniversary of the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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The far right becoming the official opposition in Germany and the US siding with North Korea at the UN.

If the warning signs weren’t clear enough, then surely they must be now?

Stephen Fry: “I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism”

Laura Kuenssberg: “You would use that word?”

Stephen Fry: “Oh absolutely. It’s a cult of power; and power only speaks to power”

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How about an election in Russia?

Republicans consider cuts and work requirements for Medicaid, jeopardizing care for millions Republicans are weighing billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, threatening health care coverage for some of the 80 million U.S. adults and children enrolled in the safety net program.

Republicans are weighing billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, threatening health care coverage for some of the 80 million U.S. adults and children enrolled in the safety net program

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NHS faces £5.7bn bill for patching up hospitals before demolishing them Delaying rebuilding programme in England to save money in short term requires costly repairs to keep sites safe

False Economy

NHS England faces £5.7bn bill for repairing hospitals before demolishing them.

Boris John's 40 new(ish) hospitals never delivered.

Labour to deliver in stages by the 2040s. Meanwhile, some are falling down

All part of a strategy to hand healthcare to the private sector.

Trump’s plan for Gaza leaves Arab nations facing an impossible choice | Nesrine Malik This mortifying dilemma goes to the very soul of the region - and its leaders have brought it on themselves, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Trump’s plan for Gaza leaves Arab nations facing an impossible choice | Nesrine Malik

Anyone paying any attention knew this…

Also, nearly half of all homes pay more council tax than Buckingham Palace

…including a 3-bed terraced houses in Blackpool

Council tax reform now.

Jeez. If this is true they are acting like gangsters

Unbelievable scenes as Trump and Musk explore doing away with judges who don’t agree with them…

Remind me, who else did that?

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Schools tell BBC about 'astronomical' repair bills as 25-year PFI contract heads into meltdown What happens next has implications for the expiry of almost 600 similar PFI deals across England.

Private Finance Initiative (PFI) sting.

As school PFI contracts come to end, companies made mega profits but haven't carried out repairs, costs dumped to public purse.

Govt is reviving PFI, guarantees corporate profits.u It can create money, do a QE, borrow to build infrastructure.

Absolute rubbish. Trump is a nuthob through and through.

Why would you want cheap unlimited electricity from wind/solar.

When you can buy very expensive, dirty nuclear reactors and be extorted to buy and dispose of the fuel for it forever.

Hmm...

The water industry shows how the state indulges corporations to the detriment of society Since 1989, water companies have been the subject of over 1,100 criminal convictions, but governments are content for them to control the industry.

England's water industry owned by companies with over 1,100 criminal convictions since 1989.

Examples:
United Utilities 205
Thames Water 187
South West Water 174
Anglian Water 128
Yorkshire Water 125
Southern Water 119

People forced to hand more money to criminals?
Now they are not even fined.

Donald Trump’s Gaza plan should not be seen in isolation The US president shocked the world with his proposal to ‘clean out’ the Strip—but some Israeli politicians have been suggesting the same for months

Trump shocked the world with his proposal to ‘clean out’ the Gaza Strip—but some Israeli politicians have been suggesting the same for months, writes H A Hellyer.
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