Andie Hallihan

Yet still the average cost per person per day is more than I spend on many hotel stays.
There is a lot of money being transferred from the public purse to private hands.
But more importantly, let’s make sure we blame the vulnerable people.
There’s nothing to see here. Ahem.

Musk.
Living off the work of others reaches back centuries.
There was civil war, but Musk is wrong by a few centuries.

But then if you wanted a symbol of productivity Nelson’s Trafalgar fleet would be a wonderful example.
His smaller number of smaller battleships outperformed the combined French and Spanish fleet.
Rate of fire. Handling. All at exceptional levels. The most productive organisation of its day.

Government doesn't know how reliant it is on independent adult hospices for the provision of palliative and end-of-life care.

With more people dying in England each year, the sustainability of independent hospices is of national importance.

Read: www.nao.org.uk/reports/the-...

Lovely to see an official independent parliamentary body here on bluesky.
It would be great to welcome them and encourage others to follow.

Farage saying he will defend racism and bigotry on the basis that it was the fault of others who made him racist and bigoted.
Well, thanks for clearing that up.

And, it would be clear, are shouting to the world that you cannot count.

I think she is confessing to being mad long before the influence of any advertising.
Reform. Promising to make life worse for everyone.

Tell me you’re not a superpower without telling me you’re not a superpower …
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'From that point, Price abandoned the manufactured bonhomie with which he had placed calculated rightwing talking points as if they were gentle chit-chat, and the mask slipped. He ranted about young people who have no responsibilities...and folded like a wet anti-Ulez pamphlet'. 1/2

Stewart Lee: How do all these rightwing astroturfers get on the airwaves? Doesn’t anyone Google them first? From Aston Villa to George Abaraonye, every time the culture wars flare up, there’s a ‘concerned citizen’ from a previously unheard-of pressure group popping up. A little scepticism is needed

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

The British right is swimming in an open sewer We are drifting into territory that once would have seemed extreme

"Promises were made, and lives and families built upon them. How have we reached a place where wrecking those lives is even up for discussion?"

On Powell, Heath, Lam and the descent of the British right.

Broadcasters - especially the BBC - have been working hard to ensure they give a voice to the 25-35% of people willing to vote Reform (and harder groups within that, like anti-asylum protest and Tommy protest)

Need to pay as much attention to the unheard majority who fear that form of politics

I’m being sued for £8m for publishing a report on tax avoidance Barrister Setu Kamal is suing me for £8 million over our Arka Wealth investigation. We’re applying to strike it out as a SLAPP and will not remove the article.

Hats off and solidarity to @danneidle.bsky.social who is facing an enormous libel claim - arguably a SLAPP - for his investigation into a tax avoidance (& potentially criminal evasion) scheme.

He's published the court filings, an important move given how much of this usually happens in darkness:

Michael Gove Lobbied Government Officials to Hand Conservative Donor Multimillion Pound Covid Contract Private correspondence seen by Byline Times reveals that Ciga Healthcare's Brexit-supporting owner had pushed Gove to "take control" of the process

Michael Gove personally intervened to ensure that a Conservative donor's firm was awarded a multimillion pound covid contract.

Private correspondence reveals that Ciga Healthcare’s Brexit-supporting owner had pushed Gove to “take control” of the process.

The contract was awarded just days later

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.

What a despicable little s#*t!
For the record, I do not want to live next door to Lam or anyone who supports her. Vile.

I really think people are underestimating the degree to which 21st century politics are going to be apocalyptically bad; we are collectively sliding towards mass ethnic cleansing being the norm in the Western World, out of no reason but pure fucking spite and empty nostalgia.

Stop?

Young?

Lam, Farage, Jenrick, Bedenoch etc want to dramatically accelerate the ageing of a country with a barely affordable national debt.
It would lead to recession, default, devaluation and austerity like we have never seen with huge cuts to services.
Enjoy voting.
Any journalists out there?

There will be some wealthy money going into Tufton Street and similar places.
One reason why I think we should have tighter electoral funding rules.
Too many institutions based on the Good Chap principle.
Did we learn nothing from Johnson and the others?

She will have plans?
I doubt she has thought that far ahead or joined that many factors together …
But let’s wait with baited breath.
Oh, the antici …. pation …

handwritten note from Carter-Ruck's file saying "They will bring in blockchain -> if no blockchain -> scam -> fraud -> criminal"

NEW: Britain’s top libel firm, Carter-Ruck, acted for OneCoin - a $4bn crypto-fraud.

The firm threatened whistleblowers, journalists, regulators, and even the police.

Carter-Ruck's work helped the fraud continue as long as it did.

Was that a crime?

Our full report is here, with links to all sources and original Carter-Ruck documentation and correspondence.

taxpolicy.org.uk/carter-ruck-...

Please don't draw conclusions on the basis of this thread without reading the detail in our report.

Here's Carter-Ruck's own risk report from May 2017 - a year after they started acting for OneCoin.

They still didn't know who owned OneCoin. They didn't even know who was paying them. They knew the founder of OneCoin had a conviction for fraud.

But they kept acting.

Bye then.
I’m not sure I can think of a better outcome of tax rises.

So a rising star in the conservatives wants to take a country with a fertility rate of 1.4 (ie ageing as stability requires circa 2.1) with a high national debt and want to make migration levels negative.
So she wants the country to accelerate its demographic ageing.
Rising star, sinking party.

A committed brexiter complains about people exploiting systems where people agree to behave reasonably?
Oh, pot and kettle.

Indeed.
But, you know. Just encouraging him on.
More!! Encore!!