Laura Sutherland

After Trump’s Return, Britain Is Next in the Firing Line of Putin’s War On Democracy The real reasons lying behind Elon Musk’s relentless attacks on Keir Starmer and the UK Government

Farage - “What I do know is that Elon Musk is very supportive of me & what I’m trying to do, & he thinks that if Reform do well in the UK, we can bring about the same kind of change that he intends to do with Donald Trump in America”

Absolute boll**** to that

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I have now seen twice in my life the Labour right lie and rewrite history about the only true left-wing leaders the party has had in my lifetime, Michael Foot and Jeremy Corbyn.
The Labour Party is toxic.

132 years ago this cartoon was drawn, and in 132 years the problem has only gotten worse.

The 4 long term goals of neoliberalism:

• Lower food standards so we accept hyper processed foods as the norm.
• Permanent war so growing arms spending is normalised.
• Marketise healthcare worldwide to permanently profit.
• Shrink definition of a house to a two room shell.

YouTube video by Michael Lee Toas The Story Of Merry Christmas From Hatfield Main

Wow. I hadnt seen this before. Seven years ago I was asked to join singer songwriter Joe Solo & former Hatfield miners & their families to make a Christmas single. It was great fun & had a hugely important message. This is the story behind it🎄🎅
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There’s this special kind of dad…

Stephen Mangan "What was Lee Anderson responding to when he said 'Try the Battle of The Somme'" #HIGNFY

Paul Merton, "It's been a bit muddy this week"

Ian Hislop, "Someone said that women have a lot of problems to deal within their lives: menstruation, menopause and childbirth"

"To succeed in life you need two things: Ignorance and Confidence."
- Mark Twain

Water customers face huge bill this Christmas 'A higher water bill is the Christmas present nobody asked for.'

Thames Water customers face £263 bill rise, it is downing in £18bn debt.

After extracting billions in dividends shareholders won't invest. Thames wants to raise capital from customers, but shareholders will own company and extract even more cash.

Rip-off.
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I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated.

We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.

Rachel Reeves has just announced another destructive round of austerity cutbacks, cynically rebranded as "efficiency savings".

This is absolutely shocking. It just can’t go on

I love this map of places where sycamore gap tree saplings will be planted. They include the Rob Burrow Centre for MND and a plot in memory of a 15 year old girl killed by her ex-boyfriend. They stretch from the Orkneys to Cornwall. By @nationaltrust.bsky.social

Privatisation has failed. It is time to renationalise.

Water
Power
Royal Mail
Rail
National Grid
Telecoms

Everything that we are going to use every day forever, we don't want to rent it at ripoff prices.

We want to own it.

Luigi Mangione retains high-powered New York attorney as he faces second-degree murder charge | CNN Luigi Mangione has retained a high-powered New York attorney to represent him as he faces a second-degree murder charge in the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, CNN has learned.

NEWS: Luigi Mangione has retained a high-powered New York attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, to represent him in New York, I've learned. She's a vet of the Manhattan D.A.'s office with deep experience in New York's criminal justice system.

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All of the elite responses to the UHC/Luigi thing seem incapable of grasping that people broadly recognize now that the Proper Channels they insist everyone should direct their grievances into are designed to waste your time, take your money, or both.

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has just said

“Starmer’s deals with Iraq and Germany will not work. Deportations once we leave the ECHR is the ONLY way”

I explain here why he’s again talking boll****👇

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UK 'doesn't have enough builders' for Labour's 1.5m homes Builders and developers say reforms are needed to recruit more tradespeople to build the homes being promised.

I said this yesterday.
We have neither the skilled labour nor the materials to build this many houses.
Labour is lying again, just like the Tories did.
This is how Labour will lose the next election.
Unfulfilled promises.

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The EU has given the UK an ultimatum for any better trade deal

The UK must accept EU students and it must charge them the same as UK students, it must also be 'open' to EU workers

In return we get a poorer version of the Single Market

We need to just rejoin the Single Market

We DO NOT throw perfectly good food away in this house.

We put leftovers in a Tupperware & let it go bad, THEN throw it out!

Over the next few years, UK water companies will load themselves with as much debt as they can and pay directors and shareholders eye watering sums. Why? Because they know that nationalisation is coming and they won't have to pay it back.....we will.

Good luck America, you’re not gonna find a jury on the planet that doesn’t wanna shag Luigi Mangione.

Revealed: Wessex Water’s Malaysian owners under investigation for corruption Malaysian anti-corruption investigators have launched probe into YTL Power subsidiary over £700m public contract

Wessex Water’s Malaysian owners under investigation for corruption

Won't happen in England, Govts protect companies

Wessex is serial offender, dumps sewage in rivers, paid £78m dividend last yr, £3bn debt; 47 criminal convictions; but no investigation.
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Hot Type: The Cult of the Billionaire Instead of glorifying hoarders of vast un-spendable wealth, the world must finally wake up to the huge damage they are doing, writes Heidi Siegmund Cuda

🔴Hot Type: The Cult of the Billionaire

Instead of glorifying hoarders of vast un-spendable wealth, the world must finally wake up to the huge damage they are doing, writes @heidicuda.bsky.social

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Third of each Yorkshire Water bill goes on debt and dividend The firm has amassed debts of £6.2bn and paid out dividends worth £522m since 2017-18, figures show.

Third of Yorkshire Water customer bill cash goes on debt & dividend

Similar with other water companies.

Money borrowed to pay dividends, investment neglected, sewage dumped, customers fleeced; aapproved by OFWAT.

Must end the farce. Nationalise without compensation.
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Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass? Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners

“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?”
@josiah.writes.news

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I agree, three hundred and sixty billion percent.

I found that I have been happier since I changed from coffee in the morning to orange juice. My doctor explained that it's the vitamin C and natural sugars, but I really think it's the vodka.

The best way to make the most profit is to charge everything and provide nothing.

That is exactly where we are going.