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Delivery firm DPD accused of ‘revenge’ sacking drivers who criticised pay cuts Exclusive: Labour peer calls for change in the law after company terminates contracts of strike ‘ringleaders’

Delivery firm DPD in “revenge” sackings after workers spoke out against a plan to cut thousands of pounds from their earnings.

DPD had £200m pre-tax profit last year. Boss paid £1.5m.

Wants to cut £6,000 - £8,000 in pay to workers.

Can't grow economy without protecting worker rights.

If only customers could choose who delivers their packages, I would boycott straightaway!!

2 bottles of Waitrose Sweet Chili Sauce. The new one, on the left, is significantly smaller than the one on the right which has been in my fridge for a few months.

#Waitrose #SweetChiliSauce bottle has shrunk significantly. They think we don’t notice! The newest one is on the left.

The Deregulation Conspiracy: How Labour Quietly Continues the Tory Brexit Agenda While you were looking elsewhere, Labour embraced Jacob Rees-Mogg’s deregulatory vision

My latest article on Substack explores Starmer's rebranding of Jacob Rees-Moggs post-Brexit REUL Bill. Starmer's government has gone even further than Mogg did.
No one voted for this. The UK is being privatised.
open.substack.com/pub/european...

Sign the Petition Revise Veterinary Fees to Encourage Pet Adoption and Alleviate Shelter Overpopulation

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It’s appalling! 🤬

6 months?!! Is that all?

Yes, I tried to share a Strands puzzle the other day because of “druthers” & it wouldn’t work. Who says druthers? Merican!!

Billie Eilish Told 'WSJ' Awards Attendees To "Give Your Money Away, Shorties" (Mark Zuckerberg Did Not Clap) Did you know that the Wall Street Journal holds an annual awards show? It does. The newspaper’s Innovator Awards have been happening since 2012. Per the newspaper itself, this particular awards gala “...

Billie Eilish told the billionaires in attendance at the @wsj.com Awards to "give your money away, shorties," not eliciting applause from Mark Zuckerberg

If only Harriet Harman had pressed charges!

She’s so damned smug!!

It’ll make life easier for him, as there isn’t a drop-down box for “Prince”, when applying for universal credit, in the absence of an income 🤷🏻‍♂️

Where's he moving to? A 1 bed flat in Peckham?

When will he be put on the sex offenders register?

Amid all the fuss, remember that for much of the 1960s and 1970s, "the Spare" Andrew Windsor was just one unfortunate incident away from being the next king.

Hopefully, this appalling saga will lead to a proper national debate on our hereditary monarchy.

Long, long overdue.

Strange that they should choose that name for Andrew to use then! 🤔

The Mountbatten name has a stain on it too, I believe. Stories about a boys home, Kincora, Belfast, N. Ireland, weren’t there? 🍎🌳

When benefits are denied by data not humans: In a botched 'crackdown' on benefit fraud, a woman who booked a flight from London to Oslo but never got on the plane had her child benefit stopped by the UK government - because she didn't 'return'. HMRC told her their records showed she had emigrated!

Well said @eddavey.libdems.org.uk 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Nigel Farage loses major vote as he's accused of 'making career by damaging UK' Nigel Farage's call for the UK to leave the European Convention for Human Rights (ECHR) was voted down by MPs, with Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey branding it "un-British"

Farage gets voted down on leaving the ECHR… for now.
Ed Davey quite rightly tears a strip off him.

But really, the corrupt leader of a racist party threatening to remove our protection from abuses of power by our own government, should be the biggest red flag going.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

What Reeves and Starmer know but are not telling you is why they won't rejoin the EU, because Brexit put up an EU barrier in the form of 12 Freeports, 74 SEZs, and AI Growth Zones (200 bids on sites so far).
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Reform expels three more councillors for ‘dishonest and deceptive’ behaviour Reform UK has expelled another three county councillors from the party this afternoon after a meeting called by its KCC leader.

It’s hard to believe but Reform has expelled another *three* councillors from their #Kent County Council group….for dishonesty and deceptive behaviour.

Totally unfit to lead a major authority.

www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/re...

You’re not feeling a teensy bit sorry for him, are you?

Zia Yusuf complaining about councils being underfunded

While sitting next to Danny Kruger who since 2019 was part of the government that underfunded the councils Yusuf is complaining about

Is the UK addicted to “full independent inquiries”? Does it really take a years-long process costing millions to say it was a mistake to release Hadush Kebatu on Friday? Wouldn’t a faster internal process into what went wrong allow the government to *fix* it faster?

Farage, Jenrick and all your miserable, cowardly backers and apologists… this is on you.
Do you have any “legitimate concerns” about the inevitable and terrible consequences of your hatefulness?

An irritating ad keeps popping up & I can’t read the article.

Petition: Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance, funding, and operations of free zones. Plus a public review to assess impacts, such as job displacement and value for taxpayers money

My petition should be soaring past the 10,000 mark.
Please help me share it as widely as possible.
What's at stake is an abnormal proliferation of tax havens and feudal enclaves
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

I’ve just signed the petition to free the 15 penguins suffering terrible conditions in underground captivity at Sea Life @london_aquarium. Will you join me? 🐧🐧🐧

Nice rework of an old joke.

And his genius answer to the economic slump he helped to create? More austerity. Spending cuts are his only suggestion. Nothing on Brexit. Nothing on immigration. Nothing on infrastructure projects. More Tory-style punishment beatings and hard wired aversion to tax rises. Tedious blinkered garbage.