Lee Phillips

A crowded scene with numerous orange squares overlaying the individuals' faces, symbolising surveillance. Text: I. OPPOSE MASS SURVEILLANCE' at the top and LIBERTY logo at the bottom.

Government plans to introduce #digitalID, ramp up facial recognition tech, and weaken encryption software are sleepwalking us into a surveillance state.

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It’s a long road ahead, still. But the end is in sight.

In Nov 2024, Keir Starmer announced a working partnership with US asset manager Blackrock, who own $11 trillion in assets.

Their endgame?
To turn green spaces into 'natures assets'. Your local park could become a tokenised asset.
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Musk sacked 80% of staff when he bought Twitter.

Bezos is sacking 14,000 people to replace with AI.

Microsoft are cutting 4.1% or jobs (9,100) to replace with AI.

Intel are cutting up to 25% or staff to replace with AI.

What's that about billionaires creating jobs?

Starmer’s Grovel to an Epstein-Linked Shipping Giant: Labour’s £1bn Betrayal of Sacked Workers and Trafficking Survivors Exclusive: As fresh Epstein emails expose a Dubai ports mogul’s chilling offer of GPS “smart shoes” for tracking children, Keir Starmer’s government is handing the same firm billions in UK freeport ca...

Starmer’s Grovel to an Epstein-Linked Shipping Giant: Labour’s £1bn Betrayal of Sacked Workers and Trafficking Survivors.
Keir Starmer’s govt is handing the same firm (DP World) billions in UK freeport cash.
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I don't think this will actually happen. But if it does, the UK should simply start subjecting the actions of US-owned social media platforms in this country to British law. Incitement, defamation, intellectual property.

English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care

English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books.

Social spaces lost forever. Libraries, community centres, school playgrounds, parks closed/sold as council funding cut in real terms to appease the rich.

Social vandalism.

Water company enjoys 131% rise in profits after bills go up £112 United Utilities, whose executives are barred from receiving bonuses because of pollution record, will pay out most of the increase in dividends

Water company United Utilities enjoys 131% rise in profits after bills go up £112.

UU has 205+ criminal convictions.

Loses over 175bn litres of water to leaks. In 2024 dumped sewage 450,778 hours in rivers//akes. No exec prosecuted/fined

Rewarded with higher price and profit.
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Daily Telegraph trying to rewrite history with the photo to accompany this article. Harold Wilson (Labour) was Prime Minister in 1975, followed by James Callaghan (Labour) in 1976. Thatcher did not become PM until 1979

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A Labour Party has jettisoned plans to increase taxes on unearned income - disproportionately enjoyed by the wealthy - and is increasing them instead on the earned income of normal people. What a shocking indictment.

Zone Fever Is Creating Future Victims Who Don't Know They're Victims Yet. Zone Fever Is The Corporate Coup Britain Isn’t Talking About

Zone Fever Is Creating Future Victims Who Don't Know They're Victims Yet.
We are witnessing a national reconfiguration of UK critical infrastructure: a country carved up into corporate-governed patchworks of feudal territories and tax havens.
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You’ve got to wonder about a Labour government that’s this furious about frontline NHS staff fighting for fair working conditions. Many resident doctors cant even find work in the NHS right now, because Starmer and Streeting are failing to create jobs for them.. 🚨🚨🚨

GB News, owned by Australians, based in the Dubai tax haven, managed by New Zealanders.

The only British bit are the fools watching.

Yorkshire Water: it’s time to end the rip-off Handing the company back to local people would return both control and value to those who need it most

"Since privatisation, Yorkshire Water and other regional water companies have paid out £7.6bn in dividends while loading themselves with borrowings.

Company accounts show net debt climbing year after year, even as profits were distributed to parent companies and investors."

Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few

The Rule of Law and enriching the rich.

For £60bn private sector investment in public assets, UK govts paying £306bn + billions in servicing traps.

Govt has revived PFI, calls it Public Private Partnership (PPP) and will apply it to the NHS. Billions will be drained from public purse.

UK banks push for easing of capital rules to counter surge in private credit HSBC and Barclays executives tell House of Lords committee that they are losing ground to US rivals

Race to the bottom.

UK banks push for easing of capital adequacy rules. They want deregulation and lower capital requirements to compete with shadow banks which are unregulated.

This will end in tears. Public purse will bear the cost. All avoidable. Will any govt resist the City?
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Trump is incredibly unpopular here! including amongst Tory voters. What are they doing?

Yorkshire Water: it’s time to end the rip-off Handing the company back to local people would return both control and value to those who need it most

"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.

What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."

EU set to water down landmark AI Act after pressure from big tech European Commission proposes pauses to provisions in digital rule book amid concerns over implications for EU competitiveness

apparently the unprecedented wealth and inflcuence big tech is amassing at the cost of the most marginalised is not enough. big tech ceos are not that different from drug cartels

www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

The UK Corporate Coup - What They’re Not Telling You I’ve spent several years researching UK Freeports and “free zones.” What I found is the largest transfer of sovereignty from democratic institutions to private corporations in British history.

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Scots face some of the steepest energy bill hikes in the UK, analysis finds SCOTS have seen some of the sharpest energy bill hikes across the UK over recent years, new analysis has shown.

And as producers of cheap electricity we are still bring ripped off! Infuriating! We should have the cheapest yet we all sit here and accept it! 😡

www.thenational.scot/news/2561067...

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Take a look at our MIRO Boards mapping the full extent of govt and corporate partnerships in the nationwide rollout of deregulated freeports and SEZs across the UK. All subsidised with State aid.
Tories and Labour +corporate reps sitting on the free zones boards consortia.
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Why are the media not shouting about BT, virgin & BA partnering with Elon Musk's Starlink?
Musk has already applied for a licence to supply energy ffs!!
(Rhetorical question, nntr)

Argh to the people who are saying “oh I see now. Labour are advancing NHS privatisation and YOU SAID that Reform wanted to advance NHS privatisation.”

Guys you haven’t “caught me out”. It’s possible for TWO political parties to be enthusiastic about private companies (🚨🚨🚨).

The Corporate Coup Over the Commons: How Oracle, BlackRock and Labour Are Privatising Britain’s Future Incontrovertible evidence of policy corruption, revolving doors spinning, and a feudal system where you pay corporate debts through your bills

The Smoking Gun: Oracle, Tony Blair, and Textbook Corruption
Let’s begin with what we can prove beyond doubt.

The Money: Larry Ellison, Oracle founder and Trump associate, has funnelled over £300 million to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI).
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In November 2024 Starrmer announced that his government is in partnership with US Blackrock, a mega corporation that buys up just about anything with pension funds, and money from investors/shareholders at a higher-than-market-value value price.
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Yorkshire Water: it’s time to end the rip-off Handing the company back to local people would return both control and value to those who need it most

Yorkshire Water: it’s time to end the rip-off

Handing the company back to local people would return both control and value to those who need it most

By John Hall

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
@johnfromyorkshire.bsky.social

England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades

England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year.

Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.

People fleeced.

If NHS trusts hadn’t had to pay more than £1.8 billion in *interest charges* to private companies, that money could have paid for the starting salaries of over 50,000 NHS doctors 😮🚨

Greens’ ‘undeliverable’ promises will let voters down, says Labour minister Exclusive: Darren Jones says Labour has to convince young people it is ‘modern party of the future’

This would be a more convincing argument if Keir Starmer had not himself made a whole series of promises which he then declared completely undeliverable as soon as he became leader www.theguardian.com/politics/202...