Bob White
@rwdwhite.bsky.social
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
Someone is always going to lose and I would have thought that someone owning a >£2million asset is in a better position to absorb a loss.
I'd also say: a lot of people's lives are complicated and sad. A lot of young people are facing increasingly complicated and sad lives where they are seeing their futures dwindle as the job market disintegrates and home ownership fades. But they are "snowflakes" for complaining
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Someone is always going to lose and I would have thought that someone owning a >£2million asset is in a better position to absorb a loss.
This is funny, what about all the leaks from govt? These people are a joke.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said the unprecedented pre-Budget publication of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s document was “deeply disappointing and a serious error on their part”
November 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This is funny, what about all the leaks from govt? These people are a joke.
There were some great things in this budget (killing off two child limit, mansion tax), however, bringing back PFI is folly. 69 trusts are still due to pay £21bn to the likes of the US United Healthcare.
NHS trusts were charged £350 to change a light bulb, kill PFI.
@torstenbell.bsky.social
NHS trusts were charged £350 to change a light bulb, kill PFI.
@torstenbell.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
There were some great things in this budget (killing off two child limit, mansion tax), however, bringing back PFI is folly. 69 trusts are still due to pay £21bn to the likes of the US United Healthcare.
NHS trusts were charged £350 to change a light bulb, kill PFI.
@torstenbell.bsky.social
NHS trusts were charged £350 to change a light bulb, kill PFI.
@torstenbell.bsky.social
This Labour govt don’t look like they’ve much chance of winning another election so why don’t they just go for it and do the right thing?
Scrapping the two child benefit cap is the right thing. Relaunching disastrous PFI contacts and scrapping jury trials are not the right thing.
Scrapping the two child benefit cap is the right thing. Relaunching disastrous PFI contacts and scrapping jury trials are not the right thing.
Hearing Rachel Reeves explain why it is so important to lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty is a reminder of what a Labour government can do. It is also a reminder of how little of this sort of thing they have done and how much more needs to be done.
November 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This Labour govt don’t look like they’ve much chance of winning another election so why don’t they just go for it and do the right thing?
Scrapping the two child benefit cap is the right thing. Relaunching disastrous PFI contacts and scrapping jury trials are not the right thing.
Scrapping the two child benefit cap is the right thing. Relaunching disastrous PFI contacts and scrapping jury trials are not the right thing.
Why are Reeves/Starmer/Streeting repeating the mistakes of the past? PFI enabled corporations to make massive profits at the cost of our NHS.
Politicians claim that the NHS model is broken but don’t tell you that they’ve broken it by involving the private sector at enormous expense.
Politicians claim that the NHS model is broken but don’t tell you that they’ve broken it by involving the private sector at enormous expense.
School repairs left unfinished as firm behind PFI contract goes into liquidation.
Massive profiteering from PFI. After 25-30 years assets need to be in good condition before transfer to the public body. Then the company goes bust.
Govt doing more PFI deals.
Massive profiteering from PFI. After 25-30 years assets need to be in good condition before transfer to the public body. Then the company goes bust.
Govt doing more PFI deals.
Repairs left unfinished as firm behind huge schools PFI contract goes into liquidation
The news heightens concerns that 88 schools in Stoke-on-Trent could be left with unfinished work.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Why are Reeves/Starmer/Streeting repeating the mistakes of the past? PFI enabled corporations to make massive profits at the cost of our NHS.
Politicians claim that the NHS model is broken but don’t tell you that they’ve broken it by involving the private sector at enormous expense.
Politicians claim that the NHS model is broken but don’t tell you that they’ve broken it by involving the private sector at enormous expense.
69 NHS hospitals are locked into paying £21bn of PFI money.
PFI is a disaster and a bonanza for the likes of American companies such as United Healthcare for whom it’s a cash bonanza.
Why is nobody reporting that the neighbourhood health centres announced today are repeating the same catastrophe?
PFI is a disaster and a bonanza for the likes of American companies such as United Healthcare for whom it’s a cash bonanza.
Why is nobody reporting that the neighbourhood health centres announced today are repeating the same catastrophe?
🚨BREAKING:
The government has announced they plan to use PFI 2.0 to fund NHS neighbourhood health centres. This will see cash that should go toward treating patients being paid out to private finance investors.
Email your MP now to oppose this plan:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-pfi
The government has announced they plan to use PFI 2.0 to fund NHS neighbourhood health centres. This will see cash that should go toward treating patients being paid out to private finance investors.
Email your MP now to oppose this plan:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-pfi
Just days to STOP new NHS private finance debts - take action now
Your MP can help STOP plans for new private finance debts in our NHS in the Autumn Budget
weownit.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
69 NHS hospitals are locked into paying £21bn of PFI money.
PFI is a disaster and a bonanza for the likes of American companies such as United Healthcare for whom it’s a cash bonanza.
Why is nobody reporting that the neighbourhood health centres announced today are repeating the same catastrophe?
PFI is a disaster and a bonanza for the likes of American companies such as United Healthcare for whom it’s a cash bonanza.
Why is nobody reporting that the neighbourhood health centres announced today are repeating the same catastrophe?
Reposted by Bob White
Beaming this idea directly into Zack Polanski's brain - politicians who use PFI should be made to stand trial for defrauding the state.
At the Budget, the Chancellor just announced 250 new Neighbourhood Health Centres...
... but didn't mention their decision to use private finance to fund them 🧐
Why? Are they ashamed of their plan to resurrect the corpse of PFI in our NHS? They should be. #AutumnBudget
... but didn't mention their decision to use private finance to fund them 🧐
Why? Are they ashamed of their plan to resurrect the corpse of PFI in our NHS? They should be. #AutumnBudget
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Beaming this idea directly into Zack Polanski's brain - politicians who use PFI should be made to stand trial for defrauding the state.
Labour, laying the ground for a future authoritarian govt. What could go wrong with this?
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Labour’s plan to slash jury trials at odds with past Starmer calls to expand them
PM once advocated for all criminal cases to be heard before juries even those at magistrates court level, it has emerged
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Labour, laying the ground for a future authoritarian govt. What could go wrong with this?
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Someone other than Farage needs to stop this Starmer govt from repeating the disasters of the past.
Starmer has no strategy, he just thinks about the tactics and how they relate to poll numbers. I never envisaged his govt being so bad, he is to Labour what Johnson and Truss were to the Tories.
Starmer has no strategy, he just thinks about the tactics and how they relate to poll numbers. I never envisaged his govt being so bad, he is to Labour what Johnson and Truss were to the Tories.
Today, Labour is going to announce a return to PFI for the NHS- which is a total disaster. But they’ve renamed it the “NHS neighbourhood rebuild”. Don’t be fooled 🚨
I’ve explained what’s going on in this piece I’ve just written- open.substack.com/pub/jujuliag...
I’ve explained what’s going on in this piece I’ve just written- open.substack.com/pub/jujuliag...
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Someone other than Farage needs to stop this Starmer govt from repeating the disasters of the past.
Starmer has no strategy, he just thinks about the tactics and how they relate to poll numbers. I never envisaged his govt being so bad, he is to Labour what Johnson and Truss were to the Tories.
Starmer has no strategy, he just thinks about the tactics and how they relate to poll numbers. I never envisaged his govt being so bad, he is to Labour what Johnson and Truss were to the Tories.
This Starmer govt is all about tactics, they don’t think strategically. They believe that by announcing neighbourhood health hubs everyone will be looking at the lovely shiny new buildings and thinking how wonderful.
They don’t think the underlying mechanics of how we get them will be exposed.
They don’t think the underlying mechanics of how we get them will be exposed.
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
This Starmer govt is all about tactics, they don’t think strategically. They believe that by announcing neighbourhood health hubs everyone will be looking at the lovely shiny new buildings and thinking how wonderful.
They don’t think the underlying mechanics of how we get them will be exposed.
They don’t think the underlying mechanics of how we get them will be exposed.
The reason why companies like the American United Healthcare want to get involved in NHS PFI projects is because they make a killing.
They not only provide money/debt facility for buildings but also then run things like facilities mgt in the hospitals and can charge £350 to change a light bulb.
They not only provide money/debt facility for buildings but also then run things like facilities mgt in the hospitals and can charge £350 to change a light bulb.
Why does a massive US private healthcare company own 2 NHS PFI projects?🚨🚨🚨
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The reason why companies like the American United Healthcare want to get involved in NHS PFI projects is because they make a killing.
They not only provide money/debt facility for buildings but also then run things like facilities mgt in the hospitals and can charge £350 to change a light bulb.
They not only provide money/debt facility for buildings but also then run things like facilities mgt in the hospitals and can charge £350 to change a light bulb.
We are being softened up for a repeat of the huge mistakes of the recent past. Even the Tories thought PFI was a dreadful idea and stopped it.
I use NHS services run by the private sector and not one of them is as good as the old NHS service because they deduct at least 40% at source for profit.
I use NHS services run by the private sector and not one of them is as good as the old NHS service because they deduct at least 40% at source for profit.
PFI is where Private Investment build NHS buildings and then the NHS rents it.
The result is the NHS permanently has 'no money' because it has to pay huge rent costs and the Government goes, "Oh dear we will have to cut services."
The result is the NHS permanently has 'no money' because it has to pay huge rent costs and the Government goes, "Oh dear we will have to cut services."
November 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
We are being softened up for a repeat of the huge mistakes of the recent past. Even the Tories thought PFI was a dreadful idea and stopped it.
I use NHS services run by the private sector and not one of them is as good as the old NHS service because they deduct at least 40% at source for profit.
I use NHS services run by the private sector and not one of them is as good as the old NHS service because they deduct at least 40% at source for profit.
I am reposting this in the hope that maybe just one of Farage’s supporters will read this and decide that Farage she be kept well away from any position of power. I don’t hold out much hope.
As for Farage’s use of racist slurs being confined to his childhood - well, that's not what Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP, claimed in this 2014 interview.
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Ukip founder Alan Sked: 'The party has become a Frankenstein's monster'
He may have founded Ukip, but Alan Sked's moderate, Brussels-boycotting party has gone rogue. Stuart Jeffries meets the academic who's desperate to stop the bandwagon he first set rolling
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I am reposting this in the hope that maybe just one of Farage’s supporters will read this and decide that Farage she be kept well away from any position of power. I don’t hold out much hope.
This refers to Trevor Phillips @news.sky.com. Do you really want to host a rubbish show where the interviewer is more interested in the sound of his own voice?
I can’t say I’m really surprised by this dumb idea as TP comes across as very stupid on his interview show on Sunday mornings.
Someone else who’s failed upwards.
Someone else who’s failed upwards.
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This refers to Trevor Phillips @news.sky.com. Do you really want to host a rubbish show where the interviewer is more interested in the sound of his own voice?
Are the BBC contesting that Trump is not the most openly corrupt president in US history?
If so, they should state why. Using editorial guidelines doesn’t cut it.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
If so, they should state why. Using editorial guidelines doesn’t cut it.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Reith lecturer accuses BBC of censoring his remarks on Trump
Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Are the BBC contesting that Trump is not the most openly corrupt president in US history?
If so, they should state why. Using editorial guidelines doesn’t cut it.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
If so, they should state why. Using editorial guidelines doesn’t cut it.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
I knew he was an awful interviewer/journalist but I thought Trevor Phillips might at least understand the consequences of his suggestions.
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I knew he was an awful interviewer/journalist but I thought Trevor Phillips might at least understand the consequences of his suggestions.
This is well overdue so I’ve signed it.
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is well overdue so I’ve signed it.
“Mahmood is not a novelty, just an addition to the ranks of Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch, Priti Patel and even Rishi Sunak, who in various forms used their identities to dictate what the correct immigration and race politics should be”.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“Mahmood is not a novelty, just an addition to the ranks of Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch, Priti Patel and even Rishi Sunak, who in various forms used their identities to dictate what the correct immigration and race politics should be”.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our politicians will not offer safe routes simply because they think it won’t play well with the press/media and other parties.
After years of demonising migrants, you’d think it was time for our politics to try something else. Migrants, with a very few exceptions, are assets to their communities.
After years of demonising migrants, you’d think it was time for our politics to try something else. Migrants, with a very few exceptions, are assets to their communities.
Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Our politicians will not offer safe routes simply because they think it won’t play well with the press/media and other parties.
After years of demonising migrants, you’d think it was time for our politics to try something else. Migrants, with a very few exceptions, are assets to their communities.
After years of demonising migrants, you’d think it was time for our politics to try something else. Migrants, with a very few exceptions, are assets to their communities.
My GP is similar, they’re excellent and have utilised technology to successfully manage all of their patients. Most of the time they text message me or talk on the phone, however, they will always see me if it’s necessary.
I feel very lucky to live where I do.
I feel very lucky to live where I do.
I am constantly so impressed with my local GP clinic. It is impossibly efficient. There is no relationship with an individual doctor - I don't want one - but the moment you have a concern about something they sort a call back that day or a walk-in appointment that week. They're just brilliant.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
My GP is similar, they’re excellent and have utilised technology to successfully manage all of their patients. Most of the time they text message me or talk on the phone, however, they will always see me if it’s necessary.
I feel very lucky to live where I do.
I feel very lucky to live where I do.
Nothing to see here, NF is always being photobombed by close colleagues but, of course, it doesn’t mean he knows them.
Nathan Who?
Nathan Who?
The latest pathetic attempt by Reform UK supporters to distance themselves from Nathan Gill and #ReformRussianBribes is to say ‘Reform UK didn’t exist when he took the bribes’.
UKIP > Independent > Brexit Party > Reform UK
That’s the path Gill and Farage took TOGETHER.
UKIP > Independent > Brexit Party > Reform UK
That’s the path Gill and Farage took TOGETHER.
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Nothing to see here, NF is always being photobombed by close colleagues but, of course, it doesn’t mean he knows them.
Nathan Who?
Nathan Who?
This is shocking, this Starmer govt is as guilty of nepotism as the Tories were before them.
We were promised by Starmer that he would do things differently (better). Lying comes as easily to him as the rest of the establishment.
open.substack.com/pub/jujuliag...
We were promised by Starmer that he would do things differently (better). Lying comes as easily to him as the rest of the establishment.
open.substack.com/pub/jujuliag...
A tale of an ex-Prime Minister, his son’s private company, Palantir, and the NHS…
Call To Action
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This is shocking, this Starmer govt is as guilty of nepotism as the Tories were before them.
We were promised by Starmer that he would do things differently (better). Lying comes as easily to him as the rest of the establishment.
open.substack.com/pub/jujuliag...
We were promised by Starmer that he would do things differently (better). Lying comes as easily to him as the rest of the establishment.
open.substack.com/pub/jujuliag...
Great reporting from Peter Walker. I wonder why other journalists don’t seem interested in Farage’s recent past? Is it because they, or the owners of their media groups, agree with him?
NEW: Nigel Farage is facing renewed calls to explain why he repeatedly aired tropes and conspiracy theories associated with antisemitism during interviews, after claims the Reform UK leader used racist language in his teens.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage urged to explain conspiracy theories linked to antisemitism he voiced in US media
Exclusive: The Reform UK leader discussed far-right talking points in web TV and radio appearances between 2009 and 2018
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Great reporting from Peter Walker. I wonder why other journalists don’t seem interested in Farage’s recent past? Is it because they, or the owners of their media groups, agree with him?
This is a ghastly video, I don’t recognise this Labour Party.
Shabana Mahmood posted this video on Twitter.
Tell me it couldn't have come straight from Reform HQ.
Tell me it couldn't have come straight from Reform HQ.
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is a ghastly video, I don’t recognise this Labour Party.
I’ve long thought of Glasman (and Rutherford) as having a fantasy cartoonish view of politics where the working class wear flat caps and smoke roll ups.
Whilst Jonathan Rutherford comes across as the sane one of the two, Glasman always sounds unhinged.
Whilst Jonathan Rutherford comes across as the sane one of the two, Glasman always sounds unhinged.
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I’ve long thought of Glasman (and Rutherford) as having a fantasy cartoonish view of politics where the working class wear flat caps and smoke roll ups.
Whilst Jonathan Rutherford comes across as the sane one of the two, Glasman always sounds unhinged.
Whilst Jonathan Rutherford comes across as the sane one of the two, Glasman always sounds unhinged.