…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’.
Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.
…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’.
Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.
Like the Water Company fines they are simply passed on to the consumer.
A solution is to make the fine a % loss of shares, so the Government gains control of failing companies.
Like the Water Company fines they are simply passed on to the consumer.
A solution is to make the fine a % loss of shares, so the Government gains control of failing companies.
The UK is being privatised.
The UK is being privatised.
Cash from dictatorships, shell companies, companies that never made profit, unincorporated associations with secret funders.
Rewards for corruption - govt contracts, lax laws, favours.
Must ban all political donations.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cash from dictatorships, shell companies, companies that never made profit, unincorporated associations with secret funders.
Rewards for corruption - govt contracts, lax laws, favours.
Must ban all political donations.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Trump is the man who Peter Thiel (PayPal/Palantir) urged to fire the nation’s civil servants to “replace them with our people”, to defy the courts and rule his own way. Or, to put this in simple terms: to foment a coup.
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Trump is the man who Peter Thiel (PayPal/Palantir) urged to fire the nation’s civil servants to “replace them with our people”, to defy the courts and rule his own way. Or, to put this in simple terms: to foment a coup.
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The Chinese government would never let us walk in and seize its assets. But we've let it do just that.
1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company.
2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly.
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The Chinese government would never let us walk in and seize its assets. But we've let it do just that.
We haven't been self-sufficient in food since about 1760, when the landowners enclosed our land for sheep, and we were forced to work in their dark satanic mills.
We haven't been self-sufficient in food since about 1760, when the landowners enclosed our land for sheep, and we were forced to work in their dark satanic mills.
The unspoken truth of Rachel Reeves’ Budget was that leaving the EU has left Britain permanently worse off, writes @adambienkov.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2024/10/30/b...
The unspoken truth of Rachel Reeves’ Budget was that leaving the EU has left Britain permanently worse off, writes @adambienkov.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2024/10/30/b...
1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company.
2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly.
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1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company.
2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly.
🧵
It's fairly safe to say that many of the world's problems can be traced back to one major issue: inequality.
It's fairly safe to say that many of the world's problems can be traced back to one major issue: inequality.