@johnrhill.bsky.social
The real UK debt crisis isn’t in the Treasury – it’s in the homes of millions of people www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06...
The real UK debt crisis isn’t in the Treasury – it’s in the homes of millions of people
As the Financial Times has reported, the cost of personal debt in the UK is rising rapidly, despite falling bank base rates. Rates are now very often over 30% per annum, and increasingly unaffordable ...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
June 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The real UK debt crisis isn’t in the Treasury – it’s in the homes of millions of people www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06...
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UK MPs receive annual salary of £91,346 + expenses.
Worker median annual wage is £29,664.
Too many MPs take second Jobs, advance the interests of their corporate paymasters.
People's welfare is secondary to self enrichment.
Must ban all second jobs for MPs.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/mps-...
Worker median annual wage is £29,664.
Too many MPs take second Jobs, advance the interests of their corporate paymasters.
People's welfare is secondary to self enrichment.
Must ban all second jobs for MPs.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/mps-...
MPs second jobs are institutionalised bribery. They should be banned.
'Preventing MPs from selling their souls to the highest bidder is a necessary step in democratising parliament.'
leftfootforward.org
January 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
UK MPs receive annual salary of £91,346 + expenses.
Worker median annual wage is £29,664.
Too many MPs take second Jobs, advance the interests of their corporate paymasters.
People's welfare is secondary to self enrichment.
Must ban all second jobs for MPs.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/mps-...
Worker median annual wage is £29,664.
Too many MPs take second Jobs, advance the interests of their corporate paymasters.
People's welfare is secondary to self enrichment.
Must ban all second jobs for MPs.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/mps-...
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UK laws can't prevent billionaires/Musk from funding political parties.
Payments can be routed through UK friends, corporate subsidiaries. Shell companies have been used.
UK profits can be manufactured to make donations.
Total ban is the only effective remedy.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/how-...
Payments can be routed through UK friends, corporate subsidiaries. Shell companies have been used.
UK profits can be manufactured to make donations.
Total ban is the only effective remedy.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/how-...
How our democracy has been hijacked by corporations and wealthy elites
The only effective remedy is to ban all private donations, or bribes, to political parties.
leftfootforward.org
January 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
UK laws can't prevent billionaires/Musk from funding political parties.
Payments can be routed through UK friends, corporate subsidiaries. Shell companies have been used.
UK profits can be manufactured to make donations.
Total ban is the only effective remedy.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/how-...
Payments can be routed through UK friends, corporate subsidiaries. Shell companies have been used.
UK profits can be manufactured to make donations.
Total ban is the only effective remedy.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/how-...
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Or, put another way, #inequality and #poverty are tearing the UK apart. 🔽
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
UK towns that saw rioting last summer have ‘torn social fabric’, report claims
Majority of areas where violence broke out have below-median scores on index of community cohesion and resilience
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Or, put another way, #inequality and #poverty are tearing the UK apart. 🔽
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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Maybe politics, media, and business are conducive to predators, bullies, and extrovert blowhards because the power in those worlds is held by similar people who won't, by definition, see the problem? A 'few bad apples' can't really explain why it keeps happening. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
BBC rejects call to cut MasterChef episodes as Gregg Wallace apologises
Presenter says he felt ‘under siege’ when he dismissed his accusers as ‘middle-class women of a certain age’
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Maybe politics, media, and business are conducive to predators, bullies, and extrovert blowhards because the power in those worlds is held by similar people who won't, by definition, see the problem? A 'few bad apples' can't really explain why it keeps happening. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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A terifying possibility we need to be ready to fight back against. Part of that fight back will include making @bsky.app the biggest social media platform in the world. We CAN do it
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Will Elon Musk give Nigel Farage $100m to make him PM?
The Tesla boss, who used his immense fortune to help Donald Trump’s campaign, is turning his attention to Britain
www.thetimes.com
December 1, 2024 at 10:32 AM
A terifying possibility we need to be ready to fight back against. Part of that fight back will include making @bsky.app the biggest social media platform in the world. We CAN do it
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...