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I just CAN'T think why our media & press never talks about taxing the billionaires??
Any ideas? 🙄
#WealthTax #WindfallTax #TaxTheRich
Any ideas? 🙄
#WealthTax #WindfallTax #TaxTheRich
December 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I just CAN'T think why our media & press never talks about taxing the billionaires??
Any ideas? 🙄
#WealthTax #WindfallTax #TaxTheRich
Any ideas? 🙄
#WealthTax #WindfallTax #TaxTheRich
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MPs warn that UK agreements with Donald Trump are ‘built on sand’.
UK bullied to pay billions more for NHS drugs produced by US companies, importing US beef, accept steel tariffs and more, without any reciprocity.
Can't trust Trump. US wants dominance, not partnership.
Rejoin the EU.
UK bullied to pay billions more for NHS drugs produced by US companies, importing US beef, accept steel tariffs and more, without any reciprocity.
Can't trust Trump. US wants dominance, not partnership.
Rejoin the EU.
MPs warn that UK agreements with Donald Trump are ‘built on sand’
Exclusive: Health select committee chair says UK government’s ‘naive belief’ Trump is a good faith actor ‘could cost UK taxpayer billions’
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
MPs warn that UK agreements with Donald Trump are ‘built on sand’.
UK bullied to pay billions more for NHS drugs produced by US companies, importing US beef, accept steel tariffs and more, without any reciprocity.
Can't trust Trump. US wants dominance, not partnership.
Rejoin the EU.
UK bullied to pay billions more for NHS drugs produced by US companies, importing US beef, accept steel tariffs and more, without any reciprocity.
Can't trust Trump. US wants dominance, not partnership.
Rejoin the EU.
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McDonald’s USA
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.79
McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.49
Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.79
McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.49
Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.
December 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
McDonald’s USA
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.79
McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.49
Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.79
McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.49
Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.
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Three years ago this terrified dog arrived at our home. Since then we’ve been on a long and often difficult journey to make her feel safe with us and there’s more to do but we’re so glad that #sophiefromromania came into our lives
December 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Three years ago this terrified dog arrived at our home. Since then we’ve been on a long and often difficult journey to make her feel safe with us and there’s more to do but we’re so glad that #sophiefromromania came into our lives
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I consider myself a fairly patient person, but I can't listen to another second of this ridiculous, wheezing idiot. I'm done. Nothing he is saying aligns with anything that is really happening in the real world.
December 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I consider myself a fairly patient person, but I can't listen to another second of this ridiculous, wheezing idiot. I'm done. Nothing he is saying aligns with anything that is really happening in the real world.
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🍫 Cheaper food after Brexit?
🍞 Bread up ⬆️ 20%
🧀 Cheese up ⬆️30%
🥚 Eggs up ⬆️40%
🤫 Brexit Promised CHEAPER, you got ripped off.
#BrexitReality
🍞 Bread up ⬆️ 20%
🧀 Cheese up ⬆️30%
🥚 Eggs up ⬆️40%
🤫 Brexit Promised CHEAPER, you got ripped off.
#BrexitReality
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
🍫 Cheaper food after Brexit?
🍞 Bread up ⬆️ 20%
🧀 Cheese up ⬆️30%
🥚 Eggs up ⬆️40%
🤫 Brexit Promised CHEAPER, you got ripped off.
#BrexitReality
🍞 Bread up ⬆️ 20%
🧀 Cheese up ⬆️30%
🥚 Eggs up ⬆️40%
🤫 Brexit Promised CHEAPER, you got ripped off.
#BrexitReality
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Yorkshire Water boss said "not being transparent" about receiving £1.3m payments from the parent company was a "mistake".
They carefully planned to circumvent the rules, civil society exposed it. No retribution
Customer fleecing, sewage dumping continues for bigger profits and exec bonuses
They carefully planned to circumvent the rules, civil society exposed it. No retribution
Customer fleecing, sewage dumping continues for bigger profits and exec bonuses
Yorkshire Water boss 'mistaken' to keep £1.3m payment secret
Nicola Shaw says she was wrong in
www.bbc.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Yorkshire Water boss said "not being transparent" about receiving £1.3m payments from the parent company was a "mistake".
They carefully planned to circumvent the rules, civil society exposed it. No retribution
Customer fleecing, sewage dumping continues for bigger profits and exec bonuses
They carefully planned to circumvent the rules, civil society exposed it. No retribution
Customer fleecing, sewage dumping continues for bigger profits and exec bonuses
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The prof and #sophiefromromania were out before dawn this morning
December 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The prof and #sophiefromromania were out before dawn this morning
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Today I have mostly been a petulant, attention-seeking cry baby.
December 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Today I have mostly been a petulant, attention-seeking cry baby.
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Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
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2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.
December 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.
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We estimate that by the start of 2025, the UK economy was approximately 8% smaller than it would have been without Brexit, based on macro data, and 6% smaller using firm-level micro data”
www.euronews.com/business/202...
www.euronews.com/business/202...
A decade of Brexit: Britain falls behind peers in trade and growth
Economic analysis shows UK GDP per capita grew up to 10% less than similar nations as firms froze spending and productivity slipped.
www.euronews.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
We estimate that by the start of 2025, the UK economy was approximately 8% smaller than it would have been without Brexit, based on macro data, and 6% smaller using firm-level micro data”
www.euronews.com/business/202...
www.euronews.com/business/202...
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Free market capitalism in action.
December 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Free market capitalism in action.
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Cost of unregistered children's care homes a 'national scandal'.
Charge up to £30,000 a week per child.
Poor regulation. Lack of capacity as the sector was privatised. Profiteering rife. Councils spent £8.1bn on children in care.
Why are so many children in care?
Charge up to £30,000 a week per child.
Poor regulation. Lack of capacity as the sector was privatised. Profiteering rife. Councils spent £8.1bn on children in care.
Why are so many children in care?
Cost of unregistered children's care homes a 'national scandal' - Ofsted
The Children's Homes Association says there is no clear national plan and government must 'fix the system'.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Cost of unregistered children's care homes a 'national scandal'.
Charge up to £30,000 a week per child.
Poor regulation. Lack of capacity as the sector was privatised. Profiteering rife. Councils spent £8.1bn on children in care.
Why are so many children in care?
Charge up to £30,000 a week per child.
Poor regulation. Lack of capacity as the sector was privatised. Profiteering rife. Councils spent £8.1bn on children in care.
Why are so many children in care?
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A Mirror probe shows that Nigel Farage has made £140,000 from the Cameo messaging platform - but spoken in Parliament just 22 times and mentioning his Clacton constituents on just three occasions.
December 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A Mirror probe shows that Nigel Farage has made £140,000 from the Cameo messaging platform - but spoken in Parliament just 22 times and mentioning his Clacton constituents on just three occasions.
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Good morning.
Gonna have a pop at multi-millionaire Dicky Tice this morning.
The same Dicky Tice that hates foreigners in our country, hates muslims, is an MP for Boston & Skegness but lives in Dubai under SHARIA LAW!
Having a pop at children wearing ear defenders because he's a class 1 knobhead.
Gonna have a pop at multi-millionaire Dicky Tice this morning.
The same Dicky Tice that hates foreigners in our country, hates muslims, is an MP for Boston & Skegness but lives in Dubai under SHARIA LAW!
Having a pop at children wearing ear defenders because he's a class 1 knobhead.
December 1, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Good morning.
Gonna have a pop at multi-millionaire Dicky Tice this morning.
The same Dicky Tice that hates foreigners in our country, hates muslims, is an MP for Boston & Skegness but lives in Dubai under SHARIA LAW!
Having a pop at children wearing ear defenders because he's a class 1 knobhead.
Gonna have a pop at multi-millionaire Dicky Tice this morning.
The same Dicky Tice that hates foreigners in our country, hates muslims, is an MP for Boston & Skegness but lives in Dubai under SHARIA LAW!
Having a pop at children wearing ear defenders because he's a class 1 knobhead.
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Pretty awkward for Gullis & Tice…
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Pretty awkward for Gullis & Tice…
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What we're seeing is exactly what we saw in the late 1940s, the late 1960s and the mid- to late 1970s: a concerted and hysterical campaign to delegitimise a Labour government, and indeed the very idea of Labour governments at all.
December 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
What we're seeing is exactly what we saw in the late 1940s, the late 1960s and the mid- to late 1970s: a concerted and hysterical campaign to delegitimise a Labour government, and indeed the very idea of Labour governments at all.
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My apologies for polluting your timeline with the Daily Express - a sort of less tolerant and truthful Daily Mail...
But, for the benefit of humble, working Reform fans, these things are available for "only" £349...
And they're black shirts, too. How appropriate 🤮
www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
But, for the benefit of humble, working Reform fans, these things are available for "only" £349...
And they're black shirts, too. How appropriate 🤮
www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
Nigel Farage’s new VIP football shirts provide major cash boost for Reform
EXCLUSIVE - The party is swimming in cash after launching this year's most sought-after political Christmas present.
www.express.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
My apologies for polluting your timeline with the Daily Express - a sort of less tolerant and truthful Daily Mail...
But, for the benefit of humble, working Reform fans, these things are available for "only" £349...
And they're black shirts, too. How appropriate 🤮
www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
But, for the benefit of humble, working Reform fans, these things are available for "only" £349...
And they're black shirts, too. How appropriate 🤮
www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
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This is why a con man shouldn’t have been allowed to become President!
This 👇
This 👇
November 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
This is why a con man shouldn’t have been allowed to become President!
This 👇
This 👇
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Not content with ruining the largest lake in England, we're now busy ruining the largest lake in the UK.
And once again, government so-called regulation has utterly failed to protect our environment... 😢
www.bbc.com/news/article...
And once again, government so-called regulation has utterly failed to protect our environment... 😢
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Belfast Lough: Environment department to be investigated for sewage discharges
How Daera, DfI and the Utility Regulator regulate sewage discharges by NI Water is to be examined.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Not content with ruining the largest lake in England, we're now busy ruining the largest lake in the UK.
And once again, government so-called regulation has utterly failed to protect our environment... 😢
www.bbc.com/news/article...
And once again, government so-called regulation has utterly failed to protect our environment... 😢
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Keir Starmer has demanded an investigation into links between Reform UK and Russia following the jailing of the party's former Wales leader for accepting pro-Russian bribes
news.sky.com/story/starme...
news.sky.com/story/starme...
Starmer demands investigation into Reform-Russia links after party's ex-Wales leader jailed
The former leader of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years after being paid £40,000 to make pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament.
news.sky.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Keir Starmer has demanded an investigation into links between Reform UK and Russia following the jailing of the party's former Wales leader for accepting pro-Russian bribes
news.sky.com/story/starme...
news.sky.com/story/starme...
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open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... “Not only does this agreement sell out Ukraine and Europe for the benefit of Russia—which attacked Ukraine—it explicitly separates the U.S. from NATO, a long-time goal of Russia’s president Vladimir Putin.” This is a complete capitulation to Russia - it’s treachery
November 21, 2025
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today.
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... “Not only does this agreement sell out Ukraine and Europe for the benefit of Russia—which attacked Ukraine—it explicitly separates the U.S. from NATO, a long-time goal of Russia’s president Vladimir Putin.” This is a complete capitulation to Russia - it’s treachery
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