Bank of England urged to hike interest rates from 4% to 5%. Banks will make bigger profits. Misery for hard pressed millions. Inflation caused by profiteering, not wage rises. No curbs on profiteering. Can't get economic growth by impoverishing millions.
Bank of England urged to hike interest rates to five per cent
Niesr said in its autumn report that the Bank of England should dramatically hike interest rates amid warnings on inflation spiralling.
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The tale of Brexit and its effect on the British fishing industry
I very rarely share an opinion piece written by a politician, but this one’s excellent about Palantir in the NHS, and I think everyone should read it: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We have learned nothing. Still up to our necks in American 💩
Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3w ago🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...
This seems to’ve come n gone 🤷 www.gov.uk/government/p...
Final Report of the Covid Counter Fraud Commissioner and Government Response
Independent review examining COVID-19-related fraud, recovery efforts, ongoing risks, and key recommendations to strengthen public sector resilience and counter-fraud capacity, and the Government Resp...
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Victoria Derbyshire, "What did we learn about our living standards?" Ben Chu, "1% growth over 10 years" "We used to grow 2% every year" That's one way of illustrating the enormous economic price Britain has paid for Brexit #RejoinEU
I'm the ideal person to lecture teachers on hard work, since I’m usually too busy with my 12 side grifts to bother turning up for the full-time job I’m paid to do and because I had the 4th worst attendance record out of 751 MEPs in the EU Parliament.
Canada leads the way. The US must be regarded as an extremely unreliable and unstable ally as long as Trump and his vestiges (for they aren’t worthy of the term administration) are swept from power.
ebisback.bsky.social@ebisback.bsky.social · 3w agoExactly 💯
Well that’s fucking odd. Almost like they have a script they’re running off. How queer.
The Bear@bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4w agoI, too, am absolutely furious that Andy Burnham hasn't marched straight into Paris, seized control of the French government and personally extinguished every burning car. Instead, the selfish bastard is governing the United Kingdom. Disgraceful.
The EU should be moving away from dependence on everything US made. Weapons, Computers, Communications, Finance. It all needs to be replaced with EU alternatives.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 4w agoIn a Ukrainian interview, Zelenskyy says European countries are developing alternatives to Starlink after realising the US can restrict the system regardless of existing agreements or contracts.
Max Hastings on Trump “This is a man who appears willing to sell out Ukraine in return for vast Russian business opportunities for himself and his clan. And a shocking number of Americans remain willing to ride along” www.thetimes.com/article/2325...
Fakers tussle for seats at Donald Trump’s table of lies
We must wrestle against normalising the president’s lying and bullying — it has made victims of the Ukrainian people
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Talking about foreign interference in domestic politics: When will Labour fix this back door to power? First it was Conservative Friends of Russia now it’s American friends of Putin. Legislation is urgently needed or Farage will float to the top on a sea of foreign 💰 www.thetimes.com/article/6c2c...
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
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Look at the graph of US support for Ukraine, and how it disappeared when Trump entered his second term. The Russia hoax was never a hoax
Jockyfox@jockyfox.bsky.social · last mo.And there you have it … 🤦🏻♂️ @kyivindependent.com @peterjukes.bsky.social @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Trump says Russia will supply diesel to US and global marketplace after 'highly successful' discussion with Putin www.lbc.co.uk/article/trum...
Here is a good reason for older people to support #RejoinEU as well as working-age and younger people. Let’s Rejoin and fund our National Care Service
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
It only feels “radically progressive” because we’ve spent 40 years normalising radically regressive ideas. This was broadly how Britain worked from 1945–79, when average GDP growth was 2.6% a year — compared with 1.9% in the post-Thatcher years. It works www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham gambles on radical progressive plan to help Britain ‘rise again’
PM accepts some of his plan could be difficult and admits he ‘may pay a political price’
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Schools forced to shut amid burst Thames Water pipe ‘leaking 750 litres a second. TW infrastructure has average age of 79 years. Industry average is 56 years. 40% of TW assets are over 100 years old. Profits siphoned-off, investment neglected, execs rewarded, customers fleeced
Schools forced to shut amid burst Thames Water pipe ‘leaking 750 litres a second’
Leak causes outages and low pressure in parts of London and Surrey, affecting 6,000 properties and leaving some without water
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Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It reminds me of when I was a kid and our Doncaster neighbourhood had "toxic waste out" posters in so many of our windows because there was no way the rich and powerful were going to dump it in their own backyards - they wanted to dump it on working class communities like ours.
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 2mo agoDatacentre are being foisted on people living in low/medium income areas, not in wealthy areas. Resulting in excessive use of water, energy; pollution and environmental damage. Very few long-term jobs are generated. Watch the Minister's reply.
This chart published by the Economics Laboratory, shows that the UK social spending is 23% of GDP, covers NHS, social security and support services. It is a useful rebutal to neoliberals calling for cuts to the NHS, state pension and other benefits. www.linkedin.com/posts/charto...
