PeteH198
@peteh198.bsky.social
husband , granddad,travelling the world after first trip abroad aged 50,now playing catch up.Dislikes Tories, brexit is an ongoing disaster.No DMs.N/W UK.FBPE
Unbelievable hypocrisy from Badenoch - she attacked Starmer for putting Louise Haigh in cabinet (conditional discharge and £100 fine) but defends Bonehill-Paine (five year prison sentence). Obviously the reliably hopeless Justin Webb failed to make this point to her on the Today programme…
This Thursday, SpaceX insiders will be released from their first post-IPO stock lockup and can cash out early. As I've been saying, this has all the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.
Good riddance. If he had any honor he would leave now, but Mike Johnson needs his vote so Republican sexual harassers need to stay around. Probably want to keep young female staffers away from him though.
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 17h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
Semi Goodenough's modern Conservative party. Former Tory chairs: rejected Former neo-Nazis: approved And they're the moderate centre right. Reform and Restore are worse. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ex-MP urges Tories to drop candidate jailed for campaign of antisemitic abuse against her
Luciana Berger says Joshua Bonehill-Paine should have no role in public life because of ‘his racism and his view of women’
theguardian.com
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Stop Funding Hate@stopfundinghate.bsky.social · yesterdayGB News presenters complaining that it's too hard to starve migrants 😓 The channel airs hateful content like this every day, too often getting away with it scot-free. Help us take their ad money away and show that hate is not profitable: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fight-the-...
Has anybody checked that it's NOT Grant Shapps?
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · yesterdayRather puts Grant Shapps being rejected as a Conservative candidate into perspective.
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
So many more French people died in WW2. If her and her ilk understood that basic fact they might shut up for 30 seconds but no.
I'd take the likes of Sarah Pochin seriously if they understood even the most basic things about WW2
I'm going to stick my neck out here and say, "I'd know."
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 22h agoOh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Major oil firms make $93bn profits in just 3 months amid war and climate crisis. They shift profits, dodge taxes, fuel poverty and inflation. They don't bear the social cost of their business. Forever holding people/govts to ransom. Polluters must pay. Need windfall tax now.
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
Reform UKs plan to use the Royal Navy to intercept migrant boats in the Channel brilliantly taken apart by ... er ... Nigel Farage
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite £247m revenue, £25.3m profit. Doesn't pay much anywhere, effective global tax rate is 1.4% Shifts profits through intragroup transactions, enjoys tax breaks. UK Govt rewarding it with public contracts, enriching execs & shareholders.
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss
theguardian.com
Multiple convictions including assaulting a police officer and a three year prison sentence for racially aggravated harassment of an MP. And she's defending his appointment
Somewhat incredibly Badenoch has just been defending this man on the Today programme
Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d agoJoshua Bonehill-Paine Self-styled "nationalist, fascist, theorist and supporter of white rights” who was jailed in 2015 for antisemitic online posts.... Selected as a Tory candidate.
Genuinely one of the most proundly stupid things I've ever heard a party leader say, in so very many ways. If nothing else, it's *wildly* insulting to Conservative councillors across the country.
"Netanyahu built his influence with Trump and his administration so assiduously that he helped lead the America First President into a new overseas war. The danger for him – and for Israel – is that he will now tumble, Icarus-like, into political irrelevance."
Netanyahu’s to blame for his American nightmare – and it spells his doom
James Ball: The Israeli Prime Minister has played his hand well in Washington, but badly in the rest of America
inews.co.uk
PC Harper's Chief Constable wrote to the Prime Minister with concerns about the early release of his killers. 12 days later, he reveals he still hasn't received a reply.
This is pure extraction of wealth from one group of people to another We urgently need: Windfall tax on oil giants Windfall tax on banks Both are creaming money off us during a cost of living crisis Even Thatcher had the balls to tax the banks Will you @andyburnham?
FFS we cannot keep doing this… A handful of the richest people hoovering up wealth from everyone else while quite literally making the planet unlivable At what point does someone grow a fucking spine and do something?!
The BBC went to Richard Tice's constituency and spoke to people who generally said they still like him - and the Reform MP decided this was an example of "hate and bias" 🤔
Richard Tice fumes at BBC for talking to his constituents and no one can work out why
Richard Tice has accused the BBC of "bias and hate" against him after the broadcaster decided to go to his constituency and talk to people.
thelondoneconomic.com
Multinational corporations dodge $500bn tax by shifting profits to low/no tax jurisdictions. Stifle social development. Need a simple change - must pay tax where they actually create profit, instead of where they pretend to on paper. UK can collect extra $16.9bn a yr. Must check corporate abuse.
Countries to gain $500bn more tax a year under UN ‘pay-where-you-play’ plan - Tax Justice Network
UN tax convention commitment to scrap 100-year-old corporate tax approach will unleash new economic era without increasing taxes, experts say Countries can collect US$500 billion more in corporate tax...
taxjustice.net
With his extremist views, he’s graduated from filming the mindless street violence of Tommy Robinson’s protests to the sofas of the GB News studio. How far can this UK disciple of Charlie Kirk go? ✏️ Matt Muir
Meet Young Bob, the teen Christian nationalist star of the UK’s hard right
With his extremist views, he’s graduated from filming the mindless street violence of Tommy Robinson’s protests to the sofas of the GB News studio. How far can this UK disciple of Charlie Kirk go?
thenewworld.co.uk
After being rejected 4 times, Thames Water's creditors are now submitting a 5th proposal to keep the failing utility in private hands. This time, they're promising to increase public control. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻. 1/2
