He who dares, wins. He who hesitates................. don't!
Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
Joined February 2009
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Jonathan Davies retweeted
We're seeing an ongoing wealth transfer from the public, government, and welfare state. We need to tax the billionaire class's unsustainable gains to keep our democracy from bankrupting itself. #pmqs
Jonathan Davies retweeted
Publicly owned Royal Mail delivered letters six days a week. After privatisation, bosses tripled their salaries and cut that to three days a week. Yes, it's our old friend 'the superior efficiency of the private sector'.
Whenever I see someone reading/buying the Daily Mail (Daily Fail) or Daily Express (Daily Depressed), I really want to hit them over the head with it and tell them they're part of our demise.
Jonathan Davies retweeted
Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit.
British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit.
Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit.
It's the billionaires who are ripping you off.
Jonathan Davies retweeted
Martin Lewis, there is something very, very, very wrong in the system... 😡
So … let me get this straight:
* British Gas made a profit of £1.3bn between January & June
* BP announced profits of £6.95 billion between April and June alone
* Shell has profited by £9.4bn in a year
The MEN at the top:
* John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid received £6.5m bonus on top of his salary
* Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica was paid almost £2m last year in salary and benefits
* Centrica's non-executive directors were paid almost £1m
* Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on £1.15m.
* E.On boss Michael Lewis is on £1m
* EDF's Simone Rossi is also on £1m
* And their top execs enjoyed a share of £4.65m
* Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned a £1.3m pay package
* Welsh Water bosses awarded themselves bonuses of over £930,000
* Severn Trent bosses awarded themselves bonuses of £5.56m
* Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a £727,000 bonus on top of her £2m annual salary
Meanwhile there are...
* People who haven't had breakfast and/or lunch TODAY, because they can't afford it.
* People using FoodBanks because food is becoming more of a luxury than a necessity.
* Children celebrating a birthday without presents.
* Parents worrying about new school uniforms - and some schools enforcing rules which are not cost-effective.
* People who can't get to work because they can't afford to put petrol in their cars/pay for public transport anymore.
* People who are working so much they're making themselves ill, and they STILL CAN'T AFFORD to pay their bills.
* People who have been given fines by these same energy/water companies because they couldn't afford to pay their bills in the first place - increasing their debt.
* Customers being told to do STAR JUMPS TO KEEP WARM for crying out loud!
* Hose pipe bans when gallons of water leak away everyday.
* Elderly people NOT DRINKING because they're worried about running out of water!!!
All this and energy prices are set to rise up to 75% in October...
THIS IS MADNESS!.. I'm all for supporting profits … I'm not for supporting greed at the cost of lives of others.
Something needs to change.
Why is customers' money being used to make life more comfortable for those who are making life more intolerable for the rest of us?
I actually don't understand how the energy companies are allowed to get away with this and why the government aren't stopping them instead of handing out money.....
COPIED AND PASTED FROM OTHERS :
PLEASE KEEP IT GOING SO MORE AND MORE GET TO SEE IT .
Jonathan Davies retweeted
This is what a democratic socialist system like Denmark, Canada, and many other countries do.
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Clacton resident criticises privitisation of public services and Nigel Farage's focus/blame on migrants/asylum seekers,
"Norway have got oil, we had the same oil"
"What Norway done they created their own wealth fund. It benefits the country, pays for hospitals, all that sort of thing, right"
"What did we do? We sold it all off. It went to the banks, dealers in the city, shareholders; I am one, was one"
"Absolutely wasted"
"That trickle down effect Mrs Thatcher said would happen, it's never happened at all in my opinion"
"Farage/Reform UK have been getting backhands for ages"
"Papers like Daily Mail and Telegraph are hunting Andy Burnham down. The first 14 pages of my Sunday Mail is all anti-Labour, anti-Burnham. People fall for it"
"The only thing people know about Farage is one thing, immigration, and he's going to send them all to France"
"But the French are saying: no he aint. So what happens there"
You can watch the full set of interviews on YouTube:
youtu.be/u7l5kUwf9tQ?si=8wjO…
Jonathan Davies retweeted
Every single year from the end of WWII until 2000 is an important slice of history. Name a year from that period and you can instantly recall all the cultural and political events from that year. From 2000 onwards, everything is just a constant shitty mess of bleeeeerrrggghhh.
Jonathan Davies retweeted
If Thatcher's destruction of trade unionism was such a good thing, how come millions of people are earning the minimum wage on zero-hours contracts or are forced to claim benefits despite working full time?
Jonathan Davies retweeted
Best part of Andy Burnham's Labour Leader speech 👏
"Britain took a series of wrong turns in the 1980s"
"Political power was centralised and economic power was privatised"
"The country surrendered control of the essentials: housing, water, energy, transport, and left people exposed to higher costs"
"That in turn led to the concentration of more wealth and power in the hands of fewer people and fewer places"
"Large parts of Britain were deindustrialised without the power to set new ambitions for themselves"
"Proud British towns now a shadow of what they once were, and high streets in decline so common up and down the country"
"Over four decades political and economic power drained away out of our communities, in every region of the UK"
"If local places don't control something as basic as a bus service, how can they connect people to opportunity"
"If the sell off of council homes leaves the country chasing rents in the private sector through the benefits system and paying for temporary accommodation for thousands of families"
"How then will we find the money to invest in prevention and improve people's lives?"
"The truth is, we can't"
"And if we don't have sufficient public control over the cost of the essentials, how can we have control over inflation, public spending and the rest of the economy?"
"The right use the phrase, take back control"
"But they are the ones who gave it away in the first place"
Jonathan Davies retweeted
"Why don't you just save for a mortgage, it's cheaper than renting"
Okay, here we go...
As a single person in the UK this is the situation for a lot of people.
Lets say your take home pay is £2000
Rent: £800 (the very low end), Council Tax: £190, Electric: £80, Water: £40. £890 left. Just to live somewhere.
Food: £250 a month and that's been generous. £640 left.
Car insurance, tax and fuel for getting to work: probably another £300. £340 left
Phone bill: £50. £290 left
WiFi - £30. £260 left.
This is the best case scenario, you have no unexpected bills or things to pay out. But let's face it. That £260 will end up getting spent here and there.
There's going to be nothing left to save.
Apparently we've got it easy though, says a generation who could buy a house and raise a family from a one income minimum wage job.
We live in a country where wages are barely covering minimum living requirements.