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Storm clouds are gathering taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023… We are already in the proverbial creek. My fear is that no one in charge knows where the paddle is. And that is really scary.
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Billionaire former minister in Hosni Mubarak's Egyptian dictatorship donates £5m to the UK Conservative Party, to help it win the next election.
It's approved, it's legal, and it's rotten to the core.
The UK's political system is institutionally corrupt.
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New figures show that the wealth of UK billionaires is up £438,000,000,000 over the last decade.
That's up by £120 Million every single DAY for 10 years.
Don't let them tell you there isn't the money to invest in our public services.
We need a Wealth Tax on the super-rich!
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Britain’s super-rich boosted their wealth by £31,000,000,000 last year, while millions of people struggled to pay their bills.
My new article for @LabourOutlook on how a wealth tax could provide crucial funds to support people through this crisis.
labouroutlook.org/2023/05/23…
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Tory Neil O'Brien MP Minister for Primary Health Care on TV today
Guess what?
HIS WIFE has top job in private healthcare Circle Health Group, 54 private hospitals "have your NHS treatment at one of our hospitals....all costs will be covered by the NHS"
RT
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/t…
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Wholesale gas now 95 per therm.
It was 702 per therm on Aug 26 (2022)
It was 530 per therm on March 7 (2022)
It was 293 per therm on Oct 5 (2021)
But your energy bill has more than doubled.
The French wouldn’t tolerate this. Neither should we.
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Inflation is not caused by workers’ wages.
It’s caused by corporate greed and profiteering.
This government needs to get a grip. Tax the rich, introduce price controls on staple foods, and bring our utilities back into public ownership.
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Rishi Sunak uncapped bankers’ bonuses last week & raised energy bills 20% further despite wholesale energy now being 7 times cheaper than last august & despite banks already doubling their profits.
Sunak is on the side of the greedy profiteers & against ordinary people.
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Wholesale gas is now 7 times cheaper today than August.
In is 5 times cheaper than March 2022
It is half the price it was in October 2021
There is zero justification whatsoever for prices climbing 20% this week, a cost which will be met by you the taxpayer.
It’s a racket.
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Wholesale gas is 6 times cheaper today than August.
In is 4 times cheaper than March 2022
It is half the price it was in October 2021
There is zero justification whatsoever for prices climbing 20% today, a cost which will be met by you the taxpayer.
It’s a racket.
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The claim that the UK avoided recession last year is spurious. It assumes everyone enjoyed the same good fortune. But we know this is a massively unequal society. Those least well off experienced deep recession last year. Corporate profiteers did very well. Let’s tell the truth.
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Both parties are offering inertia and national decline.
The people with power in media, politics, policy, & even in certain unions, are essentially just waiting to retire & broadly have little interest in solving problems.
If you're under 45, it's worth thinking about this.
Labour has no plans to increase capital gains tax, shadow chancellor tells Today
Despite Angela Rayner criticising profits PM made from capital gains (as set out in tax return)
bbc.co.uk/news/politics
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Food inflation is 17.5% over the last 12 months. Really.
It's why the government is talking about...laughing gas.
The point of elite politics in the UK is no longer to even acknowledge actual problems - let alone solve them.
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Broadband price rises up 14%
Mobile phone bills up 17%
Water bills up 7.5%
Car tax up 10.1%
Prescriptions up to £9.65
Stamps up to 75p
Energy - £400 bill discount scrapped
Everything's going up apart from our wages. Time for change.
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Therese Coffey thinks £250m fines are too much for Water Companies that are making £13m a day.
They are causing the most sewage pollution in the developed (possibly entire) world.
Bankruptcy, nationalisation and spending the rest of their lives in jail.
Wouldn’t be too much.
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Thanks @JolyonRubs for unearthing this video showing the man who Liz Truss wants to make into Lord Mark Littlewood.
This is corruption. Nothing short of that. Blatant. Sleazy.
It should be investigated by police. Including the politicians any donors are introduced to.
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• HSBC banking profits doubled
• Shell energy profits doubled
• BP energy profits doubled
• BP CEO pay doubled
• Shell CEO pay doubled
And they tell you it is your 18 year low wage packet that is causing the inflation crisis.
Mugged in broad daylight.
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Get rich quick, energy supplier edition.
Step 1: set up an energy company
Step 2: run it into the ground
Step 3: get paid £30 million
thetimes.co.uk/article/42b16…
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UK Wholesale Gas prices, year ahead, are now at their lowest in 586 days. Long, long, long before the Ukraine war.
In 12 days gas companies are raising their prices 20% and this bill will be footed by you, the taxpayer, in the energy price guarantee.
A racket.