Howard Beckett
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Channel 4 expose ethnic cleansing in West Bank.
Hamas are not in the West Bank.
It is not defence. It is genocide.
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• NHS Hospital Canteen: ‘Single Tuna sarnie’ costing £3.00 for nurses, paid for out of their own wage
• Houses of Parliament: ‘Rum banana tarte tatin with rum and raisin ice cream’ for the princely sum of £2.37 for MPs, paid for by you the taxpayer
Nurses’ fight is our fight.
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• French electricity prices were due to climb by 45%
• Their government blocked it. Prices will be limited to a rise of 4%
That’s leadership.
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Homeless people watching the authorities hand out blankets to those royally queuing will quietly wonder what it is they have to do in order to be shown the same level of empathy & support.
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There are EU nations refusing to partner with Israel’s genocide and vow to continue funding UNRWA:
Ireland 🇮🇪
Scotland 🏴
Belgium 🇧🇪
Luxembourg 🇱🇺
Norway 🇳🇴
Slovenia 🇸🇮 doubled funding
Portugal 🇵🇹 donating an extra €1ml
Spain 🇪🇸 trebled funding to €50ml.
Celebrate them.
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Car parking charges:
• NHS Nurse: £1,300 per year.
• MP: £0.00 per year.
Ban NHS car parking charges.
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British Gas owner, Centrica, just had a fivefold soar in their profits.
There is no such thing as a cost of living crisis. This is a cost of greed crisis.
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Car parking charges:
• NHS Nurse: £1,300 per year.
• MP: £0.00 per year.
Ban NHS car parking charges.
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Wholesale Gas has just crashed to a new low. Just 150p per therm compared to 702p in August.
An energy boss who’s company made £20 billion profit last year today says high energy bills are here to stay.
We must fight back. This is a rip off.
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France has just frozen gas prices for 365 days of 2022.
England says its gas prices will go up 200% for families.
We are being ripped off by the elite.
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Germans have just been offered a £23 90 day train ticket.
This enables them to travel on all local & regional trains as well as buses and metro. Unlimited.
Meanwhile it will cost you £160 quid return to go from Newcastle to London.
We’re being ripped off.
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• Firefighters don’t get a bonus for saving lives
• Nurses don’t get a bonus for saving lives
• Doctors don’t get a bonus for saving lives
• Teachers don’t get a bonus for teaching children
Why should Bankers get bonuses for destroying our economy. Ban it altogether.
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There are 171 billionaires in the UK with a total wealth of £560bl. Taxing their wealth over £10ml at just 3% would raise almost £60bl.
Stop the tax increases on workers. Tax the billionaires.
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Germany has just nationalised its biggest gas company.
They want to protect their people from reckless profiteering.
The UK should follow suit.
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• Tories have announced that the next Prime Minister will be selected by an online ballot of Tory members only.
• Your reminder that Tories made it illegal for workers to hold strike ballots online. Must be done by post only.
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Netanyahu tonight declares Israel outside of international law. Israel will not recognise any decision of the ICJ on Israel’s illegal occupation.
Israel is now officially a pariah state:
•Expel their ambassadors
•Sanction Israel
•Hague warrants for the war criminal monsters
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Wholesale Gas has crashed to a new low. Just 149p per therm compared to 702p in August.
Ofgem say they’ll cut bills in April. What use is that to people who deserve a cut in bills now?
Cut bills now.
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Car parking charges:
• NHS Nurse: £1,300 per year.
• MP: £0.00 per year.
Ban NHS car parking charges.
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The £130 billion Liz Truss is about to hand energy companies could build enough wind farms to power 10 million houses with free energy for 30 years.
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UK Wholesale Gas is 38 pence a therm (year ahead).
This is down from 550 pence in February.
While your energy bills have gone up by 54%, the price of wholesale has fallen by 93%.
Daylight robbery.
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A legal clause means King Charles III inherits his mother’s vast fortune but escapes a £200 million tax bill.
• 0% tax for him
• 40% tax for you
God save the king…………
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Spain's ‘23 contribution to UNRWA was €18.5ml. Including €10ml which was approved in December.
They have taken the decision to almost triple Palestine humanitarian funding to €50ml.
Spain stands against the slaughter of children. Against genocide.
Viva España!
🇪🇸 🇵🇸
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Birmingham is out in support of Palestine.
We need sanctions against Israel now.
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UK Shell Oil have just this minute announced a further doubling of their profits.
£8bn profits in just 13 weeks. A profit rate of £3.6 million every hour.
We are being ripped off.
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On a day of Jubilee celebrations, that will cost £50ml, for a family worth hundreds of millions, who we give £87.5ml of tax payers money to each year; it’s worth remembering there will be 17 year olds forced to work today on a minimum wage of £4.81 an hour.
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We need a General Election now. Nobody voted to crash the economy.
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There are 171 billionaires in the UK with a total wealth of £560bl. Taxing their wealth over £10ml at just 3% would raise almost £60bl.
Stop the tax increases on workers. Tax the billionaires.
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In Germany it’s £23 quid for unlimited train & bus travel anywhere for 90 days. In England it’s £160 quid to go to Newci & back.
Rip off UK has seen rail fares go up 49% under the Tories.
Renationalise Railways.
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Doesn’t this say all we need to know about the world we live in?
Keep protesting.
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£23 quid for unlimited train & bus travel throughout Germany for 90 days.
UK rail fares up 49% under the Tories.
Renationalise Railways.
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Never has this anthem meant as much or sent such a shiver down the spine. You must listen to this. Uplifting and immense.
Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland tonight has something it wishes to say.
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King Charles inherited 45,667 acres of land across England & Wales, worth around £650ml, generating income of £24ml pa. He didn’t pay a single penny in inheritance tax & will only pay income tax if he volunteers.
On the 6th May you will pay to put a crown on his head.
Wrong.
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The Royal family got an increase of £18.1ml (to £87.5ml); MPs got an increase of £2,200 to £84,144; a 17 year old got worker an increase of 19p an hour to £4.81 an hour.
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France has just frozen gas prices for 365 days of 2022.
Norway has said the state will cover 90% of households’ extra electricity charges.
In the UK there is a 200% + increase in bills and a state contribution of under 14%.
It’s rip off UK.
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The bullets used by Israeli 🇮🇱 forces in the Flour Massacre were 5.56x45mm NATO bullets.
The bullets supplied jointly by UK 🇬🇧 & Israeli 🇮🇱 production.
The UK 🇬🇧 & US 🇺🇸 are partners in Israel’s 🇮🇱 genocide. They should all be in The Hague together.
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UK Wholesale Gas prices have fallen 75% in 90 days.
The price they charge you for gas has soared 54% in 90 days.
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Jacob Rees Mogg returned from a 3 week Easter recess to a Parliament that sits 150 days a year to tell ordinary people they are not allowed to work from home & must return to the office full time.
Trying to be polite here but what an….
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Wholesale gas is 40% cheaper than March.
Wholesale gas is 54% cheaper than August.
Remember, your gas bill has climbed 85% during this time.
We are being completely, totally & utterly ripped off.
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Nurses work 12hr shifts; sell their days off; use food banks; pay £1300 a year to park. And 40,000 have left their jobs in a year.
Tory MPs sit for 150 days; get subsidised food; claim travel & energy on expenses; get free parking & £2,200 pay rises.
Back the nurses please.
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The vaccinations are an NHS success, not a Tory Government success.
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Pope Francis:
“……a useless slaughter that offends the dignity of every person on earth.”
Pope Francis, again willing to say what our politicians will not.
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The £130 billion Liz Truss is about to hand energy companies could build enough wind farms to power 10 million houses with free energy for 30 years.
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Sunak took money off those on universal benefits to give bonuses to bankers. Javid took NHS care and gave it to private corporates.
Good riddance.
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• Your gas bill up 54%
• Price gas companies buy gas wholesale down 93%
Theft.
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• NHS Hospital Carpark: 150,000 NHS workers charged £400+ a year to park at work, deducted from their wage.
• Houses of Parliament: MPs enjoy a free underground car park with zero cost since 2015, paid for by you the taxpayer.
Nurses’ fight is our fight.
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The Tories closed UK’s largest gas storage facility in the UK 5 years ago
It accounted for 70% of the UK’s gas storage capacity & could store 3,310,000,000 cubic metres of gas
Liz Truss was the Minister in charge at the time.
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Hind Rajab.
She was alive in a car after five of her family had been murdered. She phoned for help and an ambulance was sent to the scene.
Her car was surrounded by Israeli tanks. She went missing.
Today her body has been found.
Murdered in cold blood. Aged 6.
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This is what Netanyahu, Biden, Sunak & Starmer have done to Gaza.
Unforgivable.
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The Royal Family have £24 billion in riches. Both William & Charles just paid zero tax on the hundreds of £millions they inherited.
You the taxpayer, however, are footing the entire bill for this prolonged funeral.
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UK Wholesale Gas prices are 40% lower today that their peak in March.
UK Retail Gas prices, we are told, will rise 200%.
This must be called what it is. Corporate Theft.
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Your annual energy bill:
April 2021: £1,138
April 2022: £1,971
*April 2023: £4,000
UK Energy corp annual profits:
April 2020/1: $1 billion
April 2021/2: $39 billion
April 2022/3: $74 billion
We must renationalise energy now.
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There are 177 billionaires in the UK with a total wealth of £653bn.
Taxing their wealth over £10m at just 3% would raise almost £60bn+
Tax the billionaires.
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It is impossible not to feel rage watching this distraught Palestinian child abused by Israeli army.
It is kidnapping; it is dehumanisation; it is fascism.
Imagine now- you are a Palestinian youth watching this. What would your reaction be?
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The price energy companies pay for gas has fallen 46% in 13 days.
Your bill is set to climb 80% three weeks today.
Theft.
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Shell Petrol’s profits have just tripled to £7.3 billion in just 13 weeks.
£80 million pound profit every single day.
How dare politicians call this a cost of living crisis when it’s plain to see that it’s pure greed.
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Wholesale gas is 61% cheaper than it was on August 26th. It’s 10% cheaper than it was October 5th 2021.
Your bill should not be going up £500 in 10 days time. It should be coming down.
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• Salary for a new nurse is £24,907
• Salary for a Tory MP is £84,144
• Salary for a Cabinet Minister is £151,649
Who do you think society most needs?
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Netanyahu says he will ‘stand against the world if necessary’.
Israel is now a rogue nation. This is genocide and terrorism.
The Hague must step in. And the world must respond with sanctions and arms embargo.
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UK energy companies make £6 million profit an hour.
Don’t dare call this a cost of ‘living’ crisis. This is pure greed.
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Wholesale gas is 62% cheaper than August 26.
Retail gas is £500 more expensive than August 26.
We are being ripped off.
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Aaron Bushnell, 25, has passed away.
He is the soldier who set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington.
So traumatised by watching genocide as to feel ‘complicit’, pushing him to his ‘extreme act of protest’.
His last words- Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Rest in Peace.
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Jeremy Corbyn wanted to restrict CEO pay to a maximum of twenty times that of the lowest paid employee.
The Post Office CEO last year got a whopping £753k. Under Jeremy’s policy a new Postie would earn £37,650, instead of £22,425 pa. Or the CEO gets less.
It makes sense.
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You don’t see Tory MPs handing back their £2,200 April pay rise. The same MPs now telling workers not to ask for a real pay rise to help the economy.
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Forget ASDA’s soup & bread roll for a quid. Get yourself down to Parliament where they’re doing Miso roasted squash with cashew nut 'feta’, sesame tahini purée, parsnip crisps and sesame dukkah for £3.59.
A bargain.
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Bread up 13%; pasta up 16%; baked beans up 21%; butter up 21.5%; milk up 26.3%; fuel costs up 42% in the year; energy bills up by 300% and rising.
Don’t tell us inflation is 9.4%. For ordinary people with ordinary bills, real inflation is over 30% & climbing.
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Stop MPs claiming their rail tickets on paid expenses and watch how quickly their attitude to inflation busting rail fare hikes changes.
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There are 177 billionaires in the UK with a total wealth of £653bn.
Taxing their wealth over £10m at just 3% would raise almost £60bn+
Tax the billionaires.
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• NHS Hospital Canteen: ‘Single Tuna sarnie’ costing £3.00 for nurses, paid for out of their own wage
• Houses of Parliament: ‘Rum banana tarte tatin with rum and raisin ice cream’ for the princely sum of £2.37 for MPs, paid for by you the taxpayer
Back the nurses’ pay strike
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St. Thomas' Hospital in London displaying the pictures and names of Palestinian children murdered and injured in Gaza.
Amazing show of solidarity from those who care for the most vulnerable.
The political ‘leaders’ do not speak for the people.
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Rishi Sunak flew London to Blackpool in a 14-seat RAF jet, it would have taken 3 hrs by train. He did the same to Leeds, which is 2.5 hrs by train
Private jets are 14 times more polluting than commercial planes; 50 times more than trains
Politicians don’t care about the climate
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Starting salaries:
• Carer- £18,525
• Nurse- £24,907
• Teacher- £28,000
• Junior Doctor- £28,808
• Firefighter- £32,224
• Tory MP- £84,144
• Cabinet Minister- £151,649
Tories voted for all of this.
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The Tories are today bringing forward a law to ban solar farms on agricultural land.
You see solar energy in 8 times cheaper than oil/gas & solar would hurt the profits of their energy donor pals.
All rigged.
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A newly qualified nurse on £25k would have to live 40,000 years, work every single one of those years & never spend a penny, to earn a billion pounds.
Billionaires do not work harder than nurses. The system is rigged.
Tax the billionaires not nurses.
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Scrap subsidised food for MPs
Scrap subsidised rail for MPs
Scrap subsidised energy for MPs
Then Tory MPs might begin to understand why price rises are hurting those on benefits most.
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• Energy profits up 411%.
• Your bill goes up £529 tomorrow.
Theft.
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Scrap subsidised food for MPs
Scrap subsidised rail for MPs
Scrap subsidised energy for MPs
Then Tory MPs might understand why price rises are hurting ordinary people.
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• Firefighters don’t get a bonus for saving lives
• Nurses don’t get a bonus for saving lives
• Doctors don’t get a bonus for saving lives
• Teachers don’t get a bonus for teaching children
End the practice of handing bonuses to CEOs of privatised utilities. Nationalise them
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‘Never again means never again for everyone.’
Actress Cynthia Nixon, ‘as the mother of Jewish children, whose grandparents survived the holocaust’, declares her hunger strike to demand a permanent ceasefire.
Biden, Sunak, Starmer- shamed.
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• Salary for a new nurse is £24,907
• Salary for a Tory MP is £84,144
• Salary for a Cabinet Minister is £151,649
Who do you think society most needs?
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Bankers bonuses rocketed up by 27.9% last year while workers pay went up by only 4.2%.
The system is rigged. The rail workers fight is your fight.
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There is a huge fireball in Gaza tonight. It’s because Israel has just bombed a water station.
Are we now going to hear Hamas live under water?
This is the most obvious genocide we have witnessed in 80 years.
Our political ‘leaders’ are without substance.
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Jordan has joined Turkey, Malaysia and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in backing South Africa's genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice (to begin 11th January).
All nations should be backing South Africa’s case. Anything less is complicit.
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Germany cut rail fares 90%, England raised them 49% [since 2010].
A rip off.
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Wholesale Gas is now £0.79 a therm.
Was £7.02 a therm in August.
There can be zero excuses anymore. Cut energy bills now. End the price gouging and reckless profiteering of energy corps.
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Starting salaries:
• Carer- £18,525
• Nurse- £24,907
• Teacher- £28,000
• Junior Doctor- £28,808
• Firefighter- £32,224
• Tory MP- £84,144
• Cabinet Minister- £151,649
Tories voted for all of this.
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Rishi Sunak is the wealthiest chancellor in history. He & his wife have been said to have joint wealth of over £630ml.
He thinks it’s the “right plan” to raise national insurance taxes in April.
He’s wrong. Taxing wealth, including his, is the right plan.
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Jeremy Corbyn was the first political leader in 34 years to call for wealth taxes, public ownership of national assets & a redistribution of wealth.
He was correct. They were wrong.
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Today: Wholesale gas 197p per therm
August: Wholesale gas 702p per therm
Cut gas bills now. End the energy rip off.
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So a judge ruled that the Rwandan Deportations are “legal”.
• Apartheid was legal
• Force feeding suffragettes was legal
• Segregation in USA was legal
• The Vietnam War was legal
• British rule in India was legal
Just because it is deemed “legal” doesn’t make it right.
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Our 18 year olds leaving school can now decide between £100k student debt paid back over 40 years; live in poverty on a minimum wage of £6.83; or join the army & fight wars no one wants for reasons no one gets.
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• Firefighters don’t get subsidised food for saving lives
• Nurses don’t get free parking for saving lives
• Doctors don’t free travel for saving lives
• Teachers don’t free energy for teaching children
Tory MPs refusing cost of living pay rises, get the lot.
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Outrageous
• MPs’ Menu in Parliament: “Pressed duck leg and caper terrine with celeriac & mustard remoulade
& sour dough toast” — Cost: £4.52 (subsidised by you).
• NHS Staff Menu in Hospital: “Macaroni Cheese” — Cost: £7.25 (paid by NHS nurses).
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We’re governed by an elite who get free rail tickets, free rent, free parking, free amazon prime, free energy, and a £2,200 pay rise.
Rigged.
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A newly qualified nurse on £25k would have to live 40,000 years, work every single one of those years & never spend a penny, to earn a billion pounds.
Billionaires do not work harder than nurses. The system is rigged.
Tax the billionaires not nurses.
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Netanyahu has confirmed that Gaza will be occupied by Israel when the bombing stops, with no role for the UN.
Israel is out of control, vindictive and vicious.
The world must respond:
Ceasefire
Sanctions
Arms embargo
The Hague
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Pound collapse means NHS sell off to USA will be nearly half price.
Deliberate.
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£18 billion cuts were announced today & hidden in the small print of the u-turn on the 45p rate.
That’s how Tories operate.
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MPs can now claim Christmas parties & decorations on expenses.
130,000 children will wake up on Christmas Day homeless.
This isn’t a fair system.
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