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Private equity has wrecked UK high street, says Iceland Foods boss PE model - low wages, cut staff/investment, high debt, profiteering, tax abuse. PE devoured Debenhams, Maplin, Byron Burger, Cath Kidson, Comet, Flybe, Poundworld, Toys R Us, more. https://t.co/VbSfpoHTon
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Greater Anglia rail passenger operator nationalised. Govt will rent carriages. Lucrative freight & rolling stock companies remain privatised. 3 Luxembourg companies control 87% of rolling stock, paid £1.3bn dividend in last 3 yrs. Gravy train rolls on. https://t.co/64eq7pbYBC
bbc.co.uk
Greater Anglia describes renationalisation as a step towards a "simpler, more unified" rail network.
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India’s massive biometric ID system is a case study for a FAILED digital ID system. 🔒 Personal data of a billion citizens was sold online for just £6 as a result of a breach - this included names, home addresses, phone numbers & photos 🍽️ People have starved to death after
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Water bills for England households to rise even higher. Bills already up by 36%. Competition regulator permits another 1%-5%, £556m hike No curbs on exec pay, dividends, sewage dumping as companies raise capital from customers, shareholders get returns. https://t.co/hJYwdr5s6R
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An independent group appointed by the competition watchdog rejected nearly 80% of increases sought by companies.
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He makes at least three major errors about PIP but it is a bit shocking that the shadow Chancellor thinks £187.45 a week - the very maximum - amounts to ‘thousands of pounds a month’. At its lowest it is £29.20 a week.
Conservative MP Mel Stride claims PIP benefit is thousands of pounds per month. No it is an absolute maximum of £720 a month, and most people only get £250 or less. Meanwhile he claims £1,250 a month in rent on his expenses Lying, thieving b******
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You don't get a motability car for ADHD & Helen Whatley & Kemi Badenoch know this. So we have to understand that they are lying deliberately & knowingly to demonise & undermine disabled people. What kind of people act like that?
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Nothing says "I want independent judges" like threatening to sack any judge who disagrees with you, while holding up a judge's wig like a puppet
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The Government, 2 weeks ago: Everyone is required to have a digital ID to prove their right to work in the UK The Government, now: Actually, digital ID could also be linked to taxpayer data... The proposals being considered by the Government, including one by @InstituteGC,
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Online access on today so not breached but 2 GPs phoned in sick leaving 3 to manage unlimited demands We were extremely close to turning it off as this was unsafe for patients If you keep the flood gates open when the water rises you get a flood & damage Thoughts @SKinnock
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USA: anyone can get a booster UK: 75 and older + severe immunosuppressed only The UK is way out of line
BREAKING: CDC signs off, anyone 6 months and older can get an updated booster without a prescription. Georgia, Louisiana, & Missouri pharmacy boards had blocked access, and nationwide many have faced coverage barriers. CVS Louisiana confirms, scripts no longer needed tomorrow!
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Shameful stuff in the UK. Yet again. The British government and Met police will never recover from this.
BREAKING: A blind man using a mobility cane is arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding a sign which read "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
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British electricity consumers are set to pay the highest prices in the world for the second year running. The 'superior efficiency of the private sector' strikes again.
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Shoplift from Tesco and get sent to jail. Rip off the NHS for £122m and get politely asked to pay the money back.
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This winter, households with electricity and gas on prepayment meters who can't afford to top them up will pay on average £6.14 a week to sit in the cold and dark. That is what today's @ofgem price cap rises in standing charges mean.
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Ignore the nonsense of a 2% rise in domestic energy bills from today. ELECTRICITY standing charge UP 4.5%, units UP 2.41% GAS standing charge UP 14.12%, units DOWN 0.63% %ages differ for people who pay quarterly. S Charge now £16.33/month elec and £10.35/month - more for qly
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Remember that those now responsible for banning journalists that they don't like, want us all to have a 'BritPass'.
Labour has cancelled my Conference Pass. Absolutely pathetic, Trumpian behaviour. They are here suggesting that attempts to question Cabinet members and MPs about Britain facilitating Israel's genocide is a "safeguarding issue". This is clearly insane.
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Not a single person prosecuted. The evidence now being tidied away.
The deconstruction of Grenfell Tower has begun. Thinking of all the people who will be affected & how difficult this will be for them. They still await justice for the 72 people who died as a result of of greed and dishonesty.
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Phone the hairdresser and find it fully booked you think "they must be really popular they're so busy" Phone the GP and find it fully booked you think "they're lazy and mustn't be working" That's how the media and politicians have spun the public against their GPs
We would happily see everyone for the equivalent of £25/patient. I assume that you @wesstreeting will be picking up the bill? You can add it to the fuck up that is the redundancy costs for NHS England that you forgot to cost out and has left you looking like a laughing stock.
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Krishnan Guru Murthy, "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?" Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country" @UKLabour you guys have gone
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If the left wants an immediately popular culture war win, it should be a unified campaign to urgently stop the complete Yank-ification of this country
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