Post Office Latest Findings. From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Road users = tax cash cows 😡

Direct & indirect road taxation = £50bn
Road spending in 2022-23 = £11.1bn

Now they are considering road pricing per mile driven,
when the whole country has viable public transport, then they can consider it - until then they can sod off!

Rail spending more than double road spending 2022-23

£26bn (59%) spent on 11,500 miles of rail
only £11bn (26%) spent on 255,000 miles of road

How can it be with all this rail spending, we still have some of the worst services & highest ticket prices in EU?

Ian Emery Daisy Chapman-Chamberlain That one drives me nuts - Avanti West Coast trains between London and Birmingham with 5+ 1st class & 3 standard carriages.
Reason for HS2 - lack of capacity - really 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️?

Home Office refuse to release figures as to how many deportation orders are issued against failed asylum seekers. Apparently they don't keep such records ! Tells us all we need to know about the Home Office. Hopeless. Useless. Hapless. Sack the lot and start again.

Paula Vennells has been stripped of her CBE by King Charles.

But she has kept her £3m bonuses, paid for of course by the tax payer who still own the Post Office.

RT if it's money we want back, not CBE's.

Scotland spent 3 years considering the laws on hate crimes before the Bill was introduced in 2020.
4 more years, after being voted into law and police training to deal with complaints, it came into force.
It took J.K. Rowling less than 24 hours to demonstrate why it is

Fujitsu

why do ministers/ civil servants keep going back to this poison chalice of a company?

What's in it for them?

#DrainTheSwamp
#FollowTheMoney

I’ve worked on HS2 and I know it’s probably a drop in the ocean but they literally employ people to stand about all year round, like literally they do nothing but stand in the same spot all year🤣

The Times reports on a shockingly bad tempered meeting last Wednesday between the v clever billionaire inventor Sir James Dyson and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt .
Dyson , who employs 3,500 in the UK, many of them great engineers, told Hunt he should cut taxes, reduce govt. spending and

Fury as HMRC announces it will close tax helplines for six months

The whole of the Civil Service is unfit for purpose and needs radical pruning with a sharp axe. It employs people who couldn’t get a job in the real world and provides nil value for money. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

The Lib Dem’s have called for a return to the Single Market.

Its common bloody sense, the closest country not in the Single Market is Morocco.

RT if you want cheaper food, cheaper clothes, cheaper footwear and cheaper energy.

***STOLEN*** from Clee Hill early hours of 11/3/24.
My son, has spent years restoring this car; it was his pride and joy and we just can’t believe it’s gone. it’s been spotted heading towards the West Midlands area. Please share this, make it too hot to handle!!!

A brilliant summarisation from Charles Goadby on the double standards of government policy between UK grown food versus unregulated imported food. 👇

Are HS2 land payments on a go slow?

Reports of Post Office & Infected Blood payments on go slow to give Govt room headroom to reduce taxes.

HS2 only paid off £25mn for phase 1 land in last 6 months - still owe £2.5bn to land owners

At current rate will complete around 2044

“The first rule of the animal rights movement is that you can never be wrong because the public love animals. The fact that you deny science, subvert logic and actually promote animal suffering does not matter”

My piece on the politics of the badger cull countryside-alliance.org/resources/news…

HS2 - thought on cost plus contracts

Both Thomson & Cook have bemoaned the fact they were locked into cost plus contracts

Who created them & who passed them off?

Must have been Grayling, Kelly, Higgins & Thurston

Nobody has dobbed them in for causing some of the overruns

Man in grey, 'Saying you've reduced National Insurance by a couple of percent, but it's offset by other taxes.. The government don't earn the money, it's us taxpayers who have to pick up the bill each time'

Fiona Bruce, 'What would you like to see'

Man in grey, 'I would like to

#PostOffice Scandal #PostOffice #MrBatesVsThePostOffice

🔥🔥🔥Business & Trade Select Committee Publishes its latest Report on failings of the Post Office 👇🆘⚖️💷 💥💥💥

Conclusions and Recommendations

1. The Post Office ruined the lives of innocent sub-postmasters. It