In discussion with a journalist this morning I suggested that the whole of the UK, government included, now feels as if it’s being run to provide money to a failing financial services sector and those who enjoy the returns it pays. For how long can we keep going like this?

80 YEARS AGO THIS DAY

Prague publisher Adolf Synek died a captive and victim of the Nazi regime in the Terezín ghetto.

In life Synek had published all but the very first volume of Jaroslav Hašek's Good Soldier Švejk as well as many of Hašek's short stories.

#literature #Prague

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Wow. Labour NEC members weren’t informed of the ICO decision made months ago - which could have major implications regarding an ongoing legal case and cost the party up to £4 million - until the BBC reported it at the weekend.

⁦Rivkah Brown⁩ reports novaramedia.com/2023/01/20/wil…

People are struggling to get access to healthcare. Govt solution: charge people to get access to healthcare.

Are they just fcking idiots or just rabid with greed?

As previously tweeted if Zahawi is not prosecuted for tax evasion then our legal & tax system is a joke!

While Nadhim Zahawi is back in the news, worth recalling what happened when he was vaccine minister two years ago.

His wife and two sons established a new company called ‘Warren Medical Limited’

It was shut down soon after Byline Times published this
bylinetimes.com/2021/01/04/vac…

Anybody who comes out with 'a family of four can live for a week on a £1 bag of porridge' or 'you can live on 30p if you do batch cooking' should be asked to prove it

As billionaires meet atop their mountain in Davos, 800 million people across the globe are going to bed hungry.

It’s time for a new economic model that redistributes wealth, ownership and power from those who wield it to those who need it.

Steve Barclay, the Health Secretary, is saying today that if nurses get inflation matching pay rises patients will suffer. But if inflation is 10% then tax revenue should increase by 10%. So he needs to explain what he’s doing with the extra tax he’s not using to pay nurses. A 🧵

13 years of austerity.

Patients dying on the hospital floor.

Staff suffering from PTSD, depression and anxiety.

If the government cared about minimum safety levels in our hospitals, it would support striking workers in their demands for decent pay and a fully-funded NHS.

Please give this a read.
Deeply, deeply concerning 🚨

👉opendemocracy.net/en/elective-re…

Nice work...

'Helen Whately is claiming up to £39,000-a-year to rent a property in London despite her home only being 50 miles from Westminster. She has been named as the Tory MP claiming the highest rent expenses at £3,250 a month.' (Apr 2021)

#c4news
mylondon.news/news/uk-world-…

Oh, the flipping brass neck of the powerful saying that the pandemic is over while they're simultaneously doing this.
There's hepa and uv in all of their important buildings, but you and your kids have no protection and just have to get sick endlessly:
purifiedair.com/case-studies/m…

Can someone please explain why Nadhim Zahawi still has a job ?

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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The Tories are rushing through a Bill to threaten nurses. But they don’t have time to do the Employment Rights Bill they promised at the 2019 General Election. Shameless.