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I've sadly decided to close this account as I can't keep up with both this and my Bluesky account.
Happy to say that my twatter account will be ceremonially deleted on 20 1 25 #xodus

Brits urged to wear face masks again as new Arcturus Covid strain spreads across UK

#covid @whn

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brits-urged-wear-face-masks-29836374

Why would a community centre refuse to show a film about Corbyn?
FGS this is a nonsense.
Everyone should see it, so the lies are exposed
https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/23477035.outrage-harraby-community-centre-bans-jeremy-corbyn-film/?fbclid=IwAR0VWTc8r6W2uIVHYfLphSGkuWcBCSJMQANt09RiaRQq4GvB8o7kDuQoUiM

Boris Johnson privately discussed privatising the NHS with Donald Trump.

Tories are dedicated to destruction of hard-won social rights for the working class; sell public assets at knockdown prices to their friends.

No public service is safe with Tories.
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/04/24/boris-johnson-and-donald-trumps-private-talks-on-privatising-the-nhs-reveal-denials-were-untrue/

The BBC should, in the interests of objective reporting, present a balanced view on the national debt
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/04/25/the-bbc-should-in-the-interests-of-objective-reporting-present-a-balanced-view-on-the-national-debt/

RT @mikeysmith
Assuming this is a mistake, rather than a deliberate attempt to suppress turnout - but even so, I imagine the electoral commission will want to have a look. https://twitter.com/towncloseemma/status/1650881058504601600

On a £32,000 salary, your take home pay will be £25,183 ..one bedroom flat on zone 4 ..is19000 pluss 2000 travel plus 2500 gas electricity plus 2000 council plus 1000 water tv licence Internet phone rent equal 26 500 excluding food clothes going out
Excluding university loan or child support

RT @NicholasTyrone@twitter.com

The Daily Telegraph, April 16, 2016, on the eve of the official EU referendum campaign starting. Again, the promise that saving the NHS was central to the Leave campaign, there in black, white, blue and gold.

Train company pandemic profits top £300 million and set to reach £400 million by September

Private Train Operating Companies at the heart of the long-running rail dispute have made more than £300 million in profits since the government put them on new contracts when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, RMT research reveals.

https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/train-company-pandemic-profits-top-300-million/

Post Brexit it seems that whenever the UK is compared to EU countries - on whatever happens to be in the news on a particular day - we’re scrambling about at the bottom of the barrel; water quality being the latest case in point. Perhaps the fact that England is the only country in the world to privatise its water supply and sewerage is a clue.

Though attentive to public broadcasters, the long-awaited media bill misses the opportunity for crucial reform in both the BBC and commercial media | Barry White

#MediaBill #Bylines
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affairs/long-awaited-media-bill-published-a-missed-chance-for-reform/

As Wales showed in 2021, elections can be won from the left, including in Leave voting aka red wall areas. Not that Starmer & Co are the party to do so, as the broken pledges and purge of the left show.

#SocialistSunday

https://www.steve-howell.com/hartlepool-wales-and-winning-back-the-red-belt/

"Let's try again. If you had 400 beans from your nearest trading partners, but now you get 8 from the other side of the world, how many beans do you have?"

It’s not just eggs. Since 2020:

The price of bread is up 22%

Flour up 21%

Butter is up 31%

Meanwhile, food giant Cargill saw its profit double to a record $6.7B.

Follow the money, and the story is clear: Food corporations are using inflation as cover to jack up prices.

Twenty six years ago we had a school shooting in Dunblane in Scotland, ten miles from where I lived. There was a public outcry and government action to introduce major gun control legislation. Since the there have been zero school shootings. You could do it too - USA - bans guns not books

RT @BladeoftheS
Matt Hancock gave a PPE contract to his sisters company which he owned 20% of. Then denied it when confronted and covered up the evidence which has only just come out.

In total he has been personally involved in more than £600,000,000 of PPE fraud.

Arrest him, NOW.