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I haven't been in many airports, about seven to ten different. What I can say is that Heathrow was the absolute worst, especially terminal 5.

Everything disorganised to the effect of ripping off the unfortunate traveller. No real attempt to make the experience a good one. No comfort, too much commercialism.

If I do get to make another trip, and it does look unlikely given the disaster of USA, I will never go near Heathrow willingly again.

#travel #uk #ripoffBritain

£71/kg for honey? Those bees must have been pretty special. I would imagine at that price they fly off the shelf, although not in the direction of my cupboard. We bought the cheap stuff, which being Waitrose was probably at least 20% more expensive than Lidl.

#RipOffBritain

A photo of honey on a supermarket shelf. The price label says £3.85/kg.

A photo of honey on a supermarket shelf. The price label says £71.11/kg.

Why do I get the impression the British state's regulators do not have the best interests of consumers at heart?

#RipOffBritain

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25681579.keir-starmer-urged-scrap-plans-108-hike-energy-bills/

Labour going on about the "pound in your pocket", people notice their bills rise more than they care about how well the Economy is doing.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/09/millions-of-households-face-jump-in-water-bills-after-regulator-backs-more-price-rises

#WaterCompanies #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Economy #Labour #RipOffBritain

Who did this? Was it Afghan refugees? Or was it rich men like Elon Musk? Men now telling the fascists to overthrow a democratically elected government.

#LateStageCapitalism #Privatisation #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #RipOffBritain #PublicServices #RefugeeWelcome

The fallout from the privatisation has created today’s “rip-off Britain”, said
Mathew Lawrence, the director of Common Wealth, adding that the
privatisation promise of “competition, cheap investment and lower bills”
had instead delivered “corporate monopolies, inadequate investment and
rising bills”.

“It was sold as the dream of a shareholder democracy but instead created the
nightmare of rip-off Britain: families paying more for essential services,
while shareholders pocket hundreds of billions in dividends from what were
once publicly owned services” he said.

The fucking capitalist parasites at #manchesterairport are now charging a MINIMUM OF £5 JUST TO STOP AND DROP SOMEONE OFF, even if you only star there for 10seconds

and if you dune call them and pay it in the same day, you'll be charged a £50 penalty

what fucking c*nts.

#parasiteUK #capitslistParasites #parasiteCulture #ripoffBritain #manchester

@TJ1001 like Starmer who is so dreadfully appalled at what’s happening in Gaza that he continues to arm the #genocide and lock up peaceful protesters, Reed is so furious about the water industry, he plans to do precisely nothing to address the problem

#ukpol #uklabour #starmer #nationalisationnow #ripoffbritain

@Tesco made over £3 billion last year. Just think about that when you notice they have taken 100ml from your ice cream tub or taken a bar away from your multipack.

#tesco #profitbeforepeople #shopping #RipOffBritain

This is just on example of what we're up against. Ringway are contracted to maintain our roads in Gloucestershire.

This exemplifies the quality of their work! A two year old with a bucket and spade could do better.

I checked out ringway and this is what I discovered:-

Ringway have an interesting strapline: Delivering highways differently

They are actually Ringway Infrastructure Service Ltd.

Contracts with
Hertfordshire County Council
Milton Keynes City Council
Worcestershire County Council
Gloucestershire County Council
Bracknell Forest Council

They generated about £16m of profit last year (this is the rough ballpark per anum) which I assume winds its way through VINCI Construction Holding Limited which has a controlling interest of their shares.

VINCI Construction Holding Limited consolidates other PFI contracts; Ringway Hounslow Highways Ltd, Ringway Island Roads Ltd along with many other interests, Taylor Woodrow etc.

Despite consolidated income of £2.2bn, inexplicably (to me at least) this becomes a £21m loss......

Anyway Vinci SA, a french public limited company, has a controlling interest in VINCI Construction Holding Limited.

I just cannot understand why Highway maitainance isn't done in-house. There are far too many fat cats in this supply chain.

#FatCats #RipOffBritain #Ringway

Photo of a public highway. Recently patched. The surface is uneven and puddles are forming in the rain. Shoddy. Photo by Graham Richardson, used without permission and nicked from Facebook.

The markup price many high street stores pile on to something as humble as a micro sdcx
memory card beggars belief. #RipOffBritain

Still no public response as to why @Tesco @Sainsburys @Asda @Morrisons @LidlGB @AldiUK charge more for standard cola compared to diet cola, given they both contain sweetners so don't qualify for the sugar tax.

#PriceGouging #ripoffBritain #sugartax #cola

@RejoinEU I'd love to see this kind of rip-off being tried in France. I think us Brits are just too nice and go, 'oh, OK, 5 minutes at a motorway service station is quite enough, I suppose'

#ripoffbritain

Another day in #RipOffBritain.

I hate #UKLabour so much for its cowardly insistence on trying to make #neoliberalism work.

Neoliberalism is just #NeoFeudalism or possibly even #NeoFascism.

That is #UKPolitics right now. We have the Neo Fascism Party, and Neo Fascism-lite Party.

No wonder young people are bailing on democracy, democracy has bailed on us all.

90p an egg. In a supermarket. It is the end of days. In 2016 we were paying 25p an egg. No wonder they lost the royal approval. #ripoffbritain #cremeegg #cadburys

@johnflomax @Geri When I moved into my first flat in 1981, the electricity cost less than a tenner. Now it's about £500 a quarter. So much for inflation. #RipOffBritain