#FrankHester donated further £5m to #Tories in January, figures show
Data also shows party accepted £150,000 from Hester days after comments about #DianeAbbott condemned as #racist were revealed
So it’s almost official we are stuffed. Obviously living outside our means. Both the ruling parties have told us so.
But only those if means were constrained by selling of public assets overseas, leasing them back at a premium, running down public services to force their privatisation, siphoning monies off to cronies, and…
For gods sake, we allow Corporate interests to drive Labour and Conservative politicians (plus some others) to tell the children they preside over what our means are and what our priorities should be while hiding their own interests.
No feckin wonder they want to slash - that is their profit margins we are talking about.
Ross, though, was the evening’s greatest loser. Swinney and Sarwar each stuffed the Tory leader into a woodchipper, offering Ross an impossible choice: defend Boris Johnson and Liz Truss and risk looking a fool or disavow their records and appear weak, directionless, and of use to neither man nor beast.
Amusing,but the observation on #Badenoch are interesting…
‘It got combative from the start. Kemi seemingly furious that Husain had actually done her homework. .
Of more interest to her was a quick soundbite in an ongoing culture war. To create a wedge with Labour. Though in reality Labour and the Tories are not so far apart on trans issues these days.’
The business secretary and leader-in-waiting told media that managing almost a fortnight of campaigning before announcing discriminatory measures against an embattled minority to win support from wavering bigots shows the Tories are a party of ideas.
A group of Scots MSPs, headed by the former leader of the Scottish Conservatives Jackson Carlaw have taken met with a key Israeli government official supporting the targeting of hospitals and ambulances in Gaza
The lobbying was made to MSPs on a Building Bridges with Israel cross-party parliamentary group by Oren Marmorstein, Deputy Ambassador of Israel to the UK.
Well Ruth I think they are - at the moment, but there is a creeping sense of abandonment of principles (however they spell them) by Labour and a growing expectation that Sctland will be shafted by London.
Remember that lots of Scots have to pay more to keep the lights on than their cousins in England’s deep south. Despite exporting it to England.
Johnston Busingye was formally appointed as Rwanda’s High Commissioner to the UK days after UK agreed Rwanda asylum deal with Paul Kagame in 2022, after 7 months of delays and objections by human rights organisations. This article goes on to list a catalogue of human rights abuses in Rwanda and internationally, perpetrated by the Kagame regime.
The stench of Tory corruption hovers over it.
A note in the article includes ‘Labour has also been attracting more large-scale private donations than at any time in the last 15 years. The former Autoglass boss Gary Lubner has given almost £5m since 2022.’
These donations by wealthy individuals and corporations must be stopped. Corruption writ large.
Austerity, Brexit, Covid Lockdown Parties, PPE Scandal, Raw Sewage in UK Waterways & Coastal Areas, Economic Crash, Record Inflation, Record Interest Rates, Cost of Living Crisis, Pensions Decimated, Mortgage Rises, NHS in Crisis, Schools Crumbling, Housing Crisis...
Austerity, Brexit, Covid Lockdown Parties, PPE Scandal, Raw Sewage in UK Waterways & Coastal Areas, Economic Crash, Record Inflation, Record Interest Rates, Cost of Living Crisis, Pensions Decimated, Mortgage Rises, NHS in Crisis, Schools Crumbling, Housing Crisis, Scandals, Cover ups.
More socialisation of liabilities by Houchen and his mates on Teesside. And people still voted for this corrupt grifter.
"A public body chaired by Conservative mayor Lord Ben Houchen is pursuing a deal to make taxpayers liable for contamination at the largely privately controlled Teesworks former steel site, after apparently telling an independent government review the idea had been abandoned"
Election campaigning is in full swing. And #Hunt is busy trying to get credit for ‘solutions’ to the #Blood Scandal. Of course as Health minster he contributed to the destruction of the #NHS (his family are heavily involved in private healthcare) and will in due course tell us how he saved it. Pass the sick bag Alice 🤢
'In his first newspaper interview since leaving the cabinet, the former chancellor says the ex-PM was the ‘most consequential leader since Thatcher’ — and reveals his own biggest mistake in the tax scandal that led to his sacking’
They just don't get it do they? Worth a read to get confirmation of the bat shit stupidity, arrogance and greed that drive them.
@Wen This is a quite remarkable read. Even by the standards of the average head-up-own-arse, self-centred, greedy #Tory this is exceptional.
Here are a couple of phone numbers and an email address of his new employer, just in case you'd like to let them know what you think of their new appointment:
John Woodcock, whose review proposes bans for protest groups, has lobbying links to firms in arms and fossil fuel sectors.
Conflict of interest? Really? No doing the wishes of the #Conservative#maladministration and their corporate sponsors. New party slogan ‘bugger the environment’.