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Mathematics Professor. Husband. Father. Mancunian exile in the South. Politics: the left has to be flawless whilst the right can be lawless.
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"Billionaires will leave if you tax them." Please explain how the Energy Companies, Supermarkets, Landlord Empires and Water Companies are going to get up and leave? They can't, it is a lie.

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

The biggest benefit in the UK is the £120bn a year that goes to the 200 largest companies (who aren't even people) and the richest 150 billionaires who are allowed to not pay the tax that they are legally supposed to pay. This is a benefit that should be eradicated.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

"Nigel Farage wants to leave the ECHR to make YOU considerably poorer. No state pension. No minimum wage. No state benefits. No maternity pay. No holiday pay. No sick pay. And ultimately, no NHS. Nigel Farage is not on your side. Wake-up!" via Sarah

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

The UK has the highest energy costs in world, this is despite being completely self sufficient. In the 1970's we had the lowest Energy costs in Europe. But that was before all of our Oil and Gas was sold to Margaret Thatcher's mates for a pittance.

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

They made £3.2bn profit in the UK. They paid -£12.4m in tax. This is why there is no money.

submitted 19 days ago • 21 comments

A reminder that when the Sycamore Gap tree was cut down people immediately started blaming immigrants and teenagers... It was neither. It was two white Englishmen in their 30s.

submitted 30 days ago • 201 comments

I've always loved Paul Rudnick's wit.

submitted 30 days ago • 591 comments

When a WW2 veteran runs over a Swasticar in a Sherman tank

submitted 31 days ago • 80 comments

Periodic reminder:

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Here it is. A timetable of 100 days of corruption. Breathtaking. Heartbreaking. We cannot let this stand.

submitted 38 days ago • 606 comments

How a ‘Populist’ Media Has Mainstreamed the Far Right “Right-wing daily papers in the UK do not represent ‘public opinion’ – they simply reflect the radical right views of those ‘who own and run them” bylinetimes.com/2025/04/29/f...

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This is what a rigged economy looks like: In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker. In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker. This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker. That has got to change.

submitted 43 days ago • 744 comments

Private shareholders made dividends of £3.6 billion from owning our trains in the last decade. Yet the government is leaving our trains fully privately owned. Sign We Own It's petition to demand they take our trains into public ownership: weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry BBC - why are you stating an economic opinion as fact? "Higher pay and benefits drives government borrowing higher" No. Neoliberal greed, lack of investment, and giving national assets to private wealth. Shameful gaslighting from the BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 46 days ago • 13 comments

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

submitted 46 days ago • 1644 comments

Good morning to everyone who agrees that we need to tax the church!

submitted 48 days ago • 637 comments

I no longer want to hear about corruption in Russia, China, Iran, North Korea or Venezuela, England is the cradle of corruption. London or one of the country’s overseas colonies is where the world launders its illicit money. This country wrote the guidelines on corruption, then sold it to the world.

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submitted 60 days ago • 5 comments

LBC headline (during the Nick Ferrari show): "London has dropped out of the world's 5 richest cities!" Reason: 11 millionaires have left the capital under Starmer. Rewritten headline: "Average Londoner no less poor after 11 entitled millionaire scroungers flee to another of their 50+ tax havens."

submitted 60 days ago • 17 comments

We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

submitted 72 days ago • 550 comments

Goldman Sachs execs get 30% pay rise. People who gamble with other people's money, speculate on commodities, hike food prices rewarded; bailed out when crashed. Banking deregulated, no cap on bonus. Govts tell workers wage rises are inflationary but mega exec pay rises are OK. archive.ph/R0BGm

submitted 82 days ago • 19 comments