Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialHarry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Tesla declared profit since 2018: $6,700,000,000 Tesla federal income tax paid since 2018: $0 32952412
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 29/01/2025RIP Hind Rajab. Today is one year on since this little six year old was killed (my daughter's age) - and then so were the two brave medics who came to rescue her, as agreed by the IDF, as she cowered in her family car with her family dead around her. I will never forget this story. 612326774
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I wonder why Nadhim Zahawi, with an estimated net worth of up to £100million, wants to abolish inheritance tax. 24871127
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 26/01/2025The average billionaire in the UK is paying 11% tax. That is less than a person on the minimum wage. 17616202
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialDavid Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Thames Water bosses paid out £2bn in dividends last year, knowing damn well that the company would soon be going bust. What absolute scoundrels. 08638
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Benefit cheats could be stripped of driving licences. Someone innocently exceeding the Carer's earning limit is charged with fraud, can't drive, many not be able to work, can't support family, needs more benefits. Hawks are appeased No equivalent sanctions for tax abusers, launderers, real crooksbbc.co.ukBenefit cheats could lose driving licences in anti-fraud driveA proposed new law will also give ministers greater powers to request bank account information. 74792358
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialSusie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity. A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’. 18370911902
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialSusie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind. 24183512430
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 19/01/2025"Rat-infested prison that may never reopen pays Prince William's Duchy £1.5m a year" 'HMP Dartmoor which closed in August over toxic gas fears has 24 years left on its lease The Prince of Wales is due to get £millions taxpayers' money from a vacant prison that may never reopen' via Claudine Cole 2149
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialSon of Eric @spiritof44.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich: “We will wipe the smile from the Palestinians, but the screaming will remain. Gaza is uninhabitable and it will remain that way.” — Ynet. #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #IsraelATerroristState 45635
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialstehoughton.bsky.social @stehoughton.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Hate speech?? 011
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialMatt Webb @mattrfwebb.bsky.social · 06/01/2025How did investing and repairing the NHS...become moving off the profitable bits to private healthcare companies? And are these the same private healthcare companies that have been throwing money at Labour MPs? We need a wider discussion on the above. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comPrivate sector’s role in cutting NHS waiting lists in England to rise by 20%Critics decry Keir Starmer’s plan as ‘feeding the parasite’ rather than investing in the public health service 53419
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/01/2025In other news, Nigel Farage didn't bother to turn up to the debate on grooming gangs in the House of Commons just now 25862292268
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025🔴Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers’ Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave They are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on “free speech” bylinetimes.com/2024/12/17/c...bylinetimes.comConservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers' Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual LeaveThey are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on "free speech" 39351208
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialSiobhan @nhsactivistrn.bsky.social · 03/01/2025131,000 social care vacancies in England alone Let's think why: 🔴 Very poor wages 🔴Lack of career opportunities 🔴 Split shifts with home care companies meaning many work 7am till 10pm 🔴 No travel time or petrol paid by many firms Why would people choose those employment conditions?! 29426157
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialDavid Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Some 60 sub-postmasters wrongly convicted of fraud. Several jailed, four took their own lives. Yet not one Post Office manager, civil servant or IT supplier has even lost their job as a result. 48736
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialGenXDutchess @genxdutchess.bsky.social · 01/01/2025"Twisted into Israeli hate" 23923
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/01/2025UK household energy bills are up, expected to increase again in April. Energy companies making record profits. Their profiteering is our cost of living crisis, inflation, poverty. People will die because they can't afford to heat & eat. Govts won't curb profiteering. news.sky.com/story/energy...news.sky.comEnergy price cap now expected to rise in April as bills increase again in JanuaryContinued geopolitical volatility has fed into energy markets, raising household bills. 37696355
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Happy New Year fire works meme via Ellen May 073
stehoughton.bsky.social @stehoughton.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Well that's the left over cheese and crackers sorted. I'm not telling you how it's sorted but it is. 000
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialHarry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 29/12/2024This is Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy, appointed by Nigel Farrage. Nick Candy boasted to a FT journalist in 2010 "I don't pay tax!" (From his home in Monaco) He and his brother developed property in London through an offshore company to avoid tax. Patriotic? Anti-Establishment? It's a con. 43966509
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialComrade Conflict Kitty @werevolt.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Haaretz reports: Palestinians from #Gaza disappeared while in the custody of the Israeli army, and the army now claims that it does not know where they are, but after repeated checks, some of these Gazans were found under arrest or "dead" (killed). 064
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/12/2024World’s biggest bank shuns UK bonds over minimum wage fears. Pathetic. Millionaires at JP Morgan resent that the poor may be able to afford food, housing, education, pension. Can't recall bankers concerned about dangers from their own speculation & profiteering. It is class war. archive.ph/ob5zqtelegraph.co.ukWorld’s biggest bank shuns UK bonds over minimum wage fearsJP Morgan cites ‘big uncertainty’ around pay increases as it avoids British debt 611362500
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialComrade Conflict Kitty @werevolt.bsky.social · 30/12/2024🇬🇧 🇵🇸A group of health workers in support of the Palestinian cause is organizing a stand in Britain to demand the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safia and to stop the occupation’s crimes against Palestinian hospitals 0114
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialHarry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Despite pretending to be a man of the people, Nigel Farage makes £97,000 PER MONTH making him the highest paid MP. (At that's not for his MP job!) Despite never being in his constituency and still chasing his own fame, career and profit. Nigel farage is a grifter. Repost of you agree 11142125
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Make Jacob’s Christmas. Join a union youtu.be/jg0D2yNiqHM?...youtu.beLet’s make Jacob’s day and join a union todayYouTube video by Peter Stefanovic 22781215
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialSt Helens Star @sthelensstar.bsky.social · 24/12/2024POLICE are appealing to find a missing teenage girl from Knowsley.dlvr.itPolice issue plea to find missing teenage girl ahead of ChristmasPOLICE are appealing to find a missing teenage girl from Knowsley. 001
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18/12/2024RP if you agree with this. ❤️🇳🇴 8422421010
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/12/2024The absolutely brilliant @sangitamyska.bsky.social is now on BlueSky. Do give her a follow 2439993
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13/12/2024Palestinian authorities have said that at least 33 people were killed in an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. 🔗: aje.io/3exnng 10343174
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialEuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 13/12/2024So ignoring ICC arrest warrants? How do they get away with this? www.thenational.scot/news/2479160...thenational.scotLabour gave Israel army chief immunity for secret meetings in UK, SNP learnTHE Labour Government secretly met with the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) chief of staff just days after an international arrest warrant was issued… 14138106
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialDr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 10/12/2024The future map of General Practice for those that can afford it For those who cannot…. they’ll need to complain more about GP access & funding to their MPs @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social #NHS GPs get £115 per year for everything, including 6/7 appts on a average #MedSky #GeneralPractice 44130
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Surely national rules about what physician associate’s can & can’t do, standard guidance on supervision & an agreed process for patients to give consent should be a given - it goes to the very heart of patient safety 6248100
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024“Leaked documents show the extent of collaboration between the pro-Israel legal advocacy group UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) and the Israeli Government, in their attempt to “counter” the work of human rights organisations”bylinetimes.comIsraeli Government Lashes Out at ICC as Leaked Documents Reveal Secret Links to UK Lobby GroupThe International Criminal Court is under enormous pressure to drop its arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 17722404
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10/12/2024An Israeli air strike on the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza has killed and injured several Palestinians, including children. 27535284
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialPaul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 10/12/2024"We'd like to be able to lower energy prices to help people struggling to pay their bills, but it would adversely affect rich people's yacht money"theguardian.comBritish Gas owner hands investors £300m as customers face soaring billsCampaigners criticise Centrica, saying it has made more than £7bn in profits since start of energy bills crisis 1142
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialThe Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Is there a refresh glitch on Bluesky? 002
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialBrian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 09/12/2024I agree that there is a debate to be had around other systems, but it's not surprising that this is the focus, given those who advocate insurance backed schemes are explicitly friends and supporters of Trump. 1110713
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialBrian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 07/12/2024'Conservatives believe in competition' - except when it comes to giving our mates £billions of unlawful VIP-lane PPE contracts. 1946285
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialDr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Please stop coming at me saying Labour needs ‘constructive criticism’ / ‘do I have any actual ideas to improve things in the NHS’. EveryDoctor has built a Doctors’ Manifesto for the NHS & have built a campaign involving 117 MPs so far, advising them of the urgent changes required to safeguard lives🚨 10300101
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialBrian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Farage will say this is not what he wants, but what he wants will open the door to it. 1643893
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialDr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 04/12/2024All Doctors have a duty to raise concerns where they believe patient safety or care is being compromised Problem when the organisation you report to is the concern Drs are reporting re GMC Board’s failure listen re PAs/AAs regulation Tracking Drs on SoMe instead of action on the concerns 03115
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/12/2024THIS WEEK is a big week for democracy in the UK & still not a whisper from MSM. No government can be allowed to abuse secondary legislation by using it to undermine our democratic rights & that includes this one. It’s shocking that less than six months in we need to remind the government of that 116059
Reposted by @stehoughton.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Where on earth is UK media as the government this week seeks to condone the abuse of secondary legislation (after the Attorney General specifically promised the Gov’t would NOT do so) to undermine our democratic right to protest by appealing Liberty’s High court win against the former Tory gov’t? 415057