"This year's list of 350 individuals and families together hold combined wealth of £795.361 billion — a sum larger than the annual GDP of Poland"
That's why there's no money.
The Tories are gone, but Reeves isn't going to get away with gaslighting us.
@PaulbernalUK
It looks as the pagers are a specific set of devices manufactured by Motorola-Israel, in conjunction with the Israeli defence industry. News is still emerging.
@BBCNewsnight
For balance, have you interviewed any Palestinians who've been kicked off their land, turfed out of their houses, lost children and family to IDF soldiers (pre October 2023).
No. Of course you haven't.
What a disgrace.
@LizWebsterSBF
What they fail to realise is that they're all a bunch of greedy heartless self-serving grifters, and that we're sick of their mis-government of the UK.
@Haggis_UK
Harmen, in tears, understandably so. The Honourable MP's words were carefully chosen, and a far better reflection of how politics should be conducted.
@implausibleblog
@IainDale
I have an acquaintance who does exactly that - teaches sex education, and safe sex, in schools. With humour. With clarity. With respect.
Iain Dale is, on this occasion, spot on.
@stuzi_pants
What the f**k has that got to do with news? That's just GMB gossip. She'd make a great Lord of the Rings shill for Sauron - oh, he's just a jeweller, collects rings, has an allergy to small furry people but, a really nice guy once you get to know him
@AndyGJBurge
@David_Cameron
The real issue was privatising loans, making them into debts. Cameron new exactly what he was doing, and private equity firms were delighted. Cameron saddled young people starting out in life with 30-50k of debt. What a monster.
@implausibleblog
Bruce, biased, as always. A question of tax is a matter for the HMRC, not the police.
Stealing Party donations is a matter for the police, not Sunak.
MPs compromising national security is a matter for M15.
Let's have some perspective.
@LBC
@TheSpurrShow
People who regularly miss attendance at the House of Commons should have their salary docked, and be fined. Consistent failure to attend should result in having to stand down as an MP.
Fair's fair!
@thecarolemalone
"Democracy fails when your press fails to scrutinise and hold the government accountable, .."
Rather than address his statement, you chose to make a childish comment, thereby validating PH's observation!
#ToryGaslighting
@implausibleblog
Bim A - how about you apologise for:
7.5 million people waiting to be treated by the wonderful NHS
For people spending their savings on energy so that shareholders can get richer
Children suffering with toothache because you privatised dentistry.
For starters!
@SophyRidgeSky
The wealth divide in the UK mirrors the decline in services. Growth isn't the issue, a lack of investment due to greed is.
The collective value of 167 UK billionaires is now a staggering £796 billion, up from £220 billion in late 2019.
The transfer of wealth is the issue
@BestForBritain
@SophyRidgeSky
WTF? WTAF? I live in an inner-city area of Bristol that is multi-cultural. The nickname for our areas is 91Ways. Because, collectively, there are 91 languages spoken in the neighbourhood. And far from feeling threatened, the mix of languages, dress, ideas and experiences is rich
@andreajenkyns
Maybe lead by example, then!
2010 - 2015 Tory austerity, 300,000 avoidable deaths.
IDS - policies that publicly humiliated people with disabilities
2010 - 2023 - 14 million people in poverty.
@NileGardiner
Nonsense. I don't love them. I don't care about them. But I dislike your hate-tweets, your misogynistic anger, your viciously unfounded accusations. Your abusive attacks, are offensive.
@DickMackintosh
Oh dear, what a shame. I doubt Megan Markle, Caroline Flack, Huw Edwards, Paul Schofield, and all the other people he publicly humiliated over the years, are going to loose any sleep over the NEWS that Bernard Wooton is going down.
@implausibleblog
There's a world of difference between what Sneaky Sunak says and what he does. You can wave goodbye to the 37 billion. Same as hospitals, schools, and all the other projects Tories promised to deliver. Gone. Vanished in a puff of vanity and tax breaks for the rich.
@archer_rs
Fly tipping makes me really angry. The punishment should be a fine and a minimum of 54 weekends of community service dedicated to picking up litter.
@BethRigby
I heard your questions, and they were reasonable, and Starmer answered clearly.
Your transcript of his answers is not accurate. You do yourself a disservice.
@RussInCheshire
Meanwhile, Wales made sprinkler systems compulsory for all new-build developments.
Sprinkler systems alone do not save lives, but they certainly significantly reduce mortality.
Sprinklers also reduce insurance premiums.
Yes, I design buildings. I know of that which I speak.
@LordRennard
Good question. Crossed my mind, too. Who paid for the body guards?
Liz Truss is certainly enthusiastic when it comes to spending other people's money.
@MrJohnNicolson
My question, why hasn't he resigned? After all, in his previous job, he contributed to the collapse of the world economy, so why on earth would anyone trust him with the BBC.
@paulmasonnews
Rule No 1 - never take a modern phone to fight club!
No journalist in Palestine uses a Smart Phone until they have to broadcast, and even then they're have to move at lightening speed to avoid being targeted by Israelis.
These rioters are dumb as f**k.
@markjenkinsonmp
Full of fat and sugar. Not a good example to set.
How about tackling the issue of 14 million living in poverty, over 4 million of whom are children. Imagine, if you actually served the nation, not the banks and hedge fund traders.
@implausibleblog
Liar.
Markus Rashford secured food for the most vulnerable. And government failed to provide funds for schools to manage the full impact of lockdown.
Sunak is a liar, a thief and a charlatan, and should be jailed.
@JMPSimor
Tories, showing contempt for the law. Shows how they view public office - a playground for self-enrichment.
The very same MPS and Ministers are, though, quite happy for the police to arrest people on a whim.
Hypocrites, the lot of them
#ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern
@NileGardiner
It's his job, mate, he should have gone to show support for England, to make a clear statement about the future of sport for women, and to meet and greet influential trading partners. He failed to what he's being paid for.
@g_gosden
I refuse to listen to him. I switch off the sound when he appears. He's a troll working for the billionaire club. I mean that in all seriousness. He's not a politician. He's not a leader. He's a middle manager doing the bidding of CEOs of banks, oil companies, Infosys and so on.
@Juergen_Maier
But have you learned from that mistake? Aren't you all doing the same by not addressing NF Farridge's endless dog.whistle attacks on ethnic minorities and migrants?
@farmerjoefred
@DPJHodges
@AngelaRayner
Blocked him. He's not funny, or witty. The man's a bore. And his ongoing, relentless pursuit of Rayner, even now that the facts are fully known, is not journalism, it's online harassment and bullying.
@implausibleblog
So, if in doubt, get the International Unelected Expert on Absolutely Nothing on the programme.
I thought we'd had enough of experts in the UK?
@implausibleblog
And politicians, who use fast-track favours for mass murders - Saudi Princes, Russian Oligarchs - to buy real estate in London, no questions asked - what of those people? Surely life imprisonment would be a reasonable reward for aiding and abetting murderers.
@PaulbernalUK
@jibbajabbba
It turns out they were Pagers originally developed in conjunction with the Israeli military to be used by the army for comms.
The Pagers in Lebanon were loaded with explosives. The battery catching fire detonated the bomb.
I suspect Motorola's stock value is down!
@MarinaPurkiss
@TomWitherow
It's one thing to go through the Register of Interests, quite another to go trawling through bin liners for receipts, or the grubby equivalent for hack journalists.
A pathetic piece of hit and run gossip. Shameful.
As usual, the issue is the market.
When the market is making tons of money, it's happy as pig in shit. And pays fuck all in tax.
When it's losing money, it expects everyone else to suffer.
The 'market' can go fuck itself!
#ToryCriminals
@implausibleblog
And, therefore, inflation.
So Sunak, Johnson, Hunt and all the other Tory Brexitheads ARE responsible for inflation and subsequent drop in living standards, and business bankruptcies.
@yanisvaroufakis
My father, and grandmother, refused to move to Israel. Their home was in Hungary, despite the cruelty and hardships they had suffered, and went on to suffer. The Jewish spirit does not recognise the Zionists.
@implausibleblog
Here's an answer - we will save the poorest thousands by making every single person a shareholder of the utilities, the railways and buses, and a national energy company. We will give tax breaks to farmers who gather to form cooperatives. We will slash VAT on hospitality.
@i_iratus
Oakbot and Lice have an essy political life. Their sole purpose is to say anything that will attract xenophobes and bigots. That's it. They do not have to think, reference facts or data, or even make a coherent case. They are untroubled by reality.
@EmilyThornberry
@MarinaPurkiss
You need to focus on EFZs. Or Freeports.
Starmer and Reeves are accepting the proposals.
They hurt workers. They hurt the UK.
@Peston
So no mention of the transfer of £560billion to the wealthiest from 2019 to 2024. Just more of the same kitchen-table economics and hirsute politics.
Partnering with the private sector has its place, but PFIs and privatising utilities / transport has been a disaster.
Public School system - it produces PMs, and Ministers, all of whom are heartless, vicious, cruel, narrow-minded and bigoted.
I know.
I went there.
The bullying was horrific.
Deprogramming myself has taken 40 years.
@lewis_goodall
One only has to read the following to know Sunak, and his cohort of MPs should be ejected from office forever.
Their politics is not just negligent. It's abusive. It's criminal.
@implausibleblog
I want Tories gone.
I'm not convinced by the replacement.
Anyone who supports bankers is supporting continued privatisation.
We must all write to our MPs and demand not for profit NHS, transport and utilities.
@g_gosden
This is the way to deal with the situation.
Treat them as individual hooligans, not an organised group.
Rapid prosecutions. Record their reactions. Report their outcomes.
Make community service part of their rehab, including cleaning the windows at the local mosque!
@BradKort
@fteconomics
Poverty in the UK is 14 million and counting. Billionaire wealth increased to just under 1 trillion.
You are the problem with your greed, with your corrupted exploitative neoliberal economics.
@i_iratus
Yes. Love the Caps. Good to speak in their lingo.
One point.
UK has the largest number of prisoners, per 100,000 people, in Europe. Why? What is the cause? That's the question that needs to be answered.
@TheNewsAgents
@LordWalney
@maitlis
@jonsopel
What an absolute car-crash of an interview.
Lord Walney questions climate change activism when BP, Esso, Shell, Exon, and so on, are breaking laws left, right and centre, and hide behind a wall of corporate lawyers.
Gov inaction is why people organise and challenge law.
@Haggis_UK
F**king disgusting.
#sunak
signs off on Anderson's vile, offensive and, quite frankly, inflammatory attack on public servants. Lee Anderson is a fascist. And his boss, Sunak, by doing nothing, is promoting Tory fascism.
@i_iratus
Ah, Jerk-Off Jenrick, the man who helped the infamous pornographer, Richard Desmond, avoid paying 50 million to the local council, money that could have been used to feed starving children, and shelter women from abusive relationships.
@tonypatt2000
Nonsense. I'm no fan of Corbyn, but what's happening in Palestine is abhorrent, and you are complicit for suggesting the issue is otherwise.
@francesweetman
Far left? You have evidence to support that statement?
I know people who think Israel's actions are wrong, and they're right of centre!
@andreajenkyns
For the 1st time since the 1930's, the UK suffered a real threat, and serious hardship, an experience common in Africa, and some Asian countries, and your response is to attack the WHO rather than ask, how we can learn from what we've been through to help others.
@carolinejmolloy
@wesstreeting
Praful Nargands didn't stand a chance against Jeremy Corbyn. But, it looks like he's now officially connected to Labour's inner-circle. Clearly Lab are keen on private healthcare!
I wonder if Streeting will invite him to join the team.
@implausibleblog
@LucyMPowell
There's still room for some significant changes that don't require much money. For example, setting in motion banning MPs from having 2nd jobs, overhauling press ownership rules, changing visa rules for farm workers, generally improving Standards in Public life.
@PetronellaWyatt
Don't pretend to be all, working class, all of a sudden. You don't get to do that.
You made an unpleasant statement about British people; you are using US as an excuse for YOUR shoddy 3rd-rate Brexit. It's your, own it!
@BellaWallerstei
Politicians shouldn't support Israel, or any other State, committing genocide.
Blair got the same treatment, and so did Thatcher.
Starmer must learn to listen.
@sophielouisecc
Asked how she would like New Zealanders to remember her leadership, she said “as someone who always tried to be kind.”
No one will ever say that about you, Sophie Corcoran. And that's a very sad indictment of your values.
Get help.
@implausibleblog
@DrRosena
Bruce, interrupts, as usual. Can't keep her big mouth shut for 20 seconds when it comes to anything that isn't Tory Britain.
@ukhomeoffice
@SuellaBraverman
You're attacking our ways of life by turning the UK in a version of North Korea. Our values are openness, acceptance, a right to question authority, and a desire for fairness, none of which feature in your policies, actions or statements.
@KEdge23
You didn't notice Lee Anderson, Greg Hands, Ben Bradshaw, D Raab, Johnson, Braverman et al. Probably because you're so bitter, and morally bankrupt, they seem normal to you.
@LBC
@RachelSJohnson
And here he is with one a Russian to whom he gave access to the heart of British democracy, and with whom he wined and dined, as Foreign Sec, without his civil servants and body guards. And you think Benito Johnson is trustworthy.
I think HE has YOUR secrets in his hands!
@David__Osland
And Cheltenham Races was a superspreader. The Covid cluster maps, at the time, showed Dodgy Matt had managed to maim and murder many an innocent person.
@Jeremy_Hunt
PMQs is going to be a real hoot.
James Cleverly, Home Office Sinister, promoting date-rape drugs and now this, yet another complete and utter failure by Thames Water.
Privatisation just doesn't work, when it comes to utilities. When will you admit it?
@NatalkaKyiv
I hate Russia because it persecuted one half of my family for 49 years, following on from WW1 / WW2 German persecution.
Russia isn't even a real country! It's an oppression of countries, each with their own unique culture and language.
@AlexTaylorNews
India on Teesside.
What a delight.
No unions allowed.
Only Saudi Arabia and Malaysia.
Sunak is a global capitalist. Workers are just meat for the grinder.