Retired teacher of Psychology, Marshian. Politically homeless but pro PR. ‘Like’ tends to mean ‘I agree’.
South East, England
Joined June 2013
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Lynn Western retweeted
Private Corporations make £680bn profit a year in the UK.
£12,350 from every single adult.
On this they pay just 13.2% tax.
Every penny of that comes from wages they don't pay, taxes they don't pay, and bills they overcharge you.
This is what is unsustainable.
Lynn Western retweeted
Will Labour next week in the budget tell us sad stories about "difficult decisions" and how there's "no money left?"
Or will this Labour Government challenge the broken economic thinking that has lead us to this place? And tax the assets of multimillionaires & billionaires?
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Lynn Western retweeted
In 2016 the Conservative Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said,
"The only country that would like us to leave the EU is Russia"
In 2026 the former Head of MI6 Sir John Sawers said,
"Russia was very keen that the Leave campaign should succeed and that Britain should leave the European Union. Because that would marginalise Britain as a global player and weaken Europe in general"
"That's the strategic opportunity the Russians spotted, and the leaders of the Leave campaign fell into it"
My view:
The warning was there before the referendum: Moscow had a clear interest in Britain breaking with Europe. A decade later, a former head of MI6 has explained why — a divided Europe and a Britain pushed to the margins would serve Russia’s strategic interests.
It does show that the Kremlin saw Brexit as an opportunity to weaken both Britain and the European Union, and was keen for Leave to win.
The damage was predictable: less British influence in Europe, more friction between allies and a weaker collective response to Russian aggression.
Brexit handed Moscow the kind of division it wanted.
The leaders of Leave may have believed they were restoring Britain’s power. In reality, they pursued a course that played directly into Russia’s hands, and the country is still living with the consequences: weaker, worse off, with escalated societal tensions.
Lynn Western retweeted
It doesn't matter how many times you cut disability benefits. Severely disabled people still won't be able to work.
Lynn Western retweeted
We Jews have no right to steal even one centimeter of our ancestral homeland from the people already living there, much less to expel them, mass murder them, erase them.
Lynn Western retweeted
Finland the happiest country on the planet, bans for profit schools, taxes billionaires, houses the homeless.
Take note.
Lynn Western retweeted
There were no riots before Muslims came to France, say morons who never heard of the French Revolution, 1968 or read a single book on their entire racist and pathetic lives.
Lynn Western retweeted
We don’t need to raise taxes on the Banks.
We can stop paying them interest on their deposits - this £30 Billion a year drives their outrageous profit levels. The EU and Switzerland already stopped doing this - it makes no sense to continue and even less sense to continue and then moan they make too much money and then tax them more - which they moan about.
Our Banks are on massive Benefits - let’s cut them and get our banks back to work. If they can get 4% for doing nothing, they need to be paid more when lending to us - we make a burden for ourselves with these payments for nothing.
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Lynn Western retweeted
NEW: 🇮🇱 🇬🇧 Palantir has just OVERRIDDEN the Mayor of London after Sadiq Khan tried to BLOCK their contract with the Met Police.
Khan dared to oppose the foreign totalitarian Zionist spytech company backed by Peter Thiel embedding itself into our police, yet Palantir somehow managed to get the high court to overrule him…
Now they can bid again for the £50M contract.
If a company like Palantir, that uses its products to literally kill and control people, can force our own politicians to back down what does that mean for society?
Palantir is set to be embedded into British Police, healthcare and defence. A total takeover. @andyburnham this is travesty.
Lynn Western retweeted
This is what billionaire ownership of the media means:
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta shut down the No Kings account for hours during the height of their protests.
Meta suppressed accounts supporting Brazil President Lula da Silva in the recent election.
Larry Ellison’s TikTok blocked advertising for a documentary criticizing Elon Musk.
Fight back. Defeat oligarchy. Preserve democracy.
Lynn Western retweeted
Brazil’s election is likely the most unfollowed global event. Do you like breathing oxygen? Then you should care who wins next week, bc one guy wants you to keep breathing and the other wants to burn trees
Brazil registered the lowest Amazon deforestation rate on record over the past year, allowing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to claim success on a key issue that’s been at the center of his platform bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Lynn Western retweeted
Well after today’s announcement from the Bank of England, there is something very, very, very wrong in the system.
So … let me get this straight:
* British Gas made a profit of £1.3bn between January & June
* BP announced profits of £6.95 billion between April and June alone
* Shell has profited by £9.4bn in a year
The MEN at the top:
* John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid received £6.5m bonus on top of his salary
* Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica was paid almost £2m last year in salary and benefits
* Centrica's non-executive directors were paid almost £1m
* Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on £1.15m.
* E.On boss Michael Lewis is on £1m
* EDF's Simone Rossi is also on £1m
* And their top execs enjoyed a share of £4.65m
* Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned a £1.3m pay package
* Welsh Water bosses awarded themselves bonuses of over £930,000
* Severn Trent bosses awarded themselves bonuses of £5.56m
* Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a £727,000 bonus on top of her £2m annual salary
Meanwhile there are...
* People who haven't had breakfast and/or lunch TODAY, because they can't afford it.
* People using FoodBanks because food is becoming more of a luxury than a necessity.
* Children celebrating a birthday without presents.
* Parents worrying about new school uniforms - and some schools enforcing rules which are not cost-effective.
* People who can't get to work because they can't afford to put petrol in their cars/pay for public transport anymore.
* People who are working so much they're making themselves ill, and they STILL CAN'T AFFORD to pay their bills.
* People who have been given fines by these same energy/water companies because they couldn't afford to pay their bills in the first place - increasing their debt.
* Customers being told to do STAR JUMPS TO KEEP WARM for crying out loud!
* Hose pipe bans when gallons of water leak away everyday.
* Elderly people NOT DRINKING because they're worried about running out of water!!!
All this and energy prices are set to rise up to 75% in October...
THIS IS MADNESS!.. I'm all for supporting profits … I'm not for supporting greed at the cost of lives of others.
Something needs to change.
Why is customers' money being used to make life more comfortable for those who are making life more intolerable for the rest of us?
I actually don't understand how the energy companies are allowed to get away with this and why the government aren't stopping them instead of handing out money.....
Lynn Western retweeted
Netanyahu has disputed the attack on EU Diplomats including from Belgium and France that left them in hospital.
It is time for Europe to Sanction Israel they are an enemy state.
Lynn Western retweeted
The car was invented in Germany
The cold-gas thruster (CGT) system was invented in France
The fan assisted downforce set up was invented in the UK
The electrical powertrain was invented in Germany
Lynn Western retweeted
Here’s a better idea.
Tax the massive windfall profits banks are making from higher interest rates.
And bail out ordinary people for a change!
Lynn Western retweeted
So she was murdered?
A college student was raped and murdered. That’s the word you omitted.
A college student died after she was drugged and raped in a New York City college dorm room, federal prosecutors announce. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Prosecutors allege the student died from complications of acute fentanyl intoxication after the defendant supplied the drug he knew was lethal, rendered her unconscious and raped her; he faces charges including distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death.
dea.gov/press-releases…
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/n…
Lynn Western retweeted
Dear @thegreenparty I am a Jewish Green
I have no doubt that "Zionism is racism"
The correct approach to this issue is to look at Zionism from the viewpoint of its victims (as you would do in apartheid South Africa, the segregated South of the US and everywhere where there are oppressors and oppressed)
The victims of Zionism are the Palestinians
It is essential that the Green Party stand firm
@ZackPolanski
@carolinelucas
@AdrianRamsay
@carla_denyer
@EllieChowns
@GreenPartyHan
Lynn Western retweeted
Karl Marx pointed out that Capitalism always ends up as Fascism.
100 years before the word Fascism was invented.
What a genius.
Lynn Western retweeted
This is huge news from Brazil. The courts have recognized Meta's nefarious efforts to suppress PT content and accelerate Bolsonaro's own, and ruled in Lula's favor with immediate effect: a model of algorithmic accountability to be applied anywhere.
A judge of Brazil’s top electoral court rules that Meta must adopt measures to immediately secure equal treatment of the two presidential candidates ahead of an Oct. 25 runoff. nbcnews.com/world/south-amer…
