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Paul Carden retweeted
I'm a double amputee.
I recieve 3,600 a year in PIP
@Helen_Whately receives *39,000* a year in housing.
If our Hels wants to cut down the welfare bill I've an idea where she should start...
Paul Carden retweeted
On 22nd September 1934 at Gresford Colliery, Wales, an explosion killed 266 men & boys underground. 6 survived and only 11 bodies were ever recovered.
The wages of all were docked by half a days pay by the owners because the men had 'failed to complete their shift.'
Care to Fact Check this @BBCr4today ,@BBCNewsnight ?
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.....
Paul Carden retweeted
She was only four when Trump said he would end the war in 24 hours. Just turned six when Musk decided to join Trump on Putin’s side and help the Kremlin killers murder her
Paul Carden retweeted
Looks like selling Royal Mail to a Czech billionaire worked out every bit as well as selling our water system to an Australian investment bank and our steel industry to an Indian multinational
Paul Carden retweeted
We cannot keep going back to the trough of working people - they simply haven't got anything left to give.
Stop making everyday people pay - tax wealth. @TaxJusticeUK ⤵️
Paul Carden retweeted
Did we ever get to the bottom of this?
The whole thing seems to have disappeared without a trace.
Paul Carden retweeted
Oh my god @grok I've just heard that a country plans to execute a paraplegic former soldier by firing-squad on live stream on December 3, 2026.
I assume the country is Iran. Am I right? I mean what other country could possibly be this backward, evil and barbaric?
Paul Carden retweeted
In the first series of Clarkson's Farm, a young woman told Jeremy Clarkson his sheep would never make money, and the wool cheque proved her right before the year was out.
Ellen Helliwell was the shepherd he hired when it became clear he could not manage 78 ewes himself. She lambed them through the night, treated their feet, and told him the arithmetic at the start.
Then came shearing. A gang arrives, charges by the head, and leaves a pile of fleeces. Clarkson sent the wool off and learned what every sheep farmer in Britain already knew. The fleece was worth less than the cost of taking it off the animal.
For 800 years that fleece was the wealth of England. It paid for the cathedrals and the wars. A sheep was kept for five or six years for her wool, and the mutton at the end was a bonus that fed the country.
Now the wool is a disposal problem, so the only thing a sheep can earn from is a lamb sold at five months. One income where there used to be three. Clarkson's flock lost money, and he said so on television.
The reason the fleece is worthless is in your wardrobe. The jumper is acrylic, the fleece jacket is polyester, the carpet is nylon, and all of them are made from oil.
Ellen could do everything a shepherd has had to do since the Bronze Age, and do it at three in the morning. The thing she could not do was compete with a plastics factory.
Check the label in your collar before you ask why British lamb costs what it costs.
Paul Carden retweeted
It’s close but having flown both the A380 & A350 and measured the noise levels on these and the 787 I can confidently say the A380 is the quietest. It’s also the smoothest ride in the skies. It has some very clever bits and pieces which actively move some control surfaces to keep the flight as smooth as possible. These aren’t fitted to the A350. The A380 is the best airliner flying today, unless you are an accountant! 🤣
Paul Carden retweeted
Today I have written to the head of the UK Football Policing Unit after its disgraceful attempt to link alcohol with the Hillsborough disaster following the Prime Minister’s call to ease restrictions at football matches.
Alcohol did not cause Hillsborough. The behaviour of supporters did not cause or contribute to the disaster.
These are the authoritative, factual conclusions of the inquests and the independent investigations. They are not matters of opinion.
Thirty-seven years on, when will policing authorities finally accept the truth and stop perpetuating the lies and smears created in the aftermath of the disaster?
Enough is enough.
#JFT97
Paul Carden retweeted
His name is Luke Hewitson and he plays for Chester FC in the National League North, the 6th tier of English football. 🏴🧤
This save deserves to be seen far and wide. 👏
Paul Carden retweeted
If you give a £50 note to a butcher, who then buys from the baker, who then buys from the candlestick maker, it’s worth £50 to each of them, & after 50 transactions it’s still worth £50
If you pay by card, the bank takes 1.5%, 3% or even 5%
The butcher, baker and candlestick maker all have to pay the bank for the privilege of transacting, and by 50 transactions…
The bank has the whole £50 in fees
This is the real reason they want a cashless society
Cash is freedom, but it’s also trillions the banks can NOT take from you
Paul Carden retweeted
#TheTrippleLock
The triple lock is there to 'gradually' increase the dismally low state pension to a livable amount.
Pensioners have the same outgoings that everyone has, how can they live decently on a pension that is only worth 'half' the minimum wage. . . .
#JustDisgraceful