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The UK's ยฃ45 Billion IT Procurement Scandal: "This isn't incompetence. It's a meticulously engineered wealth transfer from the public purse to a handful of technology giants who've discovered that the UK Government is the world's most reliable Cash Cow."
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If past precedent is anything to go by, Kemi Badenoch's ยฃ10bn British iron dome contact will either go to Michelle Mone or the landlord of Matt Hancock's local pub
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Jeffrey Archer would have been right at home in today's Reform with Farage for like-minded company.
In 1979-80 the cost of local authority elderly residential care was ยฃ63 per week, which was 58% of an average wage. In 2026 it is ยฃ1298, or 184% of an average wage.
Privatisation of care is basically a letter of marque. Licence for the depraved to prey on the desperate.
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The British school dinner was invented by the army, after it tried to recruit for a war and found the country's young men too stunted to send.
In 1899 Britain went to war in South Africa and called for volunteers. In Manchester 11,000 men came forward. The army doctors sent 8,000 of them home. They were too short, too thin, with bad chests, rotten teeth and legs bent by rickets. The minimum height had already been cut to five feet.
A general wrote it up in a magazine under the title Where to Get Men. He put it plainly. Three out of five who offered themselves were unfit to carry a rifle.
Parliament panicked. It set up a Committee on Physical Deterioration, which toured the slums and reported in 1904. Its finding was that the men had been ruined as children, by hunger, and that no amount of drill would fix at eighteen what had not been fed at eight.
It recommended that the state give hungry children a hot meal at school.
The Act passed in 1906. Within a generation there was a cooked dinner of meat and a pudding in nearly every school in the land.
So the stew, the mince, the liver and the jam roly-poly were a defence measure. The Empire had looked at the children it would need in ten years and concluded it was cheaper to feed them now.
Today the army is turning recruits away for being too heavy. Nobody has set up a committee.
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Replying to @UKLabour
@UKLabour if @andyburnham @YvetteCooperMP tom watson & the rest of you love #Palantir so much then f*ck off to US & take them with you, UK should not be sold off, especially our personal data, it is NOT yours to sell
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Bill Burr: โCapitalism is a great thing if itโs regulated and they started deregulating it in the early 80โs and thatโs how we ended up where weโre at. This new way of doing business where you come up with something and you just close the door behind it, nobody else is making money in this sector of business except for me. Itโs out of control. You can tell itโs a monopoly when they donโt give a fuck. It used to be where all you had was your reputation, quality of your product, and how you treated your customers. Live Nation are internally sending emails laughing about how much theyโre fucking over people. Why would you guys be joking about that?โ
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Good Read as usual..
The last three feet.
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There should be both a triple lock on pensions ( we have some of the worst pensions in Europe for one of Europe's hardest working workforce) and social care spending.
Maybe the PM can start looking at where the money has gone in the last 25 years, who it went to and what it was spent on, alongside the routine and corrupt current practice of denying people social care who are having to sell homes and everything they have despite qualification for said care. Bookmark this because it will be a bigger scandal than Post Office and PPE combined.
We're a rich nation who's people ( out collective fault for voting for people and manifestos that change mid term, something that should be a legally binding document by the way) have worked hard for local and national services, care in old age, and a modest buffer to live on in retirement.
This is neither woke, lefty, righty or middly. It's what people vote for only to be u-turned by all governments.
Norway has 3 trillion in the bank, great pension provision, child care, public services and elderly care. They don't have a magic money tree nor have things like the City of London which should be generating huge revenue privately that also benefits us publicly. They simply hold politicians to account, make sound national decisions and aren't tempted by snake oil salesmen promising the earth but delivering zero to them but plenty to pals.
We do the opposite.
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Why am I not surprised that Lord Walney was another Palantir employee /consultant. Should mean his votes in HOL should be scrutinised more thoroughly given he gets a say on legislation and presumably introduces the spy ware people to the NHS and policing procurement contracts
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In 2022, ex-Labour MP John Woodcock joined Palantir as a paid adviser.
Two years later, former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson secured a similar role with the surveillance firm.
Both Woodcock and Watson have been funded by serial pro-Israeli lobbyist Trevor Chinn.


































