Chris 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.....
Chris retweeted
Lord Foulkes is set to challenge the Sovereign Grant Bill in the House of Lords, questioning why we fork out £100m a year compared to Spain (£7m) and Sweden (<£15m).
Preaching about homelessness from multiple empty mansions while zooming around in private helicoptersis an absolute joke.
It's a massive kick in the teeth during a cost of living crisis.
#AbolishTheMonarchy
Chris retweeted
Anyone idiot enough to vote for the Tories after 14 years of utter shithousery should remember a lot of today's issues roll back to this woman.
86% of those in receipt of universal credit are IN WORK.
All the Tories care about is the rich and lining their own pockets.
Chris retweeted
🔴@Helen_Whately, Shadow Secretary of State for Work & Pensions, has claimed £2 MILLION expenses in 10 years.
£300,000 relates to her own travel and accommodation - yet she only lives 50 miles from London.
Her boss, @KemiBadenoch has 3 children, claims £2.7K per month to rent a 6 bed farmhouse & tried to claim expenses for a family holiday.
The country cant afford these @Conservatives.
- @Heccles94
Chris retweeted
Andy Burnham has a huge majority.
He could tax wealth by Christmas if he wanted to.
It's obvious he's not going to.
He's going to make young disabled people and pensioners pay instead.
He ain't no socialist.
Chris retweeted
🔴KEMI BADENOCH: Housing Benefit
'Taxpayers foot the £2,700 a month rent on @KemiBadenoch's six-bedroom farmhouse in Essex.
Then she goes on telly and argues that taxpayers shouldn't subsidise other people's rent.'
-@David__Osland
Chris retweeted
This is Lord Rothermere.
He is a billionaire who owns the Daily mail. He lives and works in Britain, but opts out of paying tax in Britain.
He is so patriotic he has avoided paying millions and millions (perhaps hundreds of millions) in tax by being a ‘non dom’ despite living here.
No wonder he’s scared of the Green party who want to tax the rich.
Chris retweeted
Helen Whatley MP spends every day bashing disabled people online and calling them scroungers.
She has claimed for almost £2,000,000 on expenses since 2015.
£300,000 of this are for her own travel and accommodation etc, yet she lives 50 miles from London.
Chris retweeted
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Why do the Goverment never look at Tax Avoidance & Tax Haven fiddles and recovering the Billions that occurred during Covid on the PPE scandal such as Mone!the amounts from these things Dwarf any Benefit Fraud & looking to stop the Triple Lock for Pensioners
Chris retweeted
We can’t.
House of Lords payments - £371 per day. ❌
Housing costs for MPs ❌
Utility bills for MPs ❌
Subsidised food in Palace of Westminster ❌
Cheap booze in Palace of Westminster ❌
Buckingham Palace renovations ❌
Two Number 10s ❌
And that’s just for starters.
We can't carry on as we are.
Politics as usual has taken Britain backwards, and more of the same won't get us where we need to be.
Today, I'll set out a different path for our country.
That means having an honest conversation about the things we've ignored for too long, from fixing social care and tackling youth unemployment to giving people more control over energy, water and housing.
Hope comes from honesty.
It comes from saying the things politicians usually avoid, being straight about the challenges we face, and having the courage to fix them.
That's exactly what I will do.
Chris retweeted
Nothing about taxing the rich, the banks or the big companies that fleece their customers to pay their shareholders.
How about taking the golden lock off politicians gold plated pensions or their guaranteed above inflation pay rises.
Not to mention their extortionate expenses.🧐
Chris retweeted
"Its the wrong place to get money from.. there are other places.. the richest 50 families are worth £500bn. Why are we talking about pensioners £12,500 & not talking about a wealth tax. Why is that?"
@UniteSharon says scrapping the triple lock would be the wrong thing to do
Chris retweeted
Maximum monthly State Pension.
Luxembourg £5,426
Norway £1,839
Switzerland £1,657
Denmark £1,486
Sweden £1,373
Belgium £1,338
Netherlands £1,322
France £1,254
Spain £1,238
UK £997
Guess which is unaffordable?
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Chris retweeted
I see former Sun Editor Kelvin MacKenzie is bigging up that other Gargoyle Piers Morgan re his 'war of words' with Charles Spencer.
Two of the most appalling media individuals giving sermons on truth and sincerity. Outrageous levels of hypocrisy.
#Hypocrites
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