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UK Chancellor announces £2bn Energy Wealth Fund after Jackdaw gas project.
PR gesture
UK squandered North Sea wealth in tax cuts for corporations, the rich.
Norway didn't, has $2.4 trillion sovereign fund
UK govts fight class wars, long-term neglected.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm4g…
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”I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all, frighten people & secondly demoralise them. An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.”
- Tony Benn
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Why does a state that issues its own currency by decree need a wealth fund?
It’s based on the same illiterate ‘fiscal black-hole’ - ‘we’ve run out of money’ madness that got us here.
Modern fiat nations do not need to save the currency they freely issue.
#MMT
‘We'd have a British sovereign wealth fund now that will be worth probably a trillion pounds’
Chancellor @JohnHealey_MP suggests what Britain could have gained if it had set up an energy wealth fund like Norway’s back in the 1980s
#Peston
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Ranvir Singh this morning: "9 million people in the UK, I find it obscene, in 2026 are on the verge of or already using foodbanks"
Meanwhile the richest 50 families have more wealth than half the population. The levels of inequality in this country are staggering.
"Almost 9m people.. are at risk of needing a food bank.. that includes 2.9m children.. 1 in 5 people saying there household has run out of food & couldn't afford to buy more.."
As one food bank user explains: "The gap between what we earn & what we need is ever increasing" #GMB
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Immigrant
World-leading cardiac surgeon Asif Hasan was surrounded by the children who received the gift of life thanks to his unerring skills at the emotional climax of another memorable Pride of Britain ceremony. 🥹
Now 70 years old, Mr Hasan has just retired after 35 years of service at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne, but just after receiving his Lifetime Achievement Award, he had an extra special surprise: a cast of patients who would not be alive without him. ❤️
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Corporate Welfare
Rolls-Royce closing in on £200m govt subsidy to fund development of a new engine.
Govt not taking equity stake, money not repayable.
RR had operating profit of £3.5bn in 2024-25, will hand up to£9bn to shareholders over next 3 years.
archive.ph/r18wm
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Meeting on Financialization of Society in the Houses of Parliament.
Private equity has hollowed out town centres.
PE now controls infrastructure, social care, hospitals, dentistry, housing and more.
What needs to be done?
Get your free ticket here
tickettailor.com/events/prem…
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MPs in the UK get paid £98,599 a year.
There is no reason whatsoever to take money from a foreign government other than greed and treason.
Lobbying should be banned.
Members of Parliament are suppose to serve us not Israel.
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The government has until December to decide whether to pull the NHS out of its £330m contract with Palantir - a US spy-tech firm that has facilitated genocide in Gaza.
Andy Burnham needs to pick a side. We have picked ours.
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Endless streams of English MPs and English commentators, talking about Scotlands resources. The very same ppl who’ve been relentlessly telling us that Scotland is too poor to be independent, for years.
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Hang on a minute ………. If there’s Five refineries in England, why would any oil coming from Rosebank be sent to Belgium for refining …….. something stinks here and it involves closure of Grangemouth and UK GOV and Jim Ratcliffe. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🏴🏴🏴🏴
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Sainsbury's has posted an annual profit of £1.02bn.
It current has 10,000 young people working for free, paid by you.
With £1.02bn it could hire 105,905 people aged 18-20 for 16 hours a week all year.
Why not MAKE the scumbags hire instead of giving them free workers?
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The Government has until the end of the year to scrap the NHS-Palantir deal.
Do you want Palantir out of the NHS?
RT if you do.
Lets get them out.
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Get used to it suckers it will be even worse coverage of Scottish affairs once BBC Scotland is closed
The SNP have hit out at the BBC ahead of a Question Time show which is due to debate Scottish oil and gas without any Scottish representation on the panel
SNP MSP Laura Mitchell said the BBC line-up was the 'perfect representation of the story of Scotland’s energy – zero Scottish say over our own resources'
RT @Scotpol1314: And that fund (stolen Scottish natural resources) will be managed in London for London and England,Scotland will see her h…
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