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The estate of deceased intestates in Duchy of Cornwall and dying without next of kin passes to the Duchy.
Same applies to residents of County Palatine of Lancaster.
Money is mostly passed to the Dukes' favoured charities
Elsewhere, it goes to the state.
leftfootforward.org/2026/10/…
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The Duchy of Cornwall owned the by Prince of Wales is a giant business organization
It is exempt from corporation and capital gains tax, uses infrastructure funded by others to make profit.
Inevitably, leads to unfair competition and free-rider problem.
leftfootforward.org/2026/10/…
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The biggest benefits claimant in the UK.
They claim an eye watering £17,500,000,000 a year.
The same as 4.4m people on benefits.
How?
Because they claim ALL their costs, every wage, every oil rig, every tanker.
Completely nationalised, but the profits are Privatised.
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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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Woah! Go New Mexico. This is a really important message to Silicon Valley tech companies: you are not above the law
Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case cnbc.com/2026/10/21/meta-new…
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The UK ‘wealth exodus’ was manufactured by the press. The press complaints body IPSO must investigate or step aside.
The story started with one study which now admits it has no evidence.
Media owned by corporations and the super rich lapped it up.
taxjustice.net/2026/10/19/th…
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Burnham urges officials to come up with more radical options for Thames Water.
Here are some
Enforce laws.
Prosecute execs for harming health, environment.
Cancel licence to operate.
Put TW into special administration.
Nationalise at knockdown price.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
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What if austerity was never necessary? Where would we be now? Without rioting in France, for a start. And in a country with hope, and not despair, as we have here in the UK. It is time to consign austerity to history for good. youtu.be/0c61E0MKCF8?si=Lfd-…
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King Charles doesn't pay capital gains tax (CGT), income/inheritance tax.
The Duchy of Lancaster doesn't pay corporation tax, CGT.
The King voluntarily paid £30m since Accession. No way of knowing what it could be.
Would you like to pay tax voluntarily?
leftfootforward.org/2026/10/…
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Every country that joins the EU gets richer. This is a documented stone cold fact. Every country that leaves the EU gets poorer. This is a documented stone cold fact and should have been obvious to everyone with a working brain stem.
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If one billionaire can slow down the internet for an entire country, shut down Starlink during crises, turn off your car and your wifi, and censoring voices online, that billionaire has way too much power, with no capability of accountability. The definition of power, unchecked.
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"This is the opportunity to establish a lasting route to public ownership—not leave it to discretionary policy."
Our friends at @ABCommuters are clear: the House of Lords must amend the Railways Bill to embed public ownership of rolling stock in the law
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Remember when the Panama Papers came out, revealed that all rich people in the world are part of enormous criminal network to dodge taxes and hoard stolen wealth in offshore accounts, and the journalist who reported was murdered by a car bomb, and no one was held accountable, and literally nothing happened.
Remember that there are 3 million files of documented evidence about powerful men and women who raped, cannibalized, trafficked, filmed, terrorized, tortured, hunted, and murdered 13, 14, 15 year children, and no one was held accountable, and literally nothing happened.
Remember that the United States literally kidnapped a sitting president of a foreign country and his wife and they’ve just been sitting in jail for the past 6 months, and no one was held accountable, and literally nothing happened.
Remember that there are two genocides—one in Gaza and the other in Lebanon—and that there are arrest warrants for war crimes and crimes against humanity, and no one was held accountable, and literally nothing happened.
This is what will happen—and continue to happen—if we do not unite to enforce international law.
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The most plausible single explanation for why Russian interference in the Brexit referendum was never properly investigated is political reluctance, across successive governments, to do anything that might call the legitimacy of the result into question.
That reluctance was sharpest under Conservative governments whose authority rested on delivering the 52–48 mandate.
The Times has pulled together the evidence of Russian activity around the 2016 referendum: Russia-linked social-media networks, bot activity, state media propaganda and the same wider interference techniques seen in other democracies.
But the most important point is still the one Parliament’s Russia Report raised in 2020:
Britain never properly investigated it.
Russia expert Keir Giles puts it starkly: the UK “carefully looked away from what was happening.”
That is why asking whether anyone can prove Russia changed the result misses the point. Before you can assess impact, you have to establish what happened.
And ten years later, Britain is still trying to answer that question.
Full article in 🧵 👇
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👇@andyburnham @EmmanuelMacron @LMontenegro_PT @GiorgiaMeloni
@Bart_DeWever @ediramaal
When will u get it?
People of the world R fighting back against the 1-5% RICHEST/GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION & ABUSE!
95% of the population R EXPLOITED by the RICHEST!
#TaxTheRich
#EndPrivatisation
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Complicity in Slaughter: Outrage Explodes as Reports Link Musk and Trump to Ukraine Drone Shield Crippling
Demands are rapidly intensifying for Donald Trump and far-right disinformation propagandist Elon Musk to face international war crimes charges following a catastrophic disruption to Ukraine's frontline defenses.
A devastating exposé by The Telegraph, citing four anonymous sources, reveals a shocking level of complicity: it was Elon Musk who personally approached Donald Trump with the proposal to throttle Starshield — the military-grade version of his Starlink satellite network. Trump reportedly agreed to the scheme.
By deliberately crippling Ukraine's drone defense systems, this calculated move effectively disabled the country's shield against Russian aggression. The sabotage directly allowed Vladimir Putin's forces to rain lethal drone strikes down upon undefended cities, resulting in the brutal slaughter of innocent Ukrainian men, women, and children.
Critics and legal experts argue that by actively interfering with military infrastructure to benefit an invading, authoritarian Apparatchik force, both figures have crossed the line from political interference into direct complicity in war crimes.
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Did ordinary people in the UK vote to leave the EU?
No!
We voted in an advisory referendum.
Not to leave the Single Market.
Not to lose Freedom of Movement.
Not for higher living costs.
Previous UK governments chose Brexit for us
But we can choose to change it.
🤖 Made with AI
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you first! 50% salary reduction for MPs, cap expenses at bare minimum levels, scrap food & booze subsidies in the HoC and abolish the second home allowance, you can get trains to work and pay for them yourselves, like the rest of the public. we’re all in this together, aren’t we?
