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Britons with savings of £16,000 are disqualified or severely restricted from receiving Universal Credit, Housing Benefit, Income Support. No means-testing for the King. Royal family may be worth £21bn? It has 21 officially categorized royal residences, alongside 13 additional properties.

UK Chancellor rejects calls to raise Capital Gains Tax. UK wages taxed at 20%-45% + NIC. CGT 18%-24%, no NIC. Subject to ifs and buts: Denmark 27%-42% Norway 37.84% Netherlands 36% Ireland 33% Finland 30%-34% France 30%-34% Sweden 30% Spain 30% UK hits workers, showers gifts on the rich.

In troubled times Trump’s attempt to sue the BBC ... which is backfiring on him quite spectacularly... brings both hope and amusement newrepublic.com/post/216805/...

Another report that concludes that Britain’s best interest is to rejoin the EU :

UK govt can get information about your bank accounts if you get universal credit, pension credit, employment support allowance. Court order not needed. You won't be told, can't appeal. Same won't apply to enablers of illicit financial flows. No financial privacy for old, poor, sick, unfortunate.

Nigel Farage’s Scottish breakthrough has taken an awkward hit after Amanda Bland quit the Reform whip and announced she will now sit as an independent Her departure leaves Reform on 16 MSPs, one behind Labour on 17, meaning Labour is now Holyrood’s official opposition for the first time since 2016.

The apparent eagerness in the media for this to spread elsewhere and especially here is strange and noticeable

The undercover reporter suggested people did not mind if Farage “makes a few bob [from politics]” Jukes replied: “Well it’s a bit priced in with our Nige, isn’t it, no one’s voting for him to be the pope” But a racist, corrupt, security-risk PM is fine, is it? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Earlier in the year, @josimarfootball.bsky.social ran a detailed investigation into ADI Predictstreet, which appeared from nowhere only weeks before it signed a $150m deal with Fifa. Sixth months on, per the WSJ, it seems almost no real betting takes place on the site. www.wsj.com/finance/near...

People will mock this as small beer politics but predatory behaviour by parking companies has been a major source of frustration and financial cost for millions, and for many years.

🚨🚨🚨 @cweatherspoon.bsky.social's deep dive into FIFA's development model is the most significant piece of research on FIFA in a very long time. FIFA redistributed $4.6billion in the last decade, this work proves a systematic lack of oversight in how it is spent. www.nytimes.com/athletic/767...

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has asked officials to examine more radical options for bringing Thames Water under public control, including potentially converting unpaid regulatory fines into a government stake in the troubled company.

Burnham urges officials to come up with more radical options for Thames Water. Here are some suggestions. Enforce laws. Prosecute execs for harming health, environment. Cancel licence to operate. Put TW into special administration. Nationalise at knockdown price. Apply to all water companies.

Nigel Farage copies Donald Trump's kamikaze tariffs plan after Reform polls plummet www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Deloitte in Cyprus helped in falsifying documents to hide Roman Abramovich's wealth and evade tax, Leaked documents show transactions backdated and tailored. Assets spirited away to BVI. Big four accounting firms advise UK govts, get public contracts, routinely implicated in scandals.

Brexit is forever tainted with disinformation, foreign interference, murky vested interests, ugly prejudice, unforgivable costs and now deep unpopularity. If you really cared about our country and wanted to fix its problems, you’d admit this… Good that Burnham is finally doing so…

PM says it is 'clear' Russia interfered with Brexit vote www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK Councillors Gone: Updated Reform UK Councillor Jim McIlroy (West Surrey) is now an Independent after being ousted as Leader of the West Surrey Group.

Ridiculous person Ridiculous party Ridiculous people Watch

The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.

Trump announces deal to import Russian diesel. Yet he imposed tariffs on China and India for importing fuel from Russia. 3 weeks ago signed law threatening 500% tariffs on India and China. Now facing midterm election defeat ... and Utter bankruptcy of Trump foreign, economic and other policies.

Hopefully

Donald Trump wants regime change in Ukraine but not in Russia, go figure www.thetimes.com/world/russia...

Still think that filthy scum #Trump isn't a Russian asset? President Zelensky is a better, greater man than that traitorous halfwit could ever even dream of being. Slava Ukraini! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Suella Braverman selling 106 copies of her book after all that publicity is so delicious.

Labour voters overwhelmingly want Andy Burnham to commit to rejoining the EU, poll shows www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Aren’t they all repulsive… These corrupt, evil, traitorous men… Farage is particularly pathetic, in his little cap, selling us out to his monstrous sugar-daddy.

Blocked 😂 Zionists don’t like the truth Anyways, here is the original post 👇

The horrors of Gaza Genocide 300,000+ Israelis participated in the Genocide, they were all IDF 1 in every 30 Gazans were murdered in the genocide Imagine. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸

I try to avoid this language, but what a fucking piece of 💩

Schools forced to shut amid burst Thames Water pipe ‘leaking 750 litres a second. TW infrastructure has average age of 79 years. Industry average is 56 years. 40% of TW assets are over 100 years old. Profits siphoned-off, investment neglected, execs rewarded, customers fleeced

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

John Healey dubbed Nigel Farage “Liz Truss with a Bitcoin account” as he launched a bitter attack on the Reform UK leader.

Nigel Farage in Edinburgh today as Reform plummet in polls www.thenational.scot/news/2658712...

The number of times Nigel Farage has fallen over himself to get a racist xenophobic slant on some breaking news SHOULD be a wake up call to anyone who thinks he isn’t just a hate monger, trying to distract from his crypto millions with some new scapegoat

Nandy labels Farage ‘master of conspiracy theory’ over Fairford claims www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” - Aesop Girl playing with cat - Albert Anker - 1887

"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul." — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"It’s quite extraordinary the level of duplicity that was going on in order for us to keep selling Israel arms.”

Hundreds of protesters are camped outside Madrid’s regional government headquarters demanding new tenant protections.

Why might that be, Telegraph?

The new film "Britain's Gaza Secrets Exposed" documents how the U.K. government downplayed evidence of Israeli war crimes in Gaza. "It's quite extraordinary, the level of duplicity that was going on, in order for us to keep selling Israel arms," says executive producer @bendepear.bsky.social.

Former Attorney General

We still don't know what's happened but Farage making a serious twit of himself here.