Philibuster

Philibuster

@philibuster.bsky.social

RETIRED Curmudgeon, thinker, drinker, adolescent. "Your lack of planning is not my emergency". Designer of physical products. Cats prove that the Earth isn't flat.

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CEO of scandal-ridden Deloitte gets 45% pay rise to £7.1m, 1,360 jobs cut. CEO pay = 93 times median employee pay. Firm doesn't pay employer NIC on profits shared by partners, worth £150,000 for £1m profit shared. £899m shared. 108 govt contracts in 2026, worth £650m. Friends in high places.

cityam.comDeloitte hikes pay for top boss while headcount shrinksBig Four giant Deloitte hiked pay for one of its chief executives last year by almost half while overall headcount at the firm fell, with some of being due to targeted job cuts.

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Personal tax allowance should be increased for EVERYONE. And the billionaires and Corporations should be taxed. Corporation Tax is currently 25%, an average of just 13.5% is collected. Many billionaires make billions in the UK, but pay no personal tax at all.

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Beware of finance industry lobbying. It hired PwC (the firm that delivers dud audits) to produce a report, claiming that UK banks face highest rates of tax. The report included taxes not borne by banks. Omitted countries that levy higher rates of taxes. Integrity never gets in the way of profits.

theguardian.comIs London really the most-taxed city? Banks accused of cherrypicking dataLobby group’s figures, shared with John Healey, are misleading as they do not include major rival Paris, say campaigners

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Nigel Farage’s attack on the RNLI and co is a new low even for this bottom-feeder. He wants to prosecute anyone who saves lives of people that he doesn't like. Desperate Farage diverts attention from investigations by pledging laws that can't work. archive.ph/5UYnG/

thenewworld.co.ukNigel Farage’s attack on the RNLI and co is a new low even for this bottom-feederReform’s leader told US far right influencer Benny Johnson that NGOs who work with asylum seekers have ‘aided and abetted criminality in absolutely every way’

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Every single one of your problems is billionaires. High prices. Low wages. High Taxes. Poor Services. Unaffordable Housing... Everything, it is all the cost of BILLIONAIRES.

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UK Govt promised to halve consultancy spending by 2025-26. How is it done? By fudging the data and by reclassifying consultancy spending as "professional services". £600m spent. Reliance on consultants means poor in-house knowledge, poor decisions. archive.ph/5Glj6

ft.comGovernment accused of ‘fudging’ consultancy spending to meet pledgeAttempt to clamp down on payments to Big Four firms may be undermined by rise in professional services spending

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Billionaire Reform UK donor was in business with foundation linked to Iranian regime. He is moving his tax residency from Switzerland to the UK to make “regular payments” of more than “one or two million” to the party. Reform for sale to foreign money, made from dubious dealings.

theguardian.comRevealed: billionaire Reform donor was in business with foundation linked to Iranian regimeExclusive: Sasan Ghandehari’s partnership with religious foundation raises questions about past dealings with republic criticised by Nigel Farage

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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 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.orgRoyal financial privileges show that we are not in it togetherThis week, after perfunctory scrutiny, the UK parliament approved a core Sovereign Grant of £99.9m (from 2027/28) for the King, a 93% increase from the £51.8m for 2024/25 and 65% higher in real terms ...

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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 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.

independent.co.ukDWP reveals exact information banks have to share about benefit claimantsMore details have been shared on how the new powers work

This has got to be a feckin joke.

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social

Thames Water line up former Labour minister John Hutton as chairman, as it tries to win over the govt. Hutton left the govt after the expenses and lobbying scandals. Now pursued by TW to fix things politically, TW is financially, environmentally bankrupt.

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The Exposure documentary showing undercover footage of many Reform officials being racist and sexist is on ITV at 10.20pm tonight, so whatever you do, don't watch it.

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Our NHS has been hollowed out over the last few decades. Thank you @premnsikka.bsky.social The UK has 2.4 NHS beds PER 1,000 people Japan: 12.6 Germany: 7.7 Austria: 6.6 France: 5.4 OECD average: 4.2 This is why we have the disgrace of corridor care. It's time to invest and rebuild our NHS

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A would-be Reform UK MP told an undercover reporter that Muslims could not be British and asylum seekers should be put in “concentration camps”. Refers to black children as “animals”. Reform is a party of sleaze, scandals, misogyny and racism, devoid of humanity. Will history repeat itself?

theguardian.comReform candidate filmed saying asylum seekers should be put in ‘concentration camps’Would-be MP recorded telling undercover reporter in ITV investigation that Muslims could not be British

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5000 gallons of diesel leaked from an Equinix data centre in New Jersey, polluting the Hackensack River. The same developer has plans for a 400MW facility next to South Mimms services in Hertfordshire, which includes plans for 137 diesel backup generators. The site is near six Local Wildlife Sites.