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22·1 month agoThe problem with renationalising it is that we’d inherit the billions of debt.
“Employees saving into Nest’s Retirement Date Fund from December 2024 are funding Elbit Systems Ltd, Israel’s largest defence firm, which advertises its products as battle-tested by the Israeli military in operations in Palestine.”
“state school” in UK terminology. Public school in the UK means private school. Weird I know.
I smell a rat.
The image for this article, and the same family in slightly different poses, can be found across multiple websites.
The image held within the archived Telegraph article seems to be a generic library image yet there appears to be no reference of this. The footnote of the image implies this is the “hard up” family.
Er … it’s too frigging cold and when it’s warm it stinks due to the streets and paths not being cleared of the pavement pizzas of the previous evening.
The sight of the Trump cabinet pandering to the Orange Turd is utterly embarrassing, but when it’s your own PM doing this it’s on a different level.
The lettuce will be performing an encore.
I remember these private finance initiatives being launched in the 90s and thinking that someone will be making a lot of money from the tax payers.
PFI’s are sanctioned scams.
This has been happening for years, decades even. Building on land that regularly floods and stays flooded for months every year.
If companies paid decent wages there wouldn’t need to be a reliance on state welfare and charities. Companies paying low wages benefit indirectly from the benefits paid.
They’ve got shareholders to feed. Somebody has to pay their inflated dividends.
Actual teaching is not the main part of the job anymore. Teachers are being used as social workers, child minders, parents, filling in the gaps where others are not doing those roles. All of that is wrapped up in red tape.
I’m not a teacher but I looked into it a few years ago. After having our own kids late in life I got to see the hell that teachers go through and many leave for new careers.
All of this on top of the debt that people take on to pay for the training, on top of the debt taken on for a degree.
It shouldn’t be a surprise that this is happening.
Until Christmas the last time I went to a WH Smith’s was when they had a record section.
Called in this Christmas for a last minute board game and ended up buying on Amazon. The stores are tired and don’t seem to have a purpose.
I’m surprised the High Street stores have remained opened for this long. They were past their usefulness well over a decade ago and have been supported by their airport and hospital shops by ripping customers off.
Outdated. Expensive.
“planning, deregulation, energy and trade.” It’s the combination of deregulation and energy that troubles me. Didn’t the financial crisis of 2008 to now start with deregulation of the banks?
Interesting article. They certainly sound like a pair of scum bags.