RT @ShaunLintern@twitter.com
In the last year, 50k staff left social care - leaving 18% of care beds empty in August. Since 2010, numbers of district nurses have halved. @homecareassn@twitter.com says more than half of companies providing care to people are saying no to new clients. A quarter are reducing care
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ShaunLintern/status/1594035380440875011
As the World Cup opens in Qatar, our thoughts are with the migrant workers who suffered to make it possible. We still recall how Qatar was the only government that was willing to host the next World Trade Organization summit after demonstrators shut it down in Seattle in 1999.
But rather than treating Qatar as exceptional, we should scrutinize the World Cup itself. Here's why our Brazilian comrades resisted the World Cup and its impact on their communities back in 2014:
From birdsite
RT @mikeysmith
STORY
21 Tory MPs have put TV Licences for their offices on expenses this year - after the government scrapping free telly for pensioners
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/21-tory-mps-claimed-tv-28534732
4. I've warned elsewhere that we shouldn't rely on Starlink as a solution to the challenges of rural broadband, because it's run by an unpredictable megalomaniac. Quebec's rural broadband project to cover the whole province relies on Starlink -- the prospect of Musk just shutting it down, or it failing because of his failures, doesn't seem as hypothetical or remote today as it did even a few months ago.
So good to see you here Steve, Missed your fight for the good since I was banned from the #birdshite
Looking forward to engaging with you again and reading of your exploits once more.
From birdsite
Will you join me and buy Christmas gifts for refugees? https://secure.freedomfromtorture.org/page/92485/donate/1?locale=en-GB&en_chan=tw&en_ref=231468260
Self explanatory statements below. I have a theory on this.
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A tweet from from the Conservative party, shared by many Government ministers, claims the UK has signed new trade deals with more than 70 countries, worth over £800 billion. It is, of course, complete boll****
https://youtu.be/Ke0WQVRiN_Q
THE QUESTION every journalist should be asking right now is why the hell should ordinary workers have to pay to fill a massive £30bn black hole blown in the country’s finances by the Conservative Governments gross incompetence, negligence & ineptitude!!
Before Twitter gets completely broken, or some of us get locked out, I just want to observe that the company is bankrolled by Saudi money, just like the Trump family (and surprisingly enough The Independent and Evening Standard)
https://twitter.com/peterjukes/status/1593414102545743872?s=61&t=PY-g2osekuRqKROyQ3xYUA
From birdsite
Move on, seriously https://greenplenty.substack.com/p/flogging-the-stain-in-the-road
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RT @workersliberty
The president of the UK's biggest union, Andrea Egan, has been expelled from Labour on absurd grounds. Every labour movt organisation must protest!
Please also sign + share our statement against Labour's ban on Workers' Liberty: http://bit.ly/lift-wl-ban
https://novaramedia.com/2022/11/18/president-of-unison-expelled-from-la…
https://twitter.com/workersliberty/status/1593643676999340032
Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.