RT @PlainLincoln
@Lavenderchina Not at all. Private medical insurance in UK right now is priced off broad assumption that emergency, chronic and most acute care will be covered by NHS, with PMI covering only lucrative bits. PMI WITHOUT comprehensive NHS, like USA? Multiply current UK quote by 5 or 10🤑😳
RT @TorstenBell
Sigh. No-one thinks there’s an epidemic of young single professionals going to food banks. There are these things called children which you probably don’t want to bring up in a single room. And obviously lots of people earning far less than £30k https://twitter.com/leeandersonmp_/status/1616005190036987906
It's always the poorest that pay under Neoliberalism
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RT @ColeStangler
Yes, France spends a lot of money on pensions, but the system delivers a decent standard of living for millions. Macron's proposed reforms will disproportionately hurt low-wage workers. My story @thenation #ReformeDesRetraites #Greve19janvier https://www.thenation.com/article/world/macron-france-retirement-pensions/
https://twitter.com/ColeStangler/status/1615654337803329546
It should be free anyway, what a dystopian way of thinking.
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RT @NRO
One answer to reducing abortions, @AUL argues, is to ensure that every woman knows that she can give birth with no money out-of-pocket.
The paper acknowledges that this would not be cheap. | @theWesleyJSmith
https://trib.al/QaXnfFD
https://twitter.com/NRO/status/1615999926378315776
RT @mikecoulson48
Nurses have watched their wages shrink for 12 years – they don't need budgeting lectures from Tory MPs https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/e/nurses-have-watched-their-wages-shrink-12-years-they-dont-need-budgeting-lectures#.Y8j_GDeVrGg.twitter
RT @timmckane
James Dyson, who made all his billions in the UK and then took his greed to SE Asia, complaining the the UK is riven with taxes and regulations. So how come he got so rich? And why is he so greedy that he left? By the way we had one of his overpriced Hoovers it was crap! #R4Today
@mrpieceofwork It definitely is "cheaper" to build a world around people's needs - for a start long term investment in "green" solutions wouldn't be an issue, not having to choose between human suffering or "shareholder value" etc. etc.
Nuclear warheads don’t care about your feelings https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/us-may-help-ukraine-launch-an-offensive?r=cfvq7&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Oh hey, it's our old friend #MechanicalTurk...
@schmidt_fu I do still share my toots however.
@schmidt_fu I use it to bring tweets across from Twitter, but I don’t go the other way. This is because Mastodon is much more private and I don’t feel I have permission.
Whereas on Twitter everything is public, so sharing tweets feels okay.
I don't want to share the road with either drunks or self-driving cars.
RT @WarmongerHodges
The "promises" of a politician who lied to the people who voted for him are worthless. https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1615777415749320731
RT @grosmorne29
"Peacekeepers" is also another interesting word to use - instead of "armed foreign occupiers." https://twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1615352742284771330
Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.