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George Thomas retweeted
All perfectly legal under corporate law no doubt. If it was an individual rather than a company doing this, a number of laws would have been broken. And this is the problem of extractive capitalism.
George Thomas retweeted
@andyburnham Like Woolworths, Comet, Debenhams etc etc. Private equity bought and asset stripped leaving taxpayer's to pick up the Benefits Bill. Meanwhile we hear Government whining about the benefits bill & how work is good for mental health🤮. Is there anyone there to act?
George Thomas retweeted
This one company owes £97m in tax.
This one company owes £127m to other companies.
Yet reform , tories, some Labour blame the poor, who owe very minor amounts in comparison.
Who do HMRC go after, the easy money, the individual the newly started businesses.
Better laws are needed.
George Thomas retweeted
This is why Politicians should have no, I mean zero, influence over where pension money is allocated.
George Thomas retweeted
There's something really fucking weird going on here.
Do you recall the Labour MP from Scotland, Joani Reid, who resigned the whip this summer, after being investigated for spying links?
She slept with a submarine captain, who was investigated last year.
She's married to one David Taylor, a Labour politician and businessman who was attested this year on suspicion of spying for China. David Taylor also works as a lobbyist for a firm with ties to Bute Energy.
David Taylor also sits on the Cardiff council Penisom Committee, the body that made the decision to invest pension funds into the company that hasn't built any turbines but has paid out millions in dividends.
@grok fact check me
George Thomas retweeted
“The dividends appear to have been enabled by a substantial accounting revaluation, combined with financial restructuring - not profits from operating wind farms.
According to an analysis of Companies House filings by the campaign group Re-THINK:
£190 million revaluation.
In July 2023, a Bute group company increased the accounting value of its development assets by approximately £190 million, based on projected future cash flows.
Restructuring of reserves.
A deferred share was reportedly issued and cancelled, with the effect of transferring an amount into distributable reserves.
£60 million dividend.
A dividend was declared within the group and subsequently passed through parent companies, with approximately £58 million reportedly distributed to shareholders.
A subsequent correction.
The original accounting treatment was reportedly reversed and later restructured again in January 2025.”
George Thomas retweeted
Imagine investing £68 million of pension money in a company planning to build wind farms.
Years later, no wind farms have been completed.
Yet the company has now distributed £60 million in dividends.
George Thomas retweeted
🚨NHS Deletes Evidence During Ongoing Inquiries into Patient Harm
A Libyan-born brain surgeon, Sam Eljamel, worked at a Scottish NHS hospital for nearly two decades before being suspended in 2013. Patients and campaigners say he carried out botched operations that left up to 200 people with life-changing injuries. An official public inquiry into his work is still under way, yet NHS staff later destroyed key theatre logbooks even though they had been ordered to keep them.
In a separate case, an English NHS trust at the centre of the country’s biggest maternity scandal methodically deleted hundreds of files. Police concluded the deletion was most likely deliberate. Trusts deny any organised cover-up, but repeatedly losing the very records needed for investigations leaves patients and families with fewer answers and less trust.
George Thomas retweeted
A Ukrainian refugee can't afford to buy a house in Scotland because she will be forced to pay an additional £9,000 property tax charge since she still owns a small flat in Ukraine
In Scotland anyone who already owns another property, including one overseas, has to pay an 8% Additional Dwelling Supplement Charge.
It's high time the opposition parties signed up to abolish these poisonous additional property taxes.
George Thomas retweeted
You can rely on LABOUR to throw away our money on the illegals. £23 MILLION for leasing a hotel for migrants which was never used.🙄
Inside the luxury hotel for migrants with jacuzzi and fine dining in huge £23m waste.
There is outrage the Government blew £23million on a London hotel that was not required.
express.co.uk/news/politics/…?
George Thomas retweeted
I read the reports coming out of Manchester this morning and I am genuinely speechless.
Andy Burnham’s old political machine has just been caught secretly intercepting and censoring emails sent by the public to elected politicians.
What were those emails actually about? A resident was asking hard questions about the £55 million in taxpayer loans Burnham handed to Abu Dhabi property developers when he was Mayor, with zero affordable housing requirements.
Instead of letting elected councillors read the concerns of their constituents, unelected bureaucrats quietly diverted the emails straight to the legal department to be buried.
The politicians had absolutely no idea their personal inboxes were being filtered by the state.
The council claims they had to intercept the messages because of potential litigation. It is a complete lie.
Internal correspondence proves the city solicitor asked for this specific resident to be blocked months before any legal threat even existed.
You vote for local representatives to hold the system accountable. But the second a citizen asks where Burnham sent public money in a Gulf state property deal, his political syndicate builds a secret digital firewall to protect the investment.
This is not a functioning democracy. This is a captured corporate cartel running a cover-up for the Prime Minister, and the national media is letting them get away with it in broad daylight.
George Thomas retweeted
Imagine the disrespect of losing your seat due to falling asleep on the job 😂
