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As an independent I received 20% of the vote in Holborn & St.Pancras against Keir Starmer. The poll below suggests 12% would still vote independent. I strongly encourage all those who supported me to vote for @ZackPolanski so we can consign not just Starmer but Starmerism too, to the dustbin of history

Toys R Us was profitable. Private equity bought it anyway, and 33,000 people lost their jobs with nothing. In 2005, Bain Capital, KKR, and Vornado Realty Trust bought Toys R Us in a leveraged buyout for $6.6 billion. Here's the part that gets skipped: the company itself was making money. It wasn't failing. It wasn't asking to be saved. But in a leveraged buyout, the firms don't pay with their own money. They borrow against the company they're buying, and the debt becomes the company's problem, not theirs. Toys R Us went from having almost no debt to carrying over $5 billion in loans it never asked for and never benefited from. Every year after that, a huge share of the company's profit went straight to interest payments instead of stores, inventory, or staff. The stores got run down. Amazon and Walmart kept eating market share. Toys R Us couldn't invest its way out because there was nothing left after the debt. In 2017 it filed for bankruptcy. In 2018 it liquidated completely. 33,000 employees lost their jobs. Store closures. No severance for most of them. Giovanna De La Rosa worked there for years. She testified before Congress on November 19, 2019, describing what it meant to lose her income with nothing after decades of loyalty to a company that had been profitable the entire time she worked there. The firms that bought it walked away having collected management fees for over a decade, regardless of outcome. Here's the sentence that explains the entire model: the buyers cannot lose. The debt belongs to the company. The fees get collected either way. They didn't buy a business to grow it. They bought a business to extract from it, and left 33,000 people holding what was left.

Student loan terms to be made clearer in England. Decades of mis-selling. Why no compensation? £295bn England student debt. Unlike England most European countries don't charge Uni tuition fees. What chance of buying a home, starting a family? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4v…

This summer, our fire and rescue service was forced beyond breaking point. The FBU is making 10 demands that will ensure firefighter, public, and ecological safety.

FBU delegates are bringing a motion to TUC Congress today on justice for the victims of Grenfell. 2027 will mark 10 years since 72 people lost their lives at the devastating fire. We are demanding that those responsible are prosecuted.

This is Ireland's moment. A nation holds its breath. #stopthegame

Today I visited Dan Norie at HMP Elmley on the Isle of Sheppey He is a gentle, compassionate and powerful soul He has been held on remand in British prisons for 14 months, accused of getting into RAF Brize Norton and throwing paint on some planes in June 2025 to raise awareness of the UK military’s direct participation in the Gaza genocide He—and all Palestine Action prisoners—must be freed immediately It’s the darkest stain on our country that we have people rotting in prison for allegedly taking non-violent direct action to stop a UK-backed genocide, while the politicians who ordered our military and intelligence agencies to participate in it roam free Free Dan Norie. Free the Brize Norton 5. Free all Palestine Action prisoners

BREAKING: REPORTS OF MASSIVE EXPLOSIONS AT KING KHALID AIR BASE IN SAUDI

Well after today’s announcement from the Bank of England, there is something very, very, very wrong in the system... 😡 So … let me get this straight: * British Gas made a profit of £1.3bn between January & June * BP announced profits of £6.95 billion between April and June alone * Shell has profited by £9.4bn in a year The MEN at the top: * John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid received £6.5m bonus on top of his salary * Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica was paid almost £2m last year in salary and benefits * Centrica's non-executive directors were paid almost £1m * Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on £1.15m. * E.On boss Michael Lewis is on £1m * EDF's Simone Rossi is also on £1m * And their top execs enjoyed a share of £4.65m * Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned a £1.3m pay package * Welsh Water bosses awarded themselves bonuses of over £930,000 * Severn Trent bosses awarded themselves bonuses of £5.56m * Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a £727,000 bonus on top of her £2m annual salary Meanwhile there are... * People who haven't had breakfast and/or lunch TODAY, because they can't afford it. * People using FoodBanks because food is becoming more of a luxury than a necessity. * Children celebrating a birthday without presents. * Parents worrying about new school uniforms - and some schools enforcing rules which are not cost-effective. * People who can't get to work because they can't afford to put petrol in their cars/pay for public transport anymore. * People who are working so much they're making themselves ill, and they STILL CAN'T AFFORD to pay their bills. * People who have been given fines by these same energy/water companies because they couldn't afford to pay their bills in the first place - increasing their debt. * Customers being told to do STAR JUMPS TO KEEP WARM for crying out loud! * Hose pipe bans when gallons of water leak away everyday. * Elderly people NOT DRINKING because they're worried about running out of water!!! All this and energy prices are set to rise up to 75% in October... THIS IS MADNESS!.. I'm all for supporting profits … I'm not for supporting greed at the cost of lives of others. Something needs to change. Why is customers' money being used to make life more comfortable for those who are making life more intolerable for the rest of us? I actually don't understand how the energy companies are allowed to get away with this and why the government aren't stopping them instead of handing out money..... COPIED AND PASTED FROM OTHERS : PLEASE KEEP IT GOING SO MORE AND MORE GET TO SEE IT . People will read that and then with a straight face still try tell you that illegal immigrants and ethnic minorities and Muslims are the problem. Mental.

Macklemore: Stop killing innocent people Pink: Fuck you, and fuck them. I am proud of what I said. Here is 1000 words about why I am the real victim here.

WATCH: THE STREETS OF DUBLIN ARE FILLED WITH PALESTINIAN FLAGS AS TRUMP VISITS

The BBC needs to be closed down. This disgusting propaganda operation should not be funded by a compulsory levy.

A Muslim migrant Deliveroo driver delivers Asian food to an English woman. Instead of thanking him, the entitled woman gets her phone out, films him and rages: “Are you legal in this country?” She ordered foreign food then questioned him… What gives them the right to question us? Britain has become unrecognisable.