“…its not small boats that are driving an increase in immigration – it’s the choices made by government”

What many people need to read to understand what is really happening regarding UK immigration from BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68626430

TWO NATIONS: THE STATE OF POVERTY IN THE UK

The widening gulf between mainstream society and a depressed and poverty-stricken underclass.

After over 13 years of austerity under Conservative Governments who have pushed the national debt up to 2.643 TRILLION POUNDS this is what we have to show for it.

https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/two-nations

Water companies want bills to increase by £156 a year by 2030 to pay for upgrades and reduce sewage discharges.

The increase would allow infrastructure spending to almost double to £96bn and fund the construction of 10 new reservoirs, the water industry says.

Hmmm…Water companies have extracted £72 billion in dividends for their share holders since privatisation.

By my calculations around 35% of my Anglian Water bill is going towards servicing the debt Anglian Water has accumulated since privatisation and paying dividends to shareholders.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2023/dec/18/how-much-of-your-water-bill-is-swallowed-up-by-company-debt-interactive

Drowning in dividends: the failed privatisation of Britain’s water industry

Rosebank Oil Field – Enough oil to supply the world for almost 3 days

It is said to contain up to 300 million barrels of oil 

Global oil consumption is projected to reach 101.89 million barrels per day in 2023

Broken Britain and the return of “private affluence and public squalor”

The Problem?

Broken Britain and the return of “private affluence and public squalor”

The Answer?

https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2023/3/18/universal-public-services

Badenoch’s Brexit Balderdash

At the Belfast investment summit September 2023 to attract investment in Northern Ireland:

“UK Secretary of State for Business and Trade, Kemi Badenoch told the summit that Northern Ireland had a unique trading position with a “seamless land border within the single market and within an internal UK market”.

In her maiden speech as an MP on 19 July, she described the vote for Brexit as “the greatest ever vote of confidence in the project of the United Kingdom”

The Doubling of the National Debt: The Conservatives Have ‘Spent All the Money’ – Byline Times

This article from 2020 (and the national debt has grown significantly since then) tries to set the record straight on one of the biggest myths in UK politics.

The Doubling of the National Debt: The Conservatives Have ‘Spent All the Money’

Not only do the Conservatives spend more than Labour… they sell the nations assets in the process, they divert more of it away to private profit making companies than non-profit public services and the nation has less to show for the money borrowed while heaping more debt on younger and future generations.

Blundering Conservatives

Billions thrown at “businesses”, psychopaths and gangs – Billions taken away from disabled and poor.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62338308

European Court of Human Rights

The UK was a founding of the European Court of Human Rights backed by none other than Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill’s Zurich speech

https://www.coe.int/en/web/documents-records-archives-information/winston-churchill-and-the-ce

“We must build a kind of United States of Europe […] the first practical step will be to form a Council of Europe.”

Russia and the Conservative Party

A very illuminating article from Robert Peston (ITV News) that says so much about Boris Johnson and The Conservative Party and begs the question “How far has the Conservative Party’s relationship with Putin and his cronies actually empowered Russia?”

“Why when Covid was raging did Boris Johnson care so much about giving Lebedev a peerage?”

https://www.itv.com/news/2022-03-06/why-when-covid-was-raging-did-the-pm-care-about-giving-lebedev-a-peerage

How Boris Johnson’s Party Shielded Russian Oligarchs’ Cash:

https://jacobinmag.com/2022/03/boris-johnson-uk-tories-conservatives-russian-oligarchs

Guardian Opinion:

“Russia can only afford its war in Ukraine because Britain helped raise the cash“

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/08/britain-war-in-ukraine-britain-putin-regime