THE STATE OF THE UK

Keith Cormack, Hartlepool - Hartlepool People
- Tony Gosling RetweetedUK corporate law actively encourages directors to asset-strip businesses rather than invest in them over the long term We are cutting education budgets per pupil whilst every G20 country (bar USA) is increasing them: so we have too few skills, and too many low paid jobs
- Tony Gosling RetweetedMore: The richest 10% of UK household wealth is 315 times greater than the poorest 10% of UK household wealth. In 1950 you could afford a 3 bedroom house and car in London on the equivalent household income of £25,000. Today you need £430,000.
- Tony Gosling RetweetedWe sell arms to Israel (44 years in breach of UN resolutions) and Saudi Arabia (still flog women for driving and hang homosexuals) UK tax code is 17,000 pages long, custom-made to hide every possible trick for the rich to evade and avoid tax
- Tony Gosling RetweetedOf our last 6 Prime Ministers, only 2 got the job by winning a majority at a general election The last 4 governments won absolute power with the vote of less than 30% of voters, and less than 25% of the electorate
- Tony Gosling Retweeted70% of new jobs since 2010 have been casual or freelance, with average earnings £16,500 below the average full-time permanent job The "minimum wage" is less than the minimum required to survive
- Tony Gosling Retweeted90% of Northern Europe's poorest regions are in the UK More members of the cabinet attended the same private school than have used the NHS in the last decade

A well nourished Sudanese man steals maize from a starving child during a food distribution at a feeding center in Sudan in 1998. Photo by Tom Stoddart.
Since 2010 £225bn has been cut from public spending Since 2010 the richest 1000 individuals have increased their wealth by £225bn This is supposed to be a coincidence
WHO WON WORLD WAR II?
NOVICHOK SUSPECTS - FALSE FLAG- Our electoral system is designed to prevent new parties from entering it We have the greatest inequality in Europe, costing the economy an estimated £39bn per year, or £1400 per person
- Tony Gosling RetweetedWe're the only European nation that doesn't own any of it's railways, water or power companies. Only 138 constituencies actually matter, because the other 500 are essentially rotten boroughs which never change hands no matter how you vote.
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