Redcol

Redcol

@redcol.bsky.social

legacy fan, music,beer,football and Architecture - the very stuff of life itself - profoundly anti-fascist

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774 partners of scandal-ridden accountancy firm EY collect £870,000 each. Average partner pay up £83,000 in a year. EY does not pay employer national insurance on profits shared by partners, worth £150,000 for every £1m of profit shared. Despite scandals, gets govt contracts.

cityam.comEY partner pay jumps to £870k despite consulting slumpBig Four giant EY posted a rise in UK fee income and hiked payouts for its partners, even as its consulting arm came under pressure.

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Amazing how many Labour MPs do not understand this quite basic point.

Christabel Cooper@christabelcoops.bsky.social

Really worth noting that even in Red Wall constituencies which backed Leave, most *Labour* voters back rejoining the EU. Over 90% of Labour considerers back rejoin - opposition to EU membership is mainly coming from non-Labour voters in these seats. Was on Times Radio yesterday making this point.

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The Conservatives wouldn't have had an 80-seat majority to "betray Brexit" without Farage's party standing down during that General Election - and it seems getting paid to do it. #r4today

Can I sign up as an informer

David Osland@davidosland.bsky.social

The Daily Mail has compared HMRC to the Stasi. With that in mind, I'd like to start a national conversation on the merits of opening clandestine torture dungeons for billionaire tax dodgers.

Let’s see more of this

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Lisa Nandy really needs to get onto this And that’s only the first - GB news needs to be addressed as well

Plasmama@plasmama.bsky.social

WTF is the point of Lisa Nandy? Why are the BBC still blatantly promoting Reform? 🤬

Michael Emonds@michaelje67.bsky.social

'Lula at the same school, where it all began! ' Brazil's health minister, wearing a Liverpool shirt, celebrating Lula's victory in Brazil! #YNWA #Lula #Brazil 🇧🇷 🔴

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Fuck the far right and up the reds!!! #LFC

Michael Emonds@michaelje67.bsky.social

'Lula at the same school, where it all began! ' Brazil's health minister, wearing a Liverpool shirt, celebrating Lula's victory in Brazil! #YNWA #Lula #Brazil 🇧🇷 🔴

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Justin Webb is one of a number of presenters - Evan Davis also comes to mind - who use a supercilious, faintly mocking, amused tone which has no place in the transmission of news. It's obviously a characteristic that gets you promoted at the BBC. But it is grating for listeners.

Justin Webb is a regular presenter on #BBC Radio4 #Today programme:

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Anti-Reform@antireform.bsky.social

"Nigel Farage has blamed his own staff for a miserable turnout after facing rows of empty seats during a major policy launch ..." www.facebook.com/MirrorPoliti... via Mirror Politics

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Werther's Originals were on special offer at Home Bargains.

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Pro-Europeans really need to get their act together if they're going to sieze the opportunity which is being presented here. Press and broadcasters reverting right back to their previous position from 2016, with zero update.

These Labour MPs in so called brexit seats need to start using their position to help their voters understand the issues and possible benefits and to counter the disinformation so that the voters can make an informed choice

Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social

This is just the maddest argument. These people would trap us in poverty to keep a decade old commitment, which no one ever actually made, to an electorate which no longer exists.

And then that same CEO threatens the government if it tries to raise tax on banks Tax the f**kers

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social

CEO of scandal-ridden Deloitte gets 45% pay rise to £7.1m, 1,360 jobs cut. CEO pay = 93 times median employee pay. Firm doesn't pay employer NIC on profits shared by partners, worth £150,000 for £1m profit shared. £899m shared. 108 govt contracts in 2026, worth £650m. Friends in high places.

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If you're a chief executive on a telephone number salary, at least have the grace not to complain about the taxes the fund the benefits your workers have to claim because you refuse to pay them enough to live on

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Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

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"Suicidal provocation of Russia while our armed forces are at their most woeful state since WW2". Mate, the Russian army is currently pulling T-55's out of storage and losing ~1,800 men a day in foot and motorcycle assaults that achieve nothing. This is "poke the bear" nonsense.

dmitryopines.substack.com‘Poking the Bear’: From Putin to TommoRejecting the world’s dumbest idiom.
David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social

Well you can't get much clearer than that. Restore are Putin stooges.

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It's a good job Suella Braverman claimed £45,000 for water bills on her parliamentary expenses. If she had failed to declare a ten quid overpayment on Universal Credit, she'd have been in serious trouble then.

But apparently the BBC thought it was an important enough political event to cover it

The London Economic@thelondoneconomic.bsky.social

Nigel Farage and Robert jenrick spoke to swathes of empty seats at what was meant to be the party's big event ahead of the budget 😬

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Insolvency scam The boss of twice-bust business back despite £3m debts. These people gut a company, HMRC and creditors not paid. Then buy assets cheaply from the administrator in pre-packs, and back in business. Gone on for decades. No transparency of administrator dealings. No investigation.

theguardian.comThe boss whose twice-bust business appears to be back despite £3m debtsAndrew Woosnam took millions from his companies before leaving creditors including HMRC out of pocket

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Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

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The MU thing is fascinating. Listening to 606 they were all about sacking Carrick but hardly anyone addressed the toxicity of the owners. Howe will come in and Howe too will fail. The club is not set up to win. The ground's falling apart, the staff are unhappy and the owner's a prick.

What fuck is the BBC up to This is political broadcasting And it has no relevance to the Budget Reform polling is going down Who is Farage paying or what Kompromat does he have on a senior figure in BBC news

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

Saw them support Mary Wallopers in Brighton last week - and they were brilliant Seeing them headline back home in Liverpool next week

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What a fucking scruff

Stephen Moran.@moranstephen1000.bsky.social

Javier Milei - Argy Bargy on draught - yet another of Pedolf & Elon's Zionist poster boys who has fucked his country up royally He reminds me of that racist cunt Bernard Manning

My American friends, and I have many having worked there and think they are brilliant and good people, in the words of James Brown PLEASE,PLEASE,PLEASE vote Democrat and let’s try to put the break on this megalomaniac and his authoritarian administration. The World need you to do this for humanity.

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In 2012, Robin Williams warned us about Trump’s ownership of pageants like Miss America and Miss Universe, comparing it to Michael Vick owning pet stores: “It’s a catch-and-release program.” We should have listened to Robin.

Wouldn’t it be funny if it was the BBC who finally exposed Trump and led to his downfall A long disposition would expose his mental failings and he is very likely to incriminate himself If get a big bag of popcorn for that one

paulusthewoodgnome@paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social

And if he doesn't, and if the discovery period isn't extended, is that the end of this farce? 'US Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué Lett, said that Trump must sit for the deposition by 11 December, unless the discovery period is extended.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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🇺🇸 "Who among the democratic governments of western Europe, in the Elysée, in the German and Polish chancelleries, in Brussels or in Downing Street, can now trust a word that comes out of Washington? Its bond is broken, its honour in shreds."

theguardian.comDonald Trump has sold out Ukraine. He makes appeaser Chamberlain look like a man of iron principle | Simon TisdallEurope’s leaders can no longer trust a word that comes out of Washington. No more slaps on the wrist – we need concrete

Probably its now a Reform policy

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com

#OtD 22 Oct 1902 Black British boxer and communist, Len Johnson, was born in Manchester. Newspapers said it was "tolerably certain" that he would become UK champion, but he was barred because of the rule that contestants had to have two white parents stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1122...

It’s only a wild guess but I’m thinking that Rupert probably says similar things when he’s out with his mates

Simon Gosden@simongosden.bsky.social

It’s ok to be a Nazi so long as you don’t get caught.

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And in case he hasn’t noticed crime figures are down But he’s not one to let facts get in the way of his rants

Adrian Littlejohn@yorksfella59.bsky.social

What does Dick Lice use for brains? (1 of 2) I realise it's difficult to see from Dubai, Dickie. But in case you hadn't noticed, The Tories aren't in government. And a Reform politician (elected on a turnout of 17%) spouting Reform rhetoric isn't exactly hot news, is it? 🤣 x.com/TiceRichard/...