How can this be possible in the 21st Century?

Revealed: scores of child asylum seekers kidnapped from Home Office hotel https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/21/revealed-scores-of-child-asylum-seekers-kidnapped-from-home-office-hotel

#ToryHellUK

Revealed: scores of child asylum seekers kidnapped from Home Office hotel

Call for inquiry after Observer investigation uncovers scale of trafficking by criminal gangs

The Guardian
Nadhim Zahawi ‘agreed on penalty’ to settle tax bill worth millions

Claim over sum imposed by HMRC likely to raise further questions for Conservative party chair

The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jan/11/call-to-end-forced-installation-of-uk-prepayment-meters-after-millions-suffer-without-power

So people who can't afford the current charge are being put onto a pay up front higher tarrif - seems to me a simple solution is to apply a govt-mandate that pre-payment energy charges are set considerably lower (eg 50%) than the tariff for direct debit accounts. Companies might be a lot more willing to work with people to manage their bills...

#energycrisis #ToryHellUK #torybritain #costofliving #Costoflivingcrisis

Call to end forced installation of UK prepayment meters after millions suffer without power

Report shows 3.2m people disconnected last year as they ran out of credit

The Guardian
A few hours as a patient in A&E confirmed it to me – the Tories are bleeding out the NHS

During my time at a local hospital, I witnessed the devastation of 13 years of government underfunding of emergency care, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian

@Fife4Europe Like all Tories, but specially "Scottish Tories ", the awful Alister Jack has very, very little acquaintance with the truth …

#ToryLies #ToryHellUK #Toriesarekillingus #ScottishToryLies #AlisterJackIsAJoke

Rishi Sunak’s anti-strike legislation is an assault on democracy itself

The fundamental problem in Britain today isn’t strikes, it’s an economy that makes strikes necessary, says Ronan Burtenshaw of Enough is Enough

The Guardian
Both the Brexit Freedoms Bill and the proposed legislation to limit the ability to strike look extremely sinister to me. Why is Labour showing no signs of opposing these laws which will be very damaging to workers’ rights? #ToryCostOfGreedCrisis #ToryHellUK
@TechNews Children can’t learn properly when they are starving. Westminster Tory government voted against feeding hungry children as did Labour. Fill their stomachs then feed their minds. #ToryHellUK
I'm off to have something to eat. Husband getting food ready early. Had a rubbish day didn't help the GP I had to see today still thinks that surgical masks are to be worn on ones chin & not as protection from any airborne viruses like #Covid18 #Flu #Colds etc etc
ps #ToryHellUK