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“Like they don’t have enough newspapers shilling for them – they now have to invent them.”—Paul Dickson

All across Britain the Conservative Party is mimicking obsolete but real local newspapers in order to spread politically slanted articles w/o disclosure. They face an intellectual property theft row in Derbyshire after distributing the High Peak Reporter, a title still owned by a newspaper group.

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/08/22/voters-posting-conservative-party-fake-newspapers-back-cchq/

Voters are Posting the Conservative Party's Fake Newspapers Back in Bid to Cost Them a Fortune – Byline Times

Conservative Party Fake Newspapers sent back to CCHQ by voters in bid to cost the party a fortune in postage

Byline Times
Open gardens in July include places where you can see community gardening in action, wander within a gorgeous wildflower meadow, enjoy a wildlife town garden, get lost amidst the big leaves of exotic gardens, find a treasure trail for children, as well as explore a Kent village. Please find details of these gardens below
https://kentandsurreybylines.co.uk/region/kent/national-garden-scheme-kent-2/
National Garden Scheme Kent

The National Garden Scheme invites people to explore Kent through visiting their beautiful gardens which open in July

Kent and Surrey Bylines

Norfolk Southern cut 9,600 jobs and boosted shareholder payouts by 4,500% in the years leading up to the Ohio train disaster.

Folks, this is what corporate greed looks like.

#NHS physiotherapists say staff are ‘beyond breaking point’ in historic strike https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/nhs-chartered-society-of-physiotherapy-people-nottingham-covid-b2269867.html
NHS physiotherapists say staff are ‘beyond breaking point’ in historic strike

Striking physios said some have been leaving the profession to work in supermarkets and others have had to resort to using food banks.

The Independent

#HMRC (the 'tax man') has said people who fail to pay their proper amount of tax don't get penalties "for innocent errors"

Nadhim Zahawi was charged a penalty of well over a million pounds and was made to pay his avoided tax, totaling £5m

This happened while he was responsible for the UK's finances
https://willblack-53220.medium.com/this-stench-of-tory-corruption-must-never-be-forgotten-4b7ad76e554b

This Stench of Tory Corruption Must NEVER Be Forgotten

It is of great concern that the Tories seem so oblivious to the stench of corruption around their party and cronies. If they can’t smell the stench around them, that we are made nauseous by, it would…

Medium
The Daily Mail has the gall to complain about the tax burden on the rich when it is registered in Bermuda, administered from Jersey to pay as little tax as possible and its owner is a non dom living in France to help minimise the payment of taxes.

RT @[email protected]

Amazing: when we are short of doctors the government is capping the number who can be trained. It's as if they want an NHS crisis and to ration healthcare

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1618211591186677760

Richard Murphy on Twitter

“Amazing: when we are short of doctors the government is capping the number who can be trained. It's as if they want an NHS crisis and to ration healthcare”

Twitter

"We are all playing Covid roulette. The next infection could be the one that permanently disables you. I’ve been hit three times so far, and feel lucky still to be active. But I’ve lost a little every time"

Powerful from @[email protected]
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/26/covid-roulette-clean-air-ventilation-long-covid

We are all playing Covid roulette. Without clean air, the next infection could permanently disable you

As rich people plough money into ventilation to protect themselves, those with long Covid are treated as an embarrassment, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian

RT if you agree this is disgraceful.

Full story: https://glplive.org/a5v

PPE losses rise to £14.9 billion - Good Law Project

Good Law Project