Gareth Pemberton

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Focused on engineering solutions to the #ClimateEmergency. Passionate supporter of UKs role in Europe. #RejoinEU

New YouGov poll gives Labour a *25 point* lead

CON: 22 (-2)
LAB: 47 (+1)
LD: 9 (-1)
REF: 9 (+1)
GRN: 7 (=)

If repeated at a general election 317 Conservative MPs would lose their seats, including Rishi Sunak, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Grant Shapps, Michael Fabricant and Andrea Jenkyns

Truss to convene taskforce to tackle slumping global growth - Evening Standard

https://apple.news/AROkMgqYwThCVGQxlAGj_yA. This woman couldn’t find her way out of a small room surrounded by her supporters and tanked the U.K. economy so badly that we are going to pay for it for decades, how the fuck is anyone still giving the crazy cow any credence?

Truss to convene taskforce to tackle slumping global growth — Evening Standard

The former prime minister is set to launch a new taskforce of economists aimed at finding solutions to sluggish growth in the West.

As the world turns its attention to the missing Titanic submersible, don't look away from the crisis off the Greek coast.

More than 500 refugees are presumed to have drowned, in what is likely one of the worst refugee and migrant shipwrecks on record. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/21/titanic-submersible-greece-migrant-ship-pakistan/

In missing submersible and migrant disaster, a tale of two Pakistans

The two maritime tragedies that gripped attention in recent days could barely be more different.

The Washington Post
The stock market is failing according to the CBI. So why don’t we just let it go?

I posted this on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1942861045426516103 My point is serious. The CBI is saying that the situation with regard to the UK stock exchange is getting desperate, because it is losing out to overseas markets and not attracting sufficient business. The question that needs to be asked is, why is that?...

Funding the Future
The UK being battered by economic turmoil, why? There are a number of factors, #Brexit being the major problem. Don't forget, deluded self seeking brexiteers lied & cheated us of our #EU membership, they should hold their heads in shame. https://tinyurl.com/23tae9d9 #RejoinEU

#rishi 5 pledges

... so

#rishi score on his own agenda

0 out of 5

Were his #toriesOut govt a school or NHS Trust they would be in remedial measures

But we must wait for #2024GE for a remedy - no doubt #sunak will then resume his privileged life in California shortly afterwards

Pensions in the UK are the worst in the developed world.
Now can someone please explain to me why Scotland, freeing itself from London rule and joining the list of small, independent, European nations isn't a sensible choice?
https://www.ftadviser.com/pensions/2018/02/13/uk-state-pension-worst-in-the-developed-world/
#Scotland
#ScottishIndependence
UK state pension worst in the developed world

The UK state pension is the worst in the developed world, according to data from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Austerity, Brexit And Racism: Inquiry Highlights U.K.’s Weaknesses Before The Pandemic - Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehignett/2023/06/20/austerity-brexit-and-racism-inquiry-highlights-uks-weaknesses-before-the-pandemic/
Austerity, Brexit And Racism: Inquiry Highlights U.K.’s Weaknesses Before The Pandemic

Experts shone a light on factors like planning for the wrong kind of virus, diverting energy to Brexit plans and failing to consider the impact of health inequalities.

Forbes
The stock market is failing according to the CBI. So why don’t we just let it go?

I posted this on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1942861045426516103 My point is serious. The CBI is saying that the situation with regard to the UK stock exchange is getting desperate, because it is losing out to overseas markets and not attracting sufficient business. The question that needs to be asked is, why is that?...

Funding the Future

"Between 60 and 70 MPs with constituencies in the 'red wall' were said to be feeling 'incredibly warm' towards Johnson"

Maybe they've wet themselves. Whatever, they are pathetic specimens of humanity, in thrall to a narcissist who's playing the long game.

#BorisJohnson

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/19/dozens-of-tory-mps-expected-to-abstain-in-vote-on-committees-partygate-report?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Dozens of Tory MPs expected to abstain in vote on committee’s Partygate report

Rightwingers claim Boris Johnson suspension ‘unnecessarily high and fierce’ after findings he deliberately misled parliament

The Guardian