Here's a law suit that many will be wanting to succeed... the Govt. is taking legal action to recover the the over £100 millions it was charged by PPE Medpro for faulty medical gear, from the company's directors & beneficial owners - which includes Baroness Mone!
Lets hope the Govt. lawyers succeed!
Right now, record-breaking, dangerous heat waves are rolling across Europe. This isn't just "summer weather". This is exactly what the climate crisis looks like 🥵
While ordinary people are forced to suffer through unliveable temperatures, risk their health and face soaring energy bills just to stay cool, the real culprits rake in historic profits.
We are demanding justice. It’s time to shift the burden to where it belongs: the polluter must pay.
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'Shame On You': Christina Ricci Calls Out Jimmy Fallon After McGregor Interview
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Another day and red warning for heat.
So here's some advice.
1: Keep all windows and curtains closed on the sunny side of the house. If you can put something on the outside of the glass to block light, do so. This can be as simple as spraying the window with some water and placing tin foil over it.
2: Open the windows on the shaded side of the house. If you've got a fan, use it.
3: If the sun moves around the house during the day, change which windows are open and closed so that no open window is exposed to direct sunlight.
4: Take a towel and wet it, wrap it around your neck.
5: Drink fluids, an adult is supposed to drink in the region of 2lts of fluids a day. You may need more than that to stop the risk of dehydration. Cold drinks are fine, hot drinks are fine... alcohol isn't, it speeds up dehydration. Hot drinks make you sweat which cools you down, a fan can make sweat evaporate quicker, also cooling you down. A fan will not lower the temperature though.
6: The most obvious one... STAY OUT OF THE SUNLIGHT. Don't start going outside to sunbathe or enjoy the sunshine. If you have to run any errands, do so as quickly as possible and try to go places that have aircon to cool you down. Wear sunscreen of at least factor 50, wear a hat to cover your head and neck, wear sunglasses with proper UV protection.
Remember the signs of heat exhaustion and heatstroke.
Symptoms of heat exhaustion
Tiredness
Dizziness
Headache
Feeling sick (nausea) or being sick (vomiting)
Excessive sweating and skin becoming pale and clammy (a change in skin colour can be harder to see on brown or black skin)
Cramps in the arms, legs and stomach
A high temperature
Being very thirsty
Feeling irritable
The symptoms of heat exhaustion are often the same in adults and children.
If someone is showing signs of heat exhaustion they need to be cooled down and given fluids.
Symptoms of heatstroke
The symptoms of heatstroke include:
A very high temperature
Hot skin without sweating
Fast breathing and a fast heartbeat
Confusion and restlessness
Seizure (fit)
Loss of consciousness
Heatstroke is a medical emergency. Get immediate medical help if someone has the symptoms of heatstroke.
Things you can do to cool someone down
If someone has heat exhaustion, follow these 4 steps:
Move them to a cool place.
Remove all unnecessary clothing like a jacket or socks.
Give them plenty of water to drink – you can also give them an isotonic sports drink or oral rehydration powder that you mix with water, which will help replace salt lost through sweating.
Cool their skin – spray or sponge them with cool water and fan them. Cold packs, wrapped in a cloth and put under the armpits or on the neck are good too.
Stay with them until they're better.
Article after article about Starmer resigning as UK prime minister and why it keeps going wrong for PM's... making out the UK has become ungovernable.
Utter bollocks... utterly failing to grasp the simplicity of the situation.
Stop putting right wing wankers in positions of power. They serve only themselves and the rich wankers who bank roll them and their party.
When politics goes right... you go harder left.
Will Burnham do a better job... he's definitely on the left side of Labour with his views. Will he be able to carry them out.
Here's a few things he needs to do immediately.
1: Electoral reform: ban the first past the post system and move to proportional representation as they have in most European democratic countries.
2: Ban the funding of political parties by individuals and business. Elections funded by the taxpayer and any outside funding or accepting of gifts and donations made criminal.
3: Make it easier to recall and remove politicians who go against the wishes of their constituencies. People before party politics.
4: Reclassify social media companies as publishers and make them liable for the hate, lies and bigotry they allow to be posted on the platforms they own and control.
5: Tax the fucking rich properly. Tax their assets and close loopholes that allow them to debt load... such as spending 20 million on a painting and storing it, and taking out a 20 million tax free loan to live off... later selling the painting for 21 million and only paying tax on the 1 million profit... and doing that multiple times with multiple types of art and possessions. Ban non doms from owning and controlling UK business to avoid paying taxes. make it criminal to use tax havens. Every penny earned in this country is taxed in this country, not shifted around through shell companies to avoid paying them.
6: Bring essential utilities back into public ownership, all profits used to fund and upgrade infrastructure and roll out new technologies.
7: Raise the tax threshold, anyone earning the minimum wage should pay no taxes at all... and whilst we're at it... raise the minimum wage, ban zero hrs contracts and make all 'gig economy workers' employees with all the rights and benefits of being so.
8: Condemn the genocide in Gaza, proclaim Israel a terrorist state, cease all trade with them and sanction every zionist in govt and business until the remove themselves of every square meter of land they have stolen in the last 70yrs.
9: Recognise the state of Palestine and free all political prisoners who have supported a free Palestine and objected to the genocide.
I could keep going... this post is already long enough.
TL:dr do politics that actually help people instead of corposcum and rich wankers.
Alright Burnham, let’s try freedom to protest a genocide, no deadly cuts to disability services, leaving trans people the fuck alone, renewable energy, taxing the rich, safe third spaces for kids, and Scottish independence.
Oh and last but not least, going after the fascist networks organising hate mobs. You know, actual terrorism instead of the Met wrestling old age pensioners to the ground for protesting the fact that one can’t even express support for Palestine Action without getting in seriously expensive legal trouble.
Sun was shining today, so went out for a few hours. Stopped at a country park for a walk and then onto a place for lunch.
The country park is still under threat from utter wanker developers who bought the land and tried to force through plans for a 'holiday park'
The fight back by the communities in the area has held them at bay for 16yrs.
But each time they lose one fight, the redraw their plans and resubmit them... and each 'new' plan is worse than the previous one.
The current plan has expanded the whole site and would mean the entire country park is gone. previously they tried to say they would leave 75 acres for public access... Now they're trying to say they'll plant trees at a site nearby for a new park... this land is a former industrial site and is contaminated land.
The country park is also a protected red squirrel woodland... and Anglesey is one of the last places in the UK where not only are they protected, but any sightings of grey squirrels are dealt with.
So the fight continues to protect a lovely area on the coast and keep it as a country park and not an eyesore so some rich wanker can get richer by destroying the environment they don't live in... and taking away a place from people who have been able to enjoy it for decades.
I really fucking hate rich wankers and arrogant developers.
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