Paul James Crook

What Form for Future Governance? With all the debates going around - return to a great saying heard regarding thew UK - you don't just, just, change your hat when you shit your pants open.substack.com/pub/mukora/p/w…

@RepOfSomaliland Do the right things, as Somaliland, Somalilanders, have consistently done. Meet international standards and deliver for Somaliland citizens. Avoid the vagaries and vacillations of popularist politicians with their own agendas. Stick to Somalianders recognising their own growth

@RepOfSomaliland UK popularist politicians playing their power games with other people's lives This is a debate going nowhere particularly in the last generation as power players ask 'so what is in it for me?' Somaliland Somalilanders are recognised for their achievements. Politics something else

Britain losing out in new scramble for Africa By failing to recognise Somaliland, the UK is letting military and trading opportunities slip away telegraph.co.uk/gift/32e9e9267…

The economist who billionaires fear, Gabriel Zucman: this is how we get a wealth tax

Revealed: Palantir’s NHS tech is ten times slower than current system open.substack.com/pub/democracyf…

This is a picture of Tony Blair and his son , who as it turns out just happens to have a company that will be paid £ 100 billion to develop and monitor .....DIGITAL I.Ds !! Another bonus for Blair himself is that he holds £ 375 million worth in shares in that company ! No wonder that digital ID is being pushed on us !

THE WATER RIP-OFF IS NOT ADDING UP. Barry Gardiner MP has exposed the great trick at the heart of Labour’s position on water. Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds says bringing water back into public ownership would cost an “enormous amount of money”. But when challenged, her department’s own response admitted it has not assessed the cost of continuing with privatisation against the cost of public ownership. Read that again. The Government insists public ownership is too expensive, while refusing to do the maths needed to prove it. Water is a natural monopoly. People cannot shop around for a better pipe to their home. Yet billpayers are trapped in a system where their money must cover not only clean water, functioning infrastructure and sewage treatment, but the financial interests of private owners, creditors and shareholders. Public ownership is not some wild luxury. It is common sense. Remove the need to extract profit from an essential service and put billpayers’ money back into pipes, reservoirs, sewage works and lower bills. The question is no longer whether the privatised water model has failed. We can see and smell that failure in our rivers and on our beaches. The question is why a Labour Government is defending it without even calculating the public alternative. Come clean, Secretary of State. Publish the full comparison. Let the public see who this broken system is really serving. Labour Heartlands #LabourParty #PublicOwnership

Palantir claims its software saves medics time they can spend on patient care. But leaked internal NHS documents have revealed that Palantir software is 10 times slower than alternative tool 🐌 goodlaw.social/otb1

@CatHobbs What does public ownership mean as addition to localised public control? Co-operative development best way forward? Let us also remove the myth of profits since working properly, this organisation should be reinvesting in infrastructure for the environment not extractive monies

Andy Burnham says we could have a "localised public control option" for Thames Water What does that mean? Who is in charge? Where do the profits go? We need nothing less than permanent PUBLIC OWNERSHIP of Thames Water with households, workers and anti sewage groups on the board

You spend millions every year so well paid MP's and Lord's can get subsidised alcohol at work. There are 27 alcohol serving taxpayer subsidised bars and restaurants in the UK. ALL of them in Westminster. It's time to make it 0. Like/RT if you agree.

British MP Kit Malthouse unleashes on the UK Government: No ceasefire in Lebanon. Daily double-tap killings. "If this is what they do to British & European citizens on camera... what are they doing to Palestinians off camera?" "We're all fed up with the gaslighting!"

In 2021, Tory govt froze annual personal allowance (PA) at £12,570. Labour continued with it. If PA increased in line with inflation, it would be £16,048 for 2026/27. As a result, someone earning £20,000 will pay extra £696 income tax in 2026/27 alone. leftfootforward.org/2026/05/the-ki…

Absolute bombshell. Prominent economist Richard Werner confirms the 1997 Asian financial crisis was completely engineered. He reveals the IMF deliberately bankrupted Thailand to force them into selling off their national industries to foreign elites for pennies!

And how many water industry executives do you think have ever been investigated never mind prosecuted for all their illegal sewage dumping? Yep, you got it.

@meadwaj What nonsense - we have a people owned movement in terms of the Co-operative. Let Co-operative buy it for a £1 and rationalise - save us from people saying public ownership when it is more government cronyism - do we not have any historians flagging the woes of British Steel?

Nationalise Morrisons, use it as the foundation for a new, publicly-owned grocery store selling high quality, affordable food. National-level version of the Mamdani plan in New York. Need to think big in a world with repeated, major shocks to essential supply systems.

“To hear the CEO of Palantir using the serious matter of sexual abuse by Met officers to attack the mayor of London for rejecting his company and so cutting his profits shows exactly why Palantir are not fit to lecture anyone on values.” theguardian.com/technology/202…

Time to look at how revenues are raised in terms of taxing money being made. Move more on to consumption? Or take a cut from money left doing nothing? Deliberately not calling this wealth since we now need to start talking about wealth in wider ways

Yet more crony capitalism

So what happens when Reform take over your local council? This. #KentCountyCouncil