colin lewis

This is what happens when we allow a faceless US corporations like Kraft which are interested only in profit to buy much loved UK confectionary brands: * the taste changes because of the use of environmentally hostile and lower quality ingredients like palm oil and other vegetable fats with a reduction in the amount of cocoa butter used. * Dairy Milk and Creme Eggs have had their weights reduced while prices have remained the same or have increased. * Shape changes from the traditional angular Dairy Milk chunks to a more rounded shape reduced a bar's volume further contributing to shrinkflation. * some products have undergone other changes like the chocolate in the creme egg shell being changed to a "standard mix" and Fruit & Nut ingredients being changed to cheaper ones. * Lost jobs - Production has moved from the Bournville factory in Birmingham to, or increased in, European factories like Poland.

Stuart Rose says we cant afford to spend on NHS and welfare My sister worked for M&S..when Rose took over...he cut staff bonuses,scrapped staff getting discount food and slashed staff pensions...then he got a huge bonus for "turning M&S around" 🤔 #r4today

A convicted criminal pardoned by Donald Trump is quietly funding a far-right network five minutes from Parliament. This is what the British far right looks like when nobody is watching. #ReformWatch #BenDelo #Politics

The UK Government now has 34 contracts with Palantir, these are distributed across the NHS, the police forces, the Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Defence, and Coventry City Council. Every place you visit, every purchase you make, every digital interaction is being monitored. That information is gathered to form a profile of you, your politics, your online activity, all your purchases, if you step out of line, your bank accounts will be frozen, your car will not function, you will be suspended from your job, access to benefits will be halted, you will be denied travel on public and commercial transport. Palantir is run by people who openly fund administrations that protect paedophiles, war mongers, and fascists. Labour and Tories are installing a Surveillance Capitalist State because that special relationship with the US under a corporate political model is more important than democracy itself.

Reform wants to fundamentally rethink the model. Reform wants an insurance style system. Reform wants to dismantle our NHS "other options" People want our NHS to remain free at the point of use. 🚨You cannot trust Reform with our NHS🚨

Scrapping arts degrees? Wrong. Fixing inequality in student finance? Essential. 👇 #StudentFinance #StudentLoans

@PeterPrinsley Well said! Thank you. Philistines everywhere.

“I put him to bed with paracetamol and Nurofen and I went in in the morning and he was dead - it was that quick.” Author and poet Michael Rosen remembers the sudden death of his late son Eddie to Meningitis C in 1999. #Newsnight

Farage hates this video of him revealing his plans to sell off the NHS. It would be a shame if it went viral again... 🫢

The Government needs to realise more regulation won’t fix our broken water system. We need to kick financial predators out & take it back into public control. But don’t just take it from me. Listen to a sewage campaigner who inspired Channel 4’s ‘Dirty Business’. @WindrushWasp

@labourlewis @WindrushWasp Excellent!! Let’s get on with this scandal. As soon as possible. It’s appalling. Danger to health for profiteers. Poisonous. Who is happy about this? No-one!

This morning was about a touch of mist, lovely light and many deer - a glorious start to the day in Bushy Park. 18.03.26 @theroyalparks @BritishDeerSoc @SallyWeather @itvweather @Visit_Richmond1 @VisitSurrey @LBRUT @TeddingtonNub @Teddington_Town @StormHour

The war in Iran has already cost $22.8 billion. For $22.8 billion, we could: • Provide Medicaid to 6.8 million kids • Build 2.6 million public housing units • Fund Head Start for 1.3 million • Hire 240,000 teachers • Cancel $20,000 in student debt for 1 million borrowers

I'm absolutely incandescently furious tonight. I predicted back in August that we would have a problem with meningitis here this winter. Public health did nothing to prepare for it. There's now a shortage of vaccines. I try so hard, but I'm just a bird. Who listens to a bird?

This is UNACCEPTABLE. These people are not doctors!!! Write to your MP and @wesstreeting NOW!! Patients have already died because of this. #StopReplacingOurDoctors #TakeBackOurHealthcare #PutPatientsFirst

A Republican lawmaker just said it out loud. Trump is Putin’s ally in dismantling NATO. This is someone from his own party. The logic is simple and the evidence is overwhelming. Russia invades Europe. Trump tells Europe to handle it alone. Trump starts an unprepared war in the Middle East without consulting a single ally. France walks. Europe walks. NATO fractures. Every single thing Trump has done since taking office has weakened the western alliance and strengthened Russia’s position.

"High bills, impossible debts, filthy rivers, minimal investment and no resilience: that is the gift of privatisation...Ultimately, as we now discover in the case of Thames Water, it becomes our problem." If you agree that Thames Water should not be allowed to rip us off while polluting our waterways with illegal sewage, sign our petition: vist.ly/4vajz

Sewage has caused people's deaths. 💩Yet this government is considering a deal - proposed by Thames Water's creditors - which has future sewage pollution baked into its terms and conditions. 👎Any deal which endangers us and our environment by allowing pollution for profit is NO DEAL. 🤔Perhaps the Environment Secretary should watch all three episodes of 'Dirty Business', not just 'some of it...'

Ofwat must say NO to this deal from Thames Water ❌In breach of licence conditions since July 2024 ❌Run by creditors trying to grab cash before selling (shareholders have left) ❌Increasing bills, releasing sewage ONLY solution is PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW ft.com/content/64a645…

‼️ Farage blames British chicken packaging for imports beating us on price. ❌ It’s not the packaging. It’s the Brexit trade policy he championed opening the door to cheaper imports and potentially US chlorinated chicken. Strange 🇬🇧 patriotism: Run down British food while undercutting British farmers.