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💚Green politicians from across #Europe on Friday called on U.S. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein to withdraw from the race for the White House and endorse Democrat Kamala Harris instead. “We are clear that Kamala Harris is the only candidate who can block Donald Trump and his anti-democratic, authoritarian policies from the White House,” Green parties from countries including Germany 🇩🇪 France 🇫🇷 Denmark 🇩🇰 Italy 🇮🇹 the Netherlands 🇳🇱 Ireland 🇮🇪 Estonia 🇪🇪 Belgium 🇧🇪 Spain 🇪🇸 Poland 🇵🇱 and Ukraine 🇺🇦 said in a statement, shared with POLITICO ahead of publication. Stein is on the ballot in almost every critical U.S. state and polls between 1.1 and 1.4 percent, meaning her candidacy could cost Harris critical votes in the tight race for the White House. 🇺🇸 🗳️💙https://lnkd.in/egswWPfP #jillstein #greenparty #oneplanet #strategy 🌍🌎🌏 https://lnkd.in/eskQAMGJ 💚👉🇺🇸🗳️💙

❤️🇬🇧 #chancellor #factbased #reflection The Labour Party https://lnkd.in/eArYVyAK 😅👌

Trust 🇬🇧 1st female chancellor to do the basic balancing act the Tories have neglected to do at every turn with each of 5 ruinous Brexit PMs! The opposition, Rishi Sunak was very vocal - for an ex-chancellor & ex booted PM - yet he only sorted out his family’s businesses in every way shape & form which is a proxy for why the foundations of 🇬🇧 has to be rebuilt. Talking of “fiddling the figures” the thing that disappoints most about #Labour #govuk is that Starmer hasn’t used his core skills to lock up all toxic Tories who were dishonestly ruinous and make them pay back £20bn to the taxpayer. It’s like Sunak has forgotten about his own ethos of incompetence, lies, lack of integrity and accountability, let alone his unmandated unlawfulness right from the get-go that in fact got the UK into a worse crumbling state and of course due to austerity heritage!#autumnbudget2024 #makeToriespay #corruption #fraud #blackhole

💯 “The Republican billionaires’ dollars flowing into the Trump campaign tend to reflect the source of the donors’ wealth. Among the top donors are hedge fund operators and investment bankers; natural resource magnates; and others with specific concerns about federal policies that might affect their enterprises. Billionaire Jeff Yass, for instance, has become the fifth-largest donor in this cycle, with $84.6 million funneled to Trump and other Republicans. That cash infusion may have influenced Trump to reverse his policy position on TikTok, the social media platform in which Yass holds a substantial stake, from trying to ban the Chinese-owned platform during his presidency to advocating for its preservation” Read about 🇿🇦born Musk ranks 6th among #top #political #donors or #billionaire #inequality #broculture vs. #Democracy 🇺🇸🗳️💙 https://lnkd.in/eegZvSbz https://lnkd.in/e-TGQJkU

Prem Sikka calling a spade a spade 👉 #govuk “It needs to break its promises by increasing borrowing and levying higher taxes on the rich. At the very least, the Chancellor needs to reduce inequalities by boosting disposable incomes of people at the bottom by increasing living wage, protecting real value of benefits, cutting indirect taxes and increasing tax-free personal allowances. It needs to increase workers' share of GDP by empowering trade unions, and curb corporate profiteering…” Rt Hon Rachel Reeves The Chancellor must abandon neoliberal policies which have held the UK back for so long. They have neither produced prosperity nor happiness for the people.  The government needs to shift away from the Tory policies of the last 14 years and give people hope (see the linked article).” #autumnbudget2024 Happy 🎃

About time 🇬🇧 ends the stranglehold on investment & poor infrastructure! Reeves said: “I can confirm today that I will be changing the way we measure debt in the budget statement next week, but I’ll set out the details of that to parliament.” 🙌#fiscalrules #change #ukinvestment #autumnbudget2024 https://lnkd.in/eNxjFxkD

Of course it’s illegal…Musk, who is campaigning with Donald Trump, asked voters to sign a petition — and be eligible for a $1 million-a-day giveaway. But one of the requirements is that participants must prove they have registered to vote in one of the seven swing states. Billionaire Bully basically messing with peanut brains in 🇺🇸 swing states to get more votes at all cost 🙄 The Justice Department has reportedly sent billionaire Elon Musk a warning letter after he began a lottery for voters in swing states, reports CNN's Marshall Cohen. #elonmusk #electionstunt #illegal #SwingStates https://lnkd.in/eBA-kgZS https://lnkd.in/eTYeKEhi ⚠️⚠️

Indeed. Forbes conclusion 2019 confirms Prem Sikka ⚠️ in 2024 - “In Brussels, UK rail privatisation is persistently used as a cautionary tale which no government is interested in emulating. Indeed, when the EU was debating new rail ownership liberalisation requirements five years ago, representatives of Deutsche Bahn and SNCF were lobbying against it by pointing to what happened in the UK.The legislation’s proponents had to continually remind people that liberalisation isn’t the same as privatisation, and that nothing in the law required EU governments to go the same route as the UK. Instead the legislation, which did eventually pass, required rail operators to unbundle their infrastructure and operation areas. In other words, they couldn’t own both the trains and the tracks. In the end, Europe’s state-owned rail giants used the flexibility of liberalisation to buy up the newly-privatised UK trains – even as they had to shed their infrastructure assets domestically. The UK’s opposition Labour Party, which vehemently opposed privatisation in the 1990s, has over the years made promises to re-nationalize Britain’s railways. With the UK out of the EU, there may now be an opportunity to quickly deliver on that promise – particularly if the UK is no longer subject to the EU’s laws against rail monopolies. Whether either a Conservative or Labour government would wish to do so, with all of the potential chaos it could unleash, remains to be seen.” - Read Prem Sikka 2024 ⚠️ below https://lnkd.in/ea8bxds9 #privatisation #britishrailways #failure

Good to see the pragmatic Keir Starmer especially in the area of critical issues in his core profession, so trust his judgement in using the services of a centrist Conservative who has already done the work (even if the Tories put their head in the sand over prisons and the criminal justice system despite being warned by him well before the general election that 🇬🇧 was approaching day zero aka nil places for new offenders). Besides, I doubt anyone will take issue with expertise of traditional Tories who served with integrity but were forced out by Boris Johnson, 🇬🇧 1st official liar in chief 🤷🏻♀️ #davidgauke #lead #prisons #sentencingreview

🇬🇧 Some not so big surprises, have gone bust in retail - “Intu Properties, the major property company that owns and manages some of the largest and best UK retail malls, went into administration on 26 June 2020. Many of its retail clients are not paying their rents and INTU's creditors are not as forebearing. It has total debts of £4.5bn, a merger with a European property company came to nothing and it has failed to raise more capital. Its recent negotations with other parties, where it hoped to arrange a 'standstill agreement' with its lenders, led to no useful outcome, so it went into administration. Major sites include #Lakeside, Glasgow's #Braehead, Manchester's #TraffordCentre, Nottingham's #VictoriaCentre & Norwich's #Chapelfield. This administration will be a major blow to the UK retail sector, although, coming after many other impossible-to-believe 'major blows', its significance may be less apparent. It may not be possible for the Administrators to run all the shopping centres without outside funding, although so far all sites have been kept open. It is still possible that many of their shopping centres will close unless a new potential buyer acquires some or all of them. Some observers who have used the lockdown to re-think their personal philosophy may rejoice at the decline of this bastion of consumerism. But the destruction of asset wealth in terms of commercial property, will adversely affect property prices, the stability of most retailers, pension funds, shares, unit trusts, tax revenue, job opportunities etc etc and bring home to the public the enormity of the slump we have managed to stumble into.” - “Norwich's Castle Quarter hits the market for £23.55m. Savills has been appointed by receivers to market former #Intu shopping centre #TheCastleQuarter in Norwich for offers in excess of £23.55m. Castle Quarter aerial. A sale at the asking price would reflect a net initial yield of 10% and a capital value of £61/sq ft” Also, “#EastKilbride Shopping Centre, Scotland's largest undercover shopping centre, is being offered for sale by its administrators. There are 150 shops covering a total of more than 1 million square feet of space. There are plans to reorganise the town centre involving the demolition of the nearby Centre West Shopping Centre as well as building 400 homes.” #commercial #Intuproperties #shoppingcentres #retail #malls #dominoeffect #towncentres #retailers #company #administrations #valuedestroyers #assetwealthdestruction