Here in the U.K., alongside the pro Putin Ukrainian Dmitri Firtash, Angola's Isobel Dos Santos and Latvia's Aivars Lemburgs have also been sanctioned by the U.K. government today in a welcome move to crack down on oligarchs using the U.K. to launder money.

If you want to know how Labour are different to the Tories, here's an easy way to remember -

Labour : sanction oligarchs.

Tories : take donations from oligarchs.

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UK cracks down on dirty money with fresh sanctions

UK sanctions kleptocrats, firing starting gun on a new Foreign Secretary campaign against dirty money

^{Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (GOV.UK)}

Privatised Utilities

Overseas investors bought into the principle of tied profits, little risk, massive dividends (either directly or by siphoning off money through loans from overseas vultures, whoops investors) and no down side.

theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Thatcher must be proud. Now the great extrication.

#UkPolitics #Water #Privatisation #Utilities #Theft #Greed #Corruption

Thames Water supply ‘on knife-edge’ with £23bn repairs needed

Exclusive: Company has failed to tackle serious safety concerns or upgrade vital IT systems, Guardian investigation reveals

^{Anna Isaac (The Guardian)}

Breaking: UKGov admits that it granted the Rosebank licence unlawfully because it didn't consider the climate impacts of burning the oil.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly2dx…

#UkPolitics #Climate #COP29 #StopRosebank

Government admits new Rosebank oil field approved unlawfully

Climate campaigners are bringing a legal case they hope will halt drilling at two huge fossil fuel projects.

^{James Cook (BBC News)}

It would be great to see this UK Government petition get over 10K signatures. Let's do it 💪

'Run a public information campaign on the climate crisis'
petition.parliament.uk/petitio…

#UK #ukpol #ukpolitics #Britain #UnitedKingdom #Environment #Climate #NetZero #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming #GlobalHeating

Petition: Run a public information campaign on the climate crisis

Communicate clearly: 1) the science behind the climate crisis - how & why for the first time in the last year we've averaged 1.

^{Petitions - UK Government and Parliament}

#Brexit is the gift that keeps on giving: #BrexitBritain has forgone £44bn in infrastructure investment since 2017

youtu.be/VVeB4Gte91Q?si=L4f2xu…

#BrexitBrokeBritain #BrexitLies #UK #Politics #UKPolitics
#UKPol #EU #RejoinEU

"Next time a council announces a crackdown on cycling due to the activity of delivery riders, perhaps have a think about why and how we have allowed companies to operate with a business model that is more or less predicated on mass illegality."

#UKpolitics #Birmingham #Cycling #Deliveroo #JustEat #UberEats

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Speeding delivery e-bikes are a menace – but the solution isn’t to push all cyclists into the road

Birmingham’s plan to ban bikes from pedestrianised streets ignores the real problem of food couriers’ illegally souped-up cycles, writes Peter Walker, the Guardian’s acting deputy political editor

^{Peter Walker (The Guardian)}

“The UK’s fiscal policy effectiveness has been eroded in recent years, and particularly since the #Brexit vote in 2016.”

#UKpolitics #Budget

ft.com/content/560d6639-a6ff-4…

Budget poses new challenge for UK public finances, Moody’s warns

Assessment from rating agency comes as gilts steady after sell-off sparked by scale of extra borrowing

^{Financial Times}

I'll define who working people are ......says man drinking champagne from a golden goblet

#ukpolitics