I ate dinner at a local restaurant last night. The owner said they were closing because of #Brexit. Can't get staff, food imports too difficult, electricity costs soaring higher than they did in EU.

There was more -- and in a way more disturbing. She is a Pole with British citizenship who has been here for 30 years. Since Brexit, she says she has experienced a lot of abuse. She never did before. #sad #Brexitbollocks #brokenbritain #crumblingbritain

RishGPT offers jumble of nonsense on school buildings crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/04/rishgpt-offers-a-word-salad-of-nonsense-on-school-buildings-crisis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#Sunak is a #capitalist #enabler.
Completely #incompetent to run a country for the benefit of its people.

#RAAC #concrete scandal is such a perfect metaphor for #BrokenBritain and the consequences of #austerity and #Tory underinvestment.
#Scotland needs #independence …fast!

This is just grotesque. Hideous state brutality towards the innocent and vulnerable. There is nothing illegal about trying to seek sanctuary in a safe country.

Children reaching #UK in #smallBoats sent to jail for adult sex offenders

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/27/children-reaching-uk-in-small-boats-sent-to-jail-for-adult-sex-offenders?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #BrokenBritain #NotInMyName #Scotland #RefugeesWelcomeGere

The UK High Pay Centre reports that the pay of FTSE 100 top bosses increased from £3.38m in 2021 to £3.91m in 2022. That’s a 16 percent annual jump.

Median CEO pay is now 118 times that of the median UK full-time worker, compared to 108 times in 2021 and 79 times in 2020.

#greed #brokenbritain #inequality #Toryism

The trials of a EV driver
Drove from south Wales to Bute in Scotland yesterday. All fine till I got to Gretna Green. The 4 Tesla chargers were in use and there was a Tesla queue building . The electric highways ones are very slow. There were 4 ionity ones that I thought i would try. Yes they are expensive but I was in a rush. 2 of these were broken…queued for the Tesla ones and arrived late.

2 ChargePlace Scotland chargers on the bute are broken!

Yay EVs!

#ev #tesla #brokenbritain

The UK government is reaching astonishing new levels of incompetency. Breaking news is that the controversial migrant barge that took months to get ready before the first residents has had to be evacuated because of legionella. Couldn’t anyone have checked BEFORE they pushed migrants in! #toriesout #immigration #incompetence #BrokenUk #brokenbritain

16 MPs claiming cash to rent London homes - while letting out their own - Mirror Online

‘Tory Trade Secretary Liam Fox is one of 16 MPs who have claimed cash for rent in the capital while letting out properties they already own in the city’

#corruption #fraud #troughing #mp & #mps
#BrokenSystem #BrokenBritain

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/scandal-mps-claiming-cash-rent-14277665

These are the trains in #BrokenBritain

This morning 9 carriage train reduced to 5, all reservations cancelled. Standing from London to Bath

This evening, trains shortened, trains cancelled, standing room only

#postiesbeen
#bowie
#nowlistening
#vinyl
Bought from the US, even with p&p Inc cheaper than buying in UK
#brokenbritain

#BrokenBritain: it won’t be fixed with the status quo

State-led public investment is needed to repair a decade of cuts. Labour should say so, not cleave to failed orthodoxies
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2023/jun/09/the-guardian-view-on-broken-britain-it-wont-be-fixed-with-the-status-quo

GPLB: "... [T]he OECD [also] says inflation in the UK will be higher this year than in any other G20 economy"
Fiscal responsibility. Halving inflation. Integrity. Accountability. Blah blah blah.
But don't worry, because we'll make sure to drown more brown people in the Channel. Vote Conservative.
#ToryScum #UKPolitics #RefugeesWelcome #Greedflation #BrokenBritain #CostOfVotingToryCrisis

You can expect heavy letters from your council if you put up too many TV aerials on your house.

But continuing to mine coal, when your licence has run out? No problem! Please carry on!

Oh, and don't worry about restoring the site as are your consenting conditions, either!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/25/digging-continues-at-controversial-south-wales-mine-months-after-licence-expires

#brokenbritain #ukpolitics #coal #mining #environment #wales

Wonderful line from Max Hastings in The Times: "The Tory right is about nothing if not the past; a craving to reconnect an unpalatable 2023 sushi Britain with the chocolate digestive biscuit." #britain #brokenbritain #tories #politics

Breaking!

Millions of people around the #Commonwealth stand in the rain watch a man having a hat put on his head at a cost of £250 million

Surfers Against Sewage shows 130 water quality stations are failing to report safe levels around the UK

#BrokenBritain

#Coronation

To celebrate the coronation a "limited number" of people will receive a scone the size of a thumbnail, so long as they can afford £250 for a train ticket.

Britain in a nutshell.

#RuleBritannia
#BrokenBritain
#PublicTransport

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2023/05/04/a-train-companys-1st-class-free-scones-coronation-offer-went-right-off-the-rails-13-right-royal-takedowns/1/

Hundreds of vulnerable migrants were abandoned to their fates after the UK coastguard “effectively ignored” reports of small boats in distress 
Around 440 people appear to have been left adrift after the coastguard sent no rescue vessels to 19 reported boats carrying migrants in UK waters. Crucial hours were wasted that night as authorities on either side of the Channel passed the buck. The "buck" stops with The British Home Office Suella Braverman. #BrokenBritain
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/29/uk-coastguard-left-channel-migrants-adrift-in-lead-up-to-mass-drowning

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/apr/27/workplace-accidents-increasingly-ignored-by-uk-safety-regulator-hse-health-and-safety-executive?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other #brokenbritain #torycriminalsunfittogoven have put profit before all our public services, safety and increasingly our rights. #neverblue

#brokenbritain Things aren't going well for the United Kingdom these days. - The corrupt and greedy Conservative government have been in power for 12 years. The state of the nation is mostly on them. https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/britain-in-crisis-the-uk-faces-a-steep-climb-out-of-a-deep-hole-a-6b61dc6f-e33f-46f3-bd27-743364dd675c

1. I'm glad I'm not the only person that noticed this UK trend of replacing their garden with fake grass.

2. I find it shocking that we have to resort to giving people tax breaks to stop doing something very bad.

"Cities may have lost as much as 50% of their green garden space over the past two decades as paving over gardens and using plastic grass has become a trend in recent years"

#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment #UrbanLiving #BrokenBritain #Gardening #GreenSpaces

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/20/britons-who-keep-gardens-green-should-get-council-tax-cut-study-suggests

@Geri There was a good tweet by Best for Britain about the Government use of the present tense in these statements: "we ARE doing this or that". No assessment of when they're starting, how long it will take, or what the ultimate delivery date will be.
#ToryLiars #UKPolitics #BrokenBritain