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HOW BRITAIN REWARDS PEOPLE WHO TRY TO SAVE TAXPAYER MONEY: FIRE THEM Mike Kiely spent 22 years inside BT (@BTGroup). He knew how the telecoms industry operated. So when the government hired him as a consultant to oversee the £2.5 billion rural broadband rollout, he knew exactly what he was looking at. BT had won all 26 government contracts. All of them. Kiely did the maths. Installing a street cabinet in Northern Ireland cost around £13,000. On the mainland, BT was charging the government between £61,000 and £80,000 per cabinet. Public money covered roughly 77% of every single one. He suspected BT was simply inventing tasks and inflating charges to absorb as much public funding as possible without doing more work. So he shared his analysis with local councils. The people whose job it was to negotiate these contracts and spend public money responsibly. Then his document leaked to a broadband blog. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport trawled his internal emails, found what they needed, and sacked him. The man who tried to protect public money. Margaret Hodge (@margarethodge), chair of the Public Accounts Committee, told the Guardian (@guardian) she was getting increasingly concerned at the way whistleblowers were being bullied. She pointed out that hiding behind commercial confidentiality was denying the public the right to know how their money was being spent. Her committee later confirmed what Kiely had warned all along. Taxpayers had been ripped off. £1.2 billion had gone to BT shareholders. Kiely was eventually vindicated when a community in Oxfordshire paid £28,000 per cabinet. Exactly in line with what his numbers predicted was fair. He lost his job for telling the truth. BT kept every contract. This is what accountability looks like in Britain. The consultant who raises the alarm gets sacked. The company he raised the alarm about gets the cheque. Support whistleblowers. They are the only audit most public spending ever gets. SOURCES @BBCNews @TheRegister @guardian @margarethodge

“Michelle Obama is a man” shouted on the White House lawn in a ring sponsored by Bud Light only available on Larry Ellison’s Paramount Plus. What a way to celebrate America 250 and the twilight of liberal democracy.

Excellent choice by DJ in #GERCUW match. 👏🏻 youtu.be/wO0A0XcWy88?is=0jU6…

Old enough to fight and die for your country Not old enough to send a tweet after dinner

Mad how these braindead helmets can throw fascist salutes openly without consequence but if they held up a sign supporting an anti-genocide group they’d be charged with terror offences. This is yer two-tier policing ya fucking Nazi scum!!

RT @TheCanaryUK: What the hell is going on? Even Sadiq Khan has condemned the Israeli Real Estate conference at Edgware Road, yet the Met P…

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🚨 URGENT : Le maire Zohran Mamdani annonce officiellement le lancement des premiers supermarchés municipaux de l’histoire de New York, avec des implantations prévues à El Barrio et dans le Bronx. Selon l’administration municipale, l’objectif est de proposer une alimentation plus abordable et de réduire la dépendance aux acteurs privés du secteur alimentaire.

Nine years ago today, 72 people lost their lives in Grenfell Tower, including 12 year old Firdaws Hashim & her entire family. We will never forget you 💚

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This is why they want you to forget about the Epstein files. There are dozens of girls just like her who were taken and sold into human trafficking. They’re probably not even alive anymore. What happened to these girls is beyond comprehension, and the people responsible are getting away with it.

Great result. But boy oh boy that was a tough watch. 👍🏻😬👍🏻

Ye Gods Scotland diving in / overcommitting all over the pitch. 😬 No mugs Haiti.

Suleiman Obeid, known as the “Pelé of Palestine,” was killed by an Israeli tank while standing in line trying to secure food for his five children.

He said it. 😂 #QATSUI

JUST IN: UK police launch criminal investigation into officer accused of using AI to “create evidence”

🚨 BOMBSHELL: Amnesty International officially warns the UK is setting a terrifying precedent by sentencing Palestine activists as terrorists. The British establishment is criminalizing moral convictions and destroying the right to protest just to protect the Zionist regime.

This is …. And I don’t say this lightly…. The single greatest piece of writing I have ever seen in my life The Japanese have discovered unlimited chips & salsa and it’s beautiful