If you really want to help them stop voting for parties that cut their funding and blocking their pay rises. Their self sacrifice deserves so much more.

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

Well, this is also fascinating. The responses to this thread are overwhelmingly dominated by Kremlin denialists. Clearly organised. Very reminiscent of peak Brexit years.

Hussam Ebu Safieh, "İsrail'in rehineler için ölüm cezası" ile öldürülecek olan Filistinli doktorlardan biridir (diğer 95 doktor arasında). Onu öldürmelerine izin verme. Bunu yeniden yayınlayın.

Former Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was warned that proscribing Palestine Action could prejudice the trial of 6 activists but went ahead anyway. Please RT this until Yvette Cooper is charged with Contempt of Court. Thank you.

BREAKING: TRUMP CALLS OUT ISRAEL FOR TARGETING CIVILIANS IN LEBANON: “You don't have to knock down an apartment house every time you are looking for somebody. There are a lot of people in those houses, and they are not all Hezbollah, that I can tell you.”

And absolute shame on those who took the money…

RIP Jo Cox. Murdered by a far-right extremist who shouted ‘Britain First’ as he attacked her.

The police arresting another “terrorist” This is utterly risible. Shame on Labour. Shame on Britain.

Absolute chancers. Nationalise water. Now. And keep it in public hands forever.

"Thames Water lifeline ‘not enough’ to avert state takeover." Thames Water has been bankrupt for years and customers have been paying for their own exploitation. Govt needs to end it, TODAY! thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…

2 million hours of sewage. Higher bills. Billion-pound profits. Why are we paying more to have our rivers and seas polluted? Full video: youtu.be/mScDrxo9y5E #SouthernWater #WaterCompanies #Environment #SaveOurSeas #UKPolitics #Privatisation #ClimateJustice #Politics

Actually the number is 300 billion dollars and it was confirmed by your own Vice President JD Vance. Idiots

An insane stat

Let’s say this for what it is. British police arresting British citizens because they are criticising Isreal for committing Genocide. Disgraceful.

"Environment secretary casts doubt on £10bn Thames Water rescue.' Govt says they are going to cut sewage dumping by 50% by 2030. As part of their bailout Thames Water want to be exempt from environment law. If govt allows that they will never meet their 2030 target. 🤔 ft.com/content/9d9cc597-fdbf…

Paying Tribute to the 168 school girls murdered by Donald Trump

"Where someone has committed criminal damage, that can be dealt with using ordinary criminal law - Rather than using broad and poorly defined anti terrorism powers."

RIP. This must never be repeated. Murdered by the far right for standing up against hate. We must stand united against far right extremism.

Russian drone hits private school in Kyiv's Dniprovskyi district. Russia: We never attack civilian targets. Reality: Russia attacks almost exclusively civilian targets.