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Prem Sikka

@premnsikka

Emeritus Professor of Accounting. If with all your effort and might you do not reach the mountain top that is not failure; failure is that you did not even try.

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Govt will 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of benefits & state pension.

Millions of old, sick, infirm, poor won't have financial privacy, even when no suspicion of fraud.

Won't snoop on the accounts of crooks, tax abusers, money launderers.
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Post Office’s first reaction to the suicide of a sub-postmaster it accused of stealing was to hire a media lawyer to protect its “brand reputation”.

Widow silenced by a non-disclosure agreement to get phased compensation.

Not an ounce of humanity.
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Bank accounts of millions of individuals, landlords, charities, voluntary organisations, companies will be 24/7 snooped on by the UK govt.

You won't be told, can't appeal against it, will have no say in how the information will be used.

Fascism is here.
leftfootforward.org/2024/04/the-go…

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Ryanair boss says he would ‘happily’ fly asylum seekers to Rwanda.

How many people would want to use an airline profiting from human trafficking?
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London Stock Exchange CEO pay rises from £6.25m to more than £13m.

No link to corporate performance - companies are fleeing UK.

Govt preaches real wage cuts to workers, but no curbs on exec pay, dividends, share buybacks, profiteering.

It is class war.
theguardian.com/business/2024/…

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Post Office’s first reaction to the suicide of a sub-postmaster it accused of stealing was to hire a media lawyer to protect its “brand reputation”.

Widow silenced by a non-disclosure agreement to get phased compensation.

Not an ounce of humanity.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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Bank accounts of millions of individuals, landlords, charities, voluntary organisations, companies will be 24/7 snooped on by the UK govt.

You won't be told, can't appeal against it, will have no say in how the information will be used.

Fascism is here.
leftfootforward.org/2024/04/the-go…

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How overseas owners of water companies clean up by polluting our rivers.

£78bn+ dividends since 1989, 360% hike in bills, no new reservoirs, sewage dumped, trillion litres of water lost to leaks.

Shareholders only want profits

End the scam. Nationalise
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Rishi Sunak presiding over the least transparent govt for 25 years.

FOI requested information released fully for only 34% of requests in 2023.

The same contempt shown for parliament. Too many questions not answered.

Secrecy breeds corruption.
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

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Sunak ordered to disclose dealings with former hedge fund over lucrative Moderna investment.

Sunak refuses to say whether he profited personally from Theleme Partners, which invested in Moderna before the UK govt rolled Covid vaccines.
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Former Post Office (PO) executive gave ‘false’ evidence at high court in 2018 about Horizon IT system flaws, inquiry hears.

She can't recall the 2010, 2011, 2014 emails telling her about the flaws.

No PO exec charged with wrongdoing. Will they ever be?
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

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Ryanair boss says he would ‘happily’ fly asylum seekers to Rwanda.

How many people would want to use an airline profiting from human trafficking?
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

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Prem Sikka(@premnsikka) 's Twitter Profile Photo

London Stock Exchange CEO pay rises from £6.25m to more than £13m.

No link to corporate performance - companies are fleeing UK.

Govt preaches real wage cuts to workers, but no curbs on exec pay, dividends, share buybacks, profiteering.

It is class war.
theguardian.com/business/2024/…

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Sunak ordered to disclose dealings with former hedge fund over lucrative Moderna investment.

Sunak refuses to say whether he profited personally from Theleme Partners, which invested in Moderna before the UK govt rolled Covid vaccines.
leftfootforward.org/2024/04/rishi-…

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Prem Sikka(@premnsikka) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Rishi Sunak presiding over the least transparent govt for 25 years.

FOI requested information released fully for only 34% of requests in 2023.

The same contempt shown for parliament. Too many questions not answered.

Secrecy breeds corruption.
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

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Former Post Office (PO) executive gave ‘false’ evidence at high court in 2018 about Horizon IT system flaws, inquiry hears.

She can't recall the 2010, 2011, 2014 emails telling her about the flaws.

No PO exec charged with wrongdoing. Will they ever be?
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

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Just 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution.

Philip Morris International, Danone, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola are worst offenders.

Ban their products. Hit them with extra taxes to fund recycling and cleaning
theguardian.com/environment/20…

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World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers.

Billionaires have the lowest effective tax rate of any social group.

Can deliver £250bn a year extra to fight poverty, climate crisis.

Now watch UK govt oppose it.
theguardian.com/inequality/202…

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Former Post Office 'Complaints handler' executive who 'misled' previous Post Office judges says 'I didn't knowingly do anything wrong'.

Blames Fujistsu and others.

She presided over most of the prosecutions of innocent people, for fat pay and bonuses.
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Post Office scandal extends 'greatly beyond Horizon' - victims' lawyer.

Internal document reported problems with ATM machines, bank giro payments, pension payments, lottery tickets, DVLA processing; innocents prosecuted.

Whole edifice was rotten/corrupt.
news.sky.com/story/post-off…

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