#westminsteraccounts — Public Fediverse posts

Someone said on Sky News this morning - I think it was Liz Bates - that while many MPs asked about #SamCoates's #WestminsterAccounts items was a good thing, once the cameras got switched off they told Sky News what they really think: they're angry. This is excellent. Keir Starmer is as angry as Rishi Sunak is: both of them are funded by strike breaking rich businessmen. Both want to crush trade unionists. Neither is worthy of my vote. #EnoughIsEnough #SocialistSunday #Ridge

@rmdes I had the same thought a while back, but didn't do anything other than muse on it. Thanks for sharing!

The phrase "who pays the piper plays the tune" came to mind, could be a tagline?

This project looks at the funding of UK politicians:

https://www.tortoisemedia.com/audio/the-westminster-accounts/

Some global analysis for news orgs like that could complement what an extension can do.

#FollowTheMoney #WestminsterAccounts #TortoiseMedia

https://youtu.be/3hp5bBQU_M4 #WestminsterAccounts This video from YouTube isn't easily accessible from #ElonMusk's site. Not sure if there's a political reason for that or something else. Hope it's available to Mastodon users. Spent some time on the other place retweeting lots of #SamCoates tweets. We need to encourage journalists of his caliber to set up accounts here asap.

Keir Starmer and Jonathan Ashworth have both said they welcome transparency introduced by #SamCoates. However, I think both are probably, secretly, livid with the major donor who's donated twenty thousand pounds to Keir Starmer while donating to Just Stop Oil. Labour's leader will wish he had shut his gob. He'll soon tell the JSO backers to stop giving anyone in Labour any money. He'll expel any member who takes money from their backers. #WestminsterAccounts #EnoughIsEnough

I wish Mastodon members on the other place tweeted to individual journalists there to set up accounts here. We need the likes of #SamCoates here asap. #WestminsterAccounts

Westminster Accounts: MPs earn £17.1m on top of their salaries since the last election - with Tories taking £15.2m

https://news.sky.com/story/westminster-accounts-mps-earn-17-1m-on-top-of-their-salaries-since-the-last-election-with-tories-taking-15-4m-12758768

Sensemaker: Westminster money trail

https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2023/01/08/sensemaker-230108/

Out of curiosity, I looked up "30p Lee" Lee Anderson: "The value of Mr Anderson’s interests puts him in the top 16 per cent of all MPs. Since the start of the current parliament, 100 members have taken in more money than this MP."

#WestminsterAccounts #SkyNews #TortoiseMedia #Transparency #GTTO

Sam Coates is now dealing with the question of MPs making donations to charity. However, which charities? And how much are they donating? Maybe their charitable donations are to private schools, in other words, they're stealing from the poorest in order to subsidize the private education for their own children and grandchildren. #WestminsterAccounts #SamCoates

A large percentage of the 17 million quid going to MPs who treat being an MP as a part time job goes to ex Prime Ministers. Keir Starmer echoes Tony Blair in thinking that those who become PM should be free to get paid more in one hour than a nurse gets in an entire year. This is repugnant. No wonder Labour MPs struggle to get the top job and don't want to tax the rich. They want to be the rich and to screw the rest of us. #WestminsterAccounts #SamCoates