A clear example of the theft perpetrated by the pillaging of public resources in the wake of privatisation started by Thatcher and continued by every PM since (including the fascist-in-waiting Starmer ... he just has a new name for it, thinks he can fool us). British Gas posts billion pound profits in the wake of the highest energy prices for ever using the excuse that the Ukraine war is pushing global proces up (it may well be but such profiteering is not explained only by that). Thames water have taken out massive loans whilst paying massive bonuses to executives - when that authority is taken back into public control who will be repaying those ridiculous loans ... well not the executives. Pure, unadulterated theft
Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929) United Kingdom.
Portrait of Nicola, 1913, oil on canvas
Daniel Barkley
Robert Bliss, Model in black trunks, 1966
Fucking true.
And the Fascists just keep rolling on. Labour and the Tories have made such an disgusting mess of this country in their desparation to line thier own pockets and those of their cronies that people clearly believe that they need an alternative ... and they absolutely do, but for goodness sake the fascists is only going to be out of the frying pan into the fire! We have no actual democracy when the best we can do is to choose the least worst. There is no real dofference between Labour and Tories since the dark days of New Labour (a euphemism for Tory-light). If people really feel that Reformare the way forward then I think it is time to leave the UK!!
Two of Henry Scott Tuke's models
Robert Bliss, Standing boy in red trunks, 1959
Robert Bliss, Thinking the same thing, undated
Henry Scott Tuke, Half-length study of a boy, 1909 (there is a full-length version but I have not been able to locate a copy)