Seems the Cybertruck was rented, and exploded killing the driver, so possibly related to the New Orleans attack.
Ironic terrorism?
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In summary
- Jess Phillips should be in prison for rejecting an enquiry into grooming gangs. She didn’t, but suggested that the local authority were the ones to do it.
- Tommy Robison should not be in prison - apparently he doesn’t understand the differences between civil and criminal charges.
- Kier Starmer failed to prosecute grooming gangs - again not true.
Predictably Liz Truss has come out in support.
He really is showing what happens when you have power without responsibility.
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The clown should be in jail.
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Or the fucking stocks. If only I had some rotten fruit to throw at the horrible little man…
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Hopefully he’ll fire himself into the sun in due course. All it needs is a disgruntled Space-X engineer or two 
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And he’s now saying that there should be a new election.
Farage and Ketamine - clearly not a recipe for understanding.
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America can go first on that one and we will see if it is a good idea.
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I hope Elon’s Twatter X or whatever it’s tragic comic book name disolves pronto - This freak show needs his mouth piece punching.
Unfortunately this requires millions of people to take personal responsibility and cease using his products / services. As my Nan would say: "Hang around a sewer you’ll start to fuckin clonk’
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Indeed.
I’m surprised (not really) by the number of people who still talk about it in terms of their own utility of it, rather than what they’re enabling.
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I’d also add in hospitals to that one too.
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And schools.
Ditto for all the people who buy stuff from Amazon & then wonder why there aren’t any shops any more 
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… and why the government’s corporation tax income is what it is
As an aside, I do hate the lead on that article. The sales figures are irrelevant to income tax, it’s the profit figures that are important.
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I take your point. The problem is that with a multinational corporation the national profit figures are pretty much a complete fiction, whereas the sales figures have at least some grounding in objective reality. The sales do actually indicate how big an operation Amazon is (it’s staggeringly big, of course).
If they’re on a tightish local margin - say less than 4% of turnover - then the gross profit might be a billion or so. But they’re multinational, so Amazon International, who own the Amazon logo, can ‘charge’ Amazon UK what it likes to use that logo. Let’s say it likes nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds and ninety- nine pence. Hey Presto ! Now Amazon UK’s net profit on 27bn sales is just 1p.
Call me unsophisticated, but the 27bn seems more ‘real world’ than the 1p.
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A hospice I worked for used to sell 2nd hand books on Amazon.
The sales value included P&P (unlike Ebay) and the Amazon commission/hosting/fee was quite low.
Considering they were hosting the ad, providing the checkout facility, allowing the seller to download the packing notes etc it wasn’t unreasonable.
If a seller enters into a ‘fulfilled by Amazon’ contract the fees are higher but Amazon also warehouse the stock and pick orders etc.
I wonder if the sales figures quoted are what the 3rd party sellers are charging rather than what Amazon are making.
I am not sure that a sales figure means very much either
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But who defines what ‘unreasonable’ is ? We can all choose our own definitions, I guess. Personally I’d like to know “Are they actually making a very substantial gross (forget all the accountancy and profit-shedding shenanigans) profit on this ?”. Because if they are, and last time I looked corporations like eBay, for example, very definitely were, then I get the feeling that they are being unreasonable. It’s what near-monopolies do, after all.
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