1/ The WEF is funded by global Corporations & now they have influence over strategic government funding to benefit its members not us, despite soundbites to the contrary.
The UK government is allowing it to shape our future, incl. the NHS & infrastructure spend, remember that.
2/ On UK. gov its hidden in plain site.
"UK and World Economic Forum to lead regulation revolution to foster industries of the future"
But only those that benefit members. obvs. gov.uk/government/new…
3/ And if you dig a bit deeper, here's the partnership with the NHS for public and private partnerships. The partners are of course members of the WEF ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/const…
4/ And then theres that all important infrastructure and and capital spend. Can't let a good "build back better" soundbite go to waste. ice.org.uk/news-and-insig…
Thread 1/ Watching James 'Not so' Cleverly on Sky. discussing energy prices and home heating bills.
As usual he has totally ignored or missed the bigger picture. Not only will people face paying almost double for their energy, everything they buy is about to increase in price.
2/ Businesses will have massive increases in their energy costs, both in the UK and in every country where products are manufactured. They have also seen huge increases in the price of raw materials, including cardboard for packaging, silicone, plastics, electronics etc..
3/ There are several key reasons for this, energy costs are only one.
COVID lockdowns world wide have meant a reduction in availability of raw materials, shortages of labour to produce finished goods and thousands of factories turned over to the production of PPE.
2/ 🌍300% increase in the use of single use plastics
🌍130 billion face masks and
🌍65 billion plastic latex gloves are used globally every month
🌍China manufacturing over 116 million disposable face masks a day
🌍 Number of disposable face masks used per day is over 7 billion
3/
The global packaging market is set to grow from $909.2 billion to over $1,012.billion in 2021 to package PPE, food, consumer goods and groceries for home deliveries. Up 40%.
Because we're too scared to actually go to the shops. #COP26
▪️Gov will support businesses choosing to use it from step 4
▪️They expect a high degree of take up
▪️SAGE & ethics bodies back it overall
▪️Majority of the public don't
1/ Retailers, online websites and charities all jumped on the BLM merchandise bandwagon. Much of this will have been made in sweatshops worldwide.
This is how cotton is produced.
Don’t these lives mater?
2/ Ethical inspections are the “get out clause” for most retailers. Some, such as Amazon don’t bother at all and only a handful audit their cradle to grave supply chain. Which is why we still have cotton slavery
3/ 18 countries use child labour to produce cotton and 9 use forced labour, 8 use a mix of both
Children plough, weed, sow, remove pests, spray toxic pesticides and are present in the fields whilst spraying, also cross pollinate plants by hand
A short thread about PPE 1/ About 8 weeks ago, we contacted our trusted suppliers and purchased high quality CE tested and marked Surgical masks and Face shields. Initially, we thought these may be used by our own staff, but as we moved into lockdown we found we didn’t need them.
2/ We have thousands of excess pieces in stock here in the UK and so thinking there was a shortage we spoke to key customers a couple of weeks ago including Amazon, all refused to list the products. No reasons were given.
3/ Over the past 2 weeks there have been increasing stories of care homes without these basic essentials. Including reports on various news channels and in most newspapers. We began to contact these care homes.