Erick Rainey - Speaker Trainer

21/07/2025

I am well-jell of this guy and what he has created. This is awesome.

01/07/2024

Covid laid bare the cronyism at the heart of the outgoing Tory government, so we must make sure the PPE scandal is placed at the beating heart of the general election.

As ministers scrambled to get hold of vital PPE in 2020, they opened a secret route for their friends and supporters to bag massive contracts – often for companies with no previous experience in medical supplies.

The VIP lane put allies of government ministers and Tory donors at the front of the queue, a system which the High Court found was unlawful after Good Law Project challenged it in 2022.

Over the last year, I’ve been working with Good Law Project, getting to the bottom of this scandal with a cache of previously unpublished data.

The Tory government spent more than £1bn through the VIP lane on PPE that was unusable, handing out fast-track contracts to their cronies behind closed doors. And then they spent more than £1bn storing this and other unused PPE, with the lion’s share of those contracts going to – you guessed it – a company referred on to the VIP lane by a Tory minister.

Over the past 14 years, the Tories have sunk to new lows, inflicting massive social, economic and cultural harm. The catalogue of privilege and incompetence surrounding PPE sums up this rotten government. We must hang this outrageous scandal around their necks.

The pandemic may sometimes seem a distant memory, but I’ll keep working with Good Law Project to hold whoever is in government to account. The billions wasted and the lives lost demand nothing less in return.

19/01/2024

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17/08/2023

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This Retreat should give you an unforgettable experience of physical, mental and emotional healing at the deepest level.  We ha...

30/06/2023

05/06/2023

It could be cheaper for someone in Los Angeles to go to a Taylor Swift concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina, than in…Los Angeles. Swift announced on Friday that she’s adding shows in Latin America to her Eras Tour, and in Buenos Aires, where inflation is raging at more than 100%, some standing-room-only tickets are going for about $153, per Bloomberg. Meanwhile, the cheapest ticket on SeatGeek for Swift’s LA shows in August is more than $1,500. With round-trip plane tickets from LAX to Buenos Aires at ~$800 in November, the math kinda checks out.
Taylor Swift performingKevin Winter/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

23/05/2023

To the "Oh she's not a serious candidate" crowd:

I take seriously that America has the highest poverty rate of any advanced democracy.

I take seriously that one in four Americans live with medical debt.

I take seriously that tens of millions of Americans live with over a trillion dollars of college loan debt just so that greedy financial institutions can leech off young people's desire to become educated and better their lives.

I take seriously that we need to ramp down fossil fuel extraction NOW if we're in any way to keep faith with the right of future generations to even survive on this planet.

I take seriously the threats to democracy posed both by neo-fascism attacking it from the outside, and neoliberalism eroding it from the inside.

Of course "they" don't want you to think I'm serious.

Because. they're. not.

03/05/2023