@tr1shw
Ex-Labour, Northumbrian, Star Trek, Isaac Asimov, SAFC, Socialist, Grandma, Busily Retired, 🇵🇸 "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" Albert Einstein
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:
Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down
Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace
Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs
Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
NEW BLOGPOST: Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty
For any MP unsure of how to vote on the government’s proposals to restrict trial by jury.
David Lammy: "... because Cyprus is part of NATO"
erm, Cyprus is not a member of NATO. Maybe its just a slip of the tongue? Except he repeats the claim just a minute later
"... Cyprus is a NATO country"
Does the deputy PM not know that Cyprus isn't a member of a NATO?
How is this NOT joining in with the war? 🤷♂️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
GSK CEO got 50% pay rise to £15.6m.
Did you?
Neoliberals moan about rise in minimum wage. Govts preach pay restraint to workers. Silence on profiteering, hikes in exec pay/perks, dividends, share buybacks.
The state devoted to welfare of the super rich.
They won't. They are going to get shafted. They are going to deserve it. And it's going to be hilarious.
Lucifer has a point
Use @pscupdates.bsky.social new e-action to report UK Lawyers for Israel to the Charity Commission today: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/uklfi-charit...
The whole world should boycott the FIFA world cup and we should start a new one instead, free from the US poison.
Europe will come, most of South America hates the USA, and most of the rest of the world too.
Let them have the US FIFA World Cup with 3 teams.
There is just something deeply disturbing and offensive about watching a Labour govt keep kicking the most vulnerable in our society.
A reminder that there are young people in the UK who have been held in prison for up to two years without conviction for allegedly dismantling weapons of genocide.
The government has been proven wrong on all accusations against them so far.
Meanwhile:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
This is excellent by Aditya, although sobering. The negative impact of political choices, made largely by wealthy men, on the working class over the last 20 years. And they concurrently raised the state pension age, so people are getting sicker younger and becoming unable to work! Catch-22 eh?😡
Damning verdict on England social care as peer says system needs a 'reckoning'.
22 major reviews over 3 decades. Govts do nothing.
No integrated healthcare system. Social care privatised. Corporations profiteering. Public money buys less. Govt handing the NHS to them as well
End privatisation.
It’s almost as if telling your own membership to leave then lying to the electorate that you’d change things and supporting a Genocide was always going to end badly.
#Labour
Did you vote for this?
Wages taxed at marginal rates of 20%-45% + NIC.
Dividends taxed at rates of 8.75% to 39.35%. No NIC.
Capital gains at rates 18% to 32%. No NIC.
Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
Democracy and social justice... whose?
Mindblowing story. The UK met most of the costs of a key propaganda tool used by the Israeli Government to launder its genocide in Gaza - then tried to cover up the fact it had done so.
I love a really good fake quote.
This one has all the ingredients because it sounds nothing like Orwell, is poorly written, and incredibly dumb.
"But if you attach a famous name and deliver it with whispered gravitas, there will always be dumbasses who'll believe it."
~ Keith Harris (and Orville)
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#DirtyBusiness exposed the human cost of profit before public health.
Our water system won’t be fixed with tinkering. It needs public ownership NOW!!!
Please ask your MP to attend the MP drop-in on 17th March & hear that message directly from sewage campaigners: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
Similar for LPG @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com
Both need to be regulated and consumers protected.
Hi! Immigration lawyer here! Mahmood's view of the Refugee Convention as providing temporary protection just isn’t correct & AFAIK isn’t one anyone has ever adopted.
On the contrary, the Convention is clearly predicated on a long-term need for protection.
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💯 Spain - if I were brown, black or Muslim I’d be afraid, as a player or a fan, to go to USA right now. As a decent human being I’d certainly not want my hard earned cash propping up a rogue president and a rogue state.
(Apologies to my American friends but you know what I’m saying here! 😊)
There is nothing "fair" or "unfair" about asylum. People who are in danger deserve safety. Those who can provide it should.
Dreadful! 😢🫂
Something really dark when 12 year old comes home from school and says ‘I think world war three is going to start, everyone at school is saying it’
It’s the small amounts that get me! £5,000 is peanuts for a bribe to get someone close to the heart of government! How pathetic these creatures are. Anyone with such low morals and standards should be nowhere near Parliament. This is not democracy.
#DemocracyForSale (very cheaply)
Last week, UK lobbying regulator closed investigation into ex Tory MP Ben Howlett
We offered Howlett money to work for a fake Chinese investor. He introduced us to a dozen Labour MPs
Regulator didn't even speak to us. Our system is broken
New, by me: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/we-paid-an...
The latest steps in this crumbling rules based order were taken when Israel, backed by the US, Britain & half the world’s governments, carpet bombed civilians in Gaza, with absolute impunity. Of course, it gave the green light to Trump. Why wouldn’t it? He’s a maniac.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
This year @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social imposed a new GP contract
Provided an extra £1.50 to uncap the number of calls or requests per day & stand by the phone or computer
And if the job isn’t completed within 24hours the GP will be sanctioned
Job specifications below - can’t see a problem🤷🏻♂️
