Starmer isn't the problem, it's this entire government and everyone in it. That's why when they get around to replacing Starmer it won't actually change anything.
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Starmer isn't the problem, it's this entire government and everyone in it. That's why when they get around to replacing Starmer it won't actually change anything.
Immigration and asylum has replaced Brexit as the rabble-rouser of our times, drowning out almost every other subject and consuming vast government resources.
Tried that & everything vet suggested. My cat's a rescue & very sensitive. Vets have been helpful in giving me the worming & flea tablets she needs but she needs claws cut & a health check. I'm worried.
Good luck. I've used the spray on my newest cat carrier (have tried different ones) but still can't get her to go in it for vet visits. Have tried treats, all sorts to try & persuade (per vets advice) her but no joy.
Orwell loved English working-class culture, literature, and humour - but not Britain’s ruling class, nor its empire. He saw English patriotism as a way of glossing over empire, inequality and decline.
Orwell was literally a peniless immigrant in France. It's all there in "Down and Out in Paris and London". It taught him empathy for the poor, who he wrote about as human beings. This is the antidote to the xenophobia that was being pedalled in London today.
In "Keep the Aspidistra Flying", Orwell shows how obsession with money poisons relationships and drives people to cruelty. Wealth, or the pursuit of it, produces hierarchy, contempt and shallow values. Elon should probably read this one.
Orwell said extreme wealth is dehumanising both for those who have it (isolating them, breeding cruelty, corrupting moral vision) and for those forced to serve it. Socialism is needed not only to lift up the poor, but to liberate the wealthy from the moral prison of their own riches.
In 1941, Orwell warned that Britain could not be both democratic and have extreme inequality - war and fascism would exploit those contradictions. Still true in 2025.
Orwell despised grandstanding that masked real power. He hoped to see “a world in which no one is rich, and no one is poor.” Whereas Musk aspires to be the first trillionaire.
Orwell hated the theatre of moral absolutes that let people excuse cruelty as duty. “They are only doing their duty” was his warning about bureaucratised violence of the kind being carried about by ICE in the USA and often cheered on by Musk.
Orwell went to Spain because he was an internationalist. He believed fascism was a danger to all humanity and that solidarity must cross borders. No "Britain first" for him. He sought to expose propaganda and lies wherever they came from, whether from fascists or Stalinists.
When Musk invokes Orwell at a far-right march, it’s more than ironic; it’s Orwellian: twisting language and truth so that oppression sounds like freedom and hate sounds like duty. To give Musk credit, he must know this.
George Orwell went to Spain to fight fascism. Literally. Not to take holidays, but to stand against the likes of Robinson and Musk. Orwell saw in Spain how fascist "leaders" turned resentment into organised cruelty. That is why he bled in the trenches there.
When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?" So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵
I don't give a shit about Danny Kruger jumping ship in order to save his career. I care about Farage's corruption, how his waitress partner could afford an £800,00 house and why he said he bought it!!
Have you tried this? www.feliway.co.uk
Farage would advise strongly not to ask him any questions about his dodgy finances. Farage can fuck off. Where did your waitress girlfriend get £800,000 from?
Nigel Farage (Dulwich), Danny Kruger (Eton), Richard Tice (Uppingham) and Isabel Oakeshott (Gordonstoun) aren't 'standing up to the elite'. They are the elite.
How could anybody possibly describe a march organised by a former British National Party organiser and addressed by a man who gave Hitler salutes at the Trump inauguration rally as 'far right'?
UK Govt must change course. Increase purchasing power of the bottom 50%. Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. WRONG At the very least abolish VAT on domestic fuel, reduce std rate of VAT, lift personal allowance by £1,000. Shift the cost to the rich.
In 2024-25 HMRC wrote-off £7.2bn of tax. Main reason is UK insolvency law. Since 2003, HMRC has been an unsecured creditor for taxes owed by companies such as corporation and capital gains tax. Billions lost. Public purse pays subsidies, employment & other benefits. Reinstate Crown preference.
Residents say that a retirement home in Chester is failing them Abbeyfield Chester is a retirement scheme that claims its residents enjoy supported housing with high standards. But this is not the case. www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
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Starmer is compromised that's crystal clear , he is a lame duck. The UK needs stronger leadership in the face of Fascism and the far right thinking they can do what they want.
Windermere doing ok, is it? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Is a maximum pay cap the answer to inequality in the UK? youtu.be/GKevsgaMxAQ?... CEO pay in the UK is out of control. The median FTSE 100 boss now takes home £4.5 million a year – while millions struggle to live on the minimum wage. If we can set a minimum wage, why not a maximum pay cap?
It's official, the greediest MP is still .... Nigel Farage!!!
Well said that lady 👏
Car seats being sold online in UK that risk lives of children, Which? finds. In pursuit of profits, businesses ignore laws/safety. They object to consumer rights. The so-called 'red tape' is someone's life. Left to itself capitalism devours all. Say NO to profits before people.
The Prime Minister is hoping that a state visit from a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein will dial down the furore surrounding the Prime Minister’s decision to promote a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein. And it’s probably the best chance he’s got.
Now thats Food for Thought
Brexit wasn’t abstract, writes The Bear. It stripped out the NHS’s stabilisers – staff, medicines, safety nets – and left us running on fumes. The cost isn’t just GDP points. It’s lives.
@hackneyabbott.bsky.social : "Why did [Keir Starmer] ever employ Peter Mandelson in the first place... back in the day Mandelson was sacked twice and it was always for the same thing, sleazy goings on with multi millionaires, so why would you put him in Washington?" #GMB
This is why British people have no confidence or trust in the Government. Farage is a wrong-un. We know it, they know it. He doesn't play by the rules, his motives, integrity always in question but he & his "dummy" Corporate/billionaire backed construct of a political party apparently unstoppable.
He headlined a $500 dollar a head fundraiser for Trump… I doubt, in those circumstances, he funded the trip (air fares/ hotels etc) himself He‘s acting like a foreign agent isn’t he? If he loves Trump’s America so much, why doesn’t he go & lives there? …the Brexiter’s line to Pro Eu people.
Musk, Tommy Robinson - fascist Britain. A hellpit of violence and racism. They’re using our flag as their rallying cry. And X as their megaphone. No more appeasement. No more ‘legitimate concerns’ horseshit. It’s beyond time to sanction Musk, regulate X and shut these fuckers down. (Sunday Times)
Probably the best analysis of the Kirk shooting I’ve heard so far. From Mark Kenny on ABC Insiders this morning.
Westminster politics is utterly broken. There is no going back. What we need now is something completely new. Tories and Labour are finished and Reform will never ever be fit to govern our country. It's up to us to reject them all because they are truly failing us. We deserve so much better.
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Do you think our government should be comparing specialist NHS Trusts, which house and perform some of the most groundbreaking research, surgery and clinical expertise in the world, with hospitals which require props to hold up the ceiling? 🚨🚨🚨 …
As some context I auditing some local green channels - wealth inequality was not mentioned in two months. Better on national channels but still low (despite a local poll in Greens indicating some thought it was the most important issue we face). I want to know how this changes.
I wrote a blog on the gap for the greens, on the invisible crisis facing Britain (wealth inequality), how it’s dividing us, and why people join reform. Would love to know how the greens address it. What is driving racism? substack.dileeparanawake.com/p/the-green-...
Hope you give some time to Emeritus Prof Richard Murphy, or Prem Sikka, who have much more realistic and developed financial analysis than Stevenson.
UBS is no alternative to UBI. We need both. Cash is a vitally important service. www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconom...
Oo have you about universal basic services? It address the issues of UBI which is essentially inflation cancels out UBI benefits. UBI = means (no guarantee) UBS = end/outcome (guarantees) Fully costed Kings Colledge London study here www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/sit...
Being a leader means connecting with the people you're representing. As part of that, @ZackPolanski wants to answer some of your questions on the podcast... comment below 👇 (and before you ask: yes, we've got a date in with Gary Stevenson)
The billionaires and their puppets.
Grab yourself a coffee and give this one a read today.
"UBI is not a theory in search of proof; it’s a foundation in search of political will." scottsantens.substack.com/p/the-report...
New longread essay from me in response to the slew of recent hot takes holding up a few guaranteed income pilot results as some kind of nail in the coffin of universal basic income and even cash transfers in general. This is a long one because I dive into the details and cover much more evidence.
Starmer surrendered when he turned his back on disabled people that rely on the government for support. He surrended when he cut aid for the disabled. He surrendered the moment he called us an island of strangers. Real patriotism requires us to care. www.bbc.com/news/article...
. Only in America is a guy like Charlie Kirk more valuable than hundreds of shot schoolchildren . . . ... how terrible, disgusting and sad. 💠 😔 💠
Credit: @thedemcoalition.bsky.social Posted Sept 6 Sadly, it's already a fascist authoritarian state & it was accomplished prior to September There have been MULTIPLE red flags indicating something was seriously wrong & we were in serious trouble, starting with J6 @stephenking.bsky.social is 💯🎯🗽
“Bustling crowds wait for overwhelmingly non-white shop staff to serve up their alcohol, never wondering about who would turn up to scrub Westminster station clean of their urine at the end of the day.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
Instead of the media’s lazy posthumous takes, I am in favor of Kirk’s actual words being spread far and wide.
Dear Labour, you made this problem. Now you want us to support the strategy with which you made it? There’s a way to get our support back: change your approach. Do something socialist, something positive. Stop the bloody appeasement.
That feeling of desperately wanting your elected government to loudly call out racism & far right violent extremists... And nothing. Labour so afraid to lose power, it has forgotten both how to use it & that with power comes responsibility. As America gets ever darker, too little light here.
This is the scum the stupid are glorifying and following while screaming, protect our women and children 🤷🤦
Universal basic income would better enable parents to choose a job or unpaid care work at home. If you can't afford to pay for care and so quit your job to do unpaid care work at home, that's not a choice. And if you want to do unpaid care but can't afford to lose income, that's not a choice either.
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Beautiful 💙
🙏 please, please, please from the UK. Pity it can't happen before 9/17.
Sounds fabulous!
Hoooah!
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I've seen statements from @zackpolanski.bsky.social (Green) and @eddavey.libdems.org.uk (Libdem) condemning the division and violence, has anything come from the three Tory parties? (not holding my breath)
If you are too scared to say this @labouruk.bsky.social then you’re not fit to govern If you are too scared to act you are not fit to govern If you fear the BBC & Sky etc will promote these thugs’ angle then you can get back some semblence of impartiality in the BBC but that means you have to ACT
Lies, all lies
To stop Reform in their tracks and challenge this failing Labour government - we need to grow our team of MPs. We're planning to have brilliant candidates across England & Wales. Never been involved with politics before? That's fine. Often even ideal! Check out below. 👇🏼
Added to that it's doubtful Government will not relinquish it's hold on the British public, as with all other Authoritarian regimes, total control of population is key. Govt's reluctance to tax Wealth/Corporates & continuing plans for privatisation of UK speaks volumes. Tax Wealth Not Work
The #UBI pilot for care leavers in Wales ended this year. Not continued due to high cost, predictably. Final accounting of the scheme to be issued in 2027 but there will never be enough in the kitty for the majority of British citizens until Government gets a grip on it's costs. Tax Wealth Not Work
#SaveOurNHS Stop privatisation UK jujuliagrace.substack.com
…we should be supporting the trusts that are struggling, because this hasn’t happened by accident. It’s happened because of what politicians have done. Are you serious, Wes Streeting?! You can sign up to receive my newsletter/ rant here: jujuliagrace.substack.com
I normally try to keep my newsletter quite reasoned & respectful. But I’m furious about these NHS trust league tables. Take it from someone who has trained and worked at the No1 ‘best’ teaching hospital in the country-the ones doing well have everything stacked in their favour…
Redistribute public funds fairly, scrap failing Benefits system & implement Universal Basic Income #UBI Tax Wealth Not Work
Yeah. Agree. Public money would be far better utilised by scrapping failing benefit systems & implementing Universal Basic Income instead. #UBI
Yeah, there are all kinds of reasons not to claim social security in the UK. The systems are incredibly human-hostile on many levels.
Many people don't claim benefits, prefer autonomy/independence; + benefits claimed can be clawed back by DWP with no warning, for flimsiest of reasons. Payments stop. No notice, demands for repayment & imposition of Citizens Fines (set at roughly 20% of debt) People catapulted into worry & debt.
Estimated 7m households not claiming benefits they are entitled to. Missing out on support makes the cost of living crisis even harder to cope with. Deven is right: low awareness, high complexity and stigma all part of the explanation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
High complexity, for sure. Applying online for anything is difficult for many people, especially disabled, neurodivergent, English-as-2nd language & less tech-savvy people. I’m in 2 of those categories. Luckily Mr M is highly tech savvy & helps me & volunteers at library to help others.
A lot of people don't claim benefits when they're just about getting by, even though they probably should. Then the government and media freak out when more people start claiming, once external factors mean that more aren't getting by.
Charlie Kirk isn’t a martyr. He’s a casualty of the violence he incited.
White men in London today cheering Charlie Kirk and blaming their abject poverty on immigrants, not the cleptos running the country to the ground When will you learn …
Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons. Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.
@torstenbell.bsky.social I’m sure you are doing your best but Labour needs to tool up and begin fighting back. Attack Reform on their unpopular policies - on the NHS, climate, fox hunting etc. And the government must get off X - it’s the modern Der Sturmer. Once they go the media will follow.
One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?
Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
My colleague @thejohnsimpson.bsky.social has done a terrific deep dive into the financial links between US tech billionaires and Tommy Robinson Well worth a read observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Revolving doors. Thames Water paid £1m+ to corporate lobbyists part-owned by Starmer adviser. The aim is to reach policymakers, keep TW private. TW pays £200m a year to various advisers, cost borne by customers. Public ownership would end this chicanery. No need to pay dividends, lobbyists.
Ok....so the guy in the wheelchair and the old ladies carried off by the police for protesting genocide in Palestine are classed as terrorists but this guy is....what? Labour needs to wake up quickly, no matter how much they track to the right, they will never win over filth like this.
So pensioners who quietly support Palestine action - arrested Scumbag bloke who straight up says the PM should be assassinated …. - radio silence
1/1 People are terrified of what’s happening as Donald Trump, Elon Musk, are orchestrating and funding Tommy Robinson’s far-right insurgency, which will at some point see people being killed.
England has a deeply troubling far-right problem that Keir Starmer is simply not opposing. This has to stop, none of this is about free speech, it is fascism, and it’s out of control. 1/2
The former head of channel 4 news (2003-2020) says "it now comes out [Mandelson] actually stayed in his house while Epstein was in prison" This hasn't just come out. Its been known about for years!
If leftwing protestors had attacked the police on a demonstration yesterday, there's little doubt about what today's dominant news story would be
