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No immigrant caused hikes in the price of energy, water, food, banking, insurance, internet; decline of manufacturing, lack of social housing; PFI; potholed roads; climate change; lack of skilled labour; crisis at universities. Neoliberalism did that Why is Labour not countering Reform narratives?
Good points.
Curious. Which ones?
Tell that to the UK miners. Years of resistance. The mines still closed. They got beaten up, unemployed, little compensation and 5 decades of poverty. We still got neoliberalism and all its tassels.
One can tickle a narcissistās bollox too much. Just a teasing single stroke will do for the fanta felon.
Truth.
I canāt claim it, but it does amuse me.
Thanks to the dark money junktanks, the cult of neoliberalism infected our higher education system.
Iād love to know what happened to free speech. bsky.app/profile/gree...
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I love things with an upside. AI and big tech investment to harvest our data, power & water to convert them into offshore, tax-free profits aināt it.
Itās the price we paid for defeating fascism the last time. The crushing irony of today. How the worm has turned.
So Starmerās tariff deal with Trump was not what it appeared. And yet weāve signed another one š¤¦āāļø Iām in the Guardian explaining why the Tech deal is even worse. Handing more power to US tech barons is not the answer to our problems. 1/3 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A huge pump that takes our data, energy & water and converts them into tax-free offshore profit, leaving nothing of value behind. Strip-mining, but without the chemical leachate. @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social calls it ātechnofeudalismā. bsky.app/profile/gree...
Bravo @ledbydonkeys.org āMalicious communicationsā now means any picture likely to cause the thin-skinned narcissist Fanta felon a mild sense of unease. Got it.
No it wonāt. Itāll advance the goals of the technofeudalists who want to extract tithes from us while offshoring the ill gotten gains to tax havens. A net dis-benefit to UK plc. We need to see this for what it really is; massive heat pumps converting our data, energy & water to their wealth.
Different arcs on the same story with a single protagonist.
We donāt need a new flag. We need to defeat the Wāļøs who take such joy from pissing on the original.
A very good point, thank you.
Former Tory minister Maria Caulfield defects to Reform Presumably Badenough just views this as āslopping outā. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Kruger rejects calls for by-election. Of course he has. Because heād lose. E Wilts knew what they were getting when they voted him in. There should be no surprise at his defection. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not just ethnic cleansing, but erasing millennia of history. Fuck the #PsychoState www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
But it wonāt, will it? Microsoft can fuck off too with its AI investment. And stay fucked off until it also pays a proper share of corporation tax. āNew AI deal could rapidly boost UK economy, says Microsoft bossā www.bbc.com/news/article...
It was only 1975, just last year š¬
My Mum had a picture of Redford sellotaped inside one kitchen cabinet door and the BeeGees in the other.
#PsychoState
āIsraelās war in Gaza āmorally, politically and legally intolerableā says UN secretary generalā #PsychoState shrugs it off, confident that itās best mate, USA, will also shrug & do nothing. Iz-USA is a toxic co-dependent relationship, serving evil on innocents. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Oof. This one leaves a taste in all mouths.
This is an incredibly uplifting video of both hope and reality. The sun is democratic. You canāt hold it hostage. From the Fossil Free Media team, with @billmckibben.bsky.social, @sanders.senate.gov & @jigarshahdc.bsky.social youtu.be/IDK-3RC5SgY
Since privatisation in the 1980s, we the public have paid *almost Ā£200bn* to shareholders Your household has paid Ā£250 extra a year since 2010 for this ideology Excellent new study from @cmmonwealth.bsky.social š Time to take back OUR public assets š§š”ššš® www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Capital always follows through. IMO itās about that simple.
Yes. I believe neither USA or Israel are signatories of UNCLOS so wonāt feel bound by rules.
Words /= Action. Itās what you DO that matters.
Greenwash. Or slurry, perhaps. āRegenerative cattle ranchingā š¤¦š»āāļø
Now thatās a worry.
This is fabulous and deserves to go viralā¦. Lots of ways to extend the messaging and themes using a Monopoly metaphor too. @greenparty.org.uk stepping up with @zackpolanski.bsky.social at the helm. āš
Fair assessment
Having been part of Assembleās recent process leading to their House of the People assembly, i completely agree.
Like Venezuela could possibly fight back. Playground bully tactics. Starting something with V wouldnāt even nudge the media needle. Are we sure heās not just playing out some personal grudge?
110,000 of them. All now captured on CCTV for ID.
PM: I would never have appointed Mandelson had I known full Epstein links Public: we never wouldāve appointed Mandy in the first place. A disaster waiting to happen. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
āUS destroys alleged Venezuelan drug boat, killing threeā A second flagrant breach of international law by the USA, #Psychostateās sponsor. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Google can fuck off with its planet wrecking AI investments. And fuck off out of UK until it pays its proper share of tax for the privilege. āGoogle owner reveals Ā£5bn AI investment in UK ahead of Trump visitā www.bbc.com/news/article...
āIsrael has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry saysā We know. And have for months. Now what? #Psychostate responds with usual tropes. Arab nations pat the problem around. UN looks powerless. Trump shrugs. Violence continues. No solution in sight. www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is huge. 3 more London councillors leave Labour and join @greenparty.org.uk. We're now on more councils than the Lib Dems in London. Labour - you're next.
Watching Starmer and Corbyn being interviewed on @channel4news.bsky.social is like chalk and cheese. One looks comfortable, speaks easily to the real issues, almost amused by the attention. One looks agitated & uncomfortable, but does at least (at last) have a worthy poke at RefUK.
This is thinly disguised homophobia by Farage. The same far-right figures who have spent years coming for my trans friends & colleagues are emboldened again against anything different from their "normal." Today and everyday I stand with the whole LGBTQIA+ community. Your struggle is my struggle.
Thatās the winter duvet back on the bed. š„¶
Funniest: back left canāt avoid marching in time.
Seems inevitable
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Shame it doesnāt work like that.
Watched you live. It was very good indeed.
Not good. Not progress.
Unlessā¦. It was all part of āthe planā
To be fair, heās always been borderline fash.
āConservative MP Danny Kruger defects to Reform UKā š¤¦š»āāļø East Wiltshire has done nothing to deserve this. Too close to home for my liking. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Words, not actions. Actions speak. Serve notice of prosecution under UK terror law for incitement of violence with political motive. He crossed a line which must now be redrawn.
āHow to burst the Israeli bubbleā A long read, but worth the effort. TL:DR Palestinian State recognition wonāt end the violence but might just cast new light by conferring rights on Palestinians. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Keep taking away the ālegitimateā reasons for discontent until just the racism stands for everyone to see. Itās the only way. Problem is that would be a kinda socialist programme which is kinda antithetical to bought & paid for neolibs. Choices, choices.
Iād heard from relatives in S Wales that RefUK are gaining traction. Hence, presumably, Mr Toadās āreopen the minesā nonsense. Worrisome.
Absolutely. Itās a toughie.
Ideally, yes, but itās logistically challenging without a register and tag programme. Having travelled extensively in Morocco, Iād say they have better things to spend limited public funding on.
Bravo. Nobody enjoys having their bubble popped. My Dad, a diehard Tory and Brexiter, had the patience to hear me out (more than once) & is grateful for the immigrant medics who saved his life, twice. He can join the dots, even if that leaves him uncomfortable with the truth.
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I was born to prep and chop the veg, make bread and pass spoons. The hob is banned territory.
Half hearted is better than nothing. Half hearted is much less than good.
Most of the feral cats & dogs in Morocco are un neutered and unvaccinated. People die of rabies every year. Some get scraps from locals. Many donāt and suffer. They may look cute, but donāt touch. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A press release. Not a piece to camera. Nothing about Muskās interference. Hastily scrawled ābe proud of flagā words and two-faced statement on āright to protestā. Heās still appeasing. Weāre still waiting. IMO he doesnāt know how to play the moment, or more importantly, this whole situation.
I wonder why Starmer is MIA? Is it heās a) hunkered down waiting for Mandy & Rayner to blow over. b) caught in headlights & clueless. c) complicit in something bigger, (pick favourite conspiracy, eg turning UK into an authoritarian technocracy). š¤·āāļø
āTrump is no 'strongman' when it comes to Russia or Israelā Sorry, but IMO Tisdall misses the point: Trump is *using* Putin & Netanyahu for his own ends. He doesnāt want peace. He wants a diminished and distracted Europe, a cowed ME and more US O&G exports. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
āBeijing offers cheap, clean power, employment, trade and a route to prosperity. Washington offers tariffs, policy chaos, White nationalist memes and South Korean workers in shackles after a raid on an EV battery factory. This is no way to win the grand strategic contest of the 21st century.ā šÆ
Up McSweeneyās a-hole?
Tominey? Pfft.
āFreedom of Informationā from the MAGA āMinistry of Truthā.
And bag snatching will go through the roof. Unlimited contactless will NOT come with stronger consumer protection. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
From conversations I have, a sense of inexorable inevitability that weāre tilting R. One friend āitās like watching hot lava flow slowly across fertile fieldsā. Another āif you still have energy to protest, you havenāt been trying hard enoughā. Fatigue and pessimism.
How could I? We wade through its slurry every bloody day!
So while Mandleson, Kirk & Yaxley-Lennon dominate headlines, I wonder how many more innocents Israel has slaughtered during the distraction? #FreePalestine
That, electoral interference, š° and now, drones. And Trump is complicit as he actually wants a diminished EU. MAGA isnāt what you do to make home better, itās what you do to squish everyone else.
Which friend, family member or pub bore are you going to have this conversation with today? š
Ooh. A party leader with something sensible to say. Now, where tf is Starmer?
51st State dude. For a long time now.
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Heās the bellows fanning the fucking flames, with McSweeney blowing hot air up his arse.
We were trained in respect Will. Not just the flag but what it represents.
What was it Trumpski said? āWhoopsieā or āhere we goā? Putin still riding high from his recent outing to Alaska.
Dear? Me no think so.
āMate, havenāt had such a gas since the Millwall in the 80āsā.
Just donāt. Simply block the word and avoid the rabid rabbit hole. Seriously.
And āgroyperā, apparently
wtf it got to do with him?
Increasingly convinced that McSweeney is part of the plan to usher it in & Starmer a āuseful idiotā. Canāt explain it to myself any other way.
Or what the army are doing interfering in domestic policing, but there we go.
But behind all that is a determined project to ensure the status quo persists. Capital has decided democracy doesnāt work for it, so autocracy here we come. Itās global btw. Capital has decided it doesnāt like their post fossil fuelled prospects & prefers oilygarchs.