Opposition to a #WealthTax— brought to you by those who think workers' rights have "gotten ridiculous." What's ridiculous is the idea that someone with £15million would leave the country over £100k. That's 0.67% of their wealth, equivalent to £300 if you had £50k. They wouldn't even notice it.
"nothing about the future "? ...does the Tangerine Palpatine know what a museum is? 🤔
So the yuka app doesn't rate strawberry daiquiri 🤣
So at least £220,000
Chat gpt tells me the number is 11 so far, and the cost is conservatively 20k per by election, likely more.
He meant 'Beta', referring to himself
Masterful trolling 🤣🤣🤣
Is this keeping politics out of football? 🤔
U.K. has postal votes…. Trump’s lying (unsurprisingly)
Why is anyone listening to this tiktok child
Reform is made up exclusively of unserious, irresponsible, race-baiting grifters, hoping to be swept to power on a wave of vengeful ignorance and an absence of any scrutiny. If they were held to account - by papers like the Times - then maybe they’d be nowhere. And certainly not eyeing up peerages.
Have you noticed that despite every technological advancement which makes things easier and cheaper that nothing gets cheaper and the prices keep going up? Nobody is allowed more spare time and politicians talk about perpetual "work" with no reward.
Why can't people afford to live? It might be our world beating Energy prices that are 2/3rds profit Or our Food prices that have gone from among the lowest in Europe to nearly the highest in just 6 years Rent is also crazy high and train fares Who is all the money going to?
Nesrine Malik on the PM's language on asylum, especially on his X account www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How is this even possible? We have a desperate shortage of GPs, patients are waiting weeks for a GP appointment yet fully qualified GPs can’t get work. Surely this needs fixing urgently www.gponline.com/huge-rise-gp...
Re: your kids future sadly I think you are mistaken. I'm also top of pay scale for over a decade. Not sure what cash has to do with it
So you count a new role as a pay rise, and count April 2024 and 2025 pay rises as one year. I'm also in NHS. 3.6% promised in April but we won't get it till end of August, so effectively no pay rise since April 2024 -before labour. Plus inflation is 3.6 percent, so no net increase at all.
What's your job if you don't mind me asking, and how has the labour party enabled your lovely pay rise?
I think Labour’s problem is that, as power has shifted to technocrats over recent decades, its ambitions have shrunk to chasing populist policies shaped by an algorithmically skewed version of public opinion, one amplified by rage-bait rather than grounded in reality.
It's not just you, I thought the same, especially with it being a likeness of herself 🤣
I remember when this happened.
Reform nicked the name from a Canadian party, maybe 'the left' could also look abroad for inspiration
What a devious yet stupid man he is
Millionaires with the ear of the working class, thanks to right wing media moguls and propagandists at GBNews
This is a huge and highly consequential story in @theecologist.org We have no idea what is being traded away to secure deals with other countries, and it turns out we are not allowed to know. So much for democracy. theecologist.org/2025/jul/23/...
As a parent, I don't like the idea of these plans. How on earth could they enforce it. Seems big-brother-esque
Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal? PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard! (1/2)
I just want to remind people that Water is free, it drops out of the sky. Saying you should be paying as much for Water as you should for Energy, like Reform were claiming on the BBC today, is as ridiculous as saying a bicycle should be as expensive as a motorcycle.
Classic 17 year old
The suspensions will continue until morale improves
I feel like it's probably more that the establishment wants to ignore all those things, because of money/lobbyists, and has whipped up racist sentiment to distract from them and create an alternate scapegoat
Trump thinks families who ask for accountability from elected officials following deadly floods are evil… He and Abbott think PARENTS who have lost CHILDREN demanding accountability are evil. These people are vile.
In the 1960s more than 40% of the money you spent went straight back to Government, everything spent on Water, Oil, Gas, Coal, Electricity, Social Housing, Telecoms, Steel, Ships... Now it's less than 5%, and all that goes to billionaires Tax Havens That's why there is no money
Kemi Badenoch says we can save £9 billion by reducing support for people who need it, even though as a nation we spend so much less on welfare support than similar nations What Kemi Badenoch won't tell you is that if you tax wealth over £10m with a 2% tax, you'll generate over £24 billion
If you agree, join our movement and let's end this unfair and outdated system for good. makevotesmatter.org.uk/join-the-mov...
Macron sure knows how to make a speech!
Would definitely explain a few things 😨
🤣yep
I'm with the British Medical Association here. Genocide enabler Palantir should be nowhere near our NHS. #Palantir #NHS #BMA #UKPolitics www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Toxic clouds: the mounting vape waste crisis As vape pollution spirals, volunteers will rally in York on 12 July to demand action and enforcement of ignored recycling laws By Miki Storey @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
⚠️ Yorkshire Water announces hosepipe restrictions With an average of 260 million litres lost to leaks last year and bills going up by 40%, is it time for Yorkshire Water to face new management? By Brian McHugh @brianmchugh.bsky.social
No matter how good the message, our national broadcaster ain’t going to broadcast it with this management in place. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want them replaced with Labour people, I want proper journalists in there to give me the facts so I can make my own mind up.
They have only had council control for 2 months! I despise everything reform stands for, but this article can only do reform a favour by pointing out the waste that came before them.
Yes, describing it as a snub is generous to farage indeed
“With few seats in Parliament, no coherent policy platform beyond his usual outrage machine and no serious political capital in Europe, Farage is not being snubbed. He is simply being treated according to his actual political relevance” 👏 Let’s keep it that way www.frenchdispatch.eu/p/macron-snu...
but loads of horse flies 😫 they thrive in the heatwaves and humidity
I also collected ripe blackberries the other day I said the same thing, this is weirdly early?
This is a policy that would be dismissed as completely extremist even a year or two ago. And it’s now being proposed by the leader of the opposition. If a Brit married someone born overseas and had a (British!) disabled child, for example, they would be cut off from state support under this plan.
The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 called for dismantling the NOAA, which provides warnings of natural disasters, such as the deadly floods in Texas. The irony is that Heritage wanted these cuts because it’s angry that NOAA helps prove the reality of climate change--the thing causing floods.
I forgot he isn't actually the asshole media mogul he played in 'succession' 😆
The new ‘middle’ apparently
They have 72 MPs, yet Reform with their 4/5 dominate EVERY political programme 🤬
Grip of the state. The UK is less open and transparent than Colombia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Ireland, Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden. Weak parliament, press, civil society makes democracy difficult in a secretive state, facilitates elective dictatorships.
UK govt admits that England's water industry is controlled by criminals. All water companies have criminal convictions. Their licence to operate not cancelled. Still allowed to fleece captive customers, dump sewage in rivers, create health hazards, extract cash, enrich shareholders.
"Which tax rises could Rachel Reeves introduce to pay for the £5bn welfare U-turn?" Silly headline, blames the poor for tax rises Silence on corporate welfare, bailouts, inequitable distribution of income/wealth; profiteering pushing people into poverty; political system that marginalises the poor
Wait, they've nationalised the railways? Really? And I know they've done the NHS 10 year plan, but I heard it was all tech data mining our health records and more shitty PFI 🤣
He says we're 'at the end of the democratic process' - As PM he will end human/gay/women's rights, and the NHS. He goes to USA too woo Christian nationalists for money. He'll have loyalists in his cabinet instead of elected MPs. Listen to him, and believe him -he wants to be a fascist dictator
Oh this is great news! Sure start was amazing for me as a SAHM 20 years ago 👏🙌🙌
Nigel Farage, "Maybe we're nearing the end of times for the democratic process.. I want to be Prime Minister to use the position to change things"
Don’t doubt him …. He’d sell out the country to any dictatorship . Traitorous scum .
I have maga in my family. When you ask them why they voted for him, they give 🦊 speaking points and claim Biden didn’t have a clue. I can tell you that 💯 all of them are racist. I’ve heard the racial slurs and comments. They have yet to suffer from his policies, and when they do, they won’t admit it
An elderly relative had a heart attack and ended up in hospital because her energy provider wouldn't send her a paper bill But would send her letters threatening her over late payments - she hadn't paid because she hadn't received the bill! I got her to switch to Octopus who have been v helpful
Great piece. I do think one reason why mainstream Tories and the press haven't stigmatised the far right - in the way they did the BNP back in the 90s - is fear of the response "Aha! So you're calling everyone who believes in [X] far right!" mrmichaelshaw.medium.com/the-deplorab...
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Safe, segregated cycling infrastructure – and the lack thereof – also plays a major role. The violent ideology of driver supremacism is multifold, and corrupts not just our physical environment but also seeps into systems of law enforcement, justice, culture, finance, economics, etc.
UK comes in at 2.4 by comparison and the map below is useful showing 2024 stats per million in Europe (rather than per 100k).
How justice 'works'.
Worse than Tories on DEI www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Worse than Tories on green issues www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
2.6 in UK
'don't know'= 'isnt there anyone else?'
Disgusting
Govt's 10 year NHS Plan deepens privatisation. Govt "will enter discussions enter with private providers". Pushes PFI. For every £1 investment public purse repays £6 or more. NHS already suffering previous PFI. Corporate profits guaranteed. We pay more for less. Say NO to privatisation.
"Unchecked profiteering blights life" 💯 An issue globally. The issue, perhaps.
Whilst Starmer & Reeves continue with their efforts to snatch £6bn from disabled people 👇
Starmer seems to love him though
Any nobody thought to just say 'no mate, you're wrong, shut up' 🤣😭
cutis yarvins psychotic fantasies should have only ever been heard by a skilled therapist
What struggle to understand is, if you need to pay for help with having a wash, it hardly matters financially which bit you need help with. Surely benefit support should be based on costs accrued? I thought that was what PIP is for Maybe it should be paid expenses like MPs get x
They just seem to have no work ethic! Why are they all quitting! They didn't realise they'd have to actually do anything?!
I'm an OT and in my experience it's much more common that people can do top half but need help with bottom half. And most who need help with top, need help with bottom as well.
Not saying I agree with it, but I am guessing it's because washing top half is generally easier because less reaching/standing/balancing, so if you can't do that then you are likely to be *more* disabled so it has more points.
I keep hearing politician say that the disability benefits system ‘isn’t working’. Isn’t it? That depends on how you define ‘working’. Do you define it as ‘is it helping disabled people’ rather than ‘is it costing the government too much money’ you’ll get quite different answers.
It’s because Nigel Farage wants to be able to offer everything, without the promise of delivering anything.
He’s not wrong. We are in a very dark place. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@kirithentwistle.bsky.social I see you are named as one of the labour rebels opposing the welfare cuts. Thank you for standing up for what is right, please don't be swayed from fighting to protect the vulnerable
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We have a 50% serious genetic deadly disease in my family that starts around 35 and the decision whether to test and to know is something that is absolutely not to be taken lightly
As long as they dont actually treat all the known and treatable conditions we have right now it is such bullshit. Plus what do you do with this information, most of the time nothing. Plus people also have the right to not know about their genetic disease burden.
But just think of all the *data* Streeting’s credulous approach to genomic testing is gonna generate…
Some major causes of ill health such as some cancers and diabetes do have a heritable component, but what exactly would genomic testing add here? Genuine question. Would the advice given to someone not mostly be the same as to anyone, around healthy lifestyles?
“health care free at the point of risk, not just need” is a nice sound bite from Wes, but I fear it will be used to justify shovelling money at biotech & private testing companies, for tests of dubious clinical benefit. Would love to know @mgtmccartney.bsky.social’s thoughts.
This was not a full-page ad I was expecting to see in the Sunday NYTimes today
Hillary Clinton was right. www.vox.com/2016/7/28/12...
Wow 😳