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If the same people who convinced you that Leaving the EU would solve our problems (then it made them worse), can convince you Leaving the ECHR will solve our problems... I will call you stupid. I will call you a braindead neanderthal with the intellect of a stepped-on fruit-fly.
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Labour's Failures 2/🧵 Household Analogy Economics • The government repeats the myth that the state must “balance its books like a household.” • This ignores that a currency-issuing government creates money before taxing or borrowing. Failure on Growth and Distribution
Nobody works with Starmer, they work for him or they get destroyed. My way or the highway man has just met his Nemesis.
I think I'm gonna be sick x www.normalisland.co.uk/p/huge-confu...
Disgraceful!
This is how dictatorships behave
There was I, foolishly thinking that Labour(?) couldn't go any harder with their performative cruelty, and then along comes today. Scum. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
“The great dividers want you to believe that the problems in our society are caused by minorities. They’re not. They’re caused by a rigged economic system that protects the interests of the super-rich” - Jeremy Corbyn www.tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/labo...
Which government ministers have received donations or donations-in-kind from lobbying firms? 🚨🚨🚨
For god’s sake someone remind the bbc.
Douglas Carswell’s massive racism update:
Tories pledge to get all oil and gas out of North Sea. Madness but corporate donors will be pleased. Silence on environmental destruction, health impacts and associated social costs.
My pleasure Pat.
Mosley built a cult of personality presenting himself as the strongman who could restore order. Farage cultivates a ‘man of the people’ act. Mosley’s movement was violent, Farage’s rhetoric contributes to an atmosphere where far-right violence thrives, emboldening hate groups and xenophobic violence
The right-wing assaults on the rights of children and all people who have autism, ADHD, AuDHD and other special needs keep growing, and that's especially worrying for all those who know, care, teach and value such people for who they are and what they can do. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08...
They told us privatisation would mean better services at less cost They told us the more millionaires the better because wealth would trickle down The opposite happened They lied, and despite having been proved wrong they're still lying meme via Jon Cumberbatch
This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads. Race hate.
Notices needed in every newsagent ... meme via Angie Stack
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
I think this applies to Farage.
I do not believe for one moment that the US government and UK government and other western governments do not know exactly what Israel is doing and will continue to do. They are all complicit and guilty.
The fact that Reform were trying to run a person who had been dead for six months as their Croydon Mayoral candidate is proof if it were needed that they are not a serious party. It demonstrates abject incompetence and no vetting as well as utter contempt for the electorate.
Perhaps rather than praying they could introduce gun control legislation that stops children getting killed.
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Now I wonder who this term could be applied to?
George Orwell?
It's ridiculous isn't it. Nigel Farage can negotiate with the Taliban, but he can't talk to his constituents in Clacton. Because it is too dangerous.
Regrettably, it took until 1998 for the ECHR to be incorporated into UK law as the UK Human Rights Act, but it did eventually happen. Many of our essential human freedoms are now dependent upon the existence of this Act and the two international agreements that gave rise to it.
Farage is promoting something very different, very dangerous, and very evil. He is promoting politics based upon hate. Our post WWII commitment to human rights must be defended at all costs if we are not to return to fascism Labour Tories and neoliberalism will be his handmaiden
Here's how the real two-tier Britain works: 1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off. 2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
Yesterday seemed to me the first unequivocal opening salvo in a political civil war waged by Farage on behalf of the extreme far right. I find it hard to believe that, back in the 1970s when Enoch Powell was still around, anyone spouting this racist bile would be given any publicity at all
Thames Water fined £104.5m for sewage dumping on 6 Aug 2024. £18.2m for violating dividend payment rules on 19 Dec 2024. TW to pay 20% (£24.5m) by 30 Sept 2025, the rest ... may be by 2030. TW has 187 criminal convictions. In a rentier economy corporations are indulged for criminal practices.
If you're young Or old Or a woman If you've got a disability Or, you've a SEND If you're LGBTQ+ Or you're from an ethnic minority If you need care Or you're in the forces And if you're in Northern Ireland Then Farage's plan to abolish human rights law is going to screw you
A new verb just entered the lexicon. *To Witkoff* - to obsequiously flatter someone in such an overtly embarrassing manner that onlookers squirm with 2nd hand embarrassment. Example: Did you see that Witkoff guy witkoff the President?
Just to be clear Farage & Tice:
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
Farage’s “probity and judgment were sold as the product called Brexit. It turned out to be a piece of shit.” And, unbelievably, this Labour govt finds itself trapped because it has refused to call this out. What a profound - and now dangerous - political failure. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Energy bills to rise by more than expected ahead of winter. UK's 20 largest companies made £514bn operating profit since 2020, causing inflation, poverty, business failures, enriching shareholders. No party tackling corporate power, profiteering, rentier economy.
Trump said: “a lot of people are saying ‘maybe we’d like a dictator", claims he isn’t one. Since the election he has probably made more laws than Congress; thinks he is King, will rule forever Sent soldiers into US cities, wants to annexe other countries. A dictator did that in the 1930s.
He needs to go NOW!
Farage leaving the ECHR would take away YOUR right to ... 🔥 A fair trial 🔥 Fair laws 🔥 Protection from execution 🔥 Protection from discrimination 🔥 Protection from torture 🔥 Protection from slavery 🔥 Freedom of speech 🔥 Freedom of lifestyle 🔥 Freedom to decide if you want or don't want children
@pimlicat.bsky.social - CEO of Best for Britain: ⚠️“Stoking fears over immigration as a way to remove our basic rights is right out of the authoritarian playbook We cannot allow the same to happen here. Rights are not something we can trust Farage to rewrite." www.bestforbritain.org/farage_can_t...
It is our duty to defend human rights www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08... Farage is going to announce his plan to end human rights in the UK this morning. We should all be profoundly worried.
Scourge” : a person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering. Sounds more like Farage wouldn’t you say?
Ben Brown: "The IDF have said... they do not intentionally target people who are not involved in the conflict" Well done to professor Nick Maynard for calling out the BBC here.
So, let me get this right… now any combination of the words Palestine and or Action has become an arrest-able offence? They’re just making this up as they go along!!
What issue does flag waving solve? Does it: a) reduce food prices? b) reduce energy costs? c) improve the NHS? d) raise wages? e) create better jobs? f) none of the above?
Someone asked me what they could do to stop this wave of hate sweeping the country at the moment, and the answer is very simple: use your voice. Call out that racist on Facebook Write to your local paper/MP/ decrying flagshit vandalism and asylum accommodation hate. Don't just be a bystander.
"A great deal of money is being made out of the health service by the private sector being invited in to perform functions & services within the NHS. [Streeting] doesn't seem to understand the principle that public service should not just be of service to the public but publicly owned..."
www.threads.com/@ukfactcheck...
Neoliberal destruction of the NHS UK has 2.4 hospital beds per 1,000 people Germany 7.6 OECD average 4.6 Worse in many places. Hackney in London 0.9, lower than Mexico. Bedfordshire 1.7, same as Colombia. Sick people can't work. Can't boost GDP & productivity without better healthcare.
My unease with flags www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08... I have problems with the cross of St George. I know I am not alone.
UK Govt to kick off public-private partnerships in England. It is new name for Private Finance Initiative. Private sector invests £1, gets £6+ back. The state guarantees corporate profits. Nothing learnt? Govt can create money, borrow, do QE, tax the rich ... why hand free cash to corporations?
"Downing Street is arming Israel as its military cooks alive Palestinian babies in rubble. Sally Rooney is offering royalties to activists who throw paint at planes in protest at their government facilitating genocide. A sane person can see who is committing an offence here." via Owen Jones
Here's a fact for you all. Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK. Not ONE. This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit. But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
The absolute cream turnip of hypocrites.
Why the ‘supposed’ outcry about migrants? We have always had migrants, migration is common and perfectly normal. Brits move abroad all the time and we are a nation of immigrants ourselves The right profit from the fear they create. It hides the truth. apple.news/AHAF3JgBaR4K...
If you ever stop being angry at immigrants, pensioners and disabled people getting pennies. You will start being angry at billionaires stealing billions. And they can't be having that.
In other words: They lied.
Nurses, Doctors and Train Drivers aren't paid too much. Billionaires are. Cutting their profits will cut ALL your bills. So lets do that.
Tesco takes more from you than it costs for Asylum Seekers, and the Banks take more in 2 weeks than Asylum Seekers cost in an entire year. But of course, there is absolute silence about that.
I hope this happens, and happens soon
There's always £billions cash available for - fossil fuel subsidies - warmongering weapons manufacturers - shareholders of privatised companies - descendants of slave owning & trading royalty "Public funding for the Royal Household has tripled in real terms since 2012, official figures show"
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Politicians tell us taxes pay for public services. Actually, it does something more important — it shapes our society. In this video, I explain why tax is an economic steering wheel, and how we can use it to create fairness, tackle inequality, and protect our environment. youtu.be/hQd5qLEfwZw?...
Self-styled slayer of unelected elites.... demands unelected representatives in the unelected House of Lords. The absolute turnip. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
For no particular reason I just wanted to say that we have a Collie. This kind, gorgeous, creature constantly improves our lives. In a world of arseholes be a Collie. X
People claim that banks lend the funds deposited with them. They don't. In fact, they can't. It is technically impossible for them to do so. In this post, I explain why that is the case and how banks really create the loans that they offer to their customers. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08...
BREAKING NEWS: Syrian asylum seeker found beating up a teen girl outside a club. He pushed her over and kept kicking her! It took 2 bouncers to stop him! Labour wants to give him a 2nd chance!🤮 Correction: It was a Reform MP See how your racism determines what you'll tolerate?
“Shadow home secretary Chris Philp has said he was pelted with bottles and had a knife pulled on him while speaking to migrants in a camp in northern France.” If this did happen I wouldn’t be surprised. I wouldn’t trust him as far as could throw him.
Why our idea of ‘capital’ is all wrong youtu.be/Rf30E9qkIvI?... We talk about capital as if it’s only money or machines, but that’s a dangerously narrow view. In this video, I unpack the six forms of capital we should value: productive, financial, human, natural, environmental, and societal.
In our village in rural Suffolk there is no longer any reliable bus service for those who work in the nearest town. There are is no weekend service and no weekday services that can accommodate any working hours other than 9-5.
Almost a fifth of England’s rural bus services have vanished in the past five years www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Private bus firms pocketing public funding while cutting services, Unite says morningstaronline.co.uk/article/priv... #morningstaronline
She is totally clueless.
Right wing coup in the UK. The state became guarantor of corporate profits Publicly-owned industries privatised at low prices. Public services outsourced, exorbitant prices. Private finance initiative. Tiny investment, huge returns. Bailouts - banks can't go bust. Licence to misbehave.
Once the language of hate is normalised this sort of incident becomes inevitable
This is getting nuts. Politico: "Police are investigating online abuse faced by a group of Scouts after some Welsh villagers mistook their summer camping trip as an influx of illegal immigrants, the Telegraph reports." Right after Rupert Lowe mistook charity rowers for a refugee boat...
The benefit of benefits www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08... There are few things in life that are more straightforward than the economics of paying benefits to those who need them. The fact every politician should know is that paying benefits can, and often does, pay for itself.
The household analogy hands power to the financial markets by making it seem as if the government must borrow from them to survive, when in reality it chooses to issue bonds merely because the City wants to use them as savings mechanisms.
RIP Biddy Baxter. If you know, you know. A massive part of my childhood. ❤️
I see that tangerine Mussolini has, in effect, declared Martial Law in DC. This contrivance is against the US Constitution and very much part of the fascist game plan. Time for all decent leaders to distance themselves and their countries from this developing catastrophe.
Indeed he is.
Agreed. I follow Richard Murphy too.
They knew his kind was out there! Someone the Enemies of Our Nation could easily Corrupt and use. 🤔🧐🤨
“No one is above the Law” makes the erroneous assumption that all Law is just. However, most people would accept than imprisoning anyone for holding up a poster that calls for the cessation of genocide and threatens no one should not be a criminal offence.
When people are being arrested for holding placards and calling out a genocide, something has gone seriously SERIOUSLY wrong. These are very dark times we are in. It is only the regular people who speak the truth whilst our leaders everywhere are all various shades of liar, charlatan and hypocrite
When they kill the witnesses, it means they are preparing crimes too big to hide. Stand with Palestine. Keep their voices alive.
Jon Williams from @rorypecktrust.bsky.social : "The murder of 6 journalists in a single incident is one of the worst attacks on journalists ever... killing and targeting journalists is a war crime"
Fuck Netanyahu Mileikowsky the polish mass murderer english.almayadeen.net/news/politic...
Letter of the day (in the Times)
"270 Palestinian journalists & media workers have been killed in Gaza since the war started. If that tells you anything.. they are targeted for the very thing that they do, which is telling the world what is happening in Gaza" Nida' Ibrahim on Israel murdering her colleagues.
"Yvette Cooper expressed support for the suffragettes, a safe thing to do 100 years on. But if the Suffragettes were active today, Yvette Cooper would ban them as a terrorist organisation. Today’s villains are tomorrow's heroes and today’s heroes were villains in their time”
When he was running to be Labour leader Keir Starmers campaign video boasted that he had stood up for protesters when the full force of the state was against them. Today his govt is arresting a disabled blind man for holding a placard.