Marwood

Let's hope we see some charges being brought against Mandelson.
#InvestigateMandelson
#EpsteinFiles

Tonight Labour MPs voted to accept the Justice Secretary’s argument that a judge's ability to jail you for three years is like ‘scraping your knee’.

I very much doubt the public will agree

Hell no

#EpsteinFiles
Trump a proper wrong 'un too.

I always thought Woody Allen was a wrong 'un hiding in plain sight.

#WoodyAllen
#EpsteinFiles

#Farage
Donation?
Private jet to the Maldives.
Purpose of visit?
"Humanitarian aid mission"

FFS, do not sign up for this.

#eXodus
#BoycottTesla

In the long term. You know. After you're dead.

It was a privilege to be in the chamber earlier to witness this incredibly powerful and effective speech from Charlotte Nichols.

Post from Lucy Powell MP following the Labour defeat in the Gorton and Denton by-election: The result in Gorton and Denton is very disappointing. We will reflect, act & continue to learn lessons in the coming days & weeks. Today, I want to thank Angeliki Stogia for her energy & positivity over the campaign, the brilliant Labour staff & thousands of volunteers who worked their socks off.

Do you think Labour have learnt any lessons from the Gorton & Denton loss?

Looks like they're doubling down on all the things that lost it for them in the first place to me.

Pacific State (12" Version) YouTube video by 808 State - Topic

Just passed 808 followers. Love and thanks to all. ❤️ 🙏

We're no further forward on the cost of living crisis, but there have been many other authoritarian acts tabled.
#Starmer'sLabour

#Inequality
#WealthTax
#TaxTheRich

George is absolutely right. Here's the article he wrote earlier this year, in case it doesn't carry with the repost. We have to support and vote for UK politicians who resist corporate capture, and we have a three year stretch to communicate that message to everyone. We all need to get involved. 🙏🏻

Privatisation fails it prioritises profit over service delivery, services deteriorate, workers are exploited, CEOs are paid bonuses to intensify exploitation.

Public services have that name for a reason - they are meant to be run as a service to the public. It's what we pay taxes for.

Public services are built up & developed over many years of investment.
Ours have been stolen.

#Renationalise

This account @loveon9.bsky.social has a ton of research on the Epstein Files.

Rethink plans for jury trials, thousands of lawyers tell Starmer Ministers are being warned their plans will save less than 2% of court time. But they think they can make inroads into a huge backlog and scores of female Labour MPs want them to press on.

Rethink plans for jury trials, thousands of lawyers tell Starmer

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Nationalise our water

This is the world we live in.
Profits of $104 billion are given a negative slant because they are slightly less obscene than the previous year.

Good on ya!

An illegal war by USA & Israel, propped up by missions from UK air bases.

Supported by Nigel Farage.

Over 1000 civilians dead & now the threat of global economic fallout. Trump's disaster makes us all less safe, less secure - and we will remember those who backed it.

Definitely.
Bit like the Boris/buffoon persona was used to mask the fact that Johnson was actually a thoroughly corrupt and dodgy piece of work.

When profit kills: How private equity is eroding health care Peer-reviewed studies link private equity takeovers to more deaths and medical complications in nearly every corner of healthcare.

Curse of Private Equity

US evidence shows:
When private equity incentives collide with clinical care, patients—especially those who are sicker, poorer, or harder to treat—are more likely to be killed or harmed.

Yet UK handing more of the NHS to PE, enabling it to make profits.

Has anyone tried looking up Trump's arse?

Farage misses out on Trump meeting as their relationship cools. British populist politician aimed to reinforce his view about the UK's Chagos Islands deal in conversation with US president Reform leader Nigel Farage's failure to secure an audience with the US president underscores a weakening of ties between the two populist leaders © Ben Birchall/PA

Farage had given the impression that he expected to see Trump, telling an event hosted in opposition to UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's proposed Chagos Islands agreement with Mauritius that the president "has almost understood the deal... but I'll be dining at Mar-a-Lago tomorrow night and I will reinforce the message". But, rather than receiving a formal invite to meet Trump, Farage was in fact invited to Mar-a-Lago by a member of the club, according to multiple people briefed on the matter.

“Farage’s relationship with Trump has cooled”

Not really.
Farage’s relationship with Trump is a one-sided humiliation-fest.
Farage remains desperately needy and willing to sell us out to Trump. But Trump doesn’t see him as important right now.
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If Starmer was genuinely concerned about the cost of living, he could start with energy bills.

The government could invest in solar for all - this would also bring much greater national energy security.

#SolarOnEveryRoof

Time to invest in energy security.
Time to invest in the people.
#SolarOnEveryRoof

Great Britain has only two days of gas stored, while Iran war threatens to disrupt supplies National Gas insists storage broadly in line with levels for time of year despite disruption for tankers carrying LNG

UK has only two days of gas stored, Iran war threatens supplies.

Maximum capacity is 12 days.

Mainland Europe has reserves of several weeks’ worth of gas.

UK storage capacity shrank after privatisation.

The Rough storage facility closed in in 2017. British Gas wanted subsidies.

I’m Keir for you: The PM is visiting a community center in London to discuss the impact. Expect a pooled interview with broadcasters mid-morning. There’s one quote on rising bills in his words trailed overnight that warrants chasing up: “I will always be guided by what is best for the British public. And no matter the headwinds, supporting working people and their families with the cost of living is always top of my mind.”

I mean, this just isn't true, is it? If Starmer was focused on the cost of living crisis he wouldn't insist on no customs union and no single market? Nor would he embrace the negative economic consequences of his anti-migrant policy?

Like everything else about Starmer, this is empty rhetoric.