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Retired old codger & gardener, trade unionist & rep, ex Royal Mail, ex NHS, opinionated, internationalist and socialist. There is a better way.

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To those who relentlessly attack disabled people, what makes you think you’re immune from illness or disability? Everyone is one illness or injury away from disability. No-one is immune. One day you could be disabled & on the receiving of stigma, hatred & cruel govt policies.

10.03.2025 13:35 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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Why is the government obsessed with benefit fraud? The FT has reported that: Ministers are examining proposals to grant banks access to all of the accounts of benefit claimants. They added: Officials in the Department for Work and Pensions have been a...

The government is looking at another benefit crackdown when it should, instead, be looking at corporate fraud and its own failure to pay all the benefits owing to people. Why has it got its focus so wrong? Does it just hate people on benefits? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...

21.02.2025 08:01 πŸ‘ 334 πŸ” 187 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 9

People can’t eat or heat there homes, and on GMB today the discussion is doubling our defence spending.

Here’s a thought, why doesn’t the west stop destroying and bombing countries it wants to control but has no rights to do so.

14.02.2025 07:36 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Are people appointed to government posts to be private sector stooges? The FT has reported today that: The UK government should consider the use of private capital to fix the NHS’s crumbling buildings and infrastructure, the head of England’s health service has said. NH...

Why is the CEO of the NHS in England calling for private sector funding for NHS infrastructure when it is obvious that readily available state funding would be cheaper? Is this just pro-market political dogma being promoted by a civil servant? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...

14.02.2025 07:30 πŸ‘ 240 πŸ” 117 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4

It's a pity the BBC didn't investigate the previous Conservative Government in depth ..we may not now be suffering the poverty, lack of care, homes, teachers, doctors, GP appts... it has left us with!

14.02.2025 07:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

All this guff about Rachel Reeves being spun by the BBC/Mail is desperate in its triviality.

It draws the lens away from the reality of her neoliberal economic agenda.

14.02.2025 07:49 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hate speech on X up 50% under Musk, new study finds A new study by the University of California, Berkeley found that hate speech rose by 50 per cent in the months after billionaire Elon Musk purchased X, formerly Twitter.

"A new study by the University of California, Berkeley found that hate speech rose by 50 per cent in the months after billionaire Elon Musk purchased X, formerly Twitter"
www.euronews.com/next/2025/02...

14.02.2025 07:49 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Covering just 0.07% of the UK's Farmland in solar panels would be enough to provide 100% of the UK's energy.

Remember that when they talk about not building Solar Panels to protect the UK's food supply.

It's a load of bollocks.

It is really to protect the Fossil Fuel industry.

13.02.2025 21:55 πŸ‘ 424 πŸ” 129 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 6
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Is the UK spying on Hamas for Israel? Royal Air Force surveillance flights towards Gaza keep taking place when hostages are released.

The only time UK spy flights are now operating near Gaza is when Hamas release hostages.

Is the UK spying on Hamas for Israel?

www.declassifieduk.org/is-the-uk-sp...

14.02.2025 07:51 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE:
1. Chickenpox
2. Diphtheria
3. Measles
4. Pertussis
5. Pneumococcal Infection
6. Polio
7. Tetanus
8. Typhoid
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10. Smallpox

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13.02.2025 17:05 πŸ‘ 49547 πŸ” 16819 πŸ’¬ 1182 πŸ“Œ 661

We need to see prosecutions.

Surely there must be some legal eagles out there that can take this on?

13.02.2025 22:18 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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George Monibot, "We have a Chancellor and. Prime Minister who seem to have no vision at all, except this thing called growth, GDP growth"

"GDP should not be used as a measure of national welfare" #BBCQT

13.02.2025 21:54 πŸ‘ 1414 πŸ” 349 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 47

Collaboration

14.02.2025 07:55 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Striking that so many on the Reform tendency, who have banged on for years about the need to remember the sacrifices of WW2 and policed the wearing of poppies... failed to learn any lessons from it.

You don't appease dictators casting shadows on your doorstep. You fight back.

14.02.2025 07:58 πŸ‘ 1168 πŸ” 258 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 12
Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing

Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement β€” an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For moreβ€”and to signβ€” go to

saynotoethniccleansing.org

13.02.2025 14:12 πŸ‘ 46005 πŸ” 10853 πŸ’¬ 751 πŸ“Œ 398
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The UK & EU have taken a free ride on the US's massive defence spending, but people misunderstand what has been going on.

NATO spending is not a pot into which all members' defence $ contribute

For example, the US spends the vast majority of its military $ on non-NATO, domestic priorities
#r4today

14.02.2025 06:49 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Watch bad actors draw entirely the wrong conclusion from this.

The message is not "It's pointless switching to EV because they still produce brake dust."

It's "Even if we switch to EV, there will still be SOME issues."

Summary:
(Brake dust + emissions) worse than (brake dust + zero emissions)

14.02.2025 08:02 πŸ‘ 86 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 0
An RMT picket line at Euston station gathered behind a large, red RMT flag.

An RMT picket line at Euston station gathered behind a large, red RMT flag.

Fighting for fairness
RMT Train Managers working for Avanti West Coast back on the picket line at Euston today, fighting for fair pay for rest day working.

09.02.2025 10:19 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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09.02.2025 04:47 πŸ‘ 25472 πŸ” 5445 πŸ’¬ 701 πŸ“Œ 269
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Research claims EU deal will fuel growth β€” and Labour is listening A report says Britain can mend some of the economic damage of Brexit without crossing the red lines set by Keir Starmer

The UK can secure significant growth of 1.7% - 2.2% through a policy of deep alignment with the EU on goods and services, while staying within Starmer's red lines.
This is the approach to push for: peak ambition within the constraints Labour has set.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

09.02.2025 08:37 πŸ‘ 2189 πŸ” 603 πŸ’¬ 80 πŸ“Œ 24
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08.02.2025 09:49 πŸ‘ 126 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

09.02.2025 02:46 πŸ‘ 10089 πŸ” 2574 πŸ’¬ 163 πŸ“Œ 124
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08.02.2025 05:13 πŸ‘ 21284 πŸ” 4832 πŸ’¬ 349 πŸ“Œ 189
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It's always a class war

08.02.2025 15:48 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Never before has there been a clearer example of how both wings of the US War Party work in tandem to achieve the Empire’s goals. The Dems slaughter and level Gaza then the GOP ethnically cleanse those who survived, both pointing at each other in the Pantomime of Death it all is.

05.02.2025 16:22 πŸ‘ 242 πŸ” 83 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 6