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Ah 🤔

Shabana Mahmood has to be let go.
Yes, they have changed hugely, perhaps they’ll be a reset now the Mandelson whisperer has gone?

Get ready for price shocks because of Iran? How are we supposed to do that? | Zoe Williams From energy to food, all of life’s essentials are about to get even more expensive. But just knowing that won’t pay the bills, writes Zoe Williams

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When we suffer this rise in our already shocking, unmanageable C of L crisis, pls don’t blame the incumbent gov, because it’s not down to them - but Trump.
- And then, remember that his English clone who’d like to supplant this gov, would do the same as Trump.

Home Office refuses to exempt exceptional students from tough immigration rules Exclusive: Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper concerned about student visa ban on female Chevening scholars from volatile countries such as Afghanistan

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Labour could never win the hearts and minds of their core voters/members with Lady Macbeth impersonator Shabana Mahmood in the Home Office. Labour is about fairness and compassion - or it was.
Have they changed their core values?

It’s very frightening. Stock up with tinned food!

Badenoch denies calling for UK to join US-Israeli war on Iran Conservative leader accused of taking confusing position after she said Starmer should ‘do more than catch arrows’

At the most basic level of 'have some self-respect', Conservative MPs should not put forward someone who visibly is not intellectually equipped to be prime minister as their candidate to be prime minister.

The Guardian view on Europe’s response to the Iran crisis: damage limitation only goes so far | Editorial Editorial: The US-Israeli bombardment has once again underlined Donald Trump’s indifference to international law. A stronger EU can be a vital counterweight

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Absolutely

But why?

Is Britain One Shock Away from Food Riots? YouTube video by A Different Bias

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This! 🤬
This is why Trump, Farage, Tories and any politicians that rubbish climate change are murderers; because if they had their way they would accelerate our collective demise.

Labour's @JohnHealey_MP - "We do not want to see Israel expand this conflict further into Lebanon. We urge de-escalation and the return to a negotiated process."

“Way too late” doesn’t even touch it. Go back to December 2023, stop shouting about how you are shoulder to shoulder with their fascist government; threaten Europe-wide sanctions instead and *actually work to apply them in government* if you don’t get compliance, or: shut the fuck up and resign.

Trump and the Tories would have the UK wade into another Middle East war. Kudos to Starmer: he has not done that | Matt Western The prime minister has approached a complex geopolitical conflict with a level head – and most importantly, the support of the public, says Labour MP Matt Western

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Indeed 🙏🏼
So would Tony Blair, who should be treated as a pariah like his friend Peter Mandelson, for his (unwanted) opinions on joining the American offensive. Apparently he calls such wars “blood wars” - not his family’s blood 🩸 of course: but yours and mine.

"Utterly failed" - Rachel Millward on privatised water. YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

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Washington cardinal says US war on Iran ‘not morally legitimate’ Robert McElroy goes further than pope has done and says conflict fails ‘criterion of right intention’

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Thousands of lawyers urge Keir Starmer to rethink plans to cut jury trials Government facing prospect of most serious backbench revolt yet over proposals for England and Wales

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Polls show Britons oppose US use of UK bases against Iran Only 28 percent of the British public support US military action against Iran

Bombers that are using our bases.

Bombing drones is ineffective, I believe.

As it is, for all the praise Starmer is getting now for not being a complete lunatic and listening to Reform or the Tories, Polanski is better aligned with national opinion.
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This article is very comprehensive and accurate; it’s what most thinking people believe. Faith in the future has all but disappeared for the majority who aren’t the privileged or wealthy. That we have a declining birth rate is indicative of that absolute disillusionment with the status quo.

While people feel the foundations of their lives are shaking, this deep crisis will continue | Clive Lewis The partisan debate since the Gorton and Denton byelection risks blinding us to the truth. People are rejecting wholesale the way our politics has developed, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

This is brilliant from @labourlewis.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
One can only hope that at least some of the Parliamentary Labour Party can derive some advantage, or at least insight, from Clive spelling out here WHY half of them are likely to lose their seats to Greens.

While people feel the foundations of their lives are shaking, this deep crisis will continue | Clive Lewis The partisan debate since the Gorton and Denton byelection risks blinding us to the truth. People are rejecting wholesale the way our politics has developed, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

Well worth a read . Clive Lewis on the collapse of Politics itself: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How To Nationalise Water For Free YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

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How can a country have enough idiots to elect such an idiot to run their country….. wait a minute we in the U.K. got Johnson and it seems there’s enough idiots here that are prepared to vote for Farage, I guess it’s true, birds of a feather do flock together.
Idiots vote for idiots .

I agree. Many politicians haven’t a clue.

Wife had to finish work early due to arthritis , can't claim a dam thing , so both of us are living off one pension , and yes we are bloody struggling , politicians in all main parties are all bought and paid for by large corporations corruption is rife , apart from @zackpolanski.bsky.social greens

We’re not living in poverty but we can’t afford baths. We have showers.

Rising water bills see pensioners in poverty skip baths Water bills will go up again on April 1. Pensioners like Judith are already feeling the pinch, rationing showers and laundry loads.

Pensioners in poverty skip baths as water bills rise.

Full state pension (received by 35% of pensioners) is less than 50% of minimum wage.

2m UK pensioners live in poverty.

In 2024-25, 88,000 pensioners died in poverty.

Govts don't curb profiteering.

Poverty is a political choice.

(Yes, we are so vulnerable outside of the EU )

The problem is, I think much of the establishment is the same. Look at the lack of compassion from the government (not the people) towards Gaza. Look at how Tony Blair is sabre rattling now - an ex- Labour Prime Minister. I do feel that ordinary ppl are generally expendable in wars and in life.

Good. I hope it stays that way.

Oh.

But I hope you’re right: that he continues not to waver.