The question is: who should pay tax for public services? If not those who can because they earn or have wealth. And Tice isn't suggesting a wealth tax or anything. He is just suggesting a more extreme form of capitalism. We don't need that. We need a focus on the common good.
In 2020, Keir Starmer said he would bring in legislation which would require any UK military intervention to have a lawful basis, viable objective, and approval by MPs.
He has not done this - so I have, tabling the Armed Conflict (Requirements) Bill earlier this month.
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Richard Tice is deputy leader of Reform, a party that aspires to government
Quakers believe in fairness and that paying tax is a moral duty towards our society
Avoiding paying your fair share of tax is incompatible with leading our country
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‘Now, more than ever, the press must rigorously expose Trump’s delusions, lies and blunders while they spotlight the victims and consequences of Trump’s reign of chaos. We should applaud journalists who do just that — and admonish those who need to do better’
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Iran does not have Tomahawk missiles
Trump lied about this to avoid taking responsibility for killing children at school
Lies like this demean his office and undermine democracy
Far right hate is being fuelled by the greedy super rich. They're trying to distract us, they're trying to divide us.
We will stand against hate. We will march #Together in love and unity. Join us.
📌 Central London
🗓️ Saturday, 28 March
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I like this Ben Stiller fellow. When he made a movie in Wilmington, Ohio, he was nice to people. And look — he stands up for himself rather than allowing himself to be ritually humiliated.
"The Met Police may want to intimidate us into contributing to the govt's closing off of the right to protest... We will continue to hire space to explicitly nonviolent groups, with appropriate checks in place, just as we always have." – Clerk of Westminster Quakers www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quit ChatGPT now! Your subs is bankrolling authoritarianism!
'great boycotts of history did not succeed because millions of people suddenly became heroic activists. They succeeded because . . . the small act, repeated at scale, becomes a political earthquake.'
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Quit ChatGPT now! Your subs is bankrolling authoritarianism!
'great boycotts of history did not succeed because millions of people suddenly became heroic activists. They succeeded because . . . the small act, repeated at scale, becomes a political earthquake.'
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Dear Prime Minister, In recent days we have seen a deeply concerning escalation in conflict in the Middle East following a series of illegal and dangerously irresponsible airstrikes on Iran by the United States and Israel. You have now confirmed that UK bases will be used by the US for their operations in the area. This is a significant concession to President Donald Trump and one which risks drawing the UK into a dangerous conflict. During your campaign to be elected leader of the Labour Party, you spoke compellingly about learning the lessons of the Iraq war. In particular, you set out legislation you would pass as Prime Minister, ensuring that military action is only taken if: • The lawful case for it is made • There is a viable objective • Consent is given by the House of Commons. We agree that such legislation is needed to prevent the UK from being dragged into destructive, illegal and dangerous wars abroad, and so we have today tabled the Armed Conflict (Requirements) Bill. The Bill requires that 1. Before armed forces may be deployed for armed conflict, a Minister of the Crown must publish a statement setting out the reasons for the deployment, an assessment of its compliance with international law, the objective of the deployment and an assessment of the viability of that objective, and 2. Any such deployment must be approved in advance by a resolution of the House of Commons
I invite your support to pass this bill. In an increasingly unstable world, it is more important than ever that decisions about the UK’s involvement in military action abroad are taken carefully, soberly, and with the best interests of the British people at heart. We believe this piece of legislation would ensure that. Yours sincerely, Dr Ellie Chowns MP
Today I tabled a bill which would require any UK military intervention to have a lawful basis, viable objective, and approval by MPs - legislation the PM once said he himself would pass when he was running for Labour leader.
He supported it then, and he should support it now.
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'If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer
And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind
And with such a people you can then do what you please'
Hannah Arendt
"Congress must act urgently to restrain the administration before this spirals into another endless war," @bridgetmoixfcnl.bsky.social said.
📣"War is not the answer."
Our full statement:
A government with integrity would provide a justification under the UN charter for allowing the US to use UK bases to bomb Iran
The flimsy distinction between 'defensive' and 'offensive' feels like cover for another illegal war that risks escalating a conflict at the loss of more innocent lives
