Latest polling. Only the greens can stop Reform in Gorton and Denton. Reform +12%, Greens +11%, -20% Labour
Labour have blown it. This is it. Time to take on Reform.
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The excuses are in, and it's what everyone expected. Starmer has never looked weaker than he does today, and that's really saying something
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Gotta love the French! 😎❤️✨
Lewis Goodall, "I can see what a Brexiter might make the argument that we've got preferential treatment"
"We're in a net position where we've lost trade with the EU, we have a more distant economic relationship with the EU, and we've got 10% tariffs"
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Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
The revalation that AI will revolutionise UK pothole repair must be the best news for motorists since John Major launched his traffic cones hotline
Not just you. I can’t watch them either.
His party created a brutal system of assessments that have killed thousands. You do not just win free money on self diagnosis, he knows this, he is a liar looking to kill more people. So no change there.
I bought a house with stone cladding, it wasn’t quite that bad, but I used to give directions as, ‘Head out of the village on the main road, last house on the left with Vera Duckworth’s cladding. They always found me 😂
Once upon a time the Government ran things and they were cheap, effective, available for all, and free from profit.
Now big business runs them and they are expensive, terrible, only for the rich, and only for profit.
We need to take it all back.
I'm not sure what other socialists do. But I don't block every Keir Starmer supporter. I've many interests and when I share interests on music, art, literature, films and many other things I don't insist these people agree with my politics and hope they don't want to do that with me. However,.......
National Audit Office report into the CONFLICTS OF INTEREST in UK government 👇
I talk about exactly this in my book 📕 there should be NO CONFLICTS of interest
None
Nada
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Etymology of the day: to be ‘blowing a hoolie’ (or ‘hooley’) was probably inspired by the Orkney word ‘hoolan’, a howling gale, with a touch of the ‘hooley’ that is a very noisy party thrown in.
There are a lot of people on Bluesky who oppose NHS privatisation!🌟💙😮
My husband needed a hip replacement and was sent to a local private hospital by the NHS. He said the operating theatre was tiny. They promised he’d remember nothing with sedation, but he did. He didn’t feel safe.
They lied all through the pandemic. Why would we believe them now?
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"Hancock denied that the NHS was not available to all during lockdown, saying ’It depends on how you define need’ – an outrageous deceit given the tens of 1000s of patients with serious delays in diagnosis and cancelled operations."
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If you oppose NHS privatisation, please could you repost this and follow me? I need to know who to follow next (it’ll be you!) 🌟🌟🌟
One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
It's come to something when we have to feel relieved that our govt is willing to fulfil its legal obligations.
Definition of “kakistocracy” as a government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.
Word of the day. Or week. Or next four years.
Baxter standing proudly next to his utterly useless special rug
To wear him out, I spent £30 on a special rug. A human (me) hides dry food in the rug, and the dog will root for it, providing hours mental stimulation.
Turns out, Baxter hates mental stimulation. In 2 seconds he turned the rug over and shook the food out.
Look at him. So proud. What a bell-end.
Ridiculous BBC headline:
"Public sector pay deals help drive up UK borrowing".
Nothing to do with corporate welfare, contracts for cronies, Govt paying higher energy bills, HMRC not collecting £500bn since 2010, Tory legacy.
Just blame workers wanting decent pay.
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Continuing to sell arms to Israel is to be complicit in war crimes. These arrest warrants underline how utterly indefensible it is. What is our Government waiting for?
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Matter of Life and Death (stairway to heaven in the US) is my all time number one fave film. Very excited for this 👇🏻😀
So, the disgraced, philandering, former Tory Health Secretary says that Nicola Sturgeon caused 'all sorts of difficulty' during COVID. Perhaps she refused invites to parties? Or didn't agree with 'let the bodies pile high' or PPE being prioritised for England?
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