The Job Guarantee - A Response to Richard Murphy A comprehensive response to Richard Murphy's critique of the Job Guarantee, examining administrative feasibility, inflation concerns, and the fundamental nature of unemployment.

MMT Richard Murphy recently published a critique of the core policy at the heart of MMT: the Job Guarantee. It was reasoned and balanced, but we believe misrepresented the Job Guarantee in key areas. Here is our response.

‘Give the guy a chance’: Wes Streeting says he does not want Starmer ousted Exclusive: health secretary says he does not think PM will face challenge after May elections, as public doesn’t want ‘chaos’

Just as the clamour has died down following Angela Rayner's show of 'support' for her beleaguered cardboard cut-out of a leader, cub-Nazi and famous sick-in-a-sock, little Wesley Streeting comes out swinging, bobbing his florid head with misplaced ambition.
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The Prime Minister’s plan to offer rapid routes to settlement for those earning six-figure salaries whilst punishing and making lower-paid workers wait up to 15 years appears to be based on the notion that care workers are “low-skilled” because they are low-paid - its a disgrace

"The oil crisis is exactly what the net zero brigade wants"

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

AOC: Companies like Palantir are mining endlessly the data and privacy of the American people—keeping track of everything that they say and do. And sending it to a militarized government. 

Church attendance report pulled after YouGov finds 'fraudulent' responses The original report claimed a rise in young people attending church in England and Wales.

They will go to hell for this... 😈
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The spectator. Zacked off. A pretty ludicrous image of Zack with Hannah and Mothin chopping down trees and harassing badgers!

Erm....

Are these people ok?

I don't think they're ok.

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Zack Polanski: We are taking Labour's voters YouTube video by PoliticsJOE

This is a great Zack Polanski & Caroline Lucas interview.

It struck me when CL talked about going to other countries to 'learn the lessons' on drug policy and harm reduction.

Time for an honest grown up approach to drug use and the priority of harm reduction.

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'He pulled my hair and started hammering me' - bus driver tells of passenger attack Number of violent attacks on London transport workers doubles in a year as investigation hears of danger trying to tackle fare dodgers

📰 'He pulled my hair and started hammering me' - TfL frontline staff tell of horrific passenger attacks
#ActionAgainstAssaults
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HERO 🔥

And I don’t want to hear shit about a censure vote against this man.

Rep. Al Greene was ejected from the State of the Union for the sign — “Black People Aren’t Apes.”

The Green Party are ahead among likely voters in Gorton and Denton.

But only just.

They'll only win if more people sign up to knock on doors on election day - tomorrow.

Consider helping to change the course of history! 👇

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A green background with white lettering reading: Vote Green Party, Green Party 'For the common good.'

Come on Gordon and Denton, make history! Turn a 13,500 Labour majority GREEN! Hammer that nail into Starmer's casket!

গর্টন আর ডেন্টন আমরা সবাই মিলে তৈরি করেছি।
আর আমাদের সবার এখানে থাকার অধিকার আছে।

'Gorton and Denton was built by all of us, and we all deserve to belong'

এই বৃহস্পতিবার শুধুমাত্র গ্রীন পার্টিকে ভোট দিয়েই রিফর্মের হিংসাত্মক রাজনীতিকে হারানো যেতে পারে।

Only a Green vote can defeat Reform's hate this Thursday.

Fight the power – in your pyjamas: the film about the day Glasgow kicked out immigration enforcers A neighbour in nightwear, a local imam, a schoolkid, the activist known as Van Man – they and many more stood firm. The director of a prize-winning film about the battle of Kenmure Street reveals how ...

A thought for the day for the campaigners - and potential campaigners - out there?

“And we need to remember: if we don’t turn up, nothing happens. I missed out on that collective joy and expression of empathy which to me is happiness. The point is you just have to keep turning up.”

Photo of Danny Kruger

No thanks, I’m washing my hair.

Labour accuses Greens of ‘whipping up hatred’ among Muslim voters Gorton & Denton by-election: Zack Polanski’s party is saying Labour must be ‘made to pay’ for Gaza

"A Green Party spokesman said:

"Lucy Powell might think that speaking to voters in other languages is "manipulation", but we’re proud to be reaching everyone in the constituency.""

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A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

I'm pretty sure I've done more interviews & podcasts than any other party leader in the first 6 months.

We hadn't spotted an invitation, @mrjamesob.bsky.social but happy to chase it up & look forward to chatting!

(We're about to hit 200k members. We had 50k just over 6 months ago - happy to talk!)

Letter: Michael Metrinko and the fall of the Shah From Jonathan Tottman, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Met­rinko was the state depart­ment’s only for­ward-deployed Farsi speaker in Tab­riz between 1977 and 1979
he watched the Ira­nian revolu­tion gather force
his clear­ance was deemed insuf­fi­cient to attend the meet­ing con­vened to dis­cuss his own report­ing...

The UK has a solution

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Imagine - never fretting about unemployment again? Never feeling like you’re on the scrap heap? Always knowing that when jobs are scarce, you can contribute something useful at a living wage?

Please read and share.

The entire political / broadcast media has been captured. The battle lines are clear - we run into the clutches of end-game techno-oligarchy neoliberalism (austerity on steroids) - or we rebuild society driven by a democratic economy.

UN Israel lobby group created fake Francesca Albanese video Zionist lobby group - UN Watch - is credibly accused of faking a video cited by European governments as reason to remove Francesca Albanese

Zionist lobby group - UN Watch - is credibly accused of faking a video cited by European governments as reason to remove Francesca Albanese

By @skwawkbox.org

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'The Self-Financing State' changes the debate The real question is not 'How do we pay for it?' but 'How do we resource it?'

More good stuff from Fra Pacioli – 'The Self-Financing State' changes the debate.
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Substituting:
Nurses with Nursing Associates
Dentists with Dental Associates
Pharmacists with Pharmacy Assistants

Doctors with XYZ ….. no problem 🤷🏻‍♂️

None of the above is acceptable

We have training requirements for a reason - SAFETY

We must defend UK democracy from Russian interference and the wider web of dirty money and misinformation which enables bad actors to undermine trust in politics.

The Elections Bill is crucial in addressing this - the govt must not delay it any further.

It's good that this fucker will never get a chance to become president.