Aye, hopefully it'll lead to something more substantive soon.

Starmer has anti genocide protesters arrested in big batches under misused anti-terrorism legislation. It's in the news all the time - if you keep an eye out there will probably be another incident soon.

Probably not, but when a tyrant is using your airspace without authorisation to bomb schools in another country as part of an illegal war then you have further grounds to build solidarity with Europe to resist US imperialism more effectively.

We've seen historically that appeasement is dangerous.

I can understand that, for example, "peace in the middle east" is something complicated to achieve.

But Starmer is actively participating. It's worse than doing nothing. We can't do nuance if we're still helping blow up hospitals.

And we do have some sway - deny our airspace to the US!

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A mostly bare tree branch with beautiful bunches of yellow flowers erupting from the tips. A great swathe of fresh comfrey leaves in the background.

Cow parsley! Fern-like leaves topped with wide, flat bunches of tiny white flowers. Also some sort of wee beastie up at the top.

A mix of wild plants including comfrey and ground ivy, and possibly young cow parsley. The ground ivy has lovely purple flowers in intricate orchid-like shapes.

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Spring is sproinging!

Growth won't give us any money to pay anyone anything.

The growth occurs in the assets of the rich, not us. They decide what happens to it, and letting it trickle down is the last thing on their list.

They haven't started it though

GB Energy funnels public funds into private energy and construction firms and doesn't even retain full ownership of what's built.

We give FF companies money to run carbon capture scams that only profit them.

We give EDF money to build Sizewell C which we don't need.

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You'd have me swooning 😂

Alternatively we could invest in public services. We could, for example, build a nationalised renewable energy network so people weren't constantly paying huge sums to private energy corps.

That actually helps people instead of just handing money to the rich bastards who stole everything.

Growth occurs in the private sector though. The same people who the Tories favoured. Their stolen assets are increasing in value, but they still have them, and the return in tax is paltry.

It doesn't trickle down, it doesn't help real people, and it doesn't help with debt.

But so many things Starmer is failing at don't require nuance.

The genocide in Gaza isn't debatable; Starmer doubled down on it as PM.

Trump's war on Iran is illegal: Starmer supports it.

Palantir is part of the US neofascist cult; Starmer does business with it.

He chose to do these things!

Yeah, I agree it's not simple, but Starmer isn't trying. We're literally hosting bombers committing war crimes! We don't have to do that.

Carbon capture was made up by FF companies so they could keep polluting & get extra money from subsidies! It's a scam. It was never mean to work.

Capitalism is ruinous, I totally agree, but 'growth' is literally what capitalism is about. Focusing on it is giving the richest exactly what they want.

What centre left policies have they actually implemented though?

The renter & employment reforms were watered down to the point of uselessness due to corporate lobbying, and the benefit cap lift had to be beaten out of them. Meanwhile they're persecuting minorities and having lunch with lobbyists.

It may be your opinion but it's not based in evidence, and it's hurting people.

Would you have had 'concerns' about me back during section 28? Would you have advocated for me to be barred from public life as a deviant who preys on children?

It's the same baseless, evil hate pushed at trans folks.

Back during section 28 the government accepted the advice of bigots that being gay was harmful.

Gay teachers were targeted by hate groups and accused of being groomers and paedophiles.

All of that was nonsense, but I'm still dealing with the scars left by section 28.

This is the same thing.

Thanks for the correction 👍 given how obsessed they are with the review I forgot that it's not actually theirs lol

Appeasing far right lunatics like Trump doesn't work though. They always demand more and more concessions. If that was Starmer's motivation then he's not suited to act as PM in a world dominated by Trump.

"Growth" is just capitalists having more of the money. It's trickle down economics. It's not more money in our pockets.

Labour are funding carbon capture projects and pushing for more oil and gas in the north sea, making things worse.

I agree this is a Tory legacy, but Labour are continuing it.

We have to accept that Labour isn't currently a left wing party. They are more similar to the Tories than they are to the Greens.

That's something we should all be furious about, but in the mean time we have to hold them to account when they do bad shit.

If Greens were in govt I'd say the same!

Yes it has, I agree with you. But there's a big difference between "changing this is hard" and "let's keep doing it".

Labour are doing the latter. More austerity, more deregulation, more privatisation, and anti union. They're continuing the Tory legacy.

And yeah, Farage can get in the sea. 👍

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Labour are benevolent here.

A key example is the Cass Review. Commissioned by Labour specifically to justify their exterminationist ideology, it's been utterly condemned by experts across the globe.

Genuinely, please read up about this. Trans people are really suffering due to these lies.

I know you think this 'caution' is to keep people safe, but it's a lie that's been spread by hate groups like Sex Matters and For Women Scotland. They dominate media coverage so they can spread their hate.

It's exactly the same as the homophobic and racist panics of the past. Exactly the same.

With respect, I would ask that you think about where you've learned this. It's the same right wing media you condemned earlier.

We need to listen to trans people and to people who actually study sex and gender. Trans people have been screaming at us to listen for years now.

Whenever he talks about 'growth', that's what he means. It's the only 'solution' he presents to the cost of living crisis, and all it does is transfer more wealth to the capitalists who've already stolen so much.

Deregulating London finance, housebuilding, energy - it's all Thatcherite strategy.

I actually agree with all of that; I'm glad we're on the same page.

My issue is that Starmer isn't doing that. He is actively making things worse because he's continuing the same neoliberal economic agenda that Thatcher established: privatisation, austerity, and corporate deregulation.

The private finance initiative (PFI) was a United Kingdom government procurement policy aimed at creating "public–private partnerships" (PPPs) where private firms are contracted to complete and manage public projects.[1] Initially launched in 1992 by Prime Minister John Major, and expanded considerably by the Blair government, PFI is part of the wider programme of privatisation and macroeconomic public policy, and presented as a means for increasing accountability and efficiency for public spending.[2]

I'm not saying the NHS is private, I'm saying new NHS infrastructure is being built with private investment that must be paid back. That places a huge burden on NHS finances because it comes with interest that must be paid for decades.

He's a snip from Wikipedia of what I'm talking about:

But he knew. We have evidence that he knew all of this and did it anyway.

Whatever his motives were he decided this was acceptable, and it simply isn't.

Red Flag Alert on Anti-Trans and Intersex Rights in the UK | Lemkin Institute

They are, and I'm not exaggerating, being actively exterminated by Labour.

That's why you might get some aggressive pushback if you complain that a trans person isn't being 'polite'; they've tried that for years, and now trans kids are dying by suicide because of Labour's policies.