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The sky-high cost of housing in the UK accounts for almost a quarter of all spending by lower-income households. This contributes to poorer families being £2,300 worse off than their German counterparts.

New research from the Resolution Foundation.

#Rents #Poverty #Housing #UKPolitics
https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/whose-price-is-it-anyway/

Whose price is it anyway? • Resolution Foundation

A long-standing finding is that British households on low-to-middle incomes are poorer than their counterparts in many advanced economies.[1] This result comes from comparing the incomes of this group to price levels in their respective countries.
Resolution Foundation
#poverty #ukpolitics #housing #rents

Haven't looked at the news for a couple of days. I think I'll go back to ignoring it.

How do they always managed to make the very wrongest of wrong decisions? Or perhaps the more pertinent question is: how much money is in it for them?

#UKPolitics #SameTroughDifferentSnouts #Liebour #AI

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/12/mainlined-into-uks-veins-labour-announces-huge-public-rollout-of-ai?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#ai #ukpolitics #liebour #sametroughdifferentsnouts

I see Lego Thatcher and Chief BoE sado-monetarist (h/t @ChrisMayLA6 ) are on a jolly to China. I wonder what they're selling off?

#UKPolitics
#ukpolitics @Emeritus Prof Christopher May

"I think there wasn’t a single person in this country who could say that they really felt better off after 14 years of Tory government."
Lisa Nandy on the Today programme this morning (via GPLB).

Oh, I don't know Lisa - I can think of quite a few. But you took their money to get your new job.

#UKPolitics #SameTroughDifferentSnouts #Liebour
#ukpolitics #liebour #sametroughdifferentsnouts

What is the grooming gangs scandal and how does Starmer fit in?

http://archive.today/2025.01.07-090502/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/grooming-gangs-scandal-investigation-keir-starmer-convictions-psg2hf5wk (archived)

While the Tories and the ace shit stirrer (X marks the spot) are doing their best, in the 'great scheme of things', Starmer and Cryer do not come out of this too badly. Police, social services and others do not shine at all.

#UkPolitics #ChildGrooming #Abuse #Inaction #Starmer
#ukpolitics #abuse #starmer #inaction #childgrooming

It's not a parody.

It's The BRUV Party.

Britain Restoring Underlying Values.

Launched in the U.K. by Andrew Tate.

2025, stop it, you're killing me.

#UKPolitics
Photo of Andrew Tate in front of a union jack. "BRUV Party with Andrew Tate."
#ukpolitics

Under the NI Protocol and under the Good Friday Agreement the ‘borders’ on the entire island of Ireland are at ports and airports. This should also apply to these new ETA. NI gets a lot of tourism revenue from coach and cruise liners who stop here for just a couple of days to visit key attractions. Then there are people who come to visit family and research their history and stay for varying lengths of time doing this. There are also international students attending University in Northern Ireland, and limiting them to the six counties of NI inhibits their education as well as their ability to attend events around the island. These ETA’s should only apply at the borders of the entire island. The economic damage implementation of these will do to the six counties is frightening to consider. Both the Irish and UK governments should press to change the planned implementation asap. #Think32 #NIPolitics #Ireland #UKPolitics #GFA
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/northern-ireland/tourism-in-northern-ireland-risks-210m-loss-a-year-as-new-eta-comes-into-force/a720404297.html
#ireland #ukpolitics #nipolitics #think32 #gfa

So Mr Jenkins when are you going to stop spouting chit with no evidence for your assertions? I suspect no time soon being the Gruaniads 'tame' right wing commentator. No matter what shite you write they pay you.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/07/politics-making-law-mps-personal-testimony-commons

#UkPolitics #Gruaniad #Jenkins #Shite
#ukpolitics #Shite #jenkins #gruaniad

What the everloving FUCK is this bullshit and why is my money being spent on it? 🤬
Keir Starmer as a lion? 🤣 🤣 🤣

#UKPolitics
#ukpolitics

“If Starmer continues to leave the relevant lessons unlearned, he will join Kamala Harris and the forlorn social democrats of mainland Europe, wondering why plummeting numbers of voters seem to like him, and living out the most grim narrative of all: that without an animating purpose, parties and politicians always flounder on to inevitable defeat.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/05/labours-new-year-resolution-starmer-story-social-democratic

#KeirStarmer #Labour #UKPolitics
#ukpolitics #labour #keirstarmer

Absolutely LOVE this. Lots of schools round my way had orchestras or, at the very least, a diverse and accessible music programme when I was growing up. The opportunity to learn an instrument as part of a well-rounded state education should be available to every child.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jan/05/banging-drum-music-education-uk-school-run-orchestra

#Music #Education #UKPolitics
#music #education #ukpolitics

Trump got a lot of flack last presidency for tweeting utter bollocks, so this time around he has employed Musk to do it for him!
#ukpolitics
#usapolitics
#ukpolitics #usapolitics

Inhaltswarnung: UK politics

#ukpolitics #ToryRacism

Just come across this podcast and I'm going to give it a shout without having listened to it because it's Byline and Carole Cadwalladr.

#UKPolitics #Podcasts
Black and white pixelated image of a man. A large red stripe runs across the centre of the screen with the text SERGEI AND THE WESTMINSTER SPY RING
#Podcasts #ukpolitics

Does anyone get the impression that despite all that time in office, Labour didn’t actually plan for anything at all? Now it is the courts and rape prosecutions.

Election manifesto promise to set up specialist tribunals to deal with huge backlog of cases has been put on hold.

I suppose it is not their fault - they didn’t have anyone at any level in the party who understood the problems.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/04/labour-retreats-on-rape-courts-pledge-amid-fears-over-shortage-of-lawyers

#UkPolitics #UkLaw #Rape #PromisesPromises
Phot: Starmer talking to two women with their backs turned, caption says Sir Keir Starmer meets representatives from organisations dedicated to supporting victims of violence against women and girls (VAWG) in 2023.
#ukpolitics #uklaw #rape #promisespromises

It's been a while now that they've been saying the quiet bit out loud, but considering how much they fetishise D-Day etc, this is actually quite shocking.

“We’ve lost our way, long past our best. So I suggest maybe we should have let the Nazis win.”

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/inside-carlton-club-bash-where-guests-laugh-at-hitler-jokes-and-sing-were-all-racist-now-387819/

#UKPolitics #FullFatFash

Inside Carlton Club bash where guests laugh at Hitler jokes

The dinner was attended by Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Liz Truss, Robert Jenrick and Lee Anderson among other high-profile political figures.
Jack Peat (The London Economic)
#ukpolitics #fullfatfash

The death of the middle-class professional spells danger for Labour

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/02/death-of-middle-class-professional-spells-danger-for-labour

I think it does - but not in the direction that Hinsliff thinks. I suggest that it is likely to see Labour's share, already relatively small, of the national vote falling to parties of 'the left' (a difficult definition to pin down). Changes are coming, I just have difficulty seeing what the educated (as opposed to opportunists) can see in Reforms 'promises'

#UkPolitics #Labour #Reform #Education
#education #ukpolitics #labour #reform

Queen Elizabeth II memorial: ‘Nothing is off the table’

Certainly what is off the table is any thought of the family stumping up their own cash! Parasites will parasite and politicians will continue to crawl.

If we have to have one, a rubbish bin would be my choice.

http://archive.today/2025.01.02-201458/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-family/article/queen-elizabeth-ii-memorial-nothing-is-off-the-table-v7mhsnx5x

(archived)
#UkPolitics #AbolishTheMonarchy
#ukpolitics #abolishthemonarchy

Wow. He's gone from who I thought was one of the very few vaguely not batshit Tories to booking his seat on the Turnip train 🤮

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/01/donald-trump-killing-of-qassem-suleimani-triggered-fall-of-assad-tom-tugendhat

#USPolitics #UKPolitics
#ukpolitics #uspolitics

Paddy Hill, one of wrongly convicted Birmingham Six, dies aged 80

From the article 'No one has been held to account for the 1974 Birmingham atrocity, and the victim’s families continue to call for a public inquiry'

I am unaware of anyone who has been held to account for the miscarriage of justice either.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/30/birmingham-six-paddy-hill-dies-aged-80

#MiscarriageOfJustice #Justice #Torture #BirminghamBombings #PaddyHill #UkPolice #UkPolitics
#justice #ukpolitics #torture #ukpolice #paddyhill #birminghambombings #miscarriageofjustice

Advisers urged Tony Blair to rein in George W Bush over Iraq war ‘mission from God’

A snapshot of a (decades old) disastrous Middle Eastern policy that still screams today (there are few echoes). Weak 'leaders' with their eyes on short term, mainly domestic political gains and serving the interests only of arms companies and those wishng to asset strip.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/31/advisers-urged-tony-blair-to-rein-in-george-w-bush-over-iraq-war-mission-from-god

#Politics #UkPolitics #Blair #Bush #MiddleEast #GodBotherers
#politics #ukpolitics #middleeast #bush #blair #godbotherers

Well colour me blind.....

Keir Starmer among least left wing Labour MPs, study finds

He has competition amongst his cabinet though!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/30/keir-starmer-is-one-of-labours-most-rightwing-mps-study-finds

#UkPolitics #Starmer
#ukpolitics #starmer

Newsflash from the Department of the Fucking Obvious 🙄

A professor of politics should be ashamed to publish something so flimsy and call it "research".

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/30/keir-starmer-is-one-of-labours-most-rightwing-mps-study-finds

#UKPolitics #TelAvivKeith #Liebour
#ukpolitics #liebour #telavivkeith

Petition:
End the Badger Cull and adopt other approaches to bovine TB control
The Government’s TB Eradication Strategy allows the continued killing of badgers, a protected species, until the end of this Parliament, despite the Labour manifesto calling the cull “ineffective.”

We believe the badger cull is unjustified and must end.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700317?mc_cid=17acaf4a35&mc_eid=0d49cdcc8c

#StopTheCull #EndTheCull #BadgerCull #DEFRA #UKPolitics #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights #BritishWildlife #Wildlife

Petition: End the Badger cull and adopt other approaches to bovine TB control

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
#WildLife #ukpolitics #animalwelfare #stopthecull #endthecull #badgercull #defra #animalrights #britishwildlife

WHAT

"His message takes an optimistic tone, while also encouraging people to 'look after those around us'* and wishing for peace in the Middle East**."

* donate to charities that fill in the massive gaps left by government cruelty, waste and incompetence

** ignore that we're paying for a genocide and leaving Syrians awaiting asylum claims in limbo

Merry fuckin' Christmas.

https://news.sky.com/story/starmer-looking-towards-a-better-brighter-future-in-christmas-message-13279407

#UKPolitics #Liebour #TelAvivKeith

Starmer 'looking towards a better, brighter future' in Christmas message

The prime minister is looking forward to his first Christmas in office, and in his festive message has tried to paint an optimistic vision of the year ahead after a rough end to 2024.
Sky News
#ukpolitics #liebour #telavivkeith

Billionaires are queuing up to donate to Reform, treasurer says

True or not, it would not surprise me. Rich men who only interest is increasing their wealth looking for a new toy to play with. Starmer seems determined not to act on donations - which, along with FPTP, continues to be an anti-democratic disgrace designed to maintain a status quo (the rich run the country).

#UkPolitics #PoliticalFunding #FailedDemocracy #Starmer #Reform #BuyVotes #AugeanStables #PoliticalReformNow
Photo of three Men, Caption Nick Candy with Elon Musk and Nigel Farage at Mar-a-Lago in Florida last week
#ukpolitics #starmer #reform #PoliticalFunding #politicalreformnow #AugeanStables #buyvotes #faileddemocracy

Jesus motherfuckin' Christ.

I guess we don't need to wait for what's left of the Tories to merge with Reform - Liebour are going to get there first.

GPLB: "No 10 declines to say whether Mandelson should use Farage in US to help establish good relations with Trump"

#UKPolitics #FascismIsGo
#ukpolitics #fascismisgo

Vicious stuff! Worthy of a Private Eye column. And he can't be sued for libel because, it's so sickeningly, horribly true.

#UKPolitics #SpaceKaren #FascismIsGo
#ukpolitics #SpaceKaren #fascismisgo

Stew's on form today.

"But by all means, let the British parliament allow Musk to buy his pets into power while our leaders stand around trading witty barbs about steak lunches and tuna sandwiches, the useless twats ... "

#UKPolitics #SpaceKaren #FascismIsGo

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/22/nigel-farage-elon-musk-nick-candy-photo-stewart-lee
#ukpolitics #SpaceKaren #fascismisgo

They should never have been part of the second chamber in the first place. Iran is I believe the only other country in the world that mandates particioation in legislation for a religious group.

But if we are going to expel members of the HoL for vindictive, spiteful, money grabbing behaviours then there are a lot of other candidates to go as well!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/22/our-rarely-apologise-never-resign-bishops-dont-deserve-comfortable-lives-in-the-lords

#AbolishTheLords #UkPolitics #ReformWestminster #LaughingStock
#ukpolitics #abolishthelords #laughingstock #reformwestminster

But if we ban donations from *their* billionaires, how are we going to take them from *our* billionaires? 🤬
Let's just dither and bleat until it's too late, shall we 🙄

#UKPolitics #SpaceKaren #Corruption

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/21/ministers-resist-calls-to-block-musk-donations-to-farages-reform-uk
#ukpolitics #corruption #SpaceKaren

Watching Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister again...

Sir Humphrey: Bernard, if the right people don’t have power, do you know what happens? The wrong people get it: politicians, councillors, ordinary voters!
Bernard: But aren’t they supposed to, in a democracy?
Sir Humphrey: This is a British democracy, Bernard!

Yes, Prime Minister, Episode Five: Power to the People.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yes,_Minister#Episode_One:_The_Grand_Design

#ukpol #ukpolitics #comedy
#comedy #ukpol #ukpolitics

"My first thought was, he lied in every word,
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
Askance to watch the workings of his lie
On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford
Suppression of the glee, that pursed and scored
Its edge, at one more victim gained thereby."

Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came ~ Robert Browning.
(with a nod to Stephen King there too).

#Ukpol #UKpolitics #starmer #poetry
#ukpol #Poetry #ukpolitics #starmer

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