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"The government has ... privately made clear it is prepared to cut or even abolish the digital services tax against major technology companies in exchange for tariff exclusions and further co-operation on artificial intelligence."

Times: "Starmer keeps his distance as Reeves takes tax and tariffs flak"

https://archive.is/VNsrf

#UKPolitics #TaxTheRich
#ukpolitics #taxtherich

Another councillor's resigned.

https://nation.cymru/news/welsh-labour-councillor-quits-party-over-benefit-cuts/

#UKPolitics #DisabilityBenefits

Welsh Labour councillor quits party over benefit cuts

A Welsh Labour councillor has quit the party in protest at the £4.8billion of benefit cuts announced last week by the Chancellor Rachel Reeves in her Spring Statement.
Mark Mansfield (Nation.Cymru)
#ukpolitics #disabilitybenefits

OMG Fartage is about to have his Stormy Daniels moment 🤣
Some porn star called Victoria Fox has a book coming out with a "tell-all" section about him.

#UKPolitics
#ukpolitics

When you've been in power for less than a year and you're getting trolled (accurately) by Michael Gove.

#UKPolitics #Liebour #ToryContinuityParty
John Rentoul (journalist) posts a quote from Michael Gove. "We are now with Keir Starmer, having promised change," said Gove. "As a result of change, what we have now is a government that is committed to austerity, staying close to a Republican president, increasing defence spending and seeing more children going into poverty. So, as you can see: a radical shift from the preceding 14 years."
#ukpolitics #liebour #torycontinuityparty

I've just been reminded of this legend. It's a few days short of the deathiversary, but ho hum.
Rest in power, Glasgow Granny ✊ 😂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUlj48Rvp1c

#UKPolitics #ShesStillDead

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#ukpolitics #shesstilldead

How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/fascism-britain-neoliberalism-opened-door-for-it-labour?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Why seek to nix the financial regulations inspired by the 2008 crash, when the likely result is a repeat performance? Why reject a wealth tax, when a 2% levy on assets of over £10m could raise £24bn a year? Why not adopt the measures proposed by Patriotic Millionaires, generating £60bn a year? Or those suggested by political economist Richard Murphy, worth £90bn in tax revenue? Why abandon plans to tax non-doms properly? Why not demand an end to the Bank of England’s destructive quantitative tightening?
#ukpolitics #uklabour #rachelreeves
Link to The Guardian Neoliberalism destroys democratic hope and the far right fills the political void. We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital.
#ukpolitics #RachelReeves #uklabour

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National: "Wes Streeting takes £53k from private health recruiter pre-NHS job cuts"

https://archive.ph/KMpLk

#UKPolitics #GriftersGonnaGrift #SOSNHS
#ukpolitics #griftersgonnagrift #sosnhs

The Met Police achieve a Streisland win - finally being reported by the MSM. They must be so proud. Pratts.

More than 20 Metropolitan Police officers broke down the front door of a Quaker meeting house to arrest six women who had met to discuss climate change and Gaza.

None have been charged - but the message iOS clear. Under Labour dissent is BAD.

http://archive.today/2025.03.29-220332/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/met-smash-down-door-of-quaker-meeting-house-to-arrest-activists-jhhchrtlt (archive)

#Quakers #MetropolitanPolice #YouthDemand #Ukpolitics #Labour #Dissent
The door of the meeting house after the raid, a wooden door with the locks torn off
#ukpolitics #labour #dissent #metropolitanpolice #quakers #youthdemand

Ahh - following a few comments and general media silence( bar Canary and others) the Gruaniad finally takes its head out of the sand. Only a few days late.

‘Police said all those arrested had been released on bail, except for one who was released and will face no further action.’

The Streisand effect hits the Met. We’ll have to see the evidence but I doubt it will hit a court. But that was never the point.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/29/met-raids-quaker-meeting-house-and-arrests-six-women-at-youth-demand-talk

#protest #thoughtCrime #UKpolitics #MetroplitanPolice
#protest #ukpolitics #thoughtcrime #metroplitanpolice

What are stalker ads?

Meta harvests personal data to track your behaviour, making assumptions about who you are and what you believe. This is used to sell targeted adverts 🏧

By settling Tanya O'Carroll's case, Meta admits that you have the right to opt-out.

It's time to #StopStalkerAds

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/meta-settles-u-k-right-to-object-to-ad-tracking-lawsuit-by-agreeing-not-to-track-plaintiff/

Use our tool to opt-out ➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/meta-opt-out

#meta #dataprotection #surveillanceadvertising #surveillancecapitalism #adtech #GDPR #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol

Meta settles UK 'right to object to ad-tracking' lawsuit by agreeing not to track plaintiff | TechCrunch

A human rights campaigner, Tanya O'Carroll, has succeeded in forcing social media giant Meta not to use her data for targeted advertising. The agreement
Natasha Lomas (TechCrunch)
#privacy #ukpol #dataprotection #gdpr #meta #ukpolitics #adtech #surveillancecapitalism #SurveillanceAdvertising #stopstalkerads

NEW: Tool launched to opt-out of stalker ads on Meta!

Last week saw a big win for data rights! Meta settled Tanya O'Carroll's legal case against them. They agreed to stop using her data for targeted advertising.

Now it's your turn 🫵

Use our tool to #StopStalkerAds (UK residents) ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/meta-opt-out

#meta #dataprotection #surveillanceadvertising #adtech #GDPR #privacy #surveillancecapitalism #ukpolitics #ukpol #Facebook

Meta opt-out

In March 2025, there was a huge victory for your data rights! Meta settled a four year court case with human rights campaigner Tanya O’Carroll.
Open Rights Group
#privacy #ukpol #dataprotection #gdpr #facebook #meta #ukpolitics #adtech #surveillancecapitalism #SurveillanceAdvertising #stopstalkerads

So, on that analogy comparing disability benefits to pocket money ... guess who said it first? Keith.

Full story in the Times: "A make-or-break week for Starmer as Trump set to announce tariffs"

https://archive.is/s0blX

#UKPolitics #DisabilityBenefits
The Times can disclose, however, tht the genesis of the analogy came from the very top. It was first made byy Starmer at cabinet on Tuesday, during a discussion about official impact assessments showing that 250,000 people - including 50,000 children - face being pushed into poverty by the government's welfare cuts.
#ukpolitics #disabilitybenefits

The Torygraph saw Gary Stevenson on QT last night 🙄

#UKPolitics #TaxTheRich
Screenshot of a headline from The Telegraph shows Lego Thatcher at the dispatch box. REEVES IS ALREADY TAXING WEALTH - AND IT'S STRANGLING THE LIFE OUT OF BRITAIN
#ukpolitics #taxtherich

When one side has already declared a trade war, this approach really isn't valid Keith.

"UK not entering trade war with US, says Starmer"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd651lqdgj6o

#UKPolitics #KeithIsTrumpsBitch

UK not 'jumping into trade war' with US, says Sir Keir Starmer

The UK is in "intense negotiations" with the US over tariff plans, the prime minister says.
Tom Espiner (BBC News)
#ukpolitics #keithistrumpsbitch

"We have given the assets of this country to very wealthy people and created a tax system that makes it voluntary for them to pay tax. If you do that, ordinary people will get poorer and billionaires will get richer and ordinary people will not be able to buy homes and have families."

Gary Stevenson on Question Time last night.

Needless to say, he was very popular with the audience. The politicians and Bruce - not so much.

#UKPolitics #TaxTheRich
#ukpolitics #taxtherich

The racist POS who wants women barefoot, pregnant and back behind the kitchen sink, with no autonomy over their lives or their bodies; while he supports white men for all the jobs and careers. He’s already raised the idea of reducing womens autonomy so they are forced to give birth. His Ltd Co masquerading as as Political Party needs to be shut down and bankrupted.
#Farage #UKPolitics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gpnl0x3w3o

Nigel Farage says men make sacrifices many women don't for jobs

The Reform leader makes the comments on the role of women in the workplace at an event in Westminster.
Alex Forsyth (BBC News)
#ukpolitics #farage

Rachel Reeves: "I came into politics because I wanted children from all backgrounds, including the poorest backgrounds, to have a good start in life"

Sky News, yesterday.

Today:

Tomorrow, another 50,000. Because growth.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/27/children-poverty-government-benefit-welfare-cuts-uk

#UKPolitics
#ukpolitics

By my count that makes 72,000 job losses announced in the last 10 days. But yay, growth 🙄
Edit: I forgot the 2,700 jobs going at Scunthorpe steelworks.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/27/sky-to-cut-2000-jobs-at-customer-service-centres-and-close-three-sites-in-uk

#UKPolitics
#ukpolitics

Someone rang Viner and told her to get a piece in about why it's the right thing for Keith to have his head up 47's arse 🙄

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/27/donald-trump-moving-fast-breaking-things-better-us

#UKPolitics #USPolitics #KeithIsTrumpsBitch
#ukpolitics #uspolitics #keithistrumpsbitch

You know who this evasion and gaslighting reminds me off?
Boris Fucking Johnson.

As for the 'Coalition of the Willing', only one in five voted for Starmer to be our PM, his poll ratings have never been in the plus since he took office and he's supposed to be getting 30 other countries to sign up to a military alliance is he?

#Starmer #Ukraine #Russia #UKPOL #UKpolitics #CoalitonOfTheWilling
2hago 14.22 GMT Starmer ducks question about whether plan based on hoping Russia might agree to ceasefire is doomed to fail Q: [From the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen] Isn’t it time to admit that Russia has no interest in a ceasefire, and that a different approach is needed? Starmer says he does not accept that. He says he thinks President Trump is serious about wanting peace. And the Ukrainians want peace too, he says. Q: But what makes you think Putin will give up his long-held views on Ukraine? Starmer says this is a process. A lasting peace is the right goal, he says. It is what Trump wants, and what the Europeans want. If they can provide leadership, backed up by operational plans, that is the best chance for peace. Bowen tried twice to get Starmer to addresss his point about Russia, but both times Starmer refused to engage with Bowen’s point.
2hago 1415 GMT Q: You have been talking about this for almost a month. But only the UK and France have committed to putting troops on the ground. Why aren’t you making more progress? Starmer insists they are making progress. He says 200 planners attending the planning meeting in London last week. 44 There was a feeling around the table [at the meeting today] that Europe, taking Europe as a whole, has not been this strong and united for a very long time. He says Russia is delaying. That is tactic they had tried before. Q: When will there be progress? Starmer says he does not want to put a deadline on things, but “we need to see this developing in days and weeks, not months and months”.
2hago 14.11 GMT Starmer says support in Europe for cooperation to help Ukraine is ‘stronger and broader than ever’ Starmer is now taking questions. Q: The US describe Europeans as pathetically freeloaders. How can you trust them? And will you commit to putting troops on the ground? Starmer says there were 30 countries at the meeting today, as well as Nato and the EU. AA There was a broad consensus that this group of nations is now stronger and broader than it’s ever been. In terms of military planning, that is going alongside the political process, he says. He says he has always been clear that a European-led initiative would need US support.
#ukraine #russia #ukpol #ukpolitics #starmer #coalitonofthewilling

Starmer is Gaslighting people.
It's why he gets on so well with Trump.

Don't we deserve better than this Brits?

#Starmer #Austerity #SpringStatement #UKPOL #Ukpolitics #Abuse #Gaslighting
2nago 14.26 GMT Q: Why are you saying people will be £500 a year better off as a result of the spring statement bills are going up by more than that? Are you gaslighting people? Starmer does not accept that. He says the £500 a year figure comes from the OBR, not the government. He says interest rates are going down and wages are going up. And people are benefiting from policies like waiting lists being cut, he says.
#gaslighting #ukpol #ukpolitics #abuse #starmer #austerity #springstatement

Did Dan Hodges become a class warrior while I wasn't looking?

#UKPolitics #DisabilityBenefits
Interaction between some melt called James R Kennedy and Dan Hodges of the Mail on Sunday about the spring statement. JRK: They're doing big picture things that involve short term pain for some, instead of obsessing over local elections that don't matter and that governments always do badly in anyway. DH: How many times have the British people been told that over the last 20 years. And why is it the short term pain is always directed at working people and the poorest. She's literally announced £3.5 billion of cuts in benefits for the disabled and only £1 billion in tax avoidance.
#ukpolitics #disabilitybenefits

Yesterday on Newsnight:

Victoria Derbyshire challenges Darren Jones over the govt taking PIP away from disabled people. They will lose an average of £4,500 a year

Darren Jones responds: "The really important point is, we're not taking money away from them right now"

Don't worry poors, you've got *years* of sleepless nights to worry about whether you're going to starve 🤬

#UKPolitics #DisabilityBenefits
#ukpolitics #disabilitybenefits

More absolutely blatant lies.

GPLB: "Reeves says she's 'absolutely certain' welfare changes will not push more people into poverty"

How the fuck can she say this stuff with a straight face?? 🤬

#UKPolitics #DisabilityBenefits
#ukpolitics #disabilitybenefits

Something to bookmark for when it turns out to be a blatant lie in a few months' time.

GPLB: "Rachel Reeves defends benefit cuts and denies further tax rises likely in autumn"

#UKPolitics
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Who could replace Reeves?

How about Chi Onwura? A chartered Engineer with an MBA, with experience in both private industry and at Ofcom (where I first encountered her, and realised quickly she has a brain sharper than my own).

She comes from Newcastle, so not London centric, and has a good reputation as a constituency MP.

So far her highest role was Shadow Minister for Science, Research and Innovation, but I think she is destined for much higher things.

https://chionwurahmp.com/about-me/
#UKPolitics

About Me

I was born in Wallsend, grew up on Hillsview Avenue in Kenton and went to Kenton School before studying Electrical Engineering in London. I have lived in many different cities around the world, wit…
Chi Onwurah MP
#ukpolitics

Quick scan of centrist melt accounts to see how they've reacted to the spring statement ...
Feel free to imagine the minute-to-minute howls of outrage that would have filled the timelines of people like O'Brien and Dunt if it was the Tories doing this.

#UKPolitics #SpringStatement
#ukpolitics #springstatement

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