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Labour MPs clearly despise experts as much as the Conservatives. How much do they know about the consequences of what they are voting on? Or do they really care? I suspect a mixture of the two.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/30/mps-to-vote-on-disability-benefit-cuts-without-knowing-full-impact

#UkPol #Labour #Ignorance #Disability #Hypocrisy


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


An opinion piece. But IMHO (as goodd as this) we all know that Westminster Ministers typically only think of their own advantages - now and in the future. Others who will not benefit them are only of interest if it might effect their votes (and earning potential)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/28/uk-ministers-need-to-ask-why-they-are-offered-freebies-and-who-loses-out

#UkPol #Westminster #Labour #Conservative #Freebies #Corruption #Stupidity


No one likes to pay tax. But we see where the money is piling up - and that is where the tax increases should be.

The rich know they and their companies have been freeloading, with the lowest tax burden in decades. They'll scream and make political trouble, but they'll pay. It just takes will.

I've not been very impressed w #Labour , but tax rises on pensions >£1m and corp payroll are good moves (IMO). More #TaxTheRich increases, please.


Performative bullshit. We now know exactly what they think of us all, especially those who live on very, very limited budgets. I never expected that I would loathe the #Labour party even more than I loathed the #Tory party. But that’s where we are today.


“Zarah Sultana just SHAMED every other MP over Labour’s #DWP benefit cuts”

by Ed Sykes in The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour

“Independent MP Zarah #Sultana has stressed that, amid the Labour government’s current DWP austerity drive targeting disabled people, it is ‘simply wrong’ for MPs to be getting an ‘inflation-busting pay rise’ of £2,558, bringing their already excessive salary to £93,904 per year”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/26/zarah-sultana-cuts/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh

#Press #UK #Labour #Starmer #Reeves #Austerity #ToryContinuityParty


We need more #Labour councillors and MOs to do this! https://mas.to/@bitternepark/114233168601347194


“Wes Streeting and the Guardian just got the treatment they deserved at a live event”

by Steve Topple in The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour

“Therefore, it was good to see him [Streeting] getting shouted down by the very people his government’s policies will be affecting. And, we can expect to see even more of this type of resistance over the next few months”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/25/wes-streeting-guardian-protest/?__s=1toyfummtp6bhspv4akg

#Press #UK #Labour #Starmer #BenefitsHarmer #Streeting #DWP #Cuts #NHS #Hypocrisy #Lies #ToryContinuityParty


“Rachel #Reeves pledges to gift billions to arms industry profiteers – while killing disabled people”

by Ed Sykes in The Canary @thecanaryuk

“Instead of going down the path of increasing military spending, then, mass investment in public services and the planet would be a much better focus to have. But the corporate cronies in this gov’t seem much more interested in pleasing their wealthy donors than actually investing in a positive, hopeful future”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/26/spring-statement-rachel-reeves-defence/?__s=1toyfummtp6bhspv4akg

#Press #UK #Labour


Warum die Sparpläne der britischen Regierung so brisant sind

Die britische Wirtschaft wächst deutlich weniger als bislang angenommen. Die sozialdemokratische Regierung hat deswegen eine brisante Streichliste erstellt. Es soll auch an Sozialleistungen gehen. Von Christoph Prössl.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/weltwirtschaft/grossbritannien-wachstum-schulden-sparpolitik-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Großbritannien #Konjunktur #Wachstum #Einsparungen #Labour


Today at 12 in #NewCastle protest against #WesStreeting and #Labour taking £5B from the most vulnerable and forcing #disabled ppl into work *read* death.

#GifsArtidote check out #BillyMoore's video I shared yesterday to see how those disabled ppl live in Newcastle. Yes, addicts are disabled ppl, the result of poverty caused by cuts to public services and being ruled by the rich.
#press #news #BreakingNews


“Labour’s proposed cuts to education will be the ‘worst in a generation’: Going backwards”

by James Wright in The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour

“On the back of years of Tory austerity, the education sector is preparing for the ‘worst financial situation for a generation’ after chancellor Rachel #Reeves’ Spring Statement on 26 March. #Headteachers have already warned that schools face ‘death by a thousand cuts’”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/24/labour-education-cuts/?__s=1toyfummtp6bhspv4akg

#Press #UK #Labour #Starmer #Cuts #Education #Austerity


Factual commentary analysis of #Labour's 'governing' by Tabitha Troughton in #FreedomNews.

#Gifsartidote: #Starmer & Co behave like any other neo-liberal #capitalist gov bc they are in collaboration with big business to protect the system. They all are consumed by greed and narcissism, the end result of white-supremacy colonialism. Nobody has sufficiently addressed the collective trauma centuries of this trajectory has caused, hence why we are here
#press #news #opinion
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/03/24/welfare-cuts-labours-political-suicide/


So, Labour voters in Scotland, are you regretting the shiny baubles that were promised and then vanished with the rising sun? Fed children are not just a moral obligation but a practical one as well. They can learn.

Meantime ‘Erasmus’ the pisspoor replacement for the EU exchange program looks to be scrapped as well.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25030965.education-secretary-suggests-cutting-free-school-meals/

http://archive.today/2025.03.24-115705/https://www.thenational.scot/news/25030965.education-secretary-suggests-cutting-free-school-meals/ (archive)

#Ukpol #Labour #WhatFuture #Education
Photo. ENGLISH education secretary Bridget Phillipson, caption ‘has also offered to axe funding for free period products in schools as well as dance, music and PE schemes’


While Reeves ‘promises’ That living standards will improve, the rest of us in the real world know that this is not her intention - from PIP to this short piece

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/23/social-care-cuts-benefits-disability-labour-whitehall

#Labour #Reeves #Starmer #BrokenPromises


The less is done by civil servants working in the interests of the state and its people, the more is subcontracted to consultants and the private sector working in the interests of shareholders…just saying.

I also didn’t get the memo that this #Labour government with a single stroke has resolved all the outstanding issues relating to #Brexit and #Covid. No backlogs then?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/23/rachel-reeves-promises-economy-and-living-standards-will-improve


Oh dear! Is the Grauniad experiencing “buyer’s remorse” over the #Kidstarver?

“All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns”

by Toby Helm
@UKLabour

“The JRF also said that if living standards have not recovered by 2030, Starmer will [..] also have presided over the first government since 1955 to have seen a fall in living standards across a full parliament”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/22/all-uk-families-to-be-worse-off-by-2030-as-poor-bear-the-brunt-new-data-warns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#Press #Labour #Starmer #Austerity #ToryContinuityParty #BenefitsHarmer


“All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns.” The only way to make people better off is to redistribute wealth. Not something easy to bribe Labour politicians are up for. #Labour #Poverty #TaxTheRich


Independent Labour in Scotland

'The seemingly unpalatable truth for some is that Brexit has hastened Britain’s demise and Scottish independence will hammer the final nail in the coffin of the British empire and the VIP privilege associated with a dysfunctional democracy and epitomised by an archaic and decadent “House of Lords”.'

http://archive.today/2025.03.21-020839/https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25025218.surely-now-time-independent-scottish-labour-party/

#ScottishIndependence #Labour


Businesses back SNP for growth

Colour me amazed. The Times reports something vaguely positive about the Scottish government. Although I suspect this was simply necessary to critique #Starmer, #Sarwar and #Labour.

Having said that, businesses that favour ‘Reform’ as a party for growth are either deluded or taking the piss. So the survey is probably useless.

Meantime this has driven the haters mad in the comments.

http://archive.today/2025.03.21-184005/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/businesses-back-snp-for-growth-as-labour-support-slides-prwmgq828

#Scotland #Business #NotLabour #SNP #ScotPol #Ukpol
Screen capture from article, reads
‘The survey also revealed a stark difference in perception between the Scottish and UK governments. Nearly half (48 per cent) of respondents believe the Scottish government is concerned with the needs of businesses in Scotland, compared with just 33 per cent who feel the same about the UK government.
Scott Edgar, the senior research manager at The Diffley Partnership, said: “These results show that the SNP is seen as the party best placed to support business growth and investment in Scotland, albeit by a small margin. The drop in support for Scottish Labour suggests business has grown more cautious about their approach over the last 12 months.”’


“The complicity of the Guardian”

by Another Angry Voice on Substack

@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@guardian

“Rachel Reeves is planning the most destructive round of austerity cuts since the peak of George Osborne’s austerity mania, but the government & the #Guardian are keen to pretend that her agenda isn’t more of the same austerity madness”

https://open.substack.com/pub/anotherangryvoice/p/the-complicity-of-the-guardian?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

#Press #Labour #Austerity #Reeves #Starmer #BenefitsHarmer #RachelThieves #FreezeAndStarve #ChildPoverty #Lies #ToryContinuityParty


Shameful morality

Runcorn and Helsby by-election: #Labour candidate Karen Shore petitions to close asylum hotel after right-wing criticism - LabourList
https://labourlist.org/2025/03/runcorn-helsby-karen-shore-labour-candidate-by-election-asylum-seekers/


“Sky invited ex-Labour yoon and arms lobbyist Jim Murphy on debate Taj Ali. Whoops.”

by Ed Sykes in The Canary @thecanaryuk @palestine
@israel
@UKLabour

“Fortunately, when Sky invited Murphy on TV to share his point of view on the matter [making it easier for funds to invest money in the arms industry], journalist Taj Ali was there to point out the lobbyist’s interests”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/20/ardern-strategies-jim-murphy/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh

#Press #UK #Labour #Murphy #Sky #ConflictOfInterest #Weapons #Industry #Investments #Ali #Ardern


“Finally, an MP stands up to warmongering #Labour over #Israel

by Maryam Jameela in The Canary @thecanaryuk @palestine
@israel
@UKLabour

“Children bombed and buried under rubble, people who were observing Ramadan blown into pieces, [..]. #Shockat #Adam, and the other MPs who laid out the facts of #Britain’s #complicity with Israel are a rare breath of fresh air amongst the rot of #Parliament

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/20/shockat-adam-israel-debate/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh

#Press #UK #Genocide


The moral vacuum that is the Labour Party today.

Speaking of the SNP, now that Sturgeons political career has been destroyed, I see the charges have been dropped.
Funny that.
Mad how half of Scotland just accepts being a Colonial fuckbucket for posh fuckos down South.....

https://archive.ph/2025.03.20-171626/https://www.thenational.scot/news/25024656.snp-mp-furious-david-lammy-fails-condemn-israel-strikes/

#UKPOL #UKPolitics #ScotPol #Sturgeon #Labour #Colonialism #Gaza #Israel #SNP
SNP MP furious as David Lammy fails to condemn Israel
strikes


He can’t have it both ways. Either he’s with Ukraine and the EU, or he’s with the USA. He’s already shown he’s with the USA a hundred times over, even yesterday as #LabourAusterity attacks the disabled, the poor, the elderly, and children. Sadly, as #Labour MPs still have grown any spine we are stuck with #PerfidiousAlbion


Hate is a strong word, I tend towards despise but am veering towards hatred. And I don’t rely (nor do any f my family) on benefits - we are proud higher rate tax payers.

I need to be blunt. I hate Labour for these disability benefit cuts

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25020896.need-blunt-hate-labour-disability-benefit-cuts/

http://archive.today/2025.03.19-151502/https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25020896.need-blunt-hate-labour-disability-benefit-cuts/(archive)

#TheNational #Murphy #Labour #Disgrace


Former Scottish Labour MSP quits with furious attack on Keir Starmer

So one ‘Scottish’ MSP, just one has the balls to do something. How About the rest of you feart weans? Of course I will not expect a word from the mass of the London appointed cattle who will do what Starmer wishes.

http://archive.today/2025.03.19-083346/https://www.thenational.scot/news/25019131.former-scottish-labour-msp-quits-furious-attack-keir-starmer/ (archived)

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25019131.former-scottish-labour-msp-quits-furious-attack-keir-starmer/

#PIP #ScottishPolitics #Labour #Liers #Cowards #Scotland #ScottishIndependence


“Netpol has exposed the ‘state of protest’ in the UK – and it’s not good”

by The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour

“A new report authored by the Network for Police Monitoring (#Netpol) says the aggressive police use of new anti-protest laws, coupled with a growing portrayal of protesters as alleged threats to democracy rather than a vital part of public participation [..] now amounts to #state #repression

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/19/netpol-protest-report/?__s=1toyfummtp6bhspv4akg

#Press #UK #Labour #Starmer #Police #PoliticalPolicing #Autocracy


“The Labour government is now coming for SEND children, too”

by HG in The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@guardian @Independent @thetimes

“The Labour government have launched attacks on children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and people with mental health diagnoses”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/18/labour-party-send-policy/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh

#Press #Labour #Austerity #WFA #Starmer #Streeting #BenefitsHarmer #SEND #Children #Special #Educational #Needs #ECHP #ToryContinuityParty #KidStarver


"..what is the point of the Labour party?

Well, the point, it seems, is to be as not-Labour as possible, and that purpose was fashioned in a battle against those on the left of the party, rather than its desire to be the canny custodian of leftwing politics once in power. It is as simple as that"

Nesrine Malik spot on, once again. We on the left warned everyone...

#Labour #UKPolitics #BenefitCuts #PIP #Disability

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/keir-starmer-tory-radical-prime-minister-poor-people


Declassified UK has revealed that blood-soaked Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems has an active intelligence cell in Britain that shares information with British law enforcement every two weeks. What’s more is that in December of 2024, Prime Minister Keir Starmer held a private meeting with the weapons manufacturer

@Declassified_UK
@UKLabour

#UK #Labour #Starmer #Elbit #Israel #Genocide


Roy Lilley, the always-spot-on commentator on things to do with health & the NHS, strikes again!

@UKLabour

“Important”

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Important.html?soid=1102665899193&aid=G9EDugZYNCk

“As a % of the population we [UK] have more people than in any comparable economy who claim they are unable to work because they are not well enough, & far more claim their un-wellness is their mental health.

Blame Covid? Lockdown? Well, France, Germany, Spain & others had lockdowns but they don’t have the problems we have today”

#Press #UK #Labour


“The TUSC [Trade Union and Socialist Coalition] is rallying against Starmer in the face of cruel #DWP #cuts

by The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour

“#May #elections 2025 – the first major electoral test for the #Starmer government. The #TUSC have already approved candidates in 10 of the 23 council areas where elections will take place on 1 May 2025. However, we need more. We need to spread the anti-austerity and anti-war message [..]”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/03/17/tusc-election-campaign-may-2025/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh

#Press #Labour #ToryContinuityParty


Labour MPs need to grow a shiny spine and either vote against or resign from the party. Abstentions mean nothing now. #UKPolitics #Labour #Disability


Why is *anyone* surprised?

“Many said the Starmer era would be just Tory-lite – now it’s worse than that. Time to stop the pretence”

by Nesrine Malik in the Grauniad
@UKLabour

“Today, with Reform waiting in the wings, the price of not raising the alarm on a Labour party that will not change course will be nothing short of catastrophic”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/keir-starmer-tory-radical-prime-minister-poor-people?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#Press #Labour #Austerity #WFA #Reeves #Starmer #Streeting #TwoChildBenefitCap #ChildPoverty #Hypocrisy #Lies #ToryContinuityParty


“The Resolution Foundation thinktank warned that cutting Pip by £5bn in 2029-30 by raising the qualifying threshold for support could mean about 620,000 people lose £675 a month on average. It said 70% of these cuts would be concentrated on those families in the poorest half of the income distribution.”

What is #Starmer and his advisors in #Labour thinking with this brutal, Muskian lurch to the right? Strategically it will alienate his MPs, members and voters. Bonkers.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/16/starmer-to-drive-through-welfare-cuts-that-could-affect-uks-most-severely-disabled


“Southport Community Independents: local interest ‘above distant bureaucracy’ is first step in national resistance”

by Ed Sykes in The Canary @thecanaryuk

“Independent community organisations are setting up to challenge Britain’s broken electoral system, and taking the first steps towards a resurgent mass movement on the left”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/16/southport-community-independents/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh

#Press #UK #Left #Independent #Community #Organisations #Resistance #Broken #Electoral #System #Labour #Starmer #FarRight #Autocracy


Ah, #Labour... really saying that #people no longer matter...

and people voted for this... ffs...