Editorial: Labour’s billions meant for public services and climate change now hang in the balance | Morning Star
And as the article explains, so does local democracy.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-billions-meant-for-public-services-and-climate-change-now-hang-in-the-balance

#press #LocalDemocracy #Austerity #UKPol

Zoe Hughes, an #Exeter City council member for #Pennsylvania, has resigned from the #LabourParty over their banning of gender affirming treatment of under 18s.

Good for them, nice to see a politician with some principles.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy89e1g71ppo

#CassReview #UKPol

“There is … absolutely no proof whatsoever that there has been any military activity from the resistance inside Kamal Adwan Hospital."

Israhell doesn't need to prove anything because its impunity is still strong after a whole year of genocide, courtesy of our elected "representatives"

#ShameOnHumanity
#USPol #UKPol #AusPol
#EndTheOccupation
#Gaza #WarCrimes #FreePalestine #IsraelApartheid #StopGenocideNow #CeaseFireNow #CeaseFireNowPermanently
#EndTheArmsTrade #BoycottBoeing

This is simply a disgrace

"77-year-old activist sent back to prison due to issues fitting tag"

#ukpolitics #ukpol #HumanRights #juststopoil #climate #green

https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/77-year-old-activist-sent-back-to-prison-due-to-issues-fitting-tag/

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

"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

Policy idea for a left wing party.

They have whatever response they have to any announcement or policies from the right wing opposition, but then they also release a statement from their "disabled" policy unit who are very clever autistic people who use evidence to just burn holes in the bullshit that these bastards say which provides so much ammunition for comedians and newspapers.

#Autism #autistic #neurodiverse @actuallyautistic #AutisticBurnout #ActuallyAutistic
#uspol #auspol #ukpol

We've been saying here for ages...but we're so good we're ahead of the curve, unlike The Guardian.

Listen to us nerds on Mastodon instead.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/19/keir-starmer-nigel-farage-prime-minister-reform

#UKPOL #Ukpolitics #Starmer #Farage

In 2018, #Farage was apoplectic with rage at the thought of Billionaire George Soros interfering in #British politics using political donations.

Fast forward 6 years, & Nazi Nige the grifter is in the #US negotiating with Billionaire Elon #Musk to interfere in British politics with a £100m donation to #ReformUK. 🤷🏾‍♂️

The two faced stench of tobacco, sleaze & beer are never far away with this steaming lump of dog shit...

#Brexit #EU #Europe #MAGA #USPol #UKPol #USPolitics #RejoinEU

Keir Starmer’s Plan to Clean Up Political Lobbying Is Even Weaker Than the Conservatives’, Say Corruption Experts

Transparency campaigners slam what they describe as the Prime Minister’s ‘lacklustre’ approach to cleaning up politics

Why should we be surprised? As someone once said (and many have repeated since) ‘follow the money

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/12/11/keir-starmer-plan-to-clean-up-political-lobbying-is-even-weaker-than-the-conservatives-say-corruption-experts/

#UkPol #Starmer #Labour #Corruption #PoliticalDonations #PoliticalLobbying

More than a million vapes a day in UK thrown away, says research
From June 2025 it will be illegal to sell single-use vapes to combat environmental damage
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/16/more-than-a-million-vapes-a-day-in-uk-thrown-away-says-research
#vaping #UKpol

Rules we have agreed to, no, we don't worry about them...noooo...🤢

https://www.declassifieduk.org/israeli-army-chief-given-special-immunity-to-visit-britain/

#israel #gaza #starmer #labour #ukpol #ukpolitics

In case you hadn't noticed:

The twin goal of neoliberalism is to enrich the rich & punish the rest.

The cruelty aims to make us submit to being materially & psychologically enslaved & to lose all hope of regaining autonomy.

Hence, neoliberal govts set out to destroy all means of human connection in all possible spheres: economic, social, psychological.

Resistance entails doing the opposite of what these fascist neoliberals want.

#Neoliberalism #Fascism #Resistance #USPol #CdnPoli #UKPol .

the UK government has paused approving new fields while it examines how to regulate new drilling - & it's asking the public what we think should happen. will it listen to us? sign the petition & let's find out.
#stopRosebank #fossilFuels #ukPol #oil
https://tinyurl.com/4zvcutmb

#Gaza in Context: A Collaborative Teach-In Series

What Have We Learned? | #Israel’s Genocide—One Year On

Jurist #NimerSultany, reader in law @ SOAS, EIC of The #Palestine Yearbook of #InternationalLaw and author of "Law and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring", in conversation w/ #BassamHaddad

https://youtu.be/6hOUL0SvFzs

#WarOnGaza #GazaGenocide #ColonialViolence #oPt #AcademicFreedom #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #UKpol #UKpolitics #Jadaliyya @palestine

I hear that #Labour ministers are very concerned about the new Syrian regime's guaranteeing the rights of minorities.

Perhaps #Starmer should have a word with Wesley #Streeting while he's at it. And maybe have a good chat with himself about cosying up to the Saudi regime?

But I forget, it has to be the right kind of minorities, or something.

#UKPol #HumanRights #OrgulhoLGBT

Guaranteed they will lose the next election with Starmer and his side of Labour in charge.
He's their Joe Biden.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/08/labour-big-majority-is-fragile-and-it-has-weak-mandate-for-change-says-report

#Labour #UKPOL #Ukpolitics #Starmer

Interview with Israeli dissidents taking action for #Palestine
#PalestineAction #PalestineSolidarity #Elbit #ShutElbitDown #UKpol #militarism #IsraelWarCrimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3Ga4DiV7eM

Here's an expert legal thread on genocide. Keep reading to the end.
(TL;DR? It's still uncertain whether the ICJ evidentiary standard is met. But it's obvious that third party states are failing in their duty to prevent genocide.)
@janinadill.bsky.social
#Gaza ##genocide #UKpol
https://bsky.app/profile/janinadill.bsky.social/post/3lclagu2q6c22

Starmer looking at South Korea's massively unpopular president picking a fight with Doctors and Nurses and then declaring martial law when he feels desperate and threatened.....

#SouthKorea #Starmer #UKPOL #Ukpolitics

“As a former director of the Crown Prosecution Service, Keir Starmer should know that a spent conviction provides the opportunity for people to rehabilitate.
“It’s clear his decision to remove Louise Haigh from the Cabinet and replace her with someone on the Labour right is not about her previous offence. It’s a brazen manoeuvre to stifle pro-union voices within government.”

‘Labour right’ MP becomes transport secretary as Louise Haigh resigns
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-right-mp-becomes-transport-secretary-louise-haigh-resigns

#LouiseHaigh #UKPol #press

"British Foreign Secretary David #Lammy has suggested that #Palestinian statehood could be dependent on a normalisation deal between Saudi Arabia and #Israel." Why the hell would he do that? Oh yes - it'll be bc Washington have just whispered it in his ear. Brits don't want to be lapdog to the #USA, but with Starmer's #Labour in power, we have no choice. #UKPol #AmericanEmpire #Gaza #Genocide https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/lammy-suggests-palestinian-statehood-depends-saudi-israel-normalisation

Starmer continues his Harris/Walz 'pivot to the right' and losing votes because of it, like the Dems did.

Starmer doing everything to ensure the Tories and/or Reform get in as he abandons the core Labour vote to chase bigoty

And none of us can stop him, none of us will persuade the greater public that attacking the Other is wrong, because Bigots would DIE for their Bigotry and they hate us for being better people.

#Starmer #UKPOL #Ukpolitics #Immigration #Labour #Reform #Tories

The US election is far from the first right wig wing recently, but it's one we really need to understand with brutal honesty.

Inflation has been hurting working people and scared many working class and middle class Americans. The situation is similar in Europe, where the left has lost election after election.

In the 80s socialism was a strong current in European politics. And in the USA, unions could look for protection from the democrats.

What has happened is a neo-liberal orthodoxy has taken over most leftist parties and socialist parties in Europe. The left used to be a voice for anti-capitalism, against neoliberalism, and a voice for protecting working class jobs and social benefits.

As 'socialist' parties, the Labour party and Democrats have abandoned this (in as much as they ever followed it) the predominant orthodoxy has been liberal economics with minimum protection for workers. Where parties were against NAFTA or trade liberalisation now these parties are the most enthusiastic neoliberals.

So is it surprising that workers across Europe and North America have abandoned parties that previously claimed to represent their views.

And is it surprising that the right has seen the opportunity and stolen the clothes of the left. And combined anti-neoliberal rhetoric with ethnonationalism, and managed to attract sections of the working and middle classes that normally are concerned with economic justice. People just don't trust the US Democrats, UK Labour or socialist parties on the European mainland any more.

#uspol #ukpol #ukpolitics #eu #europe #socialism #inflation #neoliberalism #economy

https://archive.ph/tVC69

Trump Administration skipping the security in security clearance for selective members.

Four out of Five Eyes members on notice future heads of US justice and intelligence depts are a clear and present intelligence threat.

Ping: ASD, ASIO, ASIS

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/15/politics/security-clearances-fbi-gabbard-gaetz/index.html

#auspol #nzpol #ukpol #canpol #uspol

Everything Wes Streeting is proposing for the #NHS is about #privatisation on steroids #UKPol

This is quite unbelievable, like something out of a fictional dystopian alternative Britain but no, this tale of being arrested as a #terrorist for opposing #Genocide and #WarCrimes is very much non-fiction.

79-year-old professor, Haim Bresheeth was arrested under #terrorism legislation for speaking at a protest outside the residence of the #Israel Ambassador in Swiss Cottage.

#UKPol #PoliceState #Facism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDJMeqU9RvQ

How the UK Security Services neutralised the country’s leading liberal newspaper:
(2019) https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-the-uk-security-services-neutralised-the-countrys-leading-liberal-newspaper/

#TheGuardian #Assange #Corbyn #MI5 #MI6 #LabourParty #Labour #England #Britain #UK #centreLeft #leftOfCentre #elections #UKPol #politics #SocialDemocracy #SocDem #media #security #manipulation #coOpting #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #Guardian #DumpTheGuardian #manufacturingConsent

“Keir Starmer’s sycophantic words of congratulation to Donald Trump are among the most dispiriting things I have read this morning. “Shoulder to shoulder in defence of our shared values of freedom, democracy and enterprise”? This is either serious delusion or utter hypocrisy. He should be ashamed”

#trump #donaldtrump #keirstarmer #starmer #labourparty #labour #uk #ukpol #ukpolitics #uspol #USPolitics #usa #electionday #election2024

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2024/nov/06/sunk-by-keir-starmer-sycophantic-words-of-congratulation-to-donald-trump

Hidden behind this budget is a terrible bombshell: billions in cuts for disabled people

One analysis of Labour’s plans (I use the term in the loosest sense) for people with disabilities in the UK (well certainly England and Wales). I will not be affected but I know of many who will be. I wonder whether Labour will challenge the albeit brief summary? Note I refuse to use the term ‘benefits' in my hashtags.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/05/tax-and-spend-budget-disabled-people-austerity

#Disability #UK #Support #UKPol #LabourPromises

I'm not knocking the Grecians here, but I do find it fascinating that a crowd of football fans can block a road with a #SlowMarch on the way to a match and get indulgent nods and smiles, but if they were calling for clean air, better insulation in a time of #FuelPoverty and #ClimateCrisis or an end to the bombing of Gaza there would be immediate calls to lock them up for the disruption they're causing.

#RightToProtest #UKPol #JustStopOil #InsulateBritain #ExeterCity

Brits are arresting the sons of Holocaust survivors for 'terrorism' now....

#FreePalestine #Gaza #UKPOL #UKpolitics

And the capitalist-authoritarian pincer movement traps its prey yet again.

Your choice is "business as usual" Starmer or crazed lunatic Badenoch.

Whoever wins, we all lose. THATS WHAT THIS SYSTEM IS FOR.

#uk #ukpol #ukpolitics

Taking back control in #BrexitBritain

#BrexitBrokeBritain #BrexitLies #UK #Politics #UKPolitics
#UKPol #EU #RejoinEU