I'm incensed to see #Starmer say ”Winning the trust of people across past divides, such as leave and remain, or yes and no in Scotland, is vital.”
#Brexit and #Scottish independence are not past divides, they're current. Leaving the #EU has been a disaster which in no way resembles the promises of the Leave campaign. #Scotland deserves to be able to reassess the union as so much has changed since the #independence vote a decade ago.
While #SadiqKhan won the #election for #LondonMayor, beating #Tory candidate #SusanHall, after a very fractious campaign, the quote of the day belongs to one of the minor candidates standing, #CountBinface (no relation to #LordBuckethead), who still beat the #BritainFirst's #NickScanlon and said,
"It looks like I have defeated Britain First in an election.
“Come on, you have to cheer about that…down with fascism, up with Ceefax, what can I say?”
Direction of travel of English Nationalist #Tory policy is the abolition of the State Pension altogether. The richest man in Parliament #Sunak refused to rule out retirement age increase by 8 years, from 67 to 75 to pay for his Government's moral & economic bankruptcy. Pitifully inadequate as it is, you can have paid National Insurance all your working life & expect zippo back at the end of it. An outrageous repudiation of the social contract. Tory philosophy is they can tax, & give none back.
Grant #Shapps, formerly Energy Minister, signed off on policy without considering evidence, finds High Court. He "assumed" targets "would be met".
Now Grant Shapps is #Tory Defence Minister. Every day, we must assume he now signs off on defence policy, without evidence, assuming Britannia rules the waves, and that there's nothing that can compare to the British Grenadiers.
He's a former "get rich quick" web marketer who traded under the pseudonym "Michael Green".
Meanwhile, a resentful minority, including 2 of the constituent nations of the United Kingdom, suffered the confiscation of their EU citizenship rights against their will.
#Tory policy is to appease the Right Wing headbangers. Weak & unstable.
As the electorate across Britain abandons the #Tory party, it seems a strange -- even perverse -- time for the #SNP to rebrand itself as the Scottish Conservative party.
Turns out the #tory smoking ban is part of their strategy to deter asylum seekers. Like who would want to make a new home in a country where they can’t even smoke? Most of the small boat crossings are local shopkeepers smuggling in gray-market tobacco anyway.
@thejapantimes
Great. A big thanks to all those dull gullible morons who voted #brexit, to and a corrupt useless inept PM and his cabinet of self serving #tory crooks who went for a #HardBrexit which means they were stupid enough to leave the EU single market.
Also a big thanks to the traitors #NigelFarsge and #ArronBanks who took dirty Russian money in order to campaign for brexit, I'm sure they're both financially better off.
The UK needs a revolution to get these criminals locked up.
To be clear, I don't blame the nurses & doctors in A&E who are encountering budget & capacity pressures that would make it difficult for anyone to do a good job.
As length of waiting times in A&E grow, so do deaths while waiting to be seen; but this is part of the crisis engineered by the Tories, not a managerial or staff training issue (which is not to say these have no impact).
@ChrisMayLA6
There's nothing wrong with the #NHS that undoing 15 years of #Tory#austerity won't fix. Just look at wait time and satisfaction data from 2009.
It's not the NHS model that's the problem, it's the #Tories
'“We need to ensure that every child can walk or cycle to school safely”: All political parties – except the Conservatives – agree “children’s safety should be prioritised over the convenience of motorists” on “red-rated” road network, families say'
Performative cruelty against the weakest; asylum seekers, the homeless, the disabled. Redoubled now for the elections. Such are the calling cards of the proto-fascists, who always walked among us, but whom we vaulted into power. Systematically stripping citizens & would-be residents of rights, dignity & security in the name of false "liberty" & "patriotism", 14 yrs of #Tory has produced the most pitifully awful & disgusting leaders & Governments in our modern history. #EnglishNationalism
'It has resulted in mass displacement, #violence and potential #genocide, jeopardising millions of lives. While the United States (US) and other European nations have publicly expressed concern at the United Nations Security Council, Britain’s silence speaks volumes.'
Just received a load of election material through my postbox from all the local election candidates.
The one from the #conservative candidate only mentioned the word "Conservative" at the bottom of the last page and had a great big green banner on the front page which confused me for a while.
It appears they are embarrassed to even mention their own party name!
Tory MP Mark Menzies, who's facing allegations of misusing campaign funds has quit the #Conservative Party and says he won't stand at the next general election. 👀
Lancashire Police said it was reviewing "information" about Mr Menzies after Labour asked for an investigation.