The Telegraph running a story about a Lib Dem candidate being deselected for his "Christian beliefs" without stating which beliefs in particular got him into trouble. (To save you looking, it's the homophobia and transphobia, not the Sermon on the Mount) #ukpolitics https://archive.ph/BeAUj
"Welcome to the #Sunak and #Starmer show and welcome to the next four, five, six or seven months of your life."
BBC
I can reveal that neither of them will be presenting the policy choices that are needed on the face of multiple symptoms of systems #collapse.
Instead do take a look at and promote the #GettingReal policy portfolio. https://gettingreal.org.uk
The Times w*nkfest to begin the week with all the writers prepubescent fantasies laid bare. ChatGPT generated with the keywords, Rowling, Edinburgh and Silicon Valley.
Wow. Radio 4 news just put
Zarah Sultana on the main 7pm news, criticising David Cameron's hypocrisy in continuing UK arms sales to Israel.
For those who don't know, Sultana is a pro-Palestinian, Muslim leftwing Labour MP who supported Corbyn and is anathema to Starmer and the Labour right.
I nearly fell off my chair. #Israel#Gaza#LabourParty#UKPolitics
Well, of course, in the BBC's coverage of Nadhim Zahawi confirming the cost of the settlement he reached with the HMRC over his tax affairs, no mention is made of the use of a SLAPP to stifle comment on these affairs (a SLAPP that has resulted in the lawyer concerned being referred to the Lawyers Disciplinary Tribunal).... are we surprised by this omission? Certainly not.
@ChrisMayLA6 I see he lied about it to Tory Laura this morning too, according to the guy who got the SLAPP, Dan Neidle.
According to Dan's tweet, Zahawi said that "on reflection, perhaps I should have been clearer" that he was under investigation.
However, in the letter Dan received at the time ...
(side note - terrible grammar!) #UKPolitics
Worth a read. This is the paper that broke and carried on reporting on the Post Office Scandal/Larceny well before Private Eye, Panorama or ITV got into it.
'potentially unlimited powers for new “bank scanning” algorithms, which are being proposed to tackle “fraud”… so out of control that the fraud rate for disability benefits is only 0.2%’
Division, be it by wealth (education, medicine, housing) is a scourge and had been for as long as I can remember in Britain. We have the CoE in the already deeply flawed House of Lords by right, what is next?
Windrush, the Blood infusion tragedies, The Post Office, Murders by Special Forces in Afghanistan (not enough space to continue) - is there anything the UK Government can not solve (or at least put off until the next maladministration) by losing the records?
Labour’s plan to boost care workers’ pay ‘could cost taxpayers billions’
Another day, another Article in The Times promoting the Tufton Street cabal who re unwilling to contribute to society but very eager to leech from the public purse. Intriguingly, they are called out on it (‘fink tank’ and paper) by all of the comments as of Sunday morning.
Protest groups such as Just Stop Oil and Palestine Action could be banned in a similar way to terrorist organisations, under a proposal from the government’s adviser on political violence. #climatechange#climatecrisis#ukpolitics
Contrary to recent Tory spin, the Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) is rejecting 40% of all Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims.
Shockingly, these include:
50% with cerebral palsy
25% of amputees
40% with muscular dystrophy
45% with multiple sclerosis
This government continues its war on the disabled and vulnerable, purely to appeal to that portion of the electorate which has been taught to believe disability is a scam.
Robert Buckland has accused the Tory who defected to Labour of approaching him when he was justice secretary before the trial of Elphicke
Meanwhile
"The Labour leader had secretly met Elphicke for the first time the previous day, as he has all defectors, to ensure she was prepared for the inevitable scrutiny. "