#Budget#UKPolitics This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.
“Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it.”
This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just don’t count. It is a #TragedyOftheNonCommons (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n)
In Mid-Beds The Tory vote share dropped from 38,692 to 12,680 a massive drop. In Tamworth 30,542 vote to 10,403. This is reported as a 28 or 25% drop in vote share but actually two thirds of Tory voters have walked away.
The Tory vote has massively collapsed.
In Mid-beds the Labour vote dropped to 13,872 and in Tamworth up less than 1,000 votes to 11,719.
So we are about to lose access to WhatsApp, Apple and Facebook in the UK. If it happens I cannot imagine what the reaction of the public will be [irony]?
Seriously what on earth are the Tories thinking? They are as reliant on these platforms as the rest of us. Do they think that the tech companies are bluffing and that the UK is too important a market to exit? If they do, they could be in for an awful shock.
Way back in the dawn of time (2022), we had a local election in the London Borough of #Lewisham. I took to Twitter (which was the fashion at the time), to pillory the candidates. My tweets caused a bit of a ruckus. Ultimately, they got me name checked by the #DailyHate and a bunch of far-right websites.
Anyways, guess what time it is! That's right it's Lewisham mayoral election time! And that means I've read the manifestos so you don't have to.
This is a real piece of Government literature. Repeat, this is not a joke. @jkfanghanel you're even more right than you thought. #UKPolitics#Science#FFS
I hope you guys can watch this clip but I'm going to transcribe it for those who can't. Here's Ammar Anwar, former (as of yesterday) Labour Councillor of Dewsbury West Council. He's in bits, shaking and crying, as he reads the following statement:
"As I came home yesterday, my five year old daughter, who was watching the news with me the previous night, saw images of what was going on in Gaza. She said to me, "Dad, what have you done ...
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"Investment bankers about the financial crisis: “It was an easy game for us to earn a lot of money”
Asked about his political position: "I support the British people. I do not want these people to fall into poverty. If I believe, for example, that the Labour Party can help me to prevent that, then I support them. The party leadership insists that it will not tax the rich. If so, then I cannot."
Finally a scintilla of sanity around Bozo's p**s take of an honours list. The whole system is utterly corrupt and should be removed or replaced with a system that is apolitical. If you have to have them have honours awarded by an independent body of non-politicians.
I've paid an only slightly above zero amount of attention to the smoking ban story but has anyone asked how exactly the hole in the tax revenue is going to be plugged?
Wow. Brianna Ghey's mother is watching PMQs in the gallery this week, so Sunak decides to attack Starmer on his unwillingness to state the difference between a woman and a man.
Jesus.
U.K. PM Sunak's latest wheeze is to stop local councils from applying 20mph speed limits in built up busy areas, in a bid to win the 'motorists' vote.
Is it really a vote winner though? Are all the 'motorists' suddenly going to switch to voting Tory? I think he'll find that the 'motorists' that will vote for him based on this policy are the same 'motorists' that we're going to vote for him anyway.
Interesting. Government minister Andrew Bowie is the latest to join the ranks of those disseminating outright conspiracy theories on national television.
Fifteen minute cities = you can only use shops within a 15 minute radius of your house, by order of your local council.
Edit: This batshittery formed part of Mark Harper's speech at Conference yesterday. #UKPolitics#ConspiracyTheories
"The Green Party is becoming a dustbin, a repository not only for climate activists but for disgruntled hard leftists leaving the Labour Party, and some fairly unpleasant Free Palestine activists as well."
Peter Mandelson to Matt Chorley on Times Radio, yesterday
"Shadow minister Ed Miliband says Labour will review the agreement if it wins power to 'deliver the justice to which miners are entitled'."
The word "review" is doing a hella lot of the heavy lifting there. The same level of scrutiny will be applied to the claims of the WASPI women, no doubt. 🙄 😡
🚨 BREAKING: The UK government has confirmed it is rowing back on its plans to scan private messages.
They've finally back down with an announcement that Ofcom won't use powers in the spy clause contained in the Online Safety Bill until it's 'technically feasible' to do so.
They've conceded that no current technology exists that would protect privacy or avoid breaking encryption.