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It frustrates me when politicians say they are making a 'hard choice' because they almost always use it to describe making the easy choice.

Targeting the powerless is easy.

Going after the rich and powerful is hard.

Is Rachel Reeves constrained by the City? Is the City really stopping Rachel Reeves from doing what Labour wants, or is she just using it as a convenient excuse for her neoliberal austerity? This is the audio version: This is the transc...

A narrative is recited almost everywhere: that Rachel Reeves is being "forced" to cut benefits, and is faced with "hard choices" or "no choice". This story, a staple of neoliberal doctrine, is completely false, as @richardjmurphy.bsky.social explains: www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Did you come into politics to make poor people poorer?"

James Murray, "To put more money into people's pockets"

KGM, "250k people in poverty?"

JM, "Tackling child poverty is a priority for the Prime Minister, the Chancellor, for all of us"

KGM, "Not a very high priority"

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Rachel Reeves’ spring statement shows we’re in an economic crisis, and she’s out of her depth.

What was important about the Spring Statement from Rachel Reeves was what it did not say - like mortgage rates are going to rise by at least one percent, alongside house prices. We really are in a mess.

youtu.be/4n2pqFOpz9U?...

Oh, I'm definitely up for this! England will be so lonely!
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The UK is supplying weapons to a country whose leader is wanted for war crimes.

How much simpler can we put it?

Next time Starmer and Reeves say there's too much regulation, remember this.
This is what a deregulated economy looks like, and we all pay for it, with our health, our ecosystems and, eventually - when the massive clean-up / land abandonment bill can no longer be avoided - our wallets.

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YouTube video by John Nicolson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Do you remember the broken promises made to Scotland?

As Labour targets the old, the sick & the vulnerable I’ve been thinking back to the promises Brown, Sarwar & co made at the time of our independence referendum. Do you remember? They said if we voted No we’d be “protected” by Westminster.

Have a watch.

www.youtube.com/shorts/pWT1E...

Fuck this occupation

Russell Jones's Week Moment: Billionaires, Miscarriages of Capitalism, and Bin Collections In the week the Government cut £5 billion in benefit payments, Russell Jones takes the UK's tax-dodging billionaires to task and urges Labour to get on with imposing a wealth tax

"Poverty in Britain exists not because we don't have enough money to satisfy the needs of the poor, but because we don't have enough money to satisfy the greed of the rich."

My bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on wealth tax and the new austerity.

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Is the state really as inefficient as people claim?

Is the state really as inefficient as people claim? youtu.be/LB3X5r2qAL0?... Many claim that the state is inefficient, but is that because they’re simply using the wrong criterion for appraising it?

Scotland’s media ignore massive increase in criminal convictions including a 103% increase in rape convictions only two years after pandemic constraints end By Professor John Robertson OBA From Criminal Proceedings in Scotland 2022-23, published yesterday, we can see that there were 68 067 people convicted of a criminal offence in Scotland in 2022/2023…

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Research – school achievement higher and attainment gaps far smaller in Scotland than in rest of UK By Professor John Robertson OBA: From UK Poverty 2025 The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, today: There are diffe…

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/01/29/r...

When someone says we are going to build Nuclear to 'protect our energy supply' and you find out it will take 20-25 years and cost 10x as much per Watt as Renewable.

Do you not realize it is a scam? 👇🏻

Oakshitt's wiki page is unlocked - do NOT try to mess around with it because that would be so wrong.

Westminster hid the McCrone report
Westminster closed Scotland’s stock exchange
Westminster enabled Brexit
Westminster forced austerity on Scotland
Westminster is stealing our oil & renewable energy
Westminster is vetoing a vote on our independence
Westminster clearly doesn’t work for Scotland

Would it really surprise you?🤔

When opportunity does not create an opportunity you create the opportunity and you take advantage of the opportunity to be as opportunistic as you possibly can be because that's why the opportunity came to be

Independence it doesn't matter how we achieve it ..let's just get it done

Royal Yacht cost nearly half a billion to repair and had 8 times as many crew, for 250 guests, no cars or HGVs, as the MV Glen Sannox will have to look after 852 passengers, 127 cars and 16 HGVs Thanks to cuckooshoe and one of our anonymouses, for this. In Business Insider, November 10th 2022, we read that the Royal Yacht Britannia cost the taxpayer £11 million per year to maintain from 19…

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/01/05/r...

Its noted BBC News omitted the mention of Gaza as one of the reasons for the mass quit.
It'll be interesting to see if this happens in other councils.
Many Labour MP's also know they're on wafer thin ice.
It's a strong statement.
Starmer is finished.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For the dafties: She's only called BBC's Jackie 'Bird', because her ex-husband, Bob Bird, was Editor of The Sun, in Scotland. The Hillsborough/Phone hacking/Lady Diana crash folk. Nice family.

P.S., You also CAN'T be a Member of something that hasn't existed, since 1960.

Awkward.

Rule Britannia.

We don't defeat populists by calling out their lies. We tried that. Facts are complicated, and the audience for populism wants simplicity. It won't work.

We defeat populists by enacting bold political ideas that improve lives for the disenfranchised, and make the world seem less grotesquely unfair.

This is Shelter England 👇🏻 you won’t see this on Mainstream Media, we’ll do the work for them #IndyClan ⚔️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

“The love of one’s country is a terrible thing…”#ScottishIndependence

Steal fae a shop an they'll fling u in jail. Steal fae a country an they'll make u a lord🧐

I'm gonna copy and paste the best of bluesky from indy people hope you don't mind 😉