Innocent subpostmasters went to jail, but now it is clear: the Post Office boss class belong there instead | Marina Hyde You thought it couldn’t get any worse, but the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history just got wider, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Innocent subpostmasters went to jail, but now it is clear: the Post Office boss class belong there instead.

Harrowing stories of the victims

Still awaiting compensation and justice.

People await justice in other scandals too - Grenfell, infected blood, cladding, Windrush, mortgage prisoners ...

Environment Agency insider alleges ‘cover-up’ over sewage sludge on farmland Regulator and government accused of colluding with water industry to dump potentially toxic waste without oversight

The more we discover, the worse it gets. Now we learn the water companies wrote the guidance ensuring sewage sludge is not tested for the vast majority of contaminants before being spread on farmland. They gave themselves a free licence to dump hazardous waste. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More than 880,000 workers will get a raise this summer due to state minimum wage increases.

Anyone upset about this should consider the following:

If the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour.

Bullshitting your way to power, pretending there's no £20bn blackhole pre-election and promising no tax rises or cuts. Then discovering it, and delivering both cuts and tax rises, targeting the poor and vulnerable, delivering authoritarian crackdowns and bigoted policies.

Isn't a comms problem.

27 people — including a priest, professor and health workers — were arrested today under terrorism laws.

Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide.

This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.

Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.

Join us. The time is now.

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Parliament in a nutshell:

Yesterday MPs, including Yvette Cooper, celebrated the suffragette legacy of civil disobedience that won women the right to vote..

Only to then vote to designate non-violent direct action group Palestine Action as terrorists.

Westminster is broken.

There are many British commentators who have made several posts showing deep concern for Rachel Reeves over the last 24 hours but apparently lost their phones whilst hundreds of thousands of disabled people were terrified of losing the benefits they need to live.

While the media scream about artists saying things, does anyone know how the case against Michelle Mone and her husband for defrauding us of £200 million is going?
Or any other arrests for the Covid billions stolen from the public purse?
Is anyone in the UK Government being held to account?

From a distance you can see a mountain landscape with a blue sky and a few hazy clouds. on the sides of the picture you can see parts of trees. On the left in light green, on the right a smaller dark green tree further away. in the center is a black box on which is written in white “Only caring about your own right is exactly how you lose them”.

British priorities.

Rediscover Public Enemy’s ‘It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back’ (1988) | Tribute Public Enemy’s landmark second LP is one of those rare albums that lives up to all of the superlatives that have been heaped upon it since its release three-and-a-half decades ago.

Public Enemy released ‘It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back’ 37 years ago on June 28, 1988

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"There is no money left"
-Rachel Reeves

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

70,000 more people to lose benefits due to Labour's cuts than originally expected The government has admitted it expects 70,000 more people to lose disability benefits under its planned cuts than previously disclosed.

70,000 more Britons to lose disability benefits than originally expected.

Estimates up from 370,000 to 440,000, could lose £4,500 a year each. How many die?

Govt averse to taxing corporations and the rich.

Tell your MP to oppose cuts.

1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

Always.

Ballymena and immigration fact checker: What's the real story? Someone once said that prejudice is a great time-saver, because you can form opinions without having to gather the facts.

"Asylum seekers' support includes £49.18 a week and basic temporary accommodation. How many are there in Ballymena? Zero. In fact, there are zero registered asylum seekers in the entire Mid and East Antrim local government area."

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Quick - call Reform's new DOGE team to investigate this shocking waste of council money by... er... Reform councillors standing down straight after being elected.

Starmer visits Scotland. Staged photo opp.
Hides from the public.

Farage visits Scotland.
Staged Photo Opp.
Hides from journalists and the public,

Why, why, WHY THE ABSOLUTE FŲÇK would any Scot vote for either of these wankers or their English parties?

Of course without this type of politician, The British electorate would be blissfully unaware of the perpetrator's background & political persuasions.

'What Time Is Love? (Live At Trancentral)' by The KLF Featuring The Children Of The Revolution, released by KLF Communications in 1990.

This and Oh L'Amour are my favourites

Why the UK is a two-tier society where money wields power Laws and policies are crafted to give the appearance of sternness and fairness, but are rarely fully enforced on corporations and the rich.

UK benefit fraud prosecutions are 23 times more than for tax offences. Tax fraud up to nine times higher than benefit fraud.

Laws against the rich are not always enforced.

Govt taking powers to snoop on bank accounts of benefit claimants. Same won't apply to tax abusers, scammers.

It is class war

"FREE MO CHARA.
FREE FREE MO CHARA"

Great point 👇

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. 

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Nigel Farage said he’d ‘bought a house’ in Clacton – it’s actually owned by his girlfriend Reform UK leader said he’d ‘exchanged contracts’ to buy property last November, but it’s in name of Laure Ferrari

This will probably come as no surprise to anyone but..

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Committee of MPs urge Starmer to pause disability benefit cuts amid poverty fears.

16m Britons live in poverty. Govt estimates that disability benefit cuts will increase that by 250,000.

Full impact assessment not produced.

50 families have more wealth than 50% of the population combined.

Celtic Treble winners.... 😁
#CelticFC

"I'm sure if Rangersb(sic!) were in that position they would have won a Treble in that time - and probably two or three." Hun Neanderthal John Brown (2015)

😜

Adding one more treble to the records tomorrow I hope, just to annoy him! 😎