Ned Stark

That’s when we know the government are the terrorists. We have a problem.

It’s not really taking off here as I had hoped. I’d hoped to have been X free by now but…

Full monthly state pension for post-2016 UK retiree is £997.75. Only 27% receive it.

Elsewhere:
Luxembourg £5,426
Norway £1,839
Switzerland £1,657
Denmark £1,486
Sweden £1,373
Belgium £1,338
Netherlands £1,322
France £1,254
Spain £1,238

UK GDP spend on pension is less than OECD average.

Chris Hedges: American Concentration Camps El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT, to which U.S. deportees are being sent, is the harbinger of more to come. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost The U.S. offshore concentration cam...

Chris Hedges: American Concentration Camps consortiumnews.com/2025/04/17/c...

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen Trump makes BOMBSHELL news in Oval Office, grabs GLOBAL headlines

Trump is disappearing US citizens, he is going against a Supreme Courts ruling, hosting the President of El Salvador, (a dictator) in the Oval Office, openly mocking the American public, outright lying on camera, this is where US democracy and law and order go to die

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Gen Z and young millennials battling ‘negative wealth’ as debt burden grows Young people whose debts outweigh their assets are at risk of experiencing blighted earnings, and even poorer health

Gen Z, young millennials battling “negative wealth”, debt burdens that limit their life chances.

Real wage cuts, corporate profiteering; frozen income tax thresholds, high housing, energy, water, grocery prices, take their toll.

What future?

Millions condemned to misery by political choices.

YouTube video by Associated Press LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor

A Black man just beat the record for the longest filibuster, defeating the record previously held by a man who filibustered the literal Civil Rights Act.

As the time ticked over, Cory Booker announced he did it not out of hatred for who he opposed, but out of love for those who supported him.

And every time Trump does something that MAY affect the U.K. there’s this expectation that U.K. should capitulate before we even know what the reality is. It’s like Trump is dictating world trade policy.

It’s reductive. A way to just frame things & then not talk about the nuances. Fascist 💩

The new religion.

My favourite so far is fascist bullshit Barbie Karoline Leavitt.

Like a trained pony.

The fact that a reporter was inadvertently given access to this in real time shows that Pete Hegseth & the rest of this crew are bumbling incompetents who are going to get a lot of intelligence officials and others killed at some point. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Hypocrisy

which seems an easy first step to stopping the fascist rot.

Prem Sikka: A boost in the minimum wage is welcome, but more must be done to improve people’s material conditions 'Despite the increase, the minimum wage will still be comparatively low, and millions will live below the minimum acceptable standard of living.'

From 1st April, UK minimum wage will be £12.21 an hour. Some neoliberals object.

Gains already lost to price rises.

An over-21 worker will get £22,222 in a year. £19,519 after tax and NIC. Millions will remain in poverty.

Median pay for FTSE 100 CEO £4.22m.

Need equitable distribution of income.

Black background with white bold text “REALITY CHECK Democracy DIED. FASCISM IS HERE. The ONLY solution is REVOLUTION.”

Hopefully we’re all on the same page by now..

Quietly Creating Freedom: Private Communities and Special Economic Zones | Professor Tom Bell For the last several centuries, nation-states have dominated the political landscape, and set all the rules for everyone inside them.

SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES
In a Special Economic Zone (SEZ), a government creates exceptions to its own rules — a select haven from the status quo that prevails elsewhere in the national territory.
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ISDS allows corporations to sue governments for billions of dollars when a corporation believes its rights to pollute the environment, introduce modern-day slavery, commit serious fraud, evade tax have been 'infringed' upon.

The World Bank set up Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) in 1966, it is a secretive corporate justice court that has the ability to bypass the domestic courts of countries.

We live in the upside down where bad government does bad things to its people. People then argue amongst themselves over who is to blame for this or that.

Never ever realising they are being continuously attacked by a bunch of conmen dressed up as respectable politicians. The mask is off now.

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

If you listened to Nick Ferrari’s show on LBC you’d be forgiven for thinking the U.K. was The Daily Mail in thinking & values. Then there’s the BBC/Sky it’s just a hideous distortion of the truth.

It looks like enough believe it or so nothing about it to make it stop in the U.K.

1m people to have disability benefits cut by Labour Rachel Reeves vows to ‘get a grip’ on the burgeoning welfare bill but cabinet ministers express disquiet over £5 billion savings

1m people to have disability benefits cut by UK Labour govt.

This is wrong. There are numerous alternatives. But Chancellor refuses to inconvenience the rich.

Doesn't address causes - lack of healthcare, poverty, poor housing.

Must lead to rebellion in parliament.
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Lords watchdog investigates Richard Dannatt after Guardian revelations Peer and former head of army offered to secure meetings with ministers for potential commercial client

Now do Hilary Cass.

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

Here’s how Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement must offer hope 'The government needs to recalibrate policies'

Regressive National Insurance (NI).

UK employees pay 8% NI on incomes between £12,570 & £50,270.

2% above that.

Rich pay a lower proportion of income in NI.

Govt can charge higher rates in incomes above £100k, £150k, etc. Collect £bns.

No need for austerity. Tax the rich.

And this is just one of them that we know something about. What’s the collective take by the whole of Westminster?

What’s the net gain for the people of the UK? What’s the net gain for greedy grasping entitled fucks like his lordship with his snout in the trough?

Philip Hammond has made millions from 30 roles while member of Lords Former chancellor’s roles since becoming a peer in 2020 include working for Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait

This is normal.

The fact it’s normal is the problem.

But unless systematically prevented, it will remain normal.

The spice must flow.