Boris Long

Honest to God, who cares?
Labour lost the next election 3 years ago, when they got into bed with big business. Anything else is just drama.

A bit like Brexit really? Everything will be fine, until it isn't.
The problem was never really trade agreements, which increased wealth and GDP.
It's always been that workers get cut out of the benefits of said growth and wealth.

Economics.
The world is going to sh*t because the rich are taking everything, money, shelter, land, energy, food and water.
Maybe time to elect better politicians eh?

Robbie Gibb should have been ruled out of the running for the BBC Board in 2021: it was clear he'd been closely involved in setting up GB News - an ideological project aiming to rival to the BBC, & therefore a clear conflict of interest. The fact he was still allowed to join always rang alarm bells.

Yes? Because democracy over algorithms worked. The whole kerfuffle over benefits, do you know about this?

I saw a thing on QI. I hope I'm remembering this correctly?
Replacements of CEOs only resulted in increased profits in less than 3% of changes?

Tycoon who donated £1m to Brexit campaigns considers moving to Australia for good Lord Edmiston said thoughts of moving to Australia was motivated by reasons including family and a warmer climate

Living proof that brains and wealth are not inextricably linked… www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

According to my work that implies we are in recession along with the collapsed cons sentiment data

What really fills me with dread is that every instance of this isn't met immediately by an armed crowd chasing off the secret police. For every video of ICE/CBP being confronted, there are more where bystanders just evaporate. That has to change.

Rupert Murdoch who has basically been in control of the UK for 46 years, since he got Margaret Thatcher into power.

Tells you that actually he is doing a good job and the Green Party is bad.

Poor old Rupert is scared he will lose control.

I was the youngest member of staff at my job. The conversation at a meeting, (for a work related reason) turned to shoplifting when young, every one of them had knicked stuff.
I'd never taken so much as a penny chew, I was too shocked by the casual criminality of my superiors to express my disgust.

Joke’s on everyone who said liberal arts degrees don’t prepare you for the real world - my studies in rise of the Third Reich now doubles as a survival guide.

TBF, I'd rather 90% women to 10% men. Blokes are pants.

Carla outside Parliament on a sunny day, using both hands to press a comically large red button that says "push for an equal Parliament"

At the 2024 General Election, 263 women were elected, and 387 men.

Equality would be a @5050parliament.bsky.social.

It took some support and encouragement for me to stand for election, so when I meet an impressive woman I often #AskHerToStand

Join me: 5050parliament.co.uk/ask-her-to-s...

The Autumn Budget should declare an Australia-style ‘war on bills’, says the progressive IPPR think tank today.

The major fiscal event must put the cost of living at heart of government’s agenda, moving beyond the ‘black hole’ IPPR argues, saying food & energy prices should be top priorities.

Police seized a Tesla Cybertruck being driven illegally in the UK Tesla's Cybertruck is not permitted on British roads and police said there were "legitimate concerns" for the safety of other road users.

Hard to believe that some nob tried to import a CyberYuck to the UK earlier this year.

"..legitimate concerns exist around the safety of other road users or pedestrians if they were involved in a collision with a Cybertruck," police said."

#TeslaTakedown

www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cybert...

A concerning negative response given recent reports. Will be looking into this further

questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

What if the truth finally broke through Trump’s bubble — on Fox News of all places? During a rally, Trump bragged that prices were “down significantly.” Seconds later, Fox aired a chart showing the opposite: coffee up nearly 19%, utilities up 12%, electricity up 5%, and vehicle repairs up 11%.

Reform Council To Double Tax On Second Homes Despite Nigel Farage Calling The Idea 'Madness' A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madne...

Another case of Reform saying one thing then doing the other:

A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madness” and “extortion”

By me, for Politics Home www.politicshome.com/news/article...

We no longer have a choice, it's death or democracy, as demonstrated by austerity.

We were close at one time.

Any discussion of the problems facing present day education should begin with Warnock-Thatcher-Major. Gove just twisted the knife.

Daisy Cooper, "If we're going to have an honest conversation about tax, let's also have an honest conversation about growth"

"Brexit has been a disaster for this country"

"Brexit has wrapped up small businesses in red tape"

"For growth.. A UK-EU Customs Union"

Ban a Pro-Palestinian Group? The U.K. Government Thought Few Would Care.

Ban a Pro-Palestinian Group? The U.K. Government Thought Few Would Care.

Official advice provided to the government before its ban on Palestine Action underestimated the significant public protests that followed, records show.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...

You really understand that we are not living in a democracy when this stuff is going on.
Algorithms brought down the government of the Netherlands, in the UK they just grease the wheels of authoritarianism.

Daisy Cooper, "We would scrap the two child benefit cap"

"It is wrong to penalise children who grow up in poverty"

"And secondly, it's better for the taxpayer in the long term"

How Palantir infiltrated the state At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company

In an interview about Palantir's creeping involvement in the British state and the NHS, I told @prospectmagazine.co.uk: “Its business is death and destruction. This is not an organisation you want running the democratic jewel of the postwar period.”

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...

I'm afraid they weren't informed. The present government understood this, which is why they originally supported restoration.
It literally applies to one cohort of women only. After them, it became more widely known. The point is they had no time to sort this out.

Over the years social housing stock has been sold, real wages cut, profiteering unchecked, local council funding cut.

Liverpool has 12,764 households on its social housing waiting list. It has just five "additional social rent dwellings".

What is the govt doing?

Watch the Minister's reply.