Jon S

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

While I am at it Ed Davie wind your in. Your party bedded yourself with the Tories and here we are. A shit show.

BBC is now officially a mouth piece for reform. Just remove it. It is an extension of GB news. Appalling.

Major report paints bleak picture of Brexit impact on Wales Martin Shipton Brexit has created barriers for business that have resulted in higher prices, with the impact on Wales worse than in the rest of the UK, according to a review of our first four years ou...

New Senedd report:
📉 Exports to the EU down 31%
💷 Businesses facing spiralling costs and red tape
🇪🇺 Wales sidelined in UK–EU talks
It's time for all politicians in Wales to help reverse this mess, to make our economy stronger and households better off. 👇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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This guy is such a scumbag.

Do not buy Dyson products.

Treaties like the ECHR protect everyone in the UK, not just migrants These commitments have cemented the UK at the heart of the rules-based international order.

"Reform has touted its plan as a “legal reset”. But it is better understood as a total rejection of the UK’s postwar international commitments to protect the human rights of everyone within its jurisdiction."

This is exactly the kind of despicable scaremongering that Aseem Malhotra has made his modus operandi. Insinuations, hearsay, anti-vaxx, non-evidence-based, lurid, self-enriching, anti-scientific claptrap. Of course Reform UK lapped it up. 1/4

Forget Orwell’s ‘Two Minute Hate’ – the immigration debate shows real loathing | John Crace Since the summer recess the public discourse, stirred by Nigel Farage’s weekly press conferences, has altered radically

Worth a read. It’s correct

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Rightwingers warn of another blaze of summer riots in Britain – but they’re the ones striking the match | John Harris Grim predictions of ‘societal collapse’ and ‘civil war’ will hit home so long as Labour fails to address the country’s problems, says Guardian columnist John Harris

“The spectacle of politicians knowingly peddling inflammatory narratives is nauseating – and… they are starting to look like desperate people throwing matches on kindling that refuses to ignite. That is a remarkable way for self-styled patriots to behave”

Indeed.
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Here’s the truth about Britain’s immigration hysteria: Starmer and co have whipped it up to get cheap votes | Nesrine Malik He is part of a political establishment that is fuelling a crisis way beyond the point that they can ever be seen to solve it. It’s a cynical, idiotic doom loop, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Every word of this.

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Which tax rises could Rachel Reeves introduce to pay for the £5bn welfare U-turn? Labour’s pledge not to raise taxes on ‘working people’ leaves the chancellor with a limited number of workable options to fill the £5bn hole in the public finances left by this week’s welfare climbdow...

"Which tax rises could Rachel Reeves introduce to pay for the £5bn welfare U-turn?"

Silly headline, blames the poor for tax rises

Silence on corporate welfare, bailouts, inequitable distribution of income/wealth; profiteering pushing people into poverty; political system that marginalises the poor

No f-ing chance Rod. Get a grip.

Children in England’s most deprived areas ‘less likely to achieve development goals by age five’ Unicef UK found they were over twice as far from the target of 75% of pre-schoolers reaching ‘good level of development’

Children in the most deprived areas of England less likely to achieve good developmental goals by the age of five, says Unicef.

Poverty, austerity, real wage/benefit cuts, profiteering, regressive taxes take toll.

Futures blighted by political choices in one of the wealthiest countries.

This is excellent news.

We all need to be more like Harvard

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.

The UK is in decline where money wields power.

Normal people toil and are just voting fodder.

Laws and policies are crafted to give the appearance of sternness and fairness, but are rarely fully enforced on corporations and the rich.

Must end political corruption

Just plan wrong

Trump’s assault on higher education in the states, as exemplified by banning international students from from Harvard, is appalling and sickening. Total madness. His budget is as bad. The Maga are oblivious to the shitstorm that is coming.

Inflation figures were entirely predictable when the ‘regulators’ let energy and water companies price gouge. For example, the standing charge my dead father’s house is 59p per day. The company is doing nothing, empty house, dead dad. Add in food costs and bang…

For gods sake Labour bin brexit. It’s shit awful. There are no gains. Ask Farage what we have won. He has no answer.

Labour tracking right to appeal to reform voters is not going to work. These people are lost. Starmer will now lose the remaining Labour voters in the centre, centre left (the left went yonks ago). He’s about to find out that he can’t out reform reform.

UK is not ‘a charity’, aid minister will tell MPs as she considers cuts Development reductions include possible axing of support for education and gender programmes

Depressing to see this sort of language being briefed out. Deliberately ignorant and unedifying.

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They found ourselves made strangers in their own country. Enoch Powell. We risk becoming an island of strangers. Keir Starmer.

Starmer's Britain.

Not even subtle.

Nigel Farage’s economic plans are a disaster Three choices: fiscal implosion, deep austerity or a hasty U-turn

It will probably come as no surprise to anyone to hear that Reform UK’s policies add up to an agenda of fiscal recklessness that rivals, and may well exceed, the disastrous 49-day, hair-raising, market-tanking premiership of Liz Truss in 2022

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‘Further & Faster’
Cutting services for patients

This is not what people voted for when they voted for Labour

But somehow Labour is Tory 2.0

Austerity in the NHS / Welfare leads to a poorer economy as more people unable to work

@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social

Waiting times in UK reflect the poor investment in healthcare

Metro Bank faces backlash over £60m share bonanza for bosses The proxy adviser ISS has urged investors in Metro Bank to oppose a new share award plan which could deliver up to £60m to senior executives over five years, Sky News learns.

Metro Bank plans £60m bonus for bosses, irrespective on performance.

Ultimately paid by high charges to customers, staff/wage cuts, branch closures.

Govt removed cap on bankers' bonus.

Govts tells workers wage rises are inflationary but silence on exec remuneration, dividends, share buybacks.

Reform voter replies:

1. Most don’t know the difference between a local vs GE or how the basics of how our voting system works

2. Some don’t know what adult social care is…

3. Many cheered job loss threats (councillors can’t fire people)

4. Endless conspiracy, ask for evidence, nothing

MAGA UK

We earn £100k but can no longer afford private school – there’s £1.68 in the bank On paper, my husband and I have it all: two well-paid jobs, our own home and two of our three kids at private school but at the end of each month we’re scrounging

Well this individual lacks self awareness. All those lifestyle choices levied at someone who really is poor apply here. Thank goodness she can now pay the cleaner.

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