Stuart Leeks

*signs up to become a police officer*
“I’m going to protect people and keep them safe!”

BOSS: I need you to arrest those protestors who want us to stop selling death bombs that are used to kill babies.

Brexit dividend: our swimming waters are MUCH more polluted than any EU country's because we no longer have to follow EU environmental law since Brexit so water companies can get away with just about anything.

(Just one of many pesky EU rules Brexiters hated.)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Another day, another attack on immigrants. Not by the mobs swilling outside of asylum hotels, but by the Prime Minister.

Britain. Lovely place.

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"What Britain looks like after Brexit" A piece by Daniel Hannan which is the least accurate thing anyone has ever written about Brexit. (This was the title graphic to it.)

It's here! It's finally here! It's Daniel Hannan Day!

The future he promised everyone a mere 2 days before the Brexit referendum is so exciting, I think my heart may burst with joy when I step outside and experience it for myself.

(Read it. You deserve a laugh.)

www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...

Younger Britons mostly back left-wing parties, while older Britons largely vote for parties on the right

18-24 year olds
Labour: 33%
Green: 26%
Lib Dem: 16%
Reform: 11%
Conservative: 7%

70+ year olds
Reform: 35%
Conservative: 33%
Lib Dem: 14%
Labour: 11%
Green: 4%

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

TODAY: Mysterious Brewing turns 2 — and we’re throwing their bday bash at ours! 🙌

We’re pouring 13 kegs + 3 casks of their finest, with live music in the marquees from 3–9pm, a Mexican street food pop-up in the beer garden, & all the good vibes you’d expect at The Nag’s. 🪅

Yet more evidence that party funding rules desperately need reform.

British politics is painfully open to capture by wealthy vested interests.

And to the oil magnates, tech-bros and right-wing ideologues emboldened by Trump, the sums needed to capture UK parties are not even loose change.

“Scandalous” doesn’t even come close. Bring them into public ownership *now* @weownit.org.uk

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. The Thames Water Effect 1990 No debt Public service No dividends Fair bills 2025 £19bn in debt Private profits £7bn paid out Bills up 47% Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Thames Water's £3 billion loan will include £898 million in consultancy fees and interest payments.

And they plan on forcing customers to pay for it.

We can't keep rewarding them for failure. Public ownership of our water is the only option.

Starmer urged to introduce wealth tax instead of cutting disability benefits – UK politics live Diane Abbott says a wealth tax of 2% on people with assets over £10m would raise £24bn a year

It's encouraging that a growing number of MPs are waking up to reality. Not only would cutting welfare support for our most vulnerable people be cruel and indefensible, there is a clear alternative: a wealth tax. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Stand with science. Always.

Voting intention: Lab 24%, Ref 25%, Con 21% (2-3 Feb 2025) | YouGov Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention figures

If Keir Starmer is worried about Reform 👇 he should introduce these policies to be truly patriotic:

Bring water, energy, Royal Mail, rail rolling stock into public ownership 💧💡📮🚄
Stop privatising the NHS 🏥
Fund public services, reverse austerity

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Absolutely disgraceful

In the decade after privatisation Thames Water SOLD OR CLOSED at least 45 sewage treatment works

Today *at least half* of its sewage plants lack the pipes and tanks to process enough waste water

PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW

www.ft.com/content/21ec...

Even the most stupid person should now know that Farage is not in anyway behind working people- and he actually never has been.

He is a multimillionaire, with his multimillionaire friends at reform don’t even give a toss about working people. Wake the hell up.

A bit of good news: NHS England hospital waiting list falls for 4th month in row. The lowest figures since April 2023. Considering the “quademic” and winter months, this is an achievement for both the NHS and Labour government.

So it’ll obviously be all over the news, right?

The media seem so determined to ignore the Ed Davey > Nigel Farage view of the public

(As if all politics is in the 24% vs the 14% within the right)

Trump says US is 'committed to buying and owning Gaza' There has been global condemnation of his plan to take over the strip and move its Palestinians out.

I've had more than long enough to read this and say this is absolutely unacceptable - and stand firmly against the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

Where's Keir Starmer & David Lammy?

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Elon Musk tweet: We spent the wekend feeding USAID

Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?

Wanted: those prepared to ignore the evidence of their own eyes.

Meanwhile in the UK, in the latest @yougov.co.uk poll only 11% regard Brexit as a success, while even a third of Leave voters and 62% of the overall population regard Brexit as a failure:

Goodwin spreading misinformation over on the other place again.

Same old debunked rubbish.

Foreign born & British nationals are presented here as two different groups.
Obviously they are not. I am a foreign born British national. So is Boris Johnson.

But it makes a nice dog whistle.

It started with conspiracy and propaganda then evolved into dehumanisation - spreading distrust, fear and disgust about the target. The powerless were given a group to blame, the illusion of power. The techniques used now are the same. It’ll only happen again if people let it.

Sadly, they are…

At least this time round we have memes

UK is among world's most work-shy nations, claims Brewdog founder James Watt speaks out after facing online backlash for saying employees do not need a 'work-life balance'

Craft beer giant Brewdog abandons real living wage for employees

I wonder if this view he has has anything to do with the fact that his business abandoned paying employees an actual living wage during a cost of living crisis?

Could it be that what he considers “work shy” is just a refusal to be exploited?

This is what actual assaults on freedom of speech look like.

What exactly are they going to cut?

Hospitals are falling to bits, prisons are overcrowded, probation is fucked, courts are backed up years, schools are falling to pieces, social care is imploding and the armed forces are “wide open to Russian attack”

Where will this ruthlessness fall?

Starmer claims AI could led to ‘golden age of public service reform’, even making services ‘feel more human’ – UK politics live Government publishes AI opportunities action plan amid backdrop of economic uncertainty in UK

“Starmer claims AI could led to ‘golden age of public service reform’, even making services ‘feel more human’“

Do you know how to make services feel more human? Have them designed and run BY humans FOR humans.

www.gov.uk/service-manu...

LA wildfire damages set to cost record $135bn Some of the most expensive properties in the US have been wiped out by the fires.

If you think slowing or stopping #climate change is too expensive, you have it backwards.
Failing to slow or stop #climatechange is what's expensive.
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