Paul Stevens 🥀💚

“The UK government doesn’t need to ‘borrow’ in any conventional sense. Spending by the government is an act of money creation … Gilts are not a necessity but a political choice.”

new-wayland.com/blog/euthani...

What could Starmer’s Labour possibly impose that could change the UK for the better? He, and it, are all about “growth” (whatever that is), through Thatcherite economics: cuts, “balancing the books”, “living within our means”. We know that ain’t gonna work 😏

So this is what immigrants refusing to integrate into society looks like.

So this is what immigrants refusing to integrate into society looks like.

Why do the Spanish put up with such idiocy?

Government shutdown threatens to delay home heating aid for millions of low-income families Millions of low-income families may face delays in receiving home heating aid due to the ongoing federal government shutdown

You will freeze, you will starve, and they will have lavish parties in Trump’s ballroom. Trump despises you. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/government-shutdown-threatens-delay-home-heating-aid-millions-127104760

No smoking 🚭

Hahaha!

Reform: a party run by public school-educated millionaires, for public school-educated millionaires.

Tl;dr, not a public school-educated millionaire? Don’t vote Reform.

Reform: a party run by public school-educated millionaires, for public school-educated millionaires.

It’s ridiculous. And a political/ideological choice, not an economic/financial one.

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Tell your MP to strip Andrew of his dukedom More than five years after Prince Andrew defended his friendship with the convicted paedophile Jeffery Epstein on national TV, there are still questions over whether he took part in the abuse of young women. The prince has denied allegations in Virginia...

Prince Andrew stepped back from public life after defending his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Now he says he’ll stop calling himself the Duke of York - but it shouldn’t be up to him.

Tell your MP to strip him of his title. It only takes two minutes. ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/9155af

Couldn’t happen to a nicer chap.

“…the British press’s most unhinged fanzine dedicated to privilege and power” is winning at wordsmithery. Chapeau! 👏 👏 👏

Mike Graham tried to troll me once by pointing out to his numbskull acolytes that I use a pen name.

It was all going so well... until I pointed out that his real name is Archibald.

Hilarity ensued.

MMT doesn’t view government spending as “unlimited”.

Because right wing economics and authoritarianism can’t be seen to fail?

Edi Rama gets it. bsky.app/profile/grah...

Visiting PM says UK paying price for Brexit with dig at Nigel Farage 'theatrics' Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama referenced 'Brexit boats' and said leaving the EU had made Britons more depressed as he took a veiled swipe at Nigel Farage

“You left Europe because you wanted less boats, and you have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment. You left Europe because you wanted more happiness. Now you are depressed." Albanian PM
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

That’s the long game, yes.

That’s the bigger picture and one of the real rationales behind it. The “Britain’s full” narrative is just a Trojan horse.

The government still insists tax funds government spending – and it doesn’t There was a fundamental flaw in the first line of the Executive Summary of HM Revenue & Customs' Transformation Roadmap, published, like many other government documents, just before the summer recess ...

It is. Especially when one considers that taxes aren’t a “contribution” to anything.

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07...

Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR

This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"

NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt

No govt since Idi Amin has done this

Reform voters won’t like what they get if they get what they think they want.

It would be helpful if the Labour Party changed direction. Back to the Labour Party. But it isn’t going to. Few socialists remain. None in senior positions. It’s now neoliberal. It’s a lost cause.

And so it begins.

Surprised it took him so long.

I do feel sorry for the staff. But the bigger picture is that gambling does more harm than good, and our high streets - as well as our country - would be better off without it.