Craig Horrocks

The Western media is bending over BACKWARDS as a propaganda machine for this war.

Big money has bought British politics

75% of Reform’s money has come from three rich white men

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

How democratic is the UK? The UK has a crisis of democracy

Did you vote for this?

Wages taxed at marginal rates of 20%-45% + NIC.

Dividends taxed at rates of 8.75% to 39.35%. No NIC.

Capital gains at rates 18% to 32%. No NIC.

Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.

Democracy and social justice... whose?

As I said, assumptions

We'll have to agree to disagree - the economic assumptions we are working to are incompatible.

Real increase in activity is the result. Capital flight is a bogeyman, that would damage any economic system. However, if real resources are seen to be Labour, natural resources, physical assets, organisation and knowledge/skills, capital flight is difficult to comprehend.

Detailed economic discussion is tricky on bluesky

Higher welfare is not ultimately intended to be a permanent state of affairs. The principle of full employment regenerates infrastructure, allows effective redistribution of wealth and lubricates the economy. This should, as it has in various places in the past, reduce borrowing requirements

No. Nor does the Green Party

OK. J M Keynes would like a word, though

The first three points are largely uncontroversial. MMT is not party policy, but does offer an interesting method of analysis. Nor is unlimited borrowing. So not relevant. Nor necessarily is the IFS, which is driven by its own uncredible economic analysis

What rules is that funding gap premised upon? These rules are inevitably arbritary. Spending now to save later is not a radical notion - even if reliant on borrowing

“I think it’s pretty worrying that we’ve allowed ourselves to become so reliant on American interests, and that a lot of this depends on if Donald Trump is in a good mood or not.”

He added: “We should be reviewing US bases on UK soil, and actually looking at a genuine strategic defence review.”

Evidence of where he has stated anything as policy which isn't party policy?

We won from 4th place in N Herefordshire and 3rd in G&D!

Dear Prime Minister, In recent days we have seen a deeply concerning escalation in conflict in the Middle East following a series of illegal and dangerously irresponsible airstrikes on Iran by the United States and Israel. You have now confirmed that UK bases will be used by the US for their operations in the area. This is a significant concession to President Donald Trump and one which risks drawing the UK into a dangerous conflict. During your campaign to be elected leader of the Labour Party, you spoke compellingly about learning the lessons of the Iraq war. In particular, you set out legislation you would pass as Prime Minister, ensuring that military action is only taken if: • The lawful case for it is made • There is a viable objective • Consent is given by the House of Commons. We agree that such legislation is needed to prevent the UK from being dragged into destructive, illegal and dangerous wars abroad, and so we have today tabled the Armed Conflict (Requirements) Bill. The Bill requires that 1. Before armed forces may be deployed for armed conflict, a Minister of the Crown must publish a statement setting out the reasons for the deployment, an assessment of its compliance with international law, the objective of the deployment and an assessment of the viability of that objective, and 2. Any such deployment must be approved in advance by a resolution of the House of Commons

I invite your support to pass this bill. In an increasingly unstable world, it is more important than ever that decisions about the UK’s involvement in military action abroad are taken carefully, soberly, and with the best interests of the British people at heart. We believe this piece of legislation would ensure that. Yours sincerely, Dr Ellie Chowns MP

Today I tabled a bill which would require any UK military intervention to have a lawful basis, viable objective, and approval by MPs - legislation the PM once said he himself would pass when he was running for Labour leader.

He supported it then, and he should support it now.

They thought Iran would fight back! They thought the conflict would spread! They thought that the rich world would support them, when they did it... Fascists thrive in chaos

And where one leader has complete control of party policy and the other gets a single vote in a democratically decided policy process

Empty promises? What are you basing that on? The Green Policy platform has been worked up on the back of a lot of expertise from within and beyond the party. And the leader does not set policy - so whether he is a populist or not is largely irrelevant. As to forming the next government.....

3 nationals polls published since the Gorton and Denton by-election. All good news for Greens:

YouGov: 21% (+4 and highest ever, 2nd place just behind Reform)
Freshwater Strategy: 15% (+1 and highest ever)
More in Common: 14% (+3 highest ever).

Greens polling average is close to 15% and rising.

MMT is not Green Party policy. In any case, it is an analytical tool, it doesn't intrinsically direct specific policies.

Prem, can you just once write something that isn't incredibly sensible and which I agree with wholeheartedly? I'm too old to be a fan boy!

Being better than the worst government in recent memory and not being Reform has been Labour's entire positioning. Many communities are saying they've failed on both counts

There was a joke doing the rounds a while back - "A Chinese student says to an American 'I want to come to the US to study how you do propaganda so well'. The American replies 'we don't do propaganda'. 'That's what I mean!' answers the student"
A Brit could easily substitute for the American!

I've used Linux as my home system for 25 years. My work makes me use Win 11 - and I really don't know what the point of it is. Sounds like the rationale for Win 12 will be even less fathomable

Susanna Reid: "59% of Brits.. say they don't expect the cost of living crisis to ever end"

Ed Balls: "On the basis of these forecasts, this is the second worst parliament for livings standards since the second world war.. and the only one worse was the last one"

The govt must do more than express concern over the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements and settler violence in the West Bank - they must take action.

Ban trade with illegal settlements and impose new sanctions on Netanyahu and all responsible for this violence.

Rachel Reeves and her chanting Labour backbenchers acknowledged Brexit was wrong during today's #SpringForecast.

Glad to see the govt finally recognising what Greens have said all along: Britain is stronger as part of the EU. It's time to kickstart talks to re-join.

Greens close gap with Labour in polls after historic by-election win The Labour Party remained ahead of the Green Party by just three points as the hard-left insurgents celebrate their recent victory

The YouGov poll (Greens on 21% second only to Reform and 5 points clear of Labour) is rightly making headlines. But Freshwater Strategy poll also has Greens on highest ever polling www.cityam.com/greens-close...

The Chancellor had a lot to say to me about Greens today, but still could not admit that Labour is leaving over 200,000 children to suffer by keeping the overall benefit cap in place.