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Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company

Good to see Reform voters beginning to understand what they voted for although TBH if they weren't all thick as pig shit they'd have checked that OUT BEFORE they voted.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This bunch fill me with almost as much dread as the Faragistas

shore do

Aye & calling 'foul' now....after over a year (at the very least)after they understood their legacy from successive ideologically neo-liberal Tory governments just makes it sound like it's an excuse for their own failings...useless, corrupt, profoundly dangerous to the democratic future of the UK

A Timeline of Corruption - Defend Our Juries A timeline of corruption 1954 April 2019 May 2019 June 2019 July 2019 July 2020 November 2020 January 2022 January 2022 April 2022 November 2022 November 2022 2022 2023 November 2023 May 2024 July 202...

Your Rights being quietly eroded whilst way is paved for a populist government. Legislation never wildly authoritarian; more of a step by step by step sort of a thing.
Incremental but relentless.
You have to assume Labour know what they're doing.......
defendourjuries.net/free-politic...

Israel top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse Rightwing politicians and pundits have called the soldiers accused of attack on Palestinian detainee ‘heroes’ and military investigators traitors

more grist to the war crimes mill surfaces from the roiling cesspit of a genocidal Israeli regime as it begins to turn on itself.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

West Midlands: Women afraid to be out in public after racially aggravated rapes Asian women speak of their safety fears after incidents in Oldbury and Walsall.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A direct result of Farage Brexit

A direct result of Farage Racism

A Direct result of Theresa May “Hostile Environment”

A Direct result of the Farage Boats

A direct result of Starmer aping Reform

A Direct result of the Flag Shaggers

Although could never agree with his right of centre sensibilities, can’t deny he was one of the very few Tories with a shred of integrity.

So, of course they got rid of him.

cheerio

Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Bill Maher she believes extraterrestrials are demons Georgia Republican lawmaker also claims she didn’t know Rothschild family, of her ‘space laser’ theory, was Jewish

Just to be ABSOLUTELY clear this total 'heid-the-baw' is an actual US Congresswoman....America is doomed.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What's to consider.......is 20% enough?

Andrew in line for six-figure payout and annual stipend from king, sources say The former prince remains under scrutiny as Buckingham Palace finalises plans for his future as a commoner

That'll. teach the wee bugger!!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Anybody not wearing a poppy by the end of next week will be deported.

‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Head of UK government’s anti-Islamophobia partner ‘refused service in shop for being Muslim’ Akeela Ahmed, of British Muslim Trust, says experience is part of a wider rise in anti-Muslim hatred

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YouTube video by Middle East Eye Ireland’s president-elect defends Palestine’s sovereignty

Just in passing this is what an elected Head of State can look like
www.youtube.com/shorts/lHzcD...

TBF to him it's not just Labour MPs who are unsure what the difference is these days

I lasted 3 minutes. I had to stop the vid....otherwise I was going to harm my PC.

TBF that really is a punishment these days.

Friday caption competition......

Thousands to defy UK ban on Palestine Action in ‘historic’ mass civil disobedience Protests to take place in 18 towns and cities across the UK, while prisoners linked to Palestine Action prepare to launch hunger strike

#palestine

Oh I think that message was received loud & clear some decades back Maria....in the Middle East & South America in particular the overthrow of inconvenient democratically elected leaders is undeniable. The slaughter of innocents....just a price we are prepared to pay

FFS
Welcome to the New Feudalism!
Jobs for life for you your children & your children's children (that's one way of putting it)....in exchange for what?
Basic accomodation (f.o.c.), water, heat, light, essential food limited access to a company GP & a 'curated' education.
Where do I sign?

Timeline of a Genocide - Defend Our Juries

When you see the costs of 'the Israel Experiment' laid out in terms of deaths to the displaced palestinian people (AKA the indigenous population) it's clear & harrowing testament to the failure of the last sorry & shameful experiment in European colonisation.
defendourjuries.net/timeline-of-...

Never intended in any way as a sleight on 'you' personally more of a go at those within Labour who are responsible for their disastrous performance & policies...they are simply acting as Farage's handmaidens!

YouTube video by MatigolVidz Diego Maradona Could Do Everything With a Football (Rare Freestyle)

immortal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjmU...

so either the concept of standing for what you believe in...is a non-starter ...or they agree with Farage.....I have to say I'm tending towards the latter.

Lift The Ban Thousands of people have been arrested for opposing the government’s absurd ban on Palestine Action and for standing against UK complicity in genocide. In November, the campaign will take action all a...

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this is why you need a border collie!!

So what is it exactly about what you are saying that strikes Labour as being so wrong that they can't come out publicly & say it too??..I can only assume that they either think we're all bigots, or they agree with Farage themselves