Garrie Coleman

Headline Desperate and deluded from the front of the daily mail in response to the Govt’s decision not to look or sound as through the UK is actively involved in offensive military operations against Iran.

Proved through ever-diminishing participation in plastic poppy season, Remembrance Day, Armed Forces Day and the army’s perpetually dire recruitment and retention problem, sadly for these Daily Fail, the war fetishism element of faux-patriotism is the reserve of a tiny minority.

Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won’t be able to do anything else at all | Shabana Mahmood Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don’t want extremes – they want a system that is managed and fair, says home secretary Shabana Mahmood

I agree with the Home Sec that Labour values include fairness, tolerance (inclusion), and patriotism.

But these values don’t mean we should threaten to forcibly remove refugees who have lived here lawfully for 15 or 20 years. That breeds fractured communities.

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I’d be just as content seeing my team, now sitting on top of EFL, win every week here next season as I would be watching them getting hammered every week in the EPL.

Cov City fans only now just coming through our 20-year long new stadium curse. Spurs fans’ll be hoping there’s will be nowhere near as long. #thfc #pusb

It’s what your party stands for now, Stella.

Cruelty to immigrants is not what my party stands for. It’s time for True Labour, not Blue Labour | Stella Creasy We must get back to the party’s roots before it is too late. That means embracing difference, rejecting division – and fighting for opportunities for all, says MP for Walthamstow, Stella Creasy

“Cruelty to immigrants is not what my party stands for. It’s time for True Labour, not Blue Labour”
Stella Creasy

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YouTube video by Zoe Gardner The TRUTH about this week’s asylum changes

The Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood sure has put on a show…

But how much is really serious & how much is just a theatre of cruelty?

Here’s the TRUTH about this week’s asylum changes

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Still doing it. Popped up a couple of years ago opening for a one-off Prisoners gig I was at.

Awesome contributor. The context of 20 million people being pro-regime in Iran, all with access to weapons and ammo, whilst everyone else is armed with nothing but a wing and a prayer, gives us a slight clue as to how ‘regime change’ might go there. Probably best contrib of week, in a crowded field.

Staple in my set whenever I’m allowed anywhere near a set of decks.

A look of both fear and guilt.

Another multi-£million fine for another privatised water company who couldn’t even provide tap water in Kent for weeks on end. And, another office full of accountants pricing in multi-£million fines to P&L forecasts so multi-£million water company exec bonuses stay unaffected.

Local newspapers usually have links to local gig promoters. Just wondering if this was the case here…

Despite the taxpayers’ £millions pumped into this factory to protect it from the fucking lunacy of leaving the EU, it could go anyway. Oh, well. Only the livelihoods of people and businesses in one of the most deprived areas of Britain at risk.

Screenshot from a marine vessels of Hormuz Strait - positions of ships.

Tankers (red) & cargo vessels (green), anchored up and not heading west through the Hormuz Strait. Over 100 tankers, over 50 cargo vessels.

Luke Akehurst (@lukeakehurst) · 3h Looking forward to hearing what the magic Green strategy is for getting to 326 seats, as like Labour they would need to win the votes of white working class voters in Red Wall seats who are concerned about immigration, and traditional Con vs Lab swing voters. ⸻ George Eaton (@georgeeaton) · 8h Green surge was inevitable now the “wasted vote” argument no longer holds. Labour will need to offer positive reasons to think again rather than simply saying Greens couldn’t win an election.

Why no one’s gonna vote Labour in this great county of ours, in one post and in one rant of bigoted delusion.

Picture of a 14 year old boy from 1983. Suedehead haircut, white Fred Perry jumper, skinny blue jeans, brown suede shoes. Standing in the front garden of council house in the midlands of England.

Today, this 14 year-old little gobshite made it to 57. How tf?

Roland Barthes would have done a great essay on the semiotics behind Braverman, Patel and Mahmood’s choice of long, black military-style overcoats for Home Secretary photo opps. All three of them seem to know just how fkn sinister it looks.

Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won’t be able to do anything else at all | Shabana Mahmood Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don’t want extremes – they want a system that is managed and fair, says home secretary Shabana Mahmood

The first paragraph of this is true. The rest could well be written by a Reform UK bigot who suddenly found himself at the dizzy heights of Home Secretary. The depths to which Labour have plummeted. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

From Private Eye magazine: Picture of Reform UK party candidate for Gorton and Denton by election, Matt Goodwin and the now Green Party MP and former plumber, Hannah Spencer. Speech bubble from Spencer’s mouth says ‘I stopped the cock’.

From Private Eye

The picture and caption on its own is bang on enough.

And also people looked at 14 years of brutal austerity, by far the most corrupted, incompetent, divisive, useless and downright disastrous UK governments in modern times and tell a pollster they’d rather have more of that than vote Labour. After giving them a landslide majority only 18 months ago.

They obviously are now.

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Young adults face unemployment, low wages, debt.

Govt can help, adopt Scottish policies
No university tuition fees.
No prescription charges (also in Wales)
Free bus travel for the under-22s, many on low minimum wage.

Treating young adults in England as second class is a political choice.

👀 Labour MP Joani Reid said today that she was “not part of my husband’s business activities” after her spouse David Taylor was arrested on suspicion of spying for China

But her former company was loaned money (interest free and with no set repayment terms) by his companies

Wow. What a goal. Newcastle deserved it doing what they’ve done this half with 10 players. #NUFC #NEWMUN

His cousin, Kevin, ended up as a water company shareholder. Bet yer.

‘Treat us fairly’: skilled workers face having their dream of settling in UK snatched away As government mulls doubling requirement to 10 years, the uncertainty is putting many who came to Britain to work under strain

An economically, politically and morally bankrupt strategy.

Bad for individuals, bad for families, bad for businesses, bad for public services, bad for integration and cohesion.

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I wonder how many British MPs (yes, actual democratically elected legislators) and political commentators we’ll hear advocating our Govt and its military committing war crimes and crimes against humanity today?