The Gov MUST answer this @libdems.org.uk @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
England's Student Loan system is blighting the life of millions.
Young adults burdened with £267bn debt, rising to £500bn by 2040.
Repayment forced when earning less than median wage, paying real rates of interest.
I offered the Minister policy choice
Watch reply.
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Nearly six months behind bars. No bail. When they finally dismissed the charges they released her in North Dakota with no winter clothes & no means of getting back home to Tennessee. They upended this woman's life.
This is so frustrating. I’m about to extend my skilled worker visa which is going to mean over £2k in the NHS surcharge despite paying income tax & NI for 5 years (& 6 yrs of previous NHS surcharges for prev visas)
You couldn’t make this up - one peer claimed his crusader ancestry would be helpful in Israel/Gaza context!! 🤦♀️ I say begone to all the hereditaries - and now, on to the Bishops, political chancers and corrupt donors in there. More reforms necessary . www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour MPs were reportedly blocked from hearing legal concerns about plans to restrict jury trials before voting. Why keep them in the dark?
#JuryTrials #JusticeSystem #UKPolitics #CourtsBill #Democracy
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NHS surcharge is an illuminating example of a policy that has been designed to meet public concerns about migration impacts. Hiking it from £200 to > £1000 means the NHS is v likely making a surplus (esp on students). I doubt many people have heard of it
Keir Starmer’s govt doesn’t want you to know the US military is using UK civilian airports during an illegal war of aggression.
Even Sunak’s govt admitted in 2023 the US military “routinely” uses civilian airports in Britain for “operational” purposes.
www.declassifieduk.org/we-deserve-t...
The US says it will loosen sanctions on other countries buying Russian oil and petroleum loaded on vessels at sea, in a bid to curb price rises
The cost of oil rose to more than $100 a barrel yesterday
Russia continues to pound Ukrainian cities with drones on a daily/nightly basis
"Interventions such as #CycleLanes, EVs and restrictions on polluting vehicles" helped to achieve "remarkable reductions" in #AirPollution
#London #Beijing #SanFrancisco #Amsterdam
@edi.bike @sccscot.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social @drgaryfuller.bsky.social @asthmalungscot.bsky.social @sw20.info
As @snellarthur.bsky.social said
Once again, Badenoch endorses Mahmood's "earned settlement" proposals.
If the government - against public opinion and all the evidence - continue to pursue them, they will be explicitly allying themselves with Lam and Jenrick's ethnonationalist agenda.
Israel bombed a displacement camp in Gaza on Wednesday.
And the NHS
And police.
What a strategically foolish triumvirate
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We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.
👉 NEW -- UK military refuses to give 'running commentary' on Iran civilian deaths
by Phil Miller
Ministry of Defence will not say how many Iranian civilians killed by ‘defensive’ US strikes from UK bases, as questions grow about Starmer’s stance
www.declassifieduk.org/uk-military-...
We should be honoured to host, teach and learn from these people not exclude them. I'm ashamed of our government.
"The Netherlands and Iceland have joined South Africas genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice"
I've even come across a case where a guy completely f*cked an economy by pursuing counterproductive austerity policies only to be got rid of and then given a whole bunch of really lucrative jobs in the financial sector.
If Palestinians had set fire to a synagogue in Israel you can bet news channels here in the UK would cover the story.
But a mosque in the occupied West Bank set on fire by Israeli settlers? Nah.
Such a dismal tale about the UK govt: so obsessed w competing with far-right to keep out foreigners that it won’t let in the brightest & best from war-torn countries even when they’re hand-picked by the FCDO, lest they ask to stay. Soft power sacrificed, but how many Reform voters will it convert?
A company being awarded UK Government contracts👇🏻
You know that Mike Tyson quote, “Everyone has a plan until they’re punched in the face”?
Well sometimes there isn’t even a plan.
A KC who represented victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal in the public inquiry has quit her post on the Legal Services Board to fight justice secretary David Lammy's plans to restrict the right to a jury trial
www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/kc-quit...
Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
Nida' Ibrahim reports on ongoing violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, including a mosque being set on fire
#BoycottWorldCup
Trump: ‘When oil prices go up, we make a lot of money’.
Thousands killed, children orphaned, infrastructure destroyed, UN emasculated to enable US companies to make bigger profits - capitalism thrives on destruction.
Trillions of atoms, billions of years of human evolution and the world got Trump.
