Saul Staniforth

"We were told in full, and that 'in full' has got a smaller and smaller and smaller part of what is actually going through"

@unitesharon.bsky.social from @unitetheunion.bsky.social expects the employment rights bill will be watered down even further

"We've got some of the worst employment rights in Europe.. the fact that in this country you can fire & rehire workers.. is an abhorrence.. workers do not feel [Labour] is on their side"

@unitesharon.bsky.social from @unitetheunion.bsky.social

@unitesharon.bsky.social : "It's not just day one rights, there has been a catalogue of watering down of the employment rights bill. Fire and rehire is not banned, zero hour contracts no longer banned, and now we have this move on day one rights"

The Met police spied on the family of Ricky Reel as they campaigned for justice for their murdered son #spycops

Nour Odeh reports on an Israeli attack in Syria where they killed at least 13 people, including a family of five.

BBC News 9am headlines: "Video emerges of Israeli security forces shooting dead two Palestinians after they'd apparently surrendered in the occupied West Bank"

Unarmed, hands raised, kneeling on the floor.

"apparently surrendered"

"Shocked but very unsurprised"

Antony Loewenstein on the footage that shows Israeli forces executing two unarmed Palestinian men who've just surrendered

Israel conducts around 47 raids in the occupied West Bank every day. Palestinian towns have been bombed from the air. Tens of thousands have been forcibly evicted from their homes. The Israeli army & settlers have murdered over 1,000 Palestinians since Oct 2023.

"This is a field execution.. this is a war on occupied people, a war on civilians"

Mustafa Barghouti on the footage that shows Israeli forces executing two unarmed Palestinian men who've just surrendered

Nour Odeh on Al Jazeera describing the footage that shows Israeli forces executing two unarmed Palestinian men who've just surrendered

Compare this to how its being reported on UK news channels e.g. on Sky their correspondent refuses to even report that the men had surrendered

"Another u-turn, how many is this now?

Bridget Phillipson: "No I don't accept that characterisation, I'm afraid"

Phillipson: "Judge us on what we've done so far.. whether thats lifting half a million children out of poverty"

No you havn't

You could have done if you'd scrapped the two child cap as soon as you were elected. But instead you chose to keep it & keep those kids in poverty

"Another broken promise.. you're rejecting that as a criticism?"

Phillipson: "Sometimes you have to be pragmatic"

Labour has a majority of nearly 150 & as for the excuse that its the Lords, they wouldn't be a problem if Labour hadn't broken another promise (to abolish them)

Page 45 of Labours manifesto last year said that they would give workers protection from unfair dismissal on day one of starting a job. They've now changed that to 6 months.

Bridget Phillipson is asked if that's a broken promise. Apparently not.

Footage shows 2 Palestinians lifting their clothes to show they aren't armed, putting their hands in the air & kneeling on the floor

@kamalimelbourne.bsky.social : "Footage shows Israeli forces killing two Palestinian men after those two men had appeared to be surrendering"

"Appeared to be"

Sally Rooney last year: "It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that we are witnessing an unfolding genocide.. the roots of this particular tragedy are in the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine & the apartheid system.. keep protesting.. it is the least that we can do"

Caroline Flint (ex Labour minister) defends Labour ditching their manifesto promise to protect workers from unfair dismissal on day one.

Presenter Kate Garraway doesn't understand why they made the promise in the first place & says it seems a bit crazy #GMB

"For us now to withdraw from a key element of [the employment rights bill] is unconscionable"

@andymcdonaldmp.bsky.social on Labour ditching their manifesto promise to give workers protection from unfair dismissal on day one.

"Good morning Britain, Labour u-turns on a key pledge for workers" #GMB

Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’

The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

BBC News: "Year after ceasefire, peace eludes south Lebanon as Israeli strikes continue"

So BBC News, is it, in fact, a ceasefire?

Ibrahim al Khalili reports on how Israel is expanding the yellow line in Gaza.

Reid "Can the public be forgiven for thinking we dont trust Lab [or] the Conservatives, we're going to look elsewhere.. whether thats to the Greens who we heard on our program yesterday would introduce a wealth tax, which would apparently solve everyones problems"

Who said that?

John McDonnell welcomes the scrapping of the two child benefit cap and pays tribute to all those who campaigned for it.

He's right, without that pressure the govt wouldn't have done it. Pressure works.

Rachel Reeves is asked about how the 3p a mile electric vehicle charge will work for new cars, when they don't have to have an MOT for 3 years. So who will monitor the mileage in order to calculate the tax owed during that period?

Reeves doesn't know.

Reeves: "... one of the main reasons children end up in hospital is because they are poor"

So why didn't you scrap the cap 16 months ago? Instead you deliberately chose to keep hundreds of thousands of kids in poverty & you've only scrapped it now because you've been forced to

Susanna Reid asks Rachel Reeves, "How can anyone believe anything you say?" #GMB

Ridge: "This is what I don't understand. I think you do believe we do spend too much money on welfare... I'm trying to work out why we've ended up with [this] budget"

Pressure e.g. this govt didn't want to scrap the two child benefit cap but they've been forced to

Sophy Ridge: "You mention the IFS, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, often seen as the most independent analysts for fiscal moments like this"

Seen by who? The IFS aren't independent, they have an agenda like everyone else.

Rachel Reeves is asked if she's broken her pledge to not raise taxes on working people.