Alan Foster

But are Reform really “making the political weather” as you, so uncritically say, Chris Mason, or are you making it for them by hyperventilating over each grubby little Tory-Reform-reshuffle, without *ever* properly scrutinising the howling failures of these deeply unpleasant, grifting clowns?

Significant cut in government funding for adopted and kinship children The government has today announced a 40% cut in the amount that will be available per child from the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) – a Fund set up to provide specialist suppor...

Another despicable attack on the vunerable from this uncaring government

www.adoptionuk.org/news/signifi...

Rachel Reeves is right that the world has changed - so why won’t she change her strategy to reflect it? Rigid adherence to arbitrary fiscal rules & refusing wealth taxes is a political choice that’s causing huge pain & harm, as well as laying out the welcome mat for the populists at Reform UK

Not learning from one’s mistakes indicates something🤔

Why on earth is this government releasing violent criminals early due to prison overcrowding, but then replacing them with a 77-year-old peaceful climate protester who is clearly no threat to the public?

And why is she facing extra punishment of being locked up for longer and over Christmas?...

I don’t want to hear another word from Farage about foreign interference. Hypocrisy you can see from space and I haven’t heard a single broadcaster call him out for it.

Ah, Feargal Sharkey is here! 🦋

Lovely. Please follow him and reshare this post to alert others.

Child Poverty % (children living in households below the minimum wage)

Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%

The UK 32.1%

All four of those countries have child benefits, paid by taxing the rich, that make it almost impossible for a child to be in poverty.

Most Brits will look at the US reaction to the assassination of United Health’s CEO & think “thank god we don’t have that system, where insurance firms try every trick to deny care even to ppl theoretically covered”…& have no idea that United Health is already “helping” NHS manage access & provision

I stupidly imagined’Change’ meant a reversal not a more radical reinforcement of Tory policy

You’ve just made my day with that comment Katie 😂

Keir Starmer declares war on benefits Britain The Prime Minister uses an article in today's Mail on Sunday to promise changes to try to tame the £137 billion bill for welfare benefits - including a blitz on cheats and those who 'game the system'.

Keir Starmer declares war on benefits Britain.

A war on the poor, sick, old, disabled.

16.1m have disabilities, 2.8m chronically ill, 6.34m await hospital appointments, 16m live in poverty.

No war on corporate welfare, no wealth taxes or redistribution.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her.

RP if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.

That’s exactly what it was! but it proves that money can be found to support business even if the homeless were just lucky recipients

It is only a failure if you on the wrong side of the fence, his donors will be rubbing their hands

During the Covid pandemic the government of the day, through their Everyone In scheme, managed to house the homeless. Is it just that these unfortunate individuals no longer pose a threat to the establishment?

On the streets of Liverpool, there is a humanitarian crisis

A perfect storm of problems means more and more people are finding themselves homeless & sleeping rough & it’s getting worse - it’s a situation playing out across the country

A difficult 🧵 on what I’ve found reporting on this situation

There is no “oven ready” trade deal with the US waiting to be signed - in fact, given the recent history of “oven ready” deals in the UK, you should be extra weary of anyone claiming that such a thing exists.

Important context here:

● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares)

● "a big farm" is 217 acres.

Now let's see who's angry:

● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres
● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres
● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres
● Dyson owns 36,000 acres

Picture of Jeremy Clarkson with his 2010 quote: “Land is a better investment than any bank can offer. The govt doesn’t get any of my money when I die.”

Narrator voice: “Little did he know…”

"What do you farm mate? Arable, beef?

"Outrage"

For me, Victoria Derbyshire is by far the best interviewer at the BBC. The Beeb still struggle to appease both the right and left

Alan Foster @fozzy51.bsky.social

David Tennant, wearing round glasses and looking thoughtfully upward, accompanied by a quote about the NHS: ‘The NHS saved my life when I was 10 and my appendix burst. It saved my daughter’s life when she was just a few weeks old and they brought her back from a very scary place. Their screening service detected my wife’s cervical cancer, and she got treatment and now she’s fine. The fact that the NHS exists makes us all better people. We tinker with that at our peril.’ The image features ‘The Left Bible’ logo in the top right corner.

The NHS that Nigel Farage wants to destroy 👇