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Labour is going to impose draconian benefits cuts on the last well off, and most especially those with disabilities, and all it's worried about is maintaining its own appearance of unity on this issue. It takes a special sort of indifference to be this callous. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...
The contemptuous games that Labour plays
As The Guardian notes this morning:
Ministers are scrambling to avoid a damaging rebellion this summer when MPs vote on controversial cuts to disability benefit payments, even offering potential rebe...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
April 18, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Labour is going to impose draconian benefits cuts on the last well off, and most especially those with disabilities, and all it's worried about is maintaining its own appearance of unity on this issue. It takes a special sort of indifference to be this callous. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...
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Wes Streeting is gutting the NHS of its ability to survive by destroying the management on which it is dependent to deliver the healthcare we need. This is not austerity. This is madness, Elon Musk style, and if he succeeds, there will be no NHS left to save. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...
Streeting’s NHS madness
I tried to work out how to summarise Roy Lilley's morning email this morning on the madness that Wes Streeting is unleashing on the NHS, and failed. So I am copying it with a suggestion that this is w...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
April 14, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Wes Streeting is gutting the NHS of its ability to survive by destroying the management on which it is dependent to deliver the healthcare we need. This is not austerity. This is madness, Elon Musk style, and if he succeeds, there will be no NHS left to save. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...
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Let me help: buy your own pint.
March 29, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Let me help: buy your own pint.
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Why is Keir Starmer's government adopting policies that look perfectly designed to prevent its re-election? This column seeks to unravel the mystery and explain the fundamental forces that now govern our politics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it | George Monbiot
We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Why is Keir Starmer's government adopting policies that look perfectly designed to prevent its re-election? This column seeks to unravel the mystery and explain the fundamental forces that now govern our politics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Keir Starmer's promised 'decade of national renewal' is increasingly promising to be a decade of national disappointment instead
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/austerity-...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/austerity-...
Austerity of Thought
Keir Starmer's promised 'decade of national renewal' is increasingly promising to be a decade of national disappointment instead
www.adambienkov.co.uk
March 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Keir Starmer's promised 'decade of national renewal' is increasingly promising to be a decade of national disappointment instead
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/austerity-...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/austerity-...
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This will probably come as no surprise to anyone but..
March 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
This will probably come as no surprise to anyone but..
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UK govts failing to curb corporate tax abuses.
People forced to pay more for a crumbling infrastructure, and losing hard-won social rights.
The Criminal Finances Act 2017 gave govt powers to prosecute companies for tax evasion.
There have been no prosecutions.
Need people centred govts.
People forced to pay more for a crumbling infrastructure, and losing hard-won social rights.
The Criminal Finances Act 2017 gave govt powers to prosecute companies for tax evasion.
There have been no prosecutions.
Need people centred govts.
UK governments are failing to curb corporate tax abuses and leaving people to pay the price
Governments remain obsessed with austerity and choose not to inconvenience the rich or curb tax abuses by corporations.
leftfootforward.org
March 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
UK govts failing to curb corporate tax abuses.
People forced to pay more for a crumbling infrastructure, and losing hard-won social rights.
The Criminal Finances Act 2017 gave govt powers to prosecute companies for tax evasion.
There have been no prosecutions.
Need people centred govts.
People forced to pay more for a crumbling infrastructure, and losing hard-won social rights.
The Criminal Finances Act 2017 gave govt powers to prosecute companies for tax evasion.
There have been no prosecutions.
Need people centred govts.
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Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.
March 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.
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🚨 REVEALED: Head of world’s biggest asset manager, Blackstone, lobbied chancellor Rachel Reeves on tax rules weeks before policy was tweaked | from @ethanshone.bsky.social
Find out more 👇
www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...
Find out more 👇
www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...
March 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🚨 REVEALED: Head of world’s biggest asset manager, Blackstone, lobbied chancellor Rachel Reeves on tax rules weeks before policy was tweaked | from @ethanshone.bsky.social
Find out more 👇
www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...
Find out more 👇
www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...
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“We can traffick with Trump only with extreme caution while prioritising unity with our neighbours and the other old allies”
Trump has told us who he is. Time to believe him and rebuild our future with Europe.
Thoughtful analysis and warning from Max Hastings.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Trump has told us who he is. Time to believe him and rebuild our future with Europe.
Thoughtful analysis and warning from Max Hastings.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
March 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
“We can traffick with Trump only with extreme caution while prioritising unity with our neighbours and the other old allies”
Trump has told us who he is. Time to believe him and rebuild our future with Europe.
Thoughtful analysis and warning from Max Hastings.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Trump has told us who he is. Time to believe him and rebuild our future with Europe.
Thoughtful analysis and warning from Max Hastings.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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NEW: "America is your enemy," I interviewed Jason Stanley for this week's newsletter & podcast. A Yale professor, who's a leading expert in fascism. We're normalizing what's happening & we urgently need to stop. Please read/listen/share. 🙏
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-united...
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-united...
'The United States is Your Enemy'
A conversation about fascism as Europe faces the darkness in the west
broligarchy.substack.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
NEW: "America is your enemy," I interviewed Jason Stanley for this week's newsletter & podcast. A Yale professor, who's a leading expert in fascism. We're normalizing what's happening & we urgently need to stop. Please read/listen/share. 🙏
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-united...
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-united...
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America, just in case you thought Friday went well here’s how the London Times saw it …..
March 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
America, just in case you thought Friday went well here’s how the London Times saw it …..
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Rail fares rise by 4.6% in England and Wales.
Passenger services to be brought into public ownership.
Rolling stock companies (ROSCOs) to remain private.
Govt will rent carriages from ROSCOs, who have profit margin of 41.6%. Billions will be paid from public purse, corporate profits guaranteed.
Passenger services to be brought into public ownership.
Rolling stock companies (ROSCOs) to remain private.
Govt will rent carriages from ROSCOs, who have profit margin of 41.6%. Billions will be paid from public purse, corporate profits guaranteed.
Rail fares rise by 4.6% in England and Wales
The government says fares must go up so it can fund investment, but admits passengers are frustrated by services.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Rail fares rise by 4.6% in England and Wales.
Passenger services to be brought into public ownership.
Rolling stock companies (ROSCOs) to remain private.
Govt will rent carriages from ROSCOs, who have profit margin of 41.6%. Billions will be paid from public purse, corporate profits guaranteed.
Passenger services to be brought into public ownership.
Rolling stock companies (ROSCOs) to remain private.
Govt will rent carriages from ROSCOs, who have profit margin of 41.6%. Billions will be paid from public purse, corporate profits guaranteed.
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Wow: JD Vance is apparently skiing in Vermont this weekend and the locals aren’t having it. Thousands have lined the streets in protest.
March 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Deserved
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The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.
February 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.
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“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941
February 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941
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I love how Trump, Vance and Musk style themselves defenders of free speech, while simultaneously banning government agencies from mentioning climate change or diversity (inc biodiversity!), equity and inclusion, or even possessing maps which show the Gulf of Mexico.
Torquemadas the lot of them.
Torquemadas the lot of them.
February 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I love how Trump, Vance and Musk style themselves defenders of free speech, while simultaneously banning government agencies from mentioning climate change or diversity (inc biodiversity!), equity and inclusion, or even possessing maps which show the Gulf of Mexico.
Torquemadas the lot of them.
Torquemadas the lot of them.
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“The real “threat from within” comes from those fake British patriots loudly cheering on attacks on our own country by a hostile foreign power”
@adambienkov.bsky.social 👏
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-collab...
@adambienkov.bsky.social 👏
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-collab...
The Collaborators
The real “threat from within” comes from those fake British patriots loudly cheering on attacks on our own country by a hostile foreign power
www.adambienkov.co.uk
February 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“The real “threat from within” comes from those fake British patriots loudly cheering on attacks on our own country by a hostile foreign power”
@adambienkov.bsky.social 👏
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-collab...
@adambienkov.bsky.social 👏
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-collab...
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The elite war against public wellbeing proceeds.
At the direction of RFK Jr., America’s newly confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services, the CDC has suddenly fired nearly 1,300 employees in a single day. 10% of America’s vital team of health experts — considered global leaders in disease control — have been axed.
Although HHS…
Although HHS…
February 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The elite war against public wellbeing proceeds.
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The Labour Party went into the 2024 election promising to reform the discredited NHS contract fuelling the current crisis
According to @thebda.bsky.social there has been no material progress to date & its deeply concerned the Treasury is now standing in the way of progress
youtu.be/Hu0Okad5O1w?...
According to @thebda.bsky.social there has been no material progress to date & its deeply concerned the Treasury is now standing in the way of progress
youtu.be/Hu0Okad5O1w?...
THE SHOCKING state of NHS dentistry in England has today - again - been laid bare
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
February 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The Labour Party went into the 2024 election promising to reform the discredited NHS contract fuelling the current crisis
According to @thebda.bsky.social there has been no material progress to date & its deeply concerned the Treasury is now standing in the way of progress
youtu.be/Hu0Okad5O1w?...
According to @thebda.bsky.social there has been no material progress to date & its deeply concerned the Treasury is now standing in the way of progress
youtu.be/Hu0Okad5O1w?...
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I'd say the biggest forces "undermining our nation from within" are the fake patriots loudly cheering on these attacks on our country by a hostile foreign government
February 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I'd say the biggest forces "undermining our nation from within" are the fake patriots loudly cheering on these attacks on our country by a hostile foreign government