patthepublican2
@patthepublican2.bsky.social
Sweary lefty who opposes Neoliberalism the Tories and so called centrists who are really just more Tories
Proud socialist
Therefore not a member of Starmer's fraudulent Labour party
Proud socialist
Therefore not a member of Starmer's fraudulent Labour party
We can build a society where everyone, regardless of where they were born, who they are, what they believe, and what colour their skin is, can belong, contribute and thrive. This is not naïve idealism. It is the only basis on which a fair, prosperous and democratic Europe can survive.
December 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We can build a society where everyone, regardless of where they were born, who they are, what they believe, and what colour their skin is, can belong, contribute and thrive. This is not naïve idealism. It is the only basis on which a fair, prosperous and democratic Europe can survive.
Reform wants power by dividing people. They have no answers to the crises we face, whether they be inequality, climate breakdown, or collapsing public services. So they blame those with the least power.
No country in Europe, including all those that make up the UK, should follow them down that road
No country in Europe, including all those that make up the UK, should follow them down that road
December 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Reform wants power by dividing people. They have no answers to the crises we face, whether they be inequality, climate breakdown, or collapsing public services. So they blame those with the least power.
No country in Europe, including all those that make up the UK, should follow them down that road
No country in Europe, including all those that make up the UK, should follow them down that road
Refuse to let migrants be scapegoats for failures of economic policy. Austerity, privatisation and financialisation have all contributed to creating insecurity, not those seeking a safer life.
Demand a humane migration policy that invests in integration, housing, public services and decent work.
Demand a humane migration policy that invests in integration, housing, public services and decent work.
December 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Refuse to let migrants be scapegoats for failures of economic policy. Austerity, privatisation and financialisation have all contributed to creating insecurity, not those seeking a safer life.
Demand a humane migration policy that invests in integration, housing, public services and decent work.
Demand a humane migration policy that invests in integration, housing, public services and decent work.
We have a simple choice. We either defend the equal worth of every human being or we let racism define our politics. There is no middle ground. In that case, anyone who considers themselves progressive must call out racism. It is not about border controls. It is all about racism
December 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
We have a simple choice. We either defend the equal worth of every human being or we let racism define our politics. There is no middle ground. In that case, anyone who considers themselves progressive must call out racism. It is not about border controls. It is all about racism
Third, inequality, and not migration, is the real crisis. People are anxious about wages, housing, public service cuts, and social insecurity. The far-right exploits that fear, and then blames migrants, whilst letting billionaires, landlords, and austerity completely off the hook.
December 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Third, inequality, and not migration, is the real crisis. People are anxious about wages, housing, public service cuts, and social insecurity. The far-right exploits that fear, and then blames migrants, whilst letting billionaires, landlords, and austerity completely off the hook.
Once governments are encouraged to pick and choose who counts as fully human, the door opens to target almost anyone. It might be refugees today, but it can as easily be disabled people tomorrow, and dissenters and protesters after that.
December 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Once governments are encouraged to pick and choose who counts as fully human, the door opens to target almost anyone. It might be refugees today, but it can as easily be disabled people tomorrow, and dissenters and protesters after that.
For every 100,000 immigrants that arrive in UK our economy grows by £7 Billion Why?
Because........ whisper it quietly immigrants work very hard and pay much more into the NHS than UK born citizens do.
So next time a racist fuckwit is spouting off just remember the facts
Because........ whisper it quietly immigrants work very hard and pay much more into the NHS than UK born citizens do.
So next time a racist fuckwit is spouting off just remember the facts
December 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
For every 100,000 immigrants that arrive in UK our economy grows by £7 Billion Why?
Because........ whisper it quietly immigrants work very hard and pay much more into the NHS than UK born citizens do.
So next time a racist fuckwit is spouting off just remember the facts
Because........ whisper it quietly immigrants work very hard and pay much more into the NHS than UK born citizens do.
So next time a racist fuckwit is spouting off just remember the facts
Christianity is not Europe's cultural core. Most Europeans, including most of those who vote for the far-right, are not practising Christians. To claim that “Christian civilisation” must be defended against migrants is simply an excuse to impose white supremacy with a religious veneer. It is a lie.
December 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Christianity is not Europe's cultural core. Most Europeans, including most of those who vote for the far-right, are not practising Christians. To claim that “Christian civilisation” must be defended against migrants is simply an excuse to impose white supremacy with a religious veneer. It is a lie.
Without migration, pensions will collapse, public services will shrink, and social care, which is already fragile, could break altogether. The idea that migrants are in Europe to undermine our societies rather than to contribute could not be further from the truth.
December 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Without migration, pensions will collapse, public services will shrink, and social care, which is already fragile, could break altogether. The idea that migrants are in Europe to undermine our societies rather than to contribute could not be further from the truth.
the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) declined to provide further evidence on the economic effects of Brexit. That means, astonishingly, we still have no uncontested figures on the biggest single factor affecting growth.
December 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) declined to provide further evidence on the economic effects of Brexit. That means, astonishingly, we still have no uncontested figures on the biggest single factor affecting growth.
Labour promised to “make Brexit work” and endlessly repeated such bullshit. A major study has found that leaving the EU cost the UK 6-8% of GDP per capita; now Reeves calls the damage of Brexit “severe and long lasting”; Belatedly Starmer now condemns the “wild promises” of the Leave campaign
December 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Labour promised to “make Brexit work” and endlessly repeated such bullshit. A major study has found that leaving the EU cost the UK 6-8% of GDP per capita; now Reeves calls the damage of Brexit “severe and long lasting”; Belatedly Starmer now condemns the “wild promises” of the Leave campaign
For the 16,000 businesses that have now given up trading with Europe because of paperwork, prospects remain bleak unless the government stops offering a sticking plaster and starts major surgery on our future with Europe.
Yes 16 thousand that's the kind of damage Farage has already done
Yes 16 thousand that's the kind of damage Farage has already done
December 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
For the 16,000 businesses that have now given up trading with Europe because of paperwork, prospects remain bleak unless the government stops offering a sticking plaster and starts major surgery on our future with Europe.
Yes 16 thousand that's the kind of damage Farage has already done
Yes 16 thousand that's the kind of damage Farage has already done
If you believe politics should serve the public, not the powerful, this is the video for you.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pql2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pql2...
Why people have given up on politics — and how we fix it
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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December 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
If you believe politics should serve the public, not the powerful, this is the video for you.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pql2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pql2...
There is no difference between finding money for war, or bank bailouts, or corporate subsidies, and, we have spent a fortune on bank bailouts in 2008 and corporate subsidies during COVID, but we still claim we can't find money for hospitals, homes, and care. We could, it's just down to choice;
December 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
There is no difference between finding money for war, or bank bailouts, or corporate subsidies, and, we have spent a fortune on bank bailouts in 2008 and corporate subsidies during COVID, but we still claim we can't find money for hospitals, homes, and care. We could, it's just down to choice;
If we can always find money for war, bank bailouts, and corporate subsidies, why can't we find money for hospitals, homes, and care?
December 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
If we can always find money for war, bank bailouts, and corporate subsidies, why can't we find money for hospitals, homes, and care?
Should government support people’s health, education, social care, transport, energy and water needs, or subsidise the City of London Derivative Gambling Den?
Tough question? Well Reeves couldn't answer it
Tough question? Well Reeves couldn't answer it
December 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Should government support people’s health, education, social care, transport, energy and water needs, or subsidise the City of London Derivative Gambling Den?
Tough question? Well Reeves couldn't answer it
Tough question? Well Reeves couldn't answer it
12 essential questions to challenge politicians when they deny economic reality — and ensure the power of money is used for people, not for the wealthy few.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
12 questions about modern money
Modern Monetary Theory — or modern money as I prefer to call it — simply describes the truth about how money works in the real economy.
Governments create new money every time they spend. Taxation re...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
December 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
12 essential questions to challenge politicians when they deny economic reality — and ensure the power of money is used for people, not for the wealthy few.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
total benefit costs are not spiralling: non-pensioner benefits have stayed at 4-5% of GDP for the past 40 years.
Three-quarters of children in poverty now come from working families. Jobs don’t guarantee escape from poverty – a word the Tories never used, preferring the description “low-income”.
Three-quarters of children in poverty now come from working families. Jobs don’t guarantee escape from poverty – a word the Tories never used, preferring the description “low-income”.
December 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
total benefit costs are not spiralling: non-pensioner benefits have stayed at 4-5% of GDP for the past 40 years.
Three-quarters of children in poverty now come from working families. Jobs don’t guarantee escape from poverty – a word the Tories never used, preferring the description “low-income”.
Three-quarters of children in poverty now come from working families. Jobs don’t guarantee escape from poverty – a word the Tories never used, preferring the description “low-income”.
We still have 4 million poor children living without the basics. That still makes us among the most unequal and most poverty-stricken of similar European countries. This is a major factor in why British five-year-olds have now become up to 7cms shorter than children of the same age in Europe.
December 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We still have 4 million poor children living without the basics. That still makes us among the most unequal and most poverty-stricken of similar European countries. This is a major factor in why British five-year-olds have now become up to 7cms shorter than children of the same age in Europe.
It's the cross-contamination that literally brings the system down. And what I'm getting time and time and time again out of this Bank of England report is that the cross-contamination now is so high that they can't work out what the scale of the risk is, but the BOE is petrified of it.
December 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
It's the cross-contamination that literally brings the system down. And what I'm getting time and time and time again out of this Bank of England report is that the cross-contamination now is so high that they can't work out what the scale of the risk is, but the BOE is petrified of it.
£100 billion is at present being gambled in UK gilt markets by hedge funds simply to try to make short-term profit. But if there was a sudden movement in the value of these funds as a consequence of an AI meltdown, they have no idea what might happen as a result, that market could melt down too.
December 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
£100 billion is at present being gambled in UK gilt markets by hedge funds simply to try to make short-term profit. But if there was a sudden movement in the value of these funds as a consequence of an AI meltdown, they have no idea what might happen as a result, that market could melt down too.
the Bank of England knows there's a risk, even they have not appraised the possibility that it is the private equity shadow banking sector that will bring markets down now and effectively, they're admitting that in the face of this potential crisis, they are flying blind. That is not reassuring.
December 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM
the Bank of England knows there's a risk, even they have not appraised the possibility that it is the private equity shadow banking sector that will bring markets down now and effectively, they're admitting that in the face of this potential crisis, they are flying blind. That is not reassuring.
The Bank of England has issued a stark new Financial Stability Report
From AI bubble valuations to fragile shadow banking systems, from overstretched credit markets to potential contagion across sovereign debt, a crisis now looks more like “when” than “if”.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
From AI bubble valuations to fragile shadow banking systems, from overstretched credit markets to potential contagion across sovereign debt, a crisis now looks more like “when” than “if”.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
The Bank of England is warning a financial crash is coming
The Bank of England has issued a stark new Financial Stability Report — and beneath the cautious language lies a clear message: the global risk environment has deteriorated sharply. From AI bubble val...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
December 6, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The Bank of England has issued a stark new Financial Stability Report
From AI bubble valuations to fragile shadow banking systems, from overstretched credit markets to potential contagion across sovereign debt, a crisis now looks more like “when” than “if”.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
From AI bubble valuations to fragile shadow banking systems, from overstretched credit markets to potential contagion across sovereign debt, a crisis now looks more like “when” than “if”.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
Wes Streeting, saying, "We'll have to wait to train new doctors," he's talking utter nonsense. We don't need to train new doctors at this moment in this country to get more doctors to work. There are thousands of them looking for work who can't get it
December 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Wes Streeting, saying, "We'll have to wait to train new doctors," he's talking utter nonsense. We don't need to train new doctors at this moment in this country to get more doctors to work. There are thousands of them looking for work who can't get it
This is not made up. This is fact. This is documented.
There are GPs who have no work.
There are hospital trainees who are being sacked.
There are resident doctors who cannot make career progression and so are going abroad.
This is all as a consequence of choice, by a fucking Labour government
There are GPs who have no work.
There are hospital trainees who are being sacked.
There are resident doctors who cannot make career progression and so are going abroad.
This is all as a consequence of choice, by a fucking Labour government
December 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is not made up. This is fact. This is documented.
There are GPs who have no work.
There are hospital trainees who are being sacked.
There are resident doctors who cannot make career progression and so are going abroad.
This is all as a consequence of choice, by a fucking Labour government
There are GPs who have no work.
There are hospital trainees who are being sacked.
There are resident doctors who cannot make career progression and so are going abroad.
This is all as a consequence of choice, by a fucking Labour government