@jeanid123.bsky.social
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The colourful life and mysterious death of the Marquess of Ailesbury reads like EastEnders scripted by PG Wodehouse. And is a timely reminder why we need to get rid of all hereditary peers from calling the shots for the rest of us.My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/699...
Peevish hereditary peers are not qualified to make rules for the rest of us
It’s time for the 92 hereditary peers still sitting in the House of Lords to finally go
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
May 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The colourful life and mysterious death of the Marquess of Ailesbury reads like EastEnders scripted by PG Wodehouse. And is a timely reminder why we need to get rid of all hereditary peers from calling the shots for the rest of us.My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/699...
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Child Poverty Strategy delayed from Spring to Autumn 'at the earliest' as two child policy pushes 109 children a day into poverty (@CPAGUK figure) and disability benefit changes will add 50,000 bit.ly/43tLaHY will the cost of doing it buy enough votes, No.10 ponders
No 10 delays child poverty strategy with tens of thousands more facing hardship
Exclusive: Flagship policy put back until at least autumn amid fears cost of removing two-child benefit cap will outweigh political benefit
bit.ly
May 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Child Poverty Strategy delayed from Spring to Autumn 'at the earliest' as two child policy pushes 109 children a day into poverty (@CPAGUK figure) and disability benefit changes will add 50,000 bit.ly/43tLaHY will the cost of doing it buy enough votes, No.10 ponders
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Voters want Keir Starmer to focus on rebuilding trade ties with EU, poll reveals | Opinion polls
https://www.europesays.com/1990688/
A clear majority of UK voters want the government to concentrate on rebuilding trade ties with the EU…
https://www.europesays.com/1990688/
A clear majority of UK voters want the government to concentrate on rebuilding trade ties with the EU…
Voters want Keir Starmer to focus on rebuilding trade ties with EU, poll reveals | Opinion polls - EUROPE SAYS
A clear majority of UK voters want the government to concentrate on rebuilding trade ties with the EU over forging a new economic deal with the US, according
www.europesays.com
April 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Voters want Keir Starmer to focus on rebuilding trade ties with EU, poll reveals | Opinion polls
https://www.europesays.com/1990688/
A clear majority of UK voters want the government to concentrate on rebuilding trade ties with the EU…
https://www.europesays.com/1990688/
A clear majority of UK voters want the government to concentrate on rebuilding trade ties with the EU…
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We’ll do anything to get the UK economy growing ……..
……….. except the ONE thing that will make a material and measurable difference !!
🤦🏾🤦🏾
For goodness sakes, get Starmer to pick up the bloody phone and call Van Der Leyen - TODAY !!
There is no worthwhile deal with the US to be had !
……….. except the ONE thing that will make a material and measurable difference !!
🤦🏾🤦🏾
For goodness sakes, get Starmer to pick up the bloody phone and call Van Der Leyen - TODAY !!
There is no worthwhile deal with the US to be had !
April 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
We’ll do anything to get the UK economy growing ……..
……….. except the ONE thing that will make a material and measurable difference !!
🤦🏾🤦🏾
For goodness sakes, get Starmer to pick up the bloody phone and call Van Der Leyen - TODAY !!
There is no worthwhile deal with the US to be had !
……….. except the ONE thing that will make a material and measurable difference !!
🤦🏾🤦🏾
For goodness sakes, get Starmer to pick up the bloody phone and call Van Der Leyen - TODAY !!
There is no worthwhile deal with the US to be had !
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‘British Steel shut North East site after Richard Tice's firm threatened rent hike’
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
British Steel shut North East site after Reform MP's firm threatened rent hike
In recent days the Boston and Skegness MP has vocally called for the government to nationalise British Steel and save the firm's plant in Scunthorpe
www.mirror.co.uk
April 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM
‘British Steel shut North East site after Richard Tice's firm threatened rent hike’
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Labour still refusing to name the elephant in the room. What is the matter with these weak people?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Rachel Reeves calls for global free trade fightback to protect UK economy
New measures announced to help tariff-hit British firms amid ambitious plans to foster closer ties with EU
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Labour still refusing to name the elephant in the room. What is the matter with these weak people?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I didn't have an opinion on Blair. I was politically alienated, and I didn't think I knew enough to have an opinion anyway. I do now! And agree.
via @europeanpowell.bsky.social
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via @europeanpowell.bsky.social
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April 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I didn't have an opinion on Blair. I was politically alienated, and I didn't think I knew enough to have an opinion anyway. I do now! And agree.
via @europeanpowell.bsky.social
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via @europeanpowell.bsky.social
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It's really striking how both the EU and China negotiate with the US from a position of strength, while the UK negotiates from a position of "please sir, don't hurt us sir, please we are only small, please may we lick your boots"
April 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
It's really striking how both the EU and China negotiate with the US from a position of strength, while the UK negotiates from a position of "please sir, don't hurt us sir, please we are only small, please may we lick your boots"
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So, in the US, you can criticize the USA but not Israel?
Welcome to USI (United Slaves of Israel).
Welcome to USI (United Slaves of Israel).
April 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
So, in the US, you can criticize the USA but not Israel?
Welcome to USI (United Slaves of Israel).
Welcome to USI (United Slaves of Israel).
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My latest article, How and Why the UK Duopoly Embedded 86 Deregulated Free Zones with 'Secondary Legislation' is up on Substack.
Please subscribe and if you are able please take out a paid subscription❤️
open.substack.com/pub/european...
Please subscribe and if you are able please take out a paid subscription❤️
open.substack.com/pub/european...
April 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
My latest article, How and Why the UK Duopoly Embedded 86 Deregulated Free Zones with 'Secondary Legislation' is up on Substack.
Please subscribe and if you are able please take out a paid subscription❤️
open.substack.com/pub/european...
Please subscribe and if you are able please take out a paid subscription❤️
open.substack.com/pub/european...
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#Adolescence is now the most watched show on Netflix in 71 countries, according to the streamer (from Chile to Vietnam)
March 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
#Adolescence is now the most watched show on Netflix in 71 countries, according to the streamer (from Chile to Vietnam)
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Feed: "Vox Political"
By: Mike Sivier on Sunday, March 16, 2025
By: Mike Sivier on Sunday, March 16, 2025
Does Rachel Reeves actually need to take £6 billion from benefits?
Does Rachel Reeves actually need to take £6 billion from benefits? Or should she have more faith in her own investment plans?
voxpoliticalonline.com
March 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Feed: "Vox Political"
By: Mike Sivier on Sunday, March 16, 2025
By: Mike Sivier on Sunday, March 16, 2025
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i want labour to lose the next election more than i’ve ever wanted the tories to lose.
it’s gonna be fun watching labour beg ppl like me for votes at the next election.
once they realise they simply don’t have the numbers.
once they realise they simply don’t have the numbers.
March 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
i want labour to lose the next election more than i’ve ever wanted the tories to lose.
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I don't know or care if Starmer sees this
but 10,000 companies have ceased doing business with the EU because of Brexit.
It costs us £100 billion a year.
The City has haemorrhaged nearly two trillion in assets.
Food and medicine shortages continue.
But he wants to cut disability??
FUCK OFF.
but 10,000 companies have ceased doing business with the EU because of Brexit.
It costs us £100 billion a year.
The City has haemorrhaged nearly two trillion in assets.
Food and medicine shortages continue.
But he wants to cut disability??
FUCK OFF.
March 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I don't know or care if Starmer sees this
but 10,000 companies have ceased doing business with the EU because of Brexit.
It costs us £100 billion a year.
The City has haemorrhaged nearly two trillion in assets.
Food and medicine shortages continue.
But he wants to cut disability??
FUCK OFF.
but 10,000 companies have ceased doing business with the EU because of Brexit.
It costs us £100 billion a year.
The City has haemorrhaged nearly two trillion in assets.
Food and medicine shortages continue.
But he wants to cut disability??
FUCK OFF.
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And this guy's job is, just checking my notes, health secretary? Fucking sick. This labour party really is just the 2010 Tories wearing a shit disguise.
Wes Streeting: there is overdiagnosis of mental health conditions
Wes Streeting: there is overdiagnosis of mental health conditions
Health secretary says too many people are being ‘written off’ and that is driving ministers’ changes to welfare
The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has said he believes there is an “overdiagnosis” of some mental health conditions as well as “too many…
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
And this guy's job is, just checking my notes, health secretary? Fucking sick. This labour party really is just the 2010 Tories wearing a shit disguise.
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@darrenpjones.bsky.social If this happens, not only will you lose my vote, but your seat will almost certainly go Green. Regretfully. Starmer to drive through welfare cuts that could affect UK’s most severely disabled
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Starmer to drive through welfare cuts that could affect UK’s most severely disabled
PM faces backlash over plans to tighten eligibility, potentially leaving over 600,000 claimants £675 a month worse off
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
@darrenpjones.bsky.social If this happens, not only will you lose my vote, but your seat will almost certainly go Green. Regretfully. Starmer to drive through welfare cuts that could affect UK’s most severely disabled
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Starmer to drive through welfare cuts that could affect UK’s most severely disabled www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Tax the rich, don't punish the poor or disabled.
How difficult is that?
Fuck off, fake Labour, complete your circle jerk with your Tory brothers.
Tax the rich, don't punish the poor or disabled.
How difficult is that?
Fuck off, fake Labour, complete your circle jerk with your Tory brothers.
Starmer to drive through welfare cuts that could affect UK’s most severely disabled
PM faces backlash over plans to tighten eligibility, potentially leaving over 600,000 claimants £675 a month worse off
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Starmer to drive through welfare cuts that could affect UK’s most severely disabled www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Tax the rich, don't punish the poor or disabled.
How difficult is that?
Fuck off, fake Labour, complete your circle jerk with your Tory brothers.
Tax the rich, don't punish the poor or disabled.
How difficult is that?
Fuck off, fake Labour, complete your circle jerk with your Tory brothers.
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Yep. And Reeves. And Starmer. And Phillipson. And Milliband. Repeat ad nauseum.
There’s something exceedingly repugnant about Wes Streeting
March 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Yep. And Reeves. And Starmer. And Phillipson. And Milliband. Repeat ad nauseum.
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A foreign genocidal weapons arms firm has an "intelligence cell" to spy on British people in Britain soil, with the full blessings of their asset in No 10
Not only does Starmer allow this, he meets with the company, police and reps of the CPS to discuss cracking down on Palestine solidarity
Not only does Starmer allow this, he meets with the company, police and reps of the CPS to discuss cracking down on Palestine solidarity
Labour held secret meeting with top Israeli arms firm
Exclusive: Home Office met with Elbit Systems amid crackdown on Palestine Action, documents reveal.
www.declassifieduk.org
March 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
A foreign genocidal weapons arms firm has an "intelligence cell" to spy on British people in Britain soil, with the full blessings of their asset in No 10
Not only does Starmer allow this, he meets with the company, police and reps of the CPS to discuss cracking down on Palestine solidarity
Not only does Starmer allow this, he meets with the company, police and reps of the CPS to discuss cracking down on Palestine solidarity
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The headline overstates the claim (it's one line in a TV interview) but has he (or Kuenssberg) ever actually used a GP? Who is doing this alleged overdiagnosis? Nobody I've encountered
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Wes Streeting: there is overdiagnosis of mental health conditions
Health secretary says too many people are being ‘written off’ and that is driving ministers’ changes to welfare
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The headline overstates the claim (it's one line in a TV interview) but has he (or Kuenssberg) ever actually used a GP? Who is doing this alleged overdiagnosis? Nobody I've encountered
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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There is no economic need for any austerity or welfare cuts.
Since 2010 HMRC failed to collect between £500bn and £1,400bn of taxes
That doesn't include £bns lost due to corporations shifting profits offshore.
Indulgence of corporations/rich is cause of misery for millions.
Since 2010 HMRC failed to collect between £500bn and £1,400bn of taxes
That doesn't include £bns lost due to corporations shifting profits offshore.
Indulgence of corporations/rich is cause of misery for millions.
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 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
There is no economic need for any austerity or welfare cuts.
Since 2010 HMRC failed to collect between £500bn and £1,400bn of taxes
That doesn't include £bns lost due to corporations shifting profits offshore.
Indulgence of corporations/rich is cause of misery for millions.
Since 2010 HMRC failed to collect between £500bn and £1,400bn of taxes
That doesn't include £bns lost due to corporations shifting profits offshore.
Indulgence of corporations/rich is cause of misery for millions.
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This talented, brave young man has been fighting his corner for equal funding for deaf athletes for some years now. The Tory gov wouldn’t listen &, seemingly, neither will this one.
Their actions border on cruelty.
PLEASE could all you good people give him a follow. It would lift him enormously. 🙏🏻
Their actions border on cruelty.
PLEASE could all you good people give him a follow. It would lift him enormously. 🙏🏻
My X account has been suspended so I’m unable to post on there today. Trying to verify my account but until it’s sorted I’d be really grateful if you could give me a mention or retweet a previous post. Today is 1350 days since I started my campaign. 1350 days the govt DCMS have done nothing
March 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This talented, brave young man has been fighting his corner for equal funding for deaf athletes for some years now. The Tory gov wouldn’t listen &, seemingly, neither will this one.
Their actions border on cruelty.
PLEASE could all you good people give him a follow. It would lift him enormously. 🙏🏻
Their actions border on cruelty.
PLEASE could all you good people give him a follow. It would lift him enormously. 🙏🏻