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Can I say (or even spell) Streisand effect?
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#QuakerMeetingHouseRaid #UKPolice #UKPolitics
Youth Demand says more protesters have signed up since Quaker house raid
Group claims as many as 200 people have expressed interest in joining its action as arrests drive awarenessBen Quinn (The Guardian)
#brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ToryCorruption #Gammons #conservatives #rachelreeves #austerity #ReformUK #farage #nigelfarage
"The government has ... privately made clear it is prepared to cut or even abolish the digital services tax against major technology companies in exchange for tariff exclusions and further co-operation on artificial intelligence."
Times: "Starmer keeps his distance as Reeves takes tax and tariffs flak"
Another councillor's resigned.
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#UKPolitics #DisabilityBenefits
Welsh Labour councillor quits party over benefit cuts
A Welsh Labour councillor has quit the party in protest at the £4.8billion of benefit cuts announced last week by the Chancellor Rachel Reeves in her Spring Statement.Mark Mansfield (Nation.Cymru)
OMG Fartage is about to have his Stormy Daniels moment 🤣
Some porn star called Victoria Fox has a book coming out with a "tell-all" section about him.
When you've been in power for less than a year and you're getting trolled (accurately) by Michael Gove.
#UKPolitics #Liebour #ToryContinuityParty
A shift away from a test obsessed education culture and instead focusing on building a love for learning... Could very well reduce the overall long-term cost of SEND by making schools welcoming environments for ALL pupils.
It is a political choice that means none of this is happening now, like many of the ills that impact the least able to fight for themselves in our society.
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I could very well be wrong, but perhaps having at the national level, money spent to decrease classroom sizes significantly (20 or fewer pupils per class), policy changes that remove excessive and draconian school rules that cause extreme distress to neurodivergent pupils, sensible uniform policies... 1/2
Nearly 20 councils in England ‘at risk of insolvency’ due to Send costs
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Nearly 20 councils in England ‘at risk of insolvency’ due to Send costs
Exclusive: Councils say multibillion-pound debts caused by years of overspends on special educational needs supportPatrick Butler (The Guardian)
A Commonwealth vision to build Canada’s future
Diversification. As Canada’s relationship with the United States continues to deteriorate, we must look beyond our continental borders to secure our nation’s future prosperity.laurieb (Winnipeg Free Press)
When you've upset the Quakers have a good long hard look at yourself
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'Ridiculously heavy-handed' Metropolitan Police criticised after raid on Quaker meeting house to arrest protesters
One Quaker was incensed by how the police "flooded" the building - so much so that they pointedly did not offer the officers any cups of tea.Mickey Carroll, news reporter (Sky News)
These are the sorts of considerations Labour wants to ignore in sentencing in their Culture Wars attack on our Legal System
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#BlackMastodon #ACAB #ReeceRichards #UKPOL #UKpolitics #Labour
Actor Reece Richards condemns police watchdog over race decision on arrest
Sex Education actor criticises IOPC for refusing to consider race in investigation of officers who pepper-sprayed himAamna Mohdin (The Guardian)
"MPs are to vote in May on the government’s plans to cut disability support payments for hundreds of thousands of people over the next four years."
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#Austerity #TaiwoOwatemi #UKPOL #UKpolitics #Labour
Minister attacks expenses rules after Labour MP’s claim for ‘pet rent’
Watchdog accepted Taiwo Owatemi’s claim for landlord’s surcharge to let her keep dog in London flatKiran Stacey (The Guardian)
This Neville Chamberlain shit is getting the country nowhere, take Canada's lead and FIGHT BACK
#UKPOL #UKpolitics #Appeasement #Starmer #Tariffs #ElbowsUp
Hello? Democracy?
Does anybody get a say in who comes after Starmer?
yeeesh...
#UKPOL #UKpolitics #Labour #Starmer #WesStreeting
No one is holding their heads in a fixed position or forcing them to read anything in Irish. All the signage will also be available in English, for those who cannot tell the difference between Beal Feriste and Belfast.
🚮 aka Jamie Bryson is trying to lodge legal objection against Irish Language signage with the courts.
We have so many problems, not least the reduction in PIPs and other benefits, the negative effects of the new ETA, the problems being caused by the American administration worldwide; and this kind of bigotry is what gets them up in the morning. Sigh
#NIPolitics #UKPolitics #Brexit #Think32 #UI #IrlPol #UKPol
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DUP intends to put ‘marker down’ at Executive on Irish language signs at station
DUP ministers intend to “put a marker down” in the Executive in opposition to a decision to install Irish language signs at Belfast’s Grand Central Station, party leader Gavin Robinson has warned.By David Young, PA (BelfastTelegraph.co.uk)
All right for some, isn't it?
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#Labour #Sleaze #UKPOL #UKpolitics #Austerity
MP expenses £900 on 'pet rent' so her dog can stay at second home
Taiwo Owatemi, who grew up in South East London, frequently posts on social media about her dog BellaMy London
This is a LABOUR minister considering stripping human rights? The same one who authorised the kicking-down of the Quakers’ meeting house door by police to arrest a group of non-violent young women?
Sorry, for a moment I thought I was back in the miserable old times of a Tory government!
#uk #ukpolitics #politics
I've just been reminded of this legend. It's a few days short of the deathiversary, but ho hum.
Rest in power, Glasgow Granny ✊ 😂
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Labour group tells MPs they must be ‘on YouTube and TikTok’
Group asks influencers and popular figures to help party’s backbenchers engage audiences and challenge narrativesAletha Adu (The Guardian)
Friend just sent me this excellent short video from George Monbiot and Double Down News.
#Trump #Starmer #UKPolitics
The SINISTER Connection Between Trump and Starmer
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Here we go. They're coming for the HRA, a little tiny bit at a time ...
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Yvette Cooper reviews right to family life for people who enter UK irregularly
Government reviews use of human rights law to argue for people being allowed to stay, which PM called a ‘loophole’Kiran Stacey (The Guardian)
The lack of joined up thinking from this government is quite impressive.
"Our number one mission is to grow the economy, but the economy isn't growing enough. What can we do to fix it?"
"I know: let's increase the barriers in the way of people doing productive work!"
"Yes, of course, genius!"
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#Idiocracy #UKPolitics #UKEconomy #GDP #GDPGrowth
Gig economy bosses could face jail time if they fail to check employers can legally work in UK
The Home Office has announced a crackdown on illegal working which it claims will "undermine" people smugglers using "the false promise of jobs for migrants".Sky News
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The storm-battered chancellor needs her nextdoor neighbour to be a steadfast friend
Even if the UK manages to dodge the worst of Donald Trump’s tariffs, we will still suffer from the fallout of a global trade warAndrew Rawnsley (The Guardian)
From Dan Neidle at Tax Policy Associates:
Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement papers contain a major suite of anti-tax avoidance proposals, probably the toughest ever introduced. If enacted this will, in effect, criminalise the tax avoidance industry.
Why wasn't it referenced in her speech?
Why wasn't it mentioned in all he pre-and-post speech news and comment?
"It’s worth noting that, while governments have an obsession with efficiency, it’s still limited solely to cost-cutting. There seems to be little interest in, for instance, making access to #welfare payments more efficient, or #healthcare, or #childcare, as any parent who has battled on their laptop deep into the night trying to conquer the tax-free childcare scheme knows. No, efficiency is only important when attempting to immediately maximise profit."
🗳️ Nigel Farage as UK's Trump? Lib Dem leader warns against turning Britain into a 'Trump tribute act.' Thoughts? 🤔🇬🇧🇺🇸 #Farage #UKPolitics #TrevorPhillips #SkyNews #TheTrevorPhillipsShow
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Nigel Farage would turn UK into a 'Trump tribute act', Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey says
In a wide-ranging speech on the last day of his party's spring conference, Sir Ed Davey launched a furious attack on Donald Trump and Nigel Farage.Sky News
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National: "Wes Streeting takes £53k from private health recruiter pre-NHS job cuts"
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Nigel Farage would turn UK into a 'Trump tribute act', Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey says
In a wide-ranging speech on the last day of his party's spring conference, Sir Ed Davey launched a furious attack on Donald Trump and Nigel Farage.Sky News
Someone’s husband has to sign a report because their wife is in a ASSI.
People are arrested for holding a sheet of blank A4 in public
People are arrested for thinking about peaceful environmental action.
People are arrested for saying ‘Abolish The Monarchy’
People are jailed for years for standing on a motorway bridge
People are not allowed to defend their action in court and get long jail sentences.
This is supposed to be a democracy called the United Kingdom; but all these police and judicial actions are more like Russia or North Korea, or China.
#Labour #UKPolitics #LaborLaws
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Why seek to nix the financial regulations inspired by the 2008 crash, when the likely result is a repeat performance? Why reject a wealth tax, when a 2% levy on assets of over £10m could raise £24bn a year? Why not adopt the measures proposed by Patriotic Millionaires, generating £60bn a year? Or those suggested by political economist Richard Murphy, worth £90bn in tax revenue? Why abandon plans to tax non-doms properly? Why not demand an end to the Bank of England’s destructive quantitative tightening?
#ukpolitics #uklabour #rachelreeves
How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it
We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital, says Guardian columnist George MonbiotGeorge Monbiot (The Guardian)