#ukpolitics
Never lose sight of what the Tories do to everything they're ever allowed to be in power of. They demean, denigrate, corrupt, and pervert every ministry and every public institution they are permitted to worm their way into, to the point where the public can no longer rely on their own institutions to tell the truth.
The Tories should never be allowed to be in control of anything ever.
There's a TV trailer for Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins that's showing on Channel 4 these days. It features people of questionable levels of fame crying and in pain immediately after it shows that Matt Hancock is taking part with them. Brutal, and an understandable reaction.
"Political monsters do not arise from nowhere: they are built, brick by brick, in a collective effort. Whether Braverman herself is the next Tory leader or not, Bravermanism is the future of the British right"
Owen Jones on the normalisation of extremism in the Conservative Party.
#ToryBritain #UKPolitics #SuellaBraverman
@ProjectFearlessness but it’s true. If anyone wants to see a “no go area” in the UK, go to Portadown, Co. Armagh in the marching season.And the edgiest bit was the Unionist ghetto.
I now fear that because my street in Bristol lacks a gateway saying “1690 No Surrender” and we didn’t call our son Billy, there’s a risk #Braverman will declare us all un- British and send us to Belfast for re-education
#ukpolitics
New video:
Will the Government extend HS2 to Manchester?
#HS2 #comedy #funny #satire #ukpolitics #politics #RishiSunak
“If cultural change is too rapid and too big, then what was already there is diluted. Eventually it will disappear.”
Who said this?
On & on & on. The constant lying.
Tories: first tell the lie, then later quietly say "I misspoke" or, as in this case, have the paper that published your views apologise!
Overall, I think both #tory party and #labour party leadership are appallingly dishonest and unrepresentative
Which is worse for dishonesty - they are both terrible
Would you say #starmer is a good example of honesty in politics?
And both parties are way too enthusiastic to uncritically engage in military "adventures"
So when a politician speaks about #war and #refugees accurately and honestly its noteworthy
Depressing eh?
#militarism #starmer #UKPolitics
The #NHS in #England issued training materials to schools advising that teachers should out trans students to their parents, and that prevent any form of social transition without prior parental permission.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/is-the-u-k-government-coming-for-gay-people-next-f754e97a07a0?sk=eb71f667746785fa4d35ec50406dbbb1
Here we go again, Tories favouring the rich and doing nothing for those that are struggling. This time they want to get rid of the Inheritance Tax.
Despite the fact 96% of families will never pay it, and it brings in £7 billion a year for public services. 'Forecasts estimate this will rise to £15 billion in ten years.'
When will the Tories stop being so craven to their wealthy paymasters?
https://twitter.com/arunadvaniecon/status/1706817804446441483
#ukpolitics #dailymail #freespeech #daviddavies Never a great fan due to #brexit but at times he does speak the truth and on this matter he is correct.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/28/daily-mail-telegraph-uk-press-lord-rothermere-david-davis
It looks like we're getting close to the "Cones Hotline" stage of a failing Tory government.
"Films are a joy. But once you’re connected to politics, it’s hard to avoid taking part. The left has such potential, so many good people. To bring it together… if you could contribute to that, that’d be really something worth doing.”
Good interview with Ken Loach on the release of his latest film, politics and the Labour Party.
#KenLoach #Film #Movies #UKPolitics #LabourParty
Propaganda at play in the UK Prime Minister’s speech. Old tactics: invent an enemy then show you are combating it. Here it was about ‘scrapping taxes’ that were never govt policy. https://fullfact.org/environment/sunak-environment-proposals/?utm_source=Full+Fact+Newsletter&utm_campaign=55dc732e4b-28092023-Newsletter+%28week+4%29+-+With+Postcode&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-55dc732e4b-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D
I woke up this morning so, so angry and sickened by this Tory government's decision to allow the Rosebank oilfield to go ahead that I fired off two emails, one to my Tory MP and one to Keir Starmer.
The first is an obvious target, but why Starmer, you say?
"A categorical refusal to allow the project to proceed under a Labour government could squash it right now"
Chris Mason, Political Editor BBC News
Starmer is just as culpable.
#Rosebank #UKPolitics #Oil #Gas
Is Labour actually going to do any thing?
Labour backs down from plan to strip private schools of charitable status
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/27/labour-backs-down-from-plan-to-strip-private-schools-of-charitable-status
Rosebank oilfield: Fury as £3.75bn tax break ‘hidden in the small print’ #climatecrisis #ukpol #ukpolitics https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rosebank-oilfield-backlash-375-billion-tax-break-small-print-143458856.html
The local Tories have gone back to their vile leaflet design. A few things to notice:
* Sadiq Khan’s name in red. Compare this to Ulez. Ulez is clearly a dog whistle.
* On a similar note “Keep Havering a Town and Country Borough!” this replaces the early version “Keep Havering special”. The meaning in both is clear.
* Andrew Rosindell’s photo three times. He’s been fairly invisible for a while….
* “the safe hands of Andrew Rosindell” - no comment
* and the poll… wtf 😡
#ukpolitics
#rosebank is a crime, #sunak is a criminal-he should be remembered and condemned for his sabotage of the UK’s Net Zero plans. We are part of “Th Fossil Five” - those countries still trying to maximise oil and gas production and rationalise it away -and starmer isn’t doing anything to address this. All he should have to do is warn that all tax breaks will go and then the spreadsheets can talk for themselves.
A good tweet from Ben Chu.
Source: https://twitter.com/BenChu_/status/1706973692108898738
#Inequality #Wealth #Fairness #Redistribution #UK #Britain #Tories #UKpol #UKPolitics
James O'Brien's fiery reaction to Suella Braverman's 'multiculturalism has failed' speech | LBC
https://youtu.be/Up4stc6HODE?si=7_AW6Y8BFJdVH1zD
#UKPol #UKPolitics
#UKpolitics
It really is hard to believe anyone can be as horrible as Braverman.
Once again the government has come under fire for failing to hand over key evidence to the Covid inquiry
#Covid #Covid19 #CovidInquiry #Ukpol #UKPolitics #Government #Conservatives #UKPol
#sydenham #penge #Beckenham #ukpolitics
Lord Harris former Tory donor gives £5,000 to Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves. He claims she went to one of his academy schools in Beckenham but it was, in fact, the original Cator Park School for Girls. Cator Park is borderline Sydenham or Penge. Beckenham is a bit of estate agent stretch ;-)
Rachel still supports state education with a child at a local school and turns up for parent events. Maybe not so much next year ...
Outside of genocide, culture cannot "disappear". Culture always changes in a thriving society. Not everyone will always be best pleased with the rate of change or the source of its influences, but that is a different conversation.
For your own mental health and rage levels, please don't look at ANY of #SuellaBraverman's speech. It's one of the most hate-full, ignorant and deceitful things I've heard from a politician in a long while; and given what we've heard in the past few months alone, that really is quite something.
New video:
Embarrassed by the trains in Switzerland! (Live stand up clip recorded in Zurich)
#comedy #standupcomedy #switzerland #zurich #trains #ukpolitics #politics #funny
A builder, whilst having a dispute with a local authority about his attempt to convert an old pizza shop in Trowbridge has put up a groesque of the council leader on the side of the building.
Instead of being offended about it, the council leader is now using an image of it as his Facebook profile image
New video:
Suella Braverman on Refugees!
The Home Secretary is going to make a speech on Refugees - but what will she say? Top Correspondent Jonathan Goodenough has more...
#comedy #funny #satire #ukpolitics #politics #suellabraverman #immigration #refugees
In March, ORG and @the3million defeated the UK government for a SECOND time over attempts to deny migrants access to their data.
Now the government is appealing the decision.
✊We need your support to continue fighting the UNLAWFUL immigration exception ⤵️
#ukpolitics #migrants #dataprotection #GDPR
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/defend-migrants-data-rights/
Could the UK government’s cosy relationship with #SaudiArabia -where it’s not just “difficult to be gay” but illegal and a death sentence- have anything to do with this latest bigoted stance?
#UKPol #UKPolitics #LGBTQrights #HumanRights #refugees #AsylumSeekers
“Suella Braverman says being gay isn’t reason enough for asylum“
https://apple.news/AfoL3DNx9SMGd6kti66gIeg
Nissan will make the switch to full electric by 2030 in Europe. "We believe it is the right thing to do for our business, our customers and for the planet," said Nissan's chief executive Makoto Uchida.
Nissan is the only #UK manufacturer to have its own battery plant in the UK.
Nissan is also aiming for price parity with petrol cars by 2030 and is pioneering a cheaper all-solid-state-battery (ASSB), which charges more quickly.
#Nissan #ASSB #EV #ElectricCars #UKPolitics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66915440
"This [IEA report] is yet more confirmation from the world’s energy experts that we can’t have new oil and gas projects if we’re going to stay within a safe climate, and that massively scaling up renewables is key to achieving that.
“Yet the UK is part of a tiny club of wealthy countries that while professing to lead on climate is massively expanding oil and gas production"
Tessa Khan, Uplift
#IEA #COP28 #ClimateEmergency #FossilFuels #Oil #Gas #UKPolitics
#NetZero
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/26/staggering-green-growth-gives-hope-for-15c-says-global-energy-head
I live near Manchester, I periodically need to be in London. It's 200 miles / 330km away.
To take the train: £192 (220 EUR) + 3 hours each way.
Bus/Coach: £24 + 5h out, 7h back.
Fly: £127+ 3h each way.
Drive: £40 in petrol + 4h each way.
In France, to go from Paris to La Rochelle (300 miles) would take *3 hours* and cost *£90 / 100 EUR return* by train.
There's literally NO GOOD OPTION.
HS2, wherever it is extended to or not, was never designed to serve the north; this kind of project only ever serves to suck more resources into London.
The money would be far better spent on east-west northern high speed rail.
The Cost of Living Crisis No.4: Excessively wealthy very happy that the Tory government pland to end the building of a high-speed railway to the North. "Levelling Down" is the new Tory slogan.
#CostOfLivingCrisis #HS2 #railways #ukpolitics #uk #economy #Tories #ToryGovernment
US tech firm has been privately lobbying UK councils and police forces to scale up their surveillance using their AI-powered platform
#UKPol #UKPolitics #Ukpolice #surveillance #facialrecognition #Law
🏵️ Candidate lists for the Mid #Bedfordshire and #Tamworth parliamentary by-elections were published on Friday.
🗳️ Thirteen candidates are standing in Mid Bedfordshire, and nine in Tamworth.
👀 Take a look at the candidates on #WhoCanIVoteFor
https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/elections/parl.2023-10-19/uk-parliament-elections/
Quoting ...
Here in Manchester, U.K., we're waiting for the inevitable. PM Rishi Sunak is going to announce the scrapping of the HS2 rail link from London to Manchester. Then, without any sense of irony, he's going to get in his helicopter and make the journey from London to Manchester for Conservative Party conference.
Of course he is.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@ProjectFearlessness/111119147840952489
Looks like London is going to be a whole lot safer
#ACAB #Met #police #UKPolitics
There was a substantial amount of #inheritanceTax paid on my dad’s estate, which is still going through legal processes 16 months after he died. I just looked back at the calculations the solicitor sent us. I was very happy for them to pay this. I’d have been happy to pay more. I’m strongly opposed to any reduction in inheritance tax which favours the very wealthiest at the expense of the general population and its needs as a whole. Another appalling #RishiSunak #Tory plan. #Politics #UKPolitics
Null points for my local railway company on their feedback form :blobfoxannoyed:
Powerful column by Josiah Mortimer at Byline Times:
“It is as embarrassing as it is shameful. Businesses face more uncertainty, voters face higher bills, and the world keeps burning.
We are a nation adrift, as Sunak tries to steer the ship for a handful
of vested interests and blinkered climate deniers.
For all that Conservative motormouths rant about ‘Eco Zealots’, we
are seeing the real zealots at work.”
#ClimateChange #Environment #UKPolitics
Anyone remember the fiction that the Conservatives were "The party of law and order"?
It seems that a Facebook Group that praises and highlights law-breakers is run by a Tory Council Leader and contains a Tory Minister - Minister for Policing, no less.
As always with the Tories it's "one law for you and another for us".
https://insidecroydon.com/2023/09/19/policing-minister-member-of-online-group-that-salutes-vandals/
Rishi Sunak has quietly disbanded the government's energy efficiency taskforce, set up in March to speed up home insulation and boiler upgrades. This is yet another U-turn that will lead to higher bills for those in the least insulated and worst accommodation, that is, renters, the vulnerable, and the poor. No change there.
His oil, gas, and landlord donors really are getting their money's worth.
#EnergyTaskforce #NetZero #UKPolitics #InsulateBritain #ToryCorruption
@RichardJMurphy as someone who studied on the International Baccalaureate, I can wholeheartedly say that their subjects for mathematics were not particularly real world based. A heck of a lot of differential calculus. I would have much preferred a lot more focus on a subject like statistics.
Also, the IB will still be superior to whatever this government cooks up because it teaches independent thinking, media literacy and critical analysis skills.
Cash-strapped councils may seek to put disabled people in residential care to save costs, without regard for their wishes
Just more proof, as if any was needed, of how that horrid person Margaret Thatcher, poisoned the well of all that was good in Great Britain for decades to come.
Her evil legacy perdures.
#ukpolitics #thatcher #murdoch #corruption #conservatives #tories
As you get older, you become right wing and vote Tory. That is no longer the case. Chickens coming home to roost, dysfunctional housing system, life long student debt, wages diminishing in value, cost of living crisis, Brexshit, climate crisis . . . resulting in chronic anxiety about the future under Tory misrule.
#gttonow #ukpolitics https://archive.ph/1kUuf
https://www.ft.com/content/0374dcdc-7003-4473-9be0-8bc384db2ecc
“While the UK government has admitted it’s not possible to safely scan all of our private messages, it has granted Ofcom the powers to force tech companies to do so in the future.”
🗣 @JamesBaker, ORG Campaigns Manager.
Can you hear me you peers and privy councillors
I stand before you naked to the eyes
I will destroy any man who dares abuse my trust
I swear that you'll be mine
At the seven bins of lies
#ukpolitics
![A UK government banner (but not labelled as such) reading:
WE'RE STOPPING HEAVY-HANDED MEASURES:
[an addition has been made here which reads “all of which are completely fictional”]
Taxes on eating meat
New taxes to discourage flying
Sorting your rubbish into seven different bins
Compulsory car sharing
Expensive insulation upgrades
A new approach to reach Net Zero](https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/cache/media_attachments/files/111/102/164/887/272/715/small/550359470c42b3ad.jpeg)
"I think it’s fair to say that the international business and security communities here in New York are baffled.
Rishi Sunak has in one go alienated his strategic allies, exposed his citizens to higher costs from continuing gas dependence, and signalled that the UK is not a reliable place to invest in clean technologies.”
Ruth Davis, UK Adviser, COP26
"This action from Rishi Sunak is a disgusting betrayal of vulnerable people around the world, not to mention economic vandalism upon his own country,”
Mohamed Adow, Director, Power Shift Africa
“I find it shocking and really disappointing … I think he’s done the wrong thing. I’ve heard from many of my friends in the UK including a lot of Conservative party members who have used the phrase, ‘utter disgust’."
Al Gore
#RishiSunak #ClimateEmergency #UKPolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/21/al-gore-rishi-sunak-climate-crisis?CMP=GTUK_email
I don't normally post petitions but jeez, Sunak, WTF are you doing?
#UKpolitics #sunak #NetZero #ClimateEmergency
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/don-t-rip-up-plans-to-protect-the-planet
I was always on the fence about the idea that Sunak was bad at politics, but it takes a special kind of negative talent to be criticised by Ford for relaxing regulations on car manufacturers. #UKpolitics
I'm the councillor responsible for waste collection and climate change at #Guildford Borough Council, so I can safely say that, contrary to some claims made by #RishiSunak, never in a million years have there been any plans *or* suggestions to get people to sort their rubbish into "7 different recycling bins".
Draw your own conclusions from that about the accuracy of the rest of his speech.
Sunak cancelling invented policies for "7 recycling bins", "taxes on eating meat" and "compulsory car sharing" have all the sincerity and honesty of Truss's attacks on the imaginary anti-growth coalition.
#SunacksATwat #NetZero #UKPolitics #GTTO #EmbarrasedToBeBritish
Alternative media #NovaraMedia actually critiquing UK policy and not treating it like a soap opera
Sunak sounds like someone patronising a bunch of kids.
#UKPolitics