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Same as New Labour Mark I: if you have no ideas anyone likes or wants, because you are a gaggle of unpleasant twats who used your media clout to impose yourselves on the public, then you find you have nothing to say or do. So, you start banning and criminalising things instead.
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Research from @VerdantThinking showing that 1 in 9 UK households - 6.4m people - can’t afford the government’s recommended food stockpile picked up by the independent (story linked below)
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So Palantir buying a Labour Lord was good value for their money after all.
Cash for access. Stinks.
Palantir’s Tom Watson, ex-Labour MP, wrote to Yvette Cooper last month saying the controversial US company could help boost the UK’s tech sovereignty, letters show. Weeks later, sources say the UK is extending its NHS contract for two more years
bit.ly/4zrbMYF
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And around £1bn of the £1.7bn spent on PPE from VIP suppliers was wasted on supplies later deemed unfit to use.
This is a huge scandal.
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: After *five-year* legal battle, Democracy for Sale has forced the government to reveal who referred firms to lucrative Covid PPE ‘VIP lane’ for 'politically connected'
30+ senior Tories are named, plus ex Duchess of York, and many more 🧵
democracyforsale.substack.co…
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Cost of living protests spread to Germany.
Demonstrations have rocked Italy, Spain, Portugal, Albania and France.
Real problem is inequalities, profiteering.
Govts appeasing corporations and the super-rich, neglecting the masses.
The UK is no different
theguardian.com/world/2026/o…
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Pensioners won't pay tax on income of £13036.
A clawback taper on income between £13036 & £13319. Some to pay marginal tax at 53%.
Above £13319, personal allowance of £12570 will apply.
Workers on £13036 will pay income tax + NIC.
Complex & Divisive.
leftfootforward.org/2026/10/…
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📵 A ‘social media ban’ isn't a policy for children's online safety - it's a national ID scheme by the back door.
Here are five things the government will not tell you about a social media ban ⤵️
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A decision by the Burnham government that is absurd as it is dangerous. Banning Malm, one of the world’s leading climate scholars, from speaking at a public event and an academic conference is as blatant an attack on free speech as it comes.
The Home Office has blocked Andreas Malm from entering the UK.
Politicians, academics, writers and artists have condemned the decision.
Full story here: tribunemag.co.uk/2026/10/and…
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It really is *mad* that the global financial crisis (and the Cameron / Osborne response to the aftermath) is just utterly absent from any discussions about why we are where we are. We've never recovered
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Poundland, owned by US private equity firm Gordon Brothers, on brink of administration. 12,000 jobs at risk.
Gordon Brothers rejected a management-backed rescue bid. Probably thinks it can raise more from a breakup.
Destruction of town centres continues.
theguardian.com/business/202…
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Almost 90% of England's water companies are still acting illegally, still dumping huge amounts of sewage into our environment.
“People are sick of excuses,” screams Dame Angela Eagle. We've heard it all before and yet nothing, nothing changes.
One interesting note "The UK is one of only two countries in the world where the provision of water is fully privatised. The other is Chile, where water privatisation was imposed in the 1980s by a military dictatorship." Hmm? 🤔
theguardian.com/business/202…
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We need to decide if minimum wage is enough to buy a house with a garden of only you'd kick your avocado addiction, or if £100k + in take home pay is unlivable. It cannot be both.
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Painful' years ahead, as living standards set to fall.
Household disposable income to fall by £1,050 or 3% by 2029.
That is a political choice.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Redistribution is off the political agenda.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6z7…
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It is beyond ridiculous that this man is still a life peer and retains the Labour whip.
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Piers Morgan - Is it true that 4000 people have died in care homes, yes or no?... why are you laughing?.. what's the matter with you?
Helen Whately(care minister) - I'm not laughing
Piers Morgan - I just asked you if 4000 elderly people have died & all you can do is laugh
#GMB
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As a GP practice we lost a third of Nursing home residents in the first wave due to the decisions made by leaders to discharge infected patients to homes
It’s hugely concerning that this was done without mitigation of the risks
#BREATHTAKING
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In my Mother-in-Law's care home, 38 out of 52 residents
died, of Covid, 20 in 1 week. She died later with lungs destroyed by Covid (said by a doctor) but without a post mortem, it wasn't allowed to be on her death certificate.
Hancock, Johnson & others should be in jail.
Democide
UK Covid Inquiry
"The care sector was “an afterthought” during the Covid-19 pandemic, and government failures caused the virus to spread “like wildfire” among vulnerable and elderly people, a public inquiry has found." theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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One of the reasons people are so pissed off and at the end of their tethers is because the public get prosecuted and held to account for any little mistake whereas people who make catastrophic decisions motivated by greed etc get away with it. Politicians never get prosecuted.
UK public Covid inquiry rejects ministers' claims of 'protective ring' around care homes at start of pandemic bbc.in/4z4fU0E
