Again, regardless of the actual policy (and I do think there's value in thinking on how you can have most impact on a constrained budget), the rhetoric is horrible and goes against everything I voted for www.theguardian.com/politics/202... - ThreadSky

chrischirp.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Again, regardless of the actual policy (and I do think there's value in thinking on how you can have most impact on a constrained budget), the rhetoric is horrible and goes against everything I voted for

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/13/labour-defend-aid-cuts-claiming-uk-days-global-charity-over

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fionaandrews.bsky.social•3 days ago

The idea of seeing it as just charity is so simplistic
Are we now as determined to throw away our soft power as Trump is?

jandehn.bsky.social•3 days ago

Left-leaning voters have no choice but Labour. Right-leaning voters have no choice but the Tories. This is the reality of FPTP. Starmer does not give a toss about Labour supporters cos he knows they can’t go anywhere else. Electoral reform or this joke of a political duopoly continues forever.

milesmaxwell.bsky.social•2 days ago

Exactly so!

kfpm.bsky.social•3 days ago

Labour seem to be developing a habit of going against what people voted for.

martindrewry.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes, it's shameful framing and language. Also dangerously arrogant and patronising - basically saying that the Majority World needs the UK's expertise (as opposed to a fair distribution of power and wealth).
Just do as the UK 'advises' you and your problems will be over...

mesmerizedbyyangon.bsky.social•2 days ago

Policy as ignorant oafishness

mesmerizedbyyangon.bsky.social•2 days ago

As a global imperialist pillager, it was fine with itself.

leetaylorbythesea.bsky.social•3 days ago

They seem intent on losing members and voters

nicktheinventor.bsky.social•3 days ago

Like gravitational pull, when even the most well intentioned people get close enough to the ecosystem of “the state” they start to get shaped by its climate into believing that only this kind of politics is possible.

When they are as malleable and empty as these guys, transformation happens so fast

hotchkiss13.bsky.social•3 days ago

If these foreign children didn’t want to die they shouldn’t have been born into poverty. The latest labour aid policy.

koenig-jakob.bsky.social•3 days ago

Also strategically stupid when USAID has been shut down and China is eagerly expanding their influence & soft power through aid.

mesmerizedbyyangon.bsky.social•2 days ago

The world would rather have China as a friend. I would.

doseydaisy.bsky.social•3 days ago

Who the hell does Labour comms. There's a saving to be made right there!

bowl200.bsky.social•3 days ago

Whatever happened to soft power or respect for people? Labour now barely more than the left wing of Reform UK.

bakerbhoy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Did you not see this coming 🙈 and you're a professor

tetherin.bsky.social•3 days ago

Entirely my problem with the announcements yesterday too.

We need to fix an immigration system run down by the Tories so that it caters for the needs of the country/economy , protects prospects for citizens, and is humane to those who need help.

We don't need the Faragist soundbites to dress it up

leafymorgan.bsky.social•3 days ago

Apart from anything else (the moral and practical good the aid budget offers), the development sector employs tens of thousands of people in the UK and generates hundreds of millions in export earnings. It’s just dumb to kill it.

ricclegg.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s appalling and pathetic. I’m so angry.

denys-whitley.bsky.social•3 days ago

There's a complete absence of what I have always thought of as 'British values' in the current Labour government. Such a lack of compassion and empathy.

They really are strangers as far as I am concerned.

mesmerizedbyyangon.bsky.social•2 days ago

Don't delude yourself. We never had those.

denys-whitley.bsky.social•2 days ago

Some of us did.

mesmerizedbyyangon.bsky.social•2 days ago

We've spent a lot of hot air announcing as British what are universal values of decency and care. It's a very British thing to eviscerate children in Gaza...our reconnaissance flights & our MPs taking the cash. So British. Yet, here we are demanding someone we have values.

curlewcurlew.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's so patronising, offering 'incredible expertise' to countries we asset-stripped, and whose climate, soil and water we continue to pollute, whose people we continue to exploit.

(And Prof, what's done is done - but please support the Green Party now)

lawlerlj.bsky.social•3 days ago

Whoever is writing this stuff needs to be sacked.

steviegogo.bsky.social•3 days ago

We're a charitable nation that has elected governments that repeatedly choose not to make the rich pay their fair whack.

Labour = Red Tories

✅ Vote Green

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