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It sounds so simple, just basic common sense. So why is it so hard for Labour to understand?

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

New ONS figures show job vacancies have fallen by 42,000 between Feb and April 📉 Disabled people who are able to work already find it more difficult to find suitable work that accommodates their needs. The fall exposes the need to rethink plans to cut disability benefits. 1/2

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I want border control. I want a functioning asylum and immigration service. I want us to be the nation that plays its part in standing up for the rights of others as we would expect others to do for us. 1/2

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments

Good. Let’s hope that more will follow suit.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

🚨🌱 The UK Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Proportional Representation is about fairness and making sure that who gets elected really reflects what people want. But it's also about more than that: creating a new kind of political culture where diverse voices can be heard and work together. Well put, @carolinelucas.bsky.social.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

When they talk about real ones, they will be talking about Fiona Apple forever.

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

An excellent couplet of posts from Mr Monbiot, someone with whom I don't always agree. But he's spot on here.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

No, no, no, Wes! We want you to start narrowing the inequality gap, meaning that you don’t put the burden on those with lower incomes. THAT’S when those who voted you into power will begin to feel the benefit. Some of those have already gone against you, so win them back, not ardent Reform voters.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Rubio and Vance tweeting in defense of the German far-right party, the AfD. We are in a very, very dark place.

submitted 20 days ago • 318 comments

While he is largely irrelevant at present, it is notable that the language of Shadow Lord Chancellor Robert Jenrick is nearly identical (if less illiterately expressed) in his ongoing personal attacks on individual judges. A disturbing trend for the rule of law.

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

Congrats to my friends at #FlightGlobal for this excellent headline: www.flightglobal.com/air-transpor...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

For 100 days I've been saying "why are we even trying, we should focus on Europe", and loads of people have told me I'm foolish. I'm definitely foolish about lots of things. But I'm right on this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 23 days ago • 27 comments

National League Cup winners 2024-25 — @leedsunited.com U21s, with a 2-1 win at Sutton United. Splendid sunny evening in front of just over 3,000 spectators (I estimate about 400 Leeds fans). Some great skill on show from our youngsters, including a winning goal from Harry Gray.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Great turnout by fellow @leedsunited.com fans to see the U21s at Sutton in the National League Cup final. 1-0 up at HT. #ALAW #MOT

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

More lies from Farage, Who's surprised?

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submitted 28 days ago • 12 comments

"I don’t think any of us can presume to know what the position of the White House will be six days from now, let alone six months from now. By contrast – what is certain is that the EU will remain the UK’s largest trading partner." @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social 👏

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

THE TIME HAS COME -- Private shareholders made dividends of £3.6 billion from owning our trains in the last decade. Yet the government is leaving our trains fully privately owned. Sign We Own It's petition to call for trains to return to public ownership: weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw

submitted 35 days ago • 247 comments

Shocked!

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

This is always where it was headed and we can't trust retailers like Amazon not to comply. Shop your local indies, support your local library, and as always fuck fascism.

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

This is vile by @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social How the hell can he justify this discrimination?

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Extraordinary! The great @aiannucci.bsky.social would have been hard pushed to come up with something like this for Veep or The Thick Of It. substack.com/@lucy456751/...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Seriously, who voted for this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=_65n...

submitted 42 days ago • 413 comments

Illuminating thread!

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

As a criminal defense attorney, the vast majority of my cases were NOT immigrants. So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House. The hypocrisy is outrageous.

submitted 43 days ago • 971 comments

One cheer - many more if Mone gets nicked.

submitted 44 days ago • 18 comments