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Bill Bramhall @BillBramhall on #RFKJr #RobertKennedyJr – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

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The UK has GPs desperate to work, and Labour won’t employ them www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...

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The Telegraph has disappeared this from their website, possibly out of mortal shame. You know what to do... (Link is to archive copy. The internet never forgets.) archive.is/2025.05.25-1...

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“Since at least the 1920s, policymakers have been making the argument that tax cuts will partially pay for themselves,” said historian Joseph Thorndike. “The argument that cuts pay for themselves is not supportable, either in the economic literature or the historical literature.” on.ft.com/3ZqYj3a

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The ultimate irony of halving net immigration numbers: You can do it without reducing small boats crossings at all!! This is Nigel Farage’s immigration doom-loop & Starmer is up to his neck in the death trap like the Tories before him 🤦‍♀️

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Trump's budget is back on track after Speaker Johnson made concessions to GOP hardliners on Sunday. The holdouts demanded the bill's devastating Medicaid cuts — already the largest in history — be made even deeper and faster. Their priorities couldn’t be clearer.

submitted 11 days ago • 138 comments

I still think represents the most shocking void in the UK’s COVID response - when the largest biomedical facility offered to undertake testing (many universities did the same) the government didn’t even answer. The cost would have been minimal. But no profit for private companies… is that it?

submitted 11 days ago • 88 comments

Well done Labour Anyone who thought you represented real change now despises you. Anyone who didn’t, still won’t. People who weren’t that convinced but hoped for the best are out of patience. You’ve managed to turn off everyone. Quite the achievement!

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CNN are brutally honest about the trade deal we agreed with the USA. As they highlight, it wasn't really a deal, but an agreement to talk towards agreeing various things. The real thing could take months or years or not happen at all.

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There's no US trade deal. This is not an argument about semantics or about whether it qualifies as a "deal". It's more fundamental than that: yesterday was a lie. All that has been agreed is a non-legally binding framework for discussions towards a possible future deal. www.gov.uk/government/p...

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“Chaotic and lacking detail, today’s announcement neatly demonstrates why trade with Trump’s erratic and unpredictable administration should be treated with extreme caution." - @pimlicat.bsky.social www.bestforbritain.org/tariff_deal_...

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I need you lads to understand that Europe has an average birth rate of about 1.4 No charismatic politician bothered to tell you how fucked that makes us. But as we get older, we need more care, more GP appointments… Without immigration we will have no pensions very quick.

submitted 25 days ago • 102 comments

There is a depressing predictability to this. Of course Labour's takeaway from the locals was to "be tougher on people seeking asylum", because small boat landings are obviously such a major issue in Runcorn. Why do the hard work of implementing policies which actually benefit people after all.

submitted 27 days ago • 10 comments

It's really not Reform UK that Labour needs to worry about... (Chart from www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... )

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

Yep, that’s definitely a vote winner for me! 😟 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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A new report found that Elon Musk faced at least $2.37 billion in potential legal liability from 11 federal agencies on inauguration day. Many are now on DOGE's chopping block or have dropped their investigations into Musk's corporations. "Conflict of interest" is an understatement.

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The same Tony Blair has been paid to advise oil rich autocratic states including Azerbaijan, UAE and Kazakhstan This should be included in every story about his net zero comments www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 30 days ago • 60 comments

Last tickets left for my shows at Norwich Arts Centre on April 30th and May 1st. Please come along norwichartscentre.co.uk/event/john-c...

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

Why Labour's strategy of endlessly alienating its natural supporters, while conceding almost every argument to its opponents on the right, is a recipe for defeat www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/five-years...

submitted 34 days ago • 59 comments

See the problem here?

submitted 36 days ago • 421 comments

Pushing kids further into poverty because you don't have the balls to raise taxes is a helluva play from a Labour Government. I'm a centre left progressive. If you're pissing me off, you're in deep trouble with your core demographic.

submitted 38 days ago • 4 comments

I feel increasingly disconnected from the party I voted for and had such high hopes for. Did we give them a mandate to cos-play Reform-lite? I want them to lead and argue for their vision instead of chasing polls. Oh and charge me more income tax instead of penalising kids & disabled people

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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

submitted 44 days ago • 662 comments

The Trump regime's repeated attacks on "DEI," "wokeness," immigrants, and the trans community have one clear purpose: If we are angry at each other, we don't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.

submitted 43 days ago • 94 comments

Ah lovely. Another bag of rubbish gets tipped into the House of Lords. The place must absolutely reek of stale Tory failure, corruption and abuse of power. Honours handed out like sweeties to some of the most undeserving, underachieving, overpromoted clowns and liars to have ever held public office.

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The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

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Our Osbornian overlord has spoken, and we must comply. That was the clear impression from the tweaks we saw at the Spring Statement, writes Labour MP Jonathan Hinder The tinkering makes you wonder whether, as a country, we have grasped the enormity of the crisis facing our economic policy?

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My latest oped for LBC. On how we have it all back to front with the US and EU 👇 www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

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How about we bring two very rich people on to the show to be interviewed by the very rich Justin Webb so they all can agree that taxing rich people is a bad idea! Wouldn't that be a good section for 'the flagship news programme of the BBC'? #r4today

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Well, the US will have to decide whether it wants allies or believes it can go alone while insulting every other country. Because if it is the latter, buying US military equipment would be daft. www.reuters.com/world/us-off...

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As of right now Toyota Price/Earnings = 6.9 Tesla Price/Earnings = 136.7. Make it make sense!

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Want to know how Trump gets in? Just look at the coverage of Le Pen iandunt.substack.com/p/want-to-kn...

submitted 59 days ago • 29 comments

obviously trying to find intellectual rigour in their arguments is a fool's errand but christ how can you both go for "we need to restore trust in politics" and "oh naturally we should let the woman who committed several crimes run for office"

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“My Party Today Would Not Create the NHS”: Labour MP Condemns Government Refusal to Look at 'Who Owns Our Water' – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/03/31/m...

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Another guardrail who might have proved an obstacle to the increasingly anti vaccine agenda led by RFK has stepped down unable to take the misinformation and lies RFK is seeding

submitted 61 days ago • 3 comments

@theleaduk.bsky.social Saturday newsletter is here, where I explain why more cuts is more austerity, regardless of what Labour might claim Subscribe and read below 👇 open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...

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Here's the son of a former KGB spy, who Boris Johnson overruled secret service advice in order to hand a seat in the House of Lords, calling a piece blaming Russia's invasion of Ukraine on NATO a "great and very well informed read". "Good to see Russia's point of view is no longer taboo", he says.

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🔴 How the Media Distorts the Public Debate on Irregular Migration in the UK New research shines a light on how a disproportionate focus on ‘small boats’ by the press and politicians shapes how migration is seen by the public bylinetimes.com/2025/03/14/i...

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Completely agree with this!

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When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies. Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE. Funny how that works, huh?

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Green ambitions. UK govt planning to cut funding for GB Energy, the state-owned company set to drive renewable energy. Cut from £28bn to £15bn to £8.3bn to ?? Another win for fossil fuel companies. Manifesto pledge?? How long will Ed Miliband remain in the cabinet?

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Please read this thread and show it to any pals who are worried about measles vaccines

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Why the need to keep punishing people for poor political decisions? Time - particularly now - to correct those decisions, remove ruinous red lines and breathe life into the economy again. There is no mandate at all to continue with Austerity in order to protect Brexit. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 86 days ago • 60 comments

Temerko was the guy who conspired with Boris Johnson to topple Theresa May. He also told Catherine Belton that a 'group of European businessmen' had persuaded Johnson to back Brexit. So perhaps not advice to be followed here

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