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The Russia Report was released, but heavily redacted. It won’t be released in unredacted form. More importantly - it’s now obsolete & too narrow in scope for the current threat environment. What we need now is a comprehensive review of all foreign interference in UK democracy.

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Scotland’s electricity exports worth £3billion. talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/05/25/u...

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UK Civil Service told to slash running costs by 15%, £2bn. What would that be - cuts in airport safety, minimum wage inspections, health and safety, child welfare, flood defences, river cleanliness, benefit assessment? Policy on the hoof pays no attention to human cost.

submitted 76 days ago • 54 comments

Living standards for all UK families set to fall by 2030, those on the lowest incomes declining twice as fast as middle and high earners. Poorest in UK already worse off than poorest in Malta. Govts appease corporations and the rich. Must end neoliberal policies. Redistribute. Tax the rich.

submitted 76 days ago • 27 comments

So tax breaks for tech bosses and welfare cuts for the disabled

submitted 76 days ago • 215 comments

Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says

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Alan Sugar, "Brexit was a total absolute disaster, and anybody who says it's not is deluded" Amol Rajan, "What do you think it would take to get this country growing again?" Alan Sugar, "Go back into the European Union"

submitted 78 days ago • 99 comments

If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media. But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.

submitted 79 days ago • 273 comments

The UK would now want to rejoin the EU by 55% to 33% Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.

submitted 79 days ago • 616 comments

Lord Bamford owes £500,000,000 to HMRC he has retired from the House of Lords and fled. He expects his debt just like Michelle Mone's £232,000,000 debt to be written off. We must recover every penny from these thieves, and toss them in jail.

submitted 81 days ago • 70 comments

As we wake up to the news of another 200 Palestinians (minimum) killed by Israeli air strikes in a clear end to the ceasefire… Take note of this statement via The Guardian:

submitted 82 days ago • 20 comments

Keir Starmer to drive through welfare cuts for UK’s most severely disabled people, more than 600,000 benefit claimants could lose out on an average of £675 a month. Awful, inhumane. No cuts to corporate welfare, won't tax the rich. People sacrificed to gods of neoliberalism.

submitted 82 days ago • 59 comments

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

submitted 82 days ago • 544 comments

Don't hurt the old, poor, sick, disabled. Partners in accountancy/law firms treated as self-employed, pay Class 4 NIC. Employer NIC avoided. Rules save partners £138,000 for every £1m of profit shared. Big four law firms dodge £4bn NIC a year, billions more elsewhere. We can't afford the rich.

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“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, but only if they pay me 5 million dollars for my instant-citizenship Gold Card.💰” -Comrade Krasnov #GrifterInChief

submitted 94 days ago • 2044 comments

The EU retaliates. Meanwhile, maybe the UK will write a letter to Trump asking him not to be mean to us… cos “special relationship”… yawn. Brexit continues to weave its idiotic magic, turning our ‘sovereignty’ into simpering powerlessness. How ridiculous and ruinous those ‘red lines’ have become.

submitted 87 days ago • 51 comments

Sirens blaring in Kyiv. Thanks Trump - by removing intel & hardware, Putin is now sending drones to kill civilians every night in the capital. 🤬

submitted 89 days ago • 35 comments

That must be one of the most Orwellian statements ever. It’s bad enough to cut people’s benefits. To pretend some kind of higher “moral” duty while you’re doing so is insulting and offensive

submitted 90 days ago • 85 comments

The only beneficiaries of Trump's government are predatory oligarchs and corporations, the concierges who represent them, and the sadists empowered to hurt and kill. Everyone else will suffer, one way or another.

submitted 89 days ago • 41 comments

1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism? Here is an answer: Good Things. Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine. Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it. The more we build community, the less it can take root. 🧵

submitted 89 days ago • 81 comments

The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer. Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer. We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is. It will never reach you.

submitted 90 days ago • 47 comments

A new “European Movement Canada” is being built. 🇨🇦🇪🇺 "Canada must not be a spectator to history. Strengthening our relationship with Europe now is an investment in the stability and prosperity of our shared future.”

submitted 90 days ago • 253 comments

To revive economy UK govt must redistribute wealth. Bottom 50% of the population has 5% of wealth; bottom fifth has 0.5%. 1% have more than 70% population combined. Median wage is £29,604. Real average wage unchanged since 2008. Cut taxes on the bottom 50%. Tax wealth. End tax perks of the rich.

submitted 90 days ago • 57 comments

Politicians for Sale. UK political parties accepted £100m in donations in 2024. Donations are bribes made to exercise influence, subvert public choices and ensure that corporations/rich rule. Normal people can't compete. Can't cleanse politics without banning donations.

submitted 91 days ago • 31 comments

I’m trying to avoid politics on here, but this made me laugh

submitted 94 days ago • 9 comments

And now this…👇 Angry yet?! This. Once. Great. Country. Is. Weeping. ✨

submitted 95 days ago • 2390 comments

If Trump was President in 1940

submitted 96 days ago • 81 comments

Good morning all! 🇺🇦 Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻

submitted 96 days ago • 227 comments

The cognitive dissonance is almost impressive.

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Please share. 🙏🏻

submitted 97 days ago • 228 comments

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

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Well done France! UK next please!

submitted 102 days ago • 289 comments

“In a continent losing the security we relied on all our lives, trade disputes become trivial, Brexit an irrelevance. Merz is calling for Europe to come together in foreign, trade & security policy. Starmer ought to seize the chance and abandon fears of Brexiters” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 102 days ago • 107 comments

Mick Lynch wants a progressive wealth tax with the richest paying the same as everyone else on PAYE, 47%. That would bring in hundred of billions, it is time for the richest to pay what everyone else has been paying their whole lives.

submitted 105 days ago • 71 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 106 days ago • 576 comments

Any govt that allows this is not a government if the people. "An energy industry that has raked in a staggering £483bn in profits since 2020 continues to benefit from the system, leaving households trapped in an endless cycle of price hikes and financial hardship." www.bigissue.com/opinion/ener...

submitted 106 days ago • 4 comments

Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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'You should've never started it': Donald Trump FALSELY claims Ukraine started war with Russia www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

submitted 108 days ago • 96 comments

Donald Trump again mimics Putin and calls for an election in Ukraine - falsely claiming Zelensky’s approval rating was “at 4%” Recent polling in fact shows that Zelensky’s approval rating is better than Trumps Lets make sure everyone knows the truth youtu.be/QDagM0WWEP4?...

submitted 108 days ago • 64 comments

Boris Johnson: “The US under Trump is committed to a sovereign Ukraine” Trump: “Ukraine, you started this. Now Putin and I will decide this without you. Putin can have some of your land and we’ll have half your mineral reserves” Support Trump/Putin - be on the wrong side of history. Of everything.

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"As the lawyer for some of the UK victims of Tate’s alleged crimes, I find this development, if true, equally bizarre and outrageous... The US shouldn’t be interfering based on Elon Musk’s political whims and predilections and the money Tate makes for him on X." ~AA

submitted 109 days ago • 26 comments

Neoliberals say Rachel Reeves has three options to dodge an economic crisis. They ignore other choices. Help the less well-off - Abolish VAT on domestic fuel, cut std rate of VAT, increase personal allowance by £1,000, Tax the rich. QE for infrastructure.

submitted 111 days ago • 27 comments

🇺🇸❗️🇺🇦 The US seeks to control the extraction of rare metals and critical materials, including lithium, graphite and uranium, — WP 😳 Kyiv was shocked by the scale of the Trump administration's demands:

submitted 111 days ago • 51 comments

As an EU member, Britain could be the bridge between Europe and the US. On its own, and with Trump in power, it must choose. Because you can’t side with this America. You can’t excuse its tyranny. You can’t endorse its cruelty. You can’t agree to its terms. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 111 days ago • 39 comments

Europe has a message for Elmo.

submitted 134 days ago • 664 comments