rwdwhite.bsky.social
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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These people at Reform are dangerous, happy to lie when it suits them and will recreate Trump’s America here if elected.
The millionaires that run Reform aren’t interested in doing what’s best for the people, they just want power.
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Thank you for this. Staff at my local pharmacy have been superstars and provided me with an uninterrupted supply of Creon up until now.
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What, you mean the press is lying? Well I never!
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I think we all accept there are parents who can’t afford to feed them, give them a bed to sleep in and keep them warm.
There are many reasons for this, however, when we ignore the children in these situations we are no better than barbarians. The children didn’t ask to be born into poverty.
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We are so f***ed. Please, Starmer, find some courage and do your job.
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The assumptions around NHS efficiency are absurd, AI is not going to fix the NHS.
It’s crippled after 14 years of cuts and neglect and Streeting’s billions are going to private healthcare.
Starmer’s Labour are deluded.
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Why can’t Britain join the customs union and reverse the hell of the last 9 years?
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This is not the Labour Party, the party of Attlee, the party of Blair even. It is the party of establishment status quo, the right wing status quo. We voted for change after the last 14 years, Starmer et al are not delivering.
Britain cannot survive like this.
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I think the replacement bus service is a nice idea in principle. However, who, in their right mind, thought it was a good idea to transfer passengers from a packed 8-carriage train into a 50 seater bus?
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You’re right and I think the answer is possibly to do with the Robbie Gibb and his malign influence on the BBC. I think many of the current board are right wing politically so are quite suggestible.
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The most frustrating thing about this is that the government could put a stop to this with a pen stroke. They won’t because they don’t want to upset Farage supporters.
They’ll just sit spectating until it’s too late.
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I agree, it does look as though they’re trying to buy off pensioners which, I suppose, is like governments of all stripes.
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When I first heard this figure I immediately doubted it because it sounds far too high.
So unlike Reform to exaggerate something like this.
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The gov doesn’t want to be tough on the destructive water companies. The think tank, Common Wealth, has done a detailed report on how the gov can take water co’s into special administration without paying vast sums.
The government have refused to acknowledge the report and opted for status quo.
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Indeed, although it’s becoming impossible to describe Starmer’s Labour Party government as left wing. He does and says things that would make the Tories blush.
Incidentally, I describe Farage as a Tory as he’s ostensibly a Thatcherite cosplaying Trump. This is getting silly!
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I’m puzzled by this. Have they calculated that £35k is the minimum needed for the basics of life?
If so, why are they cutting disability benefits for people who will never be able to work? Of course, some on PIP will be able to work but many won’t.
This is a blatant attack on the disabled.
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Thank you very much for this, that’s really encouraging.
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This is excellent news. It’s not all the protected marine environments but progress nonetheless.
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The reason Labour are getting no credit is because they promised change yet have continued with the broken Tory approach to the economy.
They’ve continued with the Tory Freeports/SEZs and are spraying £64bn on business incentives.
The NHS uplift is being spent on private healthcare.
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Thank you for this, it’s a powerful poem and makes it sound as though little has changed.
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I agree, Reform would just be a worse version of the right wing establishment.
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She’s horrendous. I find it worrying that she used to be a magistrate, the vetting procedures are obviously not very tough.
This is not the first time she’s been at the centre of controversy, whilst serving as a magistrate in 2018, she was reprimanded by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office.
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I’m a car driver in London and can’t understand the fuss about LEZs and 20mph because they’re improving our quality of life. I think some people think of a car as a sign of their virility and, if you’re not driving fast, you’re weak.
Anyway, you’re lucky in many areas if you can get up to 20mph.
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…to put a stop to the killing.
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Are there any major economies in the West that aren’t complicit in the slaughter of innocents by Israel?
I can’t understand why leaders are still happy to provide the hardware and logistical support that Israel uses to prosecute its slaughter.
Anywhere else in the World a task force would be sent…
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I was impressed by Merz at this meeting, he wasn’t scared to correct Trump.
Typical Trump, he at one point said it was a bad day for Germany because they’d lost the war and Merz explained it was actually a good day because it freed Germany from the Nazis.
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Although it makes for column inches, it’s a sad indictment on the state of the World.
Can’t see it ending well for Musk, anyone remember the tech billionaire, Jack Ma? Vast sums of money provide no protection in a dictatorship.
I’d still like to know how Musk won Trump the election though.
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Mine too, however, I think they’re worse than Tories - they’re more closely aligned to the politics of Trump.
They suggest they’re representing the socially conservative working class although it’s a working class that no longer exists and if you scratch the surface they favour the wealthy/big bus.
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I agree, negativity is never a good strategy for an incumbent. Surely, it would have been better to establish why people were favouring Reform?
Looks like a significant number of Reform votes switched from the Tories (the Tory vote in ‘21 was 6332) but there must have been other voters too?
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I agree and it’s because the SNP/Greens see independence as a way of blunting the extremists.
Presumably, with indie, they would have enquiries on foreign influence/money, rejoin the EU, be able to fund their HS and other priorities, etc. Reform live off resentment, kill that and they’re finished.
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Having a quick scan of the figures, it looks like Reform have replaced the Tories. Combining the progressive vote (Labour, SNP, etc) it’s double the populist/extremist vote.
Whilst it is a matter of concern that Reform are in the ascendency, how much of this is due to the media treatment of them?