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UK Govt assault on the poor & disabled in context. In 2024-25, the govt spending £1,276.2bn. Benefit cut will save £1bn a year. Hardly significant. It can have up to £20bn by taxing capital gains and dividends at the same rate as wages, and charging NIC. But won't do it. Political choice.

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Kemi Badenoch, "Our party has a proud history of helping the country recover from crisis" Food bank usage over the 14 years of the Conservative gov 2009 - 26,000 2024 - 3,120,000

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Charities and trade unions have come out to strongly criticise the government's reforms to disability benefits

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Hello Canadian people! Could we swap prime ministers?

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This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.

submitted 2 days ago • 133 comments

We really need to move beyond right wing vocab. They’re not “benefits” they’re a poverty safety net, or top up wages. It’s not efficiency. It’s austerity. And can we plz get someone ANYONE to explain clearly why they won’t consider a wealth tax? All answers default back to “efficiency” and “cuts”

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Where's the evidence that mental health is being "overdiagnosed"?

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There is no economic need for any austerity or welfare cuts. Since 2010 HMRC failed to collect between £500bn and £1,400bn of taxes That doesn't include £bns lost due to corporations shifting profits offshore. Indulgence of corporations/rich is cause of misery for millions.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

morning

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The narrative around Canada is nuts. Canada is a wealthy independent country. It is part of the common wealth. It's head of state is the king and yet the narrative is 'can Carney save it becoming the 52st state'. What's happened to our media? Bonkers. I support Canada

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It’s wealth that needs reform, not welfare.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

America’s big mistake was ultimately that it completely believed all the movies it made about itself.

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A wealth tax called for in Parliament… The PM thinks we can get growth without it. I say we do both: get growth and fix our broken tax system. 🎥 Politics Joe

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

This, from a DWP press release yesterday (gov.uk/government/n...), is outrageous In two short paragraphs it peddles multiple falsehoods about the current system that will be used to justify upcoming cuts & changes Here's what MPs & journalists should be challenging... 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

So Teslas are fossil-fueled after all.

submitted 8 days ago • 39 comments

So much if this stems from religion, that somehow we are deserving of the suffering. It's fucking ridiculous. It's even used as an excuse to cutback funding for health care and housing. Damned disgraceful

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

United Utilities dumped raw sewage for 6,327 hours last year in Lake Windermere, England’s largest lake. It has over 205 criminal convictions. Boosts profits, dividends, exec pay by sewage dumping. Allowed to hike prices by 32%. Nationalise. Prosecute directors. archive.ph/23xXb

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

Badenoch wants “to shift immigration powers from courts to Parliament and elected ministers, enabling more effective control over our borders" Giving politicians the power to disapply human rights law for people they think their voters don’t like… What could go wrong? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 10 days ago • 107 comments

America will never recover from the shame it has brought upon itself this week.

submitted 11 days ago • 216 comments

Wait, so after a couple of weeks moaning that Duffy should be dropped, we’re now moaning that Duffy was dropped? Righto… #ncfc

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Tax avoidance is the bigger problem. I'm sick of governments trying to turn the lowest 50% of UK earners against itself

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

MAGA freak on #r4today defending JD Vance by echoing far right talking points from the UK - calling migrants an invasion. Are we joining the dots yet? They want our anger directed at homeless foreigners instead of the billionaire bully boys who are looting the whole world.

submitted 13 days ago • 52 comments

Once again this government's dreadful priorities laid bare - making billions available for defence at the expense of those already struggling to make ends meet. Greens will fight tooth and nail against cruel, unnecessary welfare cuts. news.sky.com/story/billio...

submitted 14 days ago • 30 comments

The absolute worst thing that could ever have happened to the US was it convincing itself that nothing bad could ever happen to it. (Because God, Manifest Destiny, the Founding Fathers, etc, etc.)

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Peter Thiel wants to abolish democracy. His money and influence have propelled Vance into his present position.

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He is doing more for British unity than More in Common.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Being called “Woke” for me is an honour not an insult.. as much as the far right would love it to upset me 🤷🏼‍♂️ What about you❓

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

It is moments like this that really bring home how unutterably awful it was to allow events* to create a national mood in which Boris Johnson & Liz Truss could become Prime Minister. Imagine they were in the post right now… *Brexit

submitted 17 days ago • 164 comments

How quickly they forget. #LindseyGraham #9/11 #Iraq

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Perspective.

submitted 18 days ago • 109 comments

Oliver Darcy has some very good points here

submitted 19 days ago • 563 comments

People assume they’ll be the exception. That disability, poverty, homelessness won’t befall them That if something “bad” happens, they will be able to “try harder” their way out of it. This false belief allows them to blame the ones who are suffering, instead of the oppressive systems that trap us

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The embrace and protection of Andrew Tate at the highest level of US government tells you everything you need to know about this rotten administration. They worship at the altar of abusing women and girls. Their version of morality supports sex trafficking under the guise of camming

submitted 20 days ago • 320 comments

Privatised water has failed. Just look at your water bills or the sewage pouring into our rivers. Steve Reed - include public ownership as an option in your independent commission on the water sector. Sign the petition weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...

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220,000 Romanian Jews were murdered in WW2. And here we are 80 years on

submitted 20 days ago • 41 comments

A Southwest Airlines plane was forced to abort its landing this morning after a private jet taxied in front of it across the runway at Midway Airport in Chicago. Whatever that guy from The Real World is doing with the FAA has gotta stop.

submitted 22 days ago • 1064 comments

The shame of it.

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submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

"how can you have an opinion if you are not informed?" What Arendt didn't foresee was there would be a large & growing cohort of preternaturally stupid people who are told by grifters and political opportunists that there wholly uninformed opinions are equally as important as any other #r4today

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment