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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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Those are the only two sources for medical experts

submitted 17 hours ago • 249 comments

UK governments always look for a sweet spot in immigration policy- tough enough to win votes, not so tough as to hurt the economy - but always find the opposite- clumsy enough to damage business, not enough to impress Reformesque immigration-phobes. so depressing.

submitted 9 hours ago • 16 comments

The Labour Party message is: steal from the poor and give to the rich, the anti Robin Hood party. If the rumour is true the U.K. is dropping the digital tax for US tech giants. The disabled are paying for Elon Musk’s tax breaks.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

🇨🇦🤝🇫🇷 This makes me happy on so many levels 😊

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submitted 17 hours ago • 65 comments

Something that we should be asking our MPs is one very simple question: “Are you prepared to be complicit in killing disabled people through poverty?” Because that will be the result of their current proposals

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

🔥 Despite Reform’s surge, the overall swing in local elections in the East of England region was towards the broad left. Don’t let the media noise fool you. The right didn’t advance - it fragmented. Here’s how...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

They're just so full of it. The 'nature is a blocker to development' narrative – promoted by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, chancellor Rachel Reeves and housing secretary Angela Rayner – has been undermined by the government’s own impact assessment. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Labour might wonder why, less than a year into a new government promising “change”, people are giving up on it in droves. So let me help it out with a few clues. 1. Cutting disability benefits 2. Freezing Local Housing Allowance. 3. Maintaining the cruel, Malthusian two-child benefit cap .... 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 203 comments

This guy was a crook but he had a point

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Don't take it from me. Take it from the government's own assessment: Everything Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have said about nature protection blocking house building is big fat shining lie. A lie now being locked into legislation before Parliament. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Keir Starmer be like "you believe in progressive liberal policies? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, beating Reform in the polls" and then not beating Reform in the polls

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Labour considering a half-baked backtrack on winter fuel ONLY after realising it's electoral poison is… something. If you want to be trusted again: 👵Reinstate winter fuel payments in full 👨‍🦼‍➡️Abandon your deeply immoral welfare cuts 💰Wealth tax now

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

I was ready to accept a lot of disappointments from Labour in government but I wasn’t ready for them to sign up to insulting right wing tropes about universities, at a time when they need support more than ever. Disgusting

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Absolutely scorching letter about the Planning and Infrastructure Bill and the government's attempts to mislead us about its impacts. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

If UK Labour continues to be entranced by the fallacy that any Reform voters will start voting Labour if Labour becomes more like Reform, they’re doomed. You don’t outplay Tony Pulis football by playing like a Tony Pulis team.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments