Labour is playing to the fascists whilst hurting hundreds of thousands of people.
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Labour is playing to the fascists whilst hurting hundreds of thousands of people.
As the BBC has reported: Care workers will no longer be recruited from overseas as part of a crackdown on visas for lower-skilled workers, the h...
 Demonising migrants will never work for Labour. Farage will always do that better than Starmer. No one will be taken in, let alone fooled by what Labour is announcing today. So why are they doing it?
Why can’t the right questions about proportional representation be asked?
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Why can’t the right questions about proportional representation be asked?
Politics Home noted this yesterday: As the political landscape in the UK becomes more fractured, some politicians are already worrying about the c...
 We need proportional representation, and we need it now. So, why isn't it being discussed?
The US trade deal is a bad deal, and it has the potential to get worse
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The US trade deal is a bad deal, and it has the potential to get worse
This statement was issued by the White House yesterday on the UK/US trade deal, about which a great deal of uncertainty remains: President Tru...
 Someone should tell Starmer that sometimes (by which I mean usually, or even always) no deal is better than a bad deal, because that is what he's got with the USA.
Labour is destroying the NHS
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Labour is destroying the NHS
As The Guardian reports: Hospitals in England are cutting staff, closing services and planning to ration care in order to make β€œeye-wateringβ€...
 People voted Labour to save the NHS, not to destroy it, but that is what it is doing, and it is clearly doing so deliberately and with determination. In the process. Labour is destroying itself.
The most important news of the day
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The most important news of the day
The news media would have it that VE Day is the most important news of the day. They might offer the prospect of a US trade deal as an alternati...
 VE Day is not the big news of the day. The rapid rise in global temperatures is. The problem is we have politicians who are living 80 years in the past and are utterly unable to comprehend the future.
This VE Day is not a reason to celebrate. It should all be about noting lessons not learned.
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This VE Day is not a reason to celebrate. It should all be about noting lessons not learned.
If you listen to or watch the news today, you will find that the most important matter to report is that, apparently, we won World War II 80 years ...
 Eighty years ago, we won a victory in Europe. Today, we are losing the fight against fascism at home, and those leading the celebrations are responsible for that.
Labour ministers admit that Downing Street is so controlling that they can do nothing to manage the country. How long can this government last in that case?
Why are our political leaders ignoring the genocide in Gaza?
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Why are our political leaders ignoring the genocide in Gaza?
There are moments when I think that we are just about, at best, clinging on by our fingertips to the concept of civilisation. There are other oc...
 Israel is committing genocide in Gaza by seeking to starve its population. Western leaders, including those in the UK, are saying nothing of consequence about this. Why not? Have they really chosen to walk on the other side in the face of this atrocity?
Neoliberalism has dominated economics and politics for 45 years, despite being based on nothing more than myths, falsehoods, and fantasies that should have discredited the cult promoting it long ago.
Farage’s German allies are now officially classified as far-right extremists
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Farage’s German allies are now officially classified as far-right extremists
The Guardian carried this story on Friday, and I think it is worth sharing in full, using their own summary box: Remember that we are talkin...
 The desire to overthrow the essence and culture of a society to fundamentally change the norms of behaviour within it is what defines extremism. That is why the far-right is properly described as such.