Clark the Bushman
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Tired of the same old status quo politics. We need to dream of change and then make that dream a reality.
lmao they're just rerunning the pandemic PPE grift for their mates
Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 23h agoEXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...
Complete con artists. Anyone still backing Labour is having the wool pulled over their eyes. Time for change. join.greenparty.org.uk
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Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 23h agoEXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...
Weird how the dogshit austerity fiscal rules are a red line but things like environmental protection and stopping domestic violence aren't
Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 23h agoEXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...
I thought Andy Burnham offered hope? All this charlatan is offering is more neoliberalism and corruption
Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 23h agoEXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...
The fact this completely aligns with the US far-right government and its demands that US client (vassal) states remove any "woke" considerations from public procurement is, I'm sure, entirely coincidental. Ahem. edition.cnn.com/2025/04/01/b...
US embassies to contractors worldwide: Cancel any diversity programs or risk going unpaid | CNN Business
US embassies have sent letters to contractors in their host countries demanding they certify that they do not run any diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs that violate President Donald Trump...
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Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 23h agoEXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...
Burnham and Labour are far worse than even Tories of the past. Insanity and incredibly right wing
Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 23h agoEXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...
Burnham acknowledged that neoliberalism wasn't working for the many and a new economic approach was needed. So Healey carries on with the same made up fiscal rules, more austeriy. Its the same play with different actors.
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d agoStick to spending limits, PM and chancellor tell ministers in joint memo. Cue for real cuts; continuation of potholed roads, housing crisis, NHS queues, unfit schools, privatisations? Real change not possible whilst neoliberalism remains the opium of the political class.
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"Oracle’s debt-to-equity ratio around 500% — meaning that it had $5 of debt for every $1 of shareholder equity. Amazon’s around 50%, Alphabet’s lower still. But Oracle kept borrowing." Risktaking that threatens security of us all www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/m...
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Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Right? The mid market is being decimated quality wise. Reliable restaurant chains in the hands of private equity eg Côte as an had beautifully fried chips, thickish steak and a fresh salad. Now it’s paper thin meat and sad fries and stale salad from a catering supplier a greasy spoon might use
@forcefemmedtoxie.bsky.social · 2d agoThat's actually an amazing point. The big change of the last 20 years is the mid point product being obliterated so you can only buy literally the worst shit ever or something so expensive you need to take out a loan.
Stop calling them "data centers." Start calling them pollution centers. 🧵👇
Imagine if you will a country with politics so poisonously malicious that the Sensible Centrist party will not defend itself from a surging far right, because they have a smart plan to impress and win over the far right with a campaign of new, even more cruel anti-migrant crackdowns.
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24h agoThis is all horrific stuff, and I invite you to go back to 2018/19 and reread her columns, newspaper interviews and podcast appearances talking about it, and then decide who it sounds like it was, that had been doing all this.
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Every now and then I'm reminded how deeply ideological and deeply ignorant many people who consider themselves sensible are.
That expression 😡. Complacent. Smooth. Smug. Playing word games for theatre and clicks. Never once managed a classroom during the pandemic, never once dealt with kids affected or their family relationships.
Sounds like you know you're wrong and can't admit it. So arrogant. You get shown up as a charlatan and you throw your toys out of the pram. Like Argentina you're just throwing a tantrum because you've lost and been made to look silly, how's that for footballification aye?
Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 4d agoAh there we have it. The footballification of politics and the discourse.
Like listening to James O'Brien, if you listen to this platform and journos like Goodall you are actively making yourself stupider. People need to stop consuming this flaccid, predictable establishment gruel
The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 5d ago“I’m glad we live in a country that is deferential to expertise - but at times in the pandemic, that did go too far.” “I’m not sure school closures were a price worth paying.” Lewis on how ‘legitimate questions’ have emerged - and should be asked - about how we handled Covid.
I think what's happened here is the press immediately recognised the obvious truth of what Hannah Spencer said but their idea of fairness/compromise is to still go in two footed on her, a vile 'leftie', and then circle back and pick up her points a few months on without acknowledging they were hers
Podcasting is Praxis@praxiscast.bsky.social · 4d agoThat's weird, because a whole discourse happened where we were all told drinking was super normal and anyone asking questions was a gross communist who didn't understand? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lewis Goodall is a actor paid by Owen Jones to make him look better
So how many more disabled people and older people should have been allowed to die so that young people could go out more during a pandemic? As one of these young people who was then at uni, struggled with lockdown & depression, and who also ended up in a wheelchair from long covid... Really?
Remember, in January 2021, after the govt lost control of Covid infections for the second time, a thousand people a day were dying in the UK. Without lockdowns, we still had no means of slowing that explosion. And that’s apart from all the other ways this claim is just stupid.
Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5d agoThere are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?
This is the kind of thing that radicalises these guys. A bunch of "legitimate questions" where they're convinced they have the right answer, countered by a load of people who know what they're talking about telling them they're wrong. Expect to see Goodall become Rod Liddle within a decade.
The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 5d ago“I’m glad we live in a country that is deferential to expertise - but at times in the pandemic, that did go too far.” “I’m not sure school closures were a price worth paying.” Lewis on how ‘legitimate questions’ have emerged - and should be asked - about how we handled Covid.
Almost everyone in these threads agrees Lewis Goodall is paid far too much to spew his hack feelings around like a manure sprayer in front of an industrial fan
The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 5d ago“I’m glad we live in a country that is deferential to expertise - but at times in the pandemic, that did go too far.” “I’m not sure school closures were a price worth paying.” Lewis on how ‘legitimate questions’ have emerged - and should be asked - about how we handled Covid.
This is bordering on climate change denial levels of ignoring scientific consensus, and Goodall is displaying it even harder by responding to scientists on here with basically "yeah I know your research shows loads more people would have died but..."
The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 5d ago“I’m glad we live in a country that is deferential to expertise - but at times in the pandemic, that did go too far.” “I’m not sure school closures were a price worth paying.” Lewis on how ‘legitimate questions’ have emerged - and should be asked - about how we handled Covid.
So you’re either a science denier or suggesting more deaths were a price you were willing to pay so which is it Lewis? Maybe an exciting mix of the two, a beautiful cocktail of classic conservative reality denial and heartlessness
The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 5d ago“I’m glad we live in a country that is deferential to expertise - but at times in the pandemic, that did go too far.” “I’m not sure school closures were a price worth paying.” Lewis on how ‘legitimate questions’ have emerged - and should be asked - about how we handled Covid.
