Thames Water line up former Labour minister John Hutton as chairman, as it tries to win over the govt. Hutton left the govt after the expenses and lobbying scandals. Now pursued by TW to fix things politically, TW is financially, environmentally bankrupt.

Thames Water creditors secure former Labour minister to drive rescue deal

Stricken UK water supplier lines up John Hutton as independent chair designate if takeover goes ahead

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Francesca Albanese on why the perpetual conflation, by dishonest politicians like Andy Burnham, of Zionism and Judaism is dangerous.

In this undercover footage, Nigel Farage's righthand man, Dan Jukes, appears to suggest that corruption, with Farage, is "priced in". Like Trump, he uses politics to enrich himself. Don't let anyone claim they were not warned. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage claim that £5m was reward for Brexit was ‘not press office line’, close aide says

Exclusive: Undercover footage of Dan Jukes raises fresh questions about Reform leader’s statement that £5m gift was for security

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The lesson these people learned from deliberately inflicting Johnson and diamond hard Brexit on everyone was not: Oh shit, everything is terrible now, we may have gone too far. They instead learned they can do whatever they want, and they will be just fine.

Britons with savings of £16,000 are disqualified or severely restricted from receiving Universal Credit, Housing Benefit, Income Support. No means-testing for the King. Royal family may be worth £21bn? It has 21 officially categorized royal residences, alongside 13 additional properties.

Royal financial privileges show that we are not in it together

This week, after perfunctory scrutiny, the UK parliament approved a core Sovereign Grant of £99.9m (from 2027/28) for the King, a 93% increase from the £51.8m for 2024/25 and 65% higher in real terms ...

leftfootforward.org

Unemployment is caused by the lack of jobs. Not by cultures of worklessness or the lack of "employability".

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago

Cut benefits to fund work support for young people, says Neet review author Alan Milburn

I'm going with "on the other hand"

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d ago

It was IMO pretty dumb - giving MPs and the press a chance to scream in terror about this at the level of abstracted interpretations of words, and not what’s actually happening. OTOH someone was going to have to grasp the “this project is intensely racist” nettle eventually.

The situation has got so bad that the whole system is having to angrily deny what it can see, and instead engage in a wacky semantic debate and thought experiments about whether it’s theoretically possible to non-racistly support a programme of genocide and ethnic cleansing. That’s crazy stuff folks

I posted a link to this yesterday, however judging by low interest, I lose faith in people. Politicians do not work in our interest, I wonder why many continue believe or hope things will change, when clearly nothing will, unless we the people, take drastic measures, not the ballot box, it’s broken

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 4d ago

Article in Tribune… Labour is retreating into its established position as a defender of political Zionism and genocide.

We really have to overcome our fear of FoM. It’s a good thing!!

Niall Ó Conghaile@nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 4d ago

Prediction: FoM will also apply to any comprehensive customs-union deal with the UK

No one who has seen and heard these accounts can ever unsee them. The absolute, inhumane, psychopathic barbarism of the people making these decisions beggars belief. #Gazagenocide www.theguardian.com/film/video/2...

NAZA: the film Israel does not want you to see - video

Oscar-winning filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor discuss their documentary NAZA, which exposes the AI systems the Israeli military uses to rain down strikes on Gaza, killing thousands of civilia...

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The left can't advocate any sort of meaningful change without enraging the media. It is utterly unavoidable. We can win unprecedented levels of support by taking on hard fights and having the courage of our convictions. The Green party is more successful than ever because we've understood this.

My friend and colleague @mothinali.bsky.social is a hero, working to heal divisions. His win today against right wing smears is not only for him but for all global majority politicians whatever party they serve in their fight against lies and abuse. www.thenational.scot/news/2664344...

Green deputy hails victory against GB News pundit in riot smear row

A DEPUTY leader of the Green Party of England and Wales has claimed victory in a defamation battle against a GB News pundit and social media personality who smeared him as participating in a riot.

thenational.scot

I REALLY don’t understand why so many people think Andy Burnham is “progressive”. He hasn’t even been in office for three months and we already have a book ban. A BOOK BAN. What comes next…?

Sally Rooney's books to be withdrawn from sale in the UK

Faber has confirmed it will stop supplying Sally Rooney's books in the UK, saying it cannot pay the Irish author royalties because of her pledge to support the banned group Palestine Action.

rte.ie

Putin has not funded disruption and chaos across Europe and the UK solely to weaken his enemies. He also knows that disruption and chaos favour the far right. And the far right loves Putin. It will abandon Ukraine and build him a highway into Europe.

This summer: Thousands of deaths from extreme weather. This weekend in the media: What's the point of the Green Party? This morning from the Labour party 👇

The two are not separate issues.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

Fixated on AI, the world has forgotten what is staring it in the face: nuclear annihilation | Simon Tisdall

Here's something the media is hardly talking about. This Government is set to oversee the steepest fall in living standards in modern times - unless they change course fast. In less than two weeks Labour faces a stark choice - will they tax wealth and back the majority?

Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.

The Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre plan

Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.

theferret.scot

Somewhat suspicious, is it not?

NetKnave@netknave.bsky.social · 2w ago

Amazing and heartwarming isnt it, how all those people who hate the Green party suddenly are loudly and repeatedly telling everyone that the *very* best thing they can do to win elections is get rid of the single most effective leader they've ever had. No ulterior motives there, im sure.

This was inevitable. We are a challenge to the status quo and they will do everything they can to keep the oil burning and the bombs falling.

Owen Jones@owenjones.bsky.social · 2w ago

At times like this, the mask really comes off the British media. There is no pretence - at all - about their impartiality or objectivity towards the Green Party. It is a blatant naked partisan cross-media assault against the Greens.

A polymorphic snippet of truth.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here’s how it goes John: I quite like this new left wing MP John’s colleagues: Shut the fuck up, John John: Okay, I do not like her after all

A landscape in silhouette and a bright orange skyline: dawn's generous gift to sleepy senses. #photography #landscape #nature #landscapephotography

We TRIPLED our vote share. Second best byelection result in Green Party history. On a date that Labour chose to deliberately clash the same week as our conference. All with a brand new PM in previously a "safe" seat. Best response to all the absolute nonsense today? Join.greenparty.org.uk

Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · 2w ago

Should Green Party leader Zack Polanski stand down? www.channel4.com/news/should-...

Yet she stood for a party, one of whose flagship, headline policies is to stop other refugees like her from getting in, staying here safely and thriving.

Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK aged 7 having fled the war in Somalia with her family. She has thrived. Leader of Camden council and now the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. A narrative that runs counter to all we are told about refugees. Congratulations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I get that people liked a nice, soft, hippy Green Party that focused only on the environment, and could be happily ignored, and Greens patted on the head with a little ‘there, there’, and don’t like radicalism that undermines comfortable capitalism. Those days are over.

You won’t see this graph in mainstream media. Change in vote share in Holborn & St Pancras. Only one party increased its vote share…

On the day he is a main candidate in a very important by-election, Facebook has *suspended* Zack Polanski’s account. This ON ITS OWN should be reason to vote Green in Holborn & St Pancras. This is foreign interference in British democracy. And guess what, the media (and Labour) is silent.

A very close result that Labour and Burnham can hardly claim as a satisfactory win. They have been throwing everything at you and the Greens, but they are out of ideas, out of road, and will soon run out of time. Well done.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wow. What a campaign. Thank you to the 1000+ volunteers today and everyone throughout the campaign. The Green Party got 10% last time. Whatever happens tonight - we made Labour work like they never have before. I'm so proud of you all. 💚🙏🏽

Many of today's Palestinians are actually descendants of the ancient Jewish people. Some of their oppressors are not. Make it make sense!