I have absolute faith that labour will fail to notice that and instead carry on with their pathetic half measures lest they get shouted at by the daily mail
Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 2h agoThink Reform fucked it with their donations. They're so outrageous, so obviously obscene, that they've managed to accidentally create a consensus for tougher action on political funding.
Sussexes: the desperate search for privacy continues bit.ly/4h2LxQn
Meghan gives first glimpse of family life in Britain
Instagram video shows the Sussexes and their children walking through woodland, jumping in puddles and fishing after return to UK
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Martin Wolf: a threat to democracy in FT clothing www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09...
Martin Wolf: a threat to democracy in FT clothing
Martin Wolf has written in the Financial Times today about the difficult choices facing John Healey as he prepares for his October Budget. Wolf argues that the Chancellor needs to be bold. I agree, bu...
taxresearch.org.uk
Student loan terms to be made clearer in England. But there has been decades of mis-selling. Why no compensation? £325bn UK student loan debt, £295bn in England. Most European countries don't charge Uni tuition fees. England does. What chance of buying a home, starting a family?
Student loan terms to be made clearer in England
Changes will spell out that governments can change rules and that career choices affect repayments.
bbc.co.uk
tbh she’d look great in a bin thats if the galactic space warrior wanted her in his party of course
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 13h agoLiz Truss, former Prime Minister, says she would not rule out a return to parliament - but says she would "keep all of her options open" about who she might stand for. [This suggests two/three options would be open - but a strong chance that both would rather not!] www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
Neoliberals have neutered direct state investment in infrastructure. Everything is privatised, state guarantees profits. UK languishes at or near the bottom of the OECD league for investment in productive assets. China invests over 41% of its GDP in productive assets, India 34.3%, UK 17.9%.
Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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Not to be pedantic but Christopher Harborne has already given £25 million to Reform and Ben Delo £8 million. So the figure isn’t £72 million - it’s £105 million.
It would be more helpful for him to acknowledge and explain the role that his austerity policies played in encouraging people to vote for what he correctly critiques here.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 23h agoGeorge Osborne calls for UK to rejoin EU customs union and boost trade
Stuff like this is happening while farage plays the press like a fiddle
Reuters@reuters.com · 21h agoSaudi pipeline outage threatens loss of 4% of global oil supply reut.rs/3VtnZwP
Will you have a cup of tea now, go on ,go on, go on, I gave a nice bit of cake to go with it
what it buys you this week is that no one is talking about that video of farage committing a crime, no politician is still talking about dealing with that
Marina Purkiss@marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 24h agoJust imagine how much disinformation and micro targeting £72m gets you… Shame on the leaders who did nothing to protect democracy from the assault coming its way …as if we learnt nothing from Brexit.
You’ll never guess what the call to action is? Is it use their massive majority to? … no not that
This is absolute madness Labour - and I’d say what’s left of the centre right - is an existential battle against oligarchy But it hasn’t a clue that it is
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 2d agoLabour sending out fundraising emails off the back of the Harborne and Delo donations. Yes chaps, that’ll do it.
Actual headline: “Farage sold himself to one foreign based crypto millionaire & has now sold his party to yet another one”. What a surprise that a party with little concrete policy has very specific policies on… crypto tax cuts
If you have a big story about Reform and approach them for comment it seems they go quiet and then quickly give the news to a friendly outlet (ie the Telegraph). Lesson seems to be: don’t approach Reform.
Reform UK given £36m donation by a crypto billionaire convicted in the US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls, pardoned by Donald Trump. Is it legal? Dwarfs £15m from a Thailand based crypto billionaire What have they been promised? Hate politics funded by the rich.
Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire
Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump
theguardian.com
one of the worst things about this labour government is how the people in the DWP have been led by the nose by the likes of the centre for social justice into uttering utter thatcher style bollocks that will bite them in the arse at the next election
Yet another reason Burnham was a fool for not tightening up rules on donations.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3d agoYet another massive mysterious donation for Farage from yet another crypto billionaire.
It’s september 11 again and time to remember both the victims and the morons who created the perpetrators for a short term advantage
There were many ways in which the US and its allies could have responded to the horror of 9/11. But by building extreme security states, launching pointless forever wars and restricting domestic dissent, successive governments inflicted more harm on their nations than the terrorists could have done.
Neoliberalism has ravaged the UK Workers’ share of gross value added down from 71.9% in 1975, to 59.7%. 1.23m workers are on zero-hour contracts. 4.4m jobs pay less than the real living wage. Poorest 20% pay a higher proportion of income in direct/indirect taxes than the richest 20%.
Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
leftfootforward.org
i’m going to guess quite a few of these thugs have outstanding warrants or court fine defaults and have seen the deployment of facial recognition technology by police and how quickly the internet finds their social media and or employer
