In the aftermath of 2008 and the start of the Tory decade, austerity was widely pitched as saving pennies now to lower the debt for the benefit of future generations. Well, the kids from back then are adults now and have their own children and we're still doing it.

Just proscribe wildfires as a terrorist organisation.

Sorry but '10 North' really does sound like a third wave coffee shop in the suburbs that charges £8.00 for a slice of banana bread and refuses to serve tap water

How about we just don't do a fucking war

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 3w ago

People will be told to stockpile food, water and medicine in new UK Government plans to prepare for war

Watching this excellent BBC Timewatch documentary from 1992 on Operation Gladio, the clandestine networks of collusion of governments, secret services and fascists to halt the rise of the left in Europe. Couldn't even imagine the beeb making something like this now. youtu.be/j48ieINPUYU?...

BBC Timewatch | Gladio | Pt. 1 - The Ringmasters

YouTube video by OKC Facts

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The Sensibles like to pretend Britain is far less corrupt than southern European countries but accountability like this would never happen here. Grenfell being the obvious proof point. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Italian officials handed jail terms for Genoa bridge disaster that killed 43

The ex-head of Italy's motorway operator Giovanni Castellucci was handed a 12-year term over the 2018 bridge collapse.

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Keir Starmer is a massive racist. It’s okay and accurate to say it. Source: what he says and what he does

Once again I’m begging the London media not to confuse a northern accent with being working class. Also Burnham has nothing to offer the working class Black and Asian and/or trans people. Also the benefits he’s planning to cut mainly go to working people.

Paul Hebden@paulhebden.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's fundamentally not true that the people in and around Burnham are more working class than the people in and around Ed M. They are literally the same people.

Starmer setting aside time on his last day as PM (and possibly even timing his departure overall) so that his last act would be to attend England's World Cup Final, only for England to not make it so he just like...has a free day now, is the most Starmer thing to ever happen

We'll always have the Azteca. Silver lining: Keir Starmer doesn't get his last freebie he was desperately clinging on for

Pippa Crerar posting Simons’ statement on X with no further commentary and replies turned off. Now that’s journalism.

Working class people in "The North" [of England] are not disenfranchised or impoverished in a special unique way that working class people elsewhere aren't and certainly not in a way that a load of PFI contracts for property speculators will help. It's dog whistle bullshit, frankly.

The filth and media desperately trying to make it seem like a political assassination which only makes any sense if you have an establishment desperate for a reason to crack down on opposition to their awful fuckery. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Ann Widdecombe was killed in ‘targeted attack’, police say – UK politics live

Counter-terrorism police say that they are still working to establish the motive for the killing of the former government minister

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Have they pinned Widdecombe on Iran yet? Security services be slippin'

Lindsey Graham got the diarrhea and died. "There was nothing left when he was done," said an aide. "Now we have to try to put the diarrhea back in so we can bury something three dimensional," he added. RFK Jr. is going to give kids in school diarrhea to honor Lindsey Graham and make them stronger.

Fuck Burnham but the audacity on Reeves, incredible from someone whose economic plan was to just say the word "growth" a lot and hope that the economy magically improved. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rachel Reeves: Andy Burnham needs a worked-through plan to govern

The Chancellor tells Laura Kuenssberg she will be handing over a stable economy to the incoming PM.

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Just a thought: If you'd spent a little less time planting fake antisenitism smears in the press and taking illegal campaign donations perhaps you'd have been able to prepare to govern in the FOUR YEARS you had in opposition. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour was not prepared to govern in 2024, says Morgan McSweeney

PM’s former chief of staff opens up on political mistakes and shares Trump’s theories about wind turbines

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What’s happened here is: somewhere in London, a PR company has a whiteboard with “UK Defence Security Campaign” written above a calendar that has “Tony Blair Times column” in a date in the second week and - under the heading “list of crank wankers we can put on TV/Radio” - are the words “Alan West”.

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · last mo.

Lord Alan West yesterday: "Things like welfare.. are unimportant when you lose a war & you have Russian Chechen stormtroopers coming down the street raping women & killing people" Reintroducing the workhouse or Russians raping your mum. They're the only choices, ok.

Cruel shitty cunts who run our country. Fuck every fart huffing hack, McKinsey consultant and duplicitous centrist wank who's brought us to this point. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Refugees would be told to repay around £10,000 under new asylum bill

The Home Office will be given powers to recover costs from adults who have received asylum support under new laws.

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Regional devolution is good in theory (maybe!?), but hard to see how in practice it won't just mean juicy private contracts but let's be honest this is window dressing. At best this is a Fred Perry polo shirt on a pig of an economy that only serves the rich. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Andy Burnham vows to set up No 10 North as ‘nerve centre of rewired Britain’

UK’s likely next PM says Westminster system is ‘broken’ and he will oversee a devolution of power and resources

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Cannot fucking believe an external 4TB SSD drive that cost me $200 last year is now $1100. Had to check receipts to make sure. They’re really out there trying to keep you from having a PC, phone, or a gaming console so they can have hallucinating, polluting chatbots that drop bombs on kids’ schools.

What is Burnham's thing going to be? Starmer had destroying Labour's base and membership, but now that's gone what's Burnham's plan? Of course, he can carry on the genocide and authoritarianism but you need a thing to give you a teeny bit of air cover at first.

The strategy of our professional political class is to do nothing and use spin to convince the public that they are doing something. Doesn't work. You cannot thread the needle and appeal to racists and non-racists. You cannot please capitalist elites and improve people's lives. Burnham will fail.

Andy Burnham picks former Blair minister James Purnell as chief of staff

Decision is one of Makerfield MP’s most significant since his Westminster return as he builds his team for government

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After all is said and done, Starmer was just a placeholder, elected to salt the earth after the anticommunist crusade. He happened to have an election fall into his lap due to electoral malaise and a split vote on the Right. Once there, he enacted all of his class's petty-minded authoritarianism.

I'm not a Labour voter but even I am shocked that Keir Starmer's penis and testicles spontaneously combusted yesterday.

oh cool this will be fine, Established Media is famously trustworthy

Michael Savage@michaelsavage.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: UK plans to give established media more visibility on YouTube and TikTok. But who counts as a "trustworthy provider"? And who decides? Row ahead over the UK government's green paper... www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Decent? Yeah Keir Starmer is "decent", if you mean decent at not prosecuting Jimmy Savile.

Naturally, this is written by Freedland. Not a single mention of Gaza/Palestine. www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

The rise and fall of Keir Starmer: where did it all go wrong?

PM’s demise after landslide victory two years ago points to an increasingly volatile and impatient electorate

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It's not just the fact he said this, it's that instead of apologising, he insisted he'd never actually said it. It proved two things: a) he had absolutely no humanity or principles; and b) he thought we were all stupid enough to swallow whatever lies he fed us

David Wearing@davidwearing.bsky.social · last mo.

For those of us who see Palestinians as human beings, this was Starmer's defining moment. It is not sustainable to behave in this way while leading the nominally progressive party in a two party system. Starmer's unpopularity is not one of life's great mysteries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8_s...