Results will be drab and uninteresting. Support for #GTTO will partially conceal disenchantment with Starmer's #Labour and vice versa. Support for local councillors will partially conceal disenchantment with Westminster #UKPolitics. Turnout will be low because of disillusionment with UK democracy generally, and #IDCards specifically, partially concealing how hated the #Tories are
Tories will claim victory. So will Starmer. Labour will make excuses for him
Worth remembering that very right-wing oligarchs own The Times, The Sun, The Mail, The Telegraph (& the Sunday editions), the Spectator, GBeebies, Talk TV & the Conservative Party. The Express pursues their agenda for financial reasons. And they're all terrified of Gary Lineker.
Two charts for context in the current #workforce crisis in the #NHS - unsurprisingly if you dramatically reduce the real pay of your staff, they look elsewhere for work.
The mechanics of the #Tory defunding of the NHS laid bare.
The wreckers have been at work for some time & repairing the NHS will be a generational task - there will be no quick-fixed for Labour to push through, other than starting by restoring funding levels, of course!
I'm feeling that people have given up trying to stop an appalling UK Government from taking away all the good things we had embraced , A morally defunct corrupt set of people running the country into the ground in every way. I so want the #Tories Out and that's just for a start. #Politics#GTTO#Mastodon#Fediverse
The teacher's are putting their pupils first by striking! They are doing this to improve the conditions that kids learn in. It is nice for some to sit safety of a well paid job to ask if others shouldn't strike for the same! #SupportTheStrikes#Supportheteachers #GTTO #ToriesOut
Our growing dependence on #foodbanks to deal with people in food poverty is a national disgrace - the poor & vulnerable should not need to be dependent on voluntary provision to survive.
The food banks do great work (as do their doors & volunteers), but they should not be needed at all in a civilised modern #democracy. that they are tells you what you need to know about how the #Tories have systematically destroyed the safety net for the poor.
On this freezing winter's day, here's a message of hope from #Ukraine's President #Zelenskyy: "Light always wins over darkness", the title of my new #painting.
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