"Seven British ministers – including Rishi Sunak, David Cameron, Grant Shapps and Kemi Badenoch – must be investigated for aiding Israel"
"This support is being provided in three main ways"
The UK is providing arms to Israel
The UK military is training Israeli armed forces personnel in Britain during the genocide
The UK military is conducting spy flights over Gaza in support of Israel
Good from Bill Mitchell on how the City of London lobbies and effectively controls government policy, even having an official parliamentary lobbyist, The Remembrancer, installed opposite the Speaker's chair.
Good too on Labour’s fear of the City and why this is wrong. Effective legislation can easily curb its power.
Some of the changes that we are beginning to experience are not simply rising sea levels or more extreme weather. It doesn’t look good and mitigation will be expensive.
He can shake the magic reform tree all he likes, but the "efficiencies" he's after can't be achieved without spending money. Want to free up bed space? Fund social care properly. Want more homegrown doctors and nurses? Give universities the money to train them (and stop overworking existing staff to the point of quitting) #NHS#UKPolitics
"He culled those who opposed his presence. Now he demands the loyalty of those who are left to deliver a policy agenda alien to all that #Labour stands for."
Petrochemicals billionaire and Brexiteer, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, is now backing Labour, having been seen with Starmer at Manchester United last week. I can understand why Starmer thinks he needs abhorrent people like Ratcliffe on his side; however, it shows there's no limit to how low he will go to gain power. It's ridiculous, given that Labour are going to win the next election by a country mile. There is no need to get people like Ratcliffe and Elphicke backing labour.
This sentence from today's Sky News article (link below) caught my eye:
"The country was designed for 55 or 60 million people and we've got 70 million people and all the services break down as a consequence."
He's doing his bit by living in Monaco. Maybe he could pay UK tax instead? What a [insert favourite pejorative here].
'In his first newspaper interview since leaving the cabinet, the former chancellor says the ex-PM was the ‘most consequential leader since Thatcher’ — and reveals his own biggest mistake in the tax scandal that led to his sacking’
They just don't get it do they? Worth a read to get confirmation of the bat shit stupidity, arrogance and greed that drive them.
The Labour Party has been accused of “disgusting” behaviour towards a Palestinian man who lost his family in Gaza, after refusing to reveal what information the party has gathered on him.
Police dragged Dalloul Neder out of a Labour fundraising event attended by the party’s deputy leader, Angela Rayner, in January, after he held up a picture of his late mother and told the audience: “I lost my family in Gaza… I want to show you my mum.”
Brixham, a Devon harbour town, has been struck by an illness caused by a microscopic parasite - cryptosporidium - in the water!
About 16,000 households and businesses in the Brixham area have been told by South West Water (SWW) not to use their tap water for drinking without boiling and cooling it first.
Not an expert but it does strike me as symptomatic of the state of our water companies and water system. #Water#Sewage#ukpolitics
The government is starting a pilot to allow local councils to force the rental of High Street shops vacant for more than a year, for the lowest rent achievable.
Some 80% of vacant shops in the UK have been empty for more than two years, while over one in five has stood vacant for longer than four years.
Of course, landlords aren't happy as they keep them empty to maintain artificially high valuations. Sad.
Arts Council England (ACE) issued a warning that “political statements” could break funding agreements after discussions with the government about artists speaking out over the Israel-Gaza war.
A Freedom of Information request revealed the issue was discussed in a meeting between ACE and DCMS on 12 December 2023. The meeting, titled “ACE/DCMS Liaison Meeting” included the agenda item “Reputational risk relating to Israel/Gaza conflict”.
Heavens, I do hope the Shareholder's profits won't be affected, that's all that matters on Shit Island.
All those lucky Brits who have been given the opportunity to have parasites, they should be grateful to their masters, not angry. For sure, what will getting angry do, it's not like the peasants will change anything! /s
Odd fact of pop music history and UK politics: Roy Wood, a founding member of The Move and Electric Light Orchestra, was a member of UKIP för many years and then joined the Brexit Party.
"Britain’s debt-laden water utilities are being encouraged by the regulator Ofwat to set up new privately financed companies to deliver billions of pounds worth of critical infrastructure such as reservoirs, treatment works and pipelines, which will be paid for through customer bills"
Outrageous. Nationalise them without compensation and abolish Ofwat, which is totally compromised.
John Woodcock, whose review proposes bans for protest groups, has lobbying links to firms in arms and fossil fuel sectors.
Conflict of interest? Really? No doing the wishes of the #Conservative#maladministration and their corporate sponsors. New party slogan ‘bugger the environment’.
Another example of the appalling treatment of British ‘citizens' by the government that gets voted in. Justice and recompense is a long long long time coming.
Culturally, The Big Breakfast on Channel 4 was the epitome of the 90s in Britain and pre-dated, perhaps even laid the foundations for the media revolution that predicated Cool Britainnia and with it, Blair's political popularity.
It was live, anarchic, bright, irreverent and very Channel 4. It's place in media history is often overlooked, but I suspect it has more influence on the socio-political zeitgeist than it's given credit for...