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renzelen, 7 days ago to UKpolitics

This piece from Robert Shrimsley in the FT really nails how the Conservatives have killed themselves. Via Mark Chadbourn #UKPolitics #ukelection #Brexit

renzelen, 1 month ago to UKpolitics

“I’m a non-dom millionaire living in Britain. Taxing me fairly won’t make me leave. Tax breaks aren’t the reason I live here. Many wealthy people like me want to pay our fair share, and contribute to investment in the UK”
Gio Notarbartolo https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/08/non-dom-tax-millionaire-britain-leave-uk #ukpolitics #tax
The rich who threaten leaving the U.K. never cared for the country anyway, only cared about evading tax.

renzelen, 1 month ago to UKpolitics

Rishi Sunak was happy to accept a sick note from his Cabinet Secretary, Simon Case, who took 3 months off work to avoid giving evidence in the Covid enquiry.
Case has been off on medical leave since October 2023. https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/simon-case-returns-to-work #ukpolitics #covidinquiry #corruption #hypocrisy

renzelen, 2 months ago to UKpolitics

“the late queen used her privileged access to draft legislation to secure changes that protected her private interests or reflected her opinions…her lawyers lobbied Scottish ministers to change a draft law to exempt her private land from a major initiative to cut carbon emissions.
Courtier demanded king could not be prosecuted under new Welsh law”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/11/courtier-demanded-assurance-king-could-not-be-prosecuted-under-new-welsh-law #monarchy #ukpolitics

renzelen, 2 months ago to humanrights

Gambian lawmakers want to bring back female genital mutilation, there are only 90 days left to stop them.
Join me here to stand with local organizations already protesting in the streets: https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/fgm_gambia_50/? #StopFGM #humanrights

renzelen, 3 months ago to UKpolitics

“Let’s start with Brexit, that’s where political discourse in the UK started to become more polarised & violent. Where was Rish! when the Daily Mail & Telegraph called judges & remainer MPs “traitors” & “enemies of the people”? Cheering them on. That’s where.
Where was Rish! when Boris Johnson upended centuries of accepted parliamentary procedure with the illegal prorogation? Cheerfully nodding it through. So forgive us if we don’t take Sunak as a democratic role model.” John Crace #ukpolitics

renzelen, 3 months ago to UKpolitics

“ If like me you think taxpayers shelling out nearly £2 million for every person the Tories send to Rwanda IS NOT “a worthwhile investment” show this to everyone you know”
Via Peter Stefanovic
https://youtu.be/SZ-D9YLdpJ4?si=5LLpDMmzjVe24dz8 #UKpolitics #rwanda #rishisunak

renzelen, 3 months ago to USpolitics

The ‘Shared Psychosis’ of Donald Trump and His Loyalists
Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee explains Trump’s pathological appeal and how to wean people from it (this article from Scientific American is not recent, but still interesting & relevant) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-shared-psychosis-of-donald-trump-and-his-loyalists/ #USpolitics #trump #mentalhealth

renzelen, 3 months ago to UKpolitics

A reminder that 10 years ago the U.K. NHS was ranked the best healthcare system in the world. We don’t need a new system. We need a new government that ends the catastrophic staff haemorrhage and remedies the chronic defunding the NHS has endured over the last decade. Tories have been meeting with private healthcare providers over that time and scores of them have shares in private healthcare companies- to them it’s all about making money out of our misery. #ukpolitics #nhs

renzelen, 3 months ago to random

“Britain’s ‘deep state’ thwarted my plans”
Liz Truss tells US far-right CPAC summit. Her tenure lasted 50 days & she’s painting herself as a ‘victim’ in the Trumpian mold, pandering to the looney conspiracy-theorist
fringe.
She needs to be taken away to get some serious therapy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/21/liz-truss-deep-state-cpac-far-right

renzelen, 3 months ago to UKpolitics

“No sympathy for striking doctors? Watch ITV’s Breathtaking and ask: have we paid our debt to them? The Covid drama should do for NHS staff what Mr Bates did for Post Office victims. We made promises – I can’t say we kept them”
Gaby Hinsliff
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/20/striking-doctors-itv-breathtaking-nhs-covid #ukpolitics #nhs

renzelen, 3 months ago to UKpolitics

So, the #Telegraph is blaming the public (never the corrupt incompetent Tory govt) for Britain’s failing economy.
A good time for a reminder - The #Telegraph does NOT work in the interest of British people. It exists to forward the agenda of its non-dom billionaire owners who are in the process of selling it to the highest RW bidder. It’s one reason why the U.K. ranked 33rd in world for press trustworthiness. #ukpolitics #msm #ukmedia

renzelen, 3 months ago to random

Russia's most significant opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, has died in prison.
Poisonings, plane crashes, falls from windows- From the poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko to the death in prison of opposition leader Navalny, high profile critics of Vladimir Putin have died, others are in prison or exile.
https://news.sky.com/story/poisoned-jailed-and-mysterious-fall-from-window-whats-happened-to-vladimir-putins-most-vocal-critics-13066825 #Putin #navalny #maga

renzelen, 4 months ago to UKpolitics

“Penury and decay mark Brexit’s miserable anniversary | William Keegan |
There is something characteristically pernicious about this shameless government blaming local authorities for profligacy. The true blame lies with the 40%-plus reduction in central government grants to councils imposed by George Osborne in 2010, & which has continued.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/04/penury-and-decay-mark-brexits-miserable-anniversary #ukpolitics #brexit

hypnogoria, 4 months ago to random

One from the vaults!

renzelen, 4 months ago to science

“Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that doesn’t change the reality of an emergent scientific truth” Neil deGrasse Tyson #science #conspiracytheories

hypnogoria, 5 months ago to random

A drop of December dream fuel - Winter, 1899 by Abbey Altson

hypnogoria, 8 months ago to Halloween

Behind Door 5 - a dark family secret .. and one that bites! https://hypnogoria.com/halloween_advent05.html
#halloween #halloweenadvent #podcast #horror

hypnogoria, 8 months ago to random

Your starter for ten - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo4-Bc85bF4

renzelen, 9 months ago to random

OK, I may be a literature academic and happy to be so, but sometimes I envy those science dudes…
#lovescience

stina_marie, 10 months ago to Horror

It's Monday, and it's MEEEEE
(not really, it's Junji Ito 😁)

#Monday #IAmAHermit #horror #JunjiIto #HorrorFam #meme @horror #MotherSuspiriasMorningMeme

renzelen, 10 months ago to random

The difference between cats and dogs illustrated by one picture.