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Rod Stewart: extremely wealthy and deeply out of touch
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06/29/rod-stewart-extremely-wealthy-and-deeply-out-of-touch/

Sadderp 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇫🇷Jun 19

Michael Rosen:
In the heart of western governments there is a special human breed known as 'Heartless Bastards' who are at this very moment figuring out which pretext, justification and alibi for war and genocide will work best to convince western populations that killing hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East is a good thing.
To achieve this, any or all of the following, (or versions thereof), the Heartless Bastards say:
No one is starving
We're sad about what's going on
We're very sad about what's going on
We regret what's going on
We've always wanted a ceasefire
We love ceasefires
We keep saying, let's have a ceasefire
We are unable to say whether we are or are not or would or would not, or might or might not supply arms to Israel
We're only killing genocidal Islamist maniacs
Israel is surrounded by billions of people who want to destroy it.
If we didn't kill people the Jews will be liquidated in another Holocaust
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
This is about Western Civilisation.
This is about self-defence
This is about the Jewish homeland
The Jewish homeland is very old and very big.
The Jewish homeland is getting bigger every day and this is good for everyone.
Benjamin Netanyahu might not be everyone's cup of tea but he cuts the mustard, so smell the coffee.
We have to defend our strategic interests.
Strategic interests
Strategic interests
"Continued in photo"

Sadderp 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇫🇷May 28

The Guardian and George Monbiot from yesterday:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/27/smash-britain-two-party-system-election-labour-reform
"This feels terminal. The breaches of trust have been so frequent, so vast and so decisive that the voters Labour has already lost are unlikely to return. In one forum after another, I hear the same sentiments: “I voted for change, not the same or worse.” “I’ve voted Labour all my life, but that’s it for me.” “I feel I’ve been had.”

It’s not dissatisfaction. It’s not disillusionment. It’s revulsion: visceral fury, anger on a level I’ve seldom seen before, even towards Tory cruelties. Why? Because these are Tory cruelties, delivered by a party that claimed to be the only alternative, in our first-past-the-post electoral system.

Everyone can name at least some of the betrayals: cutting disability benefits; supplying weapons and, allegedly, intelligence to the Israeli government as it pursues genocide in Gaza; channelling Reform UK and Enoch Powell in maligning immigrants; slashing international aid; trashing wildlife and habitats while insulting and abusing people who want to protect them; announcing yet another draconian anti-protest law; leaving trans people in legal limbo; rigidly adhering to outdated and socially destructive fiscal rules; imposing further austerity on government departments and public services. Once the great hope of the oppressed, Labour has become the oppressor."
More in alt image:

Sadderp 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇫🇷May 28

From @RichardJMurphy
Suggestions on how money can be raised by the UK Government.
"My choice would be to add VAT on financial services. The result would be a direct transfer from a socially useless activity, in the main, to a socially useful one, and from the wealthy, who consume financial services, to the least well off, who need support. I estimate that it could raise £8.7 billion, enough to cover these benefits, of that logic has to be used (and it does not, of course: the cost could be covered by money creation and it could be covered by the multiplier impact, but Labour ministers haven't got that far in their economic understanding, unfortunately)."
Missing no1
Restrict tax relief from 40% to 25% Saving 14.5 billion pa. (My favourite)

Sadderp 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇫🇷Apr 27

Is Trump a Sociopath or a Psychopath: Analyzing His Leadership Style and Behavior Traits.
Analyzing Trump’s Behavior
Examining Donald Trump’s behavior reveals complexities that might classify him as a sociopath or a psychopath. Key aspects include his public persona and private behavior, as well as evident patterns of manipulation.
Impact on Decision-Making and Governance
Sociopathy often leads to impulsive decisions driven by emotions. Leaders displaying these traits might act without considering long-term consequences. Examples include sudden policy shifts or volatile responses to criticism. These behaviors can create instability and confusion within government bodies.
https://mindpsychiatrist.com/is-trump-a-sociopath-or-a-psychopath/
PS Where does Starmer fit?
#Trump #uspolitics

Is Trump a Sociopath or a Psychopath: Analyzing His Leadership Style and Behavior Traits - Mind Psychiatrist

Is Donald Trump a sociopath or a psychopath? This thought-provoking article explores his behavior through the lens of psychology, differentiating between these two classifications. It analyzes key characteristics, expert opinions, and the implications of such traits on his leadership style. Delve into a deeper understanding of Trump's public persona versus his private actions, and discover how these psychological profiles inform our perception of political figures today.

Mind Psychiatrist

Sadderp 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇫🇷Apr 23

Why Starmerism Can’t Survive Contact With Reality | Novara Media
https://novaramedia.com/2025/04/22/why-starmerism-cant-survive-contact-with-reality/?mc_cid=ee07a12c35&mc_eid=2fc67584fd

Why Starmerism Can’t Survive Contact With Reality

Our political establishment has given itself a form of brain damage because it’s unable to let go of the Thatcher-Reagan consensus - and we’re now reaping the inevitable rewards, writes Phil McDuff.

Novara Media

Sadderp 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇫🇷Mar 30

How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/fascism-britain-neoliberalism-opened-door-for-it-labour?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Why seek to nix the financial regulations inspired by the 2008 crash, when the likely result is a repeat performance? Why reject a wealth tax, when a 2% levy on assets of over £10m could raise £24bn a year? Why not adopt the measures proposed by Patriotic Millionaires, generating £60bn a year? Or those suggested by political economist Richard Murphy, worth £90bn in tax revenue? Why abandon plans to tax non-doms properly? Why not demand an end to the Bank of England’s destructive quantitative tightening?
#ukpolitics #uklabour #rachelreeves

How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it

We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian

Sadderp 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇫🇷Mar 26

Good morning Britain – prepare to be told yet again that decline is all you deserve
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/26/britain-decline-labour-groundhog-day?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#rachaelreeves #ukpolitics

Good morning Britain – prepare to be told yet again that decline is all you deserve

It’s Groundhog Day: the party may change but even under Labour, the script remains stubbornly the same, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian

Sadderp 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇫🇷Mar 25

There Are No Fiscal Rules
They were invented by Ed Balls in 1997.
They are made up! Invented! They did not exist before then.
Someone tell Rachael from accounts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYl-x0Y5SJE
#rachaelReeves #uklabour #ukpolitics

Fiscal rules are works of fiction So, why does Rachel Reeves pretend that she believes in them?

YouTube

Sadderp 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇫🇷Mar 18

Elon Musk Discovers the "Magic" of Modern Money
Stephanie Kelton
Yesterday, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) shared a clip from a podcast interview he recorded with Elon Musk. Cruz called it “an absolute bombshell.” The clip went viral because Musk claimed that his band of merry infiltrators (DOGE) had discovered something truly revelatory: the federal government has “magic money computers”. Fourteen of them, to be exact.

These “magic money computers”, as Musk calls them, “can just make money out of thin air.” Daddy DOGE seemed genuinely gobsmacked. “It just issues payments.” “They just send money out of nothing.”
#mmt Modern monetary theory
#uspolitics

https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/elon-musk-discovers-the-magic-of?r=3862y

Elon Musk Discovers the "Magic" of Modern Money

Yesterday, U.S.

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