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Irish/English. Socialist. Republican. Left of UK (now Tory) Labour. Anti-Tory/Reform. Ireland has 32 counties.
Like Irish folklore & anything Irish
Independent Scotland.
Genealogy. Keen roadie cyclist. Dog lover. Coffee nerd. Garden lover.
Ex pro photographer &
retired IT/Media Lecturer in SW England.
Live in Finistรจre, France.
UK voting Green, never Tory or Red Tory.
Irish citizenship allows EU & Mayor votes.
Trying not to be all politics here.
#SocialistSundayUpset with UK Labour. Just another Tory Lite party.
#CyclistDry weather only roadie.
#PhotographyEx pro photographer of live events. Mainly rock bands and theatre. Ex IT & media lecturer.
#itwasascamhttps://www.despard.eu/photography/index.html

@sjwrenlewis explores some reasons the Labour Govt. has not been doing so well.... including an unwillingness to say, outright, that Brexit has been a failure.

But, as he also notes, in opposition & now it 'was never realistic to think that better management could bring Western European levels of public service provision with substantially lower than Western European levels of tax'!

Well, Rachel Reeves looks likely to have to grasp that nettle pretty soon!

#politics
https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/07/everyone-knows-labour-has-made-mistakes.html

Everyone knows Labour has made mistakes. What is more worrying is why those mistakes were made.

  Every political journalist has been writing their one year assessment of the Labour government. The general view is that Labour is in cris...

Just in case any younger viewers can't comprehend the lack of sympathy/wave of lighthearted vitriol towards Norman Tebbit. He was a cruel bastard. One of The Great Witch's trusted lieutenants. Good riddance.

I have tried today by going through the original discussion about the Terrorism Act of 2000 that it was NEVER the intention of any MP of either side of the house to bring stigmatise and label protestors at terrorists. Even people like Anne Widdecombe were not saying that. you might wish to look at my TL for poorly written threads

What has gone wrong in 25 years?

You can contact your MP here:

https://members.parliament.uk/members/Commons

Later on I will do a list of all addresses for your convenience

Geri xxx

Find MPs - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament

Find your MP and learn more about them, including details of their parliamentary career and contact information. Find them by name/location, party, gender and current/former status.

Yesterday marked the 9th anniversary of the publication of the Chilcot Report.

And of course, after years of delays and attempts to redact large parts of it, the end result was that ultimately nothing happened.

Nobody was ever prosecuted. Nobody in the media who made the case saw their career ended, or their platform diminished.

Jeremy Corbyn issued a formal apology on behalf of Labour to the nation, the families of soldiers impacted, and the people of Iraq.
He was derided for it.

When the truth becomes obvious, as woke, the alt truth takes over.
@RichardJMurphy
You don't have to be callous to be a neoliberal!
The stock market is failing according to the CBI. So why donโ€™t we just let it go?

I posted this on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1942861045426516103 My point is serious. The CBI is saying that the situation with regard to the UK stock exchange is getting desperate, because it is losing out to overseas markets and not attracting sufficient business. The question that needs to be asked is, why is that?...

Funding the Future
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gd3pkr9x1o Holding up placards saying: "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" These people - and non violent direct action protesters generally - are not terrorists. #yvettecooper and #UKLabour are on the wrong side of history #PalestineAction
Palestine Action: More than 20 arrested at protest, Metropolitan Police say

It comes after supporting the group was banned under terrorism legislation.

BBC News
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@amiserabilist

"The privileged class can never be overturned peacefully."
- Johann Most, German social anarchist