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Paul Briley 🇪🇺Sep 28, 2024

Andy_European Sep 28, 2024

How many freebies did Labour MPs receive?

The #LabourSleaze scandal in numbers:

https://apple.news/ADCkXmx4PRqa8JFmSoK3Mhg

How many freebies did Labour MPs receive? The scandal in numbers — The Times and The Sunday Times

Labour ministers have been accused of “compromising their judgment” after they accepted at least £642,000 in free trips, Bafta tickets and football match hospitality from corporate interests since 2019. Other gifts accepted by members of the cabinet included free tickets to Glastonbury from YouTube, Taylor Swift tickets from the Premier League, and a whisky tasting session from the drinks giant Diageo. Analysis by The Times found that cabinet members declared more than 160 free tickets to

Paul Briley 🇪🇺Sep 28, 2024

Andy_European Sep 28, 2024

Keir Starmer ‘given mates rates’ for stay at donor’s £18m flat — or lied on his disclosures to Parliament.

Given his penchant for deceit I’m guessing it’s the latter…

#LabourSleaze

https://apple.news/A79mYMYdpS22jtnsqUlXjEA

Keir Starmer ‘given mates rates’ for stay at donor’s £18m flat — The Times and The Sunday Times

Sir Keir Starmer may have underestimated the value of the luxury London penthouse he was given use of by Lord Alli before the election, property experts suggested, receiving “mates’ rates” for his stay. Starmer stayed at the 5,000 sq ft penthouse in Covent Garden for a month and a half during the general election campaign, and declared the value of the donation to be £20,400, amounting to £450 a day or £13,500 a month. However, similar properties rented out for short periods in the area have

Paul Briley 🇪🇺Sep 28, 2024

North East Bylines Sep 28, 2024

"I don’t think wanting an A&E department that sees you in under an hour is left wing. I liked it when we had hanging baskets in our town centres, you know, before austerity. I don’t think that’s a Marxist-Leninist position" | Jamie Driscoll

https://northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politics/majority-a-new-politics-based-on-truth/?feed_id=1942&_unique_id=66f7d6b2e305d
https://northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politics/majority-a-new-politics-based-on-truth/?feed_id=1942&_unique_id=66f7d6b2e305d

Majority: a new politics based on truth

North East Bylines | Powerful Citizen Journalism

Paul Briley 🇪🇺Aug 17, 2024

Pauline von Hellermann Aug 17, 2024

British diplomat Mark Smith resigns over UK arms sales to Israel - what a principled, brave decision.

“It is with sadness that I resign after a long career in the diplomatic service, however, I can no longer carry out my duties in the knowledge that this Department may be complicit in war crimes”

#Gaza #StopArmingIsrael #UK

https://aoav.org.uk/2024/senior-british-diplomat-mark-smith-resigns-over-uks-arms-sales-to-israel/

Senior British diplomat Mark Smith resigns over UK’s arms sales to Israel - AOAV

Mark Smith, a senior diplomat at the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), has resigned in protest over the UK's continued arms sales to Israel, citing complicity in war crimes as the primary reason for his departure

AOAV

Paul Briley 🇪🇺Aug 9, 2024

Satan Aug 8, 2024

Not sure this civil war would go the way the toothless wonders and their sponsors think

Paul Briley 🇪🇺Aug 9, 2024

Richard Murphy Aug 9, 2024

It’s time to bring the Bank of England back under government control https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/08/09/its-time-to-bring-the-bank-of-england-back-under-government-control/ It's claimed that the Bank of England is independent of the government. Almost certainly, that's a complete sham. But it's one that's been used to impose policy against the best interests of people in this country. This pretence has to end, and the government has to be accountable for all our economic policy.

Starmer has been defeated and has not a shred of credibility left

As The Guardian has reported in the last hour, Stephen Timms told the Commons after 5 pm with regard to the Bill delivering benefit reforms: I can announce that we are going to remove the clause five from the bill at committee, that we will move straight to the wider review,...

Funding the Future

Paul Briley 🇪🇺Aug 9, 2024

Richard Murphy Aug 9, 2024

The irrationality of markets https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/08/09/the-irrationality-of-markets-2/ The lesson of this week is that financial markets are deeply irrational and can expose us to considerable risk. The lesson will be forgotten as soon as possible. The profiteering will go on. But the risk will remain.

Starmer has been defeated and has not a shred of credibility left

Funding the Future

Paul Briley 🇪🇺Aug 9, 2024

David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊Aug 9, 2024

#politics #corruption Have our uoholders of lawn order changed in any way? I fear not, still the same levels of corruption & malfesence in public office. They jail the whistleblowers still!
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/08/09/lzpy-a09.html

Fifty years since the resignation of Richard Nixon

The threat of dictatorship and world war is even greater today than in the period of the Watergate crisis and Vietnam.

World Socialist Web Site

Paul Briley 🇪🇺Dec 26, 2023

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Lorraine Dec 25, 2023

@Covidisheretostaypleasewearn95 @paul_briley
Okaaaay, took me another year, but I am officially OFFICIALLY full #misanthrope w/ everyone irl

That being said #happyChristmas to everyone who is still exercising caution & knows that #CovidIsNotACold #CovidIsNotOver #wearADamnRespirator

Paul Briley 🇪🇺Dec 6, 2023

Okay, let's continue with oil extraction & foreign profiteering of UK oil/gas fields while destroying our collective future!

Earth on verge of five catastrophic climate tipping points, scientists warn
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/06/earth-on-verge-of-five-catastrophic-tipping-points-scientists-warn?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Earth on verge of five catastrophic climate tipping points, scientists warn

Humanity faces ‘devastating domino effects’ including mass displacement and financial ruin as planet warms

The Guardian