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Saturday, September 21, 2024
They promised sovereignty, but at first it was unclear which variety of sovereignty they meant. Were the politicians who swore we would regain it when we left the European Union referring to parliamentary sovereignty or popular sovereignty? Now we know they didn’t mean parliamentary sovereignty. Boris Johnson’s government has...

Say sorry Jo Swinson

Swinson. Will you say sorry to the families of these victims of your austerity? Terry McGarvey, 48. Dangerously ill from polycytheamia, Terry asked for an ambulance to be called during his Work Capability Assessment. He knew that he wasn’t well enough to attend his WCA but feared that his benefits...
If someone took something off you, then after watching you suffer for 10 years decided to give you some of it back but only if you support them on a new adventure, would you trust them to look after you in the future? Or would you be cautious about...
9 years of Austerity implemented by the Conservatives - they want us to give them more time to fix it? How long do they need? Child poverty up 73% in the UK under 9 years of Tory government. Jeremy Corbyn never supported the IRA, but people don’t mind the fact that...
Had to stop and take this photo while out and about in the Dorset outback today. If anything sums up a working class Conservative voter for me this is it. Simon Goddard
Keep the Tories out, they're not to be trusted Deprive a lying, unprincipled PM of success Two reasons not to:- Keep the Lib Dems out, they're not to be trusted Deprive a lying, unprincipled leader of success Andy Hamilton
I copied this but forgot to get the name of the person who first said it... (Martin Ison) "I feel sorry for the Leavers who are adamantly sticking to their rhetoric no matter what the facts show. They are the highly manipulated product of decades of capitalist, far right politics...
MPs - one and all - stand strong against lies, propaganda, bullying - we are in a world war - mass media war - led by US Alt right Bannon all one with Farage, Cummings, and many more ... Mass microtargeting - lies and propaganda - sow the wind - we...
It is deeply ironic that this government is now desperately seeking  to portray itself as the party of law and order in the Queen’s Speech, when it has already been found guilty of breaking the law by the Supreme Court and of misleading the Queen herself! The idea that somehow...
Watching the morning news roundup on BBC2, whilst Boris Johnson presented his newly discovered "deal" to breech the Brexit deadlock - a solution hoped for by Johnson himself, his Tory Brexiteers; the financially well rewarded DUP and a few nondescript Labour MPs - it was notable amidst the anger...