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“It’s a complete shitshow and isn’t something a #Labour government should be doing. People are incredibly scared and nervous and that’s rightly pouring on to us.”
So #Gove , too cowardly to stand at the general election on his record, (co-chair Vote Leave, VIP PPE contracts for cronies etc) is to be reinserted into our Legislature like a used supposiTory as the parting gift of failed #EnglishNationalist loser #Sunak ?
And the #Labour Government simply nods along?!? This appointment simply yells #Starmer's failure to address broken democracy & governance in the UK, where cronyism is normal, & failure rewarded by a life tenure in the legislature.
#RejoinEU
@suswatibasu@mstdn.socialThis petition to stop planned benefit cuts needs 10,000 signatures for the government to respond.
If you sign, please remember to check your email and confirm so it goes through
We want the Government to halt all planned benefit…
Petitions - UK Government and ParliamentA lot is being said about the April 11th release of the US Consumer Sentiment Index, which is down 11% since March and 30% since December, to the second lowest it's been since recording started in 1952 (down to 50.8 points from a 20-year average of 80 points).
What bothers me though, is how the media all turns directly to tariffs as the only cause, as if Trump could just end his trade war with the world and the US would go right back to functioning normally again.
That is an extremely Capitalist view of the market which completely ignores the great importance of working-class labour, and putting spending power in the hands of working-class consumers.
People are losing jobs due to DOGE cuts to government spending in order to produce trillions of dollars in tax breaks for multi-billionaires like Elon Musk. People are losing jobs because labour protections against job discrimination are being revoked. People are losing all the public services and supports they need to survive, whether they can hold onto a job or not. Everything is more expensive because of tariffs, but also because the US labour force is being rounded up into ICE detention camps.
Consumers aren't just losing confidence because they have all this money to invest and don't know where to spend it. Consumers have no confidence because they have no spending power.
Confidence in the stock market comes from investors, and Trump can manipulate the market to pull that sentiment up and down with his tariffs and breaks on tariffs.
Consumer sentiment comes from the masses, who are largely working-class and not investors who make all their money off the capital they own. You take away their spending power, and surprise, they have no confidence to spend.
Media needs to stop turning everything into a tariff debate, and look at the real hurt and chaos in American lives.
It should be noted that the other "Great Recession" shown on the graph, of 2007-2009, was avoidable and caused by unregulated credit and borrowing. In response to the Great Recession, unprecedented fiscal, monetary, and regulatory policy was unleashed by federal authorities. Trump's administration is taking financial regulation away, in order to remove caps on capitalist exploitation.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/economy/us-consumer-sentiment-april/index.html
#uspol #unionstrong #union #labour #economy #consumerspending #fascism
“[UK Labour Health Sec Wes] Streeting appoints ex-boss of health privatiser, who pushed non-doctor expansion, to run Dept of Health”
by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @UKLabour
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@guardian @Independent @thetimes
“Samantha Jones, who pushed use of ‘associates’ w/out medical training & ran GP business with half usual no of GPs, to run DHSC as part of NHS cost-cutting ‘integrated care’ plan”
#Press #UK #NHS #Labour #Streeting #Privatisation #DHSC #UnitedHealth
“The UK’s AI Borders: #Anduril’s #Autonomous #Surveillance #Towers”
by researcher Samuel Storey, hosted by the Migrants’ Rights Network
“Criminalising people arriving via irregular routes has been a number one priority for successive UK governments. These silent, ever-watching towers are a physical marker of where the #Hostile #Environment begins”
#Press #UK #Migrant #Criminalisation #Labour #Starmer #Border #Apartheid #SentryTower #AI #HomeOffice #Drones
“UK government wants to legalise automated police decision-making”
by Statewatch.org
“A proposed law in the UK would allow police decisions to be made solely by computers, with no human input. The Data Use and Access Bill would remove a safeguard in data protection law that prohibits solely automated decision-making by law enforcement agencies”
#Press #UK #Automated #Decisions #Police #Law #Data #Protection #Discrimination #Labour #Starmer #Autocracy
A proposed law in the UK would allow police decisions…
www.statewatch.orgLabour welcomes transphobes.
Louise Irvine is also the Secretary of Lewisham North Women’s Branch. Here she is sending emails out to local Labour members and showing a photo of herself standing with Vicky Foxcroft (who has in the past been trans inclusive).
Noted transphobe #LouiseIrvine, formerly of the National Health Action party, is now a member of #Labour. Not only is she a member, she’s also a key player in the trans-hostile group Labour Women’s Declarations.
https://labourwomensdeclaration.org.uk/dr-louise-irvine-womens-conference-arrangements-committee/
Dr Louise Irvine & Lynne Troughton, LWD are thrilled…
Labour Women's Declaration#anticapitalism #socialism #communism #anarchism #labour #labourrights #workersrichts #eattherich #feedthepoor #economy #capitalism #squattheworld #housesforall
Labour: like Robin Hood in reverse.
Taking from the poor, giving to the rich.
#ukpol #ukpolitics #Labour #labourparty
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/tax-cut-billionaires-starmer-musk-bezos-trade-3630807
PM says digital services tax and Online Safety Act…
The i PaperOh! The irony!
“Israel lobby group Labour Friends of Israel tagged for ban on entering Israel by pro-Israel fascist group”
by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @UKLabour
“Dark comedy as genocide-deniers targeted by even more fanatical outfit for not being apologist enough”
#Press #UK #Labour #LFI #Israel #Betar #Fascist #Ban #Genocide #MP #Deportation #Palestine #FreePalestine
Dark comedy as genocide-deniers targeted by even more…
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@IndyRichard@mastodon.scotJust had a post through the door from Labour. It is a mixture of brazen lies and deliberate confusion.
1. They claim they'll end austerity in Scotland? Err austerity comes from Labour in Westminster.
2.They claim they'll fix the NHS in Scotland. Interesting since the Scottish NHS outperforms the English and Welsh NHS both run by Labour.
3. They claim they'll back workers. Interesting since they abandon workers in Grangemouth while supporting workers in England.
#Labour
#Lies
Hamilton labour leaders say workers want to know where candidates in this federal election stand on issues including the right to strike, supporting public services and protecting workers affected by the Canada-U.S. trade war. https://buff.ly/z9O4Dlt #HamOnt #Burlington #Labour #CdnPoli
I agree!
No question in my mind that #Starmer is a #Quisling who not only prioritises the interests of his £billionaire donors over the *genuine* needs of Britain but, more importantly, the interests of malign foreign states like Israel!
Thus:
“[..] Starmer has been tamed like a circus lion, whipped into line by the #establishment. Those pressures won’t lift once he is in government. They will intensify”
by Jonathan K Cook in Middle East Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-labour-party-starmer-cowed-voters-afraid-establishment
Labour leader needs to win back the Red Wall, but he…
Middle East Eye“Keir Starmer just exempted posh people’s cars from the EV mandate”
by James Wright in The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour
“The UK government has reviewed the rules for its petrol and diesel vehicle sale ban and decided that posh cars will be exempt”
#Press #Labour #Starmer #ToryContinuityParty #EV #Mandate #Petrol #Diesel #PhaseOut #2030 #LabourFriendsOfBigOil
The govenment has updated its EV mandate and has exempted…
Canary“A petition over DWP PIP has highlighted a fact all disabled people should know”
by The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour
“A new petition is making waves as it calls on [..] DWP to update the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) application form to include important information about the high success rate of appeals”
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/04/08/dwp-pip-appeals/?__s=1toyfummtp6bhspv4akg
#Press #UK #Labour #DWP #PIP #Disability #Appeals #Success #Claims #Complexity
