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Reet then lads, Coventry away
Straight into these Jimmy Hill Chin stroking, Micky Gynn tash licking, Peugeot exhaust shagging, Brian Kilcline perm poncing, Gary Bennet knuckle testing, David Speedie Main Stand visiting, shite brown admiral away kit cunts from the off today !!
#SAFC
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I'm not going to name the school, but the @BBC's coverage of the antisemitism in schools report featured interviews with children from a Jewish school.
Here's the rub, though.
The school's own published curriculum explicitly teaches Zionism, celebrates the establishment of Israel and describes preparing pupils to become "positive advocates for Israel" at university.
It even references bringing in organisations such as StandWithUs to prepare pupils for that advocacy.
Now, let me be absolutely clear. There is nothing wrong with teaching Jewish history, culture or identity. And antisemitism must be challenged wherever it exists.
But when children are actively encouraged to advocate for a particular state, rather than critically examine its history, policies and actions, surely we have to question whether this is education or ideological conditioning?
And here's the staggering hypocrisy.
We're being told that schools must exercise political impartiality when discussing Palestine, while a school can openly describe preparing children to advocate for Israel.
Political impartiality cannot be a principle applied selectively, depending on which side of a conflict children are encouraged to support.
And the BBC has a responsibility to scrutinise that distinction, not simply present children's views without examining the educational environment in which those views have developed.
Children deserve an education that teaches them how to think, not what to think.
@NEUnion @educationgovuk
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I'm blocking her as I don't engage with racists. But I wanted to share with you some content, as the PDFs are published (although the annex with the survey data and crossings are not!!).
The report is IHRA and rehash of same old, same old...
This is inside the report for example:
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For the life of me, I still cannot understand the British obsession with Russia. They share no borders, have no direct economic competition with Russia, and Russia neither claims British territory nor poses a direct threat to Britain. So what is it? Nostalgia for a lost empire and a desperate need to remain relevant on the world stage?
Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg explains how Britain, which has a combat ready military force about half the size of New York’s police department, must prepare for war with Russia.
0:00 What Is This War and Why Does Britain Need to Fight It?
19:40 Is There Majority Support for War With Russia?
25:02 Will We See a Nuclear Exchange?
26:18 Is Using Nuclear Weapons Accepted in Christianity?
33:15 Was WWII Good for Britain?
39:08 Is Ukraine a Sovereign Country?
47:29 Would Hitler Have Invaded Britain?
53:45 Britain's Attacks on Anti-War Voices
58:38 Is a War With Russia Worth the Lives of Britons?
1:03:07 What Has the British Government Done With Palestine Action?
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According to @SuellaBraverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. Fuck her 🖕🏽🖕🏼🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿
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In a monetary society it is the government's responsibility & duty to ensure everyone has access to sufficient money to participate in that society. Cutting the state pension does nothing to improve ability to spend on other services. Burnham & Dugmore, just more neoliberal crap.
Oli Dugmore delivers one of the most powerful and well thought out answers I’ve seen this n a long time on #bbcqt 👏
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Indeed. Nixon abandoned Bretton Woods in 1973 because of complications based on the fact that foreign dollar reserves exceeded the gold stock. In 1978 the IMF legally ratified governments' shift from the gold exchange rate and pegged currencies to fiat currencies with floating exchange rates. Chris is right here - technically, currency issue, as either government spending or bank credit, was placed under the ultimate control of politicians and central bankers, limited only by the relationship between demand, real resources and inflation. However, this posed the risk to private capital that governments could 'crowd out' too many of its lucrative investment opportunities. So in the 1980s neoliberals began privatising, rationalising, asset-stripping and outsourcing everything in sight as rapidly as possible. They also used bond and FX market sell-offs to artificially stoke inflation and impose disciplinary fiscal limits on governments. Of course, governments and central banks can counter this by standing firm on bond yields, buying up bonds and introducing capital controls and strong domestic investment programmes, which could include public takeovers of energy and utilities and appropriate funding of public services. Our fundamental problem is that we have politicians who are either economically illiterate or willing to bow down to global money-market discipline. We can't move until we replace these money serfs with politicians who know precisely what they're doing and are willing to do it. Believe me, such people are quite rare on either side of the political spectrum. Economic literacy, courage and some degree of international coordination are essential to a better future.
🤦♂️Yet another ill-informed discussion on the economy on @BBCNewsnight tonight.
When @matthewsyed and @leicesterliz talk about govt borrowing, they're referring to govt bond sales. But there is no obligation on govts to sell bonds. The so-called 'Full Funding Rule' that was introduced by Geoffrey Howe in 1981 required govts to sell bonds to make up the difference between the amount collected in taxes and the amount the govt spends. But taxes do NOT fund govt expenditure because the govt issues the currency, so it has access to as much money as it requires. Consequently, there is no need to sell bonds. The primary purpose of taxation is to keep inflation in check and Howe's 'Full Funding Rule' was designed to further enrich the already wealthy. It's basically corporate welfare and should be abolished.
But what's unforgivable is that the likes of Mathew Syed and Liz Kendall are trying to hoodwink the public into believing that more cuts to the UK's social security system are necessay. But it's already one of the most parsimonious in Western Europe.
When will Newsnight ever invite some guests who will counter the sort of economic illiteracy that was on offer tonight?
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🤦♂️Yet another ill-informed discussion on the economy on @BBCNewsnight tonight.
When @matthewsyed and @leicesterliz talk about govt borrowing, they're referring to govt bond sales. But there is no obligation on govts to sell bonds. The so-called 'Full Funding Rule' that was introduced by Geoffrey Howe in 1981 required govts to sell bonds to make up the difference between the amount collected in taxes and the amount the govt spends. But taxes do NOT fund govt expenditure because the govt issues the currency, so it has access to as much money as it requires. Consequently, there is no need to sell bonds. The primary purpose of taxation is to keep inflation in check and Howe's 'Full Funding Rule' was designed to further enrich the already wealthy. It's basically corporate welfare and should be abolished.
But what's unforgivable is that the likes of Mathew Syed and Liz Kendall are trying to hoodwink the public into believing that more cuts to the UK's social security system are necessay. But it's already one of the most parsimonious in Western Europe.
When will Newsnight ever invite some guests who will counter the sort of economic illiteracy that was on offer tonight?
I love my team, up the fucking City #pusb
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I wrote last year about the ‘Integrity gap’ in UK politics as part of the Robin Cook memorial lecture.
“The public see a political class whose proximity to wealth has corroded its independence and whose language of public service has become a hollowed-out ritual.”
ALT Tom Watson
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What do we call people who side with foreign states against the interests of their home nation?
Great conversation this evening with UK Opposition Leader @KemiBadenoch and Shadow Foreign Secretary @TomTugendhat.
I thanked them for their firm opposition to the hostile Labour Government’s announcement today and its series of anti-Israel policies since taking office.
I welcomed their support for the friendship with Israel and their commitment for the future relations between our countries. We know that we have many friends in the UK, but unfortunately we are faced with the ongoing hostility of the current Labour government.
I also thanked Kemi for her warm wishes ahead of the Jewish New Year.
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Below is what CEO Denise Coates has paid herself in the last 10 years. And she now has the audacity to hide behind her low paid workers to argue against tax increases. Beneath contempt
Year Salary Dividends Total
2016 ~£117m ~£8m ~£125m
2017 £199.3m £18m £217.3m
2018 £220.0m £45m £265.0m
2019 ~£277m ~£46m ~£323m
2020 £421m £48m £469m
2021 ~£250m ~£50m ~£300m
2022 £213.4m ~£58m ~£271.4m
2023 £220.7m ~£50m ~£270.7m
2024 £94.7m ~£64m ~£158.7m
2025 £104m ~£183m ~£287m
Excl: Hundreds of job losses coming at bet365 as firm takes aim at tax hikes on the industry.
thesun.co.uk/news/40306756/b…
Juice Terry retweeted
This is obviously true of a subset of the populace, and I’d ask: who is “us”, and “we”?
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Appalling propaganda. The secondary bond market yields reflect only prices paid by traders. This doesn’t affect the coupon rate paid by govt. A bond with 4% interest is only paid 4% interest.
And there is NO black hole in govt finances!
"This is a massive, massive deal... we are kind of more exposed than many other countries around the world."
Ed Conway, Economics Editor of Sky News, on the rise in the cost of UK government borrowing - and the resulting "black hole" in the Burnham administration's finances.
#Newsnight
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This would be more persuasive if rising bond yields contradicted something MMT actually claims. They don’t.
A government that voluntarily issues long-duration securities at market prices will obviously see their yields fluctuate. The substantive question is whether those yields financially constrain the currency issuer in the manner routinely asserted. They don’t.
“Bond yields rose, therefore MMT is worthless” isn’t economics; it is a non sequitur.
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*This* is why China is outcompeting the West.
In China, private capital is subordinate to the state. This allows major investment and credit allocation decisions to be aligned with long-term national development objectives.
In many Western capitalist economies, the state is subordinate to private capital. Stock buybacks and the maximisation of shareholder value are hampering long-term strategic investment.
The West needs to stop blaming China for its own lack of strategic industrial policy and its over-financialised economies.
Mercedes-Benz will buy back as much as €1 billion of its own stock starting this week bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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OK my turn my turn:
✅highest/top 2-3 for total gov. spend & tax revenue-as-%-of-GDP in the whole OECD
✅80%+ of job contracts covered by collective bargaining agreements
✅60% of workers in trade unions
✅massive 51% state-owned renewable energy giant
Watching Thatcherites try and lay claim to the successes of Scandi social democracy is fun tho.
- Denmark’s corporation tax is lower than Britain’s & moving lower
- Denmark has a much more flexible labour market than the UK
- Denmark supports private provision of education rather than taxing it
- Denmark deters unsustainable illegal migration & manages its borders with effect
- Denmark is now ranked higher than the UK for economic freedom in multiple international indices
This year, Denmark is expecting economic growth of 4.2%. This will be great for people’s living standards, their employment prospects, investment in public services, & the confidence of their national psyche.
We should learn from Denmark. It can be done! 🇩🇰📈🇩🇰
cphpost.dk/2026-08-18/busine…
Juice Terry retweeted
It is a Fundamentalist Religion
Trickle-Down Economics, Reaganomics, Thatcherism, Neo-Liberalism, whatever you call it, from the UK to Argentina, it has brought nothing but disaster, poverty and despair
But their believers (despite history and reality) never lose faith.
