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Englishman in New Jorts retweeted
I see everywhere the right wins, they push for a mix of aggressive war, looting and destroying the public realm, impunity for corruption and war crimes, roasting the planet with hydrocarbons, deforestation, destroying public education, ethnic supremacy and McCarthyist crackdowns.
Englishman in New Jorts retweeted
precedent set. i expect anyone wearing the poppy will have it digitally removed.
First they censored “Protect The Dolls”, now the BBC are censoring pride pin badges leicester.news/bbc-edits-out…
Englishman in New Jorts retweeted
Anyone who’s had this will tell you the same. It’s important to understand: terror of transgender people as sex offenders is much the same thing as black-clad lads in the street shouting against migrants as sex offenders. They are different facets of the same reactionary project.
Englishman in New Jorts retweeted
We're right back in last decade's stupid and discredited argument that the global financial crash was caused by too many libraries in Wolverhampton.
The bond markets turned on Truss because she promised huge unfunded tax cuts for the super rich, i.e, unproductive spending.
EXCLUSIVE:
Andy Burnham must “take the knife” to public spending in the budget or risk a Liz Truss-style crisis that will “crater” the economy and the government’s popularity, an ally of the prime minister has warned
Andy Haldane, a former chief economist at the Bank of England, said he feared the government would deliver a “mañana budget” that deferred the difficult decisions on public spending and “doesn’t speak to the urgency of now”
In an interview with The Times, he said that Britain was “close to being taxed out and maxed out in terms of borrowing”. He spoke of concerns that the government was failing to grasp how “precarious” the fiscal position was
He said that the government needs to cut the size of the state and reduce taxes if it were to “unleash the animal spirits and generate growth”
Haldane warned Burnham that he cannot “vibe-code” his way to growth, and raised concerns about the gap between the government’s rhetoric and the reality. He said that the government was effectively deferring the “day of reckoning”
He also said that the decision to increase taxes on banks could show that the government lacked the courage to cut public spending. He said the move was “penny wise, pound foolish” and sent a broader economic message that if businesses make profits “the taxman cometh”
Haldane said that while Burnham had the potential to be a “great prime minister” who could serve two terms, the economy was his “blind spot”. He said that the fiscal situation facing Britain was “precarious”
“The penny has not yet fully dropped, including in Downing Street,” he said. “You see that in us having the highest borrowing costs in the G7, despite not having the highest debts and deficits.
“It’s the old Hemingway [Ernest Hemingway, the author] thing, isn’t it? How do you go bankrupt? First slowly, then very quickly. The biggest risk to Andy not transforming Britain, to not serving two terms, to not being seen in the history books as a great prime minister, is not political risk.
“It’s not those who sit behind him. It’s probably not even those who sit opposite him in Westminster. Keir [Starmer] lost the dressing room. Andy’s biggest risk is that he loses the dealing room. And then that’s an even more painful way to go, as Liz Truss would tell you.”
Andy Haldane: PM risks Truss-style crisis if he dodges tough choices
thetimes.com/article/9b12c00…
Englishman in New Jorts retweeted
Perhaps the situation is now so dire that we should all be utterly terrified of the hell that awaits? If so, I’d like to request a huge round of applause for generations of British statesmen, military planners, diplomats and economic theorists. What an incredible job to have done
Englishman in New Jorts retweeted
People who defended Nelson Mandela when he was incarcerated by South Africa's Apartheid regime were supporting someone that the democratically elected US government had proscribed as "terrorist" (Margaret Thatcher famously branded the ANC a "typical terrorist organisation".
Englishman in New Jorts retweeted
Labour really did do it, they really did wait until after they'd won the by election against the Greens to say "yeah we're gonna drill the oil suckers, shoulda voted for Zack idiot"
Englishman in New Jorts retweeted
What an endorsement! I'm sure the Labour Party is very proud to have banned Palestine Action at Trump's say-so and to have committed climate vandalism for his warm words.
Englishman in New Jorts retweeted
Ideology is when you want a habitable planet for future generations, pragmatism is when you say “fuck them I want some money now”.
Englishman in New Jorts retweeted
National Action are neo-Nazis.
Their members attempted to murder a Sikh dentist, plotted to machete an MP to death and stockpiled weapons for a race war.
Palestine Action targeted weapons' factories and threw paint at planes in protest at toddlers having their heads blown off.
Englishman in New Jorts retweeted
Won’t lower energy bills.
Won’t boost energy security
And creates just 27 jobs.
Compared to all the benefits of investing in renewables and insulating our homes.
thelondoneconomic.com/politi…
Englishman in New Jorts retweeted
Does this meaningfully differ from - to pick one example - the entire press indulging Jonathan Ashworth and Thangam Debonnaire in weeks of roaring into microphones about how “sectarian voting” cost them their seats? Do we think they meant “Muslims are legit Britons, like anyone”.
Englishman in New Jorts retweeted
A glaring example here of “if we forever block change for the better to prop up a system people dislike, then guess what kind of change we will get instead”.
Englishman in New Jorts retweeted
Environmental vandalism. A war on the future. Pure madness.
NEW: The Jackdaw gasfield will be given the go-ahead on Wednesday, signalling Andy Burnham’s commitment to the North Sea fossil fuel industry and threatening to trigger a row with climate campaigners and Labour MPs.
Story by @kiranstacey theguardian.com/environment/…
Englishman in New Jorts retweeted
Let me explain, using Trevor as an example. Fascist rioting is viewed as the public’s over exuberant but basically legit hate for people who aren’t white. Left wing people rioting - hell, just being angry - is the fall of civilisation itself.
Englishman in New Jorts retweeted
Farcical response.
"We don't need an inquiry into UK government complicity in genocide because a Labour-dominated Parliament will use its powers to investigate senior Labour Party politicians, including current sitting members of Cabinet, for wrongdoing that has potential dire legal ramifications collectively and personally."
At least make up something vaguely plausible.
NEW: Andy Burnham has officially rejected Jeremy Corbyn's call for a public inquiry into "British complicity" in Gaza.
The former Labour leader wrote to the PM in July asking him to back his Private Member's Bill for a Chilcot-style inquiry, which would look at any UK military, economic or political cooperation with Israel since October 2023.
This would include the power to question ministers on the supply or use of weapons, surveillance aircraft and Royal Air Force bases.
The idea was rejected by Starmer. The govt have confirmed in response to a written question today that their position remains unchanged under Burnham, saying an inquiry isn't necessary due to the "extensive mechanisms already available for parliamentary accountability and oversight".
Corbyn said:“Andy Burnham rightly said that the last Labour government “got it wrong” over Gaza. But his words will mean very little if he doesn’t break with the last government’s shameful record of complicity, secrecy and evasion.
"Many of us will remember in the aftermath of Iraq, the government of the day spent many years resisting attempts to uncover the truth. In the end, they could not prevent the inevitable. Just like Iraq, we will remember those who obstructed the path to justice."
