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Police State UK<p>"Female MPs say they are unnerved by how women seem to be taking brunt of anger over government decisions."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Misogyny</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/29/cabinet-no-longer-feels-safe-labour-mps-criticise-briefings-against-female-ministers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/politics/2025/</span><span class="invisible">mar/29/cabinet-no-longer-feels-safe-labour-mps-criticise-briefings-against-female-ministers</span></a></p>
Juggling With Eggs<p>‘<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> hopes to boost the public coffers by billions of pounds with its crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion.</p><p>But figures obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveal that fewer than five such prosecutions were brought in 2023-2024, down from 16 in 2018-2019.’</p><p>Meanwhile more than 600 carers have been prosecuted since 2019 for fraud. </p><p>Priorities? </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/30/prosecution-of-people-who-help-clients-evade-tax-in-uk-falls-by-75-in-five-years" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/business/2025/</span><span class="invisible">mar/30/prosecution-of-people-who-help-clients-evade-tax-in-uk-falls-by-75-in-five-years</span></a></p>
Police State UK<p>"In the UK, <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> is battling inefficiency, through a series of cuts to <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/welfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>welfare</span></a> that are the biggest since George Osborne was chancellor."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/mar/30/striving-for-efficiency-is-all-very-well-but-it-leaves-no-time-to-live" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2</span><span class="invisible">025/mar/30/striving-for-efficiency-is-all-very-well-but-it-leaves-no-time-to-live</span></a></p>
Wen<p>Labour MPs clearly despise experts as much as the Conservatives. How much do they know about the consequences of what they are voting on? Or do they really care? I suspect a mixture of the two.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/30/mps-to-vote-on-disability-benefit-cuts-without-knowing-full-impact" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2025/mar</span><span class="invisible">/30/mps-to-vote-on-disability-benefit-cuts-without-knowing-full-impact</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UkPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UkPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Ignorance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ignorance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disability</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Hypocrisy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hypocrisy</span></a></p>
Wen<p>The Met Police achieve a Streisland win - finally being reported by the MSM. They must be so proud. Pratts.</p><p>More than 20 Metropolitan Police officers broke down the front door of a Quaker meeting house to arrest six women who had met to discuss climate change and Gaza.</p><p>None have been charged - but the message iOS clear. Under Labour dissent is BAD.</p><p><a href="http://archive.today/2025.03.29-220332/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/met-smash-down-door-of-quaker-meeting-house-to-arrest-activists-jhhchrtlt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.today/2025.03.29-22033</span><span class="invisible">2/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/met-smash-down-door-of-quaker-meeting-house-to-arrest-activists-jhhchrtlt</span></a> (archive)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Quakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quakers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MetropolitanPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MetropolitanPolice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/YouthDemand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YouthDemand</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Dissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dissent</span></a></p>
David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@WEBylines" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WEBylines</span></a></span> I have absolutely no faith in <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/NewLabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewLabour</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/momentum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>momentum</span></a> ever returning to anything resembling <a href="https://mas.to/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> . <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Thatcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thatcher</span></a> destroyed <a href="https://mas.to/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labour</span></a> acquiesced 100% The present lot are a fecking disgrace. I come from good stock and massively proud of my <a href="https://mas.to/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labour</span></a> roots. ✊</p>
Geri ❤️<p>On 10th October, the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> Government published the Employment Rights Bill (ERB), promised as part of their manifesto and the Plan to Make Work Pay.</p><p>Today, we learn that various measures within this bill: such as Zero Hours Contracts, Day One protection from dismissal, and Fire and Re-hire will be diluted and or removed as <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Reeves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reeves</span></a>' advisers have told her that they hamper growth.</p><p>To me, it represents another matter that Labour has rowed back from to chase the capitalist money God</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/shame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shame</span></a></p>
Wen<p>I am sure that misogyny is a problem - although ‘insider briefings’ Against prominent politicians are nothing new - Remember <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Corbyn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corbyn</span></a>.</p><p>However comments aimed at these people must surely also have a basis in their positions and their behaviour? <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Reeves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reeves</span></a> on her misguided and incompetent approach to cutting benefits to apply a stick, both she and <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Rayner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rayner</span></a> (and of course <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a>) on their blatant acceptance of bribes - whoops gifts.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/29/cabinet-no-longer-feels-safe-labour-mps-criticise-briefings-against-female-ministers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/politics/2025/</span><span class="invisible">mar/29/cabinet-no-longer-feels-safe-labour-mps-criticise-briefings-against-female-ministers</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Misogyny</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BadBehaviour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadBehaviour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ShoeFits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShoeFits</span></a></p>
R. Scott Pert<p><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> - Disabled man dies in poverty and squalor after DWP removes his benefits, just as Labour cuts PIP by £4.5bn</p><p>&gt; The body of a disabled man was found in his flat in distressing, squalid conditions, just weeks after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wrongly removed his disability benefits because he had failed to return a claim form. <a href="https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-man-dies-in-poverty-and-squalor-after-dwp-removes-his-benefits-just-as-labour-cuts-pip-by-4-5bn/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">disabilitynewsservice.com/disa</span><span class="invisible">bled-man-dies-in-poverty-and-squalor-after-dwp-removes-his-benefits-just-as-labour-cuts-pip-by-4-5bn/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brexit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/squalor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>squalor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>austerity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/politicsuk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politicsuk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/ukgovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukgovernment</span></a></p>
Wen<p>There are plenty of ways to get people into work but this unimaginative plan will make an unfair benefit system worse </p><p>I never thought I would see this in The Times and from this writer</p><p><a href="http://archive.today/2025.03.28-194652/https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/labours-welfare-reforms-are-all-pain-and-no-gain-t0d89j90z" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.today/2025.03.28-19465</span><span class="invisible">2/https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/labours-welfare-reforms-are-all-pain-and-no-gain-t0d89j90z</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Welfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Welfare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Work</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CarrotNotStick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarrotNotStick</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poverty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a></p>
Wen<p>An opinion piece. But IMHO (as goodd as this) we all know that Westminster Ministers typically only think of their own advantages - now and in the future. Others who will not benefit them are only of interest if it might effect their votes (and earning potential)</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/28/uk-ministers-need-to-ask-why-they-are-offered-freebies-and-who-loses-out" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/politics/2025/</span><span class="invisible">mar/28/uk-ministers-need-to-ask-why-they-are-offered-freebies-and-who-loses-out</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UkPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UkPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Westminster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Westminster</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservative</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Freebies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Freebies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stupidity</span></a></p>
Police State UK<p>"Neoliberalism destroys democratic hope and the far right fills the political void. We need a new politics of belonging, not <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a>’s craven appeasement of capital."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/fascism-britain-neoliberalism-opened-door-for-it-labour" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/mar/28/fascism-britain-neoliberalism-opened-door-for-it-labour</span></a></p>
Wen<p>If they get this right it should be dynamite. The US health 'care' system that (a) bankrupts more people than any other single factor in the country (b) employs more administrators tasked with turning down claims than healthcare professionals (c) results is one of the worst child mortality (and others) in the western world and (d) ties people into jobs. Just just a precis.</p><p>Reform voters should be sh*tting themselves.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/28/labour-ads-use-nhs-to-attack-nigel-farage-views-before-major-reform-rally" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/politics/2025/</span><span class="invisible">mar/28/labour-ads-use-nhs-to-attack-nigel-farage-views-before-major-reform-rally</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Farage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Farage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/USMalpractice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USMalpractice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukpol</span></a></p>
TC Won't Give In To Lies<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@lyndamerry484" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lyndamerry484</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://econtwitter.net/@sjwrenlewis" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sjwrenlewis</span></a></span> </p><p>No one likes to pay tax. But we see where the money is piling up - and that is where the tax increases should be.</p><p>The rich know they and their companies have been freeloading, with the lowest tax burden in decades. They'll scream and make political trouble, but they'll pay. It just takes will.</p><p>I've not been very impressed w <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> , but tax rises on pensions &gt;£1m and corp payroll are good moves (IMO). More <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TaxTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TaxTheRich</span></a> increases, please.</p>
Police State UK<p>"From deportation videos to Keir Starmer’s declaration that “I like and respect” Donald Trump, from repeated public sector cuts to the chancellor Rachel Reeves’s talk of “tearing down regulatory barriers” in this week’s spring statement, Labour has often behaved as if the boundaries between its supposedly centre-left politics and the politics of the right or even the far right have simply melted away."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/keir-starmer-labour-rightwing-labour-prime-minister-leftwing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/mar/28/keir-starmer-labour-rightwing-labour-prime-minister-leftwing</span></a></p>
TC Won't Give In To Lies<p>Yes!!!!!</p><p>Stop cutting services to the poor.</p><p>Fix the budget by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TaxTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TaxTheRich</span></a> . </p><p>This means keeping the tax on tech (screw Trump, bc he's going to screw the UK anyway). Create a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WealthTax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WealthTax</span></a> , <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RaiseCapitalGainsRates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaiseCapitalGainsRates</span></a> , tax pensions of the wealthy and raise corporate tax rates.</p><p>And if <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> really wants to get the economy growing, lower the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EnergyCap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyCap</span></a> , lower water rates, protect renters and maybe even lower the VAT rate.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/27/reeves-could-target-pensions-and-wealth-if-economy-worsens-says-ifs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/politics/2025/</span><span class="invisible">mar/27/reeves-could-target-pensions-and-wealth-if-economy-worsens-says-ifs</span></a></p>
LeftyLabourTechToronto<p>More Than 300,000 Alberta Workers Form a United Front</p><p>Bracing for Trump-triggered instability, 26 labour unions declare a ‘Solidarity Pact.’</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/canadianpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canadianpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/abpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labour</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solidarity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unions</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/workersrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workersrights</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/generalstrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>generalstrike</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/03/27/Alberta-Workers-Form-United-Front/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thetyee.ca/News/2025/03/27/Alb</span><span class="invisible">erta-Workers-Form-United-Front/</span></a></p>
Seonaidh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿<p>Satire but the way Labour are going, this may well be a party political broadcast for them.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SirKidStarver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SirKidStarver</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SpringStatement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpringStatement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RedTories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedTories</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/disabled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disabled</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/iJB2S-Di9kg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/iJB2S-Di9kg</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Ally Miller<p>Rachel Reeves accused of balancing books on back of UK’s poorest <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/26/reeves-accused--balancing-books-back-of-uk-poorest-spring-statement?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/26/reeves-accused--balancing-books-back-of-uk-poorest-spring-statement?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> is a choice. It is morally indefensible and counterproductive. Labour inherited a broken country and are damaging it further. As always the poorest will suffer most. More poverty, more hardship, more illness and more premature death. Services that continue to fail.</p>
Nikita Romanov<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/springbudget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>springbudget</span></a> is so god damn depressing. Reducing foreign aid &amp; how far benefits go. How is this any different to the 14 years of Tory rule they’ve been trying to distance themselves from?</p><p>I don’t care if it’s just at a local or devolved level, you just aren’t defending a left wing party any more &amp; Neil Findlay leaving <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> was just the start.</p><p>If any Labour member feels that they have even a shred of morality left, they’ll abandon the party that abandoned the working class. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/redtories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>redtories</span></a></p>