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   Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 07:17:02 JST Jay Baker

   Liz Kendall? Jacqui Smith? For real?! I thought people were joking when they mentioned such names last week in the same sentence as Tony Blair. This UK Labour government is like a parody; a political satire sketch show or something. I didn't even know most of these people still existed in politics. It's like Sir Keir Starmer got himself a time machine and went back and picked up all the long gone Blairites - you know, the most painfully uninspiring, the most embarrassingly out of touch and passé politicians he could find to fill benches and fulfill the required roles as mere mouthpieces of the capitalist status quo.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 07:33:04 JST Jay Baker

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     I mean, bloody hell, this lot aren't just lagging behind Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell -- they're lagging behind the likes of John Stuart Mill, Henry Ford, Karl Marx, and many others good and bad across the political spectrum of history who still all agreed by predicting that we wouldn't have to be working so much by now. Instead, you've got a Labour government - in 2024 - droning on about work, not least while talking about Disabled people. My partner was disabled by Long Covid in 2020, kept working, got worse, went part-time in 2022, got even worse, before finally having some hope of care by quitting work entirely in 2024. So don't fucking lecture me about the importance of "work" - go and tackle the grotesque inequalities and maybe redistribute wealth first, before speaking to me about who needs to contribute more, thanks.

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     MusiqueNow :newpride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 (musiquenow@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 07:50:06 JST MusiqueNow :newpride: ✡️ 🇵🇸

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     @MediaActivist

     I wish you and your partner well. ☮️

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 07:50:25 JST Jay Baker

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     • MusiqueNow :newpride: ✡️ 🇵🇸

     @MusiqueNow Thank you so much!

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     MusiqueNow :newpride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 (musiquenow@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 07:51:39 JST MusiqueNow :newpride: ✡️ 🇵🇸

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     @MediaActivist

     Blairites, Macronistes, far right, etc. Like roaches. You spray but they come back

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 07:54:40 JST Jay Baker

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     • MusiqueNow :newpride: ✡️ 🇵🇸

     @MusiqueNow It's very true! Although possibly insulting to roaches!

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     MusiqueNow :newpride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 (musiquenow@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 08:07:43 JST MusiqueNow :newpride: ✡️ 🇵🇸

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     @MediaActivist 😆

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 08:10:56 JST Jay Baker

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     • Fifi Lamoura

     @fifilamoura Thanks, and I agree with you completely there: the system is locked down.

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     Fifi Lamoura (fifilamoura@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 08:10:57 JST Fifi Lamoura

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     @MediaActivist I am so sorry, at least Starmer could have gotten some new terrible people! It's hard not to notice that the ultra rich won't let a real (even slight) challenge to corporate power and personal wealth win.