Great start for new PM #KierStarmer with a novel approach ...hire someone with competence in the area they lead (not just a banker or journalist)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/06/starmer-non-political-ministers-government-of-all-talents-patrick-vallance-james-timpson

JFC! So, the rich have over half a TRILLION POUNDS hidden offshore and an unpaid £40 Billion in tax.

Let's see the new Chancellor act on that!
#TaxTheRich

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/06/hmrc-offshore-tax-avoidance-uk-wealthy

People forget the bad, so every voter should write their future self a note on why they should #NeverVoteTory

I'll start:
- Johnson's lies, incompetence and PartyGate
- Proroguing Parliament (illegally)
- Hard Brexit, reducing trade and rights
- Truss tanking Sterling w/ tax cuts to the rich
- Worst in the industrial world mortgage and inflation rates
- Low growth (inevitable with trickledown)
- NHS and schools starved. NHS staff left to strike for months on end
- Threats to GFA and ECHR

LOCK HIM UP

Re #SteveBannon who has been tried, convicted, sentenced and lost his appeal. No more delays. Lock him up *today*

Judge to decide if Bannon must go to prison while appealing contempt case

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/06/05/bannon-prison-hearing-contempt/

@GatekeepKen @futurebird
Almost certainly a bot farm account.

Thank you to #WashingtonPost for this great summary of the evidence behind Trump's fraud convictions.

So much disinformation about the case, but it's nice that one paper bothers to publish the evidence without both siding it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/30/evidence-trump-hush-money-trial/

Convict Trump is my favorite Trump NFT yet 🤣

One change the #Tories did pass - a big increase in campaign spending

How nice for them... and their wealthy donors.
#ToriesUnfitToGovern
#TacticalVoting

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/24/tory-donors-pour-cash-seats-big-names-risk-losing-gove-mordaunt

The incomprehensible, unattainable scale of Trump’s deportation plan

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/15/trump-immigration-deportation-plan/

@TheJen
I'm a big fan of the UBI idea, but there's one key caveat. There must be public ownership, or profit limits, on essential goods and services.

Just look how energy and food companies used #Greedflation to suck up all the available money that people saved during the pandemic.

UBI, without the prevention of such exploitation, will only lead to another round of energy, food, housing inflation ...because they can.

For the record, I think it's great to see tax-evading, spoiled rich people indicted for tax crimes.

But it should be a LOT more frequent with people of all parties
#HunterBiden

Hunter Biden Charged With Evading Taxes on Millions From Foreign Firms https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/us/politics/hunter-biden-indictment.html

Now that the IDF has operational control of the main crossing into Gaza, the food, medicines and aid are going to *pour* into the country, right?

Right?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/israel-idf-control-rafah-crossing-gaza-palestine-side-hamas-war-latest-update

@benroyce @sickmatter
I'll try

I support the Israelis who demand a ceasefire, a two state solution and want Netnayahu to resign.

I support the Palestinians who demand a ceasefire, a two state solution and want a real, representative gov.

Conservative activists involved in self-dealing.

Is anyone shocked?

Pro-Trump Nonprofit Paid Millions to Companies Tied to Its Own Leaders https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/us/politics/trump-conservative-partnership-institute-funds.html

@benroyce @GottaLaff
Exactly. I found this visual is the perfect response to those complaining about the Trump - Biden choice.

#VoteBlue2024

@newsthump
"Maybe it we deported TWO migrants to #Rwanda we could have done better in the local elections"
- Some Tory somewhere today

👀

An assassination plot on American soil reveals a darker side of Modi’s India

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/29/india-assassination-raw-sikhs-modi/

@HistoPol
It would not be undeserved.

Finally - a concrete benefit of #Brexit

Massive customs windfall ... for Ireland

#BrexitReality

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/29/ireland-reaps-700m-brexit-bonanza-from-customs-duties

If it's a day ending in Y, time for another example of #Tory damage

In my #BBCNews app, top stories:

Not shown: latest on the trial of a former US President

Shown: Man injured by shark in Tobago (#3) and Nancy Pelosi critique on school protestors (#10 and the highest US&Canada story)

FFS, #Tories have eroded every institution - in this case through partisan appointees and decreased funding