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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 41m

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Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

And this is why people think Labour are not on their side

Thago 16.57 GMT

MPs have again voted to remove a Lords amendment to the national
insurance contributions (NICs) bill that would exempt hospices from the rise
in employer NICs in the budget.

Peers had tabled amendments to the bill that would introduce exemptions
for the health and social care sector, including hospices, care homes, GP
practices, dentists and pharmacies.

But today MPs voted 312 to 190, majority 122, to reject the introduction of
exemptions. The Lords amendments were also voted down by the Commons
on Wednesday last week.

During the debate the SNP’s Dave Doogan claimed terminally ill children in
hospices would lose out as a result of the Lords amendment being rejected.
And after the vote the Lib Dem health and social care spokesperson Helen
Morgan said:

44 In a shocking display of apathy towards patients, Labour MPs have refused
to back down on tax hikes targeting hospitals, GPs, dentists, pharmacies,
hospices and care homes.

It is patients who will pay the price for these misguided tax hikes on a sector
that desperately needs our support to keep saving lives.

#UKPOL #UKpolitics #Labour

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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 43m

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Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

A reminder, they were only elected six months ago, to have burned through so much goodwill so quickly....

There has been a huge rise since the election in the proportion of people
‘who say they do not expect Labour to improve the lives of people like
them. At the time of the election people were narrowly more likely to say
Labour would improve their lives (54%) than not (46%). But now people
are more than twice as likely to say their lives will get worse under Labour
(71%) than the opposite (29%).

#UKPOL #UKpolitics #Labour

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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 45m

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Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

Labour holding the door open for the Tories and/or ReformUK to come to power in five years time.
#UKPOL #UKpolitics #Labour #Tories #ReformUK

38mago 17.27GMT @

Only 21% of Britons believe Labour's claim it's not returning to
austerity, poll suggests

More in Common UK, a campaign group working for community cohesion,
has published some detailed polling on attitudes to the economy. The full 30-
page report is here.

Summing up the findings, More in Commons says that over the past six
‘months public gloom about the economy has got deeper. It goes on:

44 The public are both deeply anxious and pessimistic about the economy, with
little faith in the government’s ability to make things better.

Public trust in the government has fallen with Britons more likely to believe the
government hid its true economic plans in order to get elected, and little trust in
promises to deliver improvements to Britain’s economy, public services and
their own personal lives.

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 47m

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Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

ReformUK continuing to destroy themselves, not that their (Protest) Voters care...

2hago 16.02 GMT

Rupert Lowe accuses Reform UK of 'woke HR lawfare' after it
releases KC's report claiming he may have broken Equality Act
An independent KC has found “credible evidence of unlawful harassment of
two women” by MP Rupert Lowe and “male members of his team”, Reform
UK said. In a report of the statement issued by the party, PA Media says:

44 The party said in a statement that an “independent King’s Counsel has
found there to be credible evidence of unlawful harassment of two women by
both Mr Lowe and male members of his team”.

He was also reported to the police over allegations of verbal threats towards
Reform chairman Zia Yusuf.

The Great Yarmouth MP lost the Reform whip earlier this month after the party
said it had received evidence of “serious bullying” and “derogatory” remarks
made about women in the MP’s offices.

Lowe has repeatedly denied the allegations against him, and claimed in a post
on social media that Reform is “shamefully attacking my innocent staff to
smear my name”.

#UKPOL #UKPolitics #ReformUK

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 49m

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Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

Just because they haven't convinced the nation they are correct in doing this, doesn't mean they aren't going to do it.
Starmer has his Five Year Plan, and nothing is going to get in the way of that.

Only 21% of Britons believe Labour's claim it's
not returning to austerity, poll suggests - as it
happened

#Austerity #UKPOL #UKpolitics

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 1h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

What he's saying is, it's a really bad time to be outside of a trade bloc and under some isolationist delusion of 'going it alone'

Like Brexit.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/25/globalisation-hsbc-chair-trump-tariffs-mark-tucker
#UKPOL #UKpolitics #Brexit #Globalisation #HSBC #Trump #Tariffs

The Guardian · 7hGlobalisation may have run its course in current form, says HSBC chairBy Julia Kollewe

**Tim Stickland** @sticklandtim@mastodon.green · 2h

Tim Stickland @sticklandtim@mastodon.green

#Labour
Labour can stop all the negative press and the howling from the Tories overnight.
All they have to do is say - Labour MPs pay for your own tickets - you can afford it.
#ukpolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/25/rachel-reeves-housing-minister-matthew-pennycook-free-tickets

The Guardian · 2hNot appropriate to take free tickets, says minister in veiled criticism of ReevesBy Jessica Elgot

**Alex Gallagher** @AlexGallagher@mastodon.scot · 3h

Alex Gallagher @AlexGallagher@mastodon.scot

The biggest upgrade to UK workers rights in a generation....

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/03/25/keir-starmer-workers-rights-bill-strikes-rights-starmer-rayner/

#politics #ukpolitics #starmer #angelarayner

Labour delivers.

Byline Times · 4hKeir Starmer’s Government Has Quietly Beefed Up Its Workers’ Rights Bill to Make It More Pro-WorkerA series of significant changes on workplace rights and the right to strike have been slipped out by ministers

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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 3h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

Ed Davey pointing out the obvious, but No 10 refuses to see it, and will be endangering our assets around the world with this naivety.

People will see the UK as nothing but a vassal of Gilead and react accordingly. Ukraine should be very wary of what it tells the UK.....

"Trump's White House can't be trusted"

The leader of the Liberal Democrats disagrees completely with the
government, and is calling for a comprehensive review of the UK's
intelligence sharing arrangements with the US.

Sir Ed Davey said: "Trump's White House can't be trusted to take
even the most basic steps to keep its own intelligence safe.

"Their fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants approach to security means it
could only be a matter of time until our own intelligence shared with
them is also leaked. This could put British lives at risk."

#EdDavey #UKPOL #UKpolitics

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 3h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

"they're our best friends, really they are...."

Embarrassing, and lacking in any self respect.

https://news.sky.com/story/no-10-insists-it-is-confident-over-intelligence-sharing-with-us-despite-trump-officials-group-chat-leak-13335573

Sky · 5hNo 10 insists it is confident over intelligence sharing with US despite Trump officials' group chat leak

#UKPOL #UKPolitics #Trump

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 3h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

Unpopular, yet these are the men our Prime Minister is trying to impress.

We even sent an envoy to Kyiv to advise Zelensky on where he went wrong with Trump and the Couchfucker in the Oval Office.

https://news.sky.com/story/jd-vance-even-less-popular-with-brits-than-donald-trump-new-polls-shows-13335490

Sky · 7hJD Vance even less popular with Brits than Donald Trump, new polls showsBy Alexandra Rogers

#Trump #Couchfucker #JDVance

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 3h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

Trouble is when you're "making sure that our children are educated about things like misogyny, healthy relationships" is the Parents relationships might be exposed as unhealthy, and those parents don't want that so they'll be crying out for Smartphones to be banned instead.

#UKPOL #UKpolitics #Empathy

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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 3h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

Fascism rises, Generational progress on Feminism stops.

But No 10 wants to ally with Trump, the Rapist and Nazi.

‘Generational progression’ has halted

More broadly, Ms Phillips said: "If you look at the data and attitudes
around things like feminism and the advancement of women, there
are really concerning trends.

"And | think we always thought it would just progressively get better.
And it's no comment on either my father, my husband or my sons
who are all absolutely cracking men, which is what most people
would say about all of the men in their lives.

"But that generational progression was the thing we expected. But
we have to look at the data and the concerns and the fears
amongst... whether it's extreme violence perpetrated by teenagers,
and like I've already said, the sexual violence figures, and really take
that on board."

#Misogyny #Patriarchy #Fascism

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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 4h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

this is the ideology of Gilead, being forced onto our boys, it's been going on for years and our Government wants to ally with that ideology.

Com members are "predominantly teenage boys that share sadistic,
nihilistic or misogynistic material," says Babbage. They also engage in
cybercrimes such as malware and ransomware attacks and fraud.

#Misogyny #Patriarchy #UKPOL

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 4h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

As a Brit, I want to vote for someone who will protect us from the United States and Donald Trump, not lie to us and pretend they are our friends because we have no real power left in this World and we fool ourselves into thinking we are a 'bridge' between Gilead and Europe.

As a Queer Brit, I'd like for my country not to ally with one currently erasing my kind from their history, but I know what Starmer thinks of us Queers....

He was a worm, and
worms get stepped on.

-Haruki Murakami

#UKPOL #UKpolitics #Labour

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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 4h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

Don't we deserve better than this snivelling, obsequious lie?

3hago 11.42 GMT

The UK still has “high confidence” that its operational security measures
“remain intact”, despite revelations of a major US security breach.

Asked about the incident on Tuesday, armed forces minister Luke Pollard
told the Commons Defence Committee that no British service personnel had
been put at risk as a result.

He added: “All UK service personnel are covered by our normal approach to
operational security, and the committee will understand that I won't go into
the details of how we keep our involvement in any support for military
operations in the Red Sea or anywhere else (secure).

“But we've got high confidence that the measures that we have got with our
allies, including the United States, remain intact.”

"BOOT KISSING"

"YES. IT'S A THING"

picture of some muddy boots

#UKPOL #UKpolitics #Labour

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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 4h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

Well look at that, Europeans standing up for themselves and fighting back at the Bullies while the UK pretends the Bullies didn't actually say what they said and they're our friends really.

Anybody who has experienced Bullying at school recognises the dynamic here, Teenagers understand the Dynamic here but our coward government wants to pretend this Reality away, ,like they do with Climate Change and COVID.

Do we deserve better than this Brits?

2hago 12.30 GMT

& Jennifer Rankin

A former head of Dutch cybersecurity has expressed his surprise at Donald
Trump’s top team’s use of Signal for classified communications that
revealed “visceral anti-European messaging”.

Bart Groothuis, an MEP for the Dutch liberal VVD party, who used to run the
cybersecurity bureau at the Dutch ministry of defence, said he was “a bit
surprised” at the US government’s use of a commercial app for highly
classified conversations.

“This is not the security posture Iam used to when it comes to the
Americans,” he told the Guardian, adding he was struck by the “visceral anti-
European messaging from both Vice President Vance and others”.
Groothuis, who is also vice-chair of the European parliament’s Iranian
relations committee, also expressed bafflement at the suggestion that the US
had no interest in containing the Houthis, an Iranian-backed proxy group,
which has carried out attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea.

In the exchanges, US vice-president JD Vance said only 3% of US trade goes
through the Suez canal, compared with 40% of European trade, arguing that
the US was doing what Europe should do. “I just hate bailing Europe out
again,” Vance said.

Groothuis said “what they fail to understand” is that the Houthis were an
Iranian proxy and their containment was about “putting maximum pressure”
on the Iranian regime and its nuclear ambitions.

“So itis also in the American interest and the direct American interest to
keep a lid on the proxies of Iran,” he said. “Did it ever occur to them that it is
in the direct interest of the US itself?”

#UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #EUPOL

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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 4h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

@JonBowie they won't and they'll sell us out to Gilead without a single vote, Starmer is a Quisling.

#Starmer #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS

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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 4h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

"No, they are our best friends....'Special Relationship'.... yes? ....yes? Please let us win this one, please....."

Britain has no self respect, unlike say, Canada, we'll take all the abuse Gilead throws at us and then ask 'sir' for some more, being the snivelling worms we are.