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US Vice President and Secretary of Defense loathe Europe (as they try to extort money out of it).
I wonder how much more evidence the UK government needs that Trump et al are deeply unreliable and we need to pivot towards Europe.
We have seen what Israel is doing and what Russia is doing. We seen all the dodgy COVID contracts. We see all the billionaire's wealth massively increasing. When the rule of law means nothing, when rich countries with powerful militaries do as they please, when very rich people can win dodgy contracts without ever facing sanction, when nobody in power seems to care about the environment, when we can't believe 99% of what politicians tell us, is all of that really the best we can hope for?
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Just a reminder, the EU has been operating a naval mission in the seas around Yemen to keep freedom of navigation open "at great cost" since 2008. A number of non-EU countries have contributed, including Ukraine... not the US though. I guess you could call that American free-loading. eunavfor.eu
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Should we be surprised that BBC Scotland shows flagrant disregard for their own charter and the rules which govern them? Here in Scotland we are well used to their obvious bias, censorship and outright lies.
Should we expect any more? After all they are the BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation. Their focus is on the British state, the Monarchy and in keeping the status quo. It isn't just in Scotland though. They show their bias across the UK every single day. Is BBC News fit for purpose?
#BBCBias
As a deaf mum of twins it took me years to get back into the workplace…it was a local council with a policy that offered anyone with a disability who met the essential criteria an interview, that eventually got me back into a regular PAYE job. Until then, I picked up crumbs of work on a self employed basis. Many of us who are disabled resort to working for ourselves, because employers won’t give us a chance…but it’s a very precarious existence.
America is no longer a trustworthy ally. It would be unsafe to buy military hardware from them. Meanwhile, all the US's former allies will need to double their defence spending, buying jets, tanks, missiles, etc., from non-US democracies.
Sometimes I look around at the UK, and think for years our political class has been 'kicking the can down the road' on so many things....
and now we have reached that pile of cans & they have no real ability to deal with the mess the pile represents.
And as Rachel Reeves stands on the pile of cans, declaring her fiscal rules must be met whatever it entails, the true hopelessness of the future seems all too clear.
[but in the back of my mind I also here the remark; 'OK boomer']
Video: 87 year old Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos cheered as arrives for police interview over anti-genocide protest
Starmer keeps targeting Jewish people in his war on free speech and protest rights about Palestine and Israel
Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos on his way to Charing Cross police station, where he was questioned as part of Starmer's war on anti-genocide protest.
These cruel benefit cuts will rob security from so many – but Labour will lose something crucial too
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/benefit-cuts-labour-reforms-george-osborne-politicians?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
@kibcol1049 Can you remember the slogan "Margaret Thatcher, Milk snatcher?"
Prime Minister Starmer, Disabled Harmer
#uk_politics #ukpolitics #scottishindependence #labourparty
If you read nothing else today read this
All that needs to be said about Starmer and his Labour Party
Protesters in Jerusalem are demanding the restoration of humanitarian aid to Gaza and an end to the genocide 
Experts criticise Streeting for saying mental health problems overdiagnosed - The Guardian
https://apple.news/AF81X9onPQHuEymC3rQzo5w. Let me help. Mental health care within the NHS is all but nonexistent. I know this from personal experience (no, I’m not the patient, and no, I’m not sharing chapter and verse here). In 1983 it was JAM, just about managing, now, to coin a phrase, it’s fucked. That’s what these pink Tories should be concentrating on. They won’t though, Streeting has had his dosh.
President of #Finland #Alexander_Stubb:
"I don't think #Putin wants a ceasefire. #Putin doesn't want peace. His original aim was...basically to have #Ukraine ceasing to exist. He hasn't changed his aim. This is what all of us around the table have to understand."
#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691
Public money should be used for public good, not for lining the pockets of far-right oligarchs.
Mark Ruskell MSP is calling on the Scottish Parliament to divest its pension scheme from Tesla.
"Labour has become a party of neo-liberal ghouls who fully subscribe to the Malthusian Conservative doctrine: “Work or starve”."
- Paul Kavanagh: "Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer, we’ll kick your crutches out of here."
#GangOfFive
#OptionalIdentityMark
#VoteLabourGetAusterity
#LiebourNotLabour
There's another and perhaps more insidious angle to consider, a potential parallel motive for an engineered recession: the fact that recessions create prime opportunities for oligarchs to amass more assets. During recessions and depressions, equity asset prices, particularly in real estate and businesses, decline significantly. While the majority of the population lacks the capital or liquidity to capitalize on these reduced prices, the top 1% possess the resources to acquire these undervalued assets. Consequently, when the economy recovers, oligarchs emerge with an even greater share of overall wealth.
PSA for those caring for older relatives.
Urinary tract infections are especially common among older adults, regardless of gender. The first outward sign of a UTI is dementia. So if your relative who is normally lucid starts to ramble more than usual, that could be it. I and multiple friends all learned this the hard way. Now you don't have to.
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shamelessness
If anyone, anyone at all (?) was confused, the speaker has his nose well into the trough, a man who disregards parliamentary conventions (pretty much all they have In the place of rules) to suit whoever is in power.
Commons Speaker’s £180k bill for first-class flights and hotels. One trip to a luxury Cayman Islands resort by Lindsay Hoyle cost the taxpayer nearly £23,000
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