Keir Starmer and Rachel reeves have found the Magic Money Tree 🌳 inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

There's no need for us to increase spending on defence. There is, however, a need for us to increase spending on several other sectors. Why can't he prioritise and ring-fence spending on those? Is it because spending is always entirely political?
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I was proud to help write these policies in 2019, so I'm delighted they've been retained — but reform without funding won't reverse the devastation of England's bus networks.

A new all time low on Wednesday with a failed attempt by bullying employer CarlisleSupServ to turn the police onto their own workers and RMT members carrying out a peaceful protest in a battle over pay, an end to zero hour contracts and their legal entitlement of holidays

A magic money tree for bombs & bullets, but not for hungry kids.

Uncosted spend of £10 billion a year from Labour.

But don’t worry - it’s not a left wing figure saying we should use cash to improve the productive capacity of the economy. So it’s fine.

There seem to be similar alleged irregularities in the Ilford South selection as there was in Croydon East.

The Croydon East contest was suspended and people are under party and police investigation. Seems there's a strong case for the same in Ilford South

(via Private Eye Magazine)

Good to see, after too many false dawns, both Streatham station lifts working as at Wed evening, 10 April

With awaited part for Platform 1 lift fitted on Fri, Southern confirm testing & configuration subsequently undertaken & scaffolding from inside lift shaft removed Wed

The Labour selections scandal has far-reaching consequences.

These stitch-ups are about Labour's elite insulating itself from democratic pressure, ensuring pliable MPs to vote through unpopular policies.

💯 from Cllr Martin Abrams 🕊️🍉 in Tribune 👇
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14 years ago today, my darling little brother was brutally murdered in our family home when he answered the door to 2 men. They stabbed him to death & stabbed my parents.
Please contact ⬇️if you have any information that can bring justice for our family and an end to this ordeal

Quite amusing that Chorley keeps snorting and asking “where has this protest got you” and the answer, quite accurately, is “Onto your radio show”.

Centrists think Means Testing is the answer to everything.

It's not.

Just tax the rich and implement wealth taxes

Later today, Ghassan Abu Sitta will be installed as Glasgow University Rector in Bute Hall.

I’ve written about why his landslide election matters for Tribune.

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LGBT Labour have this agent of transphobia as one of their patrons and fundraise for him.

They've also said absolutely nothing today as Labour backs the restriction of gender affirming care to trans youth.

Morally depraved, worthy of utter contempt - like Wes.

Stop the #GenocideinGaza #StopArmingIsrael 6 months of relentless bombing, and deliberate famine - we're at a turning point - We will not stop till the Israeli gov stops. 11.45 Bloomsbury Square Gardens Sat 13 April. #JewsAgainstApartheid

Yesterday Labour announced its advisory panel on (clamping down on) tax avoiders. A welcome move in principle. But the composition raises some red flags

Chiefly the inclusion of Sir Edward Troup – a former HMRC official with a less than clear history of tackling tax avoidance 🧵

More evidence Labour only does 'due diligence' for left wing candidates ... (who can be blocked for liking tweets by Caroline Lucas)

Vile racism and bigotry exposed, but apparently never noticed previously? @Tomorrow'sMPs
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