🔴 Here's a recent article by Streatham Labour councillor Martin Abrams on the Labour's problems with online voting. It's now 43 days since Labour admitted fraud in online voting in Croydon, but party still won't say if anyone disciplined or expelled: tribunemag.co.uk/2024/04/starme…

The West of Ireland isn’t as populated because it had the most emigration during The Great Hunger and the island hasn’t even recovered to the population levels of that time.

UK govt spending now similar to other advanced economies BUT tax levels remain below average - instead debt has grown. Raising taxes to the G7 average would raise an extra £79bn - new analysis Institute for Fiscal Studies supported by abrdn Financial Fairness Trust Nuffield Foundation
ifs.org.uk/articles/spend…

Why can’t I see a GP sooner?

In 2016 there were 1800 patients per GP

Now there are 2300 patients per GP

It’s not rocket science

Stats of the day: there are more internet users in the world (5.35bn) than there are people with access to safe sanitation (4.23bn).

[Internet usage: forbes.com/home-improveme…
Sanitation: washdata.org/sites/default/…]

Robert Tressell, author of ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists,’ was born on this day in 1870. His writing left an indelible mark on the socialist movement — but the man himself was almost forgotten by history. tribunemag.co.uk/2020/12/the-ma…

Sure Start worked. It had big long term effects on the educational achievement of poor children. Its demise is a study in policy failure - over centralisation, over extension, poor data, 'not invented here syndrome'. thetimes.co.uk/article/sure-s…

A reminder to Wes Streeting and the Labour Party. Choosing to spend NHS money on the private sector will hurt patients

We need to stop falling for industrial carbon capture schemes that are designed to benefit Big Oil.

drawdown.org/news/insights/…

‘All around us are the spiralling wealth of financial elites, the dilapidated public realm, unaffordable housing and continued investment in technologies that harm us. Attributing all of this to “the market” prolongs the failure to understand it.’

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

In case anyone forgets, there is a climate emergency.

Those criminalised for climate protests are on the right side of history.

The impact on food security is creating a global crisis for all.

Yet Starmer cut funds for Green Investment & pledged to increase defence spending?

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1. In Sydney, a mother & child were stabbed by a mentally ill white man, Joel Cauchi

2. When a brave security guard, Faraz Tahir, a Muslim refugee, stepped in to save them, Cauchi killed him

3. Top British media figures blamed the deaths on Muslims

4. Their tweets are still up

Centrist pundits are desperate to convince themselves and voters that Labour is a progressive party despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A mature Labour member running in the local election came to my door. On the subject of the NHS he was emphatic, NHS would be in safe hands with Labour & his daughter is a nurse.
I don't want to disillusion you, I said, but with Streeting as health minister the NHS is not safe👇

I wrote this for the Guardian on how both main political parties are actively promoting the interests of finance. Labour seems to have forgotten the lessons of 2008. No wonder, given the influence finance lobbies have on policy.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Streeting is the ideologue here. To insist on allowing private sector/ finance to cannibalise NHS is pure ideology.
To try and pretend you're doing so to protect the interests of working class people is pretty twisted.
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

These hard right journalists go after Muslims doing the same thing as those of other faiths. Disgusting.

Civil Service Jewish Network
gov.uk/government/pub…

Christians in government christiansingovernment.org.uk/about-us/

Civil Service Hindu Connection
civilservice.blog.gov.uk/civil-service-…