The new 'Give an X' campaign to encourage young people to vote says, 'Voting is not just casting a ballot; it is narrating the stories of our communities and painting a vision of a better tomorrow.'

All very nice, but let's not forget: the bastards don't want you to vote.

I still can’t believe people are still listening to the same folk who said Brexit would create wealth, that Covid was nothing to worry about, and that tax breaks for the wealthy would lead to higher standards of living for all. I mean, at some point surely a light has to go on!

Dear 🇬🇧,

I can't stop thinking about my employer caring so little about suicidal doctors that it's chosen to cut the 0.007% of its budget it spends on the mental health service that helps keep them alive.

Thanks, @nhsengland.

And they wonder why doctors are leaving in droves.

Here's a little factoid for ya:

If the under 25s had voted in the Brexit referendum at the same rate as the over 65s, the UK would still be part of the European Union.

Numerous article from the BBC on Rayner…

Including one from Kuenssberg that says:

“with the police investigating, Angela Rayner is in trouble.”

Yet zero articles on Conservative Party being fined by the Electoral Commission for underreporting donations

Why is that BBC News (UK)?

My dad came over from Sicily & worked as a waiter at The Ritz…

He built a whole life/family here from those starting blocks

Last week,Brexit rules came in taking min visa salary threshold to £38k

Not only does this kill hospitality

It kills the dreams of people like my dad.

There was never a good reason to demonise asylum seekers or unpick international human rights.

But you couldn't pick a much worse time than now. Open war across the middle east. Ukraine. Democratic collapse across Sehal. Tensions in Serbia. Putin. Possible Trump 2 >

The Tories have changed the voting system to make it easier for them to win. Londoners now only get one vote for mayor.

Good to be back in Lambeth speaking to Londoners about the choice on 2 May: my positive vision or the hard-right Tory candidate.

#LabourDoorstep #VoteLabour

INVESTIGATION:

Two contracts worth £258m to supply gowns and safety goggles were enough for the owner of a dog food business to move into a stately home 🐕
goodlaw.social/u42c

Last year NHS England defunded the staff mental health & wellbeing hubs set up during Covid.

Now they’re pulling the CQC Outstanding NHS Practitioner Health service that’s saved countless suicidal & traumatised doctors, including me.

It costs 0.007% of the NHS budget.

Vicious & cruel.

Over 8000 NHS staff have signed this letter in under 24 hours, NHS England.

The strength of feeling could not be clearer.

Why would you defund a CQC outstanding service that literally saves the lives of suicidal doctors?

Could you even be more vindictive, after a pandemic?

HMRC pays debt collectors hundred of pounds to chase people who owe as little as £89, losing hundreds of pounds on each case.

But it has let a £500,000,000 debt from Lord Bamford build up over more than 10 years.

HMRC isn't about collecting money.

What an awful world we’ve managed to make it. To live in peace seems utterly beyond us. So dreadfully sad.

HMRC has no idea of tax dodged by UK residents holding £850bn assets abroad, incldng £570bn in offshore tax havens.

Govt will 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of benefits & state pension - old, sick, infirm, poor.

Won't snoop on tax dodgers.
leftfootforward.org/2024/04/labour…

Angela Rayner & I both grew up in poverty on council estates. We both left school without any qualifications. We both worked hard against almost insurmountable odds to get where we are today & we both now hold a truth twisting, law breaking government to account.

No wonder…

My kinda people.

YET ANOTHER FINE FOR TORY PARTY FOR BREAKING ELECTORAL LAW December 2021

Conservative Party fined £17,800 (12 Angela Rayner Units) by the Electoral Commission after failing to accurately report a donation of £67,801.72 to refurbish Boris Johnson's flat…

Brexit has had a profound impact on young people who didn’t get a say in determining our country’s future.

If I'm re-elected as Mayor, we'll bring in a new London version of Erasmus, helping students in our city to travel and study abroad once again. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

💥 NHS staff 💥

If you, like me, are horrified by NHS England’s decision to axe funding for psychological support for new hospital staff from Monday, watch this space.

Public letter to govt for you to sign is inbound. Natalie Silvey’s brilliant idea. Coming shortly 💙

If you want to avoid the hassle of showing ID to vote at the local elections you have four days to register for a postal vote where there are no checks bit.ly/3xA25fE don’t be disenfranchised by the new rules.