UK public debt:
Mar 2024, £2.694tn, 98.3% of GDP
Feb 2020: £1.791tn, 79.1% of GDP
May 2010: £1.03tn, 65% of GDP
Squandered on tax cuts for corporations/rich, contracts for cronies.
No new industries
Public services destroyed
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined

“Our leaders seem determined to give war a chance. Their thirst for conflict endangers us all” : Jeremy Corbyn

“We seek peace in Gaza, Ukraine, Yemen, Sudan, the DRC and elsewhere, but we’re ignored. History will damn the warmongers” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This is legit crazy and immensely worrying about France's direction as a country.

Mathilde Panot is the president of the main left-wing party (LFI) at the French parliament, and she was just summoned by Macron's police because she's 'investigated' for 'apology for terrorism'

This is the media establishment yet again not holding the gvt to account by just repeating the false deficit and debt narrative that justifies austerity and cuts to public services. There are no 'tricky choices' only gvts that choose to make accounting calculations based.../

Council of Europe human rights watchdog condemns UK’s Rwanda bill theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

Rwanda is “safe” by law because a few hundred desperate Tory MPs are willing to sacrifice every gram of conscience and decency in a vain effort to save themselves from electoral disaster.

It gets worse. The guy in the video w Falter, pictured on the right guarding Israeli president Isaac Herzog & UK ambassador Tzipi Hotovely, appears to work for Mossad-trained SQR Group. Falter didn't just bring heavies to the demo, it seems – he brought Israeli state contractors.

The Government's cruel Rwanda Bill will now become law

It rips human rights away from people who come to the UK hoping for safety for them and their loved ones

With Freedom from Torture🧡 + Amnesty UK, we transformed Parliament to let everyone know about this crime against compassion

🚨 BREAKING: This Government's cruel Rwanda Bill has just passed

Today will forever leave a stain on the UK’s moral reputation.

The UK has an obligation to provide safety to refugees. It's now vital that flights to Rwanda do not leave the tarmac.

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A day of shame in the U.K. as the Conservative government, led by the son of immigrants, passes the #RwandaBill . One of the most inhumane immigration acts in U.K. history. Breaching international law in a desperate bid to attract racist votes. #BBCBreakfast #r4today #KayBurley .

There’s a book to be written on how Sunak got to a place where his Rwanda policy with its unworkable, cruel, expensive, law breaking nationally embarrassing contradictions- Rwanda is safe but it’s a deterrent etc, etc- became his make or break policy in a country where public

Sunak has allocated 2200 detention spaces, 200 caseworkers, 25 courtrooms, 150 judges and 5000 sitting days for Rwanda

At a time when rape victims have to wait almost 2 years for a trial the PM has suddenly found the cash and capacity to get what he wants
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Tory MPs throw out plea not to deport Afghan war heroes to Rwanda mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

“When centrists claim to be guided by common sense over populism of ideology, they ignore that their loyalty to a bankrupt status quo is a fanaticism of its own” : Grace Blakeley
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“In dividing the world into ‘populists’ and ‘rationalists,’ liberals unwittingly succumb to their own form of populism.”

Me for Tribune
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Israel has yet to provide evidence of Unrwa staff terrorist links, Colonna report says theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

This from #Newsnight in Jan - on the judges & courtrooms that will be made available for legal challenges over Rwanda deportation, when the court backlog is around 66,000

2024: Rishi Sunak, 'We've processed more asylum seekers last year than in the last two decades'

2023: Whistleblower on Channel 4 News, 'The Conservative gov have cut down the number of experienced interviewers and they're replacing them with inexperienced people.. Someone

Whilst Thames Water tries to raise bills by 44%, millions struggle with the cost of living and years of stagnant wages.

We need to bring water into public ownership as part of a Green New Deal to cut bills and invest in the future of our planet.
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What has been remarkable about the huge marches & rallies in support of the people of #Gaza isn’t hatred, violence & intimidation, but how extraordinarily peaceful, diverse & open they have been. That’s the truth that the likes of Braverman, Falter, CAA etc are trying to obscure.