@Geri It would not surprise me if they deliberately used that misleading and inaccurate figure to push through and convince some of the MPs of the urgent necessity to reduce PIP, disability payments and more. #LabourInNameOnly are creating worse #Austerity that even the reprehensible #Tory party ever did.
"It suits today the weak and base,
Whose minds are fixed on pelf and place
To cringe before the rich man's frown,
And haul the sacred emblem down."
"Then raise the scarlet standard high.
Within its shade we'll live and die,
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
We'll keep the red flag flying here."
● Lyrics from 'The Red Flag' (1889)
* Pelf = wealth or riches, especially when dishonestly acquired
“To paraphrase Neil Kinnock’s 1983 speech[,] under this Labour Government – I warn you not to be ordinary – I warn you not to be young – I warn you not to fall ill – I warn you not to get old.”
● Neil Findlay, former Labour MSP in a letter to Starmer, 19/3/2025
#LabourInNameOnly
#LabourBetrayal
#LabourAusterity
#VoteStarmerGetThatcher
#OptionalIdentityMark
#WeWarnedYou
Translation - medical services in England will now be dictated and available according to the personal views and whims of a minister. #Homophobia #TERF #LabourInNameOnly
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/13/keir-starmer-abolishes-nhs-england-executive-body
"[Five] Labour MPs [in Scotland in] a group backing the UK Government's proposed welfare cuts have been branded “frankly despicable."
"[They are] MP for Dunfermline & Dollar Graeme Downie, East Renfrewshire's Blair McDougall, Coatbridge & Bellshill's Frank McNally, Livingston's Gregor Poynton and East Kilbride & Strathaven's Joani Reid."
"The group has named itself the “Get Britain Working” group."
(One of these five Red Tories is my MP.)
"The creatures outside looked from Tory to "Labour" and from "Labour" to Tory, and from Tory to "Labour" again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." *
The National: "UK Government planning £6bn in welfare budget cuts".
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24992296.uk-government-planning-6bn-welfare-budget-cuts/
#LabourBetrayal
#LabourInNameOnly
#SarwarLiedToScotland
#LabourIsDeadInScotland
#IndependenceIsNormal
#ScottishIndependence
* with acknowledgement to George Orwell
"Starmer has been told to “get up off his knees” and revoke an offer of a UK state visit to Donald Trump after the US president's extraordinary treatment of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy."
#CaptainUTurn
#StarmerChameleon
#LabourInNameOnly
#SlavaUkraini 
#PresidentKompromat
#ComradeKrasnov
Progressive socialism anyone?
"If a General Election were held tomorrow, 29% of UK [= England] voters would choose Reform [UK], 23% Labour and 21% the Tories."
"This would give Reform UK a narrow majority with 333 seats, and Labour would plummet to 88, losing 323 of their current MPs."
- The National, 13/2/25
#Brexshitania
#SingleTransferableParty
#LabourInNameOnly
#PreciousUnionMyArse
#IndependenceIsNormal
"That a Labour government is seemingly willing to sacrifice poor and disabled people’s benefits in order to protect the wealthy and healthy from paying a bit more tax is the kind of dystopian deal that feels at best perverse and, at worst, a betrayal."
#ToryContinuity #LabourInNameOnly
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/05/labour-cuts-benefits-tories-vulnerable
Is it just me? Can you see the danger in this?
"Group of Labour MPs urge No 10 to be tougher on migration to fend off threat from Reform."
- The Guardian, 4/2/25
Starmer has apparently written an op-ed in the Heil on Sunday.
"What does Streeting want to do with his 'league table' [for English hospitals]? He wants to reward prosperity and punish those seeking to do what Nye Bevan always wanted - which was to deliver healthcare to everyone, whoever they were and whatever their means might be, even though healthcare for those with the least is often the most expensive care to provide."
#SayEngland
#EnglishPolitics
#LabourInNameOnly
#GoodnightNHSEnglandAndGoodLuck
#ProtectNHSScotland
Starmer's ‘tough decisions’ appear to impact only the disadvantaged and the working classes but it would seem there are no ‘tough choices’ to be made which will affect the wealthy, corporations, media barons, hedge fund managers or bankers.
Strange, that.
"#Scotland wasn’t mentioned once in [UK] Labour’s big pre-election pitch today [16/5/24].
"[Neither in] Starmer’s 2,631 word speech. Nor the hefty 5,724-word press release which included comments from the likes of Ed Milliband and Yvette Cooper.
"... neither Wales nor Northern Ireland were mentioned either."
#IndependenceIsNormal #ScottishIndependence #YesCymru #LabourInNameOnly #OptionalIdentityMark #Captain_UTurn #VoteLabourGetElphicke #VoteLabourGetThatcherism
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24325814.scotland-not-mentioned-labours-big-election-pitch/
"Scottish #OptionalIdentityMark Labour defers to UK party bosses on selling arms to Israel."
#StopArmsSalesToIsrael #LabourFriendsOfGenocide
#Gaza #CeaseFireNow #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelGenocide
#LabourInNameOnly #ToryContinuityParty #VoteLabourGetTory #VoteLabourGetThatcherism
Labour on Thatcher, then and now.
1983
“If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to grow old.”
2024
She effected "meaningful change” and “set loose our natural entrepreneurialism”.
She deserves praise for “supply-side reforms” and rejecting “managed decline”.
A "visionary leader"; she directed a “decade of national renewal”.
"... sometime in the next twelve months, the TCP (Tory Continuity Party), sometimes called LINO (Labour In Name Only), will win a general election, and the ethos of neoliberal government will roll onward, as destructive as it has been for decades."
- Richard Murphy nails it.
#ToryContinuityParty #LabourInNameOnly #VoteLabourGetTory #YouYesYet
