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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈"By destroying our country like Trump is destroying his, we can get a good deal" said the naïve Quisling <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKUSTradeDeal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKUSTradeDeal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKpolitics</a>

Kim PeralesThe early CXL of an Amazon Web Svcs contract means: a slew of NOAA websites are slated to go dark at midnight. This mainly would affect NOAA's research division, & will make numerous websites & data sets inaccessible to the public.It's another example -admin: taking data offline across the govt.The COMM Dept is requiring <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NOAA</a> -to🚨 cut its IT budget by 50% across the board.There's a light at the end of the tunnel, but...<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Coup</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resist</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/04/04/noaa-research-websites-go-dark-saturday-night" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.axios.com/2025/04/04/noaa-research-websites-go-dark-saturday-night</a>

Kim Perales<a href="https://toad.social/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HHS</a> has fired every single worker in its program that helps low-income Americans pay their energy bills.All of the staff who worked on Social Svcs Blk Grants *help states & territories pay for social svcs that protect ppl, incl children, from neglect & abuse, were let go."So low-income Americans, that may be a lot of us, after <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>'s policies & Musk's <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Firings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firings</a> & the fallout; will be hungry, imperiled, possibly homeless, ill...<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trumpcession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trumpcession</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5228186-hhs-fires-entire-staff-of-program-that-helps-low-income-people-afford-heat-and-air-conditioning/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5228186-hhs-fires-entire-staff-of-program-that-helps-low-income-people-afford-heat-and-air-conditioning/</a>

TJ1001Well played Starmer - Rolled over like a puppy. On the plus side, giant tech companies pay fuck all tax, so a lower rate of fuck all is still fuck all. Imagine cutting disability benefits at the same time as giving the most profitable companies that ever existed tax breaks - what a time to be alive   <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brexit</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/bbc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bbc</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/keirstarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#keirstarmer</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/labourparty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labourparty</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/RejoinEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RejoinEU</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservatives</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/rachelreeves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rachelreeves</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"The problem, indeed, is a more general one. No populism, right or left, has so far produced a powerful remedy for the ills it denounces. Programmatically, the contemporary opponents of neoliberalism are still for the most part whistling in the dark. How is inequality to be tackled – not just tinkered with – in a serious fashion, without immediately bringing on a capital strike? What measures might be envisaged for meeting the enemy blow for blow on that contested terrain, and emerging victorious? What sort of reconstruction, by now inevitably a radical one, of actually existing liberal democracy would be required to put an end to the oligarchies it has spawned? How is the deep state, organised in every Western country for imperial war – clandestine or overt – to be dismantled? What reconversion of the economy to combat climate change, without impoverishing already poor societies in other continents, is imagined? That so many arrows remain missing in the quiver of serious opposition to the status quo is not, of course, just the fault of today’s populisms. It reflects the intellectual contraction of the left in its long years of retreat since the 1970s, and the sterility in that time of what were once original strands of thought at the edges of the mainstream. Remedial proposals can be cited, varying from country to country: Medicare for all in the US, guaranteed citizen incomes in Italy, public investment banks in Britain, Tobin taxes in France and the like. But so far as any general, interlocking alternative to the status quo is concerned, the cupboard is still bare. (...) Politically speaking, neoliberalism has been in no great danger from either."<a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/perry-anderson/regime-change-in-the-west" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/perry-anderson/regime-change-in-the-west</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Populism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Populism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a>

Kim Perales"Heart pounding, he called his father -shocked -Trump's admin would take such action.“ .. ‘Dad, they're trying to bankrupt me.”The Trump admin's cuts impact small farmers in WV where Trump won 70% of votes. <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> cut $500M program for food banks to buy local produce. Fed funds🚨comprise ~1/3 of states' annual spending.Mountaineer Food Bank was ending Yates' butter contract, due to the fed govt's funding cuts.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trumpcession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trumpcession</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resist</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/federal-funding-cuts-ripple-through-heart-trump-country-2025-03-29/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/world/us/federal-funding-cuts-ripple-through-heart-trump-country-2025-03-29/</a>

Kim Perales"If over a million people leave the US, the economy will shrink and tons of Americans will lose their jobs." -AR Melnick"Immigration Research IRI estimate: If all undocumented TPS humanitarian parole <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Venezuelans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Venezuelans</a>, <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Cubans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cubans</a>, Nic. & <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Haitians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Haitians</a> are deported💔, the Florida economy will shrink, and 80,000 US-born workers may lose their jobs. That's just in Florida!" -A Oppenheimer<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cruelty</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sadism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sadism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Deportations</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Immigrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DHS</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trumpcession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trumpcession</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Economy</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resist</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a><a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article302787889.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article302787889.html</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈"MPs are to vote in May on the government’s plans to cut disability support payments for hundreds of thousands of people over the next four years."<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/30/labour-mp-taiwo-owatemi-pet-rent-minister-dan-jarvis-expenses-rules" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/30/labour-mp-taiwo-owatemi-pet-rent-minister-dan-jarvis-expenses-rules</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TaiwoOwatemi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TaiwoOwatemi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a>

OccuWorldTHINK OUTSIDE THE CAGE<a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/CultureWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CultureWar</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Distraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Distraction</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/ClassWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClassWar</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/RecordProfits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RecordProfits</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corporations</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/AntiUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiUnion</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Homeless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Homeless</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Impoverishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Impoverishment</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/DeathCult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeathCult</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈All right for some, isn't it?<a href="https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/labour-mp-expenses-900-pet-31311921?int_source=nba" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/labour-mp-expenses-900-pet-31311921?int_source=nba</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sleaze" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sleaze</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a>

OccuWorldAlarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/florida-republicans-immigrant-jobs-child-labor" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/florida-republicans-immigrant-jobs-child-labor</a>Governor Ron DeSantis leads push to loosen child labor laws as immigration crackdown leads to workforce shortage.<a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/ChildLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChildLabor</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/DeSantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSantis</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Children</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Xenophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xenophobia</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Polarization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Polarization</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Manipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Manipulation</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/ClassWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClassWar</a>

R. Scott Pert<a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UK</a> - Disabled man dies in poverty and squalor after DWP removes his benefits, just as Labour cuts PIP by £4.5bn> The body of a disabled man was found in his flat in distressing, squalid conditions, just weeks after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wrongly removed his disability benefits because he had failed to return a claim form. <a href="https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-man-dies-in-poverty-and-squalor-after-dwp-removes-his-benefits-just-as-labour-cuts-pip-by-4-5bn/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-man-dies-in-poverty-and-squalor-after-dwp-removes-his-benefits-just-as-labour-cuts-pip-by-4-5bn/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brexit</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poverty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/squalor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#squalor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/politicsuk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politicsuk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/ukgovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukgovernment</a>

Political Cartoon GalleryDave Brown's <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/RoguesGallery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RoguesGallery</a> after <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WTSmedley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WTSmedley</a> @Independent on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/RachelReeves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RachelReeves</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/LabourParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourParty</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/SpringStatement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpringStatement</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/BenefitCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BenefitCuts</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WelfareCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WelfareCuts</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ChildPoverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChildPoverty</a> – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

BongolianThe Contrarian covers the Democracy Movement: Thursday: Protestors ask for the return of "detained" Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, a protest against <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a> in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chicago</a>, scenes from <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Turkey</a>, and more.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TheContrarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheContrarian</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#protest</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RumeysaOzturk</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tesla</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarchy</a> <a href="https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-contrarian-covers-the-citizens" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-contrarian-covers-the-citizens</a>

HarriettMBI bet he isn’t sorry really. The rationale behind this budget and other financial decisions made by the Chancellor, and previous chancellors is clearly that they believe we all have some kind of magic money tree, and hidden incomes that we live on; only accessing our ‘pocket money’ for kicks. I think it’s time there was a televised test for aspiring politicians [renewable every ten years] that they must live in the circumstances and the incomes they expect the rest of us to - with no external support from family or associates. Live in a suitable rundown property with an unpleasant landlord, high rent, poor access to public transport, penalties for turning up late, etc. And they must do so for a minimum of six months. His ‘pocket money’ comment shows how completely divorced from reality these politicians are. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPol</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LINO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LINO</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crkngrv14myo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crkngrv14myo</a>

Ally MillerRachel Reeves accused of balancing books on back of UK’s poorest <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/26/reeves-accused--balancing-books-back-of-uk-poorest-spring-statement?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/26/reeves-accused--balancing-books-back-of-uk-poorest-spring-statement?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> is a choice. It is morally indefensible and counterproductive. Labour inherited a broken country and are damaging it further. As always the poorest will suffer most. More poverty, more hardship, more illness and more premature death. Services that continue to fail.

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈This cruelty towards the Vulnerable is supposed to inspire 'consumer confidence' is it? It's disgusting to pick on people like this, it's Trumpian <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpringStatement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpringStatement</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PIPPayment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PIPPayment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disability</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ableism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukpolitics</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈But the important thing is not a single Rich Person was harmed, and that's the only 'moral case' Reeves and Starmer care about. Not us oiks. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/26/more-than-3m-britons-to-lose-out-from-benefits-cuts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/26/more-than-3m-britons-to-lose-out-from-benefits-cuts</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpringStatement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpringStatement</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OperationChainsaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OperationChainsaw</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPolitics</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈This was a choice<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/26/i-could-end-up-homeless-weighing-the-damage-after-rachel-reeves-welfare-cuts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/26/i-could-end-up-homeless-weighing-the-damage-after-rachel-reeves-welfare-cuts</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpringStatement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpringStatement</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKpolitics</a>

Political Cartoon GalleryElla Baron @EBaronCartoons on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/RachelReeves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RachelReeves</a> and the sleeping lion of UK growth @guardian <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Reeves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reeves</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/SpringStatement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpringStatement</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/BudgetCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BudgetCuts</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WelfareCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WelfareCuts</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

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