Tony Meredith · @Tony_Meredith
242 followers · 2299 posts · Server mastodon.me.uk

Barrow. It's a shipbuilding town that's nearly part of the lovely Lake District. So, in our area, we've got big tourism, smallish industry that's really big in special things, and normal economic stuff. Old towns, especially Barrow, are rundown and poor.
Here's the news. Govt is trying to level up, without spending extra money. Just magic. 1/2

A northern English town looks to BAE Systems to help it ‘level up’ - on.ft.com/3ZaA8Vc via @FT

#cumbria #lakedistrict #politicsuk #deprivation

Last updated 1 year ago

Tony Meredith · @Tony_Meredith
238 followers · 2258 posts · Server mastodon.me.uk

Ok, boomer speaking. The UK "triple lock" on increases to state pensions is coming back to the news. Should it be reviewed?
It started with an all-party review (2006) considering poverty, longevity etc that recommended BOTH a triple lock and increases to the pension age. And sex equality too.
Let's have a new conversation about low payouts from DC schemes, poverty, ethnicity, gender and longevity. Anyone here writing a party manifesto?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Pe

#pensions #TripleLock #politicsuk

Last updated 1 year ago

They used to say that Italian Politics was corrupt, but the British political system makes Italy's look like a Tibeten Monastery.

#politicsuk #politics

Last updated 1 year ago

Anyone else get the feeling that tax is taking a back seat in that old saying?

Death and Tories

#politicsuk

Last updated 1 year ago

Never underestimate the power of STUPIDITY!

#politicsuk

Last updated 1 year ago

Twiteryeanot · @Twiteryeanot
40 followers · 312 posts · Server mastodon.scot

So today is NHS's 75th Birthday.

Like everything that has become old the are killing it off.

In any case Happy Birthday NHS


#nhs75 #politicsuk #tories

Last updated 1 year ago

The Liberal & Radical Echo · @TheLibRadEcho
402 followers · 146 posts · Server mas.to

Thames Water has been fined £3.3m after it discharged millions of litres of undiluted sewage into two rivers, killing more than 1,400 fish.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suss

#Sewage #SewageScandal #TorySewageParty #thameswater #uk #water #politicsuk #politics

Last updated 1 year ago

Nikita Romanov · @nr
135 followers · 178 posts · Server mastodon.scot

orcadian.co.uk/council-leader- here is the article from the local Orcadian. Short but we will see on Tuesday what comes of it.

Pathetic for the country’s newspapers to make fun of the issue (neglect & experience of not being understood!).

Joke comes at expense of Islanders, was an opportunity to educate folk on the challenges faced by rural issues & how an empowered govt could address them, turn ride of stagnant population & revive cut services.

#scottishindependence #scotland #politicsuk

Last updated 1 year ago

Takky · @takky6445
9 followers · 32 posts · Server mastodon.me.uk

Random thought - the thing I don't get is people saying that there's no point in voting or all the parties are the same. Just doing that you're asking to be absolutely abused for their benefit. Case in point when people could be arsed in the and the went down like a cup of cold sick

#politics #local #elections #tories #politicsuk #political #apathy #voter #indifference

Last updated 1 year ago

Raymond Scott Pert · @raymondpert
404 followers · 445 posts · Server social.targaryen.house

UK: new bill to ban councils from adopting ethical procurement policies condemned as 'outrageous' | Amnesty International UK

>Bill would make it unlawful for public bodies to make decisions about procurement or investment policies on ethical and human rights grounds

Unique status given to Israel in bill shows legislation driven partly by desire to prevent opposition to human rights violations against Palestinians
amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/

#ukpol #politicsuk #britishpolitics #ukpolitics #tory

Last updated 1 year ago

TheFatCyclist · @SanchoPanzasNo1Donkey
149 followers · 2011 posts · Server home.social
TheFatCyclist · @SanchoPanzasNo1Donkey
149 followers · 2009 posts · Server home.social
John Ager · @john1954moi
665 followers · 4565 posts · Server mas.to

Who's done the most damage to the UK? Nigel Farage, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, or Liz Truss?

#borisjohnson #politicsuk

Last updated 1 year ago

Andii אַנדִֽי · @Andii
212 followers · 2381 posts · Server mas.to

HM Government wants to extend voter ID laws - despite Ree-Smugg admitting they were an attempt to manipulate elections. It’s a stitch up. We say: DITCH VOTER ID before the next General Election. 38d.gs/4edb

#politicsuk #votesuppression #voterid #ProtectOurVote

Last updated 1 year ago


A new economic model for the left – East Anglia Bylines
eastangliabylines.co.uk/a-new-

#politicsuk

Last updated 1 year ago

John Ager · @john1954moi
651 followers · 4495 posts · Server mas.to

I separately asked AI if Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer were liars.

I received two very different responses.


#politicsuk #politics #uk #keirstarmer #borisjohnson

Last updated 1 year ago

TheFatCyclist · @SanchoPanzasNo1Donkey
142 followers · 1909 posts · Server home.social

So the COVID inquiry got hold of 20 Johnsonian notebooks....you can only imagine what blackmailing was in them....... .no new hospitals..new police...no new care system..... just blackmailing..or how else can he afford a 3m mansion in oxfordshire


theguardian.com/politics/2023/

#borisjohnson #politicsuk

Last updated 1 year ago

Red Dog · @Old_Red_Dog
93 followers · 227 posts · Server mas.to

Is it just me, or do you think that when both the Daily Mail and the Daily Express are telling you the cost of living crisis is coming to an end, it's just total bollocks?

#politicsuk #politics #ukpolitics

Last updated 1 year ago

Tony Meredith · @Tony_Meredith
209 followers · 2090 posts · Server mastodon.me.uk