Brits want closer trading relationship with EU. Even Reform voters do.
We still do more trade with EU than US, so this is absolutely where #Starmer’s priorities should be.
A trade deal with #Trump the fascist would make our online lives even more at the whim of the #Broliarchy and our #NHS a sitting duck for private healthcare and insurance.
But do #Labour care?
"While the world focuses on tariffs, a new culture war is forming, this time around AI"
https://labourlist.org/2025/04/ai-culture-war-labour-government-technology/
Whatever else you feel about #Labour 's move to take control of #BritishSteel , one key point stands out.
During the #Tories 14 years in power, steel output fell by 42%. Despite multiple Tory interventions and gov assistance, it was a failing business model.
Time to #NationaliseBritishSteel
“It’s a complete shitshow and isn’t something a #Labour government should be doing. People are incredibly scared and nervous and that’s rightly pouring on to us.”
'I didn't know I was pregnant until I gave birth'
Bryony had no pregnancy symptoms when she went into #labour at the beauty salon she worked at.
So #Gove , too cowardly to stand at the general election on his record, (co-chair Vote Leave, VIP PPE contracts for cronies etc) is to be reinserted into our Legislature like a used supposiTory as the parting gift of failed #EnglishNationalist loser #Sunak ?
And the #Labour Government simply nods along?!? This appointment simply yells #Starmer's failure to address broken democracy & governance in the UK, where cronyism is normal, & failure rewarded by a life tenure in the legislature.
#RejoinEU
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If you sign, please remember to check your email and confirm so it goes through
A lot is being said about the April 11th release of the US Consumer Sentiment Index, which is down 11% since March and 30% since December, to the second lowest it's been since recording started in 1952 (down to 50.8 points from a 20-year average of 80 points).
What bothers me though, is how the media all turns directly to tariffs as the only cause, as if Trump could just end his trade war with the world and the US would go right back to functioning normally again.
That is an extremely Capitalist view of the market which completely ignores the great importance of working-class labour, and putting spending power in the hands of working-class consumers.
People are losing jobs due to DOGE cuts to government spending in order to produce trillions of dollars in tax breaks for multi-billionaires like Elon Musk. People are losing jobs because labour protections against job discrimination are being revoked. People are losing all the public services and supports they need to survive, whether they can hold onto a job or not. Everything is more expensive because of tariffs, but also because the US labour force is being rounded up into ICE detention camps.
Consumers aren't just losing confidence because they have all this money to invest and don't know where to spend it. Consumers have no confidence because they have no spending power.
Confidence in the stock market comes from investors, and Trump can manipulate the market to pull that sentiment up and down with his tariffs and breaks on tariffs.
Consumer sentiment comes from the masses, who are largely working-class and not investors who make all their money off the capital they own. You take away their spending power, and surprise, they have no confidence to spend.
Media needs to stop turning everything into a tariff debate, and look at the real hurt and chaos in American lives.
It should be noted that the other "Great Recession" shown on the graph, of 2007-2009, was avoidable and caused by unregulated credit and borrowing. In response to the Great Recession, unprecedented fiscal, monetary, and regulatory policy was unleashed by federal authorities. Trump's administration is taking financial regulation away, in order to remove caps on capitalist exploitation.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/economy/us-consumer-sentiment-april/index.html
“[UK Labour Health Sec Wes] Streeting appoints ex-boss of health privatiser, who pushed non-doctor expansion, to run Dept of Health”
by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @UKLabour
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@guardian @Independent @thetimes
“Samantha Jones, who pushed use of ‘associates’ w/out medical training & ran GP business with half usual no of GPs, to run DHSC as part of NHS cost-cutting ‘integrated care’ plan”
‘Thousands like us’: Couples take UK government to court over humanist marriages https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr/11/thousands-like-us-couples-take-uk-government-to-court-over-humanist-marriages #Lifeandstyle #Humanrights #Marriage #Politics #England #Labour #Family #UKnews #Wales #Law
Man who instigated riots terrifying families with young kids, trapping some in burning buildings. A man in jail for ruining a young man’s with lies he refuses to stop spreading same lies, a man who has bullied,lied and made people live in fear all his life …… wants to leave prison because …… it’s making him ill !!!!! Fucking rot in there you racist little twat #brexit #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #conservatives #toryscum #austerity #Gammons #ToryCorruption #farage #nigelfarage #ReformUK
“UK government wants to legalise automated police decision-making”
by Statewatch.org
“A proposed law in the UK would allow police decisions to be made solely by computers, with no human input. The Data Use and Access Bill would remove a safeguard in data protection law that prohibits solely automated decision-making by law enforcement agencies”
Labour welcomes transphobes.
Louise Irvine is also the Secretary of Lewisham North Women’s Branch. Here she is sending emails out to local Labour members and showing a photo of herself standing with Vicky Foxcroft (who has in the past been trans inclusive).
Noted transphobe #LouiseIrvine, formerly of the National Health Action party, is now a member of #Labour. Not only is she a member, she’s also a key player in the trans-hostile group Labour Women’s Declarations.
https://labourwomensdeclaration.org.uk/dr-louise-irvine-womens-conference-arrangements-committee/
Buy British !!!! - except you can’t really - Only associated British foods and parts of Unilever are actually British. Stop buying crap rom the U.S - they sell more to us than you think - stop buying to and see the orange baboon shit himself - ok maybe not that because he does that all the time #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #conservatives #tariffs #tradewar #trade #trump #DonaldTrump #marketmanipulation
snorting cocaine in parliament and nightclubs.
One of the chief architects of Brexit, lied constantly to the nation,when confronted with real figures and facts said ‘people are tired of experts’
Vile little shit who put power and fame above service to the people an utter scumbag - so what does he get? - jail ? - No, a fucking knighthood
#brexit #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #conservatives #toryscum #austerity #Gammons #ToryCorruption #MichealGove
Leopards stopped eating my face for 5 mins ….. #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #conservatives #tariffs #tradewar #trade #trump #DonaldTrump #gop #republicans #MAGA #elonmusk #Musk #elon #marketmanipulation
