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#ukpolitics

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HarriettMB

How pathetic are the #DUP #TUV and their tame troll 🚮? It seems to have escaped their attention that they live in IRELAND, and this is our national language; it’s legal, it’s used in Courts, in Stormont; has been used by our MPs in House of Commons, and by various members of the royal family on State visits to Ireland - north and south.
No one is holding their heads in a fixed position or forcing them to read anything in Irish. All the signage will also be available in English, for those who cannot tell the difference between Beal Feriste and Belfast.
🚮 aka Jamie Bryson is trying to lodge legal objection against Irish Language signage with the courts.
We have so many problems, not least the reduction in PIPs and other benefits, the negative effects of the new ETA, the problems being caused by the American administration worldwide; and this kind of bigotry is what gets them up in the morning. Sigh
#NIPolitics #UKPolitics #Brexit #Think32 #UI #IrlPol #UKPol
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/no

BelfastTelegraph.co.uk · DUP intends to put ‘marker down’ at Executive on Irish language signs at stationBy By David Young, PA
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Tenebris Nox

This is a LABOUR minister considering stripping human rights? The same one who authorised the kicking-down of the Quakers’ meeting house door by police to arrest a group of non-violent young women?

Sorry, for a moment I thought I was back in the miserable old times of a Tory government!

Screen grab of a photo of UK Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper being interviewed. Underneath a caption reads “Yvette Cooper reviews right to family life for people who enter UK irregularly”
#uk#ukpolitics#politics
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Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦

The lack of joined up thinking from this government is quite impressive.

"Our number one mission is to grow the economy, but the economy isn't growing enough. What can we do to fix it?"

"I know: let's increase the barriers in the way of people doing productive work!"

"Yes, of course, genius!"

news.sky.com/story/gig-economy

Sky · Gig economy bosses could face jail time if they fail to check employees can legally work in UK
#Idiocracy#UKPolitics#UKEconomy
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TJ1001

If only there were some way for the government to have more money coming. If only our nation were able to raise more money to pay for things, like the living wage. If only they could find extra money to make other things cheaper and help people and businesses thrive - but alas I think that’s impossible- there simply isn’t another way ….. Hang on !!!!!

#brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ToryCorruption #Gammons #conservatives #rachelreeves #austerity

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Alex Gallagher

From Dan Neidle at Tax Policy Associates:

Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement papers contain a major suite of anti-tax avoidance proposals, probably the toughest ever introduced. If enacted this will, in effect, criminalise the tax avoidance industry.

Why wasn't it referenced in her speech?

Why wasn't it mentioned in all he pre-and-post speech news and comment?

taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/03/26/ra

#politics#SpringStatement#tax
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Police State UK

"It’s worth noting that, while governments have an obsession with efficiency, it’s still limited solely to cost-cutting. There seems to be little interest in, for instance, making access to #welfare payments more efficient, or #healthcare, or #childcare, as any parent who has battled on their laptop deep into the night trying to conquer the tax-free childcare scheme knows. No, efficiency is only important when attempting to immediately maximise profit."

#UKPolitics#Capitalism#Neoliberalism
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HarriettMB

@lostsettler So people are arrested for meeting in a place of worship, and expressing concerns for victims in other parts of the world.
Someone’s husband has to sign a report because their wife is in a ASSI.
People are arrested for holding a sheet of blank A4 in public
People are arrested for thinking about peaceful environmental action.
People are arrested for saying ‘Abolish The Monarchy’
People are jailed for years for standing on a motorway bridge
People are not allowed to defend their action in court and get long jail sentences.
This is supposed to be a democracy called the United Kingdom; but all these police and judicial actions are more like Russia or North Korea, or China.
#Labour #UKPolitics #LaborLaws

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Sadderp 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇫🇷

How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it
theguardian.com/commentisfree/
Why seek to nix the financial regulations inspired by the 2008 crash, when the likely result is a repeat performance? Why reject a wealth tax, when a 2% levy on assets of over £10m could raise £24bn a year? Why not adopt the measures proposed by Patriotic Millionaires, generating £60bn a year? Or those suggested by political economist Richard Murphy, worth £90bn in tax revenue? Why abandon plans to tax non-doms properly? Why not demand an end to the Bank of England’s destructive quantitative tightening?
#ukpolitics #uklabour #rachelreeves

Link to The Guardian Neoliberalism destroys democratic hope and the far right fills the political void. We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital.
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