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Self determination is about to get real in the UK:
‘#SinnFéin, the #SNP and #PlaidCymru have held a meeting at Westminster to discuss what they describe as “a new era of cooperation between Scotland, Wales and the north of Ireland”.
For the first time since devolution, the administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all led by nationalist politicians. This has been seen as a step towards making the break-up of the UK more possible’
Guardian Politics Live
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6) Attempting to do away with trial by jury
7) Proposing making #PIP unobtainable for most disabled people
8) Not realising removing #WinterFuelPayments for most pensioners would create a cliff edge
9) Dropping the #GreenPledge just weeks before being elected
10) Allowing child poverty to endure by retaining the two child benefit cap…also removing child benefits from people who went on holiday from one UK location and returned via another.Please feel free to add to this list
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And I don’t think it was just Spitting Image that made me think this.
There were less career politicians certainly. There were a disproportionate number of males who were privately educated Oxbridge graduates. What’s changed?
I think politicians were expected to answer questions in a more nuanced way. Media training was less obvious and therefore the electorate was more inclined to listen.
When were you last entranced by the rhetoric of #Streeting, #Mahmood, #Reed or #Kendall ?
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As a parent of two kids sitting their SATs today under the most difficult of conditions having lost their beloved grandpa on Saturday, but also having spent a year of being force fed a diet of almost exclusively grammar and maths, I don’t feel much optimism for Britain’s kids.
The education system for teachers and kids crashed and burned under the #Tories #Gove. #Labour has changed nothing.
Schools and universities are failing everyone. A technocratic expensive failure is what I see.
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Decided to surprise the kids with a trip to The Cat House in #Norwich. It had the perfect zen vibe we were looking for before they have to sit their SATs next week…and the coffee and cakes were delicious too! We will be back
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Further good news of sorts…#Reform failed to take control of #Norfolk as projected. They came within 3 seats though.
But Rupert Lowe’s ultra far right outpost of Great Yarmouth, returned entirely councillors for his Great Yarmouth First Party, so in practice what was a #Tory council is now incredibly rightwing. Both the old parties collapsed.
While I’m encouraged by the #Green wins in #Norwich, Blofield, Brundall, Diss and Roydon, I am ashamed of Norfolk.
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Reported wins for #Greens in #Bowthorpe at both City and Council level.
This is huge for #Norwich !
This is what the area of the city has recently experienced:
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Further to my previous confusion over Bowthorpe (which is home to #Norwich’s asylum hotel) it’s just been reported that at both county and city level it’s gone to #Greens…
Proud of how my city has responded to Zia Yusuf’s vile asylum concentration camp plan. Honestly think his hideous policy backfired just as I predicted it would in divided areas with a strong Green presence.
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More cooperation, less factionalism is what the Left needs to be working towards. And yes that means #Greens , #Labour and #LibDems along with other progressive parties finding ways to advance equality, diversity and genuine democracy.
I’ve attended a few #Compass events online and it’s genuinely a great thing to witness. More of this please!
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New offering from former #Guardian / #Observer journalists, including Carole #Cadwalladr…launches tomorrow!
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A brief intro to why Keir #Starmer’s digital #IDcard is foundational legislation for the Silicon Valley hijacking of UK citizens’ data.
Carole #Cadwalladr’s take on why digital ID cards are being foisted upon us now…
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/chatgpt-the-dark-enlightenment-and
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We determined the other day on here with the #Rayner resignation that the #Mone is the unit of measurement for financial impropriety in political life (cheers Michelle)…so what is the measurement we must now use to determine the gravity of crime for supporting the world’s richest and most famous pedophile and human trafficker?
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British journalist Carole #Cadwalladr who exposed #CambridgeAnalytica is on the #DailyShow with Jon Stewart explaining that what tech bros are doing right now with our data is theft and therefore illegal.
This is not news, but the fact our governments are not defending us and are actually working in collaboration with the tech bros should be making the alarm bells go off in all are heads.
We have to act now.
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‘What’s the difference between me reading your work?” Sam #Altman (ChatGPT) asked.
‘It’s all free to read. What’s the difference? You’re outputting to potentially millions of people for commercial gain for no recompense, said [#Cadwalladr].
‘It’s fair use, he countered. It’s really not, I said. You’ve ingested the entire body of my work. It’s so easy to establish that.
And he was gone. Back to the controls of the tank that is soon to roll over all of us.’
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A massive whiff of misogyny about the reasons given for #Birmingham City Council going bust.
#Gove was quite happy for it to be blamed on a huge equal pay claim and for the city to flog its assets at fire sale prices to cover a figure that’s wildly inflated. The blame could then be laid at door of #unions.
But it seems it was actually a botched IT system upgrade.
So whose heads will roll?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/20/birmingham-bust-wrong-truth-damning
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This article about a #Devon river being polluted by paint company owned by #AkzoNobel raises so many Q’s:
1. When a chemical is banned - who is responsible for ensuring remaining supplies are safely dealt with?
2. How many rusty old containers of banned chemicals are close to rivers/ports?
3. What official measures are taken to protect food chain after spill?