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  1. The Tories can’t escape their downfall—polls show over 50% of the public sees them as irrelevant to politics. Time to leave their culture wars in the past and focus on real issues like climate justice and equal opportunities. 🌱💪 #ProgressivePolitics #ToryFail

  2. Normal Island News

    Tories to bring back national service to punish young people for being woke
    It's only what they deserve

    The people who are too old to do national service have decided it would be a fantastic idea to bring back national service because it's the only way to fix the country that gen Z have ruined by being woke.

    open.substack.com/pub/normalis

    #NormalIslandNews #ToryFail #ToryCorruption #politics

  3. Fresh crisis for Thames Water as investors pull plug on £500m of funding

    Decision raises concerns about financial future of UK’s biggest water firm and increases prospect of nationalisation

    The beleaguered utilities company announced this morning that its shareholders had refused to provide the first tranche of £750m funding set to secure its short-term cashflow, after the company had failed to meet certain conditions.

    theguardian.com/business/2024/

    #PrivatisationFail #ToryFail #water

  4. The price of fascism; the return of Victorian era diseases.

    ‘It is shameful’: why the return of Victorian-era diseases to the UK alarms health experts

    There has been a surge in cases of scabies and measles – both highly contagious – as well as rickets and scurvy, conditions we thought had been eradicated. Are public health cuts to blame?

    theguardian.com/society/2024/f

    #NHSSOS #disease #health #ToryFail #ToryFascism

  5. Normal Island News

    UK in recession despite government doing everything right

    No one can understand how this happened

    It has been confirmed the UK economy shrank by 0.3% last year. The news has been met with outrage by the opposition who said they would only have shrank the economy by 0.25%.

    open.substack.com/pub/normalis

    #NormalIslandNews #satire #ToryFail #recession #economy

  6. Good Law Project.

    "We’re back in court in a few weeks because the Government’s plan to reach net zero by 2050 just doesn’t add up.

    With floods in Nottingham and heatwaves in Western Australia it’s clear we need to take the climate emergency seriously.

    How does the Government measure up? Take two minutes to tell us your views on the Tories’ net zero strategy."

    us11.list-manage.com/survey?u=

    #GoodLawProject #NetZero #ClimateChange #GlobalBoiling #ToryFail

  7. Normal Island News

    Government reducing NHS queues by not letting you see a doctor
    This is an ingenious move

    If you’re one of the 7 million people worried you are going to die waiting for hospital treatment, I have exciting news: the government is offering you the chance to skip the NHS queue like Catherine and Charles by not using the NHS!

    open.substack.com/pub/normalis

    #NormalIslandNews #NHSSOS #privatisation #ToryFail #LabourFail

  8. Well, at least we have our erm.... black blue passports and the erm.... heapings of sovereignty that we always had anyway!

    FFS! :eyeroll:

    Metric measurement rules to stay after Brexit review bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-677 🇪🇺 #Brexit #BrexitDisaster #BrexitHasFailed #ToryFail

  9. Suella Braverman: No one could be a more useless Home Secretary than me!
    James Cleverly: Hold my Rohypnol!

    :blobcatfacepalm: #UKPolitics #ToryFail #TheTories #HomeSecretary #VoteTheToriesOut #VoteThemOut

  10. ‘Everything is in jeopardy’: how new UK visa rules will tear families apart

    The £38,700 salary requirement is forcing students, workers and couples to rip up their plans in frustration and distress

    Among those affected will be skilled workers, international students, health and care workers from overseas and their family members.

    theguardian.com/world/2023/dec

    #ToryFail #immigration #EssentialWorkers #fascism

  11. All the Bad News Jeremy Hunt Buried in His Autumn Statement

    Details buried in the Chancellor’s statement show we are heading for years more of tax rises, low growth and public sector cuts thanks to his Government, reports Adam Bienkov

    Despite the Chancellor’s claims, these figures show that the British economy, public services and taxpayers’ pockets are set for a protracted period of pain for years more to come.

    bylinetimes.com/2023/11/22/all

    #ToryLies #ToryFail #economy

  12. Autumn statement live: Jeremy Hunt cuts national insurance but UK tax burden set to hit high amid plummeting living standards

    Chancellor cuts national insurance but OBR says UK facing biggest fall in living standards since records began
    UK still facing largest fall in real living standards since records began in the 1950s

    theguardian.com/politics/live/

    #ToryFail #economy #ToryEconomics

  13. "Five judges at the supreme court upheld an appeal court ruling on Wednesday, which found that there was a real risk of deported refugees having their claims in the east African country wrongly assessed or being returned to their country of origin to face persecution."

    Supreme court rejects Rishi Sunak’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.

    #ToryFail #immigration #GTTO

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n

  14. Reynolds admits Cabinet Office failed to get on top of Covid crisis and No 10 distracted by Cummings-related tensions – live

    Boris Johnson’s former principal private secretary is first of ex-prime minister’s inner circle to give evidence to inquiry
    No 10 distracted as pandemic started by Cummings-related tensions, including 'shitlist' of staff facing sack, inquiry hears

    theguardian.com/politics/live/

    #CovidInquiry #ToryFail

  15. England to diverge from EU water monitoring standards

    Exclusive: campaigners fear less rigorous methods could lead to more pollution in rivers and waterways
    This is the latest example of the UK diverging from EU environmental standards. Recent analysis found that many toxic chemicals and pesticides banned in the bloc since Brexit are not outlawed for use in the UK. Ministers have also sought to rip up EU-derived sewage pollution rules for housebuilders.

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #ToryFail

  16. Here’s the key question about Britain in 2023: why do we put up with this rubbish?
    We tolerate a sclerotic system that allows the rise of people you wouldn’t trust with your wallet – or to babysit your children

    “May I ask you a question?”

    “Of course.”

    “So …” she hesitated. “Why are things so … so shit?”

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #UKPolitics2023 #ToryFail #ToryLiars #ToryCorruption #FirstPastThePostFailure #ProportionalRepresentation #politics

  17. Women’s groups criticise move to delay sentencing in England and Wales
    Government accused of letting down victims as full prisons mean convicted criminals will spend longer on bail
    “It is abundantly clear that our criminal justice system is catastrophically broken,”said Deniz Uğur, the deputy director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition.“This is yet further evidence of how the system isn’t serving survivors of rape”

    theguardian.com/society/2023/o

    #JusticeMatters #ToryFail #OvercrowdedPrisons

  18. Rishi Sunak delays some green targets and scraps others as he reveals net zero policy shift – UK politics live

    PM says people to be given more time to switch gas boilers to heat pumps, and ban on sale of new petrol and diesel cars delayed
    That was a relatively short speech, and given the reaction it provoked before it was even delivered, it can’t be described as a success.

    theguardian.com/politics/live/

    #GlobalBoiling #politics #ToryFail #environment #ClimateSOS #ClimateInaction #ToryCorruption

  19. Rishi Sunak delays some green targets and scraps others as he reveals net zero policy shift – UK politics live

    PM says people to be given more time to switch gas boilers to heat pumps, and ban on sale of new petrol and diesel cars delayed
    That was a relatively short speech, and given the reaction it provoked before it was even delivered, it can’t be described as a success.

    theguardian.com/politics/live/

    #GlobalBoiling #politics #ToryFail #environment #ClimateSOS #ClimateInaction #ToryCorruption

  20. Rishi Sunak delays some green targets and scraps others as he reveals net zero policy shift – UK politics live

    PM says people to be given more time to switch gas boilers to heat pumps, and ban on sale of new petrol and diesel cars delayed
    That was a relatively short speech, and given the reaction it provoked before it was even delivered, it can’t be described as a success.

    theguardian.com/politics/live/

    #GlobalBoiling #politics #ToryFail #environment #ClimateSOS #ClimateInaction #ToryCorruption

  21. Rishi Sunak delays some green targets and scraps others as he reveals net zero policy shift – UK politics live

    PM says people to be given more time to switch gas boilers to heat pumps, and ban on sale of new petrol and diesel cars delayed
    That was a relatively short speech, and given the reaction it provoked before it was even delivered, it can’t be described as a success.

    theguardian.com/politics/live/

    #GlobalBoiling #politics #ToryFail #environment #ClimateSOS #ClimateInaction #ToryCorruption

  22. Rishi Sunak delays some green targets and scraps others as he reveals net zero policy shift – UK politics live

    PM says people to be given more time to switch gas boilers to heat pumps, and ban on sale of new petrol and diesel cars delayed
    That was a relatively short speech, and given the reaction it provoked before it was even delivered, it can’t be described as a success.

    theguardian.com/politics/live/

    #GlobalBoiling #politics #ToryFail #environment #ClimateSOS #ClimateInaction #ToryCorruption

  23. UK fails to ban 36 harmful pesticides outlawed for use in EU

    Campaigners say Britain becoming ‘toxic poster child of Europe’ and accuse ministers of breaking Brexit promise on standards
    Though ministers promised the UK would not water down EU-derived environmental standards after Brexit, there have been multiple instances of divergence since the country left the bloc.

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #UK #brexit #pesticides #agriculture #ToryFail

  24. #EveryDoctorUK
    Sign the petition! Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak: We Demand a Plan for the NHS RAAC
    We are writing to Rishi Sunak to express our deep concerns about reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) and the potential dangers it poses to both NHS patients and staff. There have been repeated warnings over a number of years, and the government has failed to take the action required to rectify the situation.

    actionnetwork.org/petitions/we

    #NHSSOS #RAAC #HealthCare #ToryFail

  25. List of schools with safety-risk concrete revealed as Sunak denies cutting repairs budget – UK politics live

    Keir Starmer likens the Tories to ‘cowboy builders’ as the PM insists the government acted decisively in response to the problem
    The truth is this crisis is the inevitable result of 13 years of cutting corners, botched jobs, sticking-plaster politics.

    theguardian.com/politics/live/

    #schools #ToryFail #ToryCorruption #ToryLies

  26. The Tory mission has failed: British people don’t want a smaller state
    Despite their campaign victories, the Conservatives have made surprisingly few converts to their biggest idea. Now they have nothing left to say
    here will soon come a moment, if it isn’t reached already, when Conservatives fear losing an election less than they crave release from government. The shift is not always perceptible.

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #ThatcherismFailed #SmallStateFail #ToryFail #ToryCorruption #politics

  27. The Tory mission has failed: British people don’t want a smaller state
    Despite their campaign victories, the Conservatives have made surprisingly few converts to their biggest idea. Now they have nothing left to say
    here will soon come a moment, if it isn’t reached already, when Conservatives fear losing an election less than they crave release from government. The shift is not always perceptible.

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #ThatcherismFailed #SmallStateFail #ToryFail #ToryCorruption #politics

  28. The Tory mission has failed: British people don’t want a smaller state
    Despite their campaign victories, the Conservatives have made surprisingly few converts to their biggest idea. Now they have nothing left to say
    here will soon come a moment, if it isn’t reached already, when Conservatives fear losing an election less than they crave release from government. The shift is not always perceptible.

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #ThatcherismFailed #SmallStateFail #ToryFail #ToryCorruption #politics

  29. The Tory mission has failed: British people don’t want a smaller state
    Despite their campaign victories, the Conservatives have made surprisingly few converts to their biggest idea. Now they have nothing left to say
    here will soon come a moment, if it isn’t reached already, when Conservatives fear losing an election less than they crave release from government. The shift is not always perceptible.

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #ThatcherismFailed #SmallStateFail #ToryFail #ToryCorruption #politics

  30. The Tory mission has failed: British people don’t want a smaller state
    Despite their campaign victories, the Conservatives have made surprisingly few converts to their biggest idea. Now they have nothing left to say
    here will soon come a moment, if it isn’t reached already, when Conservatives fear losing an election less than they crave release from government. The shift is not always perceptible.

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #ThatcherismFailed #SmallStateFail #ToryFail #ToryCorruption #politics

  31. What happens when a #fascist government, steeped in #ToryCorruption removes human rights, and cuts police numbers?
    #VigilanteJustice

    ‘We don’t need police’: the New Forest village taking the law into its own hands

    At the village with the most unsolved burglaries in the UK, shopkeepers are turning to vigilante-style tactics

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/s

    #ToryFail #crime #police #HumanRights

  32. #GoodLawProject
    #Crowdfunder
    The Government is still failing on net zero, so we are taking them back to court.
    Good Law Project is taking legal action with Friends of the Earth and ClientEarth to ensure the Government tackles the climate crisis.
    We’re now in the crucial decade to stop irreversible damage from global heating, but our Government still hasn’t produced a realistic plan to tackle the climate emergency.

    goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder

    #GlobalBoiling #ClimateSOS #ClimateCrisis #ToryFail

  33. #GoodLawProject
    #Crowdfunder
    The Government is still failing on net zero, so we are taking them back to court.
    Good Law Project is taking legal action with Friends of the Earth and ClientEarth to ensure the Government tackles the climate crisis.
    We’re now in the crucial decade to stop irreversible damage from global heating, but our Government still hasn’t produced a realistic plan to tackle the climate emergency.

    goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder

    #GlobalBoiling #ClimateSOS #ClimateCrisis #ToryFail

  34. #GoodLawProject
    #Crowdfunder
    The Government is still failing on net zero, so we are taking them back to court.
    Good Law Project is taking legal action with Friends of the Earth and ClientEarth to ensure the Government tackles the climate crisis.
    We’re now in the crucial decade to stop irreversible damage from global heating, but our Government still hasn’t produced a realistic plan to tackle the climate emergency.

    goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder

    #GlobalBoiling #ClimateSOS #ClimateCrisis #ToryFail

  35. #GoodLawProject
    #Crowdfunder
    The Government is still failing on net zero, so we are taking them back to court.
    Good Law Project is taking legal action with Friends of the Earth and ClientEarth to ensure the Government tackles the climate crisis.
    We’re now in the crucial decade to stop irreversible damage from global heating, but our Government still hasn’t produced a realistic plan to tackle the climate emergency.

    goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder

    #GlobalBoiling #ClimateSOS #ClimateCrisis #ToryFail

  36. #GoodLawProject
    #Crowdfunder
    The Government is still failing on net zero, so we are taking them back to court.
    Good Law Project is taking legal action with Friends of the Earth and ClientEarth to ensure the Government tackles the climate crisis.
    We’re now in the crucial decade to stop irreversible damage from global heating, but our Government still hasn’t produced a realistic plan to tackle the climate emergency.

    goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder

    #GlobalBoiling #ClimateSOS #ClimateCrisis #ToryFail

  37. We have a world class NHS model. The NHS is not a business model. It is a Not For Profit Welfare Model for the whole of UK whether rich or poor. It is funded through our National Insurance Contributions every month. Our Employers pay their share for employing us too. This collective money goes to the NHS to provide the services.

    chng.it/qp6HfJJ9KX

    #NHSSOS #HealthCare #StopPrivatisation #ToryCorruption #ToryLies #ToryFail #LabourRightWingCoup

  38. We have a world class NHS model. The NHS is not a business model. It is a Not For Profit Welfare Model for the whole of UK whether rich or poor. It is funded through our National Insurance Contributions every month. Our Employers pay their share for employing us too. This collective money goes to the NHS to provide the services.

    chng.it/qp6HfJJ9KX

    #NHSSOS #HealthCare #StopPrivatisation #ToryCorruption #ToryLies #ToryFail #LabourRightWingCoup

  39. We have a world class NHS model. The NHS is not a business model. It is a Not For Profit Welfare Model for the whole of UK whether rich or poor. It is funded through our National Insurance Contributions every month. Our Employers pay their share for employing us too. This collective money goes to the NHS to provide the services.

    chng.it/qp6HfJJ9KX

    #NHSSOS #HealthCare #StopPrivatisation #ToryCorruption #ToryLies #ToryFail #LabourRightWingCoup

  40. We have a world class NHS model. The NHS is not a business model. It is a Not For Profit Welfare Model for the whole of UK whether rich or poor. It is funded through our National Insurance Contributions every month. Our Employers pay their share for employing us too. This collective money goes to the NHS to provide the services.

    chng.it/qp6HfJJ9KX

    #NHSSOS #HealthCare #StopPrivatisation #ToryCorruption #ToryLies #ToryFail #LabourRightWingCoup

  41. We have a world class NHS model. The NHS is not a business model. It is a Not For Profit Welfare Model for the whole of UK whether rich or poor. It is funded through our National Insurance Contributions every month. Our Employers pay their share for employing us too. This collective money goes to the NHS to provide the services.

    chng.it/qp6HfJJ9KX

    #NHSSOS #HealthCare #StopPrivatisation #ToryCorruption #ToryLies #ToryFail #LabourRightWingCoup

  42. ‘Inhumane’ NHS fees left more than 900 migrants without treatment

    Patients turned down care they needed after demands for advance payments amid complaints of government’s ‘hostile environment’
    Hundreds of migrants have declined NHS treatment after being presented with upfront charges over the past two years, amid complaints the government’s “hostile environment” on immigration remains firmly in place.

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/a

    #refugees #NHSSOS #HealthCare #ToryFail #HostileEnvironment

  43. UK’s post-Brexit policing pact put at risk by migration laws, say peers

    Committee concerned illegal migration legislation will jeopardise sharing of DNA, fingerprinting and criminal records
    The UK’s post-Brexit policing pact with the EU on sharing DNA, fingerprinting and criminal records could be put at risk by Suella Braverman’s migration laws, a House of Lords committee has said.

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/j

    #ImmigrationBill #ToryFail #immigration #EUDeal #politics #fascism

  44. UK’s post-Brexit policing pact put at risk by migration laws, say peers

    Committee concerned illegal migration legislation will jeopardise sharing of DNA, fingerprinting and criminal records
    The UK’s post-Brexit policing pact with the EU on sharing DNA, fingerprinting and criminal records could be put at risk by Suella Braverman’s migration laws, a House of Lords committee has said.

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/j

    #ImmigrationBill #ToryFail #immigration #EUDeal #politics #fascism

  45. UK’s post-Brexit policing pact put at risk by migration laws, say peers

    Committee concerned illegal migration legislation will jeopardise sharing of DNA, fingerprinting and criminal records
    The UK’s post-Brexit policing pact with the EU on sharing DNA, fingerprinting and criminal records could be put at risk by Suella Braverman’s migration laws, a House of Lords committee has said.

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/j

    #ImmigrationBill #ToryFail #immigration #EUDeal #politics #fascism

  46. UK’s post-Brexit policing pact put at risk by migration laws, say peers

    Committee concerned illegal migration legislation will jeopardise sharing of DNA, fingerprinting and criminal records
    The UK’s post-Brexit policing pact with the EU on sharing DNA, fingerprinting and criminal records could be put at risk by Suella Braverman’s migration laws, a House of Lords committee has said.

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/j

    #ImmigrationBill #ToryFail #immigration #EUDeal #politics #fascism

  47. UK’s post-Brexit policing pact put at risk by migration laws, say peers

    Committee concerned illegal migration legislation will jeopardise sharing of DNA, fingerprinting and criminal records
    The UK’s post-Brexit policing pact with the EU on sharing DNA, fingerprinting and criminal records could be put at risk by Suella Braverman’s migration laws, a House of Lords committee has said.

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/j

    #ImmigrationBill #ToryFail #immigration #EUDeal #politics #fascism

  48. BREAKING NEWS (from FT)
    UK Tory govt is set to spend £110bn just on interest payments on our debt this year- about the same as the entire EDUCATION BUDGET.

    Our economy has been so badly managed, we are set to have the HIGHEST DEBT INTEREST IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD this year.

    #UKDebt #ToryFail #ToryCorruption