The pilot that this is based on at Southampton is really small and specific (IBS). Everytime my elderly mother has rung 111 and been triaged, ambulance service tells her to physically go to that very hospital. A&E always full. I can't see how we get from there to an online hospital by 2027?

If the government can kill human rights protections for refugees and foreigners, then be sure one day the government can and will kill your own human rights protections. Nobody is free unless everyone is free

If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.

Good, let's get rid of this stupid plan that will be used to enforce transphobic segregation and other awful things

i am home and i just had a scotch egg. apparently my toe isn't infected. i've gotta go to leigh infirmary tomorrow for MORE BLOOD TESTS and also drop samples off at my docs tomorrow. no pain killers. at least i'm not spending the next 24 hours sitting on a chair in A&E. would love some drugs tho.

It's playing Schrodinger's Cat with racism except the brown people will always be dead

I don't think Labour's superpositional quantum racism strategy is convincing anyone except Ian Dunt.

Coldplay into sex on fire? I'm starting to think my opposition to music snobbery is a luxury belief as I usually control what music I hear. At the moment that isn't the case, I'm listening to dog shit and if you like it you're wrong.

Just checking in on the last hope against far right populism Yeah I think we can just forget that speech ever happened lads

a failing band i used to be in had a drummer who in times of crisis would be reminding everybody that he was in contact with the manager of inme. this went on for about a year before i finally quit. i think of this story every time somebody mentions burnham somehow replacing starmer before 2029.

a lot of guardian columnists look pretty stupid this morning. that's okay though bcos they look stupid every morning. it's literally their default look.

The Starmer Trump thing because he doesn’t want to offend Trump is an exceptionally racist thing to do especially when he claims Khan is his ‘friend’ - silence is complicity, Starmer is no better than Johnson

“Touch grass” has intense proxy pro-Branch Davidian vibes.

ok so i have to work out how to ask a doctor for more painkillers while being a chav. they're not trippy painkillers. i just know that when you dress like me and sound like me and dress like me, general practitioners can have a lot of preconceived bias, but y'know on that front people have it worse.

Give me strength

so starmer's already back pedalling on this. a lot of people were very relieved to finally get this much needed morale boost but he's snatched it away while they were busy posting on socials about how the prime minister has finally come through, and now everything's going to change.

The Saudis didn’t pay big money for famous American comedians because they were super eager for comedy, they paid for PR like this.

Some great reporting here: “One of the most prominent YouTubers, Anthony Styles, 59, has since deleted his AJ Audits channel after it was revealed he is a convicted paedophile. He was known to frequent protests… where demonstrators claimed to stand for the “protection of women and children”

all that happened today is the prime minister said some stuff. it's probably great for the morale of people who still want to have faith in the govt and that's fine, but it won't last. it's absolutely no help to say racism is bad when it's the clear motivation for your entire legislative agenda.

Thank god! All we need is for some of the most horrible people in Britain to do a meaningful 180 on positions they’ve fought their entire careers to advance and turn around the most precipitous political nosedive in our history, then we might reach 2029 with most of us only about 75% fucked.

i had a scotch egg btw it was brilliant. dunno how long i'm going to not be a vegetarian for. i imagine when my legs start getting better/livewithable. until then i'm going to eat scotch eggs and cry.

We already have a system where unwilling, unpaid "volunteers" are made to do work in the community. It's called Community Payback, undertaken by convicted offenders. So Labour's message to people wanting to come to the UK and build a life is literally "We'll treat you like criminals."

Pussyfooting around the feelings of racists is all we've been doing since we started having wee Tommeh and Farage on question time back in like 200whenever and oh shit, look! Bigots control ALL the discourse now. Shit. Let's go back to shaming these freaks and stuffing them back in their holes

Pussyfooting around racists is the main reason why we are where we are right now. Too many people too scared to call a spade a spade, and now it's digging all our graves.

Labour could have scrapped this cruel and counterproductive Tory policy on day one. Instead they chose to spend a year and a half further immiserating and impoverishing families, and it's only because they're panicking now that they're doing this. Labour has no values or morals any more.

it's a really patronising response to the idea of a wealth tax. it's about where the money should come from, and if you tried to shake down disabled people first then you don't get to claim any sort of high ground.

Labour dragged into a humane policy for families at last. Over a million children should not have suffered for an extra year, but it shows opposition pressure and public campaigning can work. We must use our votes and voices to win for Disabled people now! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Maybe I'm out-of-touch, but I expect a higher bar from my politicians than "would not ban interracial marriage" and "opposes mass repatriation". Want to impress me? Give Shamima Begum her citizenship back.

All those spineless sniveling assholes doing the Riyadh Comedy festival put together aren't worth a single Mitch Hedberg www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_Xb...

Owen Jones has been banned from 'Labour' Party conference - but Maya Forstater is welcome. And they wonder why progressive voters are deserting them in droves.

Keir Starmer at #Lab25: "It isn't Farage who crosses it, there are also people who should know better, sowing fear and discord across our country" Quite.

Starmer says Britain is at a fork. But he's spoon fed policies by Reform - it's clear the direction hes taking us all. For bold politics- taxing the super rich, nationalising our public services, funding our NHS, Greens stand ready to replace Labour. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Every example Starmer gave of Britain not being broken is people having to step up where the Government has failed. It should be considered shameful that people have been driven to this point.

hearing starmer's speech and all i can think is yeah this would be quite good if literally anybody else was saying it. it's a recurring theme with this govt. they speak as if reality is confined to the moment. like how chat gpt doesn't remember what you said in other conversations.

the very idea of Blair serving on a Board of Peace. Like Colonel Sanders serving on the Board of Vegans

Also absolutely hate how the term "safeguarding," which has a very specific meaning related to protecting the wellbeing of children, young people and vulnerable adults, is now used to mean, "protecting the privileged from feeling a tad uncomfortable."

It really isn't.

The Labour party's policy on workers' rights is that foreigners who have the right to work should also work for free, foreigners who don't have the right to work shouldn't have workers' rights at all, and disabled people who can't work should do it anyway or starve.

Chat-GPM. Magic.

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Hardly surprising tbh, labour's current strategy is telling the public that reform are right about everything... and then hoping people want to vote them to fix it instead of reform.

‘it is us or reform!’ im so high rn im cackling at how absurdly dangerous that is. pls, labour. pls don’t make the country choose between you and reform. nobody likes you. you are wildly unpopular.

thinking about the time every senior female labour member of staff got invited to angela rayner's hen do. except rachel reeves. but rachel reeve's sister went. and didn't tell her about it. and it was in rachel reeve's constituency. imagine have vibes that off in the *labour party*

Keir Starmer says he’s “taking on Reform” in today’s speech. But when Labour echoes Reform’s policies on migration, that’s not taking them on — it’s following them. #LabourConference #StarmerSpeech

don't let this be what you're asking me to vote for to keep reform out

somebody else could do it. i'm not even ruling out current labour MPs. not him though. not the labour right. they got us here and they can only make things worse.

today is a 2. i was feeling quite happy past few days because i feel like i was getting more movement back in my legs. that seems to have been snatched away though and i can barely stand up again. also this blister on my toe is worrying me. AND i'm running out of pain killers.

Nothing but full, 100% capitulation will work for the far right.

Once again, the political "mainstream" skipping gaily into a future when Tommy Robinson's death-squads know exactly where you are, all day, every day...