You might wonder why all of these guys have been sent out to demand massive hikes in military spending that are 100% financed not by borrowing or by tax rises, but by cutting spending on welfare specifically. Why would army men give a fuck where the money comes from? And that’s a great question.

We already have Trident, so if that's not capable of deterring the Russians let's get rid of it

You know that bit in every sci-fi action film where the baddie explains that huge numbers of people have to suffer and die in order to achieve peace and harmony? That's where we are now with the military-industrial complex. I don't think people watch enough movies. bsky.app/profile/saul...

The thing to note is a) the public don’t want it, and have said so, and b) they are fucking getting it anyway, good and hard.

Pollard "We can see because of the war in Ukraine, Putins illegal aggression.. & whats happened in the Middle East" Note the language. "Putins illegal aggression" but not 'Trump & Netanyahus illegal aggression'. Instead we get "whats happened in the M/E", as if it just happened

Is there a lesson here? Yes, the lesson is the same as from Brexit: absolutely anything is possible in Britain, provided the right type of abysmal insider swine want it.

Fine, if it’s a life or death matter, then fund it through tax rises. Start with those who can best afford it then work your way down. I assume everyone will be happy about that.

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We, your leaders, whom not only refused to meaningfully invest in this country for decades but have screamed abuse at anyone who requested it, are now going to give a dodecajillion pounds of your money to Lockheed Martin, to impress America’s mad emperor. Fuck you, it could never have been different

William Dean Howells' vision of a “one-class” socialist utopia, outlined in his novel A Traveler from Altruria (1894), has all people guaranteed a share of the national product on the condition they work at least three hours a day. Read it here: http://buff.ly/2mHjg9C

The more we spend on our wars, the more refugees seek asylum in the UK. I guess MPs with shares in arms manufacture and an HMO property portfolio are aware of this.

A large part of political discourse makes me think that it's just reality TV for people who turn their nose up at reality TV. Socially acceptable The Only Way Is Essex for the chattering classes

We have more than enough capacity (labour, factories, technology) to address the climate crisis, but as long as capital controls investment and production we are prevented from doing it. We are trapped by the capitalist law of value, living in a miserable shadow of the world we could have.

I mean, we explained this over ten years ago, lads: they are in politics to do crackdowns, fuck flags, agree policy with donors offscreen, do belligerent war speeches, shake hands with the US President and then get a sweet post-politics gig at Facebook or Palantir. It was so in 2015; it still is now

My main objection to establishment media comparing a Labour leader doing a few of the things the party was elected to do, to Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia and North Korea, is that it makes those states seem reasonable. Amazing what it's decided is 'historically literate and illiterate' isn't it?

For non-Brits: our media outlets are of course delighted to witlessly repeat any old shit they’re given by party PRs. The country wouldn’t be the way it is, if they weren’t. But they don’t like it when their compliance is simply assumed, and they *really* don’t like it when it is obvious that it is.

It’s a measure of how thoroughly insulting British politics is to every man, woman and child in the country, that we were once asked to take seriously the idea that *Ed Balls* represented some kind of frightful communist menace to the nation. Slapstick stuff, they might as well unicycle to work.

Adam Johnson: Israel is exterminating journalists in Gaza in a systemic way

The 'Hamas run health ministry' Adam Johnson (who's written a book titled 'How to Sell a Genocide) on how & why western media adopted the term.

The idea that Russia is in a position to march across Europe and occupy multiple democratic states is, at this point, laughable, just patter for arms industry lobbyists, believed only by the stupidest politicians and cruise missile fetishists.

I again point out that what has been done here is so disgusting and horrifying that none of our Smart, Sensible set can ever admit it, because they understand how deeply complicit they have been in it, and that a proper accounting would see them twanged to Saturn by a just enraged populace.

Gaza had 12 universities at the start of the genocide. Now it has none, because its civilian populace has been subjected to World War II-level crimes, with the direct assistance of the governments of the white people world. All of whom already knew Israel’s government was fascist and genocidal, BTW.

A miserable vampire class of abysmal swine that latch on and can’t ever be shaken off. Once embedded, they are there forever. A human form of Japanese knotweed.

Nothing in this country will ever get better, while these awful people keep their important jobs.

We can all see how difficult the US has made the World Cup for the Iranian team. Imagine how much they're also loading the competition in their own favour.

Green councillor Gina Dowding: "Is it that we've seen a Keir Starmer project or has this been.. a Labour Together project, & is there going to be any change, because its looking very much like Starmer was the front man for that outfit & they're still very much going to be in control"

The most obvious answer for “Why is MAGA’s most respectable far right propagandist hiring so many mainstream British political commentators” is “The British press is ram-packed with utterly repellent wingnut cranks”.

The absolute easiest thing to do in British politics is beat the shit out of the left and vulnerable people, whilst standing there preening yourself about "tough choices"

Surprise, surprise: a hyper-militarized “war on narco-terror” is not stopping drug flows.

On June 13th 1954, the US backed a coup against Jacobo Árbenz, the progressive, democratically elected leader of Guatemala, because he sought to restore land to small farmers and Indigenous communities that had been dispossessed by US fruit companies.

It’s weird how - when the press goes looking for racism in Britain in the 2020s - the only places it can ever be found are in left wing politics, public services, unionised professions and academia. Isn’t that remarkable, given what you can see and hear every day.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

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If e.g. Chinese communism or Wahhabism was needlessly roasting the planet to life-threatening temperatures and the people most responsible were shouting Fuck You, while working hard to make it much, much worse, then we’d find it somewhat easier to point fingers at who and what is to blame.

"... after President Maduros capture" If soldiers from another country (not at war with us) raided London in the middle of the night, stormed Downing St, murdered several people & seized the PM, would we say he'd been captured, or kidnapped? I guess it depends if the US did it

You might expect there would be a taboo on people in politics explaining that lying to whole sections of the populace so you can fleece them, then fuck them over, is great and smart. There is not one, because those people simply do not matter and they can be abused in perpetuity. Fuck you.

#GMB: "Good morning Britain, big bucks for Buckingham Palace as £359 million pounds of taxpayers money is spent renovating it but the King and Queen will never live there" Abolish the monarchy.

Illustrations of the “utsuro-bune” (hollow ship), complete with inhabitant, reported to have washed up on the coast of Japan in 1803. Was this a castaway from the West? An embellished folktale? Or even, as some suppose, an extraterrestrial visit? publicdomainreview.org/collection/u... #ufo

Britain increasingly looking like it’s just Serco with two aircraft carriers and a highly biddable police force.

Eventually, you conclude that the purpose of a system is what it does. And what this system does is, it restricts power to a couple of tiny cliques of mostly trusted ones of the lads, who use it to keep the profits of friendly service provision companies healthy and to crack down on the scum classes

Andy Burnham promising change at Snake Mountain while keeping all the Evil Warriors in power is laughable. Evil-Lyn: All Eternia will feel my might! Burnham: Business-friendly socialism, Lyn. We're calling it business-friendly socialism now.

Also, Starmer was toast the second those Mandelson emails surfaced. The lads will gladly tolerate a lot of bullshit and a whole lot of corruption, but they won’t put up with governments making *them* look like monkeys and flunkeys, particularly not in front of the Americans.

This is not just to say: boo hoo hoo, the bad men were mean! What’s done is done, it cannot now be unfucked. It is to say: this is how it works - how it still works *now*. This is what these people think of you, it is what we are all up against.

I’m not sure exactly when it happened but at some point political reporting ceased to be about covering politicians and their ideas and turned into a sort of daily horoscope on what ‘the markets’ think about absolutely every single political decision

Starmer’s legacy is genocide. He provided military and intelligence support to Israel as it perpetrated the crime of crimes against the Palestinian people. That is how he will be remembered.

"He's [Burnham] talked largely about renationalising key industries.. water, energy" No he hasn't. He talks about 'public control', not nationalisation Still, what could possibly go wrong with a msm not scrutinising the policy platform of someone who wants to be Labour leader?

The rewriting of Starmer's record and sympathy accorded to him is yet another sign of how broken this democracy is Starmer was elected by default against an alternative most had come to despise He chose to double down and go further right, at a huge direct cost for many communities

It's amazing listening to Starmer listing his achievements and they're either: 1. Things that are bad 2. Things that he's not done 3. Things he initially opposed upon taking office Truly a generational talent in being a delusional prick.

Starmer lied his way to the top, took every freebie he could get, targeted the sick and disabled, demonised & scapegoated refugees, gave a top govt job to a billionaire paedophiles best pal, enabled & armed a genocide. Beth Rigby tells us it was a very dignified speech.

People who intentionally make their vehicles loud are such irritating antisocial pricks. It would be so easy to shut them up with a decibel limit in the MOT. Loud exhaust? You're vehicle's faulty. Fix it.