The question is never "can we afford it?" The question is always "Do we have the real resources - the workers, the materials, the capacity - to achieve it?" If we use this approach, the money to fund it will always be available, as will be the taxation to balance any possible inflation.

In this crises we are now entering, neoliberalism's response will be to further restrict government action and accept failure by design. Poverty will rise. Unemployment will rise. And people will suffer, not because there is no alternative, but because the dominant ideology refuses to see one.

Neoliberalism deliberately keeps people unemployed. That is not a side effect - it is deliberate. Unemployment is how neoliberals control inflation, operating through the relationship between joblessness and interest rates. Neoliberalism, by design, chooses to manage an economy suboptimally.

Supply chains are fracturing. Energy costs are rising. Shortages of fuel, food, and raw materials are already visible. And the economic framework that has governed the West for the last 45 years - neoliberalism - is not just incapable of managing what is coming. It is designed to make it worse.

Last year, Starmer succumbed to US pressure to buy 12 Lockheed Martin F-35 fighters at a cost estimated to amount to £12bn and equip them with tactical nuclear weapons. (The prospect of a new nuclear weapons system for Britain’s armed forces was not recommended in Robertson’s defence review.)

‼️Greens GAIN Kent council seat from Reform 🟢 Grn: 39% (+27) ➡️ Ref: 33% (-7) 🔵 Con: 15% (-4) 🔴 Lab: 10% (-12) ⚪️ Ind: 1% (-2) 🟠 Lib: 1% (-2)

Rachel Reeves is considering changing the UK tax system to lower the taxes of those who are now fleeing Middle Eastern states but who wish to continue to pay little or nothing to the countries that provide them with the opportunity to accumulate wealth at cost to others, and the planet

Trump is fuckin insane He posted this picture on his social media platform He thinks he is god for fucks sake

Other countries are also worried about buying food or cosmetics that come from america because the fda is now a shell of its former self. I met a woman in a store advising me against makeup from the us because the rules are softened for what is allowed in products again.

Autocracy sets in. The British government hides behind democracy while allowing Israel to commit genocide and bending to Trumps commands. Reform UK, Conservatives and Labour are the same wolf in different clothes.

The challenge of wartime mobilisation is not finding the money; it is allocating real resources effectively. That means windfall taxes on the energy companies profiting from this crisis. It means intervening to stabilise prices and guarantee every household affordable access to energy.

The UK government issues its own currency. It cannot run out of money in the same way that a household or a business can. The real constraint is not financial. It is political will. And right now, Rachel Reeves and the EU are choosing austerity at precisely the moment governments must spend.

“This British government is hellbent on establishing that the ones that create the weapons are not the terrorists but the ones that destroy the weapons are the terrorists, which is insane. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

“The Met are choosing to make arrests despite the government’s ban on the group being ruled unlawful by the high court, and leading lawyers warning that any arrests would be unlawful.” Strmer's far right government continues it's crackdown www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The NYT reports that just after the Trump bombardment started China announced ” the need to create a safe,reliable, green,low carbon, resilient, intelligent and flexible new power grid”. What have the neoliberal UK governments over the past 16 years been doing? Nothing.

This is all made more blatant by the deliberate setting up of 'Great British Energy' to make it look like actually you would own this infrastructure. When actually you don't and it is the same old thieves in control.

I want a Left Wing Government that is actually going to change things for the better by standing up to the billionaires. A Government that pretends to change things but keeps them exactly the same while taking massive bribes from billionaires. Is no use to anybody.

Health Insurance doesn't cover you. It just rips you off, then you are ripped off again when you use Healthcare that you paid for. But no actually you have to pay again.

Maximum monthly State Pension. Luxembourg £5,426 Norway £1,839 Switzerland £1,657 Denmark £1,486 Sweden £1,373 Belgium £1,338 Netherlands £1,322 France £1,254 Spain £1,238 UK £997 Guess which is unaffordable?

Yesterday Donald Trump changed the law so the USA's forests can be sold to billionaires, an area the size of the UK and France. While Javier Milei allowed billionaire companies to mine in Argentina's glaciers, which has ALWAYS been banned. They are selling what isn't theirs.

Europe desperately needs to leave the US behind, since Ronald Reagan the relationship between Europe and the USA has been one of endless abuse while they slowly buy up everything so they have total control over Europe. They are no use to Europe and haven't been for decades.

Because of concerns about the safety of using US Tech, France is getting rid of Windows from its Government computers. It's time, get all US Big Tech, Microsoft, Google, Palantir... out of Europe. It is a security threat.

Israel’s attacks on Lebanon should not be happening, says Keir Starmer No it should not So what are you doing about it?? Oh fuck all as usual www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Did Israel attack Lebanon to spoil Iran war ceasefire? Of course it fuckin did Duh www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

“What we need to do is disentangle the UK military and the US military, ban the US from using our airspaces,” he said. Asked about the economic cost of ending the trade deal with Israel, Polanski said the UK should not put “a cost on people’s lives”. Absolutely fuckin correct

Green leader says PM should impose tougher sanctions on Israel, which he accuses of acting in ‘completely uncontrolled way’ “What is it going to take for this government to actually put robust sanctions on Israel?” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Anti-Muslim sentiment drove this Iran war. Let's not pretend otherwise. That is the culture of the American far right. That is the culture that people like Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth promote, and we have people in the UK who are following the same path. Labour is offering fuck all opposition

A day on, the Iran peace plan still looks like a defeat for the USA. It has spent $60 billion to end up at a point worse than that, which it started at. There are no signs of US victory as a result of this peace plan, and what we know is that Israel is already doing everything it can to undermine it

How the fuck did Labour not see the opportunity a massive majority gave it. How have they produced this miserably defensive, inspiration-free government. How did a 170 seat majority get interpreted as ‘we must chase reform voters’. It’s a fucking disaster for our democracy, our freedoms, and rights

Neoliberalism reduced people from equals to economic units, stripped public services in the name of efficiency, weakened democratic accountability, and narrowed the scope of political thought until Thatcher's "There Is No Alternative" became conventional wisdom rather than a political choice

The Enlightenment gave us something extraordinary: the idea that reason, evidence, and the equal moral worth of every human being should guide how we organise society. Neoliberalism replaced that with markets.

For 45 years, neoliberalism has been the dominant force in Western democracies, and in that time, it has done something far more dangerous than redistribute wealth upwards. It has systematically dismantled the intellectual and ethical foundations that make democratic politics possible.

close the Israeli embassy and expel all Israeli diplomats from the UK, plus prosecute the circa 2000 UK dual passport holders that took part in the recent Gaza genocide (if found guilty they should be stripped of UK citizenship and expelled from the country – love Israel? go live there).

The UK needs to pivot to the EU for a stable market, joint defence, with the rapid reduction in fossil fuels with a full subsidy programme for all homes. Neoliberalism has failed. Will the UK population be given the chance for change? Will the UK government wake up to the new reality?

I do not expect Trump, the US and Israel to honour any ceasefire and cement anything concrete in a enforceable peace treaty. Iran is now a world power. The Gulf ruling families face extinction. The world is a very different place than it was in February. Global geopolitics are being reshaped

If you don't think that lots of Israelis are out and out Nazis You need to sit down for 10 minutes and watch and listen to this www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLQb...

The world has to wake up. These people are monsters www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLQb...

“Everyone in Trump's administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness.” I’ve never agreed with Marjorie Taylor Greene on anything, until today.

He is absolutely barking fucking mad Lock him up!!

‘How was the body politic of the USA so degraded that this man could be chosen not once, but twice as US president, leaving him in the position to wreak havoc, seemingly with the goal of saving himself from the consequences of his prior actions, The answer is simple. Money, lots and lots of money.

Some of us could see what was happening in the run-up to the 2024 USA election. We warned of fascism. We knew the calamity that would follow if Trump were elected. We said so. Some listened. Too many did not. Now we are facing disaster, including for those who voted for Trump,

What explanation can there be for the failure to acknowledge that Israel’s actions in Gaza amount to genocide or that the Israeli-commisioned US attack on Iran is illegal under established international law? Trump insults NATO by calling it a “paper tiger” but is the US constitution any better?

Trump has shown that the much vaunted “special relationship” is nothing more than a relationship based on utter subservience to the whims of Washington. Similarly, Trump has shown that the cherished rule of law is only as strong as those charged with maintaining it

If governments limit their intervention during the energy price crises, then households will bear the cost through higher bills and reduced consumption, and the poorest will, inevitably, pay the most proportionately. Workers will also bear it through wage restraint or job losses.