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Councils encourage and normalise pavement parking. This practice needs to be stopped. If there isn't enough road space then there needs to be less parking. Pavements blocked by vehicles are a real problem for disabled. Or does convenient parking trump disabled rights? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m sorry but this was posted by Kier Starmer’s actual verified account and I am DECEASED my brother in Christ I just…was his social media person just like grip it and rip it or what

After all of this is said and done, nobody who worked for ICE should be accepted in polite society.

This is top tier catting [Alt text: a ginger tabby is lying on a table, near a small open carton of ice cream. Feigning sleep, he stretches and slides a paw towards the lid and slowly, ever so slowly, draws it towards himself. Eyes remain shut lest we realise what he's doing]

Two things I always bang on about: know your soils! Pay gardeners much, much more money!

Sheila Das, head of gardens and parks at the National Trust, is replacing the idea of “messy” with “abundant” 🎉

Capital Welfare Rolls-Royce wants £3bn UK govt subsidy. Spending £9bn in share buyback. It could raise money from shareholders, lenders. It wants free non-returnable cash. No Govt equity stake. Threat to move manufacture if govt does not capitulate. archive.ph/gLgnn

Beautiful writing. It hits hard if you've ever loved and mourned a cat - or dog.

Sure, maybe Andy Burnham is doing really right wing stuff to appease the UK media or the bond markets. But maybe he's just a right wing piece of shit?

John Healey, my least favourite Labour minister from the last time round after he chose in 2007 to close down the government’s own internal cross-Whitehall consultancy that was far, far cheaper than the blood-sucking private sector lot. I helped to build it up and then had to shut up shop. Hate him.

Thing is, it would have been so, so easy to wash this stink off. Trans people and & progressives are desperate for hope. I think people would have been very willing to give him a chance to start fixing this, and quite a lot of grace in the meantime. But apparently, even a symbolic change too much.

We don’t care. Representation for representation’s sake is so 1980s, now we care about what people do, and when it comes to Wes, it’s bound to be right wing corporate lobbyist sponsored evil.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/wes-... He knows how to sell to Palantir though… You think selling our health data was a problem? Wait until he integrates our defence systems with Starlink and backdoor’s the whole thing.

i hate being right. i hate that this shit is so transparent that even with my weed addled mind i can call it out way in advance and yet i have to sit around and listen to dickhead columnists and pundits pretend they didn’t see it coming. britain is pantomime clown shit.

Have been saying for ages that Burnham is a wrongun on trans issues

Shuffling deckchairs as the Labour party sails towards a massive iceberg

I spent months telling people 'Burnham's success in Manchester was based on being a charismatic frontman for a plan mostly developed by other people, and he may well do the same as PM' and now he's come in with basically just the Starmer cabinet minus a few settled internal grudges

burnham appointing john healey is his way of appointing the worst right wing asshole imaginable but without anyone knowing he’s done that. 99% of the posts im seeing are asking who he is. he thinks we should decimate welfare to spend on defence, he despises palestine, and is ofc a LFI member.

How can we hope he has a serious plan for ending "the terrible suffering of people in Gaza" when he can't even bring himself to name Israel as the genocidal aggressor causing the suffering? We need concrete action - a full arms embargo and an end to trade with illegal settlements.

Burnham, like everyone in the UK political mainstream (as determined by the establishment), is fully committed to the "Government as HR Department" model. These people see the role of government as implementing the will of the bosses (the Epstein classes/billionaires) on the workers (the public).

It’s literally this. They feel the role of government is not representing us but to hold the public to account to ensure we’re subservient to billionaires and capitalists’ profit, slash and burn plans, hence “crackdowns”, suppressing protest, cutting welfare, unworkable “guidance” etc

So let me get this straight we have: - Mahmood in place to ‘finish the job’ re immigration - Phillipson continuing her toilet ban with no change - Miliband out of energy for more drilling - McFadden still in place for welfare ‘reform’

He doesn’t give LGBTQ people, and especially trans people a second thought. There will be no deep analysis of what’s gone so wrong these last few years, just more of the same

Nothing more broke lib brained than "social progress is when you also let the gays run the killing industrial complex"

This is what Burnham does though. He keeps others in positions that he knows are bad/questionable to then abscond himself from responsibility. Over a decade he has just ignored anything to do with the police in Manchester, leaving us under special measures for 2 years. No intervention when needed

As an absolute BARE MINIMUM Burnham needs to do the following; These are litmus tests; they will show if he really means it when he says “hope”. It will show whether or not he is going to stand up for ordinary people. It will show whether he is brave enough to stand up to the media barons.

The thing that everybody said wouldn't work isn't working

In what world is arming a genocide, segregating trans people from public life, making disabled people struggle more with poverty and waving England flags to support a racist riot “liberal”? Maybe someone cleverer than me can explain.

The overton window has shifted so far right it’s fallen off this flat earth.

Andy Burnham promised to "rewire Britain" in order to "end 40 years of neoliberalism". All of the evidence from his Cabinet appointments suggests that what we're really going to get is Starmerism without Starmer bylinetimes.com/2026/07/21/a...

A gay man can be Defence Secretary if he’s a rancid evangelical that hates being gay; a Muslim woman can be Home Secretary if she chases away migrants with a stick. It’s not that complicated: the Tories have been doing this same representational politics for years

She can concentrate full-time on making life harder for trans and disabled people! Hurray!

MORE BIGOTED WOMEN IN POWER! SUCCESS!

Break this company up.

Today is Black Women's Equal Pay Day. And in 2026, Black women are STILL only making 65 cents on the dollar. Pay Black women. Period.

happy 10th birthday to this perfect post

If you liked my @defector.com piece but couldn't find a theater playing the movie near you, now's your chance! defector.com/blue-heron-i...

The UK countryside is full of interdimensional portals. You just have to know where to look. I've decided to make a thread here of some of the best ones I've found on walks. 1. JRR Tolkien's Psychedelic Lime Kiln.

You can help Alaa's children and newborn baby survive Israel's genocide right now by sharing & donating. They're starving, homeless, & plagued by the disease & vermin sweeping the camps because of Israel's destruction of sanitation & healthcare. Her husband is a prisoner of the occupation:

Julia and Talia are lovely children but they miss out on a huge number of things that others take for granted. They have about three toys between them and nowhere to engage in physical play, plus their energy is sapped by hunger. Their whole lives will be shaped by this. They need help. #Gaza 🍉

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"As ever the devil is in the detail and that means money." @andrewcities.bsky.social breaks down what the Prime Minister should do next on devolution👇

Senior living facilities in the U.S. are in distress as immigrant caregivers are pushed out because of Trump administration policies.

CNN: "Israel’s far-right openly boasts of resettling Gaza as election looms." The two millions Gazans living in hell continue to be used as pawns. They rely on our donations to survive. Please give to my dear friend Tasneem, no amount is too small. And to others. 🙏 chuffed.org/project/1587...

Fuck intimidation, coercion, state goons, and every other fascist. No one should fear telling the truth!

iron rule of British politics is even if a guy who dresses as a bin becomes prime minister he will have been to Oxbridge