Further to the Post Office travestyâŚ
Hearing the testimonies from several of the victims today was heartbreaking and of course some of them have now passed having never been acquitted. Iâm sure weâll see the higher ups facing difficult questions in the dock soon enough. /s
Foster â one of Patelâs minions
How generous.
And maybe they can drive trucks too /s
If Corbyn had a byelection turnout that low the press would have been calling him a failure for it all weekend. Itâs a success for Paulette Hamilton, but not one for Starmer.
Meanwhile in Scotland.
I donât understand the Labour Party anymore. At least the Tories are honest about being a political party for arseholes.
About the only small consolation in the Birmingham election is that the MP a BAME woman, as theyâre still not well represented in much of society, considering how much they provide for the community.
Honestly, the series of mistakes, bad decisions, infighting and plain stupidity that took Labour from utter hegemony in Scotland to near wipe-out would need thousands of words to do it justice.
I donât know if that was the plan all along, but Iâve seen that behaviour before: people start making a case for representation and change, realise that nothing will happen unless they make it happen, and the people with the ability to do something about it say âno, you donât need to do that, look, see, here weâve just set up (in a massive co-incidence) a group which will do everything you want, and if you were to do this thing then youâd be duplicating effort and getting in their way.â And the new group does some things, and make some noises, and says theyâll need some time to plan and organise.
And when you think theyâve had enough time, you give them a bit more, because, you know, bureaucracy, and when you try to contact them, you get nothing. No answers to emails, no web page updates since they last talked to you. And when, after more weeks and weeks of trying to find anyone, you discover that that group was quietly disbanded a week after you last talked to them, and all thatâs been achieved is that that person who promised change has just arranged 6 months to a year of not having to do squat.
This may or may not be based on personal experience.
And it looks like whatâs happening here: âyou disableds and gays and such donât need to lobby government, look, weâve got this independent body with advisors who will tell us what you need for you, isnât that nice?â ⌠and then hollowing out the body, and quietly sacking slabs of it, and what are you going to do about it, you donât have any access any more to lobby anybody.
I have experienced that before, but this is something new (or maybe not that new, but itâs new to me). The organisation that was supposed to represent us has been taken over by fascists. The EHRC is accused of being racist, homophobic, transphobic and ablist, and the only reason that I can see why they arenât accused of being sexist is because TERFs are currently useful to fascism.
The last head of the EHRC tried to warn people, but no-one in power cared because they were already obsessed by their hatred of trans people and couldnât see past that, or they just didnât care in the first place.
Does anyone want to remind us why Dave Nellist isnât a member of the Labour party? Bacause he didnât resign from the party, AFAIK. I donât like Militant or itâs successors, but when our current choices are either being expelled or assimilation by the Labour right I canât help feeling a little sympathy for Nellist.
You would think that Lansman and Momentum would be more aware of this as Starmer makes Labour a more intolerant party towards socialists and the marginalised. There is only so much abuse we can take before we all walk away for the sake of our mental health.
I think this deserves a repost in here because itâll get lost in the invasion thread and itâs full of righteous fury.
The cruelty is the point with this awful government.
If only those refugees had planned better.
/s
Yeah. Ugh. And nothing about all that expensive London real estate sitting empty.
Link with no âWe value your privacyâ bs:
We have to finally understand what has happened here. Russiaâs attack on our democracy has been covered up. Itâs what the parliamentary intelligence and security committeeâs Russia report revealed beyond all doubt. And all available evidence suggests this cover-up leads back to Johnson. It was Johnson who claimed there was ânot a sausageâ of evidence. It was Johnson who suppressed the reportâs publication. And it was Johnson who had direct oversight of MI6 as foreign secretary when, as the report said, it âactively avoidedâ investigating.
It shouldnât have taken the prospect of a third world war to reveal this. And it didnât. It has been in plain sight for two and a half years. It is in plain sight now. And our national security depends on us all finally seeing it.
A little bit of good newsâŚ
While de Pfeffel is grovelling to a murderous regime that just executed 81 people. We need that sweet, sweet oil i suppose.
Itâs a mystery what attracts de Pfeffel to these billionaire oligarchs.
