Paul Farmer 〓〓
@paul-farmer.bsky.social
Socialist, like guitars and rowing (to rhyme with sitars and sewing). Author 'After the Miners' Strike', Open Book Publishers 2023, currently working on Volume 2. No DMs please unless I know you.
A new mass-membership party of the left is being born in the UK. Keir Starmer, his acolytes and those for whom he is himself an acolyte, have designed their own downfall.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/huge...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/huge...
Huge enthusiasm for a new socialist party shows the left never went away | Morning Star
FOUR hundred thousand and counting. Sign-ups to be part of founding the new party initiated by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana already surpass the membership of any existing political party in Britain...
morningstaronline.co.uk
July 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A new mass-membership party of the left is being born in the UK. Keir Starmer, his acolytes and those for whom he is himself an acolyte, have designed their own downfall.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/huge...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/huge...
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Brazenly expressing pride at committing war crimes ...
April 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Brazenly expressing pride at committing war crimes ...
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March 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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If your politician can support Israel they can support anything.
March 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
If your politician can support Israel they can support anything.
This demonstrates the Starmer government's complicity in appalling war crimes. If there is any justice in this world, they will be made to answer for this act of vicarious inhumanity.
Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi was given special immunity to visit Britain in November.
Halevi has been directing the Israeli military's operations throughout the Gaza genocide. The Labour government shielded him from arrest for war crimes.
www.declassifieduk.org/israeli-army...
Halevi has been directing the Israeli military's operations throughout the Gaza genocide. The Labour government shielded him from arrest for war crimes.
www.declassifieduk.org/israeli-army...
Israeli army chief given special immunity to visit Britain
Exclusive: IDF chief of staff Herzi Halevi was given a “special mission” certificate for his trip to the UK last month, allowing him to visit without fear of arrest for war crimes.
www.declassifieduk.org
January 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This demonstrates the Starmer government's complicity in appalling war crimes. If there is any justice in this world, they will be made to answer for this act of vicarious inhumanity.
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To try and make this clear as possible. There is a finite amount of drs, nurses and AHPs in the UK.
For every hour they work in the private sector, they will not be working in the NHS.
If we increase hours in the private sector as per Labour Policy, we will loose NHS capacity
For every hour they work in the private sector, they will not be working in the NHS.
If we increase hours in the private sector as per Labour Policy, we will loose NHS capacity
January 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
To try and make this clear as possible. There is a finite amount of drs, nurses and AHPs in the UK.
For every hour they work in the private sector, they will not be working in the NHS.
If we increase hours in the private sector as per Labour Policy, we will loose NHS capacity
For every hour they work in the private sector, they will not be working in the NHS.
If we increase hours in the private sector as per Labour Policy, we will loose NHS capacity
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Questions for Starmer:
1) where do you think staff in the private sector come from? (Spoiler, it's from the NHS)
2) why would we invest in the private sector as a preference to investing directly in the NHS?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
1) where do you think staff in the private sector come from? (Spoiler, it's from the NHS)
2) why would we invest in the private sector as a preference to investing directly in the NHS?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government unveils plan to reduce NHS waiting list backlog
The government pledged to cut the list of patients waiting more than 18 weeks for treatment in England by nearly half a million over the next year.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Questions for Starmer:
1) where do you think staff in the private sector come from? (Spoiler, it's from the NHS)
2) why would we invest in the private sector as a preference to investing directly in the NHS?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
1) where do you think staff in the private sector come from? (Spoiler, it's from the NHS)
2) why would we invest in the private sector as a preference to investing directly in the NHS?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Days after Israel confirms it is arbitrarily detaining Palestinian hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safiya at a notorious prison camp, the UK government remains silent.
This is an unforgivable failure of obligations to human rights and international law.
This is an unforgivable failure of obligations to human rights and international law.
Israel confirms it is holding Gaza hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safiya
Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is being held on suspicion of "involvement in terrorist activities", Israel has said, and accused him of "holding a rank" in Hamas. They have not disclosed his whereabouts and hum...
news.sky.com
January 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Days after Israel confirms it is arbitrarily detaining Palestinian hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safiya at a notorious prison camp, the UK government remains silent.
This is an unforgivable failure of obligations to human rights and international law.
This is an unforgivable failure of obligations to human rights and international law.
Starmer rejects his entire campaign strategy for election to the leadership of the Labour Party. But only when used by other people.
January 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Starmer rejects his entire campaign strategy for election to the leadership of the Labour Party. But only when used by other people.
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The astonishing cognitive dissonance of a health secretary who insists he'll save the NHS - yet kicks the social care crisis into touch until 2028.
1 in 8 medically fit NHS patients cannot leave hospital for lack of social care.
Of course A&E is overwhelmed 🤷♀️
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
1 in 8 medically fit NHS patients cannot leave hospital for lack of social care.
Of course A&E is overwhelmed 🤷♀️
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Ambulance handover delays in England may harm 1,000 patients a day
Exclusive: 414,137 people believed to have experienced some level of harm in last year, Guardian analysis finds
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The astonishing cognitive dissonance of a health secretary who insists he'll save the NHS - yet kicks the social care crisis into touch until 2028.
1 in 8 medically fit NHS patients cannot leave hospital for lack of social care.
Of course A&E is overwhelmed 🤷♀️
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
1 in 8 medically fit NHS patients cannot leave hospital for lack of social care.
Of course A&E is overwhelmed 🤷♀️
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Instead of using the last days of his presidency to call for peace, Joe Biden has poured more money into arming Israel’s destruction of Gaza.
A shameful indictment of his administration and its complicity in genocide.
A shameful indictment of his administration and its complicity in genocide.
Biden plans $8bn arms sale to Israel
Last-minute show of support for US president’s close ally as he nears his final days in office
www.ft.com
January 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Instead of using the last days of his presidency to call for peace, Joe Biden has poured more money into arming Israel’s destruction of Gaza.
A shameful indictment of his administration and its complicity in genocide.
A shameful indictment of his administration and its complicity in genocide.
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5.2m children, 36% of UK children, live in poverty.
Ending the two-child benefit cap would lift 500,000 out of poverty, cost £2.5bn.
Taxing capital gains at the same rate as wages raises £14bn.
Govts that gave £895bn QE to speculators, can also end poverty.
leftfootforward.org/2024/12/labo...
Ending the two-child benefit cap would lift 500,000 out of poverty, cost £2.5bn.
Taxing capital gains at the same rate as wages raises £14bn.
Govts that gave £895bn QE to speculators, can also end poverty.
leftfootforward.org/2024/12/labo...
Labour’s drift to the right could risk Keir Starmer being a one-term prime minister
The government's honeymoon has been short lived.
leftfootforward.org
December 26, 2024 at 9:42 AM
5.2m children, 36% of UK children, live in poverty.
Ending the two-child benefit cap would lift 500,000 out of poverty, cost £2.5bn.
Taxing capital gains at the same rate as wages raises £14bn.
Govts that gave £895bn QE to speculators, can also end poverty.
leftfootforward.org/2024/12/labo...
Ending the two-child benefit cap would lift 500,000 out of poverty, cost £2.5bn.
Taxing capital gains at the same rate as wages raises £14bn.
Govts that gave £895bn QE to speculators, can also end poverty.
leftfootforward.org/2024/12/labo...
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Reeves says UK economic turnaround will take time.
Can't revive economy without improving people's purchasing power.
16m people live in poverty. Profiteering is rife. 1% has more wealth than 70% of population combined.
Needs action now. Tax the rich.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Can't revive economy without improving people's purchasing power.
16m people live in poverty. Profiteering is rife. 1% has more wealth than 70% of population combined.
Needs action now. Tax the rich.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reeves says economic turnaround will take time and Farage ‘hasn’t got a clue’
Chancellor pledges renewed focus on growth after Bank of England warning that Britain is on brink of stagnation
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Reeves says UK economic turnaround will take time.
Can't revive economy without improving people's purchasing power.
16m people live in poverty. Profiteering is rife. 1% has more wealth than 70% of population combined.
Needs action now. Tax the rich.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Can't revive economy without improving people's purchasing power.
16m people live in poverty. Profiteering is rife. 1% has more wealth than 70% of population combined.
Needs action now. Tax the rich.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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We are mugged.
More than a third of water bills service debt & dividends; leaks not plugged, sewage dumped.
50% at Wessex Water.
Water companies paid £85bn dividends, borrowed £60bn. OFWAT approved huge hike in bills.
Govt won't end the privatisation scam.
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...
More than a third of water bills service debt & dividends; leaks not plugged, sewage dumped.
50% at Wessex Water.
Water companies paid £85bn dividends, borrowed £60bn. OFWAT approved huge hike in bills.
Govt won't end the privatisation scam.
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...
A THIRD of water bills up the spout! Huge spend on debt and dividends
An average of 35p in every pound paid by customers for their water goes on interest payments and shareholder payouts
www.thisismoney.co.uk
December 22, 2024 at 12:00 PM
We are mugged.
More than a third of water bills service debt & dividends; leaks not plugged, sewage dumped.
50% at Wessex Water.
Water companies paid £85bn dividends, borrowed £60bn. OFWAT approved huge hike in bills.
Govt won't end the privatisation scam.
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...
More than a third of water bills service debt & dividends; leaks not plugged, sewage dumped.
50% at Wessex Water.
Water companies paid £85bn dividends, borrowed £60bn. OFWAT approved huge hike in bills.
Govt won't end the privatisation scam.
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...
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How come Labour can find money when it wants to? youtu.be/vdnMDz3wuqs?... Labour found £6 billion in the last week to buy 166,000 houses for the Ministry of Defence. The spending wasn’t budgeted, so how did it fund the money all of a sudden?
How come Labour can find money when it wants to?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
December 22, 2024 at 7:31 AM
How come Labour can find money when it wants to? youtu.be/vdnMDz3wuqs?... Labour found £6 billion in the last week to buy 166,000 houses for the Ministry of Defence. The spending wasn’t budgeted, so how did it fund the money all of a sudden?
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@lisanandymp.bsky.social is a Cabinet Minister in the Westminster Government , she voted against resolving the abysmal treatment of the Waspi women . The Labour Party simply cannot be trusted #WaspiCampaign
December 18, 2024 at 10:35 AM
@lisanandymp.bsky.social is a Cabinet Minister in the Westminster Government , she voted against resolving the abysmal treatment of the Waspi women . The Labour Party simply cannot be trusted #WaspiCampaign
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Royal Mail? Really? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/12... Is profit all that really matters now? What about service? What about community? What about national control of essential infrastructure? And what is Labour thinking? So many questions, and no answers.
Royal Mail? Really?
The Royal Mail is not royal, if ever it was.
It has not been an essential state-supplied service for some time, although I doubt we can survive without it as a universal service.
And now it is going...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
December 16, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Royal Mail? Really? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/12... Is profit all that really matters now? What about service? What about community? What about national control of essential infrastructure? And what is Labour thinking? So many questions, and no answers.
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The government could have finally brought Royal Mail into public ownership.
It sold it to a Czech billionaire instead.
We are being ripped off. It’s time to put Royal Mail back where it belongs: in public hands.
bbc.in/49BZTmP
It sold it to a Czech billionaire instead.
We are being ripped off. It’s time to put Royal Mail back where it belongs: in public hands.
bbc.in/49BZTmP
Royal Mail takeover by Czech billionaire approved
The £3.6bn deal by Daniel Kretinsky is given the go-ahead after agreeing
bbc.in
December 16, 2024 at 10:45 AM
The government could have finally brought Royal Mail into public ownership.
It sold it to a Czech billionaire instead.
We are being ripped off. It’s time to put Royal Mail back where it belongs: in public hands.
bbc.in/49BZTmP
It sold it to a Czech billionaire instead.
We are being ripped off. It’s time to put Royal Mail back where it belongs: in public hands.
bbc.in/49BZTmP
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Ireland has evicted the Israeli ambassador.
If that is great, Like.
If we need to evict ours and stop arming Israel, RT.
If that is great, Like.
If we need to evict ours and stop arming Israel, RT.
December 15, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Ireland has evicted the Israeli ambassador.
If that is great, Like.
If we need to evict ours and stop arming Israel, RT.
If that is great, Like.
If we need to evict ours and stop arming Israel, RT.
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UK’s economy shrinks 0.1% in October.
Result of Labour following Tory policies, eroding people's purchasing power.
Real wage cuts
Benefit cuts
No curbs on profiteering
Graduate debts
Poor taxed more than the rich
Lack of skilled jobs
Govt must change policies
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Result of Labour following Tory policies, eroding people's purchasing power.
Real wage cuts
Benefit cuts
No curbs on profiteering
Graduate debts
Poor taxed more than the rich
Lack of skilled jobs
Govt must change policies
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK’s economy shrinks unexpectedly by 0.1% in October
GDP figures underline scale of challenge for Labour to get the economy growing
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2024 at 9:18 AM
UK’s economy shrinks 0.1% in October.
Result of Labour following Tory policies, eroding people's purchasing power.
Real wage cuts
Benefit cuts
No curbs on profiteering
Graduate debts
Poor taxed more than the rich
Lack of skilled jobs
Govt must change policies
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Result of Labour following Tory policies, eroding people's purchasing power.
Real wage cuts
Benefit cuts
No curbs on profiteering
Graduate debts
Poor taxed more than the rich
Lack of skilled jobs
Govt must change policies
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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What are we to make of a government that one week passes an assisted dying bill & a couple of weeks later financially impoverishes carers whilst taking guidance on 'savings' from dodgy bankers-corporarate CEOs & assorted comfy class Spivs? Carers made slaves by DWP. uk.yahoo.com/news/dwps-19...
DWP's new £196 rule as it takes back £250million from 136,730 people
The Government has ordered a review as thousands of people will be made to pay back the money
uk.yahoo.com
December 11, 2024 at 6:38 PM
What are we to make of a government that one week passes an assisted dying bill & a couple of weeks later financially impoverishes carers whilst taking guidance on 'savings' from dodgy bankers-corporarate CEOs & assorted comfy class Spivs? Carers made slaves by DWP. uk.yahoo.com/news/dwps-19...