Sam G-Shaw
@samg-shaw.bsky.social
Genealogist/Family Historian - Professional Researcher (Postgraduate Genealogical Studies - University of Strathclyde).
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When the media are freaking out about “out of control spending” they are lying to your faces.
Welfare isn’t “spending”, either. It’s an investment. ALL of that money goes back into the economy.
Money leaves our economy when we let the rich hoard it & refuse to tax giant foreign companies properly.
Welfare isn’t “spending”, either. It’s an investment. ALL of that money goes back into the economy.
Money leaves our economy when we let the rich hoard it & refuse to tax giant foreign companies properly.
July 13, 2025 at 6:23 AM
When the media are freaking out about “out of control spending” they are lying to your faces.
Welfare isn’t “spending”, either. It’s an investment. ALL of that money goes back into the economy.
Money leaves our economy when we let the rich hoard it & refuse to tax giant foreign companies properly.
Welfare isn’t “spending”, either. It’s an investment. ALL of that money goes back into the economy.
Money leaves our economy when we let the rich hoard it & refuse to tax giant foreign companies properly.
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Angela Rayner says that Labour MPs who rebel against the Welfare Bill will lose the whip
There are 403 Labour MPs
Any Labour MP who votes for withdrawing PIP support from the disabled as outlined in this welfare bill is an absolute disgrace
There are 403 Labour MPs
Any Labour MP who votes for withdrawing PIP support from the disabled as outlined in this welfare bill is an absolute disgrace
June 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Angela Rayner says that Labour MPs who rebel against the Welfare Bill will lose the whip
There are 403 Labour MPs
Any Labour MP who votes for withdrawing PIP support from the disabled as outlined in this welfare bill is an absolute disgrace
There are 403 Labour MPs
Any Labour MP who votes for withdrawing PIP support from the disabled as outlined in this welfare bill is an absolute disgrace
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If you are not yet familiar with the shocking IPP scandal - one of the most cruel and monumental injustices of the past half-century, watch this jaw dropping report
🚨THE SHOCKING IPP SCANDAL
Why is the Labour government allowing one of the most CRUEL, INHUMANE & MONUMENTAL INJUSTICES of the past half-century to continue?
If you are not familiar with this appalling scandal watch this jaw dropping update
We can’t wait for an ITV drama youtu.be/w23NeIBGQLk?...
Why is the Labour government allowing one of the most CRUEL, INHUMANE & MONUMENTAL INJUSTICES of the past half-century to continue?
If you are not familiar with this appalling scandal watch this jaw dropping update
We can’t wait for an ITV drama youtu.be/w23NeIBGQLk?...
THE SHOCKING IPP SCANDAL- one of the most cruel & monumental injustices of the last half-century
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
June 1, 2025 at 7:50 AM
If you are not yet familiar with the shocking IPP scandal - one of the most cruel and monumental injustices of the past half-century, watch this jaw dropping report
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This article is a tough, tough read if you are a Labour supporter...
But unless your plan for the next 4 years is to live in a little bubble of self-delusion then watch the party you support disappear into oblivion, you need to.
Bitter medicine, but necessary.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But unless your plan for the next 4 years is to live in a little bubble of self-delusion then watch the party you support disappear into oblivion, you need to.
Bitter medicine, but necessary.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
May 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This article is a tough, tough read if you are a Labour supporter...
But unless your plan for the next 4 years is to live in a little bubble of self-delusion then watch the party you support disappear into oblivion, you need to.
Bitter medicine, but necessary.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But unless your plan for the next 4 years is to live in a little bubble of self-delusion then watch the party you support disappear into oblivion, you need to.
Bitter medicine, but necessary.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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🧵1/ The UK government plans to cut international aid while ramping up defence spending. But must we choose between defence or aid? In a new @bmj.com piece, @kentbuse.bsky.social & I argue that we must invest in both. Here’s why. 👇
May 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
🧵1/ The UK government plans to cut international aid while ramping up defence spending. But must we choose between defence or aid? In a new @bmj.com piece, @kentbuse.bsky.social & I argue that we must invest in both. Here’s why. 👇
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I can't even.
How about removing the cap not because of how it plays politically but because it will bring tens of thousands of children out of poverty?
Fucking hell. Winning power should be about helping people not running scared of losing power.
How about removing the cap not because of how it plays politically but because it will bring tens of thousands of children out of poverty?
Fucking hell. Winning power should be about helping people not running scared of losing power.
May 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I can't even.
How about removing the cap not because of how it plays politically but because it will bring tens of thousands of children out of poverty?
Fucking hell. Winning power should be about helping people not running scared of losing power.
How about removing the cap not because of how it plays politically but because it will bring tens of thousands of children out of poverty?
Fucking hell. Winning power should be about helping people not running scared of losing power.
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Legitimising far right rhetoric is just doing Farage's job for him.
My take in this disastrous political strategy, as a lifelong Labour voter.
We need to “take back control”… of The Labour Party. Sack McSweeney and stop this, or step down.
youtu.be/k8Z5CYvuptA?...
My take in this disastrous political strategy, as a lifelong Labour voter.
We need to “take back control”… of The Labour Party. Sack McSweeney and stop this, or step down.
youtu.be/k8Z5CYvuptA?...
Do They Actually Want Farage To Be PM?
YouTube video by Supertanskiii
youtu.be
May 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Legitimising far right rhetoric is just doing Farage's job for him.
My take in this disastrous political strategy, as a lifelong Labour voter.
We need to “take back control”… of The Labour Party. Sack McSweeney and stop this, or step down.
youtu.be/k8Z5CYvuptA?...
My take in this disastrous political strategy, as a lifelong Labour voter.
We need to “take back control”… of The Labour Party. Sack McSweeney and stop this, or step down.
youtu.be/k8Z5CYvuptA?...
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Thank God for immigrants open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Thank God for immigrants
This week, of all weeks: Thank God they came here and chose to make it their home.
open.substack.com
May 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Thank God for immigrants open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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Immigrants “are ambitious, enthusiastic & hard-working. They want a better life, & a better life for their children, and they are willing to do backbreaking work in order to secure it. They show all the attributes which we praise in others but condemn if it's demonstrated by an immigrant.”
May 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Immigrants “are ambitious, enthusiastic & hard-working. They want a better life, & a better life for their children, and they are willing to do backbreaking work in order to secure it. They show all the attributes which we praise in others but condemn if it's demonstrated by an immigrant.”
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Keir Starmer is my MP. This is the letter I wrote to him today.
Subject: Island of Strangers?
Mr Starmer,
Let me tell you about this ‘stranger’.
Subject: Island of Strangers?
Mr Starmer,
Let me tell you about this ‘stranger’.
May 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Keir Starmer is my MP. This is the letter I wrote to him today.
Subject: Island of Strangers?
Mr Starmer,
Let me tell you about this ‘stranger’.
Subject: Island of Strangers?
Mr Starmer,
Let me tell you about this ‘stranger’.
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Well done Labour
Anyone who thought you represented real change now despises you.
Anyone who didn’t, still won’t.
People who weren’t that convinced but hoped for the best are out of patience.
You’ve managed to turn off everyone.
Quite the achievement!
Anyone who thought you represented real change now despises you.
Anyone who didn’t, still won’t.
People who weren’t that convinced but hoped for the best are out of patience.
You’ve managed to turn off everyone.
Quite the achievement!
May 13, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Well done Labour
Anyone who thought you represented real change now despises you.
Anyone who didn’t, still won’t.
People who weren’t that convinced but hoped for the best are out of patience.
You’ve managed to turn off everyone.
Quite the achievement!
Anyone who thought you represented real change now despises you.
Anyone who didn’t, still won’t.
People who weren’t that convinced but hoped for the best are out of patience.
You’ve managed to turn off everyone.
Quite the achievement!
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Labour's immigration announcement today is a reflection of the paucity of honest debate by BOTH political parties over the last decade on this issue.
Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n
Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n
May 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Labour's immigration announcement today is a reflection of the paucity of honest debate by BOTH political parties over the last decade on this issue.
Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n
Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n
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Oh, and if you think you can convince me to vote Labour ‘to keep out Farage’ by being exactly the kind of government that Farage would lead, you need to brush up on your logic.
May 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Oh, and if you think you can convince me to vote Labour ‘to keep out Farage’ by being exactly the kind of government that Farage would lead, you need to brush up on your logic.
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Keir Starmer's spokesman says that David Kogan, who the government has just made chair of the new football regulator after he donated to the political campaigns of the Prime Minister, his Culture Secretary and multiple Labour MPs, was appointed through a "fair and open competition"
May 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Keir Starmer's spokesman says that David Kogan, who the government has just made chair of the new football regulator after he donated to the political campaigns of the Prime Minister, his Culture Secretary and multiple Labour MPs, was appointed through a "fair and open competition"
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Keir Starmer's disability benefit cuts will hit 700,000 families already living in poverty, internal government figures show.
This is in addition to the 250,000 people, who the DWP's own impact assessment suggests will be newly driven into poverty by the cuts
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This is in addition to the 250,000 people, who the DWP's own impact assessment suggests will be newly driven into poverty by the cuts
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Disability benefit cuts to hit 700,000 families already in poverty, DWP forecasts show
Internal government forecasts obtained by the Guardian reveal ‘truly shocking’ effects of planned cuts
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Keir Starmer's disability benefit cuts will hit 700,000 families already living in poverty, internal government figures show.
This is in addition to the 250,000 people, who the DWP's own impact assessment suggests will be newly driven into poverty by the cuts
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This is in addition to the 250,000 people, who the DWP's own impact assessment suggests will be newly driven into poverty by the cuts
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Labour might wonder why, less than a year into a new government promising “change”, people are giving up on it in droves. So let me help it out with a few clues.
1. Cutting disability benefits
2. Freezing Local Housing Allowance.
3. Maintaining the cruel, Malthusian two-child benefit cap ....
🧵
1. Cutting disability benefits
2. Freezing Local Housing Allowance.
3. Maintaining the cruel, Malthusian two-child benefit cap ....
🧵
May 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Labour might wonder why, less than a year into a new government promising “change”, people are giving up on it in droves. So let me help it out with a few clues.
1. Cutting disability benefits
2. Freezing Local Housing Allowance.
3. Maintaining the cruel, Malthusian two-child benefit cap ....
🧵
1. Cutting disability benefits
2. Freezing Local Housing Allowance.
3. Maintaining the cruel, Malthusian two-child benefit cap ....
🧵
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On Friday afternoon, the Govt published the evidence pack for its Pathways to Work Green Paper.
It confirms that the Govt's PIP cut will hit older people hardest, despite all the rhetoric about focusing on 'snowflake' young people.
A quick thread...
It confirms that the Govt's PIP cut will hit older people hardest, despite all the rhetoric about focusing on 'snowflake' young people.
A quick thread...
May 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
On Friday afternoon, the Govt published the evidence pack for its Pathways to Work Green Paper.
It confirms that the Govt's PIP cut will hit older people hardest, despite all the rhetoric about focusing on 'snowflake' young people.
A quick thread...
It confirms that the Govt's PIP cut will hit older people hardest, despite all the rhetoric about focusing on 'snowflake' young people.
A quick thread...
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Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right.
Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
May 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right.
Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
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This! 💯 ⬇️
I am more angry at Labour than the Tories, the Tories do what we expect Tories to do.
It is much more anger inducing when Labour are doing what we expect Tories to do.
It is much more anger inducing when Labour are doing what we expect Tories to do.
May 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This! 💯 ⬇️
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Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives.
May 2, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives.
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As I watch Starmer tear up Labour's prospects by attacking people in poverty, abusing those who care about the living world and appeasing the ultra-rich, I feel the same sense of dislocation as I did before the Iraq War. Anyone can see the disaster coming, except, apparently, the government.
April 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
As I watch Starmer tear up Labour's prospects by attacking people in poverty, abusing those who care about the living world and appeasing the ultra-rich, I feel the same sense of dislocation as I did before the Iraq War. Anyone can see the disaster coming, except, apparently, the government.
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One of the most powerful forces in politics is the urge to destroy that from which you are excluded. This is why, in the highly unequal US, support for Trump holds up even as he trashes everything that makes a good society. Equality is key to preventing fascism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot
Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:42 AM
One of the most powerful forces in politics is the urge to destroy that from which you are excluded. This is why, in the highly unequal US, support for Trump holds up even as he trashes everything that makes a good society. Equality is key to preventing fascism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A very strange UK politics where it seems the two traditional parties are targeting the same ~20% of the population and nobody very much cares about the remaining 80%.
April 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A very strange UK politics where it seems the two traditional parties are targeting the same ~20% of the population and nobody very much cares about the remaining 80%.
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A second child has died of measles in Texas.
Measles is both dangerous AND preventable. In fact high childhood Vax rates (>95%) can eliminate it completely from a country.
Please read and share our recent report on once common childhood diseases.
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Measles is both dangerous AND preventable. In fact high childhood Vax rates (>95%) can eliminate it completely from a country.
Please read and share our recent report on once common childhood diseases.
independentsage.org/wp-content/u...
April 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A second child has died of measles in Texas.
Measles is both dangerous AND preventable. In fact high childhood Vax rates (>95%) can eliminate it completely from a country.
Please read and share our recent report on once common childhood diseases.
independentsage.org/wp-content/u...
Measles is both dangerous AND preventable. In fact high childhood Vax rates (>95%) can eliminate it completely from a country.
Please read and share our recent report on once common childhood diseases.
independentsage.org/wp-content/u...