AlanLB 🦋 ⚖

There is more to life than Donoghue v. Stevenson (1932) All ER Rep 1; (1932) AC 562 🙂 RTs ≠ endorsements !! • 🐘 @[email protected] • 🐘 @[email protected]

[AlanLB 🦋 ⚖ @AlanLB]

Careful Words

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@Keir_Starmer @RachelReevesMP @patmcfaddenmp @labourpress So now we have it, from the (current) Secretary of State for Work and Pension himself @patmcfaddenmp (in case there was anyone in doubt) that the @UKLabour Gov't will tax the British Taxpayer until there is no more money left to tax in order to pay welfare benefits to others‼️🤦‍♂️

[AlanLB 🦋 ⚖ @AlanLB]

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@AngelaRayner This makes interesting reading...

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@AndyBurnhamGM "You've got to laugh haven't you, it must be very hard being a socialist with all those morals and values and such a huge desire to do good by the people ......................................... as long as it doesnt affect them !!..."

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@BMA @fletchjack

"Have striking doctors really taken a pay cut?

John Power
[from @spectator]

The British Medical Association (BMA) announced yesterday that junior doctors will be going on strike again next month, with a four-day walkout beginning at 7 a.m. on 15 June. The BMA is pressing ahead with this despite being given a very generous offer in March. The government was willing to concede a 4.9 per cent average pay rise this year, meaning that junior doctors would be on average 35.2 per cent better off than four years ago.

The BMA continues to insist that this is not enough and that it will settle for nothing less than full ‘pay restoration’. It claims that pay has eroded by a fifth in real terms since 2008/9 and has published a methodology to help explain how it has reached this figure. But, as the Taxpayers’ Alliance points out, it is somewhat disingenuous to pick 2008/9 as a starting point. During the 1990s and 2000s, junior doctors received strong real term increases in pay. From 1989/90 to 2008/9 real terms pay increased for junior doctors by 35 per cent.

As frustrating as this statistical sleight of hand is, there is a bit of good news. The NHS has been getting better and better at dealing with this industrial action without disruption to services. During the last round of industrial action last month, the NHS managed to deliver 94.1 per cent of the elective activity it managed the year before. So, while striking junior doctors can do some damage to the NHS, they cannot bring it to a grinding halt."

[AlanLB 🦋 ⚖ @AlanLB]

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[House Of The People @HoTPOfficial]

On 18 June, a by-election will be held in Makerfield, a constituency in Wigan. The result will determine whether Andy Burnham can enter Parliament and stand in a Labour leadership contest that would determine who leads this country.

The rest of the country will have no vote in it.

It is the first time since 1965 that a by-election has been triggered specifically to provide a seat for a figure not currently in Parliament. The most consequential political decision in Britain right now is being made through a process almost nobody was asked about and almost nobody can participate in.

House of The People was built for everyone who just read that and thought: when did anybody ask us?

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

You have to laugh, or you’d cry. Thanks to Citizen Khan for making me smile when all to often, I want to cry.

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[Labour Left Podcast @BrynHGriffiths]

If you’re thinking Starmer campaigning for his sworn opponent in a by-election is unprecedented you’re absolutely wrong! Here’s Dennis Healey campaigning for Tony Benn in the 1984 Chesterfield by-election. It’s hilarious and even the banner couldn’t take any more!

VOTE LABOUR!

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Watch: @ClaireCoutinho savage Ed Miliband’s dire record as Energy Secretary ⬇️

[House Of The People @HoTPOfficial]

Did you know that a party can win a majority of seats in Parliament on less than 35% of the total votes cast?

In 2024, Labour won 63% of the seats on 34% of the vote, the lowest share of any governing party since 1830. Millions of votes cast for other parties had no influence on the result whatsoever.

These are not arguments for any particular party or electoral reform position. They are the structural conditions that shape every political outcome in this country. Understanding them is where change begins.

[AlanLB 🦋 ⚖ @AlanLB]

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[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash, shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, Sky News learns.

Sky's political correspondent @AliFortescue has this exclusive story ⬇️ 

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[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

People can now get the equivalent of a £71,000 salary on benefits.

Working people on £30,000 or £40,000 are asking themselves, why do I bother working so hard?

This is not sustainable.

[AlanLB 🦋 ⚖ @AlanLB]

@fixturedapp I am a "Plus" subscriber to your app (iOS version). The county cricket scores are not displaying correctly in your app. The scores are missing, and they are only displaying on Day 1 of the games (List View), and not for Days 2 through 4.

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@Keir_Starmer @RachelReevesMP @bphillipsonMP Well done Capt. Flipflop, Rachel from Accounts, and Dolores Umbridge on another well thought through policy‼️🤦‍♂️ Another Gov't U-turn coming up⁉️🤷‍♂️