European Movement MK #MakeItStop

Milton Keynes branch of the European Movement. Promoted on behalf of European Movement UK, Millbank Tower, Millbank, London, England, SW1P 4QP

[European Movement MK #MakeItStop @EuroMove_MK]

100 healthcare workers dead

If government want to #ProtectTheNHS, then a good place to start would be to PROTECT NHS staff

by providing the right level of Personal PROTECTive Equipment (PPE)

The clue is in the name

#ProtectHealthCareWorkers
#PPEShortages

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

In case you missed Trump's press conference, he essentially just blamed this tragic air crash on a mentally impaired ATC, diversity quotas, Obama and Pete Buttigieg. He then said dwarfs shouldn't be allowed to be air traffic controllers. He then says that it's likely the helicopter, which had a visual of the plane, was at fault all along. Blatant politicising with a few easily demonstrable lies just hours after a terrible tragedy.
I've almost missed him.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: MPs have set up an APPG for Fair Elections to advocate for proportional representation and end 'dark money' in Westminster

[@BylineTimes]

[Bridget Phillipson @bphillipsonMP]

Our state schools need teachers more than private schools need embossed stationery.

Our children need mental health support more than private schools need new pools.

Our students need careers advice more than private schools need AstroTurf pitches.

https://t.co/Wc55CmVuge

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

“I wish that my son, Aiden Clark, was killed by a 60-year-old white man. I bet you never thought anyone would say something so blunt, but if that guy killed my 11-year-old son, the incessant group of hate-spewing people would leave us alone."

https://t.co/O4uAO2DOvL

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

The Tories brought the prison system to a point of total breakdown. They can damn well own it, rather than blaming Keir Starmer for it https://t.co/vmWInxAX4t

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Elon Musk reposted a screenshot of a fake Telegraph article (posted by the co-leader of Britain First), to his 193 million followers stating that Keir Starmer is considering setting up detainment camps.

That’s not free speech, it’s being an irresponsible knee-jerking knobhead.

[Brendan May @bmay]

He’s done more work in six weeks than the clown Johnson did in 3 years. This is because it’s a government of service, not self-service. I’m here for it.🌹

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

The enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Prime Minister Keir Starmer on the unrest on Britain's streets: "The far-right are showing who they are. We have to show them who we are."

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: The UK has dropped its challenge to the ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders

[@guardian]

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

What happened to “any time, any place”?

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

It is absolutely ridiculous to throw out the slur that Labour want to keep children in poverty simply because they didn't lift the 2-child benefit cap within their first 18 days in office after 5,174 days in opposition.

One does not imply the other - that's a lazy, lazy argument.

Look at the full context:

1. This was a vote on the Kings Speech, the first and most high profile vote since Labour took office (and for a long time to come). A rebellion was obviously therefore going to be deeply embarrassing - and the rebels were absolutely aware of that.

2. Labour ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility. This was clear as daylight to every Labour candidate. It's not some wild swerve foisted on them after the election was won.

3. Labour are working at speed to produce a full picture of the economic situation the Tories left us in. That should be published before the summer recess. Things may look different within days. (For better or worse? We'll have to await the report.)

4. Labour have said they are reviewing concrete action to alleviate child poverty. Are the rebels claiming they're lying?

5. Senior Labour figures have indicated the 2-child benefit cap is potentially part of the wider review.

6. This was an SNP amendment. Supporting it was pure performative politics. It was never going to pass in a trillion years.

7. To come back to where we started, not voting for the amendment is not the same as seeking to keep children in poverty, wanting to keep children in poverty, planning to keep children in poverty, delighting in keeping children in poverty, or whatever other emotional framing lazy people choose to resort to instead of making a logical analytical argument.

A painful related truth: the hard Left of the party has a problem. They need to stay visible to stay relevant. It's like sharks have to keep swimming or they die. (That's a metaphor. It doesn't mean I think they're sharks. Sigh.) They therefore thrive on outrage farming just as much as those on the other extreme of politics, even though their actual political views are poles apart. One way to increase that visibility very quickly is to pick opportunities to have highly visible fights with the core party and the leadership.

That's what happened last night. Nothing more. Nothing less. No nefarious plot to keep children in poverty (or "starving" as the even more emotionally manipulative put it).

Starmer had two choices:
1) Let the rebellion go
2) Take strict action

1) would have given every group and faction within Labour the green light to start creating their own version of the ERG, Common Sense Group, or whatever they wanted to call themselves. Soon, the party would be as riven as the Tories were. Imagine herding those cats for the next 5 years!

Instead, by doing 2), Starmer called the bluff of people who knew exactly what they were doing.

Did Starmer's action indicate Labour won't lift the cap? No. It told us nothing of the sort.

Did Starmer's action indicate Labour are fine with child poverty? No. It told us nothing of the sort.

If in a few months - around the Autumn statement or shortly thereafter - Labour are still grinding their gears on child poverty without any progress, then you have the right to be aggrieved.

But 18 days into their term of office, and after all the clear signals they're trying to do the right thing as swiftly as prudence allows? Get over yourself.

[Thomas O'Duffy @ThomasODuffy]

@RogerHallamCS21 Democracy seems broken when directors of water companies can emit untreated sewage into rivers and waterways and pay themselves bonuses - yet those who urge prioritisation of ecosystem care are jailed. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Why the rush to turn the Shire into Mordoor?

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Occasionally, just when I think the world cannot get any more fucking ridiculous, I see something like this and realise just how wrong I was.

[Brendan May @bmay]

Not all politicians are the same.

We’ve bagged a good one here.

After the last several years this is pure poetry.

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

Is this graph correct? Because if so it is a total outrage…

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Climate Secretary Ed Milliband has approved the following large-scale solar farms, which will produce 1.5GW of clean power

- Sunnica Energy Farm
- Mallard Pass Solar Farm
- Gate Burton Energy Park

[@Sam_Dumitriu]

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Angela Rayner has decided there was an "error of law" in the Tory's decision to grant planning permission for the West Cumbria coal mine, so they will not defend the move in an upcoming High Court case

[@TomSheldrickITV]

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Wes Streeting says he is "genuinely angry" after hearing that the last time the Tories discussed with junior doctors was in March

[@SophyRidgeSky]