Jacob Onyett

Full time Welshman - Part time Londoner - Extra-time Gooner 🔴⚪️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Grimsby Town F.C. @officialgtfc]

Mbeumo misses! WE'VE DONE IT!!!!!!!

Mariners: ✅✅❌✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
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#GTFC

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

We’re at a dangerous moment in our country - where refugees are being blamed for all society's problems. While the super-rich, who really caused these problems, are busy taking more and more wealth from working class people.

For 40 years, the ideas launched by Thatcher - cuts, deregulation and privatisation - have meant attack after attack on working-class living standards. The last decade and a half of austerity made things even worse.

Instead of holding the billionaire class to account - those who have stolen the wealth created by ordinary people - Farage and his allies are scapegoating refugees and are being cheered on by our billionaire-owned media.

But hatred and division won’t build a single council house. It won’t put a penny more into the NHS. It won’t deliver higher wages. In fact, Farage and his mates voted against stronger workers’ rights in Parliament recently. They want the NHS replaced with a private system.

The only thing this politics of distraction, hatred and division achieves is to protect our rigged economic system - so that the super-rich can keep getting richer, while everyone else is left worse off.

Let's be clear: the cause of the problems in our society is the tiny elite hoarding the vast majority of our country’s wealth. Refugees fleeing war and persecution are not to blame for collapsing living standards, falling wages, or bringing our NHS to its knees.

So instead of this 'divide and rule', let's unite and build a country that really serves the 99% - not the super-rich.

Let's impose a wealth tax on the ultra-rich, let's build huge numbers of council houses, let's bring water and energy back into public ownership and let's kick the profiteers out of our NHS.

That's how we can build a better future for ordinary people.

[Theo Von @TheoVon]

Yeah what changed?

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Retweet.

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

Wow… 500,000 more children to receive #FreeSchoolMeals now that’s more like it!! Great step @GOVUK @Keir_Starmer

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Imagine being 17th in the League and doing this for winning the losers’ European trophy…. comical.

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

WHAT. A. PLAYER.

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

We promised 2 million more NHS appointments.

We have delivered 3 million.

We promised to cut waiting lists.

We have cut them by 219,000 - six months in a row!

There’s a long road ahead, and there’ll be bumps along the way.

But Labour has put the NHS on the road to recovery.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

I just spoke with Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer. We’re both determined to strengthen the trade, security, and economic relationship between Canada and the U.K.

At this consequential time for our nation, partnerships with long-standing, reliable allies matter more than ever.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

🤣

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

It’s now painfully obvious Brexit hasn’t worked, and is actively harming us economically. (It didn’t even control our bloody borders!) Given the British people would clearly vote overwhelmingly to go back into the EU, we should have another referendum.

[Jacob Onyett @JakeOnyett]

@RoryStewartUK on today’s podcast you said average farms would pay about half a million in tax with these new changes.. if £3m is tax free (if passed down from two parents) and the rest taxed at 20%, that suggests these farms are worth £5.5million. Surely not majority?

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Securing £1 billion investment in offshore wind is a major step forward in our mission to make the UK a clean energy superpower.

It will fire up our industrial heartlands and break down barriers to growth across the country.

We will lead the world in industries of the future.

[Jacob Onyett @JakeOnyett]

@editordoug Music was particularly brilliant today - thank you for sharing

[Jacob Onyett @JakeOnyett]

@MWGoneFishing thank you for highlighting that fit people in their 50s may need their heart checked out. If my dad had watched this show 10 years ago there’s a good chance he’d still be here.. this is why your show is the best thing on TV #gonefishing

[Sebastian Salek @sebastiansalek]

It’s been a great week to be Labour.

While certain parts of the media obsessed over Taylor Swift, there was plenty of good news for progressives.

7 things to celebrate:

[Jacob Onyett @JakeOnyett]

@RestIsPolitics the quality of our politicians seems to have diminished in the last decade or two. Singapore’s model seems like a solution - paying people more but expecting higher standards! Is there any way that the UK could realistically transition to this model? #triplive

[Jacob Onyett @JakeOnyett]

@RestIsPolitics Labour have said they want to have less of an impact on people’s lives, but is that just naive in this day and age after 14 years of Tory circus acts? The media seem to just fill that void with negative crap instead! #triplive

[Jacob Onyett @JakeOnyett]

@RestIsPolitics people talk about the “government machine” not working properly for Labour. What is meant by the government machine? What kind of jobs does it include and what can Labour do about it? #triplive

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Our country is coming to terms with an act so inexplicably vile.

Our thoughts are with the families at the heart of this unimaginable pain.

Let me be clear: the tiny, mindless minority in our society who provoked violent disorder on our streets will be made to face the full force of the law.