Rebecca Law

Spirit in a Material World

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Neoliberalism, trickle down economics, the Chicago school of economics call it what you will, it is no longer the high alter of intellectual thinking, it has been exposed as a fraud, possibly the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the British people.

As my friend Stewart rather brilliantly explains. 👇👇👇Those about to rewrite monetary policy in this country would serve themselves well to study it carefully.

[Rebecca Law @RPowerfantastic]

@Dr_Bekka_UK @KemiBadenoch @Frances51699729 It's crazy how little this has been talked about during all the nasty benefit cuts rhetoric.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Insanely amazing

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be subordinated to market considerations or geopolitical interests. Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right grounded in the dignity of every person. Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability. Indeed, food security is an essential component of global and integral security. https://t.co/DgkM9RegJ7

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Rich people won’t die if you tax them more, but poor people do die if you cut their welfare.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

People really compare dyinġ from poverty to Darwin’s “survival of the fittest.”

Poverty is a social construct driven by wealth hoarding in the post industrial age, not by any natural shortage of resources.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

We had NHS dentists, and free education, we owned Rail, Mail, Telecoms, Water, Energy, Steel and Ship Building, Social housing was built, and we owned care homes.

All of this was stolen to allow the rich to rob us forever for using essential services.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote in Parliament for the last 11 weeks.

During that time he will have collected about £50,000 in wages and expenses.

But he will tell you Disabled People and immigrants are the problem.

No, it's rich lazy parasites like him.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

It’s really something how billionaires have rigged the rules to let them vacuum up all of society’s wealth & then fund think tanks and buy media properties that blame poverty and homelessness and despair on literally everything other than billionaires vacuuming up all the wealth

[Bil Sheba @bil_sheeba]

@King0243_PJC @AndyPeacock999

[Philip Lymbery @philip_ciwf]

A closed season to protect pregnant hares was promised – where is the legislation?
“In the King’s Speech last week, the government quietly dropped a bill that would have finally given legal protection to hares after centuries of persecution”
Why????
Such a simple thing to save beautiful hares and their families
#madness
https://t.co/Ajn4JmSbrl

[Claire Hughes @clairehughesBA]

This what we’re up against:

AI videos being made in Sri Lanka, shared here in Britain to stoke fear and division.

The next time someone tells you something MUST be true because they’ve seen it on Facebook…send them this video.

[Tim Boxall ♿🇪🇺 Et Daemonium In Rotae @timboxall]

"Working people", a phrase repeated ad infinitum in Keir Starmers speech.

Disappointingly, it simply reinforces the idea that one is simply defined by their fiscal contribution to society. People are merely tokens, their worth not measured in anything other than money.

Society is broken when those who cannot work, such as we #disabled, are completely sidelined because we don't fit that ideology.

We need a caring, compassionate society, and a government that recognises financial value is not a measure of one's worth.

It's worth nothing that the "purple pound" - monetary contributions by those in receipt of benefits - is actually remarkably high. We have to use benefits to pay for private care, which eases the burden on the NHS, and frees up unpaid carers (such as family) to then take paid work and contribute taxes.

We pay for consumables - Incontinence products, specialist medications, mobility equipment, etc. All that money goes straight into the system.

Disabled people actually contribute to the system more than they receive in benefits, both directly and indirectly.

So for Starmer to talk endlessly about #Labour being the "party for working people" leads us to frustrated and ignored. With that comes fear and anxiety. And that's a hard way for us to live.

[The Heartlands Tribune @Labourheartland]

The Demise of the Labour Party: Tony Benn’s Warning Fulfilled.

The Betrayal of Socialist Principles: Tony Benn’s Prescient Warning for the Fate of the Labour Party

“If the Labour Party could be bullied or persuaded to denounce its Marxists, the media – having tasted blood – would demand next that it expelled all its Socialist and reunited the remaining Labour Party with the SDP to form a harmless alternative to the Conservatives, which could then be allowed to take office now and then when the Conservatives fell out of favour with the public. Thus British Capitalism, it is argued, will be made safe forever, and socialism would be squeezed off the National agenda. But if such a strategy were to succeed… it would in fact profoundly endanger British society. For it would open up the danger of a swing to the far-right, as we have seen in Europe over the last 50 years.” -Tony Benn

Read more...

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#StarmerOut

[WeAreTheDeeplyUnhelpful48% 🇪🇺 #RejoinEU 🍀 @Budfrog]

@ThatTimWalker https://t.co/ocCjW6E114

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Good for the Obsever for leading on this.

[Fernsby Berrycloth @FernsbyBerrycl1]

@MarinaPurkiss Especially as . . .

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

At what point do we stop pretending our newspapers are ‘news’ and start calling them what they are…

Promotional pamphlets for the billionaires who own them and the agendas they’re selling.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Reform supporters bewildered with facts

[James Mitchell @JamesMi97491344]

@premnsikka when the media fails its duty to inform the public, democracy dies. the media was bought and infiltrated by the wealthy decades ago. the agendas of the wealthy are represented by omission, obfuscation and deceit by tv news and print news.