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[Carolt17 @carolt17356]

@Stef202210 @ShakeLS You need to get Norman Baker's book, Royal Mint, National Debt. Everything is explained.

[Carolt17 @carolt17356]

@RegalWatcher @ShakeLS I wouldn't have cheered, in fact I wouldn't be there at all. They are an immoral anachronism and need to be abolished, along with the crown. Sovereignty should lie with the people. In local, regional and citizens assemblies. Their stolen land should be returned to the people.

[Carolt17 @carolt17356]

@Conquistadur @AaronBastani I am only 70 and I need to hold handrails when climbing stairs. It's a question of balance. The health and safety advice is that people should always hold a handrail when climbing stairs. So the asshole filming is completely in the wrong.

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Simply don’t understand those willing to deny the evidence of multiple doctors from a variety of different countries; independent investigators all with long and established careers, journalists, survivors and witnesses, a pile of visual evidence as well as their own eyes - and still attempt to discredit those who report this. - whether they’re survivors, medics, academics or journalists…

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🚨 Absolute madness in the US right now as the Uruguay national team gets pulled to the side of the road and treated like straight-up suspects.

​They literally just landed for the World Cup and security is already ripping their luggage open on the tarmac with sniffer dogs everywhere

​Qatar and Russia hosted without this level of paranoia but the "land of the free" is handing out pure humiliation to Global South athletes before a single match is even played, the double standards are screaming.

[Carolt17 @carolt17356]

@JeremyVineOn5 We should get rid of private schools and the royal family. Give all children equal opportunity.

[Carolt17 @carolt17356]

@ZandiSussex I am afraid they are vile people, all that privilege breeds contempt. Time for them all to go.

[Carolt17 @carolt17356]

@WanjiruNjoya @kaliE2026 Tell that to Israel

[Carolt17 @carolt17356]

@WanjiruNjoya Well perhaps they shouldn't be paraded in front of people. There are plenty of celebrities who keep their children out of the spotlight, for good reason.

[Carolt17 @carolt17356]

@sarah_xxxvi This is such injustice. It must be appealed.

[Carolt17 @carolt17356]

@Avabelly__ Pile all the mess that is on the floor onto his bed. His whole bed. Every day. Might work. It did for a friend.

[Carolt17 @carolt17356]

@WorkElizab This is a joke? No-one in their right mind would object to a kiddies party on a Saturday afternoon. Are you doing this for attention? For clicks?

[Chris Williamson @DerbyChrisW]

IS ANDY BURNHAM THE ANSWER TO BRITAIN'S MALAISE?

Andy Burnham has said he accepts Rachel Reeves’ fiscal rules. But he got into a bit of a pickle during an interview with Victoria Derbyshire on the BBC’s Newsnight programme this week, when she asked him to explain what they were.

What Andy ought to have said is that he rejects the fiscal rules because they are an absurdity and will make it impossible to deviate from the neoliberal path on which the current government is travelling.
For the avoidance of doubt, the fiscal rules stipulate that:

• day-to-day government spending must be fully matched by tax revenues, and the government’s current budget must be in surplus within the next three years;

• the so-called public sector net financial liabilities (85% of which is the sale of interest-bearing government bonds, also known as gilts) must also be falling as a share of GDP by 2029;

• expenditure on certain social security benefits must be capped.

None of this makes any economic sense. For a start, since the end of WW2, the government has only recorded a budget surplus eight times, from 1948 to 1951 and from 1998 to 2001. In fact, according to the Office of Budget Responsibility, British governments have run budget deficits for 224 years out of the last 300. Furthermore, capping social security is not only cruel and inhuman, but also economically stupid, because an increase in welfare benefits will be spent in the local economy, thereby driving economic growth.

So, by accepting the chancellor’s preposterous fiscal rules, Andy Burnham will be unable to make good on his criticisms of market-led policies. In the same Newsnight interview, he was also at pains to stress that he was not going to ignore the bond market, as if the bond market is some sort of holy grail.

He ought to be arguing that the government’s focus should be on identifying and building real resources in the country to make the economy more resilient in the face of global crises. There is an underlying contradiction in Andy’s rhetoric about criticising market solutions on the one hand, and surrendering to the bond market on the other. Not least because the bond market is actually reliant on the government, rather than the other way round. The government must collect taxes to control inflation, and it uses the bond market for the same purpose, because taxation and bond sales remove liquidity from circulation. But neither taxation, nor bond sales are used to pay for government expenditure.

Andy says the country has been on the wrong path for 40 years, but he won’t be able to get it back on track if he’s going to tie his hands behind his back. The problems that Britain is facing, like the housing crisis, youth unemployment and our dilapidated infrastructure, won’t be tackled by more tinkering. These challenges require fundamental reform, which means Rachel Reeves’ foolish fiscal rules will have to go.

Andy Burnham should be arguing for a huge fiscal stimulus and tax reform to bring about a fundamental and irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people and their families. That was the commitment that Labour gave in its 1974 manifesto, which was abandoned after Harold Wilson stepped down as prime minister in 1976. Less than six months later, Denis Healey went cap in hand to the International Monetary Fund on a false premise. It was Healey’s fateful and wholly misguided decision that paved the way for Margaret Thatcher and sent us down the path that Andy Burnham now says he wants to deviate from.

Of course, the neoliberal establishment want to maintain the economic status quo which has seen them get filthy rich, while millions of British citizens have been simultaneously plunged into poverty and precarious employment. Fifty years ago, precarious employment hardly existed, and poverty was considerably lower. Back then, around 8 million people worked in manufacturing and the UK was the world’s third biggest economy.

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

This Labour MP lobbied the Home Office to ban political commentators from entering the UK, and Shabana Mahmood complied.

But did you know that David Taylor received money from Labour Together whilst they had an ex-IDF soldier on their board?

Here’s what the paper trail shows:🧵

[Carolt17 @carolt17356]

https://t.co/s0hXEc0lvD

[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.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/BjjPF945T1

[Carolt17 @carolt17356]

@streetbrawls97 In the UK the father would, quite rightly, be arrested. That is assault and will teach that boy nothing except to hate his father. Violence breeds violence. Never acceptable.

[Carolt17 @carolt17356]

@Monica55dzrh I realise this is fake but is this a realistic bill for California? Those prices are ridiculous. If a restaurant is charging prices like these then they should be paying their staff properly and not expecting customers to tip at all.

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

Shameful

A young minority politician - who has broken no rules - is elected. Days after their election such is the abuse they suffer they have to be escorted by additional security staff.

Those who have led the pile on to Q Manivannan should take a long hard look at themselves.