jfylan

[jfylan @jfylan]

Yep .... just need to extend it to depict the bombardment of online disinformation.
@davewalker

[Massive Attack @MassiveAttackUK]

> @davewalker

[jfylan @jfylan]

This is good. Explains today's sloganeering politicians. https://t.co/nR9gbTzkKS

[jfylan @jfylan]

@Anna_Firth Labour works... https://t.co/hkwP6YFm7N

[Charlie 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @CharlieBrk2004]

For anyone who is still undecided, here’s what the last Labour government did. 🌹

[jfylan @jfylan]

@Anna_Firth

[jfylan @jfylan]

This is nice! #Liverpool #Election

[Gary Lunt @GaryTheLunt]

Tour Guiding.

[jfylan @jfylan]

@GaryTheLunt @GNev2 @angiesliverpool @NevilleSouthall @AndyBurnhamGM great stuff👏👏👏

[jfylan @jfylan]

@Anna_Firth You follow the party whip and have hardly ever rebelled so I don't buy the 'standing up for our community' line.
A vote for you on Thursday is a vote for the dysfunctional Conservatives and win or lose they will have a leadership challenge as soon as the dust settles.

[jfylan @jfylan]

Austerity playlist #useyourvote #austerity #UKElection2024 https://t.co/EHngZsaZOl

[jfylan @jfylan]

@Anna_Firth https://t.co/HwSpDlrKGL

[jfylan @jfylan]

Mars Bars

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

I don't need any words any more.

[jfylan @jfylan]

@Anna_Firth The NHS is on its knees and the doctors pay dispute still hasn't been resolved. It's almost impossible to get a GP appointment and the waiting lists are at an all time high. What are we supposed to be congratulating for???

[jfylan @jfylan]

@Anna_Firth @theresa_may The NHS is on its knees, life expectancy is dropping, the education system is broken, there's shit in the sea, Brexit was a con, taxation levels have rocketed, councils have been starved of funds etc etc etc, More millionaires than ever before though eh!

[jfylan @jfylan]

Well worth a listen #vote #useyourvote #Election2024

[Brendan May @bmay]

Chris Patten, the sort of intelligent, morally-driven Tory that was permanently ostracised under the Johnson clownshow, has committed another murder.

He’s so angry he even swears twice.

I could watch this all day.

Absolutely superb, as always. 👏

[jfylan @jfylan]

Nailed it! #useyourvote #Election2024 #vote

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

USA media dishes brutal truth about Brexit Britain

“Every decision taken by Tory (and @LibDems) governments was a political decision—it did not need to happen that way. Austerity was never the hard logic of dutiful caretakers; it was a political calculation to rescue rich friends and dump the burdensome price on those least able to endure the cost.”

“There is mold in the walls and shit in the rivers, posh butter in the supermarkets has anti-theft tags stuck to it, the trains run on schedule about half the time, the average pub-poured pint of lager—the blood of the nation—is nearing the criminal price of 5 pounds ($6.34), and on May 22 a new general election was announced to the people of Great Britain by a prime minister who is richer than the king. 

“Should the polls prove correct—short of a 2016-scale error—the annihilation will be justified. Wage growth is at its lowest level since the Napoleonic Wars. What the Financial Timescalls the “rental market” and what the rest of us call “How much of your money someone richer than you takes every month” is stratospherically inflated; rent is about half a person’s average salary in London. Chain stores on British high streets close permanently at a rate of 14 per day, leaving most shopping areas a procession of corrugated shutters, uncollected rubbish, and the sleeping bags of the homeless.

“The precious marvel that is the National Health Service is cracking at the seams; at the current rate, waiting lists will not be cleared for another 685 years. The union for junior doctors, the BMA, has organised 10 strikes and walkouts in the past year for a pay deal that would only bring wages up to the current level of inflation. The city of Birmingham was the first to tip over into bankruptcy; more will follow.

“In 2022, at least 3% of all families in Britain—around two million people—could not afford to eat. Like a revenant from Dickens, Victorian diseases like scurvy, rickets, and scabies are back to blight children.

“Life expectancy has dropped to the lowest level since 2010—tellingly, the year the Conservatives took power, at the height of the recession.”

“These are the bitter fruits of austerity: an experiment in sado-monetarist economics and financial barbarism. Not much unites those five PMs other than the constant ritual tribute in blood to their coiffed icon, Margaret Thatcher. Yet Thatcher, back in the 1980s, did not lie about how brutal the first shock of neoliberalism was going to be. She coldly promised torture before riches.

“Its sequel, however, was pitched by its architect George Osborne, chancellor under David Cameron, as a bit of belt-tightening resembling that most prized memory in the national canon: the Blitz Spirit. Come on, chaps, buck up and give it some welly. The shattering of society into thinner fragments was supposed to be a hardy adventure. 

“Midway through this downhill plummet, Britain bumbled backward out of the EU. The wreckage of this four-year disaster can now best be seen as an attempt to escape the harsh bite of austerity.

“Brexit was a retreat from hunger into myth: an embrace of antique fables about British pluck and derring-do, a belief that even without an empire and an industrial base this archipelago might reclaim past glory. Faced with profound turmoil, much of the nation turned to a half-remembered falsehood about their grandfather’s generation, marching along with Churchill. This election is the reckoning Brexit postponed.

https://t.co/PRKpMibIqR

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

USA media dishes brutal truth about Brexit Britain

“Every decision taken by Tory (and @LibDems) governments was a political decision—it did not need to happen that way. Austerity was never the hard logic of dutiful caretakers; it was a political calculation to rescue rich friends and dump the burdensome price on those least able to endure the cost.”

“There is mold in the walls and shit in the rivers, posh butter in the supermarkets has anti-theft tags stuck to it, the trains run on schedule about half the time, the average pub-poured pint of lager—the blood of the nation—is nearing the criminal price of 5 pounds ($6.34), and on May 22 a new general election was announced to the people of Great Britain by a prime minister who is richer than the king. 

“Should the polls prove correct—short of a 2016-scale error—the annihilation will be justified. Wage growth is at its lowest level since the Napoleonic Wars. What the Financial Timescalls the “rental market” and what the rest of us call “How much of your money someone richer than you takes every month” is stratospherically inflated; rent is about half a person’s average salary in London. Chain stores on British high streets close permanently at a rate of 14 per day, leaving most shopping areas a procession of corrugated shutters, uncollected rubbish, and the sleeping bags of the homeless.

“The precious marvel that is the National Health Service is cracking at the seams; at the current rate, waiting lists will not be cleared for another 685 years. The union for junior doctors, the BMA, has organised 10 strikes and walkouts in the past year for a pay deal that would only bring wages up to the current level of inflation. The city of Birmingham was the first to tip over into bankruptcy; more will follow.

“In 2022, at least 3% of all families in Britain—around two million people—could not afford to eat. Like a revenant from Dickens, Victorian diseases like scurvy, rickets, and scabies are back to blight children.

“Life expectancy has dropped to the lowest level since 2010—tellingly, the year the Conservatives took power, at the height of the recession.”

“These are the bitter fruits of austerity: an experiment in sado-monetarist economics and financial barbarism. Not much unites those five PMs other than the constant ritual tribute in blood to their coiffed icon, Margaret Thatcher. Yet Thatcher, back in the 1980s, did not lie about how brutal the first shock of neoliberalism was going to be. She coldly promised torture before riches.

“Its sequel, however, was pitched by its architect George Osborne, chancellor under David Cameron, as a bit of belt-tightening resembling that most prized memory in the national canon: the Blitz Spirit. Come on, chaps, buck up and give it some welly. The shattering of society into thinner fragments was supposed to be a hardy adventure. 

“Midway through this downhill plummet, Britain bumbled backward out of the EU. The wreckage of this four-year disaster can now best be seen as an attempt to escape the harsh bite of austerity.

“Brexit was a retreat from hunger into myth: an embrace of antique fables about British pluck and derring-do, a belief that even without an empire and an industrial base this archipelago might reclaim past glory. Faced with profound turmoil, much of the nation turned to a half-remembered falsehood about their grandfather’s generation, marching along with Churchill. This election is the reckoning Brexit postponed.

https://t.co/PRKpMibIqR

[jfylan @jfylan]

This is what 14 years of austerity does to a city. https://t.co/XjwyL8OP4D #vote #uk #liverpool #austerity #election

[jfylan @jfylan]

Another example of why this country is out of whack 🪙🪙🪙💸💷💷💰🦹

[jfylan @jfylan]

#foodbanks #trusselltrust
Foodbank parcels over the past decade or so. Would be interesting to compare this to the increased number of millionaires.

[David @Zero_4]

Victoria Derbyshire pulls apart Sunak’s claim that a Labour govt will raise taxes by £2000

“I’m going to pull you up on that Claire Coutinho. The calculations are made by Tory SpAds, they’re political appointees & that is misleading to voters and very disrespectful”

#newsnight

[jfylan @jfylan]

36% increase - wow!

[Southend Foodbank @SouthendFoodBan]

This week, we released our year-end foodbank use figures. We've seen a 36% increase and given out over 20,000 parcels in Southend & Rochford.
If you can make it to ASDA Shoebury this weekend to pop an extra item of shopping into your basket for us, it would really mean a lot. 💚