Jon White

Footy, Active Travel and love all forms of community spirit, #defendtheNHS #join a union

[Jon White @jonno800]

@RLong_Bailey @AndyBurnhamGM Working people?
Why not "everybody or everyone"?
Working.g people is a Tory phrase. Stick with communities or how about just "people?"

[Jon White @jonno800]

@elonmusk Fuckoff

[Kit Klarenberg @KitKlarenberg]

Well if it isn't the granddaughter of Ukrainian Nazi Constantine Dobrowolski! Y'know, the guy they called “The Butcher” for his involvement in the execution of Jews and Ukrainians on the Eastern Front?

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

There is nothing more disturbing than the true face of a first-world country.

They can put a man on the moon...

They tell us the coffers are empty and that "difficult choices" must be made, yet you only have to look at the streets of the richest nation on earth to see the lie. We see human wreckage, men and women hollowed out by poverty and xylazine, reduced to "zombies" in a landscape of urban decay, while the political class looks the other way. This isn't a tragedy of scarcity; it’s a calculated crime of priority where the establishment decides who is worth saving and who is surplus to requirements.

In 2026, the United States will sink roughly $900 billion into "defence," a figure that dwarfs the military budgets of Russia, China, India, and Germany combined. There is always a blank cheque for missiles, aircraft carriers, and policing the globe for corporate interests, yet 43 million Americans are left to rot in poverty. Perhaps most damning of all is the fate of those who served; nearly 18 US military veterans take their own lives every single day. The system uses these working-class men and women as fodder for foreign adventures, then discards them like spent shell casings the moment they return broken and unserviceable.

The country that can put a man on the moon or build a drone to strike a target halfway across the world refuses to provide a roof for its people or a healthcare system that treats addiction as a crisis rather than a moral failing. This is not an accident; it is a deliberate political choice. When it comes to housing the homeless or saving a generation from the scourge of synthetic drugs, the political cartel suddenly discovers the virtues of "fiscal responsibility." But when the drums of war beat, billions and trillions are signed off with a flourish of a pen while the streets of Philadelphia look like war zones.

The lesson for us in the UK is identical. Whether it’s the Democrats in the US or Starmer’s Labour here, the management serves the same masters. They will tell you there’s no money for your pension, your wages, or your local hospital, but they are lying to your face. The issue is never a lack of wealth; it is a question of who that wealth serves.

Silence serves the powerful, and it is time we demanded a world that invests in life with the same ferocity they use to fund death.

#MoonMission2026

[lan Byrne MP @IanByrneMP]

I’m one of many worried Labour MPs who’ve now submitted Subject Access Requests to both Labour Together and the US firm it hired.

Because the evidence is mounting this went beyond journalists and it points to something deeply troubling for a democratic society.

If MPs & journalists were being monitored which the evidence points to, that’s not just wrong , it’s a fundamental breach of trust and democracy.

So let’s be clear “naive” doesn’t come close to describing the actions of Labour Together.

MPs have written to the PM & the General Secretary of the Labour Party for a full and independent investigation into Labour Together and everyone connected to it.

No more dodging. No more silence.

[Jon White @jonno800]

@simon_schama @adwooldridge Huge respect for you Simon. What's the solution?

[Jon White @jonno800]

@Labourheartland Spot on. It's why the Greens should never, ever be trusted simply because they have been bought in the past and are being bought now. They are the best way of capital spreading it's bets👍

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

Can the Left march for victory while losing the working class?

There is a speech circulating in left-wing circles in Dublin that ought to unsettle every socialist in Britain. Not the kind of unsettling that produces a conference resolution or a letter to the Guardian. The kind that keeps you awake at three in the morning. The kind that names something you have half-known for years but lacked the honesty, or the courage, to say aloud.

It raises the question nobody on the British left seems willing to answer.

While tens of thousands march through London holding the correct signs and saying the correct words, something else is happening quietly across the country. In places like Scunthorpe, Middlesbrough, Grimsby, and dozens of towns that built the Labour movement, people are not marching. They are not voting. They are not listening anymore.

The biggest political story in Britain is not Reform, the Conservatives, or even Labour.
The biggest political story is the slow, quiet withdrawal of the working class from politics altogether.

For years, the left has traded solidarity for signalling, class for culture, and real communities for applause from people who already agree. It talks endlessly about representation, but less and less about wages, housing, industry, energy, or the material conditions people actually live in.

The truth is uncomfortable but simple.

The left did not just lose the working class.
It slowly stopped being a working-class movement and became a liberal one instead.

Somewhere along the way, the movement founded by trade unionists, miners, dockers, engineers and factory workers became a movement of graduates, professionals, NGOs and think tanks. It stopped organising in communities and started marching in cities. It stopped building power and started performing virtue. It stopped listening and started instructing.

The working class hasn’t disappeared.
It hasn’t turned fascist.
It hasn’t forgotten its interests.

It just stopped listening to a left that stopped listening first.

The left did not lose the working class overnight.
It lost them slowly, through a thousand small decisions, each one dressed up as progress.

And if the left cannot reconnect with the people it was created to represent, it will continue to march in London, trend online, win arguments at dinner parties, and lose the country.

Watch the speech. Read the full article here.
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https://t.co/516THE2LPa

#TheLeft #TogetherMarch #ClassWar

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran.

This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war.

Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons.

I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late.

Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.

[Tony Blackburn OBE. @tonyblackburn]

Watching the news it breaks my heart seeing the children who are terrified. What are we as human beings doing to these innocent children. it’s an absolute disgrace what is happening to these children who have done nothing to deserve this. I honestly don’t know how leaders on any side can sleep at night knowing what they are doing. Shame on you all.

[Jon White @jonno800]

@kinsellawarren 😂😂😂

[Jon White @jonno800]

@piersmorgan Any comment on the school bombing in Iran?
Why should you die for going to to school to learn?

[Jon White @jonno800]

@yousef_ki1 .

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@nizar_almasre .

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@Nermeenalswaisi @PDWriter .

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

THE GREAT GAME: DIFFERENT EMPIRE, SAME VICTIMS

"You have a great game to play, and it will be a terrifying one."
-Arthur Conolly, 1842.

Arthur Conolly knew what he was talking about. The British intelligence officer who coined the phrase ‘The Great Game’ had played it himself, at close quarters, in the places where the stakes were not abstractions. He had spent years in Central Asia running the kind of missions that empires have always run: gathering intelligence, manipulating local powers, securing the routes along which profit travelled. The Great Game, as he named it, was a tournament of shadows, stretching across Afghanistan, Persia and Tibet, in which the British and Russian Empires competed for supremacy through espionage, diplomacy, and, when necessary, blood.

Arthur Conolly was captured in Bukhara in 1842. He was beheaded shortly after. You can rest assured, the empire mourned his death.

Today, the Great Game is still being played. The empires may have changed. The methods updated. The language laundered through press conferences and parliamentary statements, and the measured vocabulary of international relations. But the profits flow in the same direction they always have. And the victims remain, with a consistency that history ought to find embarrassing.

The game is as predictable as it is ruthless.

The bombs fall. Then the share prices rise. This is not coincidence. It is the system operating exactly as designed; A macabre dance of death and profit, in which the powerful collect their windfalls and the powerless are told to tighten their belts.

This is the great game...

While you were filling up at the pump this week, something else was happening.

UK gas prices have risen 78% in thirty days. Energy bills are heading toward £2,500. Food prices are set to spike 15% by autumn. The Bank of England is holding rates at 3.75% and warning of worse to come. The couple remortgaging in September will pay for this conflict in ways no politician will name plainly.

Now look at the other side of the ledger.

BAE Systems: up 57% in twelve months, surged a further 6% on the first day of strikes. Order backlog: £83.6 billion. Net profit in 2025: £2.1 billion. US arms contractors: combined shareholder gains of $25-30 billion in a single trading session. Energy majors: an additional $5 billion in cash flow in March alone. War-risk insurers: premiums up twelvefold. And the Treasury: every penny on the pump price is another slice of VAT.

Starmer offered £53 million to help with heating bills. That is 1.6% of what a single arms manufacturer made in a single year.

We also say this clearly: we do not defend the Iranian regime. It was a theocratic dictatorship that brutalised its own people. But a US strike on a Tehran primary school killed at least 170 people, most of them girls. That is not liberation. That is a different kind of atrocity. And the working class of Britain is now being handed the bill for it.

The same exploitation, differently packaged. Recorded in high profits and empty bellies. Written in the rubble of other people's children.

The Great Game is played in marble halls. The bill is always settled in copper at the supermarket till.

Full article: https://t.co/QZMNVosu7e

#Iran #TheGreatGame

[Jon White @jonno800]

@jakeglmn @threadreaderapp unroll pls

[Jon White @jonno800]

@jodymcintyre_ @xpressanny She's one fucker Yvette Cooper. Who, or what is she?

[Jon White @jonno800]

@Dr_SaebGaza .

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@shreefjamal23 .