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As someone who has worked in social housing I can attest that this is not an isolated situation. Housing is absolutely atrocious across much of the UK stock, and there is a concerted effort to bury the evidence.

If that isn’t correct, then it’s certainly a hell of a coincidence.

You can *almost* see the realisation in Tom’s eyes that maybe, just maybe, all his anti-woke hilarity might have helped push the Overton window towards this authoritarian hellscape. Almost. youtu.be/y3Rus6XYfTo?...

the markets have essentially become a gauge for how much corruption the government in power is going to let the business class get away with

Ending neoliberalism, 45p at a time.

This is exceptional

Everything you need to set up a Labour Budget. Terms and conditions apply. Real action on the cost-of-living crisis sold separately.

The BBC was effectively hijacked by a politically motivated board, blurring of their coverage policy and a deep desire to peddle whatever lunacy the masses are being encouraged to froth about most. Impartiality has been confused with both sideism and a continuous preference for the right.

The reason the rich try to suppress protests and complicit media say they're all just "riots" is because they work

The Financial Times is becoming as monomaniacal as The Economist.

“Economic success trumps individuals’ human rights”

A genuinely profound interview with Omar El Akkaf. Highly recommend if you have an hour or so to spend. youtu.be/zfeSL3AHNjg?...

Real Hope. Real Change.

I'm still quite attracted to the idea that Trump is the Antichrist and has used his tricksy ways to fool a lot of Christians into serving him.

It must be insanely difficult to come up with headlines for The Onion these days.

This must be the complex, nuanced perspectives everyone was talking about when they pounced on the Greens for their Zionism is racism motion.

We don’t talk about it much, but it’s actually surprisingly easy to radicalise an entire population to be pro-genocide and gleefully dehumanise their fellow humans and wish to murder them.

Evening.

Can’t wait to see this on the BBC as headline news.

the call is coming from inside the house

This is THE lesson. The time for timidity and compromise are long gone. Centrists the world over are despised for their “both sides” rhetoric. You either stand for the many and do not give a single inch - or you enable the few and watch the world burn.

With all due respect, many of the Brexit voting public are now dead and buried - so perhaps now is the time to move on from their stupidity and self-sabotage.

This is genuinely insane, and absolutely remarkable. True people power and a profound scale.

In case you’re a time traveller and need an update on how humanity is going: this is the most powerful person on the planet.

The whole UK Government is complicit in this. youtu.be/c74EE3mSREQ?...

Kevin Maguire is spot on, all this talk about people stocking up is part of a wider lobbying campaign to increase defence spending. And as Kevin points out, the UK is already the 6th biggest defence spender in the world.

Less condemning. More arresting.

When you realise it’s all just one big club, everything makes a lot more sense.

It’s funny how simple it is to be open, caring and welcoming to other humans - regardless of how “complex” we pretend it is in the UK.

If Brazil can stand up to these techno-clowns and wannabe dictators, perhaps the UK Government could do the same?

Distinctly British ™

Tapping the sign and looking at the UK government.

Lula holds Brazil, Vučić defeated in Serbia. A bad day for the fascists. A good day for democracy. So it goes

Pikachu 1 authoritarians 0

So, it appears that #Locktober has been adopted by the tech bro, self-optimisation crowd, and simultaneously, already owned by a particular sub-set of the gay community 🔐 And let me tell you, Alpha males are not aware of this fact.

I’m a victim of the UK State, and I approve this message.

Helpful guide Terrorism: - red paint - damaging planes - cardboard signs - criticising Isreal Not terrorism - Arranging murders - Neo-nazi gangs - Setting fire to hotels - Pogroms - Genocide

This reminds me of what oil and gas did with the Carbon Footprint. Essentially psycop the public to place the blame on them, rather than face any responsibility for the tsunami of chaos about to hit us.

I find the whole “are you capitalist?” purity test so wild. Do you pledge your allegiance to this absolute hellscape? Are you committed to continuing the endless extraction of every possible resource?

Sure, but was it really worth the cost when Keith can’t drive his V8 Jaguar through Mayfair?

Negative consequences in the same way driving a combine harvester over a human would have negative consequences.

I think it might be time to admit that an awful lot of the voting public are racist, xenophobic or, at the very least, easily manipulated towards these feelings. Four of these parties are openly racist in c.2000 terms. Two of them fascist.