waiting for summer 
Does Rachel from accounts not know any other way of raising money?
How about reducing the private pension relief for 40% tax payers to 20%?
This will recoup around £36b.
No need to hit the poor and disabled.
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I know I post a lot of photos of clouds but honestly, I think we should all spend more time looking to the skies. They speak a rare and valuable truth to us all.
*nods wisely*
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This year's English local elections will be the smallest since 1975, following postponements in nine areas.
1,657 councillors are due to be elected across 23 councils. Six mayors will also be elected.
Potential candidates have until 2 April to apply to stand. The voter registration deadline is 11 April.
Details in our latest blog: https://democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2025/03/18/whats-up-for-election-in-2025/
democracyclub.org.ukWhat's up for election in 2025?We take a look at the smallest set of local elections since 1975.
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@Geri Labour MPs need to grow a shiny spine and either vote against or resign from the party. Abstentions mean nothing now. #UKPolitics #Labour #Disability
Changes to PIP will not get people into work. It will do the opposite. The whole point of PIP is to help those who can't do certain tasks be able to do them. If you make it more difficult to do basic day to day tasks, there's a lower likelihood you will be able to work. It's not rocket science.
Starmer's insistence that there is a "moral case" seems to be a classic case of trying to repeat something to make it true.
BBC News · Some PIP recipients may lose out under welfare cuts - BBC NewsWork and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall will set out reforms to the benefits system on Tuesday afternoon.
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There's still time to put pressure on the UK government.
The UK Secretary of State has the power to exempt small, safely moderated websites from the Online Safety duties.
We need urgent change to protect net plurality, rather than further consolidating power in monopoly platforms. We need competition for a safer Internet.
Write to your MP (UK) #SaveOurSites 
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
Open Rights GroupSave our sites - Write to your MPSmall UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act. Even personal blogs with comments are forced to undergo these difficult tests and compliance tasks. Getting it wrong or ignoring them could cost an operator their house – as fines can be imposed for failing to do them. As a result, many small websites in the UK are deciding to close down.
The UK Online Safety Act comes into effect today.
Its onerous duties may cause many small sites, blogs and fedi instances to shut down or geoblock UK users when faced with potential fines and penalties.
This won't keep children safe. It'll benefit large platforms like Facebook and X that are laying waste to content moderation.
The Register · It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board
"..what is the point of the Labour party?
Well, the point, it seems, is to be as not-Labour as possible, and that purpose was fashioned in a battle against those on the left of the party, rather than its desire to be the canny custodian of leftwing politics once in power. It is as simple as that"
Nesrine Malik spot on, once again. We on the left warned everyone...
The Guardian · Many said the Starmer era would be just Tory-lite – now it’s worse than that. Time to stop the pretence
...to the surprise of absolutely nobody. #politics #UKPolitics #ReformUK #Farage #HardRight
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Reform UK candidate who praised Hitler and Assad put in charge of vetting
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/16/reform-uk-candidate-who-praised-hitler-and-assad-put-in-charge-of-vetting?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
The Guardian · Reform UK candidate who praised Hitler and Assad put in charge of vetting
The UK Online Safety Act burdens small sites with duties and penalties that they can't shoulder. They'll shut down instead, stripping us of net plurality.
There’s a simple solution:
Exempt small, safely run blogs, forums and fedi instances The government can do this now
The duties start TOMORROW – Write to your MP 
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
Open Rights GroupSave our sites - Write to your MPSmall UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act. Even personal blogs with comments are forced to undergo these difficult tests and compliance tasks. Getting it wrong or ignoring them could cost an operator their house – as fines can be imposed for failing to do them. As a result, many small websites in the UK are deciding to close down.
Krasnov is the American Liz Truss.
Will *he* last longer than a head of lettuce? The answer, unfortunately, is almost certainly yes. Because as stupid as the Westminster system (as used in both Canada and the UK) is, their system is somehow even worse.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/14/donald-trump-crashing-us-economy-fake-news
The Guardian · Why is Donald Trump crashing the US economy? Because he’s high on his own supply of fake news
Wes Streeting is all over the media pushing his health 'reforms' this weekend.
A reminder..
"Good Law Project research shows that more than 60% of the money invested in the new health secretary since he entered parliament in 2015 has come from companies and individuals with links to private health"
#WesStreeting #UKPolitics #PrivateHealthcare #Healthcare #NHS
How private health has invested in Wes Streeting | Good Law Project
https://goodlawproject.org/how-private-health-has-invested-in-wes-streeting/
Good Law Project · How private health has invested in Wes Streeting | Good Law ProjectMore than 60% of the registered donations accepted by the health secretary come from people and companies linked to private health. But are they expecting a return?
By Max Colbert
#UKPolitics but may be applicable to #USpolitics too.
The reason populist parties seem to go to extremes and then implode so quickly, and also something #UKLabour is having a problem with, is that by trying to appeal to the #WorkingClass they are appealing to people who expect things to GET DONE and quickly. The ordinary working person who is not into #politics has no patience for middle class wafting about "the art of the possible". They just need help, now. If you promise but don't deliver.
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Will you join over 1.9k people who’ve signed our petition to keep what’s stored on Apple iCloud encrypted?
The UK government is gambling with our security and playing into the hands of hackers and criminals.
Send a message: save encryption before more services are hit with technical notices.
Sign and share now
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
38 DegreesKeep our Apple data encryptedIt is reported that the Home Office has ordered Apple to build a backdoor into its encrypted services so that they can get hold of content that any Apple user has upload to the cloud.
Encryption keeps our private information safe and secure. It’s essential for being safe online when sending messages, shopping, doing online banking – and for storing things safely in the cloud. With the Cabinet Office estimating the cost of Cyber Crime at £21BN a year to our economy, we can’t afford to make our...
‘Absurd’
When you have the press and civil society camped outside the courtroom, the secret might be out 
Even so, we’re still denied the reasons why the UK government wants to take a battering ram to our security and privacy.
It shows contempt for the public interest in the Apple encryption case.
Press Gazette · Press shut out of Home Office’s Snoopers’ Charter Apple encryption tribunalUK news organisations unsuccessfully waited all Friday to argue a secret Apple encryption appeal against the Govt must be heard in public.
Saddling small sites with the same duties as huge platforms means many will shut down in a hammer blow to net plurality.
We'll be left with the Sophie’s choice of monopoly services; the incubators of online harms.
URGENT: The UK government must change the Online Safety Act to protect safe, non-commercial blogs, forums and fediverse.
Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
Open Rights GroupSave our sites - Write to your MPSmall UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act. Even personal blogs with comments are forced to undergo these difficult tests and compliance tasks. Getting it wrong or ignoring them could cost an operator their house – as fines can be imposed for failing to do them. As a result, many small websites in the UK are deciding to close down.
My friend made this petition to ask the govt to make private flyers pay for their Carbon emissions, please do sign
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/707608
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #FlightFree #UkPolitics
Petitions - UK Government and ParliamentPetition: Make private flyers pay for their Carbon emissionsUK Government must legislate to:
*Tax jet fuel
*Increase other taxes & duties on planes with few passengers
*Require fuel for outbound flights to be bought in the UK to avoid tax evasion and curb carbon emissions
*Require private jets to carbon offset