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Trotsky over here.

No idea mate just popped up on the “For You” feed and I had a look and someone posted that the other guy had ripped him to bits. Also saw there’d been a Telegraph piece saying “The Left needs to learn to love Toby Young”, and a retweet of a Andrew Marr LBC interview with a professor of epidemiology saying rickets and scurvy are rising. Standard Tory Country shit.

Don’t use Twitter as much these days but this was elegant online takedown. https://x.com/dieworkwear/status/1776809993146355798?s=46

Non-profit behind ‘He Gets Us’ Super Bowl ads is main funder for US hate group The Servant Foundation has ploughed tens of millions of dollars into the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/servant-foundation-he-gets-us-jesus-gen-z-alliance-defending-freedom/ Jesus was an influencer cancelled for his beliefs but it’s also a great tax write off.

Excellent short doc on how societies succumbed to totalitarianism. I’m full of the joys of spring, me.

“Father” Calvin “Robbo” Robinson explained. https://x.com/robin_c_douglas/status/1776298089042600204?s=46

We live in a deeply divided country with huge inequalities, with a near enough city state in the south east with hollowed out major cities and towns elsewhere shorn of their industries, local services and yes their pride. Like Frank Sobotka says “we used to make shit”. Lots of places that voted Leave had literally been left behind. Cynical politicians are exploiting this to this day and are subverting what was a quieter, more subtle form of patriotism, and sense of community to get people riled up as deep down they know the days of well paid stable jobs are decreasing for the majority of citizens in many places. Even if you have a good job in dat der London the commute and housing is a bitch. I’m not sure regional mayors are the answers. They both talk a good game in Liverpool and Manchester. I read Northamptonshire council ( Tory run) essentially privatised all its services. This will surely be the model in the future. Maybe it wasn’t such a great idea to flog everything off and stop having a coherent regional policy. Fucking Tory cunts.

Yeah thought that. “Well he was bright, articulate and a bit lefty, shall we have him back?” ”Nah let’s get some think tank gimp on to keep the neoliberal agenda going like every day.” ”Hello is that the IEA?”

Hadn’t seen this guy’s work before. Really good vid about 10 minutes long.

Military conflicts can go in the summer.

Las Malvinas etc. etc.

Quality

This game is a must win but preserve energy rotate game. Get another second half and on to the next game where we’ll deffo need to dig in more. Players coming back is a bonus. Hope Jota is fit soon.

FiFA 93 goal to go one up. Yes boys

Endo rested?

F-35 Yank built and the Typhoon is the Eurofighter.

Probably got Nick Clegg on speed dial.

Yeah not catastrophic at all pal. “More than 26,000 no-fault bailiff evictions since government pledge to scrap Section 21 Posted 08 Feb 2024 Shelter warns Renters (Reform) Bill in current form not up to scratch New government figures, released today, show 26,311 households in England have been removed from their homes by court bailiffs as a result of Section 21 since the government first promised to scrap no-fault evictions in 2019. “ https://england.shelter.org.uk/media/press_release/more_than_26000_no-fault_bailiff_evictions_since_government_pledge_to_scrap_section_21

An estimated 3,898 people slept rough in 2023, an annual increase of 27% – the largest annual rise since 2015 and more than double (120%) the number of people recorded as sleeping rough in 2010, when records began. 29 Feb 2024 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/29/number-of-people-sleeping-rough-in-england-rises-for-second-year-running#:~:text=An estimated 3%2C898 people slept,in 2010%2C when records began.

Liverpool homeless café feeling squeeze of cost of living By Marc Waddington BBC News 2 April 2024 Michelle Langan said the homeless charity was feeling the impact of the cost of living crisis A cafe set up to help homeless people in Liverpool is feeling the strain the cost of living crisis has put on people's ability to support it. The Paper Cup Project's cafe in Liverpool city centre runs a pay it forward scheme for customers to donate food and drink for rough sleepers. But founder Michelle Langan said as customers had been feeling the pinch, donations had suffered. She said the cafe's utility bills had risen 300% since it opened in 2022. Demand, however, was increasing. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-68688259.amp

All Together Now? by Mike Carter One Man’s Walk in Search of his Father and a Lost England Journalist and travel writer Mike Carter retraces the Peoples’ March for Jobs in 1981 in 2016 after the death of his father who’d abandoned his family but was very politically active at the time. Liverpool features as the march began here, as do other places left behind and hollowed out by the Thatcherite civil war of the 80s. There’s an excellent passage on page 246 with a mental health nurse and social worker. If you’ve read Stuart Maconie’s retracing of the Jarrow crusade this is an equally engaging book.

The last 14 years are all coming to a head. They’re not all addicts imo and there’s a lot of young women there, too.