Well this has come as a shock …. It turns out billionaires could pay more tax and still have a nice lifestyle #brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ToryCorruption #conservatives #trump #DonaldTrump #Musk #elonmusk #tesla
“The Online Safety Act [UK] places onerous duties on small websites and blogs that may lead them to close or geoblock UK users rather than risk penalties. The closure of small sites will not keep children safe but will benefit bigger sites, including Facebook and X, who are laying waste to content moderation on their platforms."
The UK government can exempt small, safe websites to protect #netplurality.
ORG's @JamesBaker
I have written to my MP:
I write almost as much in sorrow as anger.
I voted for you in the last election and have voted Labour in General Elections since 1979. That last vote for you was very much a personal vote: I had been increasingly dismayed that the Labour Party was more intent on purging members than attacking the excesses of Johnson and Truss and then I could not see that the prospectus offered in the manifesto addressed the real problems faced by a country with threadbare public services and social safety nets and an economy stifled by ageing, poorly maintained infrastructure, stagnating consumer confidence and, of course, Brexit; on the other hand the country urgently needed the Tories out and I thought that your track record should make you a good constituency MP and you'd only had half a term to make your mark, it felt fair to vote for you to have another term.
1/n
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*
A rare instance of Lammy doing something right and Starmer punishes him for it.
Do we see what a joke the Labour Party is now? No democracy, no Humanity, just cruelty and indifference as policy.
Disgusting
Like Gilead's 'Operation Chainsaw' and like the Dems 'pivoting to the right'
Every mistake made in Gilead, Starmer's Labour will also try to make
Pathetic and election losing, but they don't care. They just want to see people suffer, to make them feel good. Like tories....
Been up all night trying to decide if it’s a crown stamped on a Pint glass or that the width signs in the dartford tunnel are now in feet and inches (both claims of huge Brexit benefits by the tories)
All ideas welcome - including ‘FUCK ALL’
#brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ToryCorruption #farage #nigelfarage #reformuk #Gammons #KemiBadenoch #conservatives
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/
"Carers UK estimated last year that if every unpaid carer in the country decided to cease caring tomorrow and joined the “productive” economy instead, that would cost the state £184bn a year. In other words, the cost of disability is already being shouldered mainly by disabled people and their loved ones.'
This is what UKGOV wanted to do with Rwanda. No country in the West is going to condem this, are they?
They want us to know that this can happen to us too, if we stand in the way of the Rich exploiting us and the planet.
![mago 15.57 GMT
The Trump administration sent 250 people, who were mainly Venezuelan
and alleged to be gang members, to El Salvador, where the government has
opened its prisons to deportees from the United States.
Human Rights Watch warns that conditions in the prisons are dangerous and
inhumane:
44 Detainees in El Salvador’s prison system are cut off from the outside world
and denied any meaningful legal recourse. While [president Nayib] Bukele
publicizes his prisons as “the best in the world,” the reality is very different. We
have interviewed people released from these prisons and dozens who have
relatives in jail. One after the other, we received and verified accounts of dismal
detention conditions, torture and death.
One of the people we spoke with was an 18-year-old construction worker who
said that police beat prison newcomers with batons for an hour. He said that
when he denied being a gang member, they sent him to a dark basement cell
with 320 detainees, where prison guards and other detainees beat him every
day. One guard beat him so severely once, he said, that it broke a rib.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/178/601/450/038/229/original/7429c2abe6643332.png "mago 15.57 GMT
The Trump administration sent 250 people, who were mainly Venezuelan
and alleged to be gang members, to El Salvador, where the government has
opened its prisons to deportees from the United States.
Human Rights Watch warns that conditions in the prisons are dangerous and
inhumane:
44 Detainees in El Salvador’s prison system are cut off from the outside world
and denied any meaningful legal recourse. While [president Nayib] Bukele
publicizes his prisons as “the best in the world,” the reality is very different. We
have interviewed people released from these prisons and dozens who have
relatives in jail. One after the other, we received and verified accounts of dismal
detention conditions, torture and death.
One of the people we spoke with was an 18-year-old construction worker who
said that police beat prison newcomers with batons for an hour. He said that
when he denied being a gang member, they sent him to a dark basement cell
with 320 detainees, where prison guards and other detainees beat him every
day. One guard beat him so severely once, he said, that it broke a rib.")
This is our Foreign Minister, do we think he's compromised?
"As shadow foreign secretary, I’m an Atlanticist, a deep believer in Britain’s military, intelligence and nuclear alliance with the US. But as a person, I’m also a product of the Atlantic. Sometimes, when the cabin stills, flying over the ocean, I think about the crossings that made me."
Frankly anybody who calls themselves an "Atlanticist" is just carrying water for Oceania
https://www.newstatesman.com/diary/2023/09/special-relationship-north-america-david-lammy
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
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.
"Fire could ‘burn down’ UK parliament and asbestos is rife". If the headline can combine "risk of fire" and "too much asbestos", the Houses of Parliament must be a right state. #UKPolitics
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
