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DB 🌱💦

@JackTheCat Keir Starmer's wife, Victoria, is Jewish, they have relatives in Israel, and the couple's kids are being raised in the Jewish tradition/religion. It's pretty clear from Keir's policies vis a vis the Gaza genocide, the whole family is Zionist.

#KeirStarmer #Zionism #UKpolitics #UK #LabourParty
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Sir Keir Starmer with his wife Victoria
The Jewish Chronicle · I have relatives in Israel who are affected by the war, says StarmerBy Jane Prinsley
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Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷

@PabloMartini
A wealth tax is the wrong answer. It’s attractive as a vindictive swipe at the super-rich, but it’s ridiculously inefficient both as a way to raise revenue and as a way to curb inequality. There are many better ways. This petition suggests that either Burgon doesn’t understand because he’s not done proper research, or he’s just going for the clickbait, knowing it’s not the best idea.
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Taxing WealthTaxing Wealth Report 2024The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 seeks to answer the question that every journalist loves to ask of every politician, which is ‘how are you going to pay for it?’, whatever 'it' might be. What we know is that all our leading political parties, and Labour most especially, are acting as if...
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

The Whiteness is forced to do something about institutional racism and sexism in Sentencing, a few years later the Whiteness demands it all be undone, claiming prejudice against the Whiteness.

Stephen Bush is upset White Men might be losing their privilege, which as we all know to the Whiteness feels like Oppression.

4smago 15.26 BST Government should have 'pushed back’ against 'two-tier justice’ claims, says Labour peer Shami Chakrabarti The Labour peer Shami Chakrabarti told the World at One she thinks the government should have “pushed back” at the Tory claims that the new guidelines from the Sentencing Council amount to “two-tier justice”. Chakrabarti, who was shadow attorney general when Jeremy Corbyn was Labour leader and who before that head of Liberty, the campaign group, said she thought Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, has misrepresented what the guidelines were doing. They say judges should require pre-sentence reports before offenders from certain groups, including ethnic minorities, get sentenced. Chakrabarti said this was a response to evidence showing there is structural discrimination against minorities in sentencing.
She said: I certainly don’t think of that giving this kind of advice [a pre-sentence report] amounts to two-tier justice, and I think the government should have pushed back against that narrative... I'm nervous that with Reform on the rise, and the Conservatives running scared from Reform, the government is presented with this choice and with these pressures, and it’s too easy to be drawn to the right on matters of rights, freedoms and justice. I would urge caution on that. And I would urge caution when it comes to interfering either with independent judges or with a Sentencing Council that ought to be independent of government.
Sarah Montague, the presenter, asked Chakrabarti to respond to an argument made by the columnist Stephen Bush in the FT explaining why the guidelines can be seen as unfair. Bush says: 44 If we think that pre-sentence reports result in judges making better decisions, it’s not fair for some offenders to be the beneficiary of better decisions and for others to not be. Just as an illustration of that, 64 per cent of young offenders from “other” ethnic groups are eligible for free school meals (compared with about a quarter of the school-age population), while 63 per cent of young offenders from a “Black” minority background are. It seems a fair assumption that not having very much money is an aggravating factor for going on to commit a crime. So why should the 52 per cent of young “white” offenders eligible for FSM not automatically qualify for a pre-sentence report? Chakrabarti said in an ideal world she would like every offender to have a pre-sentence report. When it was put to her that this was not feasible, she said a range of factors should decide whether resources should be spent on a pre-sentence report. If the offender comes from a different background to the sentencer, the sentencer should be more inclined to learn more about them via a pre-sentence report, she said.
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Toni Aittoniemi

The Squeeze Out
1. The rich accommodate resources & drive the working class in debt
2. Economic crisis. Working class runs out of resources. Cant borrow or spend anymore. Government has to step in
3. Government runs out of resources, becomes massively indebted to the rich
4. Government has to eviscerate the middle class. Nobody owns any wealth but the rich
5. The only way the rich have left to increase their wealth is to send you off to fight wars
youtube.com/watch?v=pUKaB4P5Qn
#economics #ukpolitics

YouTubeWhy Labour is crushing your living standardsBy Garys Economics
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Emily King

A shift away from a test obsessed education culture and instead focusing on building a love for learning... Could very well reduce the overall long-term cost of SEND by making schools welcoming environments for ALL pupils.

It is a political choice that means none of this is happening now, like many of the ills that impact the least able to fight for themselves in our society.

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Emily King

I could very well be wrong, but perhaps having at the national level, money spent to decrease classroom sizes significantly (20 or fewer pupils per class), policy changes that remove excessive and draconian school rules that cause extreme distress to neurodivergent pupils, sensible uniform policies... 1/2

Nearly 20 councils in England ‘at risk of insolvency’ due to Send costs
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The Guardian · Nearly 20 councils in England ‘at risk of insolvency’ due to Send costsBy Patrick Butler
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Crcordray🇨🇦

A Commonwealth vision to build Canada’s future winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/ WFP by Michael Sigurdson <Opinion> - This is an interesting read. I've heard of the idea before, forming at trade block of #UK and 3 primary commonwealth countries #australia #newzealand and #Canada - This we all have a shared heritage due to our root country the #UnitedKingdom - there is strong merit in this idea and it should be pursued. #cdnpoli #ukpolitics #auspol #nzpol #Canadadefence

Winnipeg Free Press · Opinion: A Commonwealth vision to build Canada’s futureBy Michael Sigurdson
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