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#austerity

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TJ1001

Has anyone ever thought of an idea, where a number countries - prob ones that neighbour each other, all band together and use that, err what name would it be? - for now let’s call it a union. Use that union to create a strong trading bloc that could get better desks from the US and China. While at the same time trading with each other easily and without boarders and yet each country keeping its individual identity!!!!

#brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ToryCorruption #Gammons #conservatives #rachelreeves #austerity

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Geriatric Gardener

“Shockat Adam didn’t just beat Jon Ashworth. He’s become a real progressive leader, too”

by Ed Sykes in The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour

“Shockat Adam isn’t just the optometrist who helped to free Leicester from Jon Ashworth. He’s also been a consistent opponent of Israeli war crimes and prime minister Keir Starmer’s elitist government”

thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/

Canary · Shockat Adam didn't just beat Jon Ashworth. He's become a real progressive leader, too.Shockat Adam didn't just beat Jon Ashworth. He's become a real progressive leader, too. from Canary on 31 March 2025
#Press#UK#Britain
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Geriatric Gardener

“Starmer’s plan for unemployed people into army for Ukraine resurrects US plan that killed 3x more soldiers”

by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @UKLabour

“US Vietnam-war ‘Project 100,000’ saw huge casualty rates among soldiers drafted from unemployed”

skwawkbox.org/2025/03/30/starm

SKWAWKBOX · Starmer’s plan for unemployed people into army for Ukraine resurrects US plan that killed 3x more soldiersUS Vietnam-war ‘Project 100,000’ saw huge casualty rates among soldiers drafted from unemployed Keir Starmer’s plan to put unemployed people in the army to increase numbers that c…
#Press#Labour#Austerity
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The problem, indeed, is a more general one. No populism, right or left, has so far produced a powerful remedy for the ills it denounces. Programmatically, the contemporary opponents of neoliberalism are still for the most part whistling in the dark. How is inequality to be tackled – not just tinkered with – in a serious fashion, without immediately bringing on a capital strike? What measures might be envisaged for meeting the enemy blow for blow on that contested terrain, and emerging victorious? What sort of reconstruction, by now inevitably a radical one, of actually existing liberal democracy would be required to put an end to the oligarchies it has spawned? How is the deep state, organised in every Western country for imperial war – clandestine or overt – to be dismantled? What reconversion of the economy to combat climate change, without impoverishing already poor societies in other continents, is imagined? That so many arrows remain missing in the quiver of serious opposition to the status quo is not, of course, just the fault of today’s populisms. It reflects the intellectual contraction of the left in its long years of retreat since the 1970s, and the sterility in that time of what were once original strands of thought at the edges of the mainstream. Remedial proposals can be cited, varying from country to country: Medicare for all in the US, guaranteed citizen incomes in Italy, public investment banks in Britain, Tobin taxes in France and the like. But so far as any general, interlocking alternative to the status quo is concerned, the cupboard is still bare. (...) Politically speaking, neoliberalism has been in no great danger from either."

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/pe

London Review of Books · Perry Anderson · Regime Change in the West?Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures –...
#Neoliberalism#Populism#Austerity
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Kim Perales

"Heart pounding, he called his father -shocked -Trump's admin would take such action.

“ .. ‘Dad, they're trying to bankrupt me.”

The Trump admin's cuts impact small farmers in WV where Trump won 70% of votes. #Trump cut $500M program for food banks to buy local produce. Fed funds🚨comprise ~1/3 of states' annual spending.

Mountaineer Food Bank was ending Yates' butter contract, due to the fed govt's funding cuts.

#Trumpcession #Austerity #Fascism #Resist #DOGE #USPol reuters.com/world/us/federal-f

Trump funding cuts ripple through rural America:
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Kim Perales

"If over a million people leave the US, the economy will shrink and tons of Americans will lose their jobs."
-AR Melnick

"Immigration Research IRI estimate: If all undocumented TPS humanitarian parole #Venezuelans, #Cubans, Nic. & #Haitians are deported💔, the Florida economy will shrink, and 80,000 US-born workers may lose their jobs. That's just in Florida!"
-A Oppenheimer

#Cruelty #Sadism #Deportations #Immigrants #DHS #Austerity #Trumpcession #Economy #Resist #USPol

miamiherald.com/news/local/new

A screengrab from a video obtained from the El Salvador Presidential Press Office shows alleged members of the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua, deported by the U.S. government, detained at the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador:
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Geriatric Gardener

“#SwindonsSundaySermon: a deep, burning hatred of Starmer is stirring across the UK”

by Rachael Swindon in The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour

“If Nye Bevan was turning in his grave during the Blair years, it won’t be long before he goes full Lazarus & rises up [..] to chase Keir Starmer through the streets of Whitehall”

thecanary.co/opinion/2025/03/3

Canary · #SwindonsSundaySermon: a deep, burning hatred of Starmer is stirring across the UK#SwindonsSundaySermon: a deep, burning hatred of Starmer is stirring across the UK from Canary on 30 March 2025
#Press#UK#Labour
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Kim Perales

House CMTEs will be asked to cut at least $2T in spending from safety-net prgms. Senate CMTEs might be directed to find a few billion$ in saving -possible to write a final pkg can bridge the diff.

Many conservatives: once a #budget with bare-bones Senate instructions is approved, ldrs will ultimately settle on a less ambitious pkg of cuts -relying on Trump -to muscle it through. HSE House would simply waive its more ambitious budget targets in the rule.
#Austerity #USPol politico.com/news/2025/03/30/g

Sen Cornyn & Thune:
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TJ1001

If only there were some way for the government to have more money coming. If only our nation were able to raise more money to pay for things, like the living wage. If only they could find extra money to make other things cheaper and help people and businesses thrive - but alas I think that’s impossible- there simply isn’t another way ….. Hang on !!!!!

#brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ToryCorruption #Gammons #conservatives #rachelreeves #austerity

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