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The news in tweets: Thursday, July 20, 2023

The puppets: in fact, with today’s information, this image needs to be updated to show a Saudi politician or a private health boss with his hand up Blair.

Labour sinks its candidates’ chances in today’s three by-elections

The UK’s main parties seem to have given their candidates in the three by-elections taking place today (Thursday, July 20, 2023) a shot… in the foot. An entire volley, in the case of the STP (Substitute Tory Party – formerly Labour). In fact, metaphorically-speaking, it would probably be accurate to say that those candidates no longer have any legs to stand on.

Here’s former party leader candidate Liz Kendall showing why members made the right choice by avoiding her like a nasty disease. In defending her leader’s decision to condemn 55 per cent of families with three children and a massive 80 per cent of those with four to poverty, she resorted to the “fiscal responsibility” argument that simply doesn’t ring true:

The simple fact is that fiscal rules may sound good to the public but all they really do is straitjacket political parties into courses that can harm us all in the long term. There’s no need for them.

Nor is there any justification in saying that (Labour) can’t make promises about where the money for a change will be sourced. The simple fact is that the Conservatives have spent 13 years cutting taxes for the richest people in the UK. The opposition party should be looking at the amount of money these policies have denied to the treasury and making its plans accordingly. Instead, the plan is to leave these tax breaks in place – boosting the rich still further while punishing the poor yet again.

The claim that parents should get better jobs is risible. Even if such employment was available in an economy where pay has been pushed through the floor, how are parents supposed to take them when the massive cost of childcare ties them to their home, looking after their children?

(And please, let’s not engage in the tired old argument that people should not have had more than two children in the first place: you don’t know the circumstances behind those situations, and in any case the UK’s economy requires a larger indigenous population, now that so many workers from abroad have been scared away.)

Elsewhere, Tony Blair has demanded that a future ‘Labour’ government should inflict austerity on the UK:

We know from the nauseating spectacle of Blair discussing policy with Keir Stürmer in public that the opposition party leader is a Blairite and wants to follow the desires of his ideological leader as much as possible.

Blair is saying he wants austerity, and he wants increased privatisation in the NHS. Only “basic” healthcare should be free at the point of use, he said. Other services would cost money. These are not Labour Party policies, of course – and nobody claiming to represent Labour who supports them, and/or the leaders who spout them, should be allowed into Parliament.

What we’re looking at is “policy capture” – and the organisation behind Tony Blair should be avoided at all costs because it is owned by foreign governments, it seems:

So candidates in today’s by-elections – by the words of leading party members – are not going to help working and working-class people but may well be following the demands of foreign governments instead, with plans including making us pay for anything more than “basic” healthcare.

Would you vote for that?

Grant Shapps shows why Tories should not be allowed near power

While leading members of the STP (Substitute Tory Party – formerly Labour) have been hobbling their by-election candidates, Grant Shapps has been doing the same for the real Tory Party’s credibility.

He has written to Keir Stürmer, demanding that the STP pay for damage caused by Just Stop Oil protests, on the grounds that the STP is the political wing of Just Stop Oil:

This is boneheaded stupidity. In doing so, Shapps is publicly acknowledging that any politician or political organisation that takes money from a donor will do what that donor demands in the future.

If Stürmer’s STP had said that, we could point to the donations its members receive from Trevor Chinn and say this is an admission that that party is now a sockpuppet of the so-called Israel Lobby (amongst others).

But because a Conservative has said it, we can rifle through all the donations that party and its MPs receive instead. Obviously Shapps is admitting that the Tories are all in thrall to private health firms (for example), and that’s why the NHS is being increasingly privatised.

He has opened the door for us to tell the world that the Conservative Party – and more importantly the Conservative government – does not work for the people of the United Kingdom, despite taking huge amounts of our cash.

Instead, it works for those shadowy donors, despite all the claims over the years that it did not, which we are now free to conclude are lies.

And that means any Tories elected in today’s (Thursday, July 20, 2023) by-elections will do the same and should therefore be blocked from ever entering Parliament.

Nice one, Shapps!

Rishi Sunak blames striking junior doctors for his own government’s health service blunders

Here’s another Tory failure that should cut into that party’s vote in today’s by-elections: Rishi Sunak’s attempts to blame striking junior doctors for weaknesses in the National Health Service.

I’ll let Peter Stefanovic explain:

A couple of points that should be emphasised:

As a result of Tory pay cuts since 2010, you are £11,000 a year worse-off than you would otherwise have been, and Sunak wants you to take further pay cuts (not just just junior doctors). Meanwhile, average pay for MPs, once their multiple other jobs are taking into account, is more than £200 per hour.

The “Independent” Pay Review Body is nothing of the sort. Its members are all employed by the government and are told how much money the government is willing to pay public sector workers before making any decisions. Those decisions are then made to fit in with what the government tells them to do, rather than with what public sector employees need.

Daily Express fails at basic maths. Just because inflation has fallen, that doesn’t mean prices are dropping

Carol Vorderman explains basic mathematics to the writers of a national newspaper.

It seems the Daily Express and its employees don’t understand that a fall in the rate of inflation does not mean that prices have dropped – despite the fact that it has been drilled into all of us over many months that such a fall really means the rate at which prices increase is slowing down.

So the following headline betrays a lack of economic credibility:

Still… when the price cuts demanded by the paper don’t happen, perhaps we can all enjoy a public backlash against the Tories.

That’ll be fun to watch.

Tory government paid almost as much for each ‘migrant barge’ as it costs to hire the most luxurious cabin cruise ships

This is self-explanatory:

This Writer understands that we still don’t know who won the contract to provide these barges, that have been modified to accommodate 500 people rather than 240, meaning less space is available for each of them.

And we don’t know whether there was a proper tendering process, with multiple interested parties invited to bid for the contract, or if it was just handed over to a Tory crony via the illegal “VIP lane” or any successor route.

It’s another point for voters in today’s three by-elections to consider.

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Does anybody STILL believe Labour’s lies about Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitism?

Laughter: it’s the only sane response left to the wild nonsense spouted by Liz Kendall and the rest of the Starmer-Labour mob.

ITV’s Robert Peston opened a can of worms when he invited Jeremy Corbyn and Liz Kendall onto his TV show.

Mr Corbyn has been treated disgracefully by the Labour Party, having been suspended from its Parliamentary membership by current leader Keir Starmer on the basis of a flimsy falsehood about anti-Semitism. Kendall is a senior member of Starmer’s team, who promotes that falsehood.

You can hear her doing it in this clip:

Kendall had the lion’s share of attention there, so let’s have a balancing view (look out for the strong language):

For those of you who have a milder disposition:

Let’s have a think about what she was saying. Failure to apologise? What’s this then?

Note that Mr Corbyn said he accepted EHRC report, and the Forde Report showed the scale of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party was as Corbyn said:

Additionally:

She’s proud that Starmer has changed Labour. But what did she mean by “firm action”? Well…

“The “firm action” @Keir_Starmer has taken – which Liz Kendal is so proud about – is to expel dozens of left-wing Jews from @UKLabour, making it more antisemitic than it ever was with Jeremy Corbyn as leader,” tweeted “Oliver”.

Why did she talk about the Armed Forces and pride in the UK? ‘George SUROS Regime’ tweeted: “Quite frankly I am amazed that Jeremy Corbyn would appear on this tv show when Peston himself would be aware that Corbyn has apologised time and time again. Liz Kendall suddenly shifting the goalposts from antisemitism to “armed forces” was an incredibly dumb move.”

And why did she twist his words, trying to make it seem as though he’d said that the evil of anti-Semitism was exaggerated?

Mr Corbyn has won praise for his dignified response to Kendall’s tirade:

And there has been a huge backlash against Kendall online:

“People like her are the reason I didn’t vote before Jeremy Corbyn became leader, and why I won’t vote for them now,” tweeted Andrew Stephen. “Utterly horrendous and extremely unpleasant individual who’s personality won’t allow her to give a flying duck about anyone but herself.”

‘Sharon’ tweeted: “One duplicitous lady. The fact that Jeremy Corbyn still bothers them, shows that they know full well what they did was dishonest and has led to all this turmoil we are now facing.”

(For the sake of balance, I should point out that some have tweeted in support of Kendall.)

But why bring back this old debate at all? It is months since the Forde Report confirmed that factionalism within Labour had killed the party’s chance of winning an election with Jeremy Corbyn as leader, and anti-Semitism was one of the sticks used to beat him at that time. There’s no current news that justifies bringing this back.

So is it just a ‘dead cat’ – a distraction to take attention away from other news?

Well, there’s this…

… and this…

… and this:

It’s a flawed strategy, if the aim is to paint Jeremy Corbyn and socialists as villains. Remember: he was right about many of the Tory-created crises facing the UK now.

For example, the tweet by Dan Hodges, below, hasn’t aged well:

And just because he’s been booted off the Labour benches by Starmer and his bullies, that doesn’t mean Mr Corbyn has gone quiet. You can see what he’s doing in a few online shows coming up soon:

What do you think? A dead cat? Or is there more behind this? Perhaps there’s something coming that we’re yet to discover?

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