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Would the UK have a labour shortage if the Tories hadn’t killed so many of us?

Too few workers: but with low wages, reduced access to healthcare and rising stress-related mental illness, why would anybody want a job in the UK?

It would be funny if it were not so tragic.

The Conservative government is not happy because there is a labour shortage in the UK.

The last figures This Writer has seen suggest that businesses need an extra million workers.

It would be easy to blame Brexit for the shortfall, and there is certainly an argument that sending migrant workers back to their own countries has been a bad idea.

But there’s also the fact – fact, mark you – that the Conservative governments of 2010 onwards have been killing off working-age people at an astonishing rate. This is not a reference to Covid, but to actual, premeditated Tory policy.

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The ever-excellent Prem Sikka made this point in a House of Lords debate on the subject:

He had previously posted this on ‘X’:

The article to which he links provides all the information you need:

People in secure and well paid jobs are more likely to have a longer life expectancy and take less time off work due to sickness. This can swell the size of the work force, but the government has pushed real wage cuts with claims that wage increases for workers are inflationary though that logic is suspended for executives and bankers. The average real wage has remained mostly unchanged since 2007.

The annual UK median wage is around £29,669.  The Joseph Rowntree Foundation estimates that a single person needs to earn £29,500 a year to reach a minimum acceptable standard of living. A couple with two children need to earn £50,000 between them. This means that nearly half the working population does not reach the minimum standard of living though low incomes can be supplemented by means-tested social security systems. 17.8m adults have income of less than £12,570. Indeed, due to low pay more people in work are claiming social security benefits than those out of work.

The result is that some 14.4 million people live in poverty. Millions of people are deprived of good food, housing, education, clothing, skills and healthcare. Deprived people cannot work long hours or fulfil their potential. More workers report sick and have mental and physical health problems. More than 800,000 patients were admitted to hospital with malnutrition and nutritional deficiencies last year. Some 16m people have disabilities which may affect their participation in labour markets. The government is considering withdrawing benefits from the old, sick and disabled and force them to work, but it is hard to see how that will deal with systemic problems.

Rather than improving healthcare, the government has reduced access to healthcare. People struggle to get access to NHS dentists and family doctors. Some 6.39 million individuals in England alone are waiting for 7.6m hospital appointments. That is one-in-nine persons. Around 2.8 million people, roughly equivalent to the populations of Bournemouth, Cardiff, Coventry, Edinburgh Stoke-on-Trent and Middlesbrough, combined, are suffering from chronic health conditions and are unable to work. More than 500,000 under-35s in the prime of their life are out of work due to long-term illness.

A 2023 study reported in the 5 years to 2022 nearly 1.5 million people in England died whilst waiting for a NHS hospital appointment – that is nearly 300,000 a year.  A 2022 study reported that between 2012 and 2019, government imposed austerity caused 335,000 excess deaths in England and Scotland i.e. nearly 48,000 a year. One-third of these deaths were among people under 65. Another study estimated that between 2011 and 2020, 1.2m people in England died prematurely from a combination of poverty, austerity and Covid. The Government’s obsession with austerity, wage cuts and defunct economic theories has turned the state into a killing machine, and is a major cause of labour shortages.

The article is well worth reading as it covers other reasons for the labour shortage – all of which are down to government policy, inactivity or incompetence.

This Site has been warning that government policy kills since it was founded in 2011 – but at successive elections, the Tories have been voted back in.

So the logical conclusion is that the people of the UK are happy to be deprived of the healthcare to which we all contribute via our taxes, happy to be starved of food, housing and education, and happy to be driven into mental illness by the stress that all this causes.

Are we?

Or have we all been misled, time and again, by politicians with undeclared interests in keeping us down, along with their client media?

With a general election coming up soon, isn’t it time we gave up listening to the public relations people and started to check for ourselves what we are really being offered?

The people of Rochdale could use their by-election as an example for the rest of us.


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Keir Starmer’s reason for killing Green Prosperity Plan: economic illiteracy

It was bad enough that Keir Starmer decided to ditch his party’s last policy that divided it from the Tories; now we learn that he’s justifying it with the worst piece of economic illiteracy of the last few decades.

Here’s Another Angry Voice:

Apparently Labour can’t now afford to invest for the future because the Tory government has said it is going to “max out the national credit card”.

If this sounds wearisomely familiar, it’s because it is. The “maxed out national credit card” trope was one of David Cameron and George Osborne’s favourite propaganda lines when they were trying to convince the country that “let’s cut our way to prosperity” austerity ruination was a wise economic strategy, rather than the macroeconomically illiterate road to ruin it’s proven to be.

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Anyone with a shred of economic knowledge understands that comparisons between national economies and household family budgets are profoundly misleading, and that they’re especially egregious when public borrowing is portrayed as akin to a reckless credit card splurge.

Unless you have a money printing press in your house, your household budget is almost entirely unlike a national economy, and public borrowing (the cheapest possible form of borrowing) is extremely unlike credit card borrowing (the most expensive aside from payday loan exploitation).

Thus anyone making such comparisons is either an economic illiterate who doesn’t have the faintest idea how national economies actually work, or they’re wilfully spreading economically illiterate tropes in order dupe people they believe to be gullible.

Apparently Starmer and the right-wing ghouls he’s surrounded himself with believe we can solve Britain’s economic malaise with the same ruinous “cut our way to prosperity” policies and by spreading exactly the same asinine economic illiteracy as the people who actually caused it!

You’d have to fit Einstein’s definition of insanity to believe that we’ll end up with different results by trying the same thing again, down to the exact same propaganda lines used to justify it.

Once again we learn that the way forward for the UK is neither a Conservative nor a Labour government.

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Israeli troops are intentionally killing their own people

If you see or hear a supporter of Israel’s genocide in Gaza on the mainstream or social media, complaining that that country is the victim in that conflict, bear this fact in mind:

Israel’s government and military are murdering their own people.

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IDF hospital raid: the murdered victims were either in a coma, paraplegic, or asleep

More information has come to light about the invasion of the Ibn Sina Hospital in Palestine, where 12 Israel Defence Force troops disguised themselves in order to gain entry and execute three people they claimed were members of Hamas.

The raid has been greeted with outrage, and it is easy to understand why:

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Mouthpieces of the Israeli government have tried to spin the raid as retribution for a war crime by Hamas, but it simply won’t work:

As This Writer pointed out already,

the victims of the executions were all receiving treatment at the hospital as patients; in other words, they were using it for its proper purpose. That means Israel can’t even justify the attack by claiming the hospital was being used as a military base (which would have made it a reasonable military target, which it wasn’t).

And now we have been told that one of them was in a coma; another (his brother) was asleep; and one was paraplegic.

They all could have been taken as prisoners and removed alive from the hospital, to be treated for their respective illnesses in custody until such time as they were able to face trial – although whether they would receive any recognisable kind of justice from the Israeli regime is a hard question to answer.

But still Israel’s cheerleaders tout this disgrace as a matter for praise. It is as though they are deliberately stirring up hatred against that country and the terrorists ruling it.


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IDF troops invade West Bank hospital to murder three patients

So much for Israel’s regard for International Humanitarian Law.

It is a violation of International Humanitarian Law for armed military personnel to raid a hospital, which is a protected area and is never to be considered a military target.

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It is also a violation of International Humanitarian Law for those personnel to disguise themselves in order to carry out such a raid.

Finally, the victims of the executions were all receiving treatment at the hospital as patients; in other words, they were using it for its proper purpose. That means Israel can’t even justify the attack by claiming the hospital was being used as a military base (which would have made it a reasonable military target, which it wasn’t).

And how do Israel and its mouthpieces respond to the international wave of revulsion that greeted its unprovoked and unwarranted attack?

See:

The only even slightly useful element to arise from this shameful stain on the people of Israel (why do they allow their government and military to behave like this? Aren’t they a democracy?) is the fact that it happened in the West Bank, not Gaza.

This demonstrates to the world that Israel is grinding its military boots down on all of Palestine, not just Gaza. No Palestinian is safe from these genocidal goons with guns.

Of course, Israel needs to demonstrate that it supports International Humanitarian Law in order to conform with the directions laid down by the International Court of Justice in its ruling of January 25.

I’d say that’s going to be a major fail.


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Rage as Tories allow banned bee-killing pesticides for fourth year running

Dead bees: allowing the sugar industry to use a banned pesticide may kill vast numbers of bees, with a knock-on effect that could harm the ecology of the whole planet.

Rishi Sunak’s government is playing with fire – not the kind that causes electoral losses, but the kind that creates ecological ruin.

Farmers have been given the go-ahead for the fourth year in a row to use a banned pesticide that kills bees – prompting anger among nature lovers.

Food and farming minister Mark Spencer has authorised the use of a neonicotinoid to protect this year’s sugar beet crops against viruses.

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Just one teaspoon of thiamethoxam can kill 1.25 billion bees, according to biology professor and insect expert Dave Goulson, of the University of Sussex.

Bees exposed to a single dose of pesticide may require generations to recover, previous research has found.

According to the UK’s sugar industry, Cruiser XB – which contains thiamethoxam – will only be used if there is a threat of beet yellow virus to a crop, and stringent controls are attached.

But these pesticides are banned for good reasons: they are a risk to human health as much as that of wildlife.

And bees play a hugely important part in preserving the environment.

So this is a terrible decision.

And it comes on the day the government’s own advisers warned that it risks missing legally binding targets to halt nature decline by 2030.

With people like these in charge, we’re all going to die.

Source: Anger as government allows banned bee-killing pesticides for fourth year in a row | The Independent


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Israel has been killing a lot of non-combatants in its Gaza genocide. Here are a few

For a country whose military is said to have been told not to target civilians or workers in the civil infrastructure, Israel certainly seems to have murdered a lot of them.

This article aims to do nothing more than point out a few of them.

Let’s dive in:

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Here’s some information that This Writer understands was current on December 19:

And here’s a comment on it:


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Israel killed its own civilians on October 7 ‘in immense and complex quantity’

Yasmin Porat: when this former Hamas hostage was interviewed, she said Israeli troops fired on their own citizens.

What did we all say?

Those of us who had the slightest bit of sense made it clear that Israeli military forces had killed their own countrymen and women on October 7; now that country’s government has admitted it:

Israel’s army on Tuesday admitted that an “immense and complex quantity” of what it calls “friendly fire” incidents took place on 7 October.

It is the first known official army admission that a significant number of the hundreds of Israelis who died on 7 October were killed by Israel itself, and not by Hamas or other Palestinian resistance factions.

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Citing new data released by the Israeli military, [Yoav Zitun, the military correspondent of Israeli outlet Ynet] wrote that: “Casualties fell as a result of friendly fire on October 7, but the IDF [Israeli military] believes that … it would not be morally sound to investigate” them.

He reported that this was “due to the immense and complex quantity of them that took place in the kibbutzim and southern Israeli communities.”

The Ynet article also reported that “at least” one fifth of the Israeli army deaths in Gaza since the ground invasion began were also due to “friendly fire” incidents.

To This Writer, the admission adds fuel to the claim of the ‘Party Flowers’ group, relatives of people who died at the Nova music festival, that an official inquiry is vital.

As the article quoted above states,

Israel does indeed appear to be covering up a lot of the evidence.

There has been a steadily growing mountain of evidence that many – if not most – Israelis killed that day were killed by Israel itself.

And there’s been an admission that the so-called ‘Hannibal Directive’ was followed by the IDF on October 7:

An Israeli air force colonel admitted to a Hebrew podcast that they blew up Israeli homes in the settlements but insisted they never did so “without permission.”

Colonel Nof Erez also said that 7 October was a “mass Hannibal” event – a reference to a controversial Israeli military doctrine.

Named after an ancient Carthaginian general who poisoned himself rather than be captured alive, the Hannibal Directive allows Israeli forces to take any means necessary to stop Israelis being captured alive – even at the cost of killing the captives.

Source: Israel admits to “immense” amount of “friendly fire” on 7 October | The Electronic Intifada


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The Germans had more right to execute Edith Cavell than Israel to kill this doctor

Killed: Dr Hammam Alloh.

Around 200 medical workers in Gaza have been killed during Israel’s current assault on the enclave, we are told.

Among them is Dr Hammam Alloh, who died caring for patients at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza.

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A British doctor, Louise Raw, compared his death with that of nurse Edith Cavell during World War One:

But Edith Cavell was arrested and convicted by the Germans for helping allied soldiers escape German-occupied Belgium and enter the neutral Netherlands, which was a war crime according to German law at the time.

Questions have been raised over whether the sentence was legal, but even Miss Cavell agreed that the German authorities had the right to carry out justice over her.

They had more right to do so than Israel has to kill medical staff at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, in fact – people who have done nothing more than carry out their duty of care to patients there.

Dr Raw is absolutely right to contrast the reactions to Miss Cavell’s death with those to the staff at al-Shifa.

Why was it more objectionable to execute a nurse who was a war criminal than it is to murder medical staff in a facility that it is a war crime to attack?


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Sickening: Israel’s UK ambassador says Hamas – not her country – is killing Gazan citizens

Tzipi Hotovely: you can’t trust a word she says.

Tzipi Hotovely is a real piece of … work, isn’t she?

Interviewed by Krishnan Guru-Murthy of Channel 4 News, she claimed that Israel was not responsible for the killing of Gazan civilians – despite the fact that it is clearly Israeli-owned weaponry that is doing the damage.

Oh no, she said – it’s Hamas that is killing them by using them as human shields and putting military infrastructure under civilian systems:

Her arguments are false.

Hamas isn’t using civilians as human shields, just by living in the same Israel-created enclave as them. As far as we know, Hamas bases aren’t anywhere near the homes and service-providers of Gazan civilians – and in any case, it was the job of the Israeli security services to spy out where Hamas was, long before the current violence started. Why did that not happen?

This leads on to the next point: we have seen no evidence that Hamas has put any of its infrastructure inside or beneath civilian structures – in particular, al-Shifa hospital where babies are dying because Israel has starved Gaza of energy. It is nothing but an excuse for the most appalling kinds of murders we’ve seen in this genocidal onslaught.

And anyway, by this time, who would believe a single word that comes from the Israeli government and military?

Only today (November 13, 2023) the country’s president, Isaac Herzog, was claiming a copy of Adolf Hitler’s infamous Mein Kampf was found at a site used by Hamas in northern Gaza.

But a few days ago, he also brandished another book he said was found on a Hamas member’s body, claiming it was an instruction manual for manufacturing chemical bombs. Instead, it was a printout of an online biography, telling the story of a man who tried unsuccessfully to bomb the World Trade Centre in New York, back in the 1990s.

Draw your own conclusions.