Did their Tory bosses order the BBC to keep coverage of the strikes off its website yesterday?
Apparently the only way to see the size and scale of the march that took place in London was via German television.
See for yourself:
I’ve scrolled through several of your webpages @BBCNews but can’t seem to find a video or much at all about U.K. #strikes Do we now need to rely on foreign news to find out what’s happening in our own country? 🤷🏻♀️ https://t.co/lvuqkq8m7P
But the BBC belongs on the ‘naughty step’ – again.
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That Tory pose of refusing to talk about pay isn’t working at all, is it?
Here’s the GMB Union:
So that’s February 6 and 20 and March 6 and 20.
And let’s remember that, however these strikes end, ambulances still won’t be arriving with callers within the government-set time limits, because the government simply doesn’t provide the resources to make this possible.
Their argument that strikes are responsible for poor response times is a lie.
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It seems people are finally waking up and realising that Brexit was a colossal con trick.
Watch this:
You’ll notice much of Phil’s speech refers to a Financial Times video clip that explains the pitfalls of Brexit in scrupulously impartial detail.
Here it is:
The Tories are going to squeeze our living standards to fill the hole they deliberately created in the public finances. But Phil argues that people are realising that Brexit has harmed the public purse by providing lower tax income due to the fall in profits from exported goods.
People are going to want to know why that hole can’t be filled by rejoining the EU and boosting export profits (and therefore tax revenues) again.
Finally, let’s have some comedy context. Nothing rams a point home better than a sharp piece of wit – and here it is:
And today – Saturday, October 22, 2022 – tens of thousands of people gathered in London for the first major UK pro-European event since 2019: the National Rejoin March:
Tens of thousands of people gathered in parliament square for the first National rejoin March pic.twitter.com/Hcvwd9gXDx
This may be a movement whose time has come. I reckon it can only gain support in the future.
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Violence: after far-right Israelis marched through Jerusalem shouting ‘Death to Arabs’ it didn’t take long for violence to happen. Who do you think suffered the most harm as a result?
This is what happens when a country’s government demands that anybody not belonging to a particular ethnic/religious group must be second-class citizens.
The right-wing government of Israel has enacted laws to put Jewish citizens above anybody else who lives there – and has actually walled off Palestinian settlements (until such time as Jewish settlers can turf out the residents and take their homes).
It was only a small step from there to the scenes we witnessed in Jerusalem’s Old City, when hundreds of far-right activists took to the streets, shouting “Death to Arabs”.
It is an insult against their own history. After the Nazi Holocaust, Jewish people should be on the side of the oppressed, never that of the oppressors.
But it does conform to a very sad social phenomenon – that a proportion of people who suffer abuse go on to become abusers themselves. It is well-documented among individuals; now we see a society going the same way.
Let’s see some of the evidence. I present it with comments from Twitter users who provided it:
Hundreds of right-wing Israeli Jews are roaming the streets of Jerusalem tonight, chanting "Death to Arabs" and searching for Palestinians to assault. Their actions echo the racist and violent rhetoric of Israeli government officials:pic.twitter.com/Ag9hHGAhNs
Horrific. Over a 100 people injured by a bunch of far right thugs chanting "death to Arabs". No surprise things like this happen when there's already Israeli state sponsored violence against Palestinians occurring on a regular basis.#FreePalestinehttps://t.co/xHUfVgy7D9
The obvious response to the young woman in the last clip is that her sentiment was shared by people in Berlin in the 1930s and 40s – but they were referring to Jews.
In fairness, this was just one gang of far-right racists. Other Israelis have been lining up to condemn what happened.
But the only reason it happened at all is because their government created the conditions that allowed it.
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While MPs debated whether to support a Brexit deal that will deny the electorate a voice, thousands of voters – maybe a million – gathered in London to demand the right to vote on it.
As I write this, the “People’s Vote” marchers are campaigning for simple democracy – that the government should allow a public vote to ensure that Boris Johnson’s new deal has the support of the people as a whole, rather than just a few hundred highly-privileged, mostly-Tory MPs.
The march began at midday in Park Lane, with an intention to end in Parliament Square.
Twitter has been covering it in pictures:
Good morning London. This account is now up and running and focused on the #PeoplesVoteMarch later today. The attached is the route to be taken – please follow @TfLTrafficNews for updates on congestion and closures pic.twitter.com/OCa8gYGlKy
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Propagandists for the apartheid Israeli government took a psychological battering when thousands took to the streets of London for a demonstration of solidarity with the oppressed people of Palestine.
Thousands of people marched through central London on Saturday to mark the 71st anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe), and to call for an end to the latest hostilities between Israel and the remnants of Palesine that the Israeli government is working hard to destroy.
The demonstration was organised for by the Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB), Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) and Stop the War Campaign (STW).
If you need a reason to understand the need for such a demonstration, consider:
Armed factions in Gaza have given Israel until Monday to deliver on its commitments under a ceasefire agreement reached earlier this week.
That ceasefire brought to an end more than 48 hours of violence across the Gaza-Israel boundary that left 27 Palestinians in Gaza dead – 14 of them civilians killed by Israeli fire – as well as four civilian fatalities on the Israeli side.
The agreement reached on Monday is understood to be similar to understandings that brought an end to major Israeli offensives in Gaza in summer 2014 and November 2012.
The immediate steps expected by Palestinian factions include the reopening of the fishing zone, the transfer of funding from Qatar and the reopening of Gaza’s commercial crossings.
“In Gaza, where the economy struggles for survival and residents face adverse humanitarian conditions, every additional day that passes until these further restrictions are lifted by Israel has severe implications,” Gisha, a human rights group that monitors Israel’s siege, stated on Tuesday.
“Traders cannot fulfil their business commitments, patients miss crucial appointments for life-saving treatment, and fishermen cannot feed their families,” Gisha added.
The rights group said that “Israel’s use of its control over the crossings to deliberately harm the civilian population in Gaza has to stop.”
Even when Israeli bombs aren’t being dropped, the status quo in Gaza – under air, sea and land blockade for more than a decade, and military occupation for half a century – is far from normal.
Every two in three Palestinians in Gaza is a refugee from lands now inside Israel, which forbids Palestinian refugees from exercising their right to return because they are not Jewish.
One wonders what the severely-outgunned Palestinians will do if Israel refuses to to honour the conditions of its own ceasefire – but what else can they do, other than demand that agreements be honoured?
And while it is true that neither side in this conflict can claim the moral high ground, one has to ask why the side with overwhelming military superiority insists on continuing to inflict terror on the weaker side – if not in order to wipe it out altogether, eventually.
Opposition to that was another reason for the London march.
A highlight of the day was the speech by activist Ahed Tamimi, who served an eight-month prison sentence for slapping an Israeli soldier after her cousin, then aged 15, was shot in the head at close range with a rubber-coated steel bullet, severely wounding him.
There was considerable opposition to the Conservative government of Theresa May, over its support for the Israeli government:
The Labour Party’s position is clear. In government, it will recognise Palestine as a sovereign state. Labour was well-represented on the demonstration:
Of course, this is the reason supporters of the Israeli government are so keen to smear Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters in the party as anti-Semites, in the face of the evidence showing he has supported the Jewish people as well as Palestinians.
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Former MP – also former chief of staff to David Davis when he was Brexit Secretary – Stewart Jackson must be wishing he had thought before putting finger to keypad.
He overreacted to a tweet by Remainer Anthony Hobley, referring to his stepson’s disappointment at being unable to participate in the “People’s March” for a second EU referendum vote, that took place on Saturday; he was in hospital after an operation.
Mr Jackson’s tweeted response was: “What a pathetic cretin.”
Oh really? Who, exactly, is the “pathetic cretin” in this situation?
Members of the public took him at face value and panned him for attacking a hospitalised boy – they considered him to be the subject of Mr Jackson’s scorn.
The former MP himself has taken issue with this; he reckons his tweet was aimed at Mr Hobley, who he claimed was irresponsible for “invading a sick child’s privacy” to make a “political point”.
How does he know Mr Hobley wasn’t relating the lad’s actual opinion? He doesn’t.
So let’s get back to the question posed in the headline. Who is the “pathetic cretin” in this story?
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The masses on the march: This overhead view shows clearly the strength of feeling in support of democracy. But Theresa May isn’t listening.
When British citizens converged on London to protest against the UK’s participation in the Iraq War, it was estimated that between one million and two million people marched.
They achieved nothing. Then-prime minister Tony Blair was determined to take his country to war in the Middle East, on the basis of information we now know to have been nonsense.
On October 20, 2018, the British people again gathered in London, to demand a “people’s vote” on the UK’s membership of the European Union. As many as 670,000 people were estimated to have attended – a number only surpassed in the 21st century by that 2003 march against war in Iraq.
And it will achieve nothing. Current prime minister Theresa May is determined to take the country out of the EU, on a mandate that was influenced by arguments we now know to be nonsense. Even the BBC has confirmed that the Conservative government isn’t going to budge:
Social media commentators have praised the commitment of those who took part:
My feed full of people going to today's march from all over the country. Quite extraordinary, especially for a lazy bastard like me, to see them getting up at the crack of dawn, getting in coaches and making their voices heard.
At best, the demonstration makes it clear that there is significant opposition for the direction in which Mrs May and her government are taking the UK.
This may present some solace to us, if our fears are realised after March 30, 2019.
By then, if she gets her way, Mrs May will have started implementing the changes Brexit will allow – stripping working people of the rights they fought hard to win, turning the UK into a sweatshop for the poor and a tax haven for the rich.
It won’t help anyone. If predictions are accurate, all British citizens are likely to be worse-off as a result of Brexit.
Mrs May has already been told. The problem is, she just won’t listen.
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You can’t create the future of a country on the cheap – that is the message of the Worth Less campaign by head teachers. They’re saying no child is worth less funding from the ignorant rich who form the Conservative government; for all our futures’ sake, they deserve every opportunity.
Our future has been sold out because Tory policy demands it.
That is the message behind the protest at Downing Street by more than 2,000 head teachers.
The Conservative government doesn’t care because rich Tories can afford to send their kids to private schools – not that it helps them much, considering the lack of quality evidenced by recent graduates. Look at Boris Johnson (if you can bear it).
So our children are forced to bear the brunt of Tory cut after Tory cut, and their head teachers have been forced into the impossible situation of having to try to balance the books when it is impossible to do so without harming their pupils’ education – and jeopardising the future of the United Kingdom.
You see, every school-age child whose education suffers today is a future doctor, nurse, teacher, firefighter, captain of industry, leader in the fields of science and technology or pillar of the community who won’t achieve their potential because of the selfishness of the obscenely rich.
So enjoy the fruits of your tax cuts, all you Tory-voting idlers. You’ll be dining on ashes one day soon.
More than two thousand headteachers skipped class for an “unprecedented” march on Westminster demanding increased funding for schools.
School leaders from across England, Wales and Northern Ireland met in Parliament Square before marching to Downing Street where a letter was delivered demanding more money.
The protest – organised by grassroots campaign group Worth Less? – saw thousands of school leaders collectively take the day off work to ensure their voices were heard.
Headteachers on the rally warned of collapsing school buildings, significant cuts to teaching staff, bigger class sizes and a loss of support for the most vulnerable pupils amid budget pressures.
And more parents are being asked to pay for essentials – such as loo roll, paper and pens – while an increasing number of schools are considering a four-and-a-half day school week, unions said.
Of course the Conservative government’s Department for Education tells a different story – of huge amounts of money going into schools, with advice on how to cut non-staffing costs and government-backed deals on equipment and energy.
A Department for Education (DfE) spokesperson said: “There is more money going into schools than ever before, rising to a record £43.5bn by 2020 – 50 per cent more in real terms per pupil than in 2000.
“The OECD has recently confirmed that the UK is the third highest spender on education in the world, spending more per pupil than countries including Germany, Australia and Japan.
“Every school attracts more funding per pupil through the National Funding Formula, high needs funding has risen to over £6bn this year and the 3.5 per cent pay rise we announced for classroom teachers on the main pay range is backed by £508m government funding.
“We know that we are asking schools to do more, which is why we are helping them to reduce the £10bn spent each year on non-staffing costs, providing government-backed deals for things like printers and energy suppliers that are helping to save millions of pounds.”
But you’ll have noticed that none of the information from the DfE refers to any independent research on the amount of money needed per pupil to provide even the most basic education.
Does the £508 million of funding set aside for a 3.5 per cent teachers’ pay rise actually meet the cost of the increase, or will some of it have to come from other budgets?
An increase of 50 per cent more in real terms per pupil than in 2000 means nothing if it isn’t enough.
Labour’s shadow Education Secretary, Angela Rayner, put the right perspective on it:
This unprecedented action by head teachers is a clear sign of the desperate struggle they now face to provide a decent education while balancing the books. The funding crisis in our schools hasn't gone away. https://t.co/vxhqlnfc2P
Imagine a UK where a thousand head teachers did not feel forced to protest on Downing Street, where schools had ample resources, where doctors did not have to go on strike for the safety of their patients, where nurses, firefighters, police were paid what they deserved. Imagine.
Hundreds of headteachers are marching on Downing Street due to the chronic underfunding of schools. This is how bad it has got. You simply can’t educate children on the cheap. They are our future doctors, nurses, teachers and firefighters and the Tories have sold them out.
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