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Who should you vote for at the general election? Let me explain it to you [VIDEO]

The ballot box: here’s how to work out who you should support at the next election.

People keep asking me how they should vote at this year’s general election, if neither of the “Big Two” political parties are worth the effort (and they aren’t).

I’ve discussed it at length in multiple posts, and now I’ve made a video clip with the same information.

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Enjoy the bizarre eyelines; I’m reading from a screen so you’ll see my eyes darting all over the place. I hope it’s not too distracting and it gets the message across.

Here’s the YouTube clip. It’s also on Instagram and will be on TikTok.


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Mick Lynch: how to ruin your reputation with a single statement

Mick Lynch: after years of incisive, accurate commentary, he has blundered badly.

RMT trade union hero Mick Lynch has put his foot in his mouth in an extraordinary way.

Here’s what he’s said:

Voters don’t see it that way. They think, as Simon Maginn said in a response on ‘X’, that “changing one set of neoliberal austerians, NHS-profiteers and foreign-war-enthusiasts for another isn’t going to change anything that needs changing”.

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That’ll be why others who are less prone to explanations have been as blunt as this:

Here’s the consensus view of everyone who has been paying attention since Keir Starmer took over as leader of what used to be called the Labour Party:

And what’s this?

So Mick Lynch thinks Labour is the only way people should vote at the general election – but will support Jeremy Corbyn if he stands as an independent?

That will look like hypocrisy to many people – especially the Tory commentariat.


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Debunked: the Islamophobic propaganda that perverted Parliament’s Gaza vote

Islamophobia: what’s the best way to end it? We could start by getting rid of Islamophobic MPs who may be influenced by the government of Israel.

What an eye-opening thread.

Voters in the constituencies represented by the pro-Israel MPs mentioned below may wish to transfer their loyalties to candidates who don’t have the shadow of Zionism hanging over them.

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On the day MPs vote on Gaza ceasefire, here’s why Israel must be stopped

MPs were set to vote today on whether the UK should demand a ceasefire between invading Israeli military forces and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Some people in this country may be confused about why their MPs are doing this. Israel was attacked and has a right to defend itself and seek the return of the hostages taken on October 7 last year, doesn’t it? That’s what leaders like Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer have been parroting at us ever since, isn’t it?

Yes they have. And while Israel may be entitled to seek the return of hostages that were taken in a Hamas war crime, it did not have the right to invade Gaza and bomb the entire enclave into rubble; that is also a war crime (as an occupying power – Israel controlled all supplies of food, water and power into Gaza – it had a responsibility to look after the well-being of people there).

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It seems appropriate to remind ourselves of exactly why Israel needs to be stopped.

The invasion of Gaza is not about the return of hostages – and never was.

It was a useful excuse, but it seems clear that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu never intended to halt the slaughter of non-combatant children, women and men in Gaza once those Israeli/Jewish hostages were returned. In fact, he has now stated that his troops will invade Rafah and continue their genocide there, whether hostages are returned or not.

Sayeeda Warsi’s words on this matter are illuminating:

In fact, Israel is quite happy for its own forces to murder Israeli/Jewish hostages taken by Hamas, it seems:

The invasion of Gaza is about committing genocide against the people of Palestine.

These are all actions that Israel has taken and they are all war crimes because they contribute to genocide.

Remember: Israel never had to bomb Gaza indescriminately. Its military is capable of launching precision strikes that target individual people – but chose not to do so. For an example of such a precision strike, we need look no further than Lebanon, today (February 21):

Israeli Defence Force personnel are subjecting Palestinian women and girls to sexual assault, degradation and other human rights violations, including random executions:

Here’s a little more supporting evidence for this:

“At least two female Palestinian detainees were raped while others were ‘threatened with rape and sexual violence’ by Israeli soldiers”, along with all the other findings.

Israeli Defence Force personnel are stealing property belonging to the citizens of Gaza – presumably in the belief that the owners will never need it again, being either murdered or expelled in the genocide they are perpetrating:

This is just information I’ve picked up on the social media today (February 21). The weight of the evidence that has accumulated since October 7 last year must be enormous and I believe the International Court of Justice is to examine it in detail soon – if it has not already started.

But that is for another day. Today, it is the duty of the UK’s MPs to weight up the evidence they can see and reconcile the vote they make on the ceasefire motion with their own consciences. This Writer sincerely hopes they make the right choice.


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Weekend of protests as conditions in Gaza worsen due to Israel’s genocide

Protests have been happening – not just in the UK but around the world, including Israel – as that country’s genocide in Gaza worsens, and it continues its persecution of Palestinians elsewhere.

Here’s what has been happening in Gaza recently. Be warned – it isn’t easy to see.

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But Gaza isn’t the only place where Palestinians are being mistreated by Israelis. Read what follows to see Israel’s habitual treatment of Palestinians.

Now consider this: an organisation exists that encourages former Israel Defence Force personnel to confess the crimes they have committed while in uniform or on active duty.

 

 

It should hardly be surprising that protests have been taking place against Israel – across the world, including in Tel Aviv:

Members of the UK Labour Party have no power to stop the genocide in Gaza – other than in voting for the UK to call for a ceasefire during a motion in Parliament. Strangely, they seem unwilling to do this – and so they have attracted what many consider entirely justified criticism.

Meanwhile, in the Netherlands:

In London there was yet another big demonstration over the weekend – bigger, it seems, than BBC News was prepared to admit:

Will any of the above affect the Scottish National Party’s ceasefire vote, that we think will be held on Wednesday (February 21)?


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Why does the LABOUR Party want to put families – children – into poverty?

Child poverty: both the Tories and Labour want to put families with three or more children into poverty, so what could possibly make you think voting for them is a good idea?

It seems some of you are still clinging to the belief that the Labour Party is the answer to the Tory insanity that has been running the United Kingdom into the ground since 2010.

Let’s put everybody straight about that – starting with Labour’s clearly-expressed intention to put families with at least three children into poverty and keep them there.

Here’s the Resolution Foundation:

As Gavin Kelly posted on ‘X’: “A decade ago 1 in 3 children in large families (3+ children) were in poverty. Now it’s more than 4 in 10, heading to more than 1 in 2 (51%) by 2028-29.

“Completely policy-driven. Fixable.”

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Tom Pollard posted – also on ‘X’, “The two-child limit will condemn an increasing number of children to grow up in poverty – permanently scarring them, reducing their life chances & costing us all in the long term.”

Here’s Jonathan Bradshaw, Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at the University of York:

He’s saying that the economic benefits of lifting the two-child limit far outweigh the annual cost to the public purse – words echoed by Dr Katy Jones, Associate Professor in Employment at Manchester Metropolitan University:

The benefits of lifting children out of poverty would be huge, but obviously the Conservatives won’t do it because it’s their policy and they want to make you poor.

And Labour won’t do it either because Keir Starmer clearly wants you to be poor too.

He and his party would rather give huge bungs to fat bankers, as we can see from Shadow Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds’s squirming response when challenged on both subjects by Kay Burley on Sky News:

Labour is now the party of the bankers, not the workers. And if Starmer is happy to screw over families with more than two children, he’ll merrily do worse to you.

So you simply cannot vote tribally – for the party you think represents you (none of them do; they’re all about enriching their MPs and nothing else) – at the next general election.

Instead – and I cannot stress this strongly enough – if you want your vote to mean anything, you have to actually find out what the candidates in your constituency are planning to do, if they are lucky enough to be elected.

That is what party manifestos are for. Independent candidates also have policy documents and they will all be online for you to find and read.

You need to find and read these policy documents, and then you need to make a dispassionate choice, based on what you have read.

Which of the candidates offers the most policies that fit what you need? And, by that, I mean: who will improve your own life the most?

Do not consider how other people will vote, either in your constituency or the other 649 around the UK. That is not your concern.

It is not for you to worry about which party will get enough votes to actually enact its policies. This will lead you down the usual garden path to voting in a government that won’t do anything at all for the good of the country, like the one we’ve had since 2010.

BE SELFISH. Bizarrely, it might be the only way to get the kind of government that all of us need.


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After 5,000 days of Tory rule, they’ve increased YOUR national debt MASSIVELY

Where has all the money gone?

That’s the question from Carol Vorderman, and she’s echoing economist Gary Stevenson who has been saying much the same thing for many months now.

Here’s her analysis, as posted on ‘X’ (formerly Twitter):

As she demonstrates, David Cameron came into office claiming (wrongly) that the national debt of £770 billion and deficits run by Gordon Brown’s previous ‘New Labour’ administration were unsustainable and had to be brought down, for the good of us all.

“We’re all in it together,” remember?

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Instead, he and his successors – Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and now Rishi Sunak – have spent public money at a record-breaking rate, increasing the debt to more than three times as much as in 2010.

Bear in mind that it had taken hundreds of years for the debt to reach £770 billion. The Tories then tripled it in just 13 years.

They have been spendthrifts on a scale never before seen in the UK.

And they have nothing to show for it.

The standard of living for the vast majority of people has plummeted.

Public services have been starved of resources and neglected.

The National Health Service has been starved of staff and hived off to private companies whose work is substandard and poor value for money.

The economy has stagnated and wages – apart from those paid to MPs and top executives – are now worth a fraction of what they were in 2010.

If the last nearly-14 years of Tory rule had been a business transaction – we had paid for them to provide a service – then we would be within our consumer right to demand our money back.

But it doesn’t work like that.

Government, it seems, is the greatest con trick of them all because we lose our money legally.

This is an election year, though. We have an opportunity to make a big change.

But the media are telling us the only choices are the Conservatives, who will break the national bank even more than they have done already, or Keir Starmer’s New New Labour, that is promising to do the same.

For all our sakes, we – the voters – have to change our thinking and make the change that the self-interested, snouts-in-the-trough political swine in both those parties can’t handle.

We have to get rid of them all and vote for somebody else.

Elections used to be about looking at what every candidate in your constituency was offering and voting for the one whose package most closely corresponded to what you thought you needed.

When did they start being about voting tribally for the team that told you they represented you when – if you actually bothered to check – they really didn’t?

When did we stop voting in our own interest and start voting in theirs?

If you vote for Rishi Sunak’s team this year; if you vote for Keir Starmer’s team this year; even if you vote for Ed Davey’s team this year, you will be voting to enrich the members of their parties and will achieve nothing for yourself or your family.

Carry on voting tribally for the same gangs and you will ensure that you, your children, and their children, are progressively impoverished and enslaved by the people who are recommending themselves to you now, for their own enrichment and self-aggrandizement.

That is their plan. And it has been working spectacularly well for the last 13 and a half years.

When are you going to break that pattern, stop harming yourself and do what needs to be done?

It’s time to change. Do it before it’s too late.


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Rwanda Bill passes – but only to keep Sunak in office. It won’t work

Rishi Sunak and his plan to stop the boats: it won’t work, as passed by MPs on January 17, it seems. Why did they back it, then?

Let’s have the BBC report first, before I drop the flipside on you:

Rishi Sunak has succeeded in getting his key Rwanda bill through the House of Commons after a Tory rebellion failed to materialise.

The bill, which aims to stop legal challenges against ministers’ plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, was approved by 320 votes to 276 votes.

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Dozens of Tories thought the bill was flawed and had threatened to rebel but in the end, only 11 voted against it…  including [Robert] Jenrick and former Home Secretary Suella Braverman – voted against it.

Other Tory MPs on the list include Miriam Cates, Sir Simon Clarke, Mark Francois and Danny Kruger.

The bill now goes to the House of Lords where it will face stiff opposition.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, who did not vote against the Bill, despite voicing reservations, got himself into hot water when the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire interviewed him about it.

You can bet he’s not alone in having voted for something that he doesn’t think will work, simply to keep the status quo in Parliament.

It seems clear that the Rwanda Bill will not achieve what it set out to do – for the reasons Rees-Mogg described in his interview.

There was, therefore, no reason for him and all those other Tory critics of the Bill to support it.

But they did.

The reason they did must be to support Rishi Sunak and keep this from becoming a ‘no confidence’ vote in his leadership – to cling on to office as a government for just a little bit longer.

That’s not good enough. We need MPs who have the courage of their convictions and will vote down bad legislation as they see it. Clearly the Tories don’t have that at all and there is no reason for anybody to support them any more.


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#ToryChaos: Braverman to split Tories with ‘toughen Rwanda Bill’ demand?

Suella Braverman: sniping from the sidelines.

Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman could split the Conservative government and trigger a general election with a call to toughen up Rishi Sunak’s Bill to make it possible to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda, it has been claimed.

Braverman wants MPs to support rebel amendments by Robert Jenrick, the former Immigration Minister who resigned over the Bill, aimed at stopping judges on the European Court of Human Rights from frustrating ministers’ implementation of the Rwanda. Braverman’s support may persuade like-minded right-wingers to vote for it.

She put forward her views in an interview on GB News. I haven’t been able to make the clip play but I present it below in the hope that one day it will:

But former Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland, from the centrist One Nation group of MPs, has backed three amendments which would tone down some parts of the bill by deleting clauses declaring Rwanda “a safe country”, disapplying the Human Rights Act, and forcing courts to disregard interim rulings by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

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The opposing amendments may split the Tory vote in Parliament, which is being touted as a vote of confidence in Rishi Sunak as prime minister. This suggests that, if the Bill falls, he could be ousted and a general election called. But that seems only a remote possibility, as HuffPost political editor Kevin Schofield explained – also on GB News:

This Writer has already bought popcorn – for a completely separate issue that could also sink the Tories (decide for yourself which one) – so I’m ready to be entertained by whatever happens. You have to get your fun where you can in the Tory Britain of 2024.


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Sunak decides to bomb Yemen to help Israel. No vote in Parliament. Starmer supports it

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak unilaterally authorised a series of airstrikes against the Houthi in Yemen, in tandem with the United States, to protect Israeli trade that has been threatened by attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.

He said it was a “retaliatory” strike but some of us have been sceptical:

Sunak said the Royal Air Force carried out targeted strikes against military facilities used by the Houthis. The Defense Ministry said four fighter jets based in Cyprus took part in the strikes.

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Noting the militants have carried out a series of dangerous attacks on shipping, he added, “This cannot stand.” He said the U.K. took “limited, necessary and proportionate action in self-defense, alongside the United States with non-operational support from the Netherlands, Canada and Bahrain against targets tied to these attacks, to degrade Houthi military capabilities and protect global shipping.”

In another report, Sunak warned that Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea threaten the economy and have a “damaging impact on people’s shopping”.

The attack goes against the wishes of many people in the UK – some of whom raised strong points against it:

The first the public knew about it was on Thursday evening (January 11):

Commentators on ‘X’ (formerly Twitter) were not impressed:

Sunak chose not to recall Parliament for a vote…

Some of us questioned where Sunak found the cash to splash on an expensive airstrike:

Also informed of the airstrikes were Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle and Labour leader Keir Starmer, who once insisted that Parliament should debate and vote before any military action is allowed to take place.

He announced yet another hypocritical about-turn in his own personal policy on the BBC’s Breakfast show:

Embarrassingly for Starmer, after he said his entire Parliamentary party was behind the military action, this happened:

His claim was further undermined by an alleged message sent out to Labour MPs, below:

The action has received a mostly negative reception from commentators on the social media.

Some have apologised directly to the people of Yemen, saying the UK government is out of control and acting without the consent of the UK’s electorate:

And some have suggested that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel should be extended to the UK and United States:

The Houthis in Yemen have already announced that they will retaliate, meaning that – instead of calming the crisis in the Red Sea, Sunak has escalated it.


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