The best trick the wealthy 1% have ever pulled off is to convince the politically vocal (and influential) next 20% that one day they could be super wealthy too, and so increases in tax on the current wealthy, are really increases of tax on their future wealth....
By the time the 20% realise the 1% have made sure they'll never get that wealthy a new generation is waiting to be hoodwinked!
Now that Keir Starmer seem to be offering concessions to the disability cut rebels (although they might be wise to see the shape they finally take early next week), those Stramer-loyalist who stood up to defined the cuts, might be wondering whether they should do that again.... they're being made to look pretty foolish (and, of course, callous).
Overall the entire affair (disability cuts, rebellion, late/grudging concessions) has been a massive unforced error....
Violent airstrikes were launched by the Israeli air force against the Ghubari neighborhood in #Jabalia city, northern Gaza Strip.
#Gaza#SaveGaza#StopIsrael#SanctionIsrael#BDS
#palestine#Israel#Politics#Genocide#PeaceNow#StopTheWar#CeasefireNow
The Green Party is right; we do need to sit down with the EU & establish exactly what would be needed to being a process of re-joining the EU....
'the best way to restore prosperity, protect the environment & strengthen security is to rebuild the partnership we walked away from'.
Anyone wondering where sensible people might flock to as Labour continues its lurch to the right, might want to ask themselves: why not the Green Party?
https://greenparty.org.uk/2025/06/23/nine-years-since-brexit/
A little ditty I wrote 34 years ago when a man I never met began killing people I don't hate with weapons that I paid for.
#Iran#HumanRights#Music#Politics#Democracy#Justice#Songwriting #Trump #NoMandate#AntiTrump#AntiGOP#AntiMAGA#Republicans#HalfHeartedFanatic
Netanyahu has tried for two decades to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran & finally found a president stupid enough, narcissistic enough, and easily manipulated enough to do it.
#war#IllegalWar#UnconstitutionalWar#UnprovokedWar#Netanyahu#Israel#Iran #politics#Dictatorshit#Nazis#FascistAmeriKKKa
Lets be clear; changes to tax laws do not 'force' the wealthy to leave the country.
The wealthy are choosing not to increase their contribution to the country they are (currently at least) living in.
Sure that is a choice they are free to make, but its their choice; no-one is forcing them into anything.
They already have enough money, so refusing to pay higher taxes is a choice about what they wish to support in their (for now) home country!
They are not victims!
This is a small personal instance of Bonfire in the Fediverse.
