'Horrendous new normal': Millions skipping or cutting down on meals

Rampant food inflation and poor state support are forcing people in Britain to make impossible choices, says the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Millions in Britain are having to cut down or skip meals amid the cost of living crisis, according to an anti-poverty charity.

https://www.euronews.com/2023/06/20/horrendous-new-normal-millions-skipping-or-cutting-down-on-meals

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Millions skipping or cutting down on meals

Rampant food inflation and poor state support are forcing people in Britain to make impossible choices, says the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Green MP, Caroline Lucas flagged by disinformation unit over Covid criticism

The Tory government “has dangerously blurred the lines between genuine disinformation and legitimate political dissent”.

The Green party MP Caroline Lucas has called for an inquiry into a government unit intended to combat disinformation after it emerged she had been flagged by it for criticisms of ministers and government policy over Covid.

Lucas, who lodged a subject access request along with the campaign group Big Brother Watch for details held on her by the counter-disinformation unit (CDU), said her inclusion in a series of reports amounted to “staggering overreach” by ministers.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/18/caroline-lucas-flagged-by-disinformation-unit-over-covid-criticism

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The row over Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list highlights why it should be the last

'Grubby horse trading' in UK government

The recent days have seen the national focus pulled onto the House of Lords through the public row between Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson over the latter’s resignation honours list.

While the spat has provided high political drama it has also shown how low our constitutional politics has sunk. The varying accounts of what Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak agreed over the honours list have pulled back the curtain on the grubby horse-trading that goes on around choosing who sits in the upper chamber.

Yet, the impact of this list will last long after the melodrama between the Prime Minister and his predecessor has subsided. For instance, each of the seven new peers has been handed a job-for-life in parliament, which means potentially decades of influence legislating for the public, with which most have had little meaningful contact.

https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/the-row-over-this-resignation-honours-list-highlights-why-it-should-be-the-last/?utm_medium=Diaspora

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The row over Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list highlights why it should be the last

The recent days have seen the national focus pulled onto the House of Lords through the public row between Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson over the latter’s resignation honours list.Whi

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Tories in trouble: #Millennials now 'first generation to become MORE left-wing'

According to the study, those aged between 25 to 40 are the largest voting group in more than half of all constituencies across the UK. However, barely one in five them (21%) say they plan to vote for the Tories at the next election.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/millennials-more-left-wing-study-uk-349657/

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Tories in trouble: Millennials now 'first generation to become MORE left-wing'

The current crop of millennials are bucking the trends that have been in place for decades - and it spells disaster for the Tories.

Post-Brexit India deal could cut thousands of jobs in Leave-voting areas, and hike food prices

British rice milling industry faces wipe-out from part of a trade deal being discussed with India. First proposed by Boris Johnson, it is also predicted to raise consumer food prices and break UK limits on pesticides

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/post-brexit-india-deal-could-cut-thousands-of-jobs-in-leave-voting-areas-and-hike-food-prices-2348069

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The Brexit deal that could cut thousands of jobs in Leave-voting England and hike food prices

British rice milling industry faces wipe-out from part of a trade deal being discussed with India. First proposed by Boris Johnson, it is also predicted to raise consumer food prices and break UK limits on pesticides

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Not My King: it’s not a crime to say it

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• Protest organisers at King Charles’ coronation have been arrested, and placards confiscated.
• The protest was legal and agreed with the police in advance, but organisers were arrested on their arrival.

The attempts to shut down debate about the issue are a disgrace

It’s time to move on from the feudal age and abolish the monarchy.

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The Tory's Fascist Kingdom has arrived

Protest organisers at King Charles’ coronation have been arrested, and placards confiscated.

The protest was all legal and agreed with the police, but organisers were arrested on their arrival. It is the latest in a series of state over-reaches trying to stop awkward questions about the UK’s new, unelected head of state.

Scotland Yard later said “several” arrests had been made for breach of the peace and conspiracy to cause public disorder.

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Britain in Crisis: The UK Faces a Steep Climb Out of a Deep Hole

• Food shortages
• Mouldy apartments
• Lack of medical workers

The United Kingdom is facing a perfect storm of struggle, and millions are sliding into poverty. There is little to suggest that improvement will come anytime soon.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/britain-in-crisis-the-uk-faces-a-steep-climb-out-of-a-deep-hole-a-6b61dc6f-e33f-46f3-bd27-743364dd675c

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Britain in Crisis: The UK Faces a Steep Climb Out of a Deep Hole

Food shortages, moldy apartments, a lack of medical workers: The United Kingdom is facing a perfect storm of struggle, and millions are sliding into poverty. There is little to suggest that improvement will come anytime soon.

Shut down the UK Ministry of Truth

My name’s Mark and I’m a human rights campaigner. I’ve just found out I was included in a government Mis/Disinformation Report for sharing a petition from the official Parliamentary petitions website

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Britons delayed at Dover to miss out on compensation if EU law scrapped

Passengers taking bus and coach trips to the continent stand to lose their right to compensation for delays in Dover under government plans to delete thousands of EU laws.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/19/britons-delayed-at-dover-to-miss-out-on-compensation-if-eu-law-scrapped

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French publisher arrested in London on terrorism charge

A French publisher has been arrested on terror charges in London after being questioned by UK police about participating in anti-government protests in France.

Ernest Moret, 28, a foreign rights manager for Éditions la Fabrique, was approached by two plainclothes officers at St Pancras station on Monday evening after arriving by train from Paris to attend the London book fair.

He was questioned for six hours and then arrested for alleged obstruction in refusing to disclose the passcodes to his phone and computer. His treatment was condemned as an attack on the right to demonstrate, amid calls for protests outside the UK embassy in Paris and French Institute in London.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/18/french-publisher-arrested-london-counter-terrorism-police-ernest-moret

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Coronation’s Big Help Out volunteering project at risk of lack of participants

Volunteering was in “steady decline”, a trend that without government intervention was likely to continue. “You look at levels of volunteering over the last decade and it’s just been relentlessly downhill,” he added. “It’s hard to put a gloss on it.”

#Volunteering is at a historic low in England, government research shows. In 2021-22, 34% of respondents to the Community Life Survey volunteered at least once a month, down from 41% the year before and 44% in 2013-14.

The latest figures mark the lowest ever participation recorded by the survey, which has been running for a decade.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/16/big-help-out-volunteering-crisis-coronation

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Local Elections: England

It’s unfair, undemocratic and completely fails to represent the views of voters. There is a better way.

Local councils are supposed to represent their communities. But often the make-up of council chambers fail to reflect how people voted – The First Past the Post system throws millions of votes on the scrapheap.

In London alone, 90% of wards with more than one councillor are represented by just one party, leaving hundreds of thousands of voters without a voice.

https://action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/2401/petition/1?utm_medium=diaspora

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In England the electoral system means we often get councils that do not represent what people voted for. Wales has made progress, but England is being left behind.

Just 7% want Boris Johnson's resignation honours - do you want them?

The public are sick and tired of political patronage and seeing prime ministers pack the House of Lords with their friends and supporters.

Our exclusive new polling found that found just 7% of people support Boris Johnson’s plans to hand out dozens of new peerages, months after he left office.

It is time to end this squalid, undemocratic practice and replace the bloated Lords with a smaller elected second chamber where the people of this country, not ex-prime ministers, decide who shapes the laws we all live under.

Add your name to those opposed to these appointments:
https://action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/124207/petition/1?utm_medium=diaspora

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‘Hostile, authoritarian’ UK downgraded in civic freedoms index

The UK is becoming increasingly authoritarian and is among concerning company in the Civicus Monitor ratings as restrictive laws and dangerous rhetoric are creating a hostile environment towards civil society in the UK.”

It is also concerned by what it sees as the UK government’s attempts to undermine human rights and its hostility towards charities and campaigners who actively oppose or speak out against its policies on climate change, anti-racism and refugee and asylum seeker rights.

The UK government’s increasingly hardline approach is reflected in a separate annual survey of charities by the Sheila McKechnie Foundation (SMK), which reveals widespread alarm at the extent of ministers perceived hostility to civil society and enthusiasm for cracking down on long-held freedoms to organise and protest.

“The results of our survey, alongside the news Civicus has downgraded the UK as obstructed, should be a wake-up call. Our civic space is experiencing death by a thousand cuts and, at a time when ‘Global Britain’ is trying to carve out its new space in the world, we find ourselves in the same class as countries we have previously been a democratic example to,” said the SMK chief executive, Sue Tibballs.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/16/hostile-authoritarian-uk-downgraded-in-civic-freedoms-index

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No knighthood for Boris Johnson’s dad

Boris Johnson is trying to hand a knighthood to his own father Stanley Johnson. This absurd level of corruption cannot stand.

Johnson has nominated his father to become a ‘Sir’ as part of his resignation honours, the Times revealed. This is a list that outgoing prime ministers get to choose – but it is unprecedented to select their own family members.

Boris Johnson has a track record of nepotism in appointments, having previously put his brother and several close friends into the House of Lords.

https://r.ippl.es/stanley-johnson/

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