#tory

mlansbury@despora.de

Stop jailing climate truth tellers!

This sentence is a gut-punch for us all. #Peaceful climate activists will spend the next four to five years in jail.

Why? For leading a video call about a #protest against the last government’s failure to act on climate change and its plans to “max out” on #oil and #gas.

This is the tragic result of repressive #Tory laws which treat peaceful climate protesters as violent offenders.
- Activists can now be #jailed for up to ten years!
- Meanwhile, big #polluters destroy our planet with impunity.

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/uk_climate_activists_loc/

#authoritarian #oppression #cruel #ToryScum #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency

mlansbury@despora.de

Fatal strategic flaws’: first report of UK Covid inquiry pinpoints serious errors of state

Health secretaries failed to amend contingency planning before Covid killed more than 230,000

But as Hallett predicted the arrival of another pandemic, possibly more transmissible and lethal, in the near to medium future, the Nuffield Trust health thinktank warned that neither the NHS nor social care services were “in a much more resilient state and in some areas they are weaker”.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/18/hancock-and-hunt-failed-to-prepare-uk-for-pandemic-covid-inquiry-finds

#TorryCorruption #Covid19 #deaths #incompetent #Tory #Tories #UK #pandemic

mlansbury@despora.de

Labour and Tories would ‘both leave NHS worse off than under austerity’

Labour and the Conservatives would both leave the #NHS with lower spending increases than during the years of Tory austerity, according to an independent analysis of their manifestos by a leading health thinktank.

The assessment by the respected #Nuffield Trust of the costed NHS policies of both parties, announced in their manifestos last week, says the level of funding increases would leave them struggling to pay existing staff costs, let alone the bill for massive planned increases in doctors, nurses and other staff in the long-term workforce plan agreed last year.

The Nuffield Trust said that “the manifestos imply increases [in annual funding for the NHS] between 2024-25 and 2028-29 of 1.5% each year for the Liberal Democrats, 0.9% for the Conservatives and 1.1% for Labour.

“Both Conservative and Labour proposals would represent a lower level of funding increase than the period of ‘austerity’ between 2010-11 and 2014-15.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/15/labour-and-tories-would-both-leave-nhs-worse-off-than-under-austerity-says-thinktank

#GeneralElection #SaveOurNHS #PeopleNotProfits #Healthcare #Tory #Labour

mkwadee@diasp.eu

In #GeneralElections in the #UK, the most you can do is vote for your #ConstituencyMP. So if you want to get rid of the #Tories, the best thing to do is vote for the party most likely to unseat them locally where possible. Obviously if you're in a safe non-Tory then you can vote for who you like but in marginals and even in relatively safe #Tory seats, #TacticalVoting might be your best option.

I've seen a couple of websites which are to help you vote tactically, though I can't really vouch for either. They are: https://tactical.vote/ and https://tacticalvote.co.uk/ I hope they're of use to some folks.

#Politics #GE24

mkwadee@diasp.eu

Which #SadiqKhan won the #election for #LondonMayor, beating #Tory candidate #SusanHall, after a very fractious campaign, the quote of the day belongs to one of the minor candidates standing, #CountBinface (as far as I can tell, no relation to a former parliamentary candidate, #LordBuckethead), who still beat the #BritainFirst candidate, #NickScanlon and said,
"It looks like I have defeated Britain First in an election.
“Come on, you have to cheer about that…down with fascism, up with Ceefax, what can I say?”

(For the uninitiated, Ceefax was the BBC's former teletext service.)

#UK #Politics #England #London

mlansbury@despora.de

UK: Crumbling schools plagued by leaks and cold, BBC finds

Schools in urgent need of repair have told Panorama they are struggling to keep children warm in buildings that are "not fit for purpose".

At one primary in Devon, temperatures are so low that children keep gloves and coats on during some lessons.

The head teacher says despite parts of the school being seemingly impossible to heat, he has been told it does not qualify for extra money for repairs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68021766

#ToryDictatorship #Tory #Tories #UK #schools #cold #warm #PeopleNotProfits #wealthy #ToriesOut #HumanRights