Alister Jack, the Scottish secretary who stood down as an MP when the election was called, had been considered for inclusion in a dissolution honours list compiled in recent weeks, according to sources familiar with the process.
#Tories #ToryScum #honours #ToryFascists #Sunak #DemocracyNOW #corruption
For people seeking asylum and even those already recognised as refugees, Britain does not feel like a safe country anymore
When you constantly experience insecurity, your psyche becomes extremely sensitive to it. You react to the smallest threats. Normal life and trust are impossible in a society that delegitimises you.
For people seeking #asylum and even those already recognised as refugees, #Britain does not feel like a safe country anymore. It isn’t a safe country anymore, not as long as government officials feel comfortable saying that putting us onto a plane to Rwanda is a “dream” and an “obsession”, as former home secretary Suella Braverman did.
It's the same thing all over again: repression, indifference, cruelty. Suffering as a project.
#HumanRights #ToryFascists #Fascism #humanity #HumanRights #InternationalLaw
New official data shows that a significant amount of people lost their lives last winter - and it seems as is a lack of governmental legislation and poor insulation could be to blame.
Stark new figures estimate that some 4,950 excess winter deaths last year in the UK were down to people living in cold and damp homes.
New official data from the End Fuel Poverty Coalition says those figures were recorded during winter 2022/23.
The Warm This Winter study also found that, when the average winter temperature in the UK drops below four degrees centigrade, the level of excess winter deaths sky-rockets.
https://www.euronews.com/2024/01/19/uk-records-4950-excess-winter-deaths-amid-cost-of-living-crisis
#UK #deaths #winter #freezing #CorporateTerrorism #ToryFascists #heating #PeopleNotProfits #energy #EnergyPrices #ToryScum #UnitedKingdom
Petition
The Government is sneaking in new powers to spy on all of our bank accounts on the premise of dealing with welfare fraud and error.
It will force banks to flag people who meet secret criteria to the government.
Everyone wants fraudulent uses of public money to be dealt with, and the government already has strong powers to check the bank statements of suspects.
But this is a major expansion of government power that takes away our financial privacy like never before and does away with the presumption of innocence - the democratic principle that you shouldn't be spied on unless police suspect you of wrongdoing.
Petition:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-government-from-spying-on-all-of-our-bank-accounts
#ToryFascists #dictatorship #ToryScum #privacy #DemocracyNow #ToriesOut #banking #money #financial #DystopianBritain #UK #fascism #ToryDictatorship #Orwellian #Orwell
The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill will gut UK privacy laws, attacking our ability to challenge data abuse and expanding ways in which the Government can snoop on you.
The bill contains powers that would enable them to snoop on the bank accounts and financial assets of anyone who claims ANY benefit. That includes child benefit and the state pension, alongside tax credits and universal credit.
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/hands-off-our-data
#ToryFascists #fascism #ToryScum #Orwellian #spying #surveillance #UK #BigData #privacy #HumanRights #ToryScum #PoliceState #pensions #digital #DataGrab
The Tory government passed a statutory instrument that will increase the amount of money that an individual can donate to a party without declaring who donated it, from £7,500 to £11,180. We are concerned about any move that could see more money flowing anonymously into our politics.
The same statutory instrument increased the national election spending cap by 80%, from £19.5m to about £35m. This is the amount that party HQs can spend, there is another cap for how much local candidates can spend.
https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/new-political-funding-rules-sneak-in/
#UK #corruption #ToryCorruption #elections #campaigns #ToryDictatorship #ToryFascists #DemocracyNow #ToryCronyism #voting #FairVotes #money
Former Prime Minister David Cameron’s appointment as Foreign Secretary – despite having left Parliament in 2016 – has triggered fresh calls to abolish the House of Lords.
Cameron replaces James Cleverly, who has moved to ousted cabinet minister Suella Braverman’s former role of Home Secretary.
There is no constitutional requirement for a cabinet minister to be an elected MP, but it is very rare that senior offices of state are held by unelected politicians. Lobbyist Cameron has been handed a seat in the 800-odd member House of Lords for life to take up the role.
Today campaign group Republic demanded a written constitution and elected upper house following the move.
Republic’s CEO, Graham Smith, said: “This appointment joins a string of recent outrages that remind us of the urgent need to ditch the Lords in favour of an elected upper house.
#ElectoralDictatorship #UnitedKingdom #UK #dictatorship #authoritarian #Tory #Tories #ToryDictatorship #ToryFascists #democracy #PR #DemocracyLost #ToryCronyism #BylineTimes #Lords #HouseOfLords #Republic #lobbying #lobbyist #Cameron #DavidCameron
Dear Rt. Hon. Victoria Atkins,
As you begin your time as Health Secretary, we ask you to fix the NHS crisis by reinstating our NHS as a fully public service and ending NHS privatisation now!
See full letter and add your name to it:
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/victoria-atkins-reinstate-our-nhs-fully-public-service
#WeOwnIt #NHS #OurNHS #SaveOurNHS #privatisation #ToryCronies #PrivatisationFails #ToryDictatorship #PeopleNotProfits #ToryFascists #Healthcare #Health #Medical
Poverty levels in the UK are “simply not acceptable” and the [UK] government is violating international law, the United Nations’ poverty envoy has said ahead of a visit to the country this week, when he will urge ministers to increase welfare spending.
Olivier De Schutter, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, cited research showing universal credit payments of £85 a week for single adults over 25 were “grossly insufficient” and described the UK’s main welfare system as “a leaking bucket”.
#UnitedKingdom #UK #poverty #InternationalLaw #violations #hunger #food #shelter #Dystopia #ToryFascists #ToryDictatorship #ToryFascistDictatorship
Hamas launched its deadly attack against Israel on Vladimir Putin’s birthday. “The Hamas terror campaign in Israel is a huge win for Putin,” Bill Browder told me. “Not only has the press completely sidelined his murderous war in Ukraine as they focus on Israel, but now he’s seeing his oil revenue increase which is the main way he’s funding his war.”
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #ToryCorruption #corruption #Brexit #UnitedKingdom #UK #British #ToryFascists #ToryFascistDictatorship #Hamas #Israel #HappyBirthday #birthday #PutinBirthday
This is the latest example of the UK diverging from EU environmental standards. Recent analysis found that many toxic chemicals and pesticides banned in the bloc since Brexit are not outlawed for use in the UK. Ministers have also sought to rip up EU-derived sewage pollution rules for housebuilders.
In 2019, the last time the full water assessments took place, just 14% of rivers were in good ecological health and none met standards for good chemical health. The government has said it does not intend to deliver a complete update until 2025, the latest permissible date under the new WFD.
#ToryCorruption #ecocide #Brexit #BrexitBenefits #BrexitFails #ToryDictatorship #Orwellian #greed #ToryProfiteers #ToryFascists #ElectoralDictatorship #ToryFascistDictatorship
The Prime Minister should call an immediate general election to allow the British public to have their say on how we are governed, we should not be made to wait until January 2025
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Consistent opinion polling has shown the British public have lost confidence in the current government. The NHS is in crisis, the asylum system is broken, there are delays at the ports, and institutions are failing. The British people should be given a say on what to do next.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/641904
#petitions #GeneralElection #GeneralElectionNow #Democracy #DemocracyNow #ToryFascists #ToryDictatorship #ToryScum #ToriesOut
Though ministers promised the UK would not water down EU-derived environmental standards after Brexit, there have been multiple instances of divergence since the country left the bloc.
Now, the country is failing to phase out pesticides that have been found to be harmful to human health and the environment at the same rate as the EU, according to research from Pesticide Action Network (PAN).
Thirteen of the 36 chemicals are considered highly hazardous pesticides under UN definitions used to identify the most harmful substances.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/13/uk-fails-ban-pesticides-outlawed-use-in-eu
#ToryLies #BrexitLies #BrexitHasFailed #ToryDictatorship #unaccountable #ToryFascists #pesticides #chemicals #human #health #toxic #PeopleNotProfits #poison
