#Starmer said today that 'politicians have decided to hide behind quangos'

But since Labour came to power, 28 different quangos have been created

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/03/11/labour-axes-one-quango-after-creating-27-in-eight-months/

BBC News tells me that Keir #Starmer wants to reduce "#regulation". In other news, local authorities don't have enough money to check thousands of #toxic sites. '"What we don't do in this country is do a full #economic evaluation on the cost of things, including #health and that feels almost criminal," said Dr Ian Mudway, a leading expert on the effect of #pollution on human health'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gez4zgk8ko

#EU #RejoinEU #Bollox2Brexit #Benefit #Budget #Economics #Farming for the best under the radar 'official' news #FarmingToday can't be beat. Very quietly #Reeves #Starmer have withdrawn the #SFI #Sustainable #Farming #Initiative . A post #brexit measure designed to compensate #farmers for losing #EU support for #Green initiatives. So, another two pledges gone. Not #green and no #sufficiency . Ain't the a lying pair of cunning stunts eh?

The U.K. prime minister and his top security adviser worked intensively to rescue the broken relationship between Kyiv and Washington, drafting a truce plan that might one day pave the way for peace.

https://www.politico.eu/article/keir-starmer-ukraine-ceasefire-donald-trump-volodymyr-zelenskyy/

We're living in a Timeline where Canada and Ukraine are more likely to be in the EU before the United Kingdom even though a two thirds majority hate the fucking thing but Starmer proclaimed it "not in his lifetime"

Neville Chamberlain fuck

"Westminster ultimately determines what Holyrood can spend, and #Starmer appears to be as intent as #Musk to punish those without the ability to work, whether that be because there is no work to be had, or because they have other responsibilities in life, or because they are sick, or have disabilities. None of that appears to matter to Starmer. It would appear that he has had the same empathy bypass that Musk must have had."

- Richard Murphy in The National.

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25003237.keir-starmer-elon-musk-actually-remarkably-similar/

SDLP MP Clare Hanna is a legend! #AsGaeilge #HouseOfCommons #Starmer #Belfast #FleadhCeoil #Starmer #Think32 #UI
Irish used for first time in Prime Minister's Questions https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0312/1501774-irish-pmqs/

Maybe Starmer is just an Ableist fuck?
Have we considered that option?
He's not going to budge, he thinks he's being 'brave'

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/12/keir-starmer-could-face-biggest-rebellion-over-disability-benefit-freeze

The government spends most of its welfare budget on keeping people trapped in poverty. There is a better way

This chart shows where the government is going wrong on poverty - Big Issue

https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/poverty-prevention-emergency-coping-cure-pecc/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fu.k.politics

Cum a negociat #Starmer încetarea focului în #Ucraina în timp ce #Trump și #Zelensky făceau furori.
#PrimMinistrulRegatuluiUnit și consilierul său principal pe probleme de securitate au lucrat intens pentru a salva relația distrusă dintre #Kiev și #Washington.

https://wp.me/p9KpFA-4eh5

The reason the UK Labour government is cutting support for the sick and disabled is because, like the Tories before them, they know it’s easier for them to hound the poor and ill than it is to properly tax the rich. Cowards the lot of them. #Indyclan #Austerity #Starmer #AnasSarwar

27 nations of the EU have acted promptly & decisively in response to US trade hostility.

For "global Britain" the best our Premier can say is some mumbling about a table.

Do we yet understand what we threw away?

#Starmer can't afford to stand up to Trump tariff aggression, because simultaneously he is trying to act in a contradictory "brief to counsel" which is to pose as some sort of "honest broker" between the US & Ukraine on the Russian war. So we witness dithering.
#RejoinEU

"I'm so appalled I'm going to do absolutely nothing about it!"

"Oh no, our great ally has slapped Tariffs on our fragile steel industry, all those Red Wall voters, I had better lock up all the trans people to please Trump, how much can we sell the NHS for?"

What 'cards' if any do we have and will we have any say in what Starmer gives away to the US for a kind word?

#Politics #USA #EU #Canada #UK #Trade #TradeWars . Another bolloxy #brexit benefit from what I can make out. An #EU response to #Trumps disruptive tariff hikes. Little #Englander bravely going it alone. Where the 'special relationship' now eh #Kier #Starmer you w . I bet our #Rache got has her worry beads rattling #RachelReeves

What you are seeing today is a Failure of Starmer's policy of sucking up to Trump in the hope that America won't be mean to us.

It didn't work.

He is not a 'Trump whisperer', there is no such thing.

Starmer has failed, you stand up to bullies, you don't enable them.

At today's #PMQs, Zarah Sultana quotes #Starmer's words "#Israel does have that right to cut off electricity and water to #Gaza" she then gives an enumeration of Israel's crimes against #Gaza and culminates asking, "In light of these facts does the Prime Minister agree Israel is committing genocide?"

Starmer says he is appalled by Israel blocking aid when it is needed, and "we are doing everything we can to alleviate that situation"

This is a better response than one of a few years ago

Richard Burgon, at today's #PMQs, says, "rather than make chaneges to #welfarebenefits, the courageous thing to do would be to introduce a wealth tax on the very wealthiest in society"

#Starmer, in reply, refers to the non doms tax, which was weakened, and the raising of passenger duty on private jets, which raises bugger all

He then offers Burgon a sticking plaster and a gobstopper

Regarding the #Ukraine situation and discussions about a peace deal, at today's #PMQs Dave Doogan (SNP) asked #Starmer "what assurance can he give this house that the President of the United States is actually listening,"

Starmer replies that he "was pleased support for Ukraine was put back in"

I thought that happened because of yesterday's conference in Saudia Arabia, one that we were not invited to