#labour are fucked

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Why is Starmer such an idiot?

Surely, surely if we have a current shortage of skilled health care professionals, we should be begging people to come here?

Fixing the shortages in our NHS is not going to be quick. Even if NHS bursaries were brought back it takes often 10 years for a doctor to really be done "Training" and settled into a job, probably similar for a clinical psychologist, and 4 years at an absolute minimum for allied health professions (but many of those will take longer to get fully trained and qualified).

And we have to make it possible for people from low income backgrounds and for career changers to train... We aren't just going to magic up more nurses and doctors.

And there's nothing in here about paying them fairly or ensuring we retain them. Just petty nationalism.

#uk politics #nhs #keir starmer #labour are fucked #doctors #nurses #etc

[scottishcommune]

Glad to see the Labour Party have finally realised, in the middle of a cost of living crisis and following nearly a decade and a half of austerity, that what people really need is to be hit with harder punishment for *checks notes* uhh... shoplifting small items

He came out with this drivel at a speech to the shopworkers union, bc of course what shopworkers really care about is their wages people stealing food.

#uk pol #kier starmer #labour #Fuck the labour party #Red tories

[morganaspendragonss]

gonna be real, i literally don't give a shit whether charlie dies or not. he's only going to be replaced by his bald son and the monarchy will continue as it always has.

what i do care about is how this is going to be all over the news for the foreseeable even though tens of thousands of people are dying in a genocide our government is helping to fund, how people in our own country are suffering because of the cost of living crisis and the tories practically trying to tear the nhs (and many other public services) down.

and if he does die? we'll have to watch as this 'no money for the nhs' is funnelled into another state funeral and coronation. forgive me if i don't participate in the celebrations

#uk politics #british royal family #king charles #fuck the monarchy #fuck the tories #and at this point? fuck labour #or fuck kier starmer at least #i truly truly hate it here

[lost-carcosa]

#elon musk #twitter #tesla #actual physical labour #elongated muskrat #the more i learn about elon musk the more i realise he can go fuck himself

[uncanny-tranny]

Good news! You aren't required to make your hobbies and passions "marketable." In fact, your crafts, hobbies, and passions don't even need to be public if you so choose. You don't have to spend all of your energy becoming perfect if you aren't enjoying the process. You are not a product, you are a person, a creative, and your work also does not need to be a product.

#positivity #yet another post that's like... thinnly-veiled as being for myself #i find myself freezing with anxiety when i think about the things i used to do (writing especially) because... #...i had felt this force to make it ~content~ and ~marketable to an audience~ and it was so fucking daunting... #...it felt like being a gladiator in a coliseum #even now i fight the urge to equate being marketable to being acceptable and worthy of admiration and praise #i wish i hadn't burnt myself out of writing by doing this because i'm simultaneously grieving my writing and hating it #and it sucks the life out of what makes you feel like a person and it takes the art out of art #so be free! pist your art or don't! you are beholden to nobody!!! #(obviously this is not the case for professional artists who rely on their art to keep them alive) #(and i criticize heavily the idea that audiences are entitled to an artists labour) #(i understand that this isn't universal and if it doesn't apply to you then you don't have to take me seriously) #(if you are a professional artist or what have you i hope you are able to feed and house yourself off of that career!) #(i hope you are able to live a happy life and be able to keep loving what you're doing)

[imviotrash]

Joanne Harcourt moodboard of being in various stages of distress, because he's just like me fr.

#when your comfort character didn't have a day of comfort in their lives #the writers are fucking his shit UP #the getting bullied to unpaid exploitative child labour to experiencing the horrors pipeline #kuroshitsuji #black butler #vio speaks #kuroshitpost #joanne harcourt #vios garbage can

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

Hey hi hello to any fellow Brits reading this.

You probably know we have a general election coming up, which by the way, make sure you're registered to vote and have the qualifying photo ID.

And hey maybe you're a fence-sitter who doesn't want to vote for Labour for whatever reason.

Well, this post is giving you a reason to vote for Labour (or any party other than Tory if the candidate actually has a chance to win the seat).

You might have noticed that a lot of local and city councils have either gone bankrupt recently or are teetering on the edge, and that officially, it's the councils themselves that have been blamed, and uh yeah, that's horseshit.

The majority of a local council's funding comes from core grants given out by Westminster.

There's actually a limit on funding that local councils can raise via taxes, and like a whole lot of issues in the UK, that comes down to Margaret fucking Thatcher. It's also thanks to her that local councils don't have as much power over the local area as you'd ideally want them to.

(That's been eased a little since, but if a local council ain't got the money, they can't exercise that power.)

Suffice to say, local councils are very much dependent on funding from the central government.

And as you might imagine, 14 years of Tory government has just made it worse. From 2010 to 2020, that funding was cut by 40%.

Wanna know why hundreds of libraries have closed down? Or why public services like bin collections are almost entirely ran by corporations? Or why bin collections are now once a fortnight rather than once a week? Or why council houses haven't been built? Or why public toilets are being closed? Or why you have to Tokyo Drift on the drive to work because it's been 2 years and no one's done shit about that goddamn pothole? Or why parks seem to now be maintained by Big Foot and by the way Big Foot has also declared bankruptcy? Or why local arts have had their budget of 17 paperclips and a whistle reduced down to 10 paperclips and no whistle? Or why your local museum is effectively a mausoleum?

It is all down to this.

Your local council runs on a shoestring budget because Tory rule has deprived local councils of the funding that they need.

If the Tories win in July, this problem is just gonna get worse and worse and worse.

More councils are going to go bankrupt; more public services are going to be cut or underfunded; more vulnerable kids are going to fall through the cracks; more local services will be privatised; more pressing issues will be ignored because there's no money left over to fix it.

You might not like the current Labour party, but hi hello welcome to harm reduction politics. Maybe a Labour government won't fix this, but another 5 years of Tory rule is going to break this country.

So for god's sake, get over yourself and your leftist purity bullshit, and just fucking vote for Labour as a vote against the Tories.

[Information for this post comes from this video by Tom Nicholas]

#britpol #british politics #uk politics #britposting #tories #fuck the tories #uk general election #general election #margaret thatcher #politics #i dont know what to tag this as #but i just saw another stupid fucking ''no its actually enlightened to just not vote'' post #and im angry #and frustrated #and for fucks fucking sake #if you really care about all the issues you claim to care about #then for gods fucking sake go fucking votw #the glorious revolution is not fucking happening #especially with you not doing jackshit toward it #so for fucks sake actually engage with reality as it is and vote for labour as to vote the fucking tories out

[deepermadness]

IT'S HAPPENING

HERE'S THE DATE: JULY 4TH

MAKE SURE YOU'RE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE AND GET YOUR ID READY

TIME TO GET RID OF THE TORIES FOREVER

Tell everybody. Get everything in order. Together we can stop the chaos!

#UK politics #British politics #Britain #UK #Labour #Kier Starmer #4th of July #July 4th #Rishi Sunak #Tories out #Fuck the tories #Vote #Please vote #Vote vote vote

[cosmologicalspoon]

i keep seeing anti-labour memes about how they're just tory lite and listen. listen i fucking get it ok they suck ass they do. sure kier starmer is flawed as fuck and labour is diluted conservatives sure. but diluted. is still LESS. if this election is gonna be a pick the lesser of two evils situation u gotta nut up and fucking vote for the lesser evil. i don't give a shit. srsly I dont care. I know it sucks I know its bad but u can't. u can't sit it out. u can't protest vote. it won't work. and the tories will stay in power

no matter how much u can hate on starmer (and trust me I hate on him a LOT) he will be better than the tories.

blair was also a labour leader considered tory lite and u kno what? yeah he sucked ass but he got Some shit done. the NHS flourished a lil under his leadership u can hate him all u want for not having been a left enough leader but he was a damn sight better than the tories wudve been

so when the election rolls around u gotta fucking suck it up buttercup. I hate seeing this kind of anti-labour rhetoric even in meme form cus it's just gonna either discourage voting especially among the left, or it will completely split the vote. and then we will b truly fucked.

vote smart. vote labour if u have to. unseat the tories and fucking get them the fuck out of power

#uk politics #im gonna tag this as nuanced #and wait for the hate mail #cus god forbid i have a nuanced take #on the reading comprehension webbed site #but listen. we gotta be smart about this #morals in voting are for local elections #not the general one #in the general election u have to pull ur thumb out and pick whatever option will beat the tories #even if u hate em #sorry #thats just how it is #kier starmer #labour #fuck the tories #tories out #anti tories

[twelverriver]

i met a young girl with eyes so bright she was already getting sick of life her arms were laden with his merchandise she asked me why i no longer and waste my time and i said, "spite" cause every time you are succeeding, there is an old man somewhere, seething and spite's as good a reason to take his power paris paloma - as good a reason

#btvsedit #buffysummersedit #btvs #buffy summers #smgedit #dailybuffysummers #dailybtvs #buffysource #femaledaily #usersiesie #*mine #im listening to that song on repeat today #and gave me big fuckery vibes #BUFFY GETTING HER POWER BACK !!! #BUFFY DEFEATING THE COUNCIL THE BUNCH OF OLD SEETHING MEN WHO LINE THEIR POCKETS WITH THE FRUITS OF HER LABOUR #FUCK THEM !!!!

[intersectionalpraxis]

Here is the link to the petition! Demand an End of Alabama's Forced Labor Scheme in State Prisons

Something I learned a long time ago, and I will never forget -is that the reason why most prison systems have very short visitation times is because they do BUSINESS with a huge telecom company -and the hope is that with shorter times to see people in their life, they will HAVE to inevitably use in-prison phones set-up and therefore will spend more money... Once you start reading about the prison industrial complex you will surely become an abolitionist.

Angela Davis' work is something I can't emphasize and recommend enough to people to learn who want to learn/unlearn more about these issues as a start. This Is one of her most recent books. But she has many on this topic:

#feminist #feminism #social justice #free palestine #angela davis #prison abolition #abolish capitalism #abolish prisons #abolish the police #defund the police #fuck capitalism #prison system #intersectionality #intersectional activism #forced labour

[arsenicflame]

episode 8 fix it where izzy does get shot, but it doesnt kill him- its on the left side after all! a gunshot does more damage than a sword, so he has a longer healing time ahead, and with him still learning how to live missing a leg, they all agree that its best he doesn't sail away with them, that itd be better if he stayed on land while he recovers

conveniently, he just so happens to know two men who are looking to start an inn on land! he can stay with them, help them complete repairs (god knows neither of them knows what theyre doing themselves) he can whittle little souvenirs on his sick bed; he can help moderate their ideas ("theres no point picking drapes yet stede, we don't have a fucking window") he can heal in peace.

maybe he could try being someone else other than the great izzy hands, maybe he could make something new here. no captains, no first mates, just izzy and ed and stede

#honestly you don't even need to change anything the grave could be a 'memory of the great izzy hands; the pirate' #just have ed + stede walk into their inn and theres izzy- injured; but alive #after the fishing scene i am unapologetically making ed incompetent at physical labour #hes fucking great at being a pirate captain; fighting; coming up with plans; but getting his hands dirty? boring #thats izzys job! #nyxtalks #ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #izzy hands #israel hands #steddy hands #steddyhands #thats where this goes for me. no question about it #that was a 'there was only one bed' size inn and of course izzy needs it for his recovery but you think ed + stede will sleep on the floor? #NO #this is canon to me i refuse to believe he's dead. hes there with them in that inn.

[nando161mando]

UK Labour suspended its Muslim parliamentary candidate for liking a tweet containing a video clip of Jon Stewart talking about Israel

#UK Labour suspended its Muslim parliamentary candidate for liking a tweet containing a video clip of Jon Stewart talking about Israel #uk labour party #uk politics #ukpol #uk government #uk govt #ukgov #uk #labour #muslim #jon stewart #israel #israhell #benjamin netanyahu #fuck netanyahu #netanyahu a criminal of war #bibi netanyahu #anti netanyahu #palestine #free palestine #freepalastine🇵🇸 #gaza strip #gaza genocide #free gaza #gazaunderattack #gaza #all eyes on rafah #save rafah #free rafah #rafah under attack

[uncanny-tranny]

One of the great things about fiber arts (at least to me) is that... you outright own the things you make. It's hard for me to comprehend actually owning something, and that's that. The item you have created doesn't need to come with strings attached (pun intended).

In a world where you are constantly buying things but not owning any of it, truly, it's such an odd experience to actually have ownership of your labour, time, and love like that.

#art #fiber art #crochet #honestly that's how i feel with my blanket still #like i don't own my subscription to spotify or the games i virtually purchased fullprice (which. why)... #...but when i get my yarn and i use the crochet hook i have been abusing a little i OWN the things it and i make #that's honestly kind of intimidating to me because i haven't truly felt i owned anything. like not even my life. it's a problem. #i just got some pretty yarn to use for a cardigan. they told me to use acrylic but i can't wear acrylic and i like cotton #<it's insane that i can just Decide to not use the pattern recommendations. like that's still crazy to me #anyway fuck capitalism and adopt a craft if you can #it's SUCH a freeing experience and it will make you feel crazy once you know what it feels like to actually own your labour. lol. #like it doesn't matter WHAT craft it is. could be knit. could be wood burning. could be abstract car manufacturing... #...as long as you can do it safely to your standards and you are satisfied and fulfilled with it then it can change you. let it change you.

[watchmakermori]

FUCK THE TORIES GET EM OUT GET EM OUT GET THEM OUT

#uk politics #starmer is a little bitch and i hate his vision for labour but FUCK ME GOD ALMIGHTY PLEASE GET THE TORIES OUT

[toruandmidori]

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