RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/115680852249592645

Don Lemon had similar criticism of Donald Trump, for the same reason:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/don-lemon-calls-donald-trump-somali-racist-media_n_69348f01e4b0d7911b0d3b3a?origin=home-whats-happening-unit
#racism #extremism #politics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/115680852249592645

Don Lemon had similar criticism of Donald Trump, for the same reason:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/don-lemon-calls-donald-trump-somali-racist-media_n_69348f01e4b0d7911b0d3b3a?origin=home-whats-happening-unit
#racism #extremism #politics

"Rep. Ilhan Omar Says Stephen Miller's Rhetoric Echoes Language Used By Nazis":
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ilhan-omar-stephen-miller-rhetoric-immigrants-nazis_n_6935c8eae4b0a1c98be25e1f?origin=home-latest-news-unit
#racism #extremism #politics

So the UK looks to being prepared for a move to WorkFare if Pat McFadden (UK welfare secretary) is to be believed.

The new work programme for young people will be seen he said on Sky News, 'both an offer [and] an obligation'; failure to engage with the work programme will, ha stated pretty clearly mean the withdrawal of benefits.

Once again our political class is demonising the workless, assuming being out of work is voluntary; which for many is just not true!

#politics #unemployment
h/t FT

So the UK looks to being prepared for a move to WorkFare if Pat McFadden (UK welfare secretary) is to be believed.

The new work programme for young people will be seen he said on Sky News, 'both an offer [and] an obligation'; failure to engage with the work programme will, ha stated pretty clearly mean the withdrawal of benefits.

Once again our political class is demonising the workless, assuming being out of work is voluntary; which for many is just not true!

#politics #unemployment
h/t FT

I don't know why so many old white guys think a #civilwar will be easy to win when from the looks of them their entire army is gonna have to march on blood pressure medication & hemorrhoid pillows.

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #DNC #RepublicanParty #RNC #GOP #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #US #USA #ElonMusk #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive

I don't know why so many old white guys think a #civilwar will be easy to win when from the looks of them their entire army is gonna have to march on blood pressure medication & hemorrhoid pillows.

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #DNC #RepublicanParty #RNC #GOP #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #US #USA #ElonMusk #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive

Age Verification Laws Won't Work!

#privacy #AgeVerification #politics #democracy

Hopefully this iniative will be expanded and eventually include all of the occupied six counties in the North of Ireland. There was outrage from #DUP #TUV, when it was suggested the ‘Wild Atlantic Way’ signage could be expanded to include the North Coast of counties Derry & Antrim. They were so outraged the signage did not continue into those two counties. #Ireland #Tourism #Politics #MastoDaoine
Fáilte Ireland expansion 'a great opportunity' for NI - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmdkyjvgpzo

Hopefully this iniative will be expanded and eventually include all of the occupied six counties in the North of Ireland. There was outrage from #DUP #TUV, when it was suggested the ‘Wild Atlantic Way’ signage could be expanded to include the North Coast of counties Derry & Antrim. They were so outraged the signage did not continue into those two counties. #Ireland #Tourism #Politics #MastoDaoine
Fáilte Ireland expansion 'a great opportunity' for NI - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmdkyjvgpzo

Today's protest round up starts in, er ... China!
[Global protest round-up from MiniMia - December 6]

#FreePalestine
#Palestine #Gaza @palestine
#news #politics #protest #WorkersRights #DefendImmigrants #UKpol #USpol

https://syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/115673610545830637

Today's protest round up starts in, er ... China!
[Global protest round-up from MiniMia - December 6]

#FreePalestine
#Palestine #Gaza @palestine
#news #politics #protest #WorkersRights #DefendImmigrants #UKpol #USpol

https://syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/115673610545830637

Perhaps unsurprisingly both Green Parries (Scotland and England & Wales) have highlighted the lack of a major increase on taxation of the wealthy in their repossess to the Autumn Budget.

It seems pretty clear that while the Labour Party has taken the position (widespread in the media) that a wealth tax is ill-advised, the Green Parties are responding to a wide belief in the electorate that higher taxes on the very wealthy are both needed fiscally & fair politically.

#politics #WealthTax

There's something in the water at the DWP: Neil Couling, the director general of DWP services, in a blog post now removed, suggested that the victims of the care-payments-claw-back scandal were really themselves to blame for their situation...

These are people whose lives have be ruined while trying to do the right thing for their loved ones, by laziness & cost-cutting at the DWP.

For the second time this evening, words fail me...

#politics

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/06/senior-dwp-civil-servant-blames-victims-for-carers-allowance-scandal

So it seems because banks used non-banking subsidiaries in the car finance practices (hidden pay-offs) that have led to a multi-billion compensation scheme, compensation payments will be tax deductible - very handy & a loophole of sorts as the banks themselves have been banned from off-setting such payments against tax since 2015.

Labour is being urged to close this loophole, but given its deregulatory push in financial services, it may not actually happen.

#politics

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/06/ministers-urged-to-close-2bn-tax-loophole-in-car-finance-scandal

Lulu Garcia-Navarro: "They are cancelling naturalization ceremonies now. This isn’t about illegal immigration . It’s about LEGAL immigration":
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/us/immigration-citizenship-naturalization-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
#racism #Trump #politics copy: @renewedresistance

Lulu Garcia-Navarro: "They are cancelling naturalization ceremonies now. This isn’t about illegal immigration . It’s about LEGAL immigration":
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/us/immigration-citizenship-naturalization-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
#racism #Trump #politics copy: @renewedresistance

So it seems because banks used non-banking subsidiaries in the car finance practices (hidden pay-offs) that have led to a multi-billion compensation scheme, compensation payments will be tax deductible - very handy & a loophole of sorts as the banks themselves have been banned from off-setting such payments against tax since 2015.

Labour is being urged to close this loophole, but given its deregulatory push in financial services, it may not actually happen.

#politics

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/06/ministers-urged-to-close-2bn-tax-loophole-in-car-finance-scandal

There's something in the water at the DWP: Neil Couling, the director general of DWP services, in a blog post now removed, suggested that the victims of the care-payments-claw-back scandal were really themselves to blame for their situation...

These are people whose lives have be ruined while trying to do the right thing for their loved ones, by laziness & cost-cutting at the DWP.

For the second time this evening, words fail me...

#politics

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/06/senior-dwp-civil-servant-blames-victims-for-carers-allowance-scandal

In the FT: 'The financial crisis was obviously quite some time ago now' City minister Lucy Rigby [says]... 'from a narrative point of view, we don’t want banks to be any longer on the naughty step'!

So while workers wages' have still not recovered in real terms to what they were before the financial crisis, even while bankers earn millions in bonuses... a Labour minister wants to use the language of the playground to describe their ill-advised deregulatory push...

Words escape me.

#politics