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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 38m

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

@NorthantsGreens the UK Government is tainted by it's actions in support of this Genocide, I hope someday people are taken to Court over this, probably an International one.

#FreePalestine #Gaza #UKPOL

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 1h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

Once again, Tories with their finger on the pulse there.....twenty years ago I graduated from a University College in a small city/large town.

Next they'll be noticing the summers' seem to be getting hotter year after year....

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93lql9ln3lo

A portrait photograph of MP Jesse Norman. He is wearing a grey suit jacket and white shirt with a blue spotty tie. He is stood against a grey backdrop.

www.bbc.comSet up universities in towns and small cities - Herefordshire MPMP Jesse Norman says there are 50 towns and small cities which do not currently have a university.

#UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Tories

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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 1h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

@snigdha we're getting more like Gilead by the week.....

#SewageScandal #WaterPrivitisation #UKPOL

**Ian Robinson** @ianRobinson@mastodon.social · 1h

Ian Robinson @ianRobinson@mastodon.social

People wanted change, and while the percentages were not overwhelming at the last UK general election, the gaming of the FPTP system delivered a huge majority that Labour could have used to drive progressive policies and wealth redistribution.

They have failed to use their majority, and are pandering to chase views on the right of the political spectrum.

Sod them.

#UKPolitics

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 1h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

The Home Office is a racist institution

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/15/home-office-reverses-decision-to-deny-father-to-be-entry-to-uk-after-guardian-story

The Guardian · 2hHome Office reverses decision to deny father-to-be entry to UK after Guardian storyBy Diane Taylor

#HomeOffice #DmitriPiliposyan #UKPOL

**Adam Jacobs** @statsguy@mas.to · 2h

Adam Jacobs @statsguy@mas.to

UK Politics

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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 2h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social "Worst of both worlds"

That's Labour Pragmatism for you.

"If nobody is happy we must be doing something right!"

See also: the BBC

#Labour #UKPOL #UKPolitics

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 2h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

Britain is scared of Black People.....always has been....it's pathetic.

We were the 'invaders' we were the baddies going there , raping and pillaging for Empire. Yet we think we're victims somehow, don't we? Poor widdle Britain, picked on by all these countries who for some reason have something against us ("can't think what that would be, maybe it's reverse racism?")

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/15/author-ibrahima-balde-denied-uk-visa-to-attend-premiere-of-play-based-on-his-memoir

The Guardian · 3hAuthor denied UK visa unable to attend premiere of play based on his memoirBy Daniel Boffey

#Whiteness #BlackMastodon #IbrahimaBalde

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 2h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

The British State rewards those who clean up it's crimes for them.

You gotta have men like this in the Military for when you want to shoot unarmed civilians who are in your way, haven't you?

"For the Greater Good (of the Rich Man)"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/15/general-accused-of-locking-away-sas-war-crimes-evidence-is-made-navy-chief

The Guardian · 3hGeneral accused of locking away SAS war crimes evidence is made navy chiefBy Ben Quinn

#WarCrimes #UKMilitary #UKPOL

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 2h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

Lib Dems doing the things Labour should be doing but won't.

4mago 16.06 BST

Lib Dems say they will force vote in Lords to try to block law
allowing foreign states to part-own UK newspapers

As Mark Sweney reports, the government has decided to allow foreign states
to own stakes of up to 15% in British newspapers. This is primarily to end the
deadlock over the sale of the Daily Telegraph, allowing a consortium backed
by the United Arab Emirates to take over.

#Labour #LibDems #UKPOL

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 2h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

The House of Commons such a state that the House of Lords looks pragmatic and wise in comparison. I mean, that's the idea isn't it?
Still needs massive reform though, too many Lords for a start, half of them never vote anyway, just like dressing up in Ermine and pretending they're somebody....

https://youtu.be/w3eq5ZLEeSU?si=Vk6WElSZT7E380Zx

2hago 14.08 BST
The Green party peer Jenny Jones has said that, while her party would
abolish the House of Lords, even in its current form “it actually weirdly
works”.
She was speaking in a wide-ranging interview with John McFall, the Lord
Speaker, for his Lord Speaker's Corner podcast.
Jones said:
44 Clearly, the Green Party would abolish the House of Lords. We would make it
all elected. We would sweep away some of these really stupid, archaic practices
that we have here. But at the same time, while we've got this system, it actually
weirdly works.
Most people, when I talk to them, they’ve got no idea what we do here and they
don’t understand it. But I do get more and more emails from people saying,
“Over the past few years, I always used to think that House of Lords was a
waste of time, but now I say thank God because we stopped the last government
from doing some awful things.

In the interview Jones said she thought the Lords might be more influential
than people give it credit for. Quoting the historian Lord Hennessy, who has
described the Lords as “the best thinktank in the country”, she said she
thought he had a point.

44 For example, I remember a report by the Health Committee, Lord Patel
chairing it. It was presented to the government, nothing happened for a few
years. They then came out with a white paper and almost everything that was
in Lord Patel’s paper was adopted as a white paper by the government. Maybe
it goes with age and experience. We give that information, we give it in a gentle
way, but we just hope it gets taken up at some time.

Although people are appointed to the Lords, Jones also pointed that she
became a peer after the Green party held an election for who should go to the
Lords if they were offered a seat, and she came first.

There is a transcript of the interview here. And you can watch it here.

#HouseOfLords #HouseOfCommons #UKPOL

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 3h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

Starmer is determined to out Tory the Tories and nobody in Labour seems to want to stop him.....or seem to want a Second Term in government....oh well....

2hago 1339857

Badenoch claims Starmer's plan for 'return hubs’ will be 'weaker
than Rwanda plan and won't work’

The Mail Online’s story about Keir Starmer’s return hub comments in Albania
today quotes a Whitehall official as describing the plan as “Rwanda-lite”.

In a post on social media commenting on a link to the Mail story, Kemi
Badenoch said:

44 Starmer is making an effort, but this will NOT stop the boats.

People will still try their luck knowing they can stay in Britain if granted asylum
so it won’t get rid of asylum hotels in the UK.

We left Labour a real deterrent. This is weaker than the Rwanda plan and
won’t work.

Under the proposed Rwanda plan, which was held up by legal challenges and
never implemented, the Tory government wanted to ban anyone arriving in
the UK illegally from claiming asylum - regardless of whether or not they had
avalid claim. In theory, they could all have been deported to Rwanda and
banned from returning.

Starmer is not proposing this. Instead, he would look at a scheme that would
involve removing people to a third country after their asylum application
was refused.

#KeirStarmer #Starmer #Immigration

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 3h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

Tories with their finger on the pulse there.....

"Cost of living Crisis?"

"Fuck off, we're talking about Napoleon here!"

now 15.49 BST

Tories accuse Starmer of snubbing Middlesex by not flying its
flag from No 10 - implying PM soft on Napoleon

At PMQs yesterday Keir Starmer accused the Conservative party of “sliding
into oblivion”. In an effort to prove him wrong, CCHQ has issued a press
notice criticising Keir Starmer for refusing to fly the flag of Middlesex above
Downing Street.

#UKPOL #UKpolitics #Tories

**Open Rights Group** @openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · 3h

Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org

NEW: Read about our important report into the Online Safety Act in Digit.

“This complicated legislation favours Big Tech who have the means and capacity to comply with the Act’s onerous provisions.

Instead of tackling online harms, the Act concentrates the market power of Big Tech companies, exacerbating the underlying reasons that harmful content circulates.”

@jim – ORG Exec Director.

https://www.digit.fyi/is-the-online-safety-act-favouring-big-tech/

#OnlineSafetyAct #OSA #freedomofexpression

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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 3h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

@bestforbritain.bsky.social sadly, we're the LAST people Westminster wants to listen to....

#UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Brexit

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 3h *

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Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

"What the Brits agreed to would be embarrassing for us."

This is Brexit manifest. Surrendering without a shot being fired, becoming an American vassal, their toxic culture poisoning us, our children.....the United States of Grabin' P*ssy

‘Barely a deal’: EU trade ministers slam
UK-US trade agreement

“If the UK-US deal is what Europe gets, then the US can expect countermeasures from our side,” Sweden's trade
minister warned

#Brexit #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS

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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 4h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social I have compared Starmer to Boris Johnson myself, it's that way you know whatever he is saying is a lie, or he'll back down and change his mind, unless it involves cruelty to some minority, then Starmer holds firm.

With Johnson, he was a habitual liar. With Starmer, he chooses to lie, he plans his lies ahead of time

#KeirStarmer #Stamer #UKpol