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#Patients Not Passports: How to start campaigning in your Trust
NHS Trusts have a duty to stand up for their patients, to support their staff, and to ensure that everyone can access the care they need. This is why hundreds of healthcare workers across the country are asking their Trust to join them and call on the Government to end NHS charging. Continue reading
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Britain: “a constitutional outrage” – kick out this unelected gang! By Rob Sewell
Britain is in the midst of a profound crisis, not seen in modern times. Everywhere is in uproar. This is the view not of some left-wing newspaper, but the official view of the British ruling class. Continue reading
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Bojo/Brexit News Links 30 August 2019
30 August 2019 • 20:50 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back In a hole and still digging: the left and Brexit The BBC’s pro-Johnson propaganda is so absurd even a former Tory deputy PM has had enough http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/lTcXVbB59pc/ Continue reading
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Cruel Brittannia – The Road To Ruin
By Graham Vanbergen: Britain is, as I have said so many times now, circling the plughole. It’s becoming so … American isn’t it. Corrupt self-serving politicians in bed with bankers and hedge funds are driving the country towards the abyss. And all the indicators for a fully functioning democracy and the society its serves continues… Continue reading
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Unhinged before the Fall: Boris Johnson, Parliament and Brexit By Dr. Binoy Kampmark
The Brexit no deal prospect is engendering an element of lunacy fast seeping into every pore of the British political establishment. As with all steeped in such thinking, some of it made sense. Prime Minister Boris Johnson had been inspired by a mild dictatorial urge, seeking to suspend the UK parliament five weeks out from… Continue reading
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Johnson’s proroguing of Parliament: The British ruling class declares war on democratic rights
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament is a historic attack on democratic rights and an attempt to force through a Brexit agenda that will have devastating consequences for jobs, living standards and the democratic rights of the working class. Continue reading
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Bojo’s Gamble News Links 29 August 2019
29 August 2019 • 19:49 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back PM hit with another legal action as resistance to his plan soars in all corners of the kingdom http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/-9dUc_glcck/ Defence minister is caught on camera spilling the… Continue reading
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The Queen’s Active Role in the Right Wing Coup By Craig Murray
Our obsequious media is actively perpetuating the myth than the monarch can do no wrong, and is apolitical. In fact the monarchy has been active and absolutely central to the seizure of power from the Westminster parliament in a right wing coup. Yesterday’s collaboration at Balmoral between the Queen and Jacob Rees Mogg is only… Continue reading
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Johnson to suspend UK parliament to push through Brexit in a major assault on democratic rule By Chris Marsden
Known as proroguing, the move followed a visit by three Privy Council members, led by arch Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg. It means that parliament will stop meeting no earlier than Monday September 9 and no later than Thursday September 12, until Monday October 14. This is designed to cut the ground from beneath most MPs seeking… Continue reading
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Bojo’s Parliamentary Coup News Links 28 August 2019
28 August 2019 • 20:35 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back We shouldn’t be surprised. These are other times Boris Johnson has shown he doesn’t give a s**t about democracy Is This a Coup? Continue reading
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Julian Assange: Deprivation of Justice and Double Standards in Belmarsh Prison
Alfred de Zayas, former UN Rapporteur, has described the actions of the British authorities in pursuit of Assange as “… contrary to the rule of law and contrary to the spirit of the law.” What we see on the surface is an illusion of British justice, masking a political agenda behind it. Continue reading
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Clinical psychologist Lissa Johnson: They are trying to break Assange “physically and psychologically” By Oscar Grenfell
Australian clinical psychologist Lissa Johnson has been an outspoken defender of Julian Assange, writing extensively on the grave implications of his persecution for democratic rights and freedom of speech. Continue reading
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How UK food standards are already falling to accommodate American trade deal
Analysis now shows that as a direct result of government cuts to the agencies responsible for the food chain in Britain, there is already a dramatic decline in standards. This decline is associated not with standards but with enforcement but the result in meat products, for instance, is a 50% increase of reported cases of… Continue reading
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UK: Johnson considers suspending parliament to enforce no-deal Brexit By Robert Stevens
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is considering every possible means to prevent a challenge to Brexit, up to and including the proroguing of parliament. Continue reading
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The Liberal Order Began by Embracing Russia, Now They Want Revenge By Phil Butler
A former adviser to Russia’s government, Angus Roxburgh became famous for covering the fall of communism in eastern Europe. At a point, the former BBC Russian Service scriptwriter worked for the pan-European public relations firm GPlus, as part of a PR advisory team for the Kremlin. Since 2009 Roxburgh turned on the Kremlin. Now, like… Continue reading
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Gangster Capitalism
By Robert Woodward – TruePublica: There are some standout failures of the privatisation model in Britain that was sold to the public as some sort panacea to all the failings of state-owned assets. Since 2010, more state-owned assets have been sold since the 1930s – where £1trillion of national wealth has been handed over to… Continue reading
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Right-Wing Think Tank IEA: A year of assaults on public health initiatives
By TruePublica: The Institute for Economic Affairs is renowned for being the most powerful and influential think tank in Britain. Modelled around a right-wing American opaque so-called ‘institute’ it is littered with dodgy donors and surrounded by accusations of dark money interests. Its assaults on public health initiatives, given its real motivations, should be a… Continue reading
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Labour’s poor excuses for revoking Asa Winstanley’s press pass By Ali Abunimah
Britain’s opposition Labour Party is offering excuses for its arbitrary revocation of the press pass approved for The Electronic Intifada’s Asa Winstanley to cover its upcoming annual conference. Continue reading
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DWP’s £51m contract stops Citizens Advice speaking out against Universal Credit
New evidence shows that a £51m contract between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Citizens Advice (CA) contains a gagging clause. As Universal Credit rolls out across the UK, this agreement means the UK’s leading advisory charity now can’t speak out or take “any actions” which might harm the DWP’s reputation. Continue reading
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