Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.

A new decade-long Brexit study explains it: a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year

– means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.

Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.

https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/new-boris-johnsons-brexit-titanic-success-was-half-right/

@junesim63 I taught an Afghani girl in 2000. She was in my GCSE class. She was a widow, who had been tortured by the people who had killed her husband. She had to leave school to help her mother with her asylum case.
When I think of refugees, I think of her.
Western politicians have money and land for data centres but not for people.
What is the point of democracy if those are its values?

RFK, Jr., Releases Report Attacking Medical Care for Trans Children | Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-jr-releases-report-attacking-medical-care-for-trans-children/

Bosses see the magic show of generative AI, and then employees are tasked with pulling actual rabbits out of actual hats.

It's important that decision-makers see the rehearsal.

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🖊️ Cartoon by Stephen Collins

#AI

The London Economic: Blimey! Green Party now polling in FIRST for all voters under 50
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/green-party-polling-yougov-who-is-zack-polanski-399670/

Like, idk, maybe I'm a fool but I would think "the King's brother is a pedophile" and "the royal family protected him until the last possible moment" would have more people openly discussing republicanism let alone anarchy.

So apparently Rachel Reeves didn't break the ministerial code because her housing-related law-breaking was "inadvertent".

The PM's ethics adviser also found that Angela Rayner made a mistake "in good faith", but in that case, she still breached the ministerial code and had to go.

It's so fucking transparent that Starmer applies different standards to left-wing ministers than to right wing ones.

https://news.sky.com/story/tories-call-for-investigation-as-reeves-admits-rental-mistake-13460270

#Hypocrisy #Starmer #RachelReeves #AngelaRayner #UKPolitics

Who are the Resident Doctors & why are they going on strike (agains)?

Here's Charlotte Tomlinson's discussion of the issue, putting the timeline of over a decade of failed settlements at its centre & making clear that any discussion of the Resident Doctors dispute with the NHS needs to be put into this long(er) historical context, if we are to understand the dispute!

#doctors #NHS #health #SaveOurNHS

https://thehealthandhealingnarrative.com/2025/10/27/uk-resident-doctors-and-the-nhs-strikes-whats-happened-so-far/