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

You'll likely be depressingly unsurprised by the indication that decisions by the DWP on benefits sanctions looked to be shaped by institutional racism.

Once again, while we may claim (often rightly) to be a multicultural society, our governing institutions seem unable to address issues without some from of ethnic bias...

I wonder why that is?

Could it be, a history of racism that goes back centuries is well embedded & needs more work to root out!?

#racism #benefits
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/sep/16/benefit-sanctions-more-likely-for-minority-ethnic-claimants-uk-data-shows

Totay in the Orange Slopbucket, "you can be jailed in the UK for posting mean stuff!", apparently. (Not since 2013, really, but crack on.)

Except they think "mean stuff" includes "inciting racial hatred with a side of murder" which is quite the tell on your internal beliefs, dude. Probably not one you want to be putting out into the open, either, I'd say.

I have had a number of sessions lately where I'm having to spell out "Listen, you are stressed and sick because your capitalistic employer is choosing to pay the CEO X times your salary, squeezing you literally to death, instead of having adequate staffing. This is not about 'time management' or 'coping techniques.' "

Spotted in Times Square, New York City

The FT is reporting that the Darzi report will identify a nearly £40bn shortfall in NHS capital expenditure since 2010 (against comparable countries' rate of capital spending in their health sectors).

While workforce planning is more often in the news (as it very immediately impacts waiting lists & NHS capacity) behind that is the problem of crumbling, inadequate infrastructure (as well as a lack of new responsive developments).

The fruits of austerity are fatal!

#health #infrastructure

A reminder that the richest 1% emit as much planet-heating pollution as two-thirds of humanity.

Eliminating capitalism and billionaires it produces is the only way to start meaningfully addressing the #climatecrisis.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-emit-much-planet-heating-pollution-two-thirds-humanity

Diane Abbott warns us about recovering from #EnglishRiots :
"My concern now is that [ministers] pivot to draconian anti-immigration legislation to address ‘the root causes of the violence’. But the root cause wasn’t immigrants. It was #racism ."

#UKPolitics
#BlackLivesMatter
#RefugeesWelcome