Steve Scott
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Steve Scott
@scott_steve
Recently widowed old socialist who despairs about the neoliberal grip upon politics , the media, everything. Still enchanted by art and nature.
Me before Easter eggs vs after Easter eggs
Kanye West should never have been invited to headline Wireless. This government stands firmly with the Jewish community, and we will not stop in our fight to confront and defeat the poison of antisemitism. We will always take the action necessary to protect the public and uphold our values.
There is no way on earth a man who has worked for Waitrose 17 years would lower himself to work for a cheap ‘budget’ supermarket like Iceland! I certainly know I wouldn’t.🤨
@andycomfort Get beat by Southampton in the playoffs. And buy a bloody striker ! And not Delap- I think he has " gone " .
This beautiful family was wiped out in a heinous missile attack by the Iranian regime last night in Haifa. Lucille Jane Gershovitz, 29, was a kindergarten teacher originally from the Philippines. Dimitri Gershovitz, 42, was a software engineer. Lena Ostrovsky, 68, was a legendary voice coach. Vladimir Gershovitz, 73, was a retired tech expert who had just returned home from the hospital. These four innocent civilians were the latest victims of the Iranian regime’s brutal attacks. This murderous regime must be stopped.
MPs are 'trapped on benefits', many claiming £50,000 a year or more in untaxed personal benefits. Surely we need to get them off them for their own good?
Dodgy Bobby Jenrick railed against fare dodgers
“Water, soil, and oxygen should not be infinitely accessible. They are assets that should be included in global economic balance sheets.” This is not satire. The World Economic Forum wants to monetise breathing.
Richard Madeley has spent today urging working class people to risk assault tackling shoplifters to help big Corporations profits..then urged them to check on disabled peoples entitlement..and also "joked" about mass bombing Iranians..awful man #gmb #r4today
The former RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch warned people about #KeirStarmer before the election. Most of the media laughed it off. Many in Labour dismissed him. But he understood exactly what Starmer represented. Lynch said Starmer’s Labour was managerial, not political. A party run by lawyers, advisors, and communications professionals rather than people rooted in labour history, trade unions, industry, or working-class communities. A party that believed in management, not representation. Stability, not change. Administration, not politics. He warned that if Starmer won, Labour would not govern as a movement, but as a management team. If anything, Lynch understated it. What we have seen is not a political Prime Minister but an administrative one. Government by briefing note, by focus group, by legal framing rather than political vision. A Labour Party reshaped from a political movement into something closer to a corporate structure with MPs. Under Starmer, Labour has been changed more fundamentally than even under Blair. Blair at least had a political project. Starmer’s project has been control. Centralise the party. Remove internal opposition. Sideline unions. Purge members. Control candidate selection. Control messaging. Control policy. The result is a Labour Party that is now barely recognisable as a working-class party, and barely recognisable even as a democratic political party. It behaves more like an administrative arm of the state than a movement representing the people. Alongside this has come something else that should worry anyone who cares about civil liberties. Expanding surveillance powers. Restrictions on protest. Speech laws framed as safety. Increasing police powers. More powers for the state, fewer rights for the citizen. All passed in the language of responsibility and stability. This is managerial politics. Not leadership, not representation, not democracy in the traditional labour movement sense. Management of the population. Management of expectations. Management of decline. Mick Lynch saw a managerial Labour Party coming. What he didn’t see was a Labour Party rebuilt as a machine: centrally controlled, staffed with loyalists, a government with authoritarian instincts and no roots in the labour movement at all, parachuting in MPs with little to no experience outside political offices, hand-picked acolytes from outfits like Labour Together, selected not for independence or service to their communities, but for loyalty to the leadership. MPs whose first duty is not to their constituents, not to their country, but to the party machine and the people who control it. Labour didn’t win power for the people. Starmer won power for the global oligarchy and that little club he's been a member of since 2019... @PaulKnaggs , Labour Heartlands
At school, I learnt that maternal mortality rates were a reliable indicator of a country’s level of socioeconomic development & the effectiveness of their health system. It is truly shocking that the UK’s maternity deaths have increased by 50% over the past decade. 😥
Jonathan Reynolds - Labour MP for Stalybridge and Hyde (Greater Manchester) since 2010. Jonathan is the Secretary of State for Business and Trade. Jonathan is a ‘Parliamentary Officer’ in the lobby organisation Labour Friends of Israel and was very much involved in the plots, coups and leadership bids aimed at removing Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader. The @MENnewsdesk found that no Manchester MP claims more in expenses than Jonathan. @SkyNews found that the highest rent claimed by any Labour MP for accommodation in London was from Jonathan. Jonathan’s wife is also his senior Parliamentary assistant. Jonathan has accepted the following donations and perks: £720 in tickets and hospitality from @SRTRC_England for a football match at @SunderlandAFC ⚽️ £1,500 in tickets and hospitality from @ManUtd for a match at Old Trafford. ⚽️ £3,000 from Martin Littler. £54,770.42 from @unitetheunion £3,457 in tickets and hospitality from the @EntainGroup and @BetGameCouncil for a match at Wembley. ⚽️ £3,000 from Tony Blair associate David Claydon. £1,500 in tickets and hospitality from Ernst & Young LLP @EYnews for The Chelsea Flower Show.🌺 £1,700 from Labour Friends of Israel for a trip to Israel. 🇮🇱 ✈️ £4,000 from The Indian High Commission for a trip to India.🇮🇳 ✈️ £10,545.58 from the Hong Kong government for a trip.✈️🇭🇰 £2,950 from Public First. £2,000 from the @CommunityUnion £750 in tickets and hospitality from @SunderlandAFC for a match at Wembley.⚽️ £1,428 in tickets and hospitality from the @IvorsAcademy for the Ivor Novello Awards.🎶 £468 in tickets and hospitality from @swfc ⚽️ £3,377 in tickets and hospitality from @Google for the Glastonbury Festival. ⛺️ (Labour had promised to increase the digital service/corporation tax from 2% to 10%. The day after Glastonbury it ditched the policy altogether.) £466 in tickets and hospitality from the @FootballAssoc for the FA Cup Semi-Final.⚽️ £3,960 in tickets and hospitality from @bpi_music for the @BRITs 🎤 £450 in tickets and hospitality from @pnefc ⚽️ £1,390 in tickets and hospitality for the Summit of Minds Festival in the French alps. 🇫🇷 £9,006.35 from the Lowick Group Ltd. £1,400 in tickets and hospitality from @EFL for Carabao Cup Final matches.⚽️ £315.50 in tickets and hospitality from the @BBC for Strictly Come Dancing in Blackpool. 🕺 £7,000 from @UsdawUnion £5,000 from Lord Matthew Oakeshott. £466 in tickets and hospitality from the @FootballAssoc for a Europa Cup match.⚽️ £315 in tickets and hospitality from Anschutz Entertainment for an Elton John concert. 🎶 With his £150,000 salary, expenses (£67,307.91+ claimed since 1/4/24), donations, his wife’s £41,000+ salary, allowances and perks, Jonathan has done very well in his fifteen years at Westminster. On 9th July 2025 Jonathan voted for the Universal Credit/PIP cuts that will result in further hardship down the line for people who are disabled and vulnerable. Jonathan also voted to scrap the #WinterFuelPayment to pensioners 🥶 and initially voted to retain the two child benefit cap which ‘significantly contributes to child poverty’ in the UK. Jonathan also voted to scrap trials by jury and voted against an inquiry into grooming gangs. ‘The Labour Party - Working For You’. @UKLabour @jreynoldsMP @McrLabour #LabourDoorstep #LocalElections @RachelReevesMP