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https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/2060441806181896440

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham would end all Government contracts for asylum accommodation and hotels if he becomes Prime Minister

The responsibility for providing accommodation would instead be given to local authorities

Local authorities controlled by Reform.

That'll end well.

Vote Reform in your local council elections and can get rid of your asylum seekers - that really doesn't work out..

Put the lunatics in charge of the asylum seekers?

Oddly enough, youtube recommended to me this just the other week :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on-y9Pv-CJA

Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum

Hadn't thought of it since it was actually in the charts. But it felt quite appropriate given what was going on. So ... well done google?

I only found out last year that Our Lips are Sealed was co-written by Jane Wiedlin which is why the Go-Go’s also performed it

When Terry Hall died Jane Wiedlin confirmed that she and Terry had embarked upon an affair when the Gogos supported ( I think it was) the Specials (rather than the FBT). And the song was about that affair. The Gogos video is great.

Hardman weighs into the social care debate. Fantastic that the Speccie is talking about this but is this really true in 2026??


"The Prime Minister knows full well that many voters assume that social care is in fact already part of the NHS and is free at the point of access, and that as soon as politicians start talking about the sums of money involved in any reform, those voters tend to react very badly."

https://spectator.com/article/dont-bet-on-the-next-labour-leader-solving-the-social-care-crisis/

Really?

Where is this stat?

May have been true a decade or two ago but just about everyone now knows social care is a nightmare and could cost you your family home all your life savings and it is fucking hard to get decent people/quality care and it is bankrupting the local council.

https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2060475458169246124

@SecScottBessent: "A nation that cannot manufacture, mine, ship, or refine its needs gradually cedes its strength and sovereignty to others. That is a dangerous dependency for any country; it is an unacceptable one for the United States of America."

The richest countries in the world, though, are the ones who are least balanced. Singapore, Hong Kong, Switzerland: none of them are rich in natural resources. All recognised that if someone else can mine cheaper than you, then you're best of leaving the mining to them.

Auturky is a rapid way to the poorhouse.

They all can only be rich thanks to conditions created by larger powers. That option doesn’t exist for big players like the US.