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#austerity

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Toni Aittoniemi

Suomen julkinen velka 1980 - 2025

Finnish public #debt 1980 to 2025

Kokoomus is the center-right neoliberal party, who always put on #austerity and say they’re doing it to ”get rid of the problem of debt”

I bet this story is the same everywhere else: If you look at what they did when they were in power, they almost single-handedly created the problem to begin with.

The most fluent liars of them all are the smiley-faced center #neoliberal #right. 👿

Graph of Finnish national debt 1980-2025
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TJ1001

The EU, China, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Vietnam and others, all hit back or at least done something. I defy you to find any semblance of meaning in this from Starmer. Any iota of an inkling of a plan. One sentence or even two words strung together that aren’t complete and utter political speak bullshit. The man utters a thousands words and never do they mean anything. Absolutely full of shit and I voted for him for context 

#brexit #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #conservatives #rachelreeves #austerity #tariffs #tradewar #trade

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Dark Photon Studio

#SirKeirStarmer is in an impossible situation. He's trying to thread a needle that doesn't have a hole. Make no mistake this is still #newlabour and there is little to distinguish them from #conservatives. Like so many countries all the parties are in thrall to #neoliberalism and they won't move away from it. To do so would be to admit neoliberalism is a disaster. Instead they do what all UK govs do when the going gets tough, #austerity because they have no solution. They are tied to the #US and the fantasy of "#freetrade". The #tories knew this but they had no plan and that's why they called elections. When they get back in, they still won't.

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Geriatric Gardener

“DWP benefits being cut are the thin end of the wedge. It’s Labour’s ideology which is terrifying”

by Rachel Curtis in The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour

“There are reams of evidence showing how disabled people have died in the most appalling conditions following inhumane treatment from the DWP. [..]. The horror of what is coming is unimaginable”

thecanary.co/opinion/2025/04/0

Canary · DWP benefits being cut are the thin end of the wedge. It's Labour's ideology which is terrifying.The fascist perception of disabled people who can't work as a 'burden' seems to be shared by Labour, who are cutting DWP benefits
#Press#Labour#Austerity
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Geriatric Gardener

“Labour has already thrown an extra 30,000 children into poverty since July 2024”

by Steve Topple in The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour

“The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has raised urgent concerns about the devastating effects of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) two-child limit policy”

thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/

Canary · Labour has already thrown an extra 30,000 children into poverty since July 2024Labour's failure to scrap the two-child limit is dragging at least 109 children into poverty every single day, says the CPAG
#Press#Labour#Austerity
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Kim Perales

The early CXL of an Amazon Web Svcs contract means: a slew of NOAA websites are slated to go dark at midnight. This mainly would affect NOAA's research division, & will make numerous websites & data sets inaccessible to the public.

It's another example -admin: taking data offline across the govt.

The COMM Dept is requiring #NOAA -to🚨 cut its IT budget by 50% across the board.

There's a light at the end of the tunnel, but...

#Science #Austerity #Coup #Resist #USPol
axios.com/2025/04/04/noaa-rese

Axios · NOAA research websites slated to go dark get a reprieveBy Andrew Freedman
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

What would it cost to stop this? Would it break the country? No.
But Labour are a Tory Party so the Poor MUST suffer or how will the rapidly decreasing Middle Class know they are better than others?
"Somebody shits on me, but I shit on you, and that's how British Society will arrange itself until Humanity dies out"

3hago 12.24 BST Labour has pulled 30,000 more children into poverty by not scrapping two-child benefit cap, charity says Labour's refusal to lift the two-child benefit cap has pulled 30,000 more children into poverty since the general election, the Child Poverty Action Group has said. The charity published the calculation as Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary, said that she would regard it as a personal failure if child poverty is not falling by the time of the next general election. Last week the Department for Work and Pensions published figures showing that 250,000 more people, including 50,000 more children, will be pushed into poverty by the sickness and disability benefit cuts announced in the spring statement. Introduced by the Tories, the two-child cap means that parents do not get universal credit child allowance, or tax credits, for a third child born after April 2017.
The policy is seen by expert as a a major contributor to child poverty. Polling suggests voters favour the cap, but most Labour MPs want to see it scrapped, and many are disappointed that has not happened already. In a news release, CPAG said that other interventions to reduce child poverty would fail without the cap also being removed. It explained: AA This is because as the two-child limit applies to third or subsequent children born after April 2017, it is effectively still being rolled out, with more and more children affected every day. This means the policy acts as a brake on any alternative steps government may take. The number of children affected by the policy will continue to increase until 2035 when the first children born under the two-child limit turn 18. Every day 109 more children are pulled into poverty by the policy. CPAG’s analysis finds that on the eighth anniversary of the two-child limit (Sunday 6 April), an estimated 30,000 more children will have been pulled into poverty by the policy since the government took office.
CPAG has published details of its analysis here. In its manifesto Labour said it would “develop an ambitious strategy to reduce child poverty”. A child poverty taskforce has been set up by the government, and it is due to publish its strategy this spring. In an interview with the i published today, Kendall refused to commit to lifting the two-child benefit cap. But she said: 44 We've got a clear manifesto commitment to tackle poverty and drive child poverty down and that is what we will deliver. Child poverty will be going down. Asked if she would regard it as a personal failure if child poverty rates are rising at the time of the next election, she replied: “Yes.”
#Labour#Austerity#UKPOL
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Geriatric Gardener

“Even Labour members now hate the party – as a new survey proves”

by The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour

“The [Survation poll] findings indicate sharp declines in favourability towards key cabinet members, widespread dissatisfaction with recent policy directions, and growing concerns about the party’s electoral prospects”

thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/04/0

Canary · Even Labour members now hate the party - as a new survey provesEven Labour members now hate the party - as a new survey proves from Canary on 3 April 2025
#Press#Labour#Austerity
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Kim Perales

#HHS has fired every single worker in its program that helps low-income Americans pay their energy bills.

All of the staff who worked on Social Svcs Blk Grants *help states & territories pay for social svcs that protect ppl, incl children, from neglect & abuse, were let go."

So low-income Americans, that may be a lot of us, after #Trump's policies & Musk's #DOGE #Firings & the fallout; will be hungry, imperiled, possibly homeless, ill...

#Austerity #Trumpcession #USPol thehill.com/policy/energy-envi

A home thermostat:
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Kim Perales

"Congratulations, boss, you've done it: You're bigger than covid.

The claim that they're "reciprocal tariffs" is "total nonsense."

Some data worth pondering as the conversation shifts to "reciprocal" tariffs."
-J Wolfers

Trump says⚡Paul, McConnell, & Collins are being “unbelievably disloyal” for introducing a bill to reverse his CAN tariffs.

America's trading partners charge relatively low tariff rates, on average.

Line graph depicting the Global Economic Policy Uncertainty Index, showing a significant upward trend, reaching a record high of 460.18 by 2025. The x-axis represents years from 2000 to 2025, while the y-axis indicates rate:
Bar chart displaying average tariff rates charged by America's major trading partners, with values ranging from 0.0% to 20.0%. Key figures include Hong Kong and Singapore at 0.0%, the United States at 1.5%…
#Economy#Tariffs#Stagflation
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TJ1001

Has anyone ever thought of an idea, where a number countries - prob ones that neighbour each other, all band together and use that, err what name would it be? - for now let’s call it a union. Use that union to create a strong trading bloc that could get better desks from the US and China. While at the same time trading with each other easily and without boarders and yet each country keeping its individual identity!!!!

#brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ToryCorruption #Gammons #conservatives #rachelreeves #austerity

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Geriatric Gardener

“Starmer’s plan for unemployed people into army for Ukraine resurrects US plan that killed 3x more soldiers”

by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @UKLabour

“US Vietnam-war ‘Project 100,000’ saw huge casualty rates among soldiers drafted from unemployed”

skwawkbox.org/2025/03/30/starm

SKWAWKBOX · Starmer’s plan for unemployed people into army for Ukraine resurrects US plan that killed 3x more soldiersUS Vietnam-war ‘Project 100,000’ saw huge casualty rates among soldiers drafted from unemployed Keir Starmer’s plan to put unemployed people in the army to increase numbers that c…
#Press#Labour#Austerity
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Kim Perales

"Heart pounding, he called his father -shocked -Trump's admin would take such action.

“ .. ‘Dad, they're trying to bankrupt me.”

The Trump admin's cuts impact small farmers in WV where Trump won 70% of votes. #Trump cut $500M program for food banks to buy local produce. Fed funds🚨comprise ~1/3 of states' annual spending.

Mountaineer Food Bank was ending Yates' butter contract, due to the fed govt's funding cuts.

#Trumpcession #Austerity #Fascism #Resist #DOGE #USPol reuters.com/world/us/federal-f

Trump funding cuts ripple through rural America:
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