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In 2024 Russia spent $149billion on military expenditure, while Nato countries spent $1.47trillion.
Russia's share of global military spending was 5.5%, while Nato's share was 55%.
But we are told we need to spend more.
#IndustrialMilitaryComplex
Martin Burslam ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ retweeted
We are appalled and outraged by the Israeli airstrike on Nasser hospital in Gaza, Palestine, last night. We have already treated three people injured in the attack.
It is unconscionable that patients and medical staff are once again being killed and injured inside a hospital, a place where lives should be saved, not taken.
We urge world leaders to move beyond statements of condemnation and take concrete action to ensure the protection of patients, healthcare workers, and facilities in Gaza. The continued attacks on healthcare cannot be met with silence and impunity.
msf.org/gaza-msf-condemns-anโฆ
Martin Burslam ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ retweeted
Former PM Cameron triggered Brexit, now warns Burnham against rejoining EU.
He lost the referendum, ran away.
UK must never be the 51st state.
Its security/economic future lies with Europe.
The world is dividing into trading blocks and UK needs a home.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/poโฆ
Martin Burslam ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ retweeted
This is just so, so, so bleak.
The development of big chunks of Burnham's much vaunted Ten Year Plan have been outsourced to the Boston Consulting Group, one of the world's three biggest management consultancies.
Most recently, BCG was revealed to be a contractor in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - the wretched private organisation that was created to deliver aid to Gaza after the destruction of UNWRA. You may remember the scenes of starving Gazans flooding into gated pens to get food, with civilians repeatedly sniped by the IDF. BCG were paid $1m/ month for their consulting work.
BCG also received $4m for Project Aurora - a plan for a reconstruction plan for Gaza. The plan included costing giving Gazans $9000 to leave the territory.
How is the government even considering contracting BCG considering this?
But BCG also partners with the world's biggest private equity firms. It is a massive, massive AI booster. It closely advises MBS in Saudi Arabia on its economic plans.
It is, in other words, precisely the sort of late-capitalist horror show that should have no role in helping a nominally socialist Party develop a 10-year development plan.
There is already so much worrying briefing on this plan, about how half-baked and thin it threatens to be. Now we know big parts are being outsourced to BCG, the more pressing concern is that it'll be some Tony Blair Institute-style neo-liberal spiel about the potential of tech and the need to liberate the market.
Interesting that parts of the 10 year plan are being outsourced to Boston Consulting Group, where James Purnell used to work.
Story by @KatieTarrant_
thetimes.com/article/8a202a0โฆ
Martin Burslam ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ retweeted
Rachel Reeves, "The Greens, at their conference they passed this zionism is racism motion which is now party policy that believes"
"That Palestine should occupy all of the land where Israel currently is"
"And if you're a zionist ie believing in the right of Israel to exist, then you are racist"
My view:
Rachel Reeves leaves out crucial parts of the policy she is attacking.
The motion proposes a single democratic Palestinian state with equal rights for everyone, including Jewish people.
Describing that as Palestine โoccupyingโ Israel replaces a proposal for shared citizenship with language suggesting domination.
Those are fundamentally different things.
Her claim about Zionism similarly omits the qualification on which the motion rests. It defines Zionism around an ethnonationalist state involving the exclusion or domination of non-Jews.
Reeves substitutes โbelieving in Israelโs right to existโ, then presents the resulting accusation of racism as though that were the wording members adopted. It isnโt.
The policy does propose replacing Israel as a separate state, and Reeves is entitled to challenge what that would mean for Jewish self-determination and security.
But she should address the actual proposal, including its guarantee of equal rights.
A former chancellor should be capable of explaining why she disagrees without stripping out the words that materially change its meaning.
Martin Burslam ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ retweeted
Consultants down 20.1% in real terms since 2009 while all workers are up 3.5%. I ask the ministers responsible: what did you expect for morale and recruitment? The exodus of experienced clinicians was entirely predictable. We drove them out.
New: live NHS pay charts, updated as the ONS & NHS Digital publish.
Real-terms pay since March 2009 (CPI), to Aug 2026:
โฌ๏ธ Consultants โ20.1%
โฌ๏ธ Resident doctors โ15.1%
โฌ๏ธ Nurses โ8.2%
โฌ๏ธ All workers +3.5%
Method checked against the FT original ๐
pay.goldstonepenfintech.com
Martin Burslam ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ retweeted
Anti-Zionist Jews in the Mea Shearim district of Jerusalem continue to face attacks from Israeli Zionist police.
This is an ongoing pattern rather than a new development.
Their only โcrimeโ consists of not recognizing the government, declining to serve in its army, and rejecting the Israeli state and Zionist ideology.
Source @authenttorahjew @TorahJudaism
Martin Burslam ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ retweeted
This Pillock thinks national service would be great for confidence and national unity for our youth.
He forgot to mention being used as cannon fodder, losing their lives or having their limbs blown off. ๐คก
Martin Burslam ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ retweeted
Labour MPs are right to be concerned.
More tinkering and hiring
right wing US consultants wonโt solve the disastrous cost of living crisis for households and businesses.
Andy Burnham said he'd end neoliberalism but there seems to be no plan or resolve to do it.
EXC: Labour MPs are starting to sound the alarm over the 10-year-plan, asking who is in charge and if it will be radical enough.
One described the involvement of Boston Consulting Group as a โtragic jokeโ.
theguardian.com/politics/202โฆ
Martin Burslam ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ retweeted
Israel has carried out 30 attacks on healthcare facilities in Gaza and the West Bank since the so-called ceasefire began, with 23 occurring between July and October 2026.
Martin Burslam ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ retweeted
๐ต๐ธ Aujourdโhui ร Bruxelles, nous avons officiellement dรฉposรฉ le million de signatures de l'Initiative Citoyenne europรฉenne exigeant la suspension de lโaccord dโassociation UE-Israรซl.
Face aux crimes commis contre le peuple palestinien par Israรซl, lโUE doit suspendre cet accord et imposer un embargo total sur les armes.
Les citoyens ont fait leur part. Aux dirigeants europรฉens de faire enfin la leur.
Martin Burslam ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ retweeted
ืกืคืจื ืื ืงืฆืช ืขื ืืืืืืช ืืืืืืืืืืืืื ืฉื ืืืฉืคืืช ืฉืืืื ืืชืืื ืืืื ืืจืื ืืคื ืื ืฉื ืืฉื ืืช 70(!) ืฉืืืืขื ืืขืืืจ ืืืกืืง ืฉื ืงืื ืจืื ื ืืืืืืืช ืืื - ืืืืจ ืื ืงืื ืื ืืกืืจืช ืืขืืืืช ืืฉืืื ืขื ืืจืฆืคื, ืฉืืืจืื ืื ืฉืืืฉ ืฆืืขืืช ืืืืจืืื ืืืืืืช ืงืฉืืช ืืคื ืื. ืืื ืขืืืื ืืืืฉืคืืช. ื ืฉืืืช ืฉืืืจืืช
Martin Burslam ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ retweeted
Israel ๐ฎ๐ฑ today bomb the intensive care unit at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis ๐ต๐ธ
At least 6 murdered & over 20 injured
Including staff & patients
Israel ๐ฎ๐ฑ continues to bomb hospitals
Because itโs a genocide
Sanctions against ๐ฎ๐ฑ now.
Martin Burslam ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ retweeted
Executive Director of the Tony Blair Institute extolling the "radicalism" of the Milburn review.
This is going to be a nightmare, isn't it?
Anyone who thought the Milburn review would shrink from radicalism has just been proved wrong.
PIP and Universal Credit replaced for young people. The money moved into job support. More for those with the most severe conditions. Short-term pain for long-term gain, and he says so.
This is what our politics needs more of. Kudos to Alan and the team for taking the fight to the young NEETs crisis, one of the defining issues of our time. Tuesday's report looks like it has the answers.
Now we need the political will to turn review into reality.
Martin Burslam ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: Labour have treated the people of Scotland 'like children' on the question of independence, Zack Polanski has said
Martin Burslam ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ retweeted
A child waiting for surgery. A doctor saving lives. Neither was safe inside a hospital.
Martin Burslam ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ retweeted
Nancy Pelosi is one of the 11 Democrats who were absent in the vote to impeach Hegseth.
She talks about opposing Hegseth, but when the time came to stop him, she thought an award ceremony was more important.
Martin Burslam ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ retweeted
Israeli occupation forces storm a Palestinian family's home in Masafer Yatta, occupied West Bank, and vandalize its property.
