Once upon a time, long before the internet, reading the Sunday newspapers used to be a pleasure. In those long lost days one naively believed that the Labour Party actually cared about the working class. As a source of what was happening in the world, along with the radio and a few television channels, one had no idea then of the hidden agendas such media outlets were promoting. That pleasure, and that belief in politicians, has long since gone.
The Sun, Sunday, 1st June, says that ‘NEW Labour big beasts are at war over proposals to scrap the two-child benefit cap — as statistics suggest more youngsters are being plunged into poverty. In a bombshell intervention, ex-Home Secretary David Blunkett comes out against tearing up the welfare limit..An estimated 4.5million kids were living in relative poverty last year compared with 4.3million the year before, figures from the End Child Poverty coalition show.’
Writing in The Sun on Sunday, Lord Blunkett said work, not handouts, is the best way to raise families out of poverty. He said: “Surely having children that you cannot afford to feed is the legacy of a bygone era? The simple and obvious truth is that child poverty springs from the lack of income of the adults who care for them.”’
Scrapping the cap would cost around three and a half billion pounds.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/35202995/labour-benefits-cap-starmer-poverty-politics/
SOYMB, 31 May, noted in a piece on German warmongering,‘The Legacy Media is already drip drip feeding of propaganda designed to put fear into the hearts of its various populaces. Is it likely or unlikely that we may see compulsory two minute hatred with venom being directed at Putin or whoever might be the Russian leader after him?’
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2025/05/german-stupidity.html
The government doesn’t want to alleviate child poverty. It has other priorities.
Meanwhile the drip feeding is starting to become a flood.
Headlined, ‘WAR FOOTING ,Starmer warns UK must prepare to fight against enemies as he orders biggest investment in guns & bombs since Cold War’
Writing in The Sun on Sunday, Sir Keir said ‘Britain is facing a “more dangerous world” and the time has come to “transform how we defend these islands”.He added: “We will meet this moment head on — by mounting the kind of response not seen before in most of our lifetimes.
"We will restore Britain’s war-fighting readiness as the central purpose of our Armed Forces.So we must be ready to fight and win. After all, the best way to prevent conflict is by preparing for it.”Unveiling key details of the long-awaited Strategic Defence Review, he revealed the UK will move to wartime levels of arms production by building six new munitions factories. This £1.5billion investment will create or support nearly 2,000 jobs cross the country. [Quality Jobs for quality products!] Some 7,000 long-range weapons will also be bought. It is the biggest rearmament programme the nation has seen in decades and will move the UK to an “always-on” level of production.’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/35203807/starmer-biggest-investment-armed-forces/
The Mail Online is also jingoistic. Headlined, ‘ Top Gun! British fighter jets will soon carry nuclear weapons for the first time ever as part of biggest defence expansion since the Cold War.’
‘Sir Keir Starmer is looking to purchase several fighter jets capable of firing tactical nuclear weapons.The sensitive talks include Defence Secretary John Healey and Admiral Sir Tony Radakin who are looking to buy US fighter jets capable of launching gravity bombs with lower power than conventional nuclear weapons.’
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These horrendous weapons cannot defend anyone. On the contrary, they invite mass death on everyone. People generally would appear to have become blasé about nuclear weapons. There was a time when Hiroshima and Nagasaki invoked cold terror, and for us socialists they always will. Anything less than utter revulsion and horror at the thought of them signifies serious social and individual psychosis.
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