Yeah its complete bollocks. If this was in Russia or china we would never hear the end of it.

People are blind to authoritarianism when its their own country it seems

Yes austerity is also to blame , this doesn’t counter the observation that private companies don’t do their due diligence to invest. especially when they have been making profits.

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Nothing like a good war to quell the numbers of poor! Better get those troops to the Ukraine asap!

Remoaners are the most annoying people on the planet apart from actual fascists but they do have a slight point here

The actual report, to side step guardian bs, states that all EU countries have suffered growth in medicine imports but its slightly worse in the UK due to Brexit. This is still a widespread issue with supply chains made slightly worse by brexit. Not that brexit is causing the issue, as the Guardian headline would want you to think.

It seems the Procurement act of 2023 has meant that we’ve moved away from EU slightly which means we are more susceptible to corrupt dealings with less transparency over procurement? I dont fully understand the act but that’s what the Nuffield report states. If so, then that means this isn’t brexit per se but just Tory opening up the Nhs to private contracts more easily. This could easily be changed by our incumbent government but they obviously wont as it means less contracts for their mates.

The guardian often want to show that brexit is main reason things are bad and ignore problems that are clearly due to national policy and the highs and lows of global capitalism. Brexit does exacerbate some issues but its rarely the cause of them.

Disgusting pigs

I would vote for re entry but this is wishful thinking surely. Not that i think the two parties are any different, but it would be a gift to the tories.

We need a generation to clear before this changes.

Although there could be enough political capital to do this if there was escalation of war with Russia or USA became too unpalatable a trade partner. I dunno

Like fuck will they stop the fash going near mosques, the real two tier policing!

I fucking hate how these libs have made it so being a jew is conflated with Israel. Imagine if every time we called out Saudi Arabia for its bullshit we were called islamophobic? I attended a bat mitzvah recently and all i did was hope no one said anything Zionist. The fact i even think that is so disgusting. This is the work of Zionist lobbying for years and years to make Israel connected to broader Judaism.

I love matt kennard, a serious journalist with a lot of integrity. Declassified is great.

The deep state here refers to the informal network of mates and lobby groups and secret service nut jobs. I don’t see why the right should be the only ones able to criticise informal networks of power! The bourgeoisie are like a hydra after all.

I’m sure that some of the people in high level mi5 and military aren’t operating cynically, they probably believe the ideology. This is Chomsky’s great observation, that those in the ‘deep state’ or whatever are only able to be there because they hold certain opinions. The informal network would always select against those with views contrary to western ideology. It isn’t about some nut job conspiracy.