Maxine Peake on capitalism and sleeping with the devil in ‘How to Hold Your Breath’
As the screen and stage actress returns to London for a run at the Royal Court, Maxine…
New photoshoot for Lee *____*
By Maarten de Boer
From face to foot
He was a thing of blood, whose every motion
Was timed with dying cries.
jesus christ, Scarlet is short
^ Scarlet, I know how you feel
TOM IS THE GREATEST OF ALL #ohmyodin
fuCKING YES I’M AS TALL AS SCARLETT JOHANSSON
Mark is looking like “Damn..”
RDJ is just like “Fuck you I can hire someone to be tall for me”
and Jeremy is real life superhero over there.
Fuck you I can hire someone to be tall for me
Except that:
The debate on welfare reform was a pro forma one because of an epetition, with no prospect of actually causing action to be taken, so a waste of the time of everyone there.
Most MPs, most of the time, aren’t in the chamber, but are still listening to the debates in their offices (which have a live feed), This is because a lot of the time MPs have to fit in the correspondence from their constituents (who are more concerned, in a lot of cases, that MPs act like supercouncillors than that they scrutinise legislation) into the same time as their legislative work, as they’re often working sixty or seventy hour weeks.
Most MPs were actually against the 11% pay-rise, which was awarded against the wishes of most MPs and the leaders of all three main parties, by the independent commission which took control of MPs’ pay after the expenses scandal.
The pay rise in question was actually revenue-neutral, as it involved less money going to various other benefits, such as pensions, that MPs receive.
And finally, that photo isn’t actually from the debate over the pay-rise, because there was no such debate, because MPs don’t get to set their own pay any more. In fact it’s a stock photo of PM’s question time.
Yes, there are bad MPs, MPs who only want to line their own pockets, and all the rest, but this photo plays into the hands of the stupid anti-politics “they’re all the same” nonsense, which is fundamentally against the idea of government at all — and not in a good way, but in a right-wing Grover Norquist kind of way.
Don’t fall for their lies.
Little Halloween Pumpkin Contest
Prints, bags, t-shirts, mugs…
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