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@catsandcrows.bsky.social

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Screenshot from Wikipedia During Harold Wilson's final premiership, from 1974 to 1976, a number of changes were carried out such as the introduction of new social security benefits and improvements in the rights of tenants. In March 1974, an additional £2 billion was announced for benefits, food subsidies, and housing subsidies, including a record 25% increase in the state pension. Council house rents were also frozen. Council house building continued on a substantial scale, although there was now a greater emphasis on modernising older properties rather than replacing them with new ones. That year, national insurance benefits were increased by 13%, which brought pensions as a proportion of average earnings "up to a value equivalent to the previous high, which was reached in 1965 as a result of Labour legislation." In order to maintain the real value of these benefits in the long term, the government introduced legislation which linked future increases in pensions to higher incomes or wages.[10] In 1974–1975, social spending was increased in real terms by 9%.
Dr Who and the Long Dark 70’s Teatime of the Soul with Fourth Doctor Who graphics
Fourth doctor visuals with Everything ‘S broken over two lines gone Pete tong
1997 election poster showing a grinning Tony Blair in black and white with a black stripe across his eyes with red demon eyes painted on. The text reads “new Labour new danger”
An action shot of a calico cat eating a wooden Doodlecats calico cat tree decoration hanging on the tree.
A calico cat, Poppy, under a Christmas tree next to a Doodlecats wooden tree decoration of a calico cat wearing a yellow and red jumper
A beautiful (I’m biased) black and white cat sitting in front of a television with a Netflix advert for Breaking Bad showing Walter and Jesse looking mean
A post from the charming mrallumpearce.bsky.social to Owen Jones. When last did Polanski attend synagogue And how often does he attend Or is he just a Jew by birth and parenting
Picture of a man with a sick little boy. Post by Ramii15@bsky.social Nasser is SUFFOCATING. 🚨 His thyroid is crushing his airway & vocal cords. Every breath is a battle he's losing. 💔 He needs URGENT SURGERY to live. We are desperate. Please don't watch him die. Even $10 or a repost is a miracle. 🆘 @mommunism.bsky.social chuffed.org/project/155233
“l've never felt this intensely confused. I always imagined I'd be filled with joy when khamenei finally dies. I don't. Not joy, nor sorrow, just anger and horror! It wasn't for the genocidal US and Israel to take him out. He was ours, to prosecute and bring to justice. Ours <bheanstripe: “Then why didn't you?”> “because every time we were getting close those same genociders would hijack our movements, and crush civil society with their sanctions, because the imperilist forcers with their regime change agenda” Hadjar Homaei | هاجر همایی @xeegeex
Image of Iranian author Sahar Delijani with her words: “ I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven’t lived in blood and bone. That doesn’t mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it’s not freedom you’re after.”
Clip from BBC news website 19 Oct 2022 Liz Truss “I’m a fighter not a quitter” During Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Sir Keir Starmer listed policies which had "gone" before asking why the PM was still here. Liz Truss responded that she was a "fighter, not a quitter". Former Labour government minister Lord Mandelson, then Peter Mandelson MP, used the phrase in a 2001 speech.
Allister Heath The insidious March of kittens will leave us impoverished and unfree. Spoof telegraph headline TRY IT FOR YOURSELF AT tinyurl.com/tnw-heath
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A clearly starving black and white cat. She hasn’t been fed for half an hour
A black and white cat sitting in front of the TV showing the secret traitor in a red cloak