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I fucking said Labour would continue austerity, and guess what? Labour are continuing austerity.

A rare picture of myself at my first house party, got to get those priorities straight.

Why Scotland needs independence now.

Short-term let parasites are protesting outside of Parliament because they think they have the right to only ever profit off of their investment.

Buying property is a risk, and that risk shouldn’t be passed down to tenants. It also doesn’t give them the right to become unregulated landlords through AirBnB.

So!

Written by Keir Starmer in the fucking Sun.

I’m a trans man in the UK, I’ve been on the waiting list to be diagnosed for just over 2 years now, and am expected to wait around another 2 years before I get my first appointment (if the wait time doesn’t increase). I will then wait around 2 more years (at the very least) for my second appointment, and if I’m very lucky and am diagnosed in that appointment (which is not guaranteed in the slightest), I’ll enter another waiting list to access healthcare. The service I’m in is considered around average. There are people waiting 6 years for their first appointment in other services, so I am incredibly lucky with my supportive family (in that I haven’t been kicked out or abused, parents still don’t respect pronouns or name) and I have good friends who respect me, as well as only waiting 4 years for a first appointment.

Maybe you could go private if you had the money, right? Go a similar route to trans people in the US? A diagnosis from a private practice can be rejected by your General Practitioner, and any referral you get for hormones or surgery can be completely dismissed, because you weren’t diagnosed by an NHS practice. You would likely have to go entirely private, which is not possible for thousands of trans people who rely on the NHS. This is an issue within the NHS and a completely lack of funding and training for trans healthcare, resulting in horrifically long wait time and difficult to access help, especially given doctors and surgeons have and are having their practices shut down because they aren’t considered proper by the NHS, despite being one of very very few who commit to this kind of work.

The tragic fire that killed 71 people when the highly-flammable building cladding turned the structure into a death trap.

The news just came out that the firefighters who attended the scene have got cancers from the toxic fumes created by said cladding.

Who could have known this would happen?

... Oh.

This is what happens when governments neglect to regulate the housing industry, leading to poor quality and dangerous housing. And even in light of Grenfell, nothing changed. Make no mistake, there is blood on the Tories hands.