This is simply not true. Labour didn’t have to go right. They *chose* to go right. The big majority was a chance to reset everything back to sanity. Starmer chose the mad, bigoted, ignorant and dishonest route instead.
The three stages of life:
1. Too young
2. Too busy
3. Too old
In short Rayner had to resign due to concerted media & political pressure over a single stamp duty mistake. Millionaire Tice bankrolled his party through deliberate, dodgy, tax-avoiding corporate tricks and yet the media pressure is limited to a few outlets.
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When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.
Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
Hah. ON TOP of the other Tice Scandal...
He setup 4 shell companies to avoid tax and then gave it to Reform UK.
ALSO don't forget: Nadhim Zahawai ended up with a £5m HMRC bill for tax dodging.
Robert Jenrick helped Richard Desmond avoid £45m in tax.
⭐ Reform are the party of Tax Avoidance ⭐
Am quoted by columnist Jennifer Horgan in her @irishexaminer.bsky.social piece this week.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
Pale complexion, rosy cheeked, hair piled high, and a dramatic wide-shouldered black gown
Gustav Klimt painted this strikingly realistic portrait of Marie Breunig in 1894. She was a friend and client of his long-term partner, fashion designer Emilie Flöge (Belvedere Museum, Vienna)
Some good news.
“A vaccine during pregnancy which protects newborns against nasty chest infections (RSV) is cutting hospital admissions of babies by more than 80%, UK health officials say.”
When the numbers were going up, the Channel boat crossings dominated BBC news & much of the media daily. They have fallen 34% in the first three months of this year, but you wouldn’t know it from the media coverage.
one of the biggest technological revolutions in history and it has nothing to do with crypto, AI, metaverse or any of the things the media relentlessly hypes
A serious question: is there anyone with a good ethical record who manages to be on good terms with Trump for a longer period of time or are the two mutually exclusive?
Something extraordinary – yet predictable – has happened over recent days on Facebook.
Fake accounts that usually post anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim content generated using AI to fuel division and hate in UK are now pushing out AI-gen content asking:
"Should the UK produce its own fuel again?"
If you note the restarting of the "mothballed" plant to produce carbon dioxide, you should say it was closed because of a "trade deal" with the US, which agreed to buy bioethanol from American processors which we didn't need.
#WATO
Better than expected economic growth
Gas prices falling
Energy bills falling
Council tax changes - more time to pay overdue bills and payments over 12 months not 10
Reassurances over no food shortages
The PM dealing with social media bosses
Let's embrace the good news today, folks!
Etkili Haber Yeni Sayfa TKIL ABE! @etkilihaberyeni Ø Translated from Turkish Show original New Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar appeared as a guest on state television M1 for the first time and made shocking statements: -We will suspend this channel's news service. This isn't about me; I'm not seeking revenge. Our people deserve journalism that reflects the truth. -We will nationalize the assets given to businesspeople and foundations during the Orbán era. -The Mathias Corvinus Collegium Foundation, close to Orbán, was transferred 10% of MOL (oil company) and Gedeon Richter (pharmaceutical company) for free. We will take back these shares.
-After 16 years of the Orbán era, 400,000 Hungarian children in this country are living in deep poverty. -President Sulyok is no longer the president of this country in my eyes or in the eyes of the people. -(In response to the host asking about his meeting with Zelensky as a counterpoint) I get your joke, and l even like it. But your references no longer carry any meaning. -According to you, Germany has collapsed, there's no internet there, people aren't even having sex. The Hungarian people were laughing at you. -It was said on this channel that even my young children won't talk to me, when in fact my children live with me.
-(When the host interrupted him) No host in this studio ever dared to interrupt Hungary's most corrupt and most lying prime minister. -(When asked about the legal basis for closing the news service) For someone on this channel to accuse me of breaking the law looks like a thief accusing the police.
What we wanted was for Keir Starmer to go on Kuenssberg the day after the election and do this
Can anyone find a better single image to answer to "What's wrong in Ireland?"
I blame the voters, they vote like they support football clubs.
With the local elections fast approaching this deserves revisiting:
Farage squirms as Rep. Jamie Raskin obliterates the "Putin-loving, free speech imposter, Trump sycophant".
Please share as widely as possible. The news media have a convenient habit of forgetting about Farage's service to Russia.
It's remarkable how most of the world's English-speaking democracies seemed to have gotten together and decided "let's destroy the main thing that led us to unprecedented prosperity: our systems of higher education."
Well fuck off then.
A belted galloway cow walking into the mist, towards a bold, unpredictable future.
“So it was, on that misty morning, that Brenda set off for the capital. She knew not what she would find there, only that the time had come to move on - away from small-minded rural attitudes and people who called her ‘Oreo’ and ‘the wide panda’ - to seek a more fulfilling life.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Blaming this Labour government for our hollowed out armed forces is ridiculous, until you dig deeper and this guy is funded by the Americans.
It seems feeding birds mostly has “probably strong benefits for our own connection to nature, wellbeing and health”.
For birds and other wildlife, especially if we consider the harm to nature from producing bird food (often abroad), it may well be overall detrimental. I don't feed birds anymore.
Ridiculous statement from Ex Nato chief - UK unprepared for war due to an “ever-expanding welfare budget”.
25.3m people live below minimum income standard.
Since 2010 HMRC hasn't collected £500bn of taxes.
Does he think poor/ill make better defenders.
Silence on corporate welfare, taxing the rich
See:
As Ukraine is teaching us, US style defence is for yesterday's wars and expensive.
BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists
Remember the HUGE illegal waste site in an Oxfordshire field?
Well work is well under way to remove the waste, with 15 to 30 lorries full being removed each day.
This image is what the site is looking like now thanks to the Environment Agency and Labour government.
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Why are so many ladies in books sad and indoors? More books about ladies devising secret languages and teaching them to crows, or discovering new continents but not telling anyone.
David Dimbleby, a most respected political observer gets it absolutely right!
In no way should King Charles' visit to the US ever have been contemplated, much less go ahead!
Trump has deeply offensively insulted our armed forces! For God's sake Starmer, grow a spine!
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