I believe that's called "Covering our arse before we rob you." I await the "We inherited it." Excuse. You've been in power for 15 months now โhaven't you got a grip on the situation yet? #UslessLabour
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Starmer and Reeves hint at tax rises to come ahead of unusual pre-budget speech today
The chancellor will address the nation from Downing Street on Tuesday morning, weeks before she delivers her second budget. It comes amid rampant speculation she will break Labour's manifesto commitments on tax rises.Sky News
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Removal of Andrew's titles is seismic - but there is another major shift in palace's statement
Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday that Andrew had been stripped of his Prince title in an unprecedented statement.Rhiannon Mills (Sky News)
Dear journalists
What's going on between Starmer and Reeves? This is the second time he's saved her, isn't it?
Didn't Starmer campaign on a sleaze ticket, saying he would clean up wrongdoing by MPs? #Labour is turning out just as bad as the Tories!
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#UselessLabour
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Migrant sex offender received ยฃ500 after threatening to disrupt deportation
Hadush Kebatu had been wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning.Anahita Hossein-Pour (The Independent)
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Dog walker killed in โsenselessโ Uxbridge triple stabbing is named
A 22-year-old Afghan national - who arrived in the UK in a lorry before being granted asylum in 2022 - was arrested at the sceneAmy-Clare Martin (The Independent)
#UselessLabour
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Rachel Reeves hints at tax rises in Budget as she heads to Riyadh in search of trade deal
The chancellor is widely expected to use the Budget to increase taxes once again, with the Institute for Fiscal Studies estimating she needs to find ยฃ22bn via tax rises or spending cuts to meet her self-imposed fiscal ruleMillie Cooke (The Independent)
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#UselessLabour
Migrant sex offender released from prison in error arrested
Hadush Kebatu is arrested in north London, two days after being mistakenly released from an Essex jail.Thomas Mackintosh (BBC News)
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Met urges Epping migrant sex offender to hand himself into a police station - follow live
Hadush Kebatu is believed to have "access to funds" and to have sought assistance from members of the public both in London and in Chelmsford.BBC News
#Labour #GroomingGangs
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Four survivors say Jess Phillips must quit for them to rejoin grooming inquiry
The government is standing by safeguarding minister Jess Phillips as the grooming gang row deepens.Jennifer McKiernan (BBC News)
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Man deported under 'one in, one out' scheme returns to UK in small boat
Sky News understands that the Iranian man will be deported to France once again.Sky News
#Israel #gaza
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Israel strikes Gaza and suspends aid delivery, after IDF and Hamas accuse each other of breaking ceasefire - live updates
A "wave of strikes" by the Israel Defense Forces comes after Israel and Hamas accused each other of violating their ceasefire in Gaza.BBC News
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What time does Taylor Swift come on?
Held for 738 days by terrorists in the most appalling conditions, poorly fed and possibly mistreated, and the first thing some bright spark can think of is "Let's parade them all on a stage because we don't think they have been debased enough!"
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Hamas releases first seven of 20 Israeli hostages after two years in Gaza
Group handed over to Red Cross as Israeli ministers approve list of more than 1,700 Palestinians for releaseDaniel Boffey (The Guardian)
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Kemi Badenoch would be better off rebuilding the party than setting out her market stall in the hope of winning the next election. Reactivating the Young Conservatives is a good start. If they're still members? Expel Johnson and Cameron, and show the British public that the Conservatives are cleaning out the stable and putting their own house in order before trying to tell the nation what to do.
The biggest problem with people defecting to ReformUK is that it gives legitimacy to Farage's party - I wouldn't be surprised if they win the next election.
#politics #conservatives
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Badenoch to set out new rule to cut borrowing and taxes
In a conference speech, the Tory leader will say the Conservatives are the only party "with a plan to get our economy back on track".Joshua Nevett (BBC News)
It grieves me to say it, but at the moment, the Conservatives are a spent force. They've only themselves to blame. They had it all and threw it all away. I would argue they are so devastated as a party, I don't beleive Kemi Badenoch can turn it around and decline, if not extinction is potentially on the cards.
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Badenoch denies empty seats an issue at Tory conference
On Monday, shadow chancellor Mel Stride gave his speech to a partially empty hall in Manchester.BBC News
I honestly think William and Kate, as King and Queen, will unify this country โ or at least go a long way toward repairing our damaged harmony โ and usher in a new connection between the royal family and the British public.
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Prince William: โChange is on my agenda โ change for goodโ
The heir to the throne candidly described how his wifeโs cancer battle left him overwhelmed and revealed his children do not have mobile phonesTony Jones (The Independent)
If Kier Starmer is worried about Farage, maybe he should stop pissing the electorate off!
#Labour #ReformUK #kierstarmer #Farage
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Why Keir Starmer wants to keep talking about Nigel Farage
The Labour leader insists his battle with Reform UK represents a different kind of political fight.Matt Chorley (BBC News)
Sometimes, I wonder if people deliberately look for an alternative, obscure way to report a fault with us.
It's really simple: send an email to support@. However, they'll email you directly, phone you, or log into their support portal account and use the chat feature, which is only live when we're supporting a customer. They'll go to our website, which has, wait for it, a "Report a Fault" button on the homepage that generates an email to support@, but they'll ignore it. They'll navigate to the "Contact us" page, which yet again has a "Report a Fault" button at the top of the page with bold text saying "Don't use the contact form, you caaant! use this button," but no, they'll go to the contact form and report a fault which goes nowhere near the ticketing system. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
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So let me get this right. You're guaranteed a wage? Well, I should hope you are!
No companies have signed up for this idea.
Forced employment, are you sure #Labour are the good guys?
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Rachel Reeves to guarantee paid work for young people unemployed for 18 months
The chancellor will commit to "the abolition of long-term youth unemployment" in her speech at Labour conference.Becky Morton (BBC News)
Not that I believe in "fair" but tbh, just lately, the stuff coming out of this Labour government is pretty much straight out of the Conservative playbook and yet not a single Labour supporter or voter has had the balls to say "Hang on a minute!" If it had been a Tory government announcing this stuff, the Internet would be in meltdown now with raging socialists.
It's so unfair!
A. None if them have ever had a real life, so they're utterly clueless and
B. They are devious geniuses who have copied UKIP Re-formed and Trump by controlling what everybody gets angry about, to distract from something even worse.
I'm most worried it might be A.
I think it's ๐ but for slightly different reasons. Some of them still think the clock stopped in 1976, for starters, Angela Raynor believes so. Labour is still hung up on "Working Class", we're all working class, aren't we? I certainly work for a living. The so-called upper class was wiped out at Passchendaele and Mandalay.
I believe Starmer et al is playing the long game. They're thinking about the next election. All these ideas they're effectively nicking off ReformUK are a fop to the voter in the hope they get a second term. My concern is, once something is in place, it's going to be difficult to undo, although having said that, we did manage to leave Europe for about a week. ๐คฃ
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Keir Starmer says digital ID cards are an โenormous opportunityโ and will make it tougher to work illegally - UK politics live
Prime minister says plans for a new digital ID held on peopleโs phones will become mandatory to prove the right to workAmy Sedghi (The Guardian)
And you thought #Labour's One in one out deal was brilliant?
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Some of us have lived through a Labour government before; we know what they're like.
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Politics latest: Second migrant deported to France under 'one in, one out' deal - after losing High Court bid
A second migrant has been deported from the UK to France as part of the government's one in, one out deal. Asylum seekers are set to be accepted from France in the "coming days" as part of the agreement.Sky News
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Migrants 'making mockery' of law, says home secretary
Shabana Mahmood has vowed to "fight" attempts to block the first deportation flight under the UK-France returns deal.Sky News
If the Tories were still in power, everyone would be frothing at the mouth. Makes me puke the #Labour bias of these so-called journalists.
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Eritrean man wins block on removal to France under 'one in, one out' deal
Some migrants who arrived in the UK by small boat had been told they would be put on flights to France as early as Tuesday.Dominic Casciani (BBC News)
Good riddance!
#SnoutInTheTrough
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Angela Rayner resigns after admitting she did not pay enough tax
Sir Keir Starmer's right-hand woman admitted to Sky News earlier this week she had not paid enough stamp duty on a home she bought in Hove, East Sussex, earlier this year.Sky News
Morning All
And another glorious Friday has arrived. It's the end of the week for most of us today, and [hopefully] the end of a career for Angela Raynor. ๐คฃ
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It's like the olden days, when people stepped down just because they made a mistake. The independent assessment cleared her of malicious intent. The bar has been set high for Farridge. He should get under it easily.
She's stepped down because:
1. She didn't check, double-check, check, then triple-check.
Anyone with an ounce of intelligence would have said: "Look, not only am I the housing minister, I'm the deputy prime minister. We need to check this fifteen times before we proceed.
2. Someone's lying. Her solicitors have stated they gave her no advice regarding stamp duty implications. It would actually be more serious for a firm of solicitors to lie.
I don't believe a word of this "Housing reform" bollocks. Any empty homes, including apparently ยฃ300,000 homes in Surrey, are being used to house illegals. Christ, they aren't even meeting their house-building targets.
The woman has gone; now we must get more in our sights as far as I'm concerned.
That's not true. It all depends on what news you watch and how hard you're prepared to look for the stories. Don't expect the BBC to air anything derogatory. Socialists and left-wingers have completely taken them over.
I watch the BBC news at 6 am for the first half hour, and that's it, I don't watch them again because the missus can't stand me shouting at the screen again.
Bunch of biased fucks.
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#Houses #Politics #Labour #AngelaRaynor
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Angela Rayner 'unreservedly' apologises for Conservative 'scum' comments
Labour's deputy leader says she has reflected and will be "more careful" with her words in future.BBC News
#Politics #Labour #AngelaRaynor
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Angela Rayner consulted three people before flat purchase, BBC understands
It is unclear whether the individuals the deputy PM consulted had expertise in complex tax law.Billy Kenber (BBC News)
@Andy Wootton
I disagree. Ignorance is no defence. She knew full well what she was doing. She might not have understood it, but she knew she was going to benefit hugely from it. Otherwise, why do it?
This is Jimmy Carr all over again.
I'm not convinced. I don't like her, so it wouldn't be unfair to accuse me of a biased opinion.
I think she's as common as muck, a chav tbh. IMV, her political beliefs are stuck in the 70s, and I'm not surprised Corbyn has offered her a place in his party if she gets booted out.
No sooner had she become part of the Government than she leapt into the trough with her so-called loans of Designer clothes, freebie junkets and dodgy finances. This is an individual out of her depth trying to play with the grown-ups.
And you thought Boris Johnson was dodgy!
The Telegraph alleges that Angela Rayner sold her 25 per cent share of her first house in Ashton-under-Lyne for ยฃ162,500. A house that she had put into a Trust, apparently for her son, in January 2025. What you need to remember is that Angela Raynor still has use of the house; she's a Trustee of her son's Trust Fund. The key point is that the trust was established with NHS compensation money for her son, so you could argue that her son's compensation gave her the ยฃ162,500, which she then used to buy the Hove flat. And that's without even looking at the ยฃ40K underpayment on the stamp duty!
#Politics #Labour #AngelaRaynor
When I'm Elected
We will shake up Britain's police force. We will introduce Civil Guards along the lines of Spain, etc. They will handle low-level issues like parking tickets, petty vandalism, pickpocketing and muggings, and lost hamsters. They will be armed with pepper spray and batons. Most importantly, they'll pound the beat so that the public can see what they're getting for their taxes. They'll have next to no vehicles.
Next will be the Ordinary Police. They'll handle more serious stuff like murders, robberies, Saturday night yobs and people with the wrong kind of haircut. They might pound the beat now and again. They will have vehicles, but these will mostly be transit vans. We'll take most of the high-performance, expensive vehicles off them. They will be equipped with pepper spray, batons, and possibly kazoos.
Finally, we'll have a paramilitary force. These will be ex-military, armed to the teeth with firearms, etc. They will deal with the most dangerous stuff, such as people criticising our policies. They can have tanks if they want.
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Mosque finds union jack tied to railings and puts it in window
A Muslim centre in Wirral said it is flying the union jack in to show it is proud to be British.Marc Gaier (BBC News)
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Protests expected at asylum hotels across UK as tensions mount
Anti-migrant demonstrations expected on Friday and Saturday, while councils investigate legal challenges against hotelsJamie Grierson (The Guardian)
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#stoptheboats
Asylum seekers in hotels rise by 8% under Labour
Overall immigration is down due to a large decrease in work visas being granted but the number of asylum seekers has reached a record high.Alix Culbertson (Sky News)
ROTFLMAO
It's time for all those immigrant supporters to step up and put their money where their mouth is and start offering rooms in their homes.
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#IllegalImmigrants #Smashthegangs #stoptheboats
Government issues urgent appeal for 5,000 homes to house 20,000 migrants
Home Office turns to property specialists as councils prepare to follow Epping and attempt to stop hotels housing asylum seekersCharles Hymas (The Telegraph)
#BBCbreakfast
Anyone fancy another General Election?
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Personally, I don't believe any of the so-called progress this government is supposed to have made. I think it's propaganda by the #Labour supporting media. They haven't "Stopped the boats", the housing targets haven't been met, and strikes have increased.
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"stop the boats"; the most amusing platitude since "education, education, education" and "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime". Until those two old platitudes are fixed, the boats will continue. Where is that ยฃ 350 million?
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Rayner declares war on allotments
Councils could cash in on public gardens to tackle funding crisis under new rulesTony Diver (The Telegraph)
Since Labour came to power onโฏ4โฏJulyโฏ2024, Office for National Statistics (ONS) data show approximately 1,054 separate strike stoppages in the period May 2024 to May 2025
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"How fortunate, why didn't they own up before?"