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I have to say, I agree with every headline in these newspapers. Oh, and I'm sick to death of socialist journalists using the term "Working Families" when reporting on people's benefits! Yes, you can get income support or PIP if you work, but most of those you interview are not working!
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Budget highlights, lowlights, and an OBR blunder lead all the front pages in Thursday's papers.BBC News
So the feeble argument for taxing electric vehicles is that the government is losing fuel duty on combustion-engine cars. If that's true, why are cyclists not being taxed? After all, the more pushbikes on the road, the fewer powered forms of transport there are, ergo less tax duty. I'm surprised Rachel Reeves hasn't implemented a tax on people who wear the colour blue, or on those selfish people who have gardens? She could tax you by the square foot! ๐ก
P.S. I don't own an electric car.
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Drivers of electric cars will pay a road charge of 3p per mile, while plug-in hybrid drivers will pay 1.5p per mile from April 2028.Pritti Mistry (BBC News)
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There are undiscovered tribes deep in the Amazon forest who have never seen anyone from outside, who knew that everything was going to be Boris's fault.
Yes, he and the Tory government could have done better, but hindsight is a wonderful thing! I'd argue that they got a lot of things right, even if they went about it the wrong way. I'm talking about spending money, for example, with little or no control over it. When faced with thousands dying, I'd rather throw money at it than hold the wallet shut in case someone defrauds or makes disgraceful profits.
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Report finds PM and Dominic Cummings presided over โtoxic and chaotic cultureโ in Downing StreetCaitlin Doherty (The Independent)
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The BBC apologises for the Panorama doctored video, and now we find out that Newsnight was at it too! So many questions. Was it the same person who edited both videos? Were they the same program editors and producers? But hey, everyone at the #BBC is impartial, right? ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Starmer defends Wes Streeting at PMQs but dodges question on his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeneyPeter Walker (The Guardian)
Recriminations fly in Downing Street after prime minister highlights weakness of his own positionGeorge Parker (Financial Times)
The man was detected by biometrics, detained immediately, and will be deported as soon as possible, the Home Office says.Jennifer McKiernan (BBC News)
It's the Editors and Producers at the BBC who need to be got rid of. They control what is put out. The likes of Davie and Turness failed to manage them. If anyone can't see how skewed the BBC news stories are, then maybe you should start to get your news from other agencies for a while; it'll be an eye-opener for you.
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The BBC's director general Tim Davie, and CEO of news Deborah Turness, resigned last night after a leaked dossier made a series of criticisms of BBC output.BBC News
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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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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Hadush Kebatu had been wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning.Anahita Hossein-Pour (The Independent)
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)
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)
Hadush Kebatu is arrested in north London, two days after being mistakenly released from an Essex jail.Thomas Mackintosh (BBC News)
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
The government is standing by safeguarding minister Jess Phillips as the grooming gang row deepens.Jennifer McKiernan (BBC News)
Sky News understands that the Iranian man will be deported to France once again.Sky News
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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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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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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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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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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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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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!
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
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.
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
Shabana Mahmood has vowed to "fight" attempts to block the first deportation flight under the UK-France returns deal.Sky News
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)
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Good riddance!
#SnoutInTheTrough
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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
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in reply to penguin42 • •Road Tax stopped being used for maintaining roads in 1937. The money goes straight to the general government. Local councils are duty-bound for the upkeep of roads out of funds allocated to them from the government. This is why there are huge potholes everywhere.
Try arguing over parking, say, outside your house. The first thing they will say is: "I've got road tax, mate, that entitles me to park where I like." Ergo, he's paid to be on the road, not for the upkeep; therefore, imv, anyone who uses the road should pay to use it and don't get me started on people cycling on the pavements.
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in reply to dick_turpin • • •But even if you'd argue the road tax stuff isn't being used on roads, then the elecy car needs money spent on the grid.
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