Useful link within the article that shows you just how much your MP is raking in while not focusing on their constituency work. Here’s our MP, McVey whose main job seems to be for GB news.
@TonyClewes Thing is, if there are a small minority of people in the UKwith far right views, then there should be a small minority of far right MPs. That's democracy. Right now the far right have massive influence over the tory party who would be far more moderate otherwise.
It doesn't matter what the PM said at the homeless shelter, it's the fact that someone in his team thought a man worth £730m giving a homeless person a plate of sausages and eggs would be good PR.
@Roxanne_Mashari@GordonBrown The biggest problem with local government is being a local Councillor is a low paid job, only really doable by retired people or those with other income sources. Reduce the numbers, make it a full time properly paid position and we'll get far more talented, diverse candidates.
@paulisci "Children; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. They no longer rise when elders enter the room, they contradict their parents and tyrannize their teachers. Children are now tyrants.” Socrates c470BC
@RichardBurgon Private schools are not charities, the services they provide aren’t primarily for public benefit, they’re for the benefit of those who can afford them. Yes, some offer bursaries but that’s no different to thousands of businesses with corporate social responsibility strategie
Here's a graph that makes you think. The number of people over 65 in the world is set to double to 1.4bn by 2043 - how will these people be cared for and what will they need? A proper UK industrial strategy would be thinking about this.
This is big! Labour members just overwhelmingly backed PR 👏👏
Great news - a real sea change! Yet @Keir_Starmer has his fingers in his ears. People are crying out for fresh, progressive politics where votes count & voices are heard. And it’s coming, whether leaders agree or not
💥 BREAKING: Labour Conference has voted to "make a manifesto commitment to Proportional Representation at the next election."
We are closer to real change than we have been in decades. Bring on the next steps!
Electoral reform is the precondition of the most important constitutional changes we need in our country. It is the foundation upon we can build a moderate, consensual, evidence-based system from the ruins of pathological know-nothing machismo. There's no more important fight.