Harriet has expressed that she is unfortunately receiving negative comments online. She has been a wonderful champion for women in farming & farming in general. Let’s show her some love! ❤️
Brave Iranian women have been in the forefront of the current protests against the Iranian regime. Not surprising since woman have most to gain in terms of equality, rights and freedom if the current theocracy was swept away.
Proper prominent feminists like JK Rowling have publicly given their support. But celebrity feminists on both sides of the Atlantic, normally so quick to give us their views even when they barely know what they’re talking about, have been strangely silent. Why is that? Women are risking their lives in Iran to win the most basic of rights and freedoms. Surely they’re deserving of the most vocal support …
Nothing symbolises our Govt’s incompetence than this post by the Prime Minister 2 days ago about a vile, racist, anti-Semite who wanted to kill Jews, police & white people and called the British ‘dogs and monkeys.’ All he had to do was check El-Fattah’s social media history. 🙄
Jeremy Clarkson is right. The rural way of life is under threat. Services are diminishing. Infrastructures broken. Local businesses closing. And the government is contributing to cause this decline. Shameful.
Important words from Jeremy Clarkson about the decline in rural services and the loss of so many village pubs. This is causing loneliness and a loss of community spirit.
Labour say they’ve helped you with the cost of living.
But their political choices mean:
Food shop UP £300 📈
Rent UP £700 📈
Energy bills UP £200 📈
Taxes UP ££££ 📈
Don’t believe their £150 energy bill con. They are a walking talking cost of living crisis.
The Budget is fast unravelling, revealing the breathtaking serial dishonesty of the Starmer-Reeves government.
In her Budget speech Reeves boasted that she was introducing a “new golden era for hospitality” as she outlined “permanently lower tax rates for over 750,000 retail, hospitality and leisure properties”.
She boasted that the new regime would deliver “the lowest tax rates since 1991” for high street pubs, shops and restaurants.
What she failed to mention was the new, much higher assessment of the value of the buildings used to calculate business rates, meaning the levy will actually increase significantly next year for the average high street business. That was slipped out later.
Nor did she mention that the 40 per cent discount on business rates, which many shops, pubs, restaurants have been benefiting from since the pandemic, ends in April.
Taken together, these two changes more than wipe out any benefit from the reforms Reeves announced in the Budget. Some ‘golden’ age.
I spent too much of my time as Chancellor and PM firefighting (Covid, Ukraine, the mini-Budget).
This week’s Budget didn’t face those shocks, yet it still ducked the big choices. It felt like a survival Budget.
My reflections in @thetimes 👇
https://t.co/GQW3LFjegL
There will be people who think this is deeply unfair, but it can’t be avoided anymore. You cannot do politics like this now - going on the radio or TV and using a clever form of words to avoid saying the thing you think will end your career. It doesn’t work and it hasn’t worked for a long time.
The career-ending thing isn’t saying “I broke that promise and I’m sorry, but here’s why I really think it’s the right thing to do…” It is repeatedly saying you did it without holding up your hands; in the process treating your audience like they’re daft and eroding trust so much that nobody listens to your actual argument. Why would you get a hearing for what you believe is right if you can’t show enough respect to admit your choice broke a promise?
No parent would accept that kind of apology from a child; why do some of our politicians still think voters should accept it from them? Trust people to give you a hearing and they’ll listen even when you admit mistakes - maybe even more then, because it is human.
It looks like Rachel Reeves lied to us and as a result home sellers lost their buyers, shops lost their customers, people didn’t take on new staff. Yes, the Tories lied about loads of stuff, problem is Labour promised they would be different.
Im a mum of 6 and im currently on benefits, (hopefully not for much longer and should hopefully be back on my feet shortly) but I just wanted to give my opinion on the budget.
The 2 child benefit cap should NOT be removed. I get financial support for 2 of my 6 kids and I can tell you now none of my kids go without food, gas or electric.
They all have nice clothes and school trips paid.
All get christmas and birthday presents.
They do not go without.
Yes its not always easy, but its not supposed to be because its not supposed to be long term and you should be better off in work than on benefits.
The 2 child cap does not keep children in poverty.
Irresponsible spending from parents do. Giving more money wont change that.
It will also take away insentive for people to get back into work because now large families will be worse off with 2 parents working than they would being out of work on benefits.
Support should of gone to working families on the lowest wage, not out of work families.
We are going to see a huge rise in unemployment off of the back of this.