Retired educator. Hate Brexit in all its demented forms. Will always listen to well reasoned argument but am deaf to mindless sloganeering, trolls and dimwits!
#Reform Councillor David Taylor JAILED.
"nasty and violent".
"told his wife he would hunt her like prey and kill her, and that he would "put her in the boot and set fire to the car".
And STILL he was 'vetted' & 'approved' by #Reform as a candidate while this was all going on.
The tax gap (total tax avoided and evaded) for the UK in 2023-20224 was £46,800,000,000.
It's not teachers or nurses avoiding tax.
It's not people on PIP.
It's not asylum seekers.
It's the rich. It's the billionaires. Its Nigel Farage. It's the Tories.
Labour’s private school tax is working.
Parents are swallowing the higher fees, and state schools aren’t running out of places.
In fact, none of the doom-and-gloom predictions are coming true: 🧵
🍣 BREAKING NEWS 🍣
Right-wing grifters, journos and that mouthy headteacher were all WRONG.
There has NOT been a mass movement of kids from private to state education.
Almost like those wealthy mouthpieces were only worried about their own tax break.
https://t.co/DWIPdYCufq
Britain has run out of prison spaces because it is locking up tens of thousands of people who need help with drug problems, mental health issues and low educational attainment. Meanwhile, Michelle Mone, Fujitsu bosses and those responsible for Grenfell Tower walk free.
Every time I see Starmer greeting, or greeted by, a European leader it makes me happy. There’s a real warmth there that has been missing for such a long time. In these troubling times I have full confidence in our PM.
Pretty disturbed by some of the framing being widely used on the Trump talks. It’s as if the genesis of the war is entirely forgotten. This isn’t a conflict which needs mediation. It was an illegal unprovoked act of aggression. It could end tomorrow if Putin just withdrew.