Mmmm. You’re the Chancellor of the Exchequer and your eve of poll message is that the tap water is drinkable again and you should be really grateful …. Not sure this is quite the vote winner he seems to think
Two quotes:
Rishi Sunak: "Independent Treasury officials have costed Labour's policies and they amount to a £2,000 tax rise for every working family"
Treasury Permanent Secretary: “civil servants were not involved in the production or presentation of the Conservative Party’s document”
Tory MPs just voted to insist that Afghan interpreters who served British armed forces can be sent to Rwanda.
A scheme which costs £2m per asylum seeker. A £500m+ scheme for less than 1% of asylum seekers. Which now includes those who worked with our troops
Shameful & shambolic
The Mail and hypocrisy is not a new theme but I felt it needed a new airing in the light of their current obsession with Angela Rayner. Enjoy the Rothermere Dacre property portfolios and the non dommery https://t.co/vjP4wzful3
Armando Iannucci responds to Jeremy Hunt’s gaslighting #bbclaurak
“it's almost like we're in a Dickens novel, rather than 6th biggest economy in world”
Child poverty rates (JRF 2024)
UK 20%
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
Shameful
Jeremy Hunt explains that the Conservative party's plan has been rejected by the Courts of Law, so they've had to go back to parliament to create legislation which overrules the the law.
So the Conservative party's plan is to find ways to break the law 🤷♂️
President of Student's Union in Lancaster, "I have students coming in saying they can't study because they haven't eaten in three days"
Fiona Bruce, "People are telling you they haven't eaten in three days?"
President, "I have hundreds of stories.. We have a food bank on campus.. We have a supper club where we give our free meals to over 100 students every Thursday... The only hot meal they'll have that week"
"Students are the future of the economy.. If we can't eat, we can't study, if we can't afford our rent we can't live here.. The government does not prioritise students and it hasn't in the last decade" #BBCQT @LancasterSU@CerysEvans
Victoria Derbyshire, "The total number of Palestinians dead in this conflict is 28,340.. At what point, if ever, will the international communities tell Israel they have crossed a line?" #Newsnight
There is nowhere left for Gazans to go.
An assault on Rafah makes mass casualties inevitable among the 1.3 million people sheltering there. Government failure to call for immediate #CeasefireNOW & to end all military support for Israel makes them complicit
#RafahUnderAttack
GB News Presenter Martin Daubney has called on Joe Biden to resign for stumbling over autocue and getting someone’s name wrong. Here’s Martin showing the President how it’s done:
Single person will need £31,300 a year for a moderate income in retirement.
Median wage, £29,600. Majority can't save enough for retirement.
Full state pension in April will be £11,500, only 50% will receive it.
Grim future delivered by govt policies.
https://t.co/EB7g75lde9