"The system is unbelievably unfair... I'm being told it's fair by people who didn't have to pay student loans"
Chartered engineer Ben Thomas describes his student loan experience on #PoliticsLive
https://t.co/dzWJmSmYYL
Labour has a lot to celebrate this week.
While the media focused on Budget speculation, the government has quietly been fixing the country.
8 important changes:
@TUIUK Including yourself, myself and Hays Travel agent have dealt with 13x members of TUI staff since problems at check in on Wednesday afternoon. Emails/calls and countless messages on the all. Nothing is been resolved. Shocking customer service!
BREAKING
This is HUGE
Our Supreme Court is allowing Water Companies to be sued for dumping sewage
Let’s go for thousands of claims from swimmers, surfers, families and more
Yessssss 👍🏼
Times are changing
WE MUST VOTE ON THURSDAY 👍🏼
Make it historic
96 years ago today, women won the right to vote on the same terms as men. With 2 days until the election we want to be heard. We are 51% of the population and our votes will be critical in deciding the election outcome. Read our joint letter: https://t.co/9VfECddh5p #SheVotes24
URGENT! Pls share. The last chance to register to vote in the General Election is 11.59pm tomorrow Tue 18 June. Potentially 8m aren't registered at their current address. Here's 4 key facts...
1) You can do it online here https://t.co/i4FhJoAXfK
2) It's good for your finances. Not being on electoral roll can make it more difficult to be accepted for credit products like bank accounts or mortgages.
3) You can opt out of the 'Open Register' (which allows your info to be sold on) which will stop you getting junk mail marketing )
4) You'll need ID when you do vote (not to register) if you don't have it, you can get it free until Wed 26 June https://t.co/9bfL3hw3CV
I grew up watching flag-waving little Englanders parading their nationality around Rochester like Dickensian caricatures, puffing their chests out in pride over an imperial history carefully reimagined to paint over barbaric cruelty with Constable landscapes and Churchillian swagger… As if the accident of where they were born had been an achievement…
These folk were everywhere… with their arrogant smiles and entitled condescension. They were the National Front-supporting parents of school friends, avoiding eye contact if I dared visit their house via their sons, asking me transparent questions about my ethnicity and explaining how mixed race marriages never work, in case I propositioned one of their vulnerable teenage daughters…
I was taught to consider myself both lucky to be here and self-evidently inferior by virtue of my heritage.
So when I see those same superior, colluding, patronising smiles on the over-rehearsed faces of attention-seeking rabble-rousers like Farage and Tice, I have to remember…
We can’t change the past but we can make damn sure those who belong in the past don’t destroy our future…
Farage is a disease, a malicious vessel of hate… A gleeful provocateur. Everything he touches becomes a toxic wasteland of hopeless misery. He is a cancer waiting to destroy the same host over and over again.
I said this about him in a Channel 4 News interview back in 2014.
I’m saying it again now.
This govt has failed us. 14yrs of Tory ugliness has broken our country. And their response is to lash out at the vulnerable, to insinuate that those people are milking the system so there’s less for everyone else. Every single punchdown is an admission of their failure. Not ours.
FOUND - a Tory with a sense of morality
Former Tory MP Nick Boles letter to The Times slamming the rank hypocrisy of Ashcroft (non dom billionaire) and Sunak (formerly non dom super rich wife avoiding taxes until discovered) haranguing Angela Rayner.
He sees it as we see it 👀