It wasn’t the rich who saved us from Covid-19. It was the low paid key workers who government asked us to clap for. Now it’s those very same people - who can’t afford to pay for their heating or weekly food bill - that the same government is prepared to throw under the bus!
After years of Tory chaos, Liz Truss promises disruption. Instead of stability, she'll bring turbulence. Instead of security, she'll bring danger. When our country needs a plan, all she offers is incompetence. But where there’s a cost, she’ll make sure you pay it. 📉
Here's what's moving on up. Mortgage repayments. Interest rates. Rent. Prices. Energy bills. Food bills. Oil company profits. Bankers' bonuses. NHS waiting times.
You know what's not moving on up? Your pay. Your pension. The pound. The country.
Suella Braverman says sending asylum seekers to Rwanda before Christmas would be her ‘dream’ - closely followed by ‘drowning kittens in a river’ and ‘pushing an orphan off a cliff’.
I'm seeing some misunderstanding the benefits debate as if it were workers v unemployed.
Roughly 40% of those who receive Universal Credit get them as in-work benefits to top up low incomes. Many others too have disabilities or mental health problems making work difficult.
Since the war in Ukraine began the Tories have taken the opportunity to quietly announce £5bl cuts in the NHS budget; a life long graduate tax of £100k plus for students; and the end of any spending to support industry.
"It all started with lies & lies & lies...Patriotism means standing by the country, not standing by the President."
Thank you for having a servant's heart, Arnold. 🙏
This is now my favorite @Schwarzenegger film... EVER.❤️
Amazing moment on @GMB this morning as Health Secretary @MattHancock broke down in tears after hearing a man named William Shakespeare talk about becoming the first man in the world to get the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. 👇👇
"Effectively what this will be doing is throwing fuel on the Covid fire."
Sage member Professor Andrew Hayward says household mixing at Christmas will "likely lead to a third wave" and is a "recipe for regret"
#Newsnight | https://t.co/8zD8dnigeK
‘I don’t believe in gestures’ says man who drove a digger through a wall to promote Brexit and clapped on Thursday nights for people he failed to protect:
When Johnson starts trying to distance himself from the incompetence of his own government, as he surely will, cabinet ministers will find out just how loyal & honest he is.
They could save themselves some time by asking his wives.