I was a prison officer, Nick. You can't preach "tough on crime." Your lot cut nearly 7,000 prison officers since 2010 and handed our jails to G4S and Serco. You broke the system, then act shocked it doesn't work.
You know what actually works? Lads out on licence getting their track tickets, learning a trade, coming home as taxpayers instead of reoffenders. That's using human capital, not warehousing it. A lad sat in a cell doing nothing helps nobody.
And funny how quiet you all go on the tax dodgers and the oligarchs bankrolling Putin's war. Boris took a Russian ex-KGB man's hospitality at his Italian villa, dodged his own officials, then made the son a Lord. Where's your "lock them up" energy for that?
The British royal household has replaced its old helicopters with two new AgustaWestland AW139 helicopters.
Cost: about £8 million each
Total for two: roughly £16 million, meanwhile Billy Idle asks for public charity donations to fund an air ambulance, you couldn't make it up FFS
Bucket: £10
Waders: £30
Measuring jug: 90p
Ammonia tester: £100
Actually going out to check a sewage outfall that illegally discharges 750,000,000 million litres of sewage every year?
Priceless.
There are some things a government regulator with a budget of £189,000,000 & 12,000 staff can’t do.
For everything else, there’s volunteer river guardians.
Can someone explain to me how an MP and a member of the shadow cabinet can moonlight as the attorney for a Russian oligarch who is trying to wiggle out of a £2.5 billion deal to aid victims of the war in Ukraine that he made with the UK government? Back in the day that was called a “conflict of interest”
'For too long people's opportunities in life have been determined by their background and not by their talents and hard work'. So says Keir Starmer, as he outlined Labour's plans in a speech read out by the great-grandson of King George V
The Post Office's compensation scheme is designed to minimise payouts. One postmaster received £15.75.
That isn't a typo.
I count nine ways the Post Office's HSS compensation scheme is rigged:
As the issue of compensation for miscarriages of justice is rightly in the news, it’s timely to note that in 2014, the government changed the law to make it all but impossible for people wrongly convicted and imprisoned to claim compensation.
British national anthem is elitist rubbish
It venerates one man as a quasi god - the King. There's no celebration of the British people & their achievements
No affirmation of democracy & human rights
We can do better. Let's have a new national anthem
https://t.co/OQSGnpwJ3D