There are over 400 Labour MPs. Being PM is just about the biggest, most important and time consuming job there is. Am I the only one who finds complaints that the PM “hasn’t spoken to me and doesn’t know my name” a little childish? Entitled? Self obsessed?
IFS chief @PJTheEconomist (who doesn't have to get re-elected) on the winter fuel u-turn via @BBCPolitics
"It wouldn't even be in the top 100 of things that I would do with my £1.25 billion if I wanted to act on poverty. Almost none of the people impacted by this will be in poverty. Most of them will be at least as well off as the average in the population.
"We know that poverty is much worse among families with children than it is with pensioners, and of course the poorest pensioners are already getting this - they are covered through the pension credit system".
I’ve been critical of Rachel Reeves. But I genuinely don’t understand what the issue is in the BBC expose. One individual complained she was using a work credit card on rewards for her staff. It was investigated. There was no action. What exactly is the story here.
Starmer on grooming gangs: "Why didn't the last govt implement the Jay report? For ten years we've had reviews and reports. Did they do anything? No they're now tweeting and talking."
Alastair Campbell to Nigel Farage: “I’ll tell you what you are, you’re somebody who will exploit any problem going for your own political ends. Brexit was a fundamentally damaging thing for this country. It’s made us poorer, weaker & it’s hit our standing in the world”
#bbcqt
Big takeaway from tonight’s Question Time #bbcqt
Alastair Campbell can single-handedly destroy Farage’s self-serving, divisive, populist rhetoric in a way that appears beyond the entirety of the Labour party.
https://t.co/rGRaqMdNRv
"Won't somebody think of the millionaires?!"
As much as I love Clarkson's Farm, telling everyone you've found a tax loophole by buying up farm land (which incidentally drives up agri land prices, locking out new farmers) & then protesting when that loophole is closed, is silly. Most of my farmers are tenants, not owners sweating assets.
interesting to see how the average voter responds to direct action designed to stop farming families pay any tax on their first £3m of inheritance
(and even then at half the rate of everyone else)