Should there be a bank holiday in England if England win the World Cup?
🏴 54% yes / 34% no
🏴 33% / 53%
🏴 25% / 60%
18-24yr olds: 63% / 23%
25-49yr olds: 63% / 26%
50-64yr olds: 45% / 43%
65+yr olds: 28% / 57%
Today Israel is killing children again, like they do every day.
Along with racist apartheid laws to execute Palestinians only.
Don't stop taking action.
Do all you can.
Free Palestine. 🇵🇸
This is Apartheid.
It's morally disgusting - and comes at the same time as Israel is committing an ongoing genocide.
To see the Labour Government defend Israel repeatedly will horrify the British public - it cannot go on like this.
I know the Nazi card is overused and almost never applies, but what the Israeli Knesset has overwhelmingly voted for today, a law to mass murder Palestinian detainees- prisoners who, inconveniently, cannot just be bombed in Gaza or shot in the streets- a law introduced by a genocidal minister with an international arrest warrant, is the most dystopian and evil shit perhaps any country has done since Nazi Germany.
🚨 WATCH: Kemi Badenoch asks Keir Starmer if he'll cut interest rates on "debt trap" student loans
Starmer: "I'm glad she has finally admitted that [the Tories] scammed the country on this... we will look at ways to make it fairer"
#PMQs
About to go on @GMB to argue why Chancellor is morally wrong to freeze the Plan 2 student loan repayment threshold, and should reverse the decision...
...while in practice for most with that loan it works like a graduate tax, it was deliberately set up and sold as a loan contract (both so the wealthy didn't need get it and so if you move abroad you still owe it).
Freezing the threshold is a one sided breach of contractual terms. No commercial lender would be allowed to do it, the FCA would strike it down. The govt shouldnt be allowed to do it either, it should at the very least stick to the terms it agreed with students when they took out their loans.
This freeze hits lower and middle earning graduates the hardest. They will end up repaying, at a guesstimate, £300/yr more due to it and do so for the rest of their loan's 30yr life.
While the highest earners will pay more each year too, at least for them it'll mean they'll clear the loan earlier so repay less interest.