Between Ian Watkins getting killed in prison, and one of Gisele Pelicot's rapists getting an extended sentence after trying to appeal, it's been a good week for Karma.
Once again, I beseech you: Every single discussion of public sector pay - nurses, doctors, teachers etc - should include the value of public sector pensions. Compensation deferred remains compensation.
Friendly reminder to @RachelReevesMP (and colleagues) that if income tax, national insurance, value added tax, fuel duties, alcohol duties, tobacco duties, vehicle excise duties, environmental levies, insurance premium tax, ETS auction receipts, customs duties, air passenger duty, betting and gaming duties, the climate change levy, landfill tax, the aggregates levy, soft drinks industry levy, capital taxes, capital gains tax, stamp duties, inheritance tax, company taxes, corporation tax, the energy profits levy, apprenticeship levy, electricity generator levy, bank levy, bank surcharge, digital services tax, diverted profits tax, petroleum revenue tax, council tax, business rates, dividend tax, student loans tax, sugar tax, & supermarket carrier bags tax isn't enough to balance the budget....
Then maybe the spending is the issue?
I am full of admiration and respect for Nurse Sandie Peggie.
She could have backed down.
She was supposed to have backed down.
NHS Fife counted on her backing down.
The brute, Upton, expected her to back down.
Nurse Sandie Peggie did not back down.
Well this is a “coincidence”.
Dale Vince donated £5.4 million to Labour.
Ecotricity, owned by Dale Vince, gets the approval from Ed Miliband for another giant solar and battery farm.
I thought Labour hated rich donors buying politics? Or does that just apply to Elon Musk?
Lucy Connolly received 2 years seven months for a social media post.
Yesterday, Sajid Mahmood Khan, 45, from Keighley was jailed for three years for rape.
Let that sink in.
@danny__kruger@jessphillips I was on the jury panel of a historic Asian grooming gang trial. A lot of it came down to the concept of consent. The judge wrote us all a 2 sided piece of paper about what is and isn’t consent. V interesting. Just because someone consents, doesn’t mean they are.
Apparently Keir Starmer ‘poised to sack Rachel Reeves in brutal bid to save himself’
Can he also sack the rest of his cabinet and resign himself to save Britain?
https://t.co/I6hDj8f05L
Rachel from Accounts has been rumbled. It's time for her to make her way to HR and collect her P45 - or stay in China, where they're almost as commie as she is
https://t.co/luYm5f73if
@KashifMD If we are going to share data, what about this? If they are only 2% of the population, they shouldn’t be making up nearly 15% of all grooming gangs, no?
Claire is spot on. Another inquiry should not be about child abuse.
It’s about organised child-rape gangs and the police/councillors/MPs who turned a blind eye or hushed things up for “community cohesion”. Because fear of racism outweighed girls’ safety.
Censorship by British media means few people know the full depraved horror of what Pakistani-origin rape gangs did to tens of thousands of white girls.
It���s the worst scandal in our history. We stand shamed internationally.
My column has the truth: https://t.co/pc0xTlVunH