#TheresaVilliers is the new Environment Secretary:
▪️ Voted 11 times against measures to prevent climate change
▪️ Voted to sell publicly-owned forests
▪️ Voted against incentives for renewables
▪️ Voted against fracking regulation
▪️ Voted against publicly-owned buses & trains
This would fund the *entire* criminal legal aid budget for 4 and a half years.
Instead we let the govt slash legal aid, force vulnerable people to represent themselves in court and deprive innocent people of their legal costs when they are acquitted.
BBC1 News just announced record numbers of people are in work and average earnings are rising. They overlooked little facts like 4 million British Workers are living in poverty! If you think BBC1 should give these statistics a bit if context please RT
FARAGEISM: a populist politics which makes a pretence of concern for the ‘ordinary bloke,’ but is in reality deeply xenophobic
& misogynistic, scapegoating Europe and foreigners for social ills caused by right-wing neglect of the poor, fairness & social cohesion
Nigel Farage: An Apology. I suggested he would receive a £73,000-a year pension when Britain leaves the EU. I now understand this is not the case. He will receive 2 EU pensions totalling £132,000 a year.
I apologise for any suggestion that he is anything other than a hypocrite.