The lack of empathy from the Education Secretary on @LBC in response to the closure of so many independent schools and thus additional pressure on state schools is truly shocking.
An ideological policy driven from the mantra "what I can't have, you shan't have" 😡
She complained she inherited a £22bn hole from the Conservatives. She has managed to dig her own hole three times that size in just two short years. Policy appears to be “when you’re in a hole, keep digging”. 👇
As if I wasn't already entirely pissed off with the police already, I had the most insane interaction with 2 bully-boy coppers this morning.
I dropped home an elderly little old lady, who was taking some time gathering her things and trying to get out of the car. I was on double yellows, but had my hazards on - as I am allowed to do as per the council rules. When a police car came up behind me, and then drove around me to be window level, to tell me that, despite clearly being able to pass me, as he literally was, I was illegally parked and causing an obstruction, and I needed to park on the kerb.
I told him I wasn't parked a) at all, as I was offloading an elderly lady and b) wasn'tstopped illegaly, and I wouldn't be moving on to the kerb because that *would* be illegal as I would then be obstructing the pathway, whereas, I was legally allowed to drop of and pick up, on double yellows. He told me he would arrest me. I told him to try it. He then drove off - proving I wasn't obstructing traffic.
I finished helping the old lady and drove off.
The officers were waiting for me around the corner, put on their lights, pulled me over and demanded to see my licence and insurance before lecturing me about my attitude and demanded I show them some respect.
They could have waited patiently like most people do, or they could have gone around me as they eventually did. Instead they threatened to arrest me for laws I wasn't breaking, simply because they didn't know the law, and then tried to intimidate me afterwards because they realised they were totally wrong about the law, and we're too immature to apologise. They were fully prepared to try and make me loose my job and my lifelong out of nothing but pure spite, ego and vengeance because they made themselves look stupid.
None of that had to happen. Luckily I filmed the entire thing. Utterly disgusting behaviour. This inherent arrogance in the police has to stop.
@KDegerdon30481 Quite so but Miliband want the infant to run when it still can't crawl.
It might be possible to transition to 100% renewables but that is some long time in the future. In the meantime our economy is struggling with the highest energy prices in the G7.
The figures are out. Labours VAT on Education Policy failed. It was always going to - it wasn't based on thought it was based on a grudge and a game. Games over @bphillipsonMP@RachelReevesMP@Keir_Starmer - it's time for you to be displaced like the 30,000+ children you hurt.
I’m not going to amplify Reform’s ad by sharing it, but the wilful misrepresentation of Kemi Badenoch - selectively quoting what she said about ‘white lives matter’ - is disgraceful and dangerous.
It needs to be challenged, including by those of us who are not Conservatives.
People shouting 'ban the kirpan'
I disagree
You could kill someone with a brick - do we ban DIY?
You could kill someone with a stiletto heel - do we ban high heels?
You could kill someone with a branch - do we cut down all the trees?
You could kill someone with a cast iron frying pan...........
The object is not the problem - people are
Education
Respect
Discipline
Deterrent
That's what we need
Kemi is the most approved of political leader.
Might explain some of the desperate smears seen ydy.
The truth is nobody in British politics has done more to fight critical race theory than Kemi.
She was fighting it back when it was hard and unpopular and everybody knows it.
And yet the massed ranks of Whitehall Remainers have learned nothing.
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) continues to cite the ubiquitous “fact” that Brexit has caused a 4pc reduction in UK GDP.
This estimate was never the result of in-house modelling – merely the watchdog’s collation of various external pre-Brexit forecasts, mostly from Remain-backing organisations.
Since the 2016 referendum, the UK has actually grown by 12.9pc in total, outpacing 12.5pc in France, 10.3pc in Italy and 6.3pc in Germany – all of which were in the EU last time I checked.
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