You ban North Sea drilling. You ban fracking. You tax customers at the pump. You hit producers with retrospective taxes. And now you have the nerve to turn around and blame rising costs on the fuel companies.
And that’s why you have a labour market slump and an impending private rental crisis but as always; it’s better to make the moral and ideological point regardless - and likely knowing of - the effect.
Thanks to Angela Rayner, zero hours contracts will be banned, no-one will be subject to fire at will, no-one will be able to be fired and rehired, and no-one will lose their private rented home just cos their landlord wants them out. That's quite some legacy. Thank you Angela.
Two things can be true at once. Rayner was foolish in her conduct and right to resign. It’s also true she was always despised by much of the right wing press because she was a working class powerful woman. She was therefore threatening to them, because she authentically spoke for the same people they (erroneously) claim to speak for and could not be dismissed as a liberal elite- their favoured tactic with anyone they don’t like. She’s therefore been the subject to endless snobbery and classism and extra scrutiny from day 1- another reason she was foolish not to be meticulous.
Right wing media has had it in for @AngelaRayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake & has paid heavily for it. Hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics needs more voices like hers
🚨❤️🤍 BREAKING: Viktor Gyökeres to Arsenal, here we go! Verbal agreement in place between all parties involved.
Sporting accept last bid from Arsenal for €63.5m plus €10m, agent will reduce his commission.
Gyökeres will sign five year deal at #AFC. He ONLY wanted Arsenal. 🇸🇪
He’s one of those people who has read too many books and thinks he’s worthy of glory intellectually but is too thick to see how normal people think. Hence his monumental failure re the leadership of Party / Mayor.
Cheap, cheap, cheap from Rory Stewart. A few years ago he seemed to be a rare Burkean/Neuhaus type conservative who understood the importance of intimate, people-sized institutions but now trashes a VP and Christian who still believes in what is the only sustainable and human alternative to a politics of rampant individualism. Rory is definitely a clever man but where’s the consistency? What’s his core? I have no idea who he is anymore :(
Today was a reminder for the thick lot who thought @UKLabour got elected by desire; they didn’t. Any Govt that’s useless, forgets the ppl, doubles down & thinks high office is above high-ppl; loses. Today is your reckoning. Every feckless western moron deserves this. Endorsed.
Good to speak with President-elect @realDonaldTrump to congratulate him on his historic victory. I look forward to working together.
From defence and security to growth and prosperity, the relationship between the UK and US is incredibly strong and will continue to thrive for many years to come.
The @KamalaHarris defeat I understand. Anti incumbency, economy, perhaps lack of clear message etc etc. But 14 million fewer votes than Biden 4 years ago? That represents astonishing failure for Democratic Party
still don’t understand how @RoryStewartUK - failed leadership bid by being odd, crap mayoral bid as was peculiar & gets all the big calls wrong, combined with a man in @campbellclaret who orchestrated a ridiculous war via lying are now seen as the bastions of political podcasting