@colcollette@LBC If your so bloody interested in England party in the park, organise the event. I'll turn up if it any good. But if all you want to do is winge about it not happening, then maybe something else is the problem.
An important clarification - pls share.
There is NO two child cap on Child Benefit
I've had questions, as many media outlets write confusing statements or use 'child benefit' as shorthand. The two-child cap is not about Child Benefit, it is about benefits (eg Universal Credit or tax credit).
Child Benefit is separate and is increased for every child.
Darren Jones(Chief Secretary to the Treasury): "There was no note in my drawer at all... maybe they can't afford the note paper to write a note on... who knows.."
#KayBurley
Interesting. In China, they have a system that can swap the batteries in electric taxis for freshly charged ones in under 45s. Faster than fuelling petrol or diesel would take.
Apparently there have been over 45 million swaps already, so it's been tested at scale.
This is an incredible illustration of how completely bent the Tories are & how completely commonplace it is now. Here, they’re saying, is a ‘scandal’ we have kept secret for four years - please use it to attack Labour, who knew absolutely nothing about it. https://t.co/DueKACVxBS
Slightly annoyed that I missed nature's great light show last night. On the plus side, it's very quiet this morning and there's some nice new plants arrived in the garden.
After 'bitterly disappointing' local election losses, Rishi Sunak declares 'There is work to do' – probably as CEO of an IT consultancy or Californian hedge-fund group in a few months' time
Can someone tell us how sending 300 people to Rwanda for £562,000,000 will help lower NHS waiting times, or build more Social Houses?
But they could have hired 20,000 extra Nurses, or built 10,000 houses instead, and that would.
Yes Rwanda is that ridiculously expensive.
1824: With rising numbers falling into poverty, the Vagrancy Act makes it a criminal offence to sleep rough or beg.
2024: The Criminal Justice Bill introduces powers to fine, move on or imprison those “intending” to sleep rough or having the “appearance” of having slept rough or “an excessive smell.”
Full story in the new Eye, out now.
How many more times. Leaving the ECHR & creating your own Bill of Rights pre-supposes you can trust the Government with your human rights in the first place. During the past eighteen months this Government has robbed millions of workers of their right to strike, locked millions of people out of the electoral process & stripped back our right to protest - does that seriously sound like a Government you can trust with your human rights?
Times reports Rwanda has now sold to private residents 70% of the 163 homes in new housing project funded by UK government as part of UK-Rwanda migration partnership. Braverman visited a year ago, tweeting the project was one "people seeking refugee would come to call home"
Want some real scandals uninvestigated by Ashcroft and the Mail - Boris Johnson faces fresh questions over 2018 party at Lebedev villa https://t.co/9HyX6RASwA via @ft
When inflation started to accelerate early in 2022 then chancellor Rishi Sunak couldn’t wait to attribute the rise to global factors. Now he’s claiming it as a success for government policy it's come down. Never underestimate how thick they think we all are
£1,500 - how much Angela Rayner is accused of owing
£29,000,000 - how much Michelle Mone who is an unelected Baroness in the House of Lords secretly received from a PPE contact which is sat off shore
£120,000,000 - how much Michael Ashcroft, who was formerly Lord Ashcroft before he resigned from the House of Lords in 2015, avoided in tax, which is sat off shore
Why have they spent the day focused on Angela Rayner whose legal advice shows she has not done anything wrong, but they aren't pursing Mone or Ashcroft, both of whom have shuffled millions off shore?
Is it to distract us from Conservative MP William Wragg who gave the phone numbers of other MPs to a blackmailer, endangering their safety and putting them at risk of also being blackmailed?
Doesn't the Conservative party care about the safety of MPs? If they do, why hasn't the whip been removed from William Wragg? - Read it again, Wragg risked the safety of other MPs by giving a blackmail their private numbers