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Under your warped logic, so are the salaries of all of your MPs. How much of this “taxpayers’ money” do they spend on alcohol and tobacco?
It’s not “their” money, it’s taxpayers’ money.
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Under this bizarre logic, so is the state pension. Do you think there should be limits on what that can be spent on?
It’s not “their” money, it’s taxpayers’ money.
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Kemi Badenoch described a small tax on very sugary products, designed to make the most unhealthy foods marginally more expensive, as “too much nanny state” but now wants the government to dictate how people can or can’t spend their money.
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Most of the opposition to drinking at football is rooted in the pure snobbery that thinms people who go to watch football all turn into raging yobs the minute they so much as sniff a pint of beer.
Andy Burnham loves returning Britain to the early 80s so much he wants to bring back football hooliganism
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*the people
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The Tories’ big plan to cut welfare spending by slashing Universal Credit for people out of work will, according to their own calculations, reduce the overall benefits bill by 0.15%…
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'How have we got here!?' Caller Geri shocks @BenKentish with her support for the Gosport protesters reportedly chanting 'let them drown' in reference to Channel migrants
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Approving Rosebank and Jackdaw would change none of this things.
We are on the brink of a serious oil supply shock in Europe. We are sending RAF planes to support the Saudi’s re-secure shipping routes and pipelines. Diesel is about to cross $2 a litre. And yet, in spite all of that, it remains the policy of this Labour Government to ban new oil licences in our own North Sea! And they still refuse to approve Rosebank. It isn’t just mad, it is unforgivable. A complete and utter dereliction of duty. Energy Security IS National Security. Labour can’t be trusted with either.
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We are on the brink of a serious oil supply shock in Europe. We are sending RAF planes to support the Saudi’s re-secure shipping routes and pipelines. Diesel is about to cross $2 a litre. And yet, in spite all of that, it remains the policy of this Labour Government to ban new oil licences in our own North Sea! And they still refuse to approve Rosebank. It isn’t just mad, it is unforgivable. A complete and utter dereliction of duty. Energy Security IS National Security. Labour can’t be trusted with either.
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‘Do his views carry any more weight than those of voters in Sunderland?’ @BenKentish questions @BPhillipsonMP about British billionaires like Sir Jim Ratcliffe saying they’ve ‘lost faith in the UK.’
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'That's not in keeping with our traditions and it's not the British way!' @bphillipsonMP condemns Reform and the Tories for 'normalising racism' with their rhetoric. @BenKentish
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If you own a house worth £1.5m then you are not, by any measure whatsoever, “impoverished”. There’s a conversation to be had around whether the payment could be deferred, sure, but let’s stop the absurdity of pretending that people in top 10% of wealthy households are “impoverished”.
How many impoverished widows will be forced to sell- how many so called rich will flee the UK with their tax revenues. How long before fiscal drag brings hundreds of thousands of other houses into the tax? This is just the start !!!!
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Fully deranged. Some people have completely lost the plot these past few years.
God help us... I'm proud to work for a Jewish paper which publishes a wide range of views - and where, even if we disagree strongly with the stance of others, we'd never dream of publishing an editorial accusing other British Jews of "betrayal". To me, this is shameful stuff.
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Multiple reports from Europe that Russia has launched a provocation/low Level military campaign against the West (assassinations, violating air space, sabotage). The French govt is bringing opposition parties in for intelligence briefings. Time for the govt here to say something?
Właśnie Pan premier oznajmił że w ocenie wywiadów w rosyjskim planie są uderzenia dronami i pociskami manewrującym na państwa wspierające Ukrainę w tym na Polskę. Po pierwsze: nie da się jaśniej przekazać ostrzeżenia niż zrobił to premier. Po drugie: jest to całkowicie zbieżne z ocenami zachodnich partnerów Polski oraz części ośrodków analitycznych. Przykładem dziś ISW wypuścił analizę dokładnie to przewidującą. Po drzecie: takie plany Rosji nie są zaskoczeniem. Rosja wciąż, mimo horrendalnych strat nie jest w stanie wygrać z Ukrainą militarnie na polu walki. Jednocześnie Ukraina nie jest w stanie walczyć bez pomoc państw zachodnich. Dlatego Rosja chce sterroryzować, przestraszyć i zasiać ferment społeczny w krajach zachodu aby owe pod naciskiem opinii publicznej (wyborców) zerwały pomoc dla Ukrainy. Pomoc bez której Ukraińcy nie zdołają się dalej zwycięsko bronić. Rosja po prostu chce zrobić to samo co islamiści w Madrycie w 2004 roku kiedy seria krwawych zamachów w metrze wpłynęła na wynik wyborów a nowy rząd wycofał Hiszpanów z Iraku. Dla Rosji JEDYNYM progiem jest tutaj uruchomienie artykułu 5 i wojna pełnoskalowa z NATO. Dlatego będziemy mieć do czynienia z serią brutalnych aktów terroru w Polsce i krajach NATO oraz licznych "przypadkowych" awarii rakiet i dronów które zaczną spadać na Bałtyki, Polskę a może i inne kraje. Odpowiedź powinna być jednoznaczna, silna, brutalna i pod parasolem atomowym Francji, ponieważ tylko takie działanie Kreml zrozumie. Rosja już podpala fabryki w Polsce, wysyła celowo pociski manewrujące i drony oraz usiłowała spowodować katastrofę na kolei w której mogły zginąć setki Polaków. A będzie tyko gorzej. I nie, deklaracja premiera to nie jest jakaś próba wywołania "efektu flagi" - za wcześnie przed wyborami - takie aluzje są absurdalne po protu patrząc na zachowania przedwyborcze. To jest po protu do bólu jasno i przejrzyście sformułowane ostrzeżenie dla Polaków o tym co zmierza Rosja. Odpowiedź powinna być inna niż strach i dzielenie się. Bo dokładnie tego chce Kreml. Czekają nas po prostu ciężkie czasy których winna będzie tylko i wyłącznie Rosja - kraj który najpierw wywołał napastniczą wojnę aby podbić Ukrainę a obecnie eskaluje konflikt w nadziei że terrorem wymusi zaprzestanie pomocy dla Ukrainy. Nie miejcie złudzeń - na liście podbojów Kremla Polska jest nr.3 po Ukrainie i Bałtykach. Wspierając Kijów i stając w obronie Bałtyków tak naprawdę walczymy o Warszawę.
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He can't vote, @BenKentish. Tom has taken a leave of absence from the Lords and given up his parliamentary pass. He cannot attend, and he cannot vote on anything. We've gone further, in writing, in Tom’s contract: - Every access and privilege arising from the peerage is revoked, including what a peer on leave of absence would ordinarily keep. - He cannot return as an active member while he works at Palantir. - He cannot use the title in any dealing on Palantir’s behalf.
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A current Labour peer taking a senior job at Palantir at the very moment the government is under pressure to scale back Palantir’s involvement in the British state and increase AI regulation. Such blatant vested interests need to be removed from our Parliament. If people want to go and make loads of money lobbying for big US AI companies fine - but they should hand back their peerage rather than being allowed to vote on legislation affecting those same companies. It reeks.
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LBC has appointed Sophie Berman as managing editor after Tom Cheal was promoted to managing director of speech radio at parent company Global. Berman has been deputy managing editor since March 2025.
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'You want people who arrived last week - and might have no right to be here - looking after the most vulnerable?' @BenKentish is stunned by caller Hasan's proposed fix for the asylum crisis.
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