Primary school teacher. Lib Dem. Real Housewife of Kingston.
Kingston upon Thames, London
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Sam FH 🇺🇦 retweeted
Shocked and bloody angry I think... it takes more than that to shake me.
I may be a woman, but I'm not the snowflake here.
Exclusive:
Nigel Farage's "physical altercation" during the State Opening of Parliament was with the Lib Dem MP Caroline Voaden - and has caused an major row between Reform and the Lib Dems.
Lib Dem sources say Voaden was left "shocked and shaken" after he "shoved" her to secure a place in the procession of MPs to the King's Speech.
Video from the Commons Chamber that day shows Farage and Voaden making their way down from their benches together.
Voaden reported the incident to the Serjeant at Arms and says Farage was asked to apologise - but hasn't.
A Reform spokesman denies any wrongdoing by Farage, saying "it was the Lib Dem MPs being aggressive towards Nigel". Lib Dems say that is "utter nonsense"
Farage said yesterday that the "physical altercation" was the reason he didn't put up a fight to be in the Chamber for the Budget after his prayer card to save a space was removed.
He said he thought that after the row with Voaden, it was "better to avoid conflict".
But in a further twist, a Commons spokesman says Farage's card was only removed because it didn't have a date stamp, which are required to reserve a spot.
Top work by @hope_sapphire here:
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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Sam FH 🇺🇦 retweeted
I have bad news for my barista tenant. The minimum wage has gone up 3.9%. So has his rent
🚨 BREAKING: The Government has announced the new minimum wages from April 2027
Over 21s - £12.71 to £13.21 (+3.9%)
18 to 20 - £10.85 to £11.27 (+3.9%)
Under 18s and apprentices - £8 to £8.31 (+3.9%)
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Sam FH 🇺🇦 retweeted
Former Labour and SDP MP Bill Rodgers, the oldest living male former MP, is 98 today; he is also the current earliest-serving surviving:
- Former Labour MP (first elected 1962)
- Minister (appointed 1964)
- Privy Counsellor (appointed 1975)
- Cabinet Minister (appointed 1976)
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Sam FH 🇺🇦 retweeted
Montana Senate:
⚪️ Bodnar 39% (+1)
🔴 Alme 38%
🔵 Bankhead 10%
🟡 Austin 2%
Undecided 11%
Concord Public Opinion Partners/@DFER_News 🔵 400 LV, 10/22-23
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Sam FH 🇺🇦 retweeted
Someone who didn't get the memo: A Labour MP who's snap verdict was that it "felt like a budget for an early election".
Andy Burnham has once again ruled out a snap election in the next year.
Asked if he would do so, the PM told reporters:
“I don’t know how many times I’ve done this now, but yes, I can rule out calling a general election in the next 12 months.
“I have said repeatedly since coming into this job, I’m not thinking about myself. I’m not thinking about my own party and its prospects.
“I am thinking about people, and I’m thinking about what I can do to help them to have that care for people, which I spoke about on my first day in Downing Street.”
He added: “We’ve got a 10-year plan to come, and that will inform the spending review next year. These are my priorities, not looking at our own internal party political advantage.”
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Sam FH 🇺🇦 retweeted
So will any Israelis correct me if I am wrong: result of the Israel election would be a comfortable and stable anti-Netanyahu government, with a sizable majority, if the leader of the largest opposition party did a deal with the Arab block. But as he refuses to do that, Netanyahu may get to govern from the minority?
Israeli opposition, have you considered being LESS STUBBORN AND STUPID and growing up? If you don’t unite to block Bibi with these numbers you deserve all the awful outcomes that horrible and cowardly decision entails.
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Sam FH 🇺🇦 retweeted
The biggest looser of the Israeli election is Itamar Ben Gvir.
Not only has he crashed and burned to only six seats, but he achieved the opposite of his bombastic rhetoric and inspired the highest voting turnout among Israeli Arabs since 1948.
Antisemites tried to make his chaotic personality to be the face of Israel when all he was a bizarre phase of Israeli politics.
Onward.
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Sam FH 🇺🇦 retweeted
If Andy Burnham genuinely was planning a 2028 or 2029 election this is the Budget where all the tough decisions would have bene taken. Then he would use subsequent Budgets to say "you felt the pain, well here's the gain". Instead all the tough decisions were deferred.
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Andy Burnham has once again ruled out a snap election in the next year.
Asked if he would do so, the PM told reporters:
“I don’t know how many times I’ve done this now, but yes, I can rule out calling a general election in the next 12 months.
“I have said repeatedly since coming into this job, I’m not thinking about myself. I’m not thinking about my own party and its prospects.
“I am thinking about people, and I’m thinking about what I can do to help them to have that care for people, which I spoke about on my first day in Downing Street.”
He added: “We’ve got a 10-year plan to come, and that will inform the spending review next year. These are my priorities, not looking at our own internal party political advantage.”
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People on here acting like working class people are too stupid to clock camp.
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Sam FH 🇺🇦 retweeted
The Chancellor has handed another year to Putin by deferring decisions to increase defence spending in today's budget.
The Government says we should prepare for war with Russia in three years, but is totally comfortable wasting one of those years standing still as it defers increasing defence spending until the next Spending Review.
By then it will be 18 months since the Chancellor resigned as Defence Secretary over the Government’s failure to reach 3% of GDP.
The Chancellor must set out a costed pathway for defence spending to reach 3% of GDP by 2030 in today's budget.
Anything less would be a dereliction of duty. Putin is watching.
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Sam FH 🇺🇦 retweeted
Rollin’ on the river and into the final stretch of the fight to put Alaska first 🛶
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Sam FH 🇺🇦 retweeted
Absolutely right. Rachel Reeves tried low headroom in her first budget. She found that means if ANYTHING moves against you, the rest of year is about what taxes you will raise. That uncertainty hits consumer and business confidence, slows economic growth and makes us poorer. 1/2
He has done small relatively sensible tax rises. Tick. But headroom has fallen to £15 billion which is smaller than the average move between forecasts. So he doesn’t have enough to survive one bad roll of the dice.
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Sam FH 🇺🇦 retweeted
I had a great conversation with the UK Prime Minister @AndyBurnham, and we are grateful to Britain for its unwavering, strong, and truly leading support. Today, Britain made a strong decision to provide an additional £10 billion in financial support – £7 billion in economic support over the next three years, and another £3 billion in British export support, primarily for the supply of much-needed weapons that will strengthen our protection of lives. This is on top of the annual support Britain already provides to Ukraine.
A truly strong and very timely step – coming right as Russia needs to see and feel that Ukraine will not be left alone to deal with the problems Russia is so eager to escalate. Every step to strengthen Ukraine brings Russia closer to realizing that it must end this war of its own making.
Of course, Andy and I also discussed sanctions policy, and Britain will remain principled on this – setting an example that matters globally.
I am grateful to Britain, to Prime Minister Andy Burnham and his team, and to every person around the world who understands that standing with Ukraine is the right thing to do – that it means being on the right side of history.
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More than we got off the Tories tbf
Kemi:
“Is that it?”
“The PM came in pledging to reverse 40 years of neo-liberalism, instead we got 40p off of Gherkins”
#Budget2026 #budgetday
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