I said it in 2020 and I’ll say it again. If you leave a home empty long-term in the middle of a housing crisis, it should be seized. Today’s announcement is great news.

Tony Vaughan KC MP: RAMP says you became one of its Principals shortly after entering Parliament. Public registers show roughly £44,345 worth of RAMP research support has been declared for your parliamentary work since October 2024. You are also one of Parliament's most active voices on asylum and migration policy. So a straightforward transparency question: When an outside migration-policy organisation supplies tens of thousands of pounds' worth of research support to an MP who is actively shaping and debating migration policy, what safeguards are in place so constituents can see clearly where RAMP's input ends and your independent parliamentary judgement begins?

Jim Ratcliffe paid £0 in income tax in the UK last year.

When John Healey was Defence Secretary, he didn't know how many frigates we had. Now as Chancellor, he didn't realise how bad the public finances are. John Healey shouldn't be anywhere near a position of power. The man is a colossal idiot.

The only real solution to the donations row is to take all the money out of politics and introduce state funding

What??? This is so see through, of course the press will ignore the biggest part of this story! under the guise of ‘protecting’ people from bad builders the gov is launching an app. The new government “Trusted Payments” system to stop ‘cowboy builders’ will create an extraordinarily detailed digital record every time you use it for work on your home including… ▪️Your name and address ▪️Exactly what work is being done ▪️Contracts and quotes ▪️The cost of the work ▪️Payment milestones ▪️Photographs and snagging records ▪️Payment approvals and transaction records And on the business ▪️Identity and business details ▪️Bank/payment information ▪️Business and tax numbers ▪️All work they carry out So a simple private transaction between you and your builder becomes a structured digital record of WHO you are, WHERE you live, WHAT you are doing to your property and HOW MUCH you are spending on it! You would be insane to voluntarily share this data with a government tying up data between all departments, creating a massive file on you! Come on people Wakey Wakey!

The more I look at the Arday story, the worse it gets. Even I fell for the disinformation flood and thought ‘flawed and vulnerable’ (like all of us). But a deeper dive reveals he was extraordinary talented (still vulnerable). And it’s that talent which his haters couldn’t abide

This really sums up modern right wing politics. Imagine deciding to pin this tweet. Today’s right wing politics is mostly defined by spite and bile. There is nothing much else that’s coherent about it.

British Building Site Banter At Its Absolute Finest 😂 A new lad turns up on site and gets absolutely pranked with the “CPCS Wheelbarrow Licence” test. Site lad: “You here today to do your CPCS wheelbarrow licence?” New guy: “Yeah.” They start him off easy… “can you just demonstrate how you’d hold a wheel barrow for me?” Then it’s straight outside for the “practical test” a full-on obstacle course with the wheelbarrow, getting faster and faster each lap. He takes the whole thing very seriously and passes his wheelbarrow test, meaning he can now legally operate a wheelbarrow 😂 Proper British site humour. Never change, lads.

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Jess Phillips is evil - "Absolutely Understood" that rapists would be released early under prison scheme - Voted against an amendment to exclude rapists and paedophiles from scheme - Says victims should not be receiving letters warning them that their rapists could be released early from prison

Aren’t you the minister for safeguarding women against violence? And you have to apologise for what you tweeted after a fellow female politician was violently murdered? Isn’t that a resigning matter?