Marcus - you are aware that under the current rules two parents earning £100,000 each get funded childcare but that if only one is working and they earn £100,001 they don’t? This means GPs etc are cutting hours to stay below the cliff edge. So lower tax take, lower growth.

This is economic illiteracy of a high order. After separation Scotland would still use sterling. So it would have to borrow in £s to cover its massive budget deficit and promise lenders it would pay back in £s (or they won’t lend). But after an unspecified transition it would move to a Scottish currency. But all the borrowing done during the transition would have to be paid back in sterling. If the Scottish currency plummeted v sterling (likely given the size of the deficit, lack of credit track record etc) that could become an unmanageable burden given the likely poor exchange rate. Scotland would have to borrow billions in its own currency just to convert to sterling to pay back lenders. Devaluing the Scottish currency further. What a shambles that would be. He has no idea what he’s talking about.

RT @kelvmackenzie: I note that politicians and journalists have been falling over themselves in praise of Lord Jeffrey Archer who has died…

Every single person waving a Palestinian flag today is an ignorant, amoral, brainwashed, Jew-hating, scumbag. Pass it on.

Well I never. Who could have guessed etc

What a wanker Piers Morgan is. If you actually understand 7 October, you know that the Israeli response in Gaza has been remarkably restrained. 65,000 targets struck and only 73,000 killed, with a third of those combatants. All wars feature civilian deaths. In spite of Hamas’s human sacrifice strategy, unparalleled in other recent conflicts, the IDF did a magnificent, platinum-standard job of sparing civilian life whilst conducting the essential task of dismantling Hamas’s capabilities and infrastructure. A new bar has been set for any other army fighting a war of this nature in future.

Plenty of face masks at the pro-Palestine march. Nobody arrests. @ShabanaMahmood where is your "full force of the law" for this ghastly lot?

Until very recently, this dangerous woman was working in the NHS. She’s been suspended for antisemitism. Antisemitism is extremism.

On 7 October, it is important to remember that hate is Hamas's most powerful weapon. Today should be a reminder and a call to disarm Hamas, dismantle UNRWA, and deradicalise the Gaza Strip.

Gordon Brown greatly reduced the powers of the Bank of England, calling that giving them independence! They gave up issuing government debt and regulating the large banks. The Treasury approved bond buying and money printing. Helped deliver the banking crash.

Angela Rayner’s new policy on ‘Empty Dwelling Management Orders’ is one of the most outrageous, authoritarian overreaches by a British government ever. It gives the state the power to confiscate private property if left unoccupied for six months. It is literally legalised theft and yet the left-wing media luvvies lapped up her party conference speech and let it slip by without so much as a whimper of protest. When people realise how pernicious Rayner’s ‘Empty Dwelling Management Orders’ are, the inevitable outcry will be too late. First and foremost, it will be the state that decides if your house is ripe for confiscation. The local council will deploy ‘Empty Homes Officers’, for which there is about to be a recruitment drive, who will spy on your property. These state snoops will visit your property, check your mail, take photos of your house and obtain your water and energy usage.  Armed with this information, like some second-rate private investigator, build a case on whether you’ve been living there.   Then when the state seizes your property and rents it out, who gets the payments? You guessed it, it goes directly to the local council. And they get to decide if they want to use the rent for repairs, building works and any health-and-safety upgrades to make the house habitable. They will then take out any money needed to cover the council's letting agent fees and property management costs. Only then, if there is anything left, will the actual owner get something.   The state will be able to confiscate your property for seven years.    Of course, the property owner will still be responsible for paying the mortgage if there is one - even if they are getting no income. The council, despite taking the rent, won’t cover the mortgage payments.  But should this lead to a default, the bank can repossess the property, so the owner will potentially lose everything. That isn’t the end of the scandal, because should the tenant, which the council found, stop paying rent, the council can’t evict them as they have full legal tenancy rights. Leaving the property owner with even fewer rights than the non-rent paying tenant.    People have complicated lives which means they may end up with an empty property - for example if an elderly parent dies, a messy divorce or a house you hoped you could one day do up.   Housing Secretary, Angela Rayner, too has a complicated housing arrangement. She divides her time across three accommodations - her Westminster one, her constituency home in Ashton-under-Lyne, and her new controversial Hove apartment (the one she didn’t pay full stamp duty on over which she had to resign).   No doubt the state won’t be looking to seize her private property.  In this Socialist nightmare we are living through, some are always more equal than others.

What a disgusting piece of shit Hasan is. Nuke this dogshit fake news site from space.

She told 17 million Americans that this family wondered how dark her baby would be, while the Queen's husband lay in hospital. Five years on, a 'source' says she's sorry. An accusation made on Oprah isn't withdrawn through the Express. If she's sorry, she knows where the cameras are. She's never had trouble finding them. Fucking bitch!

What kinds of students will these be, I wonder. How many of them, if any, will be thinking "perhaps 7th October is not a great day for this"? How many of them, when they grow up, will look back on their participation as a moment of great personal shame? Lots of questions.

Zack Polanski is the most vacuus, and galactically stupid politician ever to lead a political party here. There is nothing genuine about him - and his actions - a complete betrayal of his own heritage - makes all British Jews less safe.

So let me get this straight? In the oprah interview, meg stated that a there were conversations about how dark Archie's skin would be. But NOW she's saying it's her biggest mistake accusing the RF of racism. Are you fooking kidding me? The RF have been put through HELL, they have been falsely labeled racists because of what meg said to oprah. But hey, it was a mistake, so let's just forget it ever happened. Meg Markel is SCUM.

The first person on October 7th to ask if my family was OK was my Iranian neighbour. I will not ever forget that

3 years ago we discovered that our country was under the occupation of a bunch Palestinian flag waving ubercunts. Something that will be reconfirmed in London today, and we now have a Home Secretary who is shipping more of the cunts to the UK.

105 people were killed in Gaza last month. 70 of them were militants. People are calling this an ongoing genocide. This is less than a bad month in Chicago. For example, in July 2021, 112 people were murdered in the city. Does it mean Chicago is an ongoing genocide?

“Go home. Say hello to your father, to your mother. Meet your friends. Then pack a bag and go to Europe. You know why? Because we’re going to do October 7 again. As long as there is one Jew in the Land of Israel, we will massacre you again and again and again.” This is genocidal intent.