Politics, Health. European. I no longer have cancer 🎉 Ex Royal Navy. Views my own, freely expressed - feel free to not like them. Politcally homeless - again
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British public opinion moves relentlessly in favour of rejoining the EU. Brexit has failed Britain.
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Everything is improved with the Bottom theme tune. Here, Jagger and Bowie get the Bum Notes treatment.
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🚨 WATCH: Kemi Badenoch attacks Andy Burnham
"When Burnham was in opposition with Corbyn, he didn't feel the need to change the leader. But after Keir Starmer won a landslide, Burnham couldn't wait to get back and take it off him. That's who he is"
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I will never say a wrong word about Ringo Starr - this from the Guardian obit of Jeffrey Archer
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When someone asks what I’m doing later and my answer is “nothing,” Please understand, nothing is not an opening in my schedule.
Nothing is the event.
It is the plan.
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Will there ever be anything in the budget for a middle class family?
Or do they just get the bill?
🚨 NEW: John Healey is set to cut energy bills for households on certain benefits at the Budget
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City told HMRC there was nothing untoward going on, but that was a lie. Another lie. So many now they can barely keep track of them. The walls keep on closing in.
For years, many of us have spoken about City's house of cards & as we're seeing, it is beginning to tumble down.
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"we need a team player" translates directly to "we need someone who will completely ignore their personal boundaries and answer emails at 9 pm on a sunday without asking for overtime."
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🚨 HMRC opened probe into Manchester City’s tax affairs in 2018.
Read more ⤵️
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If you raise concerns about the welfare bill, it means you want disabled people to freeze to death. If you raise any concerns about uncontrolled migration, it’s racism. If you want healthcare from a doctor, you’re elitist. Are there any opinions average folk can have please?
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The social contract is now not that you work for a better life. It's that you work so someone else doesn't have to.
🚨 NEW: John Healey is set to cut energy bills for households on certain benefits at the Budget
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Just came across in a folder where I have collected interesting things...
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Anyone else just getting really sick of working 40 hours per week at this point
🚨 NEW: John Healey is set to cut energy bills for households on certain benefits at the Budget
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This is exactly why the uk will combust. You cannot punish people who get up day after day & go to work, do everything right, contribute to society with their taxes & their efforts… then reward those that don’t.
A UK family where both parents work full-time, pay full council tax, and earn enough to be 'doing alright' on paper, can't afford to take their kids to the Tower of London on a Saturday in 2026.
Two adult tickets and two child tickets at standard price comes to roughly £100. Add £40-£80 in train fares and £50-£70 for lunch — that's around £200 for a single Saturday at one tourist attraction in their own capital city.
A family on full Universal Credit, living in subsidised housing, paying no council tax, can take the same four people to the same Tower for £1 a ticket — £4 total — under the 'inclusive access' schemes most major UK attractions now run.
The working family pays the full £200 day out AND covers — through their taxes — the £196 discount the benefits family gets on the same trip.
Whatever the original intention of those schemes, this is the structure most UK working families are now living inside. Pay the full bill, then watch the people next door enjoy the day out you can't take your own kids to.
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The barefaced nerve of these cunts.
Three years on, we remember the horrific events of October 7 and the wave of destruction in Gaza that has followed it.
We call today, and every day, for an end to the violence, for peace and safety for all.
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what exactly was the rush for burnham to oust starmer so fast, other than a grasp for power he could never win on his own merit?
Andy Burnham will delay publishing a review of the welfare system until after the budget in response to concerns about the cost of the overhaul and the optics of releasing it sooner
A review by Alan Milburn, a former Labour health secretary, of the nearly one million young people not in education, employment or training (Neets), was due to be published at the end of next week
It will now be held back until November at the earliest to prevent it from overshadowing the prime minister’s first big fiscal event
John Healey, the chancellor, faces having to raise taxes to balance the books after a rise in the cost of government borrowing. It means that there will be no money for welfare reform in the budget
Milburn’s review is expected to recommend radical changes to the welfare system and an expansion of employment support to get young people off benefits. His interim report concluded that for every £1 spent on employment support, £25 was spent on benefits
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