I get the impression Laura Kuenssberg has been stung by criticism that she's a supine government mouthpiece, and is determined to prove us all wrong by starting early in holding the next government to account.

Monsoon like …

Hi James Daly MP 🙋
I imagine if a Tory Grandee, a treasurer of the 1922 committee, one knighted for services to Parliament, had paid no CGT tax on £600,000 house profit (400 @AngelaRayners at 1500 each) you’d call for a Police investigation..no?

telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopic…

HMRC admits to not collecting £35bn/£36bn of taxes a year - over £500bn since 2010.

Others estimate it to be around £90bn a year - over £1,200bn since 2010.

Corporations and the rich let off, the rest squeezed. Govt content.

Must fund and reform HMRC.
leftfootforward.org/2024/04/labour…

In 1872, Friedrich Engels wrote The Housing Question, tying the working class’s perpetual housing crisis to the free market in Victorian England. The century and a half of housing crises since have proved Engels correct.
jacobin.com/2022/07/housin…

YET ANOTHER FINE FOR TORY PARTY FOR BREAKING ELECTORAL LAW December 2021

Conservative Party fined £17,800 (12 Angela Rayner Units) by the Electoral Commission after failing to accurately report a donation of £67,801.72 to refurbish Boris Johnson's flat…

Come on Motherwell 🧡

Class has always been a much more powerful explanation of pattens of vast wealth inequalities than generation.

One problem with the generational argument is it seemed to argue baby boomers universally enjoyed affluence rather than living through increasing inequality.

One of the most surreal gigs I have ever been to. Eric Cantona at The Garage in Glasgow!

The calm before the storm.

It all comes down to today.

Let’s make Motherwell FC a fortress.

If I remember correctly, Jeremy ’7 Flats’ Hunt actually did commit a crime - one for which he could have been imprisoned. And yet the police didn’t investigate him, did they?
..Why not?

Goldbergs department store in Greenock, 1989. Goldbergs had stores in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Ayr, Paisley, Kirkcaldy, Motherwell, Dundee, Kilmarnock, Airdrie, Dunfermline, East Kilbride and Greenock. The company went into receivership and ceased trading in 1990.

Michael Green accuses Angela Rayner of dishonesty

Re Angela Rayner case
'The definition of residence is not set out in detail in electoral law. The courts have decided that a person can be resident at more than one address'

Seems clear Tory ⁦James Daly MP⁩ may be guilty of wasting Police time. What's the penalty for that?

Has Tory Councillor broken Electoral Law?

LISA PARKER, a TORY Borough Councillor in Rugby,
used plot 19B at Alwyn Road ALLOTMENTS to claim she qualified as a candidate in a borough where she doesn’t live or pay council tax

Curious

⁦ #Angela Rayner warwickshireworld.com/news/politics/…

Our Chattel Slave Trade/Slavery ⁦The Spectator ⁦jackie kemp⁩ …a Nigerian slave trader’s bangle against over 3 million African people traded into legalised chattel slavery by the UK. Our “professional historians” against Dundas’ plaque also published in ⁦The Spectator⁩…

🥇 GOLD for Great Britain in Men Team Pursuit

“Winning in the European Champs jersey as our last race before the The Olympic Games is pretty special' 🤝

British Cycling #TissotNationsCup
#TrackCycling #OlympicCycling

But Angela Rayner allegedly owes £1,500…….

THE SMITHS • Sheila Take a Bow
youtu.be/q-8kKH4COvg?si…
Released 13.04.1987

Is it wrong to want to live on your own?
No, it's not wrong, but I must know
#TheSmiths #OnThisDay #onthisday80s

The importance of democracy is explained here by Boris Johnson, who tried to illegally prorogue Parliament then stuffed the House of Lords with cronies.