'Students take new seats for a welcome week election'

By timing the general election just right, the Tories could ensure most university students can't vote in it.

Why? Because there wouldn't be enough time to do so from their new addresses, or get ID.
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‘Give an X’: YouTubers join Michael Sheen in urging young Britons to vote | Local elections | The Guardian theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

We’ve seen some posts on Facebook claiming a recent ruling that Switzerland had failed to comply with its duties on climate change was made by an “EU court”.

The ruling was made by the European Court of Human Rights, which is not an EU institution.
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13 March 2024 Conservative Party Deputy Chair James Daly asks police to investigate if Angela Rayner put wrong address on the electoral register
19 March 2024 Electoral Commission fines Conservative Party £10,750 for failure to accurately report donations bit.ly/4cVQ0kT

An unexpectedly moving account of yet another unhappy consequence of putting our national destiny in the hands of ignorant & venal politicians. Their supporters, to whom most media still panders, will respond by saying:“Don’t care. Don’t like spaghetti.” theguardian.com/food/2024/apr/…

Hugely wealthy but the thought of having to pay the same tax as everyone else is 'petrifying'. Imagine. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Not seen this before. It’s a distillation of why plutocrat billionaires use playthings like The Sun & GBeebies to pretend that they represent the interests of ‘ordinary people’. People who will be measurably damaged by the loss of things they are persuaded to hate: EU; ECHR etc

The problem with current labour plans and the NHS. Please read.

Labour say they will use the private sector to reduce NHS waiting times (which sounds very sensible) - unless you know what is actually going on.

There is NO spare capacity in the private sector.

A reminder of how news that the Conservative Party Chairman failed to pay millions of pounds he owed in tax, was reported.

Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention tracker (10-11 Apr)

Con: 19% (-1 from 2-3 Apr)
Lab: 45% (+2)
Lib Dem: 8% (=)
Reform UK: 15% (-1)
Green: 7% (-1)
SNP: 3% (=)

yougov.co.uk/politics/artic…

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🇬🇧 'We don't want ID cards. We're not like those European countries which invade people's privacy'

Also 🇬🇧'We're giving police AI cameras to scan the face of anyone out shopping' 🤡👇

Here it is: my one-minute pitch to be Mayor of London, as broadcast on BBC One. Yes, this is real. #VoteBinface

NHS England is rolling back its mental health support for NHS hospital staff. No new patients will be accepted....given the parlous state of services and how some staff can be broken by their work this seems a backwards step.

Express poll.

Should Angela Rayner resign?

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See also:

- The wealthy will leave if Blair wins (they didn't)
- The wealthy will leave if the top rate tax goes to 50% (they didn't)
- The wealthy will leave if we introduce a minimum wage (they didn't)
- and the wealthy will invest more if we leave the EU (they didn't)

Oh look !

Remember those beautiful Rwandan homes (where Braverman famously 'plumped up' the cushions, complimenting their interior designers) - built from the £500 million the UK is sending Kigali ?

Rwandans have, we read, already bought up 70% of them

Of course they have 🤡

📞'London has fallen. Sadiq Khan has hidden inside an Islamist Trojan Horse and rolled into the city. Only Susan Hall can roll it back!'

Colin from Portsmouth is passionate about the London mayoral election, despite never setting foot in the place as it's a no go area.

Would ID cards be such a bad idea if they made things work a bit better? -It would be a good thing, I support ID cards. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Destruction of a precious ancient bluebell woodland in the Kent countryside under a deluge of illegal landfill waste shows the utter failure of environmental law, complete inaction by the authorities & increasing lawlessness in the UK. Let me tell you the story of Hoads Wood 🧵