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David__Osland

@David__Osland

Forty-year veteran of socialist politics. Freelance contributor to Labour Research Department and https://t.co/Q5pmn9zMlC.

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Sadiq Khan introduced free school meals for all primary school children in London. Susan Hall wants to take them away.

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A government whose chancellor dodged stamp duty on seven flats and said it was an honest mistake has effectively ordered the police to investigate a woman selling a council house

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It's a good job the developers who fitted flammable cladding to Grenfell Tower didn't steal food from a supermarket. Because they might get a prison sentence for that.

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Every city, town and village in Britain should have cheap and frequent bus services. Just like they did before Thatcherism.

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Harold Wilson may have had affairs. But he never funnelled £120,000 of public money into Marcia Faulkender's tech start-up or tried to make Janet Hewlett-Davies chief of staff at the Foreign Office.

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Yesterday Tesco announced £2.3bn profit after jacking up prices during a cost of living crisis. Today Rishi Sunak announces more prison sentences for shoplifters.

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Rishi Sunak will today announce announce more custodial sentences for shoplifters. But not for people who sell useless PPE to the NHS, dodge £3.7m tax bills or stitch up subpostmasters.

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We're told pensions are 'unsustainable', the Post Office is 'unsustainable' and now that the NHS is 'unsustainable'. They were all entirely sustainable before the private sector starting looting the public sector.

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Tesco profits up 159% to £2.3bn. In other words, Britain's biggest supermarket chain used the cost of living crisis as a pretext for blatant profiteering.

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Alan Bates' mistake was trying to get a meeting with the Post Office minister instead of a Grindr hook-up with a Tory MP

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There's probably a reason David Cameron (Eton), George Osborne (St Paul's), Boris Johnson (Eton) and Rishi Sunak (Winchester) wanted to scrap the Sure Start programme for disadvantaged kids, but I just can't think of it right now

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Last time I checked, no middle-class leftie opposed to NHS privatisation was pocketing tens of thousands of pounds from corporate donors linked to private healthcare

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Britain has just had its wettest 18 months on record and some water companies expect to ration supplies this summer. This is how utterly incompetent the privatisation fat cats have been.

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Any place I've ever worked, giving out workmates' private phone numbers to complete strangers who make contact on a dating app would be a sacking offence

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Water, gas, electricity, National Grid, prisons, rail, and airports; every major Tory privatisation is a proven failure. The very idea of extending NHS privatisation is completely bonkers.

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I'd like to see publication of the legal advice that enabled a Tory mayor to sell £120m-worth of development land to two mates for a hundred quid. The legal advice on a house sale nine years ago, not so much.

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Non-dom status has allowed Rishi Sunak's wife to avoid £20m in tax. But anyway, back to that non-story about Angela Rayner ...

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Angela Rayner's alleged tax avoidance on her house sale was half of what Esther McVey claims for rent *every single month* on a flat just one mile away from a property she jointly owns

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