UPDATE; Watchdog reprimands Tories over £800bn post-Brexit trade deals claim: Figure includes agreements rolled over from before leaving EU, and description of ‘new trade’ is misleading says UKSA chief

The official statistics watchdog has reprimanded the… VIA The Guardian

If you’re shocked about the Michelle Mone story, wait till you find out that a firm owned by the finance manager of Michael Gove’s 2016 Tory leadership campaign won £170m in PPE deals.

After being referred to the PPE VIP lane by the office of… Michael Gove.

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As a photographer, I have frequently had to temp to top up my income. Working in customer service for social housing providers was the worst job I had.

In the wake of the horrifying, avoidable death of Awaab Ishak, this is a thread of my experiences.

One of the establishment's biggest lies at the minute is that wages must fall to deal with inflation.

Wages aren't causing inflation.

The best thing we can do to fight inflation right now is real price controls on energy, in part funded by a full Windfall Tax on excess profits.

A reminder:
* COVID is airborne.
* Herd immunity did not happen.
* Omicron was not mild.
* Kids do get sick.
* Transmission does occur in schools.
* Each variant is not milder.
* No wave has been an exit wave.
Minimizers have been wrong about every
single one of those things..🦠

Tories have twice blocked Labour legislation to make rented homes - including council houses - safer
Grenfell
Tories voted against making homes fit for purpose
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This is absolutely explosive for the Government

Fmr Environment Secretary George Eustice has just admitted in the Commons how bad the post-Brexit UK/Australia trade deal actually is - Boris Johnson said it was a good deal for Britain

I’m sure UK news shows will be all over this

Make no mistake, if the Tory’s are serious about growth, their budget this week would contain a fully funded rescue package for the NHS.

Scotland Yard say there is simply not enough evidence thwt w rule breaking party took place.

You’ve got to kind of wonder what evidence they’re looking for if a fecking photo of a party, complete with buffet, party hats raised glasses and a big group photo, isn’t it.

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🏛️GOV2.UK Raab is just awful.

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Dr Matt Prescott Of course not. They’re the owners - society, the people who matter. We are just staff (if we’re lucky) or servants, indoor or outdoor. The idea that we should have our own lives, rights and purpose is as alien to some of them now as it was in the 18th century.

Utterly farcical.

Absolutely shocking. A total misuse of police powers. I hope Tom is helped to take legal action against this force. Detaining journalists and photographers and searching their homes is deeply disturbing.

Laughable for Rishi Sunak to claim that he'll make the UK a 'clean energy superpower', when he's banned onshore wind, blocked new solar farms, and instead given the go-ahead to a host of new climate-wrecking oil & gas licences in the North Sea #COP27

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'The higher-than-normal quantities of bacteria were found off the north coast of Hayling Island in Hampshire.

If you go down to the sea today, you're sure of a big surprise. Too right you are.

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As long as Braverman and Williamson remain in cabinet, Sunak undermines his own credibility, accountability and integrity.
You can’t claim to be all about earning trust and then appoint deeply unpleasant people who are demonstrably dishonest, out-of-control security risks.

I object to my state pension being called a benefit. I have paid into it all of my working life.

The Grenfell Tower fire was one of the greatest state crimes ever in the UK. It was corruption on the highest scale. It's abominable that no one has been prosecuted for this yet. #bbcnews