Labour helping Sunak secure his legacy legislation on smoking, one of the most ridiculous Bills I've ever seen which in the long term will bring the law into disrepute and give a huge boost to the already large black market in tobacco. #C4News

These are ongoing war crimes that are being committed. This has nothing to do with 'Israel's right to defend itself'. It is collective punishment, starvation as a weapon of war.
But our leading politicians refuse to call out their ally.

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Why do we give the Bank of England so much power? taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/1… It is a truth universally acknowledged that central bankers are abysmally poor at the tasks given to them. So why, after nearly thirty years of supposed central bank independence, do we still think they are…

We are sleepwalking into a catastrophic global conflict.

Our political class shows no interest in de-escalation, diplomacy or restraint — and it is always other people's children who pay the price.

In a world of endless war, we need voices for lasting peace.

🚨🚨 'Leaving the European convention on human rights won’t stop the boats – but it will create other problems for the UK'. Characteristically commanding analysis by Dr Joelle Grogan of why it is a very bad idea for the UK to leave the ECHR. The Conversation
theconversation.com/leaving-the-eu…

When were we consulted on this? When did we vote for this?
Answer- NEVER
Labour councils, MPs, Metro Mayor & other parties had no legal or political mandate to give away our land, assets, rights to big business effectively privatising the region
#FreeportScam #Feudalism

tony That's another issue. Freeport boards r unelected, unaccountable, will make decisions about our regions without any regard for what we want or need. Profiteers won't pay tax,NIC,Rates & will put their profits ahead of services or preserving our heritage & can take yr home

Nice journalism by Nick Ferrari today:

Ferrari: There’s fraud in PIP payments.

Caller: The level of fraud in PIP payments is 0.2%. It’s minuscule.

Ferrari: Where do you get that figure from?

Caller: From the DWP’s own reports.

Ferrari: Well I don’t believe it.

Dawn Butler, Labour has tabled a vote to remove the Whip from Liz Truss and Suella Braverman, because their Islamophobic statements break the Ministerial Code.

RT if you would remove the whip from Suella Braverman Like for Liz Truss

This is what ‘cancel culture’ on campus looks like.

This is what bigotry towards minority students looks like.

#UKPensions

Top: BBC news reporter Anna Collinson outside a dental bus with a volunteer dentist and Newcastle food bank, providing emergency dental appointments, because after 14 years of Conservative plans, people cannot get appointments, let alone find a dentist

Bottom: Conservative party…

GB News has a poll asking if it's OK to spike a woman's drink.
If you spike someone's drink they can't consent to sex.
So what they're asking is if it's OK to rape someone.
There's no point reporting them to Ofcom because they'll tell them not to do it again, and again, and again

We have been going for 10+ days now on the Angela Rayner story.

If we had to talk about Conservatives for an equivalent time we would have to talk about...

Nadhim Zahawi for 23.5 years.
Lord Ashcroft for 939 years.
Michelle Mone for 1816 years.
Lord Bamford for 3914 years.

Nick Owen🇺🇦 Cheryl Parker#UNITEDWESTAND Bad luck if you got the first version of the leaflet though as it was so misleading, they had to re-print and change the wording.

Me too.2007 I found out well before most women,but only because I had cancer.I rang my bank ,and they told me,extra 3yrs 7 months😫.In 2011 ,3 yrs before old retirement date ,was told ,it would be 5 yrs.Many 6 yrs extra.from a house to a wooden bungalow,as too ill to cont working

Nick Owen🇺🇦 Cheryl Parker#UNITEDWESTAND 2009 was when letters started not resumed.
'Those affected by the 1995 Act changes (born 6 April 1950 to 5 April 1953) were sent letters between 2009 and 2011'

Our government is complicit in the slaughter of innocent people in Gaza.

Today, we filled Parliament Square to demand a permanent ceasefire and an end to arms sales to Israel.

We are a movement for peace — and we aren’t going anywhere.

Neil Henderson Now do these👇🏼

The Water Companies dump as much sewage as they like because they are allowed to
Energy Companies charge you as much as they like because they are allowed to
The richest don't bother to pay tax because they are allowed to

It's time to enforce the rules that exist but are ignored