Hi🦀 #BenHouchen 🦀fans

You need eyes in the back of your head with this shyster.

I've just written about the shenanigans at one of his charter cities, the MDC, now he's playing the fiddle at another one, the STDC

#TeessideResistance #TruthOnTeesside

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It’s the second time in exactly two weeks someone from the opaquely funded Tufton St think tank (lobby group), the Centre for Policy Studies, has been invited on to #politicslive

Funding transparency website Who Funds You? gave the CPS an E grade - the lowest transparency rating

Left: Conservative MP Tom Hunt says there is no evidence to show Brexit has had a negative impact on our economy

Right: Conservative Secretary of State for Business and Trade, Kemi Badenoch, acknowledges Brexit has had a negative impact on our economy

Nigel Farage abruptly ended tonight’s interview with former BBC Question Time Showrunner John Mair.

Farage saw red after Mair questioned where the ‘People’s Forum’ due impartiality was, following today’s Ofcom ruling that the channel had failed to show it.

Reform’s honorary

Because of course! #BenThings

Public to be liable for Teesworks contamination under proposed deal ft.com/content/7b915b…

Invoice for 2418 young plants last week with an additional €285 #brexit costs. that's nearly 25% on top and before CUC of £29 and a possible unknown proportion unloading charge at the port! we were warned by Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾

🚨 Brexiteers didn’t care less about Gibraltar’s 96% Remain vote, insisting that a marginal referendum was the will of the people!

🚨Tories dragged us out of the EU, disrespecting Gibraltar’s opposition to Brexit, 96% voted against it!

🚨Cameron informed Brexiteers yesterday

So the Tories have kicked the can down the road to leave the next Government with the bill

Infected blood: Final compensation payments for victims to begin by end of 2024
#ToriesOut684 #SunakOut574 #GeneralElectionNow #Sunackered #ToriesUnfitToGovern
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This 👇is a gloriously bitchy press release from the Chief Minister of Gibraltar to the Brexit ayatollahs in London which in diplomatic language is basically saying - 'butt out ! and let the grown-ups sort out the unholy mess you swivel-eyed loons have gotten us into !' 👇

The foreign secretary briefing against the PM?

BREAKING: The High Court rules that the Government's anti-protest legislation is unlawful, in a major victory for campaigners Liberty

The Court found Suella Braverman had lowered the threshold for police to intervene to even cover protests with 'normal' levels of disruption.

In the 3 months after the UK said anyone from Qatar changing planes at Heathrow must pay £10 and apply online for an Electronic Travel Authorisation, transit passengers from the Gulf state declined by 14,000. Paris CDG, Amsterdam & Frankfurt are delighted.
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How they deal with high insurance premiums in Ireland - Minister tells insurers to cut them.

For 508 years the Royal Mail has been owned by you.

Now the Conservatives have privatised it, so they can rip you off and control it forever.

RT if this and all other Privatheft needs to be undone.

Just came across this lovely little history story:

Back in 1962, EMI were working on various computerised systems for various purposes. Due to funding issues, the entire department was to be closed down.

David Cameron getting tetchy when grilled by the European Scrutiny Committee over Gibraltar and the Royal Navy dockyard there.

'Of course we talk to the Spanish...there a discussions as two NATO partners about how we work together'

Czech Billionaire Daniel Křetínský is taking over Royal Mail for £3.5bn.

His first step is to halve mail deliveries which will save £300m by getting rid of staff.

Prices will go up, employee's down, services down.

And every penny in profit goes to his tax haven accounts.

Have shareholders in privatised water companies pocketed billions & put in nothing? 🚰💸⁉️

That’s what new research by David Hall of the Public Services International Research Unit at Greenwich University claimed today.

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Is that correct?

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UK, under Truss as Foreign Sec, led the charge to get the ICC to investigate Russia’s war crimes vs Ukraine. But when it comes to the Israeli Govt (also, like Russia, not a signatory), our hypocritical Govt likes to claim the ICC has no authority?

Emma Hardy: ' I cannot believe that I'm about to say this, but after 14 long years of Tory rule, in 21st century Britain, our water is no longer safe to drink... is this what they think success looks like...'