Monthly Archives: July 2020

MP of the Year award attacked over harmful corporate sponsor. Time for a campaign to remove it?

It seems the only element likely to stop Jeremy Corbyn from winning the Patchwork Foundation’s MP of the Year award …Continue reading → MP of the Year award attacked over harmful corporate sponsor. Time for a campaign to remove it?

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Universal credit needs £8bn overhaul #youthink

Universal credit needs £8bn overhaul, says cross-party report, the Lords committee finds reforms are needed to make benefits system ‘fit for purpose’ amid the Covid-19 crisis. Universal credit needs a massive £8bn overhaul to make it reliable for the millions of … Continue reading

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Tories knew about Elphicke’s sex crimes before he was charged – and did nothing. Why weren’t they arrested as accessories?

Former Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke has been found guilty of three counts of sexual assault this week, after being charged …Continue reading → Tories knew about Elphicke’s sex crimes before he was charged – and did nothing. Why weren’t they … Continue reading

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Billionaire Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell paedophilia scandal, new information

This 31 July 2020 CBS TV video from the USA says about itself: Ghislaine Maxwell exchanged emails with Epstein as late as 2015, unsealed court documents show More than 600 pages of newly unsealed court documents were released late Thursday … Continue reading

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Senior Tory slams DWP chiefs for having ‘no idea’ what life’s like on the breadline

Come on it’s got to be bad when a Tory is slamming the Tories and he isn’t the only one, John Major has had quite a few things to say about them too. Sir John Major attacks Britain’s ‘shocking’ poverty … Continue reading

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Boris Johnson has committed contempt of Parliament and should be expelled

Why is Boris Johnson still a member of Parliament? There is an offence, here in the UK, known as Contempt …Continue reading → Boris Johnson has committed contempt of Parliament and should be expelled

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U.S. economy shrinks sharply as coronavirus pandemic stalls recovery and Republicans dither

By Robert A. Vella The U.S. economy shrunk in the second quarter by a staggering 33% – a collapse not seen since at least the early 1930s when the Great Depression ravaged America.  Shortly after the news was announced, President … Continue reading

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Tory and centrist MPs covered in shame as north forced again into lockdown. You were warned and rushed ahead anyway

Unions, left MPs, media, scientists and mayors warned against haste to re-open schools and force people back to work – and MPs rushed ahead anyway Two cheeks of a coronavirus arse-upBoris Johnson, Matt Hancock, Rishi Sunak and their whole party, … Continue reading

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Rishi Sunak’s Planned Online Sales Tax Is A Tax On Disability

The Tories have adopted a “your country needs you” approach to Britain’s pandemic. It is our civic duty to get back to normal – to go shopping, eat out, use public transport and go out to work. Now the chancellor, … Continue reading

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Video: BBC admits England was worst in Europe during pandemic under Tories – but also gives away that UK death toll is higher than even worst portrayed so far

Counting ‘excess deaths’ from 5-year average ignores that deaths in 2020 were below average so additional death toll is larger The BBC gave surprising coverage on Thursday to new statistics showing that England – ahead of the UK as a … Continue reading

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