Monthly Archives: March 2023

Tory lies: they say police numbers are at their highest ever. But check the small print

Here’s a great piece of exposure by Peter Stefanovic: Hang on to your seats for the Governments latest CON on police numbers! Never underestimate just how thick this Government thinks we all are pic.twitter.com/baD35cVtUO — Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) March 27, … Continue reading

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Keir Starmer shows us all his Conservative credentials on crime

Keir Starmer turns out to be a fan of Margaret Thatcher – at least where crime is concerned. But she was the prime minister who set the police on miners, criminalised poll tax protesters and authorised rubber bullets and shoot … Continue reading

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France riots against pension-age rise. Here’s why the UK isn’t the same

Would you like to know why France is on fire over the increase in the pension age there? It’s really very simple. Pensions are paid from taxes, and French taxes are progressive – that is, those with more money pay … Continue reading

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Tories made a whole new law just to increase Starmer’s pension (no, seriously)

‘Opposition leader’ benefited from Tory legislation enacted specifically to benefit him ‘Labour’ ‘leader’ Keir Starmer has rightly been attacked for his closeness to the Establishment and the British security state, which has seen him mount no meaningful opposition to the … Continue reading

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As the DUP digs in its heels, is Northern Ireland facing hard times?

Rishi Sunak has managed to avoid humiliation in the vote on the ‘Stormont Brake’ aspect of his ‘Windsor Framework’ deal with the EU over trade in Northern Ireland. Instead the shame was hung on the Democratic Unionists and Tories in … Continue reading

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Is anybody daft enough to believe Keir Starmer’s Labour will reform the police

Keir Starmer has been bandwagon-jumping again. He’s saying the Metropolitan Police has been a basket case for 13 years under the Tory government and the racism, sexism and homophobia that Baroness Casey uncovered  has shattered the trust of the people … Continue reading

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Energy bills could fall below £2,000 – but remember they’ll still be ‘considerably more’ than before

By now we’re all aware that energy bills are likely to fall below £2,000 by July – right? But households are still likely to struggle with payments because that’s still one-third more than what we were paying before the war … Continue reading

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Cost of living support schemes are to end soon. Will you lose out?

This is another ‘public service announcement’ (as one reader described them) for those of you who need to know. Some ‘cost of living’ support schemes announced by the Tory government last May are set to close at the end of … Continue reading

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Is this the new wheeze for friends of the Tories: subsidies for asylum-seeker hotels?

It’s not so long since we discovered the Tory government was giving contracts to provide Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to their friends via an illegal ‘VIP lane’ – now it turns out they are paying their buddies to run hotels … Continue reading

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Months after the Forde Report was published, Labour STILL hasn’t contacted its author about future steps

Martin Forde KC, the author of a major report on allegations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, has said there are serious issues of racism but, since it was published in July, nobody in the organisation has contacted him to … Continue reading

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