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General UK Politics VI It's A (Honey) Trap!

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The Don said:
Yes, because those benefits are so generous that they fund a millionaire lifestyle. :rolleyes:
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With their flat screen TVs!!!


The Don said:
Anyone who thinks this should have to live on benefits for a year.
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But even that wouldn’t touch on the crushing often intergenerational poverty we now have in our country.

What they should have to do is turn up at the benefits office, with no home, no access to any funds and see how long they will remain homeless, and by homeless I mean not even a bedsit in a HMO, see how long they will have to go to without any money. Oh and if its not a cooperative benefit office they won’t even be able to access one of the Tories only success stories of the last 14 years - a food bank as these will often want to see your proof of being in receipt of benefits. They can experience true hunger.
 
Bridgend says "Fico also pledged to investigate his governments Covid 19 response and the corrupt policies that killed his countrymen."
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjq5qxlgy39o


When Heidi Dodson discovered she was going to be evicted, she reached out to her local council of Thurrock in Essex for help. But it rejected her application for priority housing and said she would cope if she ended up on the streets. Two weeks after being evicted, Heidi is homeless and sleeping in a park.
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The 57-year-old former shop assistant was recently served a section 21 “no-fault” eviction after seven years living in a private rented property she had secured through the council.

Heidi was turned down for priority housing by the local housing department and told that even if she had to “sleep rough occasionally or in the longer term", she would not be more vulnerable than anyone else in the same situation. The council has since apologised for the wording of the letter and says it is supporting her to find a suitable home.
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Almost all rough sleepers have been housed when the political will is there.
 
Bridgen needs to get with the times and join Farrage's latest gravy train: Attacking the WHO and the pandemic treaty being negotiated.
 
Of course he was.

Pensions minister Paul Maynard found guilty of expenses breaches after inquiry by IPSA following Sunday Times investigation

He used taxpayer funds to "produce overly political materials promoting the Conservative party and his re-election" and "under-reported" Tory use of taxpayer funded office.

Maynard has been ordered to repay cash used to rent state-of-the-art printer and produce Tory leaflets. He's made another repayment after claiming his party did not use his taxpayer funded office when it did, and his abuse of the rules has led the IPSA investigator to propose all MPs are banned from using their offices for party purposes in any context.

As well as committing breaches, he belittled and ignored a whistle-blower. His chief of staff has bullied her for months for coming forward.

https://assets.ctfassets.net/w59ykw...3254a12ba63/20240514-COM-1508-SoF_-_Final.pdf
 
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Pretty much a decade since the privatisation of Royal Mail, ending nearly 500 years of state ownership.

Now it’s about to be sold off to a Czech billionaire.

Another win for the tories and privatisation
 
Grant Shapps is going to solve the RFS crewing problem and threat of industrial action over low pay by making the crews sign new contracts taking away their right to strike.

He says

"We can’t have a military fighting machine subject to the ordinary rules of industrial relations. It just doesn’t work. That’s why the Armed Forces are not able to strike."

It's never been a problem up until now.

He also says of their complaints of low wages that the new contract will tie their pay to that of the military and they shouldn't have any better than the real navy crews.

At the moment the RFA are having difficulty finding enough crew members to put any ships to sea. Pay and conditions are way below any other merchant ship contracts.

I'm sure his plans will have crews leaving their current berths and flicking aboard the RFA ships.
 
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Norman Alexander said:
I suspect voters will put paid to him even staying on as an MP. Instead, he'll have to go get one of those real jobs they say are going begging.
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His seat is one of the safest in the country. It’s been Tory for more than a hundred years, and Sunak’s majority at the last election was 50 percentage points higher than the nearest candidate, meaning it would probably take voters deciding to back a particular opposition candidate to unseat him.

His seat was, I think, one of the two the Tories were predicted (by John Curtiss, I think) to hold under the worst opinion poll during the Truss lettuce.*

So it’ll be unlikely he’ll lose his seat. Will he show himself a liar by quietly resigning his constituency after the inevitable leadership election? Gordon Brown stayed on for the full 5 years after he lost (and was a good constituency MP), while Theresa May has been there for 5 years after she was ousted.

*I was going to call it an era, but it doesn’t really count as such, so we need a new word.
 
gypsyjackson said:
His seat is one of the safest in the country. It’s been Tory for more than a hundred years, and Sunak’s majority at the last election was 50 percentage points higher than the nearest candidate, meaning it would probably take voters deciding to back a particular opposition candidate to unseat him.

His seat was, I think, one of the two the Tories were predicted (by John Curtiss, I think) to hold under the worst opinion poll during the Truss lettuce.*

So it’ll be unlikely he’ll lose his seat. Will he show himself a liar by quietly resigning his constituency after the inevitable leadership election? Gordon Brown stayed on for the full 5 years after he lost (and was a good constituency MP), while Theresa May has been there for 5 years after she was ousted.

*I was going to call it an era, but it doesn’t really count as such, so we need a new word.
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The 1922 Committee may pick a different, more useful twat to be that local member...
 
gypsyjackson said:
His seat is one of the safest in the country. It’s been Tory for more than a hundred years, and Sunak’s majority at the last election was 50 percentage points higher than the nearest candidate, meaning it would probably take voters deciding to back a particular opposition candidate to unseat him.

His seat was, I think, one of the two the Tories were predicted (by John Curtiss, I think) to hold under the worst opinion poll during the Truss lettuce.*

So it’ll be unlikely he’ll lose his seat. Will he show himself a liar by quietly resigning his constituency after the inevitable leadership election? Gordon Brown stayed on for the full 5 years after he lost (and was a good constituency MP), while Theresa May has been there for 5 years after she was ousted.

*I was going to call it an era, but it doesn’t really count as such, so we need a new word.
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A 25% swing to Labour and a Reform candidate might work.

Norman Alexander said:
The 1922 Committee may pick a different, more useful twat to be that local member...
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Can they?
 
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