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General UK politics VIII - The Last Tory

Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧
@TiceRichard
Surge in union members who support Reform UK

We are the party of alarm clock Britain

The doers and the workers
 
Good Morning Britain
@GMB
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has said it is "worth considering" limits on how some benefit claimants spend their money.

Should there be restrictions on what claimants can spend their benefits on?

Poll in link

258 votes and 20 hours left at the moment with %65 in favour
 
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Some comments

Yes! Far too many paying for cosmetic surgery, nails, several holidays and fancy cars!! A girl I went to school with just came back from Maldives?!?! It's insane!!

Benefits Britain needs to stop

Yes absolutely they should! Benefits were ment to be for a short time to help ppl live. All benefits should be given on a card that can only be used for general food shopping & bills, anything more then go out to work & earn your own money. benefits is not a wage.

Its not 'limits'. Its spending on specifics like food. This ensures money isn't just blown away and also spent on criminal activity. Excellent idea

Need to differentiate between claimants who work and those who do not. If you are unemployed then you should not be allowed to buy Sky, Netflix, booze, gambling, cigarettes, ready meals and of course chocolate.

My 32 year old stepdaughter gets a free flat & £1600pm benefits, pretending she has anxiety. She spends every penny on crack, weed & gambling. Several of her friends got the same & are already dead from overdoses. Our benefit system is killing people with kindness.

Every genuine disabled person knows someone who is scamming the system, so why not offer them an incentive to report these people. Once a conviction has happened, give them a bonus. Don't paint all disabled people with the same brush.
 
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Andy_Ross said:
Nigel Farage MP
@Nigel_Farage

Abolish the BBC licence fee.
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Does he provide any actual, real, proper evidence for this?

Or is "claim" doing the usual incredibly heavy lifting?

Or is he miffed he hasn't been asked, which is not a surprise as he's on record as saying he doesn't have the time or inclination for things like music, which would make for a pointless episode of DID.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧
@TiceRichard
Surge in union members who support Reform UK

We are the party of alarm clock Britain

The doers and the workers
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OK, so remind me of Reform's stance on workers' rights, employment protection, sick leave and pay, holiday rights and the like?

I can assure you as a former trade union member I would never vote for your shower. Doubly so as a former public sector worker.
 
Carrot Flower King said:
Does he provide any actual, real, proper evidence for this?

Or is "claim" doing the usual incredibly heavy lifting?

Or is he miffed he hasn't been asked, which is not a surprise as he's on record as saying he doesn't have the time or inclination for things like music, which would make for a pointless episode of DID.
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It's the latter. Apparently Reform asked the BBC to put him on before the council elections but they said the schedule was filled.
 
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Nigel Farage MP
@Nigel_Farage
Labour is no longer the party of the patriotic working class. That mantle now belongs to Reform.

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Kelvin MacKenzie
@kelvmackenzie
The only good news to emerge from Desert Island Discs banning Farage ( thought it would upset the staff) is Reform has now pledged it will scrap the licence fee and replace it with subscription, imperilling thousands of BBC jobs.
Guarantee an invite within a year don’t you?

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Well informed Reform supporter.

Andy Burnham
@AndyBurnhamGM
It's nothing to do with my administration, June. It's Manchester City Council.

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June Slater
@juneslater17
Any Burnham's administration spent £524.8 million of tax payers money renovating the town hall after saying they had no funds for many public services. The project began in 2020 and is over budget by £191 million

costs expected to continue to rise. Council tax was increased.

Good luck Makerfield
 
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You aren't even an MP

Zia Yusuf

@ZiaYusufUK
If Hampshire Police continues to cover up the Henry Nowak bodycam footage, as Home Secretary in a Reform government I would release it immediately.

However bad they think it is.

However much they may be concerned about public order in reaction to it.

It will be FAR worse if they sit on it.

RELEASE IT NOW
 
Another one

By-election likely as new Reform councillor is a ‘no-show’.
A councillor who was championed by and campaigned alongside Jonathan Gullis has failed to sign the paperwork to take office on Kidsgrove Town Council. Councillor Olivia Wonzy, as she appeared on the ballot paper has however taken on the more lucrative role as a Borough Councillor under her new name of Olivia Westcott.

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Andy_Ross said:
Another one

By-election likely as new Reform councillor is a ‘no-show’.
A councillor who was championed by and campaigned alongside Jonathan Gullis has failed to sign the paperwork to take office on Kidsgrove Town Council. Councillor Olivia Wonzy, as she appeared on the ballot paper has however taken on the more lucrative role as a Borough Councillor under her new name of Olivia Westcott.

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How many more to go?
 
Andy_Ross said:
You aren't even an MP

Zia Yusuf

@ZiaYusufUK
If Hampshire Police continues to cover up the Henry Nowak bodycam footage, as Home Secretary in a Reform government I would release it immediately.

However bad they think it is.

However much they may be concerned about public order in reaction to it.

It will be FAR worse if they sit on it.

RELEASE IT NOW
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Oh, then this will never happen, then.
 
Reform UK controlled Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council said it would cancel its membership of the Local Government Association (LGA) in a bid to save up to £17,200 a year in membership fees and expenses.

"The Local Government Association is everything people are sick of about the broken Westminster political system," said Jonathan Gullis, the newly-elected leader of Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council.

He described it as "a cosy, self-serving establishment funded by hardworking taxpayers who see absolutely nothing in return."

www.bbc.co.uk

A Staffordshire council will be one of only two to quit trade body

The Reform UK leader of Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council said his party will do things differently.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
Andy_Ross said:
Reform UK controlled Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council said it would cancel its membership of the Local Government Association (LGA) in a bid to save up to £17,200 a year in membership fees and expenses.

"The Local Government Association is everything people are sick of about the broken Westminster political system," said Jonathan Gullis, the newly-elected leader of Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council.

He described it as "a cosy, self-serving establishment funded by hardworking taxpayers who see absolutely nothing in return."

www.bbc.co.uk

A Staffordshire council will be one of only two to quit trade body

The Reform UK leader of Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council said his party will do things differently.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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They could save much more money by sacking Johnathan Gullis and not replacing him.
 
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