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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
Tories are toast. It will be a Labour landslide, followed swiftly by a hung parliament next election with Reform UK getting > 30% of the vote.
It won't be fun, but it has to happen 'm afraid.
I'm staggered that neither Labour nor the Conservatives can see the danger that Reform and Farage pose. The latter has always played the long game - sometimes superbly.
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@Tim said in British Politics:
@Victor-Meldrew He's the god-damned party whip! He's supposed to enforce party discipline. Tories could not be more of a joke now.
Oh, there's always Angela Rayner....
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Britain’s richest plumber Charlie Mullins said the country has become “too keen to write sick notes”, which has contributed to soaring levels of economic inactivity.
He has called for a government-funded apprenticeship service to solve the problem, as he said that “if more young people were able to access a trade then GPs would spend less time composing notes”.
Mr Mullins said: “I would go further and make [a state-funded apprenticeship scheme] available as a second chance to graduates who feel duped by the English Literature or Sociology degree they have gone into debt for.”
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The bloke is a first class c*nt
Pay no heed to one word which spills out of his mouth
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The man, who was convicted of "outraging public decency and exposure" in 2017, was placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register but was given permission to remain in the country.
The evidence of several doctors at his asylum appeal hearings stated that he "continues to act inappropriately towards females".
In June 2020, an immigration tribunal judge agreed with lawyers that his "risky behaviours" would expose him to "ill-treatment" in Afghanistan and awarded him refugee status.
Immigration tribunal courts, where judges can overturn the Home Office, have ruled in favour of asylum seekers 51% of the time since 2021.
And the majority of those who are unsuccessful do not return home, staying in Britain illegally.
On average, more than £34m of legal aid per year has been spent on asylum cases since 2017, according to figures from the Ministry of Justice.
The Sky News investigation comes on the same day a watchdog revealed aid spending on asylum seekers in the UK rose to £4.3bn in 2023.
The Independent Commission for Aid Impact said the figure was driven up by the Home Office paying out £2.5bn on hotel accommodation for the year, saying it had "continuing value for money concerns" over the department's spending.
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Caught a bit of the Post Office Horizon inquiry today. The inquiry was shown an email from Snr civil servants which discussed a cover-up and suggested they only verbally discuss the cover-up to hide the cover up. Yes, you read that correctly folks, they laid an audit trail of discussions about not creating an audit trail....
And these people run the country.
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@Victor-Meldrew yeah tend to agree they should all be up for manslaughter.
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@Bones said in British Politics:
@Victor-Meldrew yeah tend to agree they should all be up for manslaughter.
Alan Bates and co said today they are looking to private prosecutions of people the authorities don't take action against. I don't think crowdfunding will be a problem.
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The measure of the woman and her leader.
Should have resigned pronto. Obviously has no intention to.
Starmer should have removed the whip. Hasn't.
Tells you all you need to know.
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We’ll make a Tory Boy out of you soon 😂
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@MiketheSnow said in British Politics:
Starmer should have removed the whip. Hasn't.
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
One day Tory / Labour will realise that the more scandalous shit which takes the headlines instead of fixing the country, the more Reform continues to rise.
Oh, I suspect they think it a nice distraction from actually doing much to fix the country.
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The same as each other? Colour me surprised.
Some critics have said the Tories are running out of ideas. Others may say no idea is completely new. The latter seems the case for one Tory local candidate for Gannow, Rhys Williams. He released his “five priorities” on his social media recently, which look suspiciously similar to his Labour rivals’s Gemma Haigh, who posted hers the day before…
https://order-order.com/2024/04/12/tory-council-candidate-in-plagiarism-row/`
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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
The same as each other? Colour me surprised.
Some critics have said the Tories are running out of ideas. Others may say no idea is completely new. The latter seems the case for one Tory local candidate for Gannow, Rhys Williams. He released his “five priorities” on his social media recently, which look suspiciously similar to his Labour rivals’s Gemma Haigh, who posted hers the day before…
https://order-order.com/2024/04/12/tory-council-candidate-in-plagiarism-row/`
They probably both got Chat GPT to write them.
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She's pro-Labour but an interesting take
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is it though?
So far, apart from the Mail going on about it, no one has actually identified whether she's done anything wrong. Dan Niedle has been excellent on this subject, likely max tax evaded (which again, we don't know if it was evaded) is about £3.5k.
a. we don't know if anything was owed at all, we don't know which her designated primary residence was (this is a designation, it doesn't matter whether she was living in it at the time), we don't know when she left one to choose the other and whether it was inside 18 months from when she sold it during which time principal residence relief would apply. We don't know if she did any work on the house to improve it which would again would be deductible. Basically, we don't know anything but to this point HMRC haven't been concerned.
b. even if none of the above apply and she did pay the wrong amount of tax, we have no reason to assume that was intentional, making a mistake on tax is not a crime, evasion has to be intentional. Ultimately, this is a personal tax situation and if HMRC are happy then the rest of us don't need to know anything.
The notion that this instance is the same as some of the things the Tories have done baffles me, to me its simply the Daily Mail pursuing what is a minor issue and equating it with Zahawi etc - it is hilarious.
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