I just don't get the 'He bought Starmer's glasses' Just how sodding bizarre is that? UK politics is beyond help - come on Scotland pack your bags and leave this supposed union of equals #ScottishIndependence 🏴🏴
Are UK politics really this fucked up. OK, this has got to be proved yet, but really 😮💨 After Starmer himself banged on about Johnsons shenanigans, he (potentially) allows this to happen. I'm really starting to despair. news.sky.com/story/starme...
A Labour peer paid for a personal shopper, clothes and alterations for Lady Starmer, both before and after the Labour leader became prime minister in July, according to The Sunday Times. But Labour sa...
James Cleverly does not rule out taking donations from Frank Hester
Tory leadership hopeful admits comments from £15m donor about Diane Abbott were ‘completely wrong’
This is the UK the labour govt presides over
Poorest families in UK lack beds and are sleeping on floors, charity warns
Study by Buttle UK found most families had skipped a meal and many parents said they had given their bed to a child
People in the UK are being conditioned to think living well and with dignity is not achievable for everyone. It is one reason so many on the right pushed the Brexit agenda, so we were removed from the positive reality in the EU. This kind of backward thinking is the result. Scotland needs out.
Means testing appeals to people who believe the current system is fair, or so close to it it will be with a few tweaks. They don't care to know that it normally costs more than it saves while decreasing provision. They just want to believe the world is fair.
The “inhumane” treatment of migrants rounded up in a “futile” operation for the now scrapped Rwanda scheme, has been laid bare in testimonies from Home Office staff that reveal force was used against distressed detainees. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/s...
Testimonies from Home Office and security staff show repeated use of force on distressed detainees
I suspect it will pass next year in @Scotgov
No LibDems pushed for 2011 PR referendum, it's never been in Labour's interests to break the cosy duopoly. Our EU neighbours are slack jawed when I explain to them our FPTP and hereditary peerage system. They blink in astonishment that we're not the world's oldest democracy that we claim to be.
