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Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers’ Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave They are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on “free speech” bylinetimes.com/2024/12/17/c...

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After great success selling Mr Trump’s perfume in the village shop, Jill has a new range of fragrances: Kemi Badenoch’s ‘Moisture.’ ‘Gam Mon’ by Farage. ‘Somme’ eau de toilette from Lee Anderson. Greg Wallace’s cologne ‘Cock et Tits.’ Not forgetting Liz Truss’s perfume ‘Trickledown.’

submitted 74 days ago • 52 comments

Democracy dies when billionaires buy elections. Musk’s touted $100m to Reform shows why our parties and elections law need urgent updating. Natacha Kennedy reports

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

This is not an ordinary intervention. A safeguarding review into an entire state school over allegations of decades of emotional abuse of children. Hopefully will signal a change in how schools discipline kids. Labour were right to scrap one word inspections - the school is rated 'outstanding'!

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs, whatever.”

submitted 73 days ago • 283 comments

Posting here a bit late; People came to the Georgian parliament building after marches and protests across the entire Tbilisi since morning: “We resist repressions” “Disobedience against repressive regime”, banners read. Day 16th of nonstop, nationwide Georgian protests.

submitted 75 days ago • 3 comments

On this day in 2019: Caption of the Century, in The Washington Post:

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Thames Water customers risk paying £263 a year extra to rescue firm. Serial offender, dumped sewage for decades, neglected investment, borrowed to pay dividends. Now wants customers to bail it out. They will own nothing. Let it go bust. Nationalise at nominal cost www.mirror.co.uk/money/thames...

submitted 78 days ago • 70 comments

Extraordinary story from BBC Panorama, which claims Severn Trent Water has invented a £1.68bn “asset”, and is paying out more in dividends than it’s making in profit… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 79 days ago • 17 comments

352 episodes of Question Time with 1734 guest slots, filled by 661 people. While researchers found that the BBC had “broadly balanced” appearances from representatives of the UK’s main political parties, when it came to members of the media a right-wing bias became evident

submitted 80 days ago • 5 comments

British Non Dom’s and foreign billionaires owning our press was bad enough. Now an American one is dictating what questions the Prime Minister is asked on This Morning. Insane and hideously depressing state of affairs

submitted 93 days ago • 22 comments

I love this.

submitted 94 days ago • 937 comments

'Fury' as man who knows nothing about farming, sold farmers down the river with Brexit then hijacked their protest to shit-stir and get on TV to further his own grift isn’t allowed to make a speech.

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Remember all those endless stories about the 'scandal' of Labour making political appointments to temporary civil service posts after the election? Well a new independent Civil Service Commission report finds that such appointments were "considerably" higher under the last Conservative government.

submitted 98 days ago • 22 comments

Jeremy Clarkson, who owes his fame & fortune in large part to the BBC, sneers at the brilliant @vicderbyshire.bsky.social for being ‘classic BBC’ when she uses his own words to describe his position.

submitted 98 days ago • 298 comments

#Bluesky traffic up by 500%, absolutely crushing Threads and X (twitter). Millions are choosing the good place. www.npr.org/2024/11/19/g...

submitted 99 days ago • 449 comments

🤔 I wonder if the Daily Mail owner’s 4,700 acres in Dorset has in any way influenced this front page.

submitted 98 days ago • 13 comments

NEW: MHCLG opens consultation on sweeping right to buy changes 🏠Council tenants to live in home for approx 10yrs (up fr 3) to qualify 🏠New-build social homes exempt 🏠1-for-1 replacement target for councils 🏠Discounts to fall further - to max of 20% 🏠Repaid if tenants sell w/in 10yrs, up from 5

submitted 98 days ago • 56 comments

The news that people inheriting land worth at least £1 million will have to pay tax on it has drawn significantly more outrage from politicians and the press than the news that 1 in 3 children in Britain are now living in poverty…

submitted 98 days ago • 24 comments

On Monday we learnt that 1 in 3 children are living in poverty… And that deprivation has hit a record high Given their new found compassion for struggling Brits Where’s Jeremy Clarkson, Nigel Farage and Andrew Lloyd Webber to fight their corner? …anywhere?

submitted 98 days ago • 152 comments

🔴Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson and Junk Stats: Is This the Best the Anti-Inheritance Tax Farming Lobby Has to Offer? Millionaire landowners are using dubious statistics to campaign against the Government’s inheritance tax reforms, reports @josiah.writes.news bylinetimes.com/2024/11/19/j...

submitted 99 days ago • 71 comments

for some reason I’ve remembered what Jeremy Clarkson, who said he bought land to avoid inheritance tax, said on live TV about striking public sector workers (extra marks for use of ‘us’)

submitted 99 days ago • 50 comments

Both in the news today for differing reasons. Michael Sheen who remortgaged his house to fund the Homeless World Cup, Jeremy Clarkson who bought a farm to evade tax.

submitted 99 days ago • 72 comments

With new figures showing that more than one in three children in the UK are now living in poverty, with deprivation hitting a record high, it's good to see the Times focusing on the people who are really struggling

submitted 98 days ago • 166 comments

Conservative MP Alex Burghart, whose leader stood on a stage yesterday to defend Jeremy Clarkson and James Dyson's right to hang on to their multimillion pound inheritances, now furiously complaining about the Government handing pay rises to public sector workers.

submitted 98 days ago • 139 comments

Isn’t this cosy? Badenoch and the pompous Clarkson foghorn having a fireside chat about how the Tories will help tax-dodging wealthy landowners like him. God knows what she thinks her own govt did to all our communities, including rural ones. Or to the public services that our taxes pay for.

submitted 98 days ago • 168 comments

Important context here: ● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares) ● "a big farm" is 217 acres. Now let's see who's angry: ● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres ● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres ● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres ● Dyson owns 36,000 acres

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Left: Claire Hanna, "Brexit didn't just happen to sausages" Right: Your reminder that David Frost and Boris Johnson negotiated a Brexit deal which did't allow England, Wales or Scotland to export sausages/meats to NI. Then they blamed the EU for following the rules they negotiated

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

Coming to any photo opportunity at any time you’ll have ‘em The new Tory B*llox Band From left to right Close my Companies while they owe HMRC Philps Claim Anything I Can McVey How Did I End Up As A Minister Atkins And band leader … KemiKaze BadEnough

submitted 99 days ago • 244 comments

Narrator voice: “Little did he know…”

submitted 99 days ago • 253 comments

Please spare a thought for James Dyson, the Brexit-voting billionaire who bought up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax then moved his business to Singapore. He's the real victim here.

submitted 99 days ago • 142 comments

Victoria Derbyshire nails Jeremy Clarkson over his Inheritance Tax scam. Hilarious to watch him squirm.

submitted 99 days ago • 751 comments

If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds

submitted 99 days ago • 471 comments

🔴The Elephant in the Room is that Brexit Has Made Britain a Much Poorer Place The unspoken truth of Rachel Reeves’ Budget was that leaving the EU has left Britain permanently worse off, writes @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2024/10/30/b...

submitted 100 days ago • 59 comments

Umm. This is like first day at school. I’ve joined up

submitted 100 days ago • 1352 comments

Bluesky let’s see if we can find each other! I used to speak to almost 300,000 people on that terrible place formerly known as Twitter, about the NHS. Where are you? If you’re here, follow me and share this, and I’ll follow you back!! 💙💙💙 Ju xx

submitted 101 days ago • 39 comments

As the Trump reality hardens into something world-threateningly grim with a cabinet chock full of dangerously vindictive inadequates; including power-abusing billionaires, sex pests, conspiracy theorists, Russian assets, racists and climate deniers… Never forget who cheered this nightmare on…

submitted 101 days ago • 66 comments

Far right extremists including associates of Tommy Robinson planning to hijack Farmers event on Tuesday www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 101 days ago • 71 comments

Like and Repost if you agree?

submitted 101 days ago • 31 comments

Incredible, how casually Kuenssberg skates over the fact she got the facts flat-out wrong in her framing of the opening question, in order to make a hostile editorial point. Just presses on, as if a minister having to put her right on basic inaccuracies is an ordinary part of any BBC interview.

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United Utilities refuses to hand over data on sewage discharges into Windermere It has presided over suspected illegal sewage spills for more than 500 days over a period 2018- 2023 in Windermere & surrounding area www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 102 days ago • 29 comments

Essex Police spell out “she is accused of “inciting racial hatred” not of committing a “non-crime hate incident”, as she had claimed. And if you are confused about the nature of the complaint see 👇 You won’t be surprised to hear it was a typical Pearson piece of misinformation

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2024: Laura Kuenssberg criticises Labour who have been in office for four months for not fixing social care 2019: Boris Johnson, "I am announcing on the steps of Downing Street that we will fix the crisis in social care once and for all with a clear plan we have prepared"

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Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson attempting to.....incite confusion??? Who'd have thought it Essex Police has now reported the paper to IPSO

submitted 102 days ago • 67 comments

Supply chains are why Trump's view of world trade is - like that of the Brexit ultras - outdated. This is where a lot of DC lobbying efforts will be going, to show how US manufacturing will be weakened if his plans go ahead.

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UK cheeses miss out on international prize after getting stuck in customs “Before Brexit, this wouldn’t have been a thing. That’s a fact” Heaven help us www.theguardian.com/food/2024/no...

submitted 101 days ago • 57 comments

How could the police drop this case? Especially with his history? “For five minutes I listened and recorded as he masturbated, calling out my first name, using vulgar language to say “suck my [penis]” and making other obscene and lewd comments about my genitalia.”

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