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John Fox retweeted
🚨BREAKING: Inquiry into education of white working class children finds system is "not set up to serve them"
So who IS it set up to serve Education Secretary Lucy Powell?
One critic said: It's incredible that white kids have to now be treated like a minority
@LucyMPowell?
John Fox retweeted
This is the final salary pension ruse that all chiefs of public sector pull. They co-ordinate a final year or two with maximum salary. It’s a massive scam.
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🚨Labour MPs Caught Hiding Staff Pay While Forcing Businesses to Reveal Salaries
Andy Burnham is out telling every business in Britain to put the salary on the job ad so applicants aren’t left guessing. Meanwhile, more than a dozen of his own Labour MPs – including former minister Liz Kendall – are quietly advertising taxpayer-funded roles with nothing more than a vague “in line with IPSA scales.”
No figure. No range. Just the exact opacity he branded “soul-destroying.” He says MPs should lead by example. They’re still refusing. Critics are calling it pure hypocrisy.
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Lovely morning at Fountains Abbey for @parkrunUK - clocked in just under 26 mins🏃♂️
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This morning in the Immigration and Asylum Bill committee, I backed Lib Dem amendments to make the Home Office do two simple things before using large asylum sites like Linton-on-Ouse and MOD Bicester:
1. Publish the evidence that a site is suitable
2. Publish the full costs and compare them with the alternatives
They had cross-party support, including from the Conservatives. Labour voted them down 8–6.
The Government has a duty to house people seeking asylum, and moving away from hotels is right. But Linton-on-Ouse would put 1,250 people beside a village of 600. It has flood-prone rural roads, limited transport, and serious doubts over water, sewerage and power. Public money was already spent there in 2022 before the plan was dropped.
An isolated site with failing infrastructure doesn’t work for the local community, for the people sent there, or for the taxpayer.
And that money would be far better spent fixing the system itself: clearing the backlog, processing claims quickly and fairly, and restoring safe and legal routes, including processing claims in third countries.
A Conservative-led council and a Labour mayor have both said no to Linton. I asked the Minister why she thinks they’ve all got it wrong. Ministers talk about devolution, yet the decision is still being made in Whitehall.
If a site is suitable, publish the evidence. If it’s value for money, publish the costs.
John Fox retweeted
BREAKING: SWEET REVENGE! The Navy Admiral who Pete Hegseth fired DEFEATS her MAGA opponent to win a House seat in South Carolina — cementing the blue tsunami with a poetic flourish!
This is just too beautiful...
Democrat Nancy Lacore, a 35-year Navy veteran who rose through the ranks from helicopter pilot to become Chief of Navy Reserve, was fired in August of 2025 amid Hegseth's purging of high-ranking women in the military. While no official reason was given, the deeply misogynistic Hegseth has not been coy about his caveman belief that only testosterone-injecting men should serve.
Lacore has now defeated Republican Jenny Costa Honeycutt to seize a seat that was formerly held by MAGA lunatic Nancy Mace who launched a failed bid for the governor's mansion this year.
Lacore has not been shy about criticizing Hegseth's disastrous mismanagement of the Defense Department, particularly his failed Iran War.
"Pete Hegseth is the most unqualified Secretary of Defense that we have ever had, and he is doing significant damage to our military that it will really take decades to undo," she said, adding that he "needs to go."
The most beautiful irony here? Congresswoman Lacore could soon be voting with the rest of the Democratic majority in the House to impeach Pete Hegseth. We have subpoena power starting in January, so we'll be able to uncover all of the gross negligence and rampant criminality that he's overseen.
Ain't karma grand?
Please ❤️ and share if you support impeaching Pete Hegseth!
John Fox retweeted
I asked the Government: if you follow advice from the DWP helpline and it turns out to be wrong, should you have to pay the money back?
Their answer: yes. Even when it’s the DWP’s own mistake. That’s simply not fair.
People rely on that advice in good faith, often when they’re at their most vulnerable.
If the DWP gets it wrong, the DWP should pick up the bill.
Read more:
mirror.co.uk/money/dwp-confi…
John Fox retweeted
🚨Senior Tories and Sarah Ferguson named as people who tast-tracked tirms into Covid PPE deals
After a five-year legal fight, the government has finally named more than 30 senior Conservatives who referred companies into the Covid PPE VIP lane. Eight of Boris Johnson's cabinet ministers appear, including Dominic Raab, Robert Buckland, Simon Hart and Robert Jenrick. Matt Hancock is linked to 27 firms, Lord Feldman to 21 and Lord Agnew to 14. Michael Gove, Grant Shapps and Graham Brady are also named. Sarah Ferguson referred a small pharmaceutical company that shut down in 2022. Companies that got this fast-track treatment were ten times more likely to win contracts, yet large amounts of the kit later proved useless. The Covid Inquiry called the system inherently biased.
Why did ministers spend five years fighting to keep the names of those who referred firms into this preferential system hidden from the public?
Source: democracyforsale.substack.co…
John Fox retweeted
🚨 The full Covid PPE 'VIP lane' list is FINALLY out after a 5-year legal battle.
£1 BILLION in taxpayer cash was completely WASTED on useless PPE.
VIP lane firms were 10x more likely to win contracts.
The unmasked referrers:
Matt Hancock: 27 companies
Dominic Raab: Referred a toy maker with 1 employee
Michael Gove: Referred a donor who got a £164M contract
Sarah Ferguson (Duchess of York): Referred a dissolved pharma firm
4 New former Ministers Exposed: Raab, Buckland, Hart, and Robert Jenrick of ReformUk
The well-connected got rich. The public paid the price and we are still paying it till today. Credit @PeterKGeoghegan
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That is reality, people... the police in the UK have carte blanche beat you to death if you are white skinned!
teapawt.net/pippaisright/status/21…
John Fox retweeted
I see Baroness Benefits Kemi Badenoch is giving it large re welfare cuts. She wants everyone to start living within their means
From the woman who claims £39,400 (and the rest) per year from the taxpayers coffers.
#BBCLauraK #BaronessBenefits
John Fox retweeted
A busy day out chatting to travellers and rail campaigners on the Lakes Line with Libby Bateman and Will Clark, then door knocking in Oxenholme with Doug Rathbone before a bracing run around the dark and misty lanes of south Westmorland.
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Yorkshire Water's chief executive has resigned, just a day after the Environment Agency gave the company its lowest possible rating.
But a new CEO won't fix a rotten system.
Residents are at their wits' end, paying ever-rising bills for polluted rivers and threats of hosepipe bans while those at the top rake in millions.
The Liberal Democrats have a clear plan: turn Yorkshire Water into a public benefit company, ban bonuses for polluting bosses for good, and create a regulator with real teeth.
I won't stop until we have clean rivers and properly run water companies.
John Fox retweeted
Up in Pateley Bridge and running the Guy Fawkes 10 for the first time. I am very much a fair weather runner and don’t like hills - so this will be interesting!
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Yorkshire Water boss resigns after company given lowest environmental rating trib.al/7r9kJ5x
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Yorkshire Water’s Boss oversaw abysmal management of our precious natural resources, trashing our rivers while receiving an eyewatering salary.
I called for her to do us a favour and step down much earlier instead of hanging on to receive the lowest possible Environment Agency rating.
Her replacement needs to understand that residents are at their wits end, paying ever-rising bills for polluted rivers and threats of hosepipe bans while someone at the top rakes in millions.
John Fox retweeted
In January, I held a debate highlighting how the ban on water bosses' bonuses was as leaky as the water network's pipes.
The Government should bring forward legislation to close the loopholes, so CEOs of failing water companies can never again receive offshore payments like this.
Exclusive: Yorkshire Water’s new CEO will no longer receive the controversial off-shore six-figure payments made to outgoing boss Nicola Shaw.
Full story (£): yorkshirepost.co.uk/business…
