Oliver Pope retweeted
Ahoy there!
What's controversial about UK Labour Transport Secretary @LouHaigh boycotting rogue P&O Ferries?
Here's Conservative predecessor @grantshapps urging the same 19/20/22.
"UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps urged Britons to boycott P&O Ferries" - @BloombergUK
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Oliver Pope retweeted
If like me you’re liking a lot of what Labour are doing, then it falls to us to shout it out.
Things I’m loving:
- New Workers Rights
- Better Transport
- Reducing NHS waiting Lists
- Feeding school kids
- Green initiatives
- Changes to Lords
- Renters Rights
- Knife reform
Oliver Pope retweeted
You couldn’t make it up.
Weak, weak, weak!
Labour lied to get into office.
Said they’d be whiter than white, said they wouldn’t put up taxes, said they’d stand up to the EU, said that they be patriotic.
All lies!
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98y…
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James Cleverly announced the opening negotiations with Mauritius to return the Chagos Islands whilst Foreign Secretary in 2022. At the time he said he hoped the deal would be finalised in 2023.
theguardian.com/world/2022/nov…
Oliver Pope retweeted
The way the ECHR is applied may at times irritate and as in all human affairs no court will always be perfect in its reasoning and decisions. But the ECHR has done immense good throughout Europe. Precisely because it is a " living instrument", it has been able to promote human rights. We take for granted today that illegitimate children should not suffer discrimination and that homosexual relationships should not be criminalised. But delivering these reforms is just some of the good work of the ECHR. As Churchill saw, it's drafting and promotion has been one of the great achievements of UK soft power for the common good of all.
At the end of his video, Jenrick gratuitously offers an irrelevant image which is intended, I infer, to show an immigrant gloating over money he is getting. The only purpose of this is to stir up hatred against immigrants. That is why we need the ECHR. It is also why he is showing himself entirely unfit for office.
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.@Peston: How many people does it employ? How much profit does it make?
@RobertJenrick: I don't know how many employees it has but it is a trading business.
The Conservative leadership candidate defends taking a £75k donation from a company linked to a tax haven firm.
#Peston
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NEW - Kemi Badenoch tells Times Radio that maternity pay has "gone too far."
“We need to have more personal responsibility. There was a time when there wasn’t any maternity pay and people were having more babies.”
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Hi Russel, Not sure if you have got to this bit in your A-level politics course yet, but to put your mind at ease we will be having another election. It’s kind of the law. Hope this helps.
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🚨STORY🚨
David Cameron and wife Samantha got freebie clothes paid for with Tory donor cash
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/d…
Oliver Pope retweeted
This is getting silly now. Leave his kids out of it, and stop blowing things out of proportion. There is bad behaviour amongst some politicians, but this constant pearl clutching at everything undermines trust to an unjustified and dangerous extent. Try reporting some news.
BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer accepted accommodation worth £20,000 to help his 16-year-old son study for his GCSE exams, it has emerged
Read more: trib.al/mFwiVHi
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🚨NEW: The Tory government shelled out £114,000,000 in payouts to companies for undelivered and cancelled Covid contracts.
💷86% of this money was handed to firms linked with senior Tory figures.
🔎Read our latest investigation with @MC_00_ below⬇️
goodlaw.social/h2pb
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Before you read the news today, here are the political leanings of our news media:
Daily Mail - Right
The Sun - Right
The Times - Right
Telegraph - Right
Express - Right
FT - Neutral
City AM - Neutral
The Guardian - Left
Mirror - Left
Puts things into perspective, doesn't it?
Oliver Pope retweeted
I get that he's no longer an MP but you'd think that these stories would at least mention the *£220,000* worth of gifts and freebies accepted by Boris Johnson over the same period, on top of the more than £6 million he received in political donations
Oliver Pope retweeted
I can’t believe Keir Starmer had the audacity to bring a tax-payer funded photographer with him to watch a football match…
Oh hang on
…that was Rishi Sunak.
dailystar.co.uk/sport/footba…
Oliver Pope retweeted
The brass neck here is absolutely extraordinary, the hypocrisy weapons grade, the contempt for his target audience palpable & the disingenuousness off the charts…
No wonder he’s a front runner to be the next Tory leader.