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How @reformparty_uk is helping @Conservatives. A thread 1) Almost the first words on its website confirm its preoccupation with extinguishing the Tories: “Join us as we consign the failed Conservative Party to the history books”. It’s all of a piece with…
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People will conclude that this means Parliament must be HR'd to death, rather than that it suggests that Labour MPs, and to some extent their staff, are not actually cut out for what the role entails. This has quite literally only been an issue, as the data shows, since 2024
New @GMB_MPs_Staff report out today: the number of MPs’ staff quitting in their first year is up 59% in two years, and half of those who quit now leave within ten months.
I wrote about Parliament’s staff crisis for
@NewStatesman in June 👇
newstatesman.com/politics/uk…
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Thanks to @GuidoFawkes here is a list of all the products that will be (or in the near future) banned from the UK under Burnham’s bone headed EU Reset Deal
As you can see it’s a testament to Brussels micromanagement of the lives of voters who cannot via the ballot box, be that inside or outside of the EU, change any of this
Labour seem think that British civilisation is so fundamentally backwords that we as a people can’t be allowed to decide these things for ourselves with our vote
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Is that it?
John Healey had a big job to do cleaning up Labour’s mess. This Budget fails to do it.
Britain is overspent, overborrowed and overtaxed. This Budget does not come close to meeting the moment.
My full response👇
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The History of Roman Empire: Every Year (in Minecraft)
0:00 The Kings of Rome
1:57 The Republic Takes Italy
5:55 Wars with Carthage
8:04 Expansion and Crisis
10:13 The Civil Wars
11:47 Augustus and the Principate
14:00 The High Empire
15:34 The Severans
15:53 Crisis of the Third Century
16:32 Diocletian and Constantine
17:55 East, West and the Fall
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🚨NEW: The Online Safety Act has been a failure, according to a new report from Ofcom.
Ofcom have found "no significant change" in children encountering harmful content since the law came into effect last July. This is despite the signifigant threats to free speech and privacy.
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🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage says he would give Donald Trump the Chagos Islands in return for silence on the Falkland Islands
"I’d have gone in and said, ‘Right, you know what, mate? Chagos, it’s yours... in return, just please stop talking about the Falkland Islands"
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“We are on your side”
Kemi Badenoch concludes her conference speech, saying “we are ready to fight for our values” and “get Britain working again”
Follow live: bbc.in/4ATwqSu
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Conservative MSP Liam Kerr to former Tory Duncan Massey: 'Defection to Reform was awfully close to him not getting on candidates list' 👇
Andy Burnham: 'We need to devolve more powers and give locals control over their communities'
Also Andy Burnham: 'You've done too well at keeping your taxes low, we'll cut your budget to bring you in line with the rest of the country'
This is interesting because the council tax rise is the result of Labour taking money out of London and moving it North.
But Reform have unanimously decided to take Labours side and attack the Conservatives for balancing the books.
Tory-led Wandsworth Council has announced a staggering 94% council tax hike, the biggest council tax rise in history.
Already struggling households will be forced to find almost £1,000 extra a year.
But take a look at the eye-watering sums paid to senior council officers last year.
Wandsworth Council paid its then Deputy Chief Executive Ana Popovici £278,643 in total remuneration in 2025/26. That’s more than seven times the UK’s average full-time salary and over £100,000 more than the Prime Minister.
The Tories simply cannot be trusted with taxpayers’ money.
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The last surviving warship of the 1982 Falklands task force ex-HMS Ambuscade could be expended as a target within weeks.
Sold to Pakistan in 1993, she served another 30 years as PNS Tariq. The Pakistan Navy has agreed to gift her for preservation but getting her home is the problem. War and instability across the Middle East have pushed insurance and transit costs sharply upwards, roughly doubling the bill for the 6,000nm passage to around £2M.
The Pakistan Navy has now set a deadline of the end of September. If she has not moved by then, she will be destroyed.
The plan is to make her the centrepiece of a Falklands War museum on the Clyde. The charity @FallsofClydeSco has written to the Pakistani Navy requesting an extension.
Fundraising is live now and sponsorship opportunities are open. clydenaval.org
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Behind one of history's most consequential decisions was a Met Office weather forecast.
Released in cinemas today, #PressureMovie tells the remarkable true story behind what is arguably the most important weather forecast in history.
The film shines a light on the meteorologists, science and expertise behind the D-Day forecast.
More than 80 years later, the importance of trusted weather intelligence remains as relevant as ever.
🎬 PRESSURE is in cinemas now.
@StudiocanalUK
Putin will be quaking in his boots at how much our benefits bill is increasing #PMQs
Kemi Badenoch asks the PM how he plans to fund the country's defence when the benefit bill is set to rise
The PM says he plans to do it "the Labour way" by building more council houses, investing in mental health services and youth employment and training
#PMQs: bbc.in/4A1GJn9
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In your own words:
"We just don't have British resident donors"
It's illegal to take money and donations in kind from non-resident donors.
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Protecting children online should not become an excuse for expanding the surveillance state.
My latest for @CentreWriteMag 👇
centrewrite.brightblue.org.u…
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So it looks like the government is going to try and effectively remove older vehicles from the road.
They've created a sneaky consultation on this huge change with an end date of only the 6th of September.
They want to have a yearly emissions check on every car and motorcycle on the road AS WELL as your MOT.
If you pass the MOT but then go to your emissions check, if the vehicle doesn't emit exactly the same emissions as when it was built the car will be banned from any use on the road even if it passed its MOT emissions.
This will effectively destroy a majority of the car industry as car tuning and modification will stop you being able to drive your car.
This is targeting all vehicle, cars, motorbikes, trikes, kit cars etc.
So far they are just targeting cars after 2001 but they want to use it on every vehicle on the road targeting mot & tax exempt (historic) vehicles.
They've purposely not given this consultation much time, so please go to the bottom of this page, tell them you do not want any of this from the government and share the consultation for others to do the same.
Only possible way to stop this would be to get the results of this consultation to be a resounding NO! The whole survey needs to be completed - don’t skip to the end as they try and nudge you to do.
[gov.uk/government/consultati…)
