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mrbluesky retweeted
Apparently everyone has to cut their cloth apart from.
Bankers
Buy to let landlords
Employers who pay minimum wage
CEOs
Billionaires
Fossil fuel companies
mrbluesky retweeted
This seems like a great time to reshare my favourite Sir Patrick Stewart performance, โWhat has the ECHR ever done for us?โ Itโs just perfect in every possible way โฆ including the ending ๐๐๐ RIP.
๐ฅ The Guardian
mrbluesky retweeted
To all the sycophantic Farage supporters screaming nothing happened with the Lib Dem MP
Great - at last you are calling Farage out for being a liar.
Quite easy - if nothing happened then the altercation he described and his reason for not attending the Budget are proven lies.
mrbluesky retweeted
Tommy Robinson sent a letter to himself, he meant to log out and send it from a different account.
But he didn't.
Don't RT ๐คฃ
mrbluesky retweeted
Farage excuses for not attending UK Budget in order:
1 -My prayer card was removed
2 - I never put a prayer card but there was no seat when I arrived
3 -There were seats but I was forced out by other MPs
4 -It's too dangerous for me to attend
5 - I never intended to be there
mrbluesky retweeted
๐จFARAGE ALTERCATION
So the 'altercation' with Farage playing the victim of not attending the Budget was at the State opening of Parliament and involved him 'shoving a female Lib Dem MP'
What a big brave man he is.......
mrbluesky retweeted
To have a prayer card Farage must have collected a prayer card before prayers start and sit in that seat during prayers. Here are the Reform benches during Kemi's reply to the budget statement. Plenty of room. He couldn't be bothered to turn up, because the day wasn't about him.
mrbluesky retweeted
He says that he didn't attend the Budget to avoid an altercation
He says that there was one in May
However
- why was this not reported
- the Chamber is not a small empty place
- if it was empty there would have been no physical altercation
- there would have been numerous witnesses
- as it is Farage it would have been 'big news'
- Farage did not vote in Parliament from 18th March - 3rd June (what was so important to get a seat in May?)
mrbluesky retweeted
He definitely was in Parliament for the Kingโs Speech - I let him through a door when his card didnโt work immediately after the King left.
Had a 1 min chat where he moaned there was too much security (no, I have not made that up!)
Youโd think if heโd been walloped by someone thatโs what heโd have moaned about instead
mrbluesky retweeted
Badenoch has forgotten that Thatcher sold off the family silver, Cameron ruined public services with austerity, Johnson ruined the economy for a generation with his Brexit deal. Then he pissed ยฃbillions up the wall with dodgy Covid loans and PPE contracts.
Then we had Mad Lizzy!
mrbluesky retweeted
This shows a surprising lack of knowledge of @HouseofCommons procedure from @Telegraph
As I used to be a regular at getting in early and booking my seat, here's my thoughts:
First did Nigel Farage attend prayers? If he did having booked a seat and the card removed that is discourteous to say the least. Yet Nigel could have questioned the member claiming to have "booked" it before he did. (For clarity no requirement to actually take part in prayers, just to be present)
Second if this occurred he could immediately have selected another unreserved seat nearby and put his prayer card in.
Third one of his party colleagues could have offered him their seat at any point before the budget without infringing their ability to speak later or losing their own reservation for doing so provided they stayed in the chamber overall.
#UKPolitics
Nigel Farage was unable to attend the Budget in the Commons because his seat reservation was removed, The Telegraph understands.
The Reform UK leaderโs prayer card โ a green slip of paper that backbench MPs put on a spot on the green benches to reserve their seat โ was moved after it was placed this morning.
๐ telegraph.co.uk/business/202โฆ
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Farage's prayer card lacked a valid date stamp and was removed per House of Commons protocol. MPs confirm seats were available unreserved and he did not attend prayers to secure one.
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/โฆ
x.com/hope_sapphire/โฆ
mrbluesky retweeted
The only unaffordable thing in the UK is greed.
ยฃ150bn Tax Evasion
ยฃ80bn Tax Breaks
ยฃ219bn Corruption
ยฃ449bn - 40% of the entire budget STOLEN by the richest.
That is DOUBLE the entire NHS budget.
Take it back.
mrbluesky retweeted
The thing to remember: don't look at Budgets in isolation.
Taxes have been rising since 2021. The extra tax we're paying this year is the *cumulative* result of five successive Budgets, under three Chancellors.
This chart shows who's responsible & for how much.
mrbluesky retweeted
Tesco could pay every worker an extra ยฃ10,000 and still make a profit.
British Gas could pay every worker an extra ยฃ35,000 and still make a profit.
Shell could pay every worker an extra ยฃ300,000 and still make a profit.
It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.
mrbluesky retweeted
Healey should put a cap on MPs expense claims. No more ยฃ45k water bills. Letโs see a bit of housekeeping done in parliament. Allow claims but ensure they fit with the public expenditure. Anything above they pay out of their own pocket. Bring some trust back into Parliament.
