Blue plaque erected at Walthamstow Tesco to commemorate lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss https://t.co/wbmW9IT9jY— Guardian news (@guardiannews) October 4, 2024
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the policy, this is just a complete screw up. Happy to be proved wrong, but it would appear one of the pensioners demanding you pay higher taxes to fund his benefits is wearing a Rolex Datejust with a President bracelet. Which resells for circa £5,000.Hat tip @albieamankona for noticing, @finkmoney_ & ChatGPT for ID. https://t.co/9nVSdUn4gf pic.twitter.com/tbyHKIjkiZ— 🥑🗽🏗🏘️ Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂•5H₂O (@Gaylussite) October 5, 2024
The policy is arguable either way... whether it's the more wealthy 'older generation', (like me), versus the young who can't afford to get on the housing ladder or the ineffectiveness of targeted benefits, (although it can be argued that's also an argument for making them work more effectively, of course), is an open question at this point. My guess is, inevitably, there WILL be some people who 'fall through the cracks', as the saying has it, who need the extra and don't get it.Of course, this is in exactly the same way there were millionaire pensioners, (which don't include me, to be clear), who obviously didn't need the £200 a year.
You really have to admire the brazen hypocrisy on show here. Boris Johnson hits out at ‘greedy’ Keir Starmer over freebies https://t.co/pP4tOXaibC— Guardian news (@guardiannews) October 8, 2024
Johnson took £936,000 in donations while PM, including donors paying for his wedding and daily takeway meals during lockdown. After leaving Downing street, despite declaring £1.3m in earnings over four months, he took £1,060,500 in donations and free accommodation over that period. But he's not greedy - his view will be that he's entitled to those donations and they are just a part of his life.
Big shift in the Tory leadership race. Badenoch on the ropes now, as I don't see many (if any) Tugendhat supporters backing her. Cleverly's to lose now. WOW.James Cleverly TOPS the ballotCleverly 39Jenrick 31Badenoch 30Tugendhat 20— Sophy Ridge (@SophyRidgeSky) October 8, 2024
So it looks like the Cleverly team tried to lend votes to Jenrick to get Badenoch out, and it all backfired. Cleverly came a narrow third and is eliminated.
I can't help thinking this is going to be like the last leadership election between Truss and Sunak and the tory memberships will just look at the two candidates and say, 'The white one'.
Fair enough. I'm not sure how you lose support from first position in a couple of days, but I suppose that's what you get trying to predict the crazies.
They were hurt most by the switches to the Lib Dems in the shires. If the public want far right then they'll vote for Farage, not the people following his tune. It's all set up for Bozo to come back in a couple of years.
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Because this always works UK ministers to stick by Tory plan for £1.3bn of cuts to sickness benefits https://t.co/jiWOf6q2Uo— Financial Times (@FT) October 17, 2024
There's a degree of waste in sickness benefit, (if we're including that as a discrete class), because some of the people receiving it should have been moved onto other benefits, many of which are higher. Of course, his assumes we trust the FT without other confirmation. I caught this in the grauniad on the subject... Labour to bring in ‘own reforms’ to benefits system to save £3bn Work and pensions minister says government will not go ahead with Tory plans but needs to make savings Quite how this all works out we'll need to see.
One Cleverly ally perhaps summed it up best, describing the contest as dictated by “people with the winning combination of a leadership vote and room-temperature IQ who think they’re in House of Cards” https://www.politico.eu/article/kemi-badenoch-robert-jenrick-uk-conservative-party-james-cleverly/
Is it the people who said he was an immigrant that came across on a boat from Calais last year instead of being born here? Is it them? No... and yerself?
Farage was right by coincidence. He didn't defend what he'd originally said/posted. He tried to blame it on others. If he'd doubled down and said "I'm correct, and this is why", then I'd give it to him. But he didn't. He got called out on his attempt to stoke hatred and then said "it wasn't me".