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June Slater: When you take over a position…

When you take over a position in a company, existing staff show you the ropes. They help during teething period, until you find your feet Very sad to see experienced councillors slapping democracy in the face as their hostile attitude towards new inexperienced councillors entering the chamber impedes the new councillors learning . Find out yourself ... Go look it up ... That's your problem.. That would be disciplinary in the real world. But councils have had their cosy world turned upside down . Their ridiculous spending plain for all to see . I'll take inexperienced and a good heart over protectionism any day of the week. Good luck to all the Reform newbies who have entered the world of debt and destruction and have the courage to try and put it right .

Dale Vince: Wes Streeting is right about this…

Wes Streeting is right about this - we do tax money made with money at half the rate we tax money made with a pair of hands (quote from my book 2020..:) - it’s part of a broad range of tax issues we need to look at, an inherent inequality. But he’s wrong to present this as a wealth tax. And it’s unhelpful to do so, it might be an attempt to burnish his left wing credentials or just a misunderstanding. Equalising these two starkly different rates of tax is actually just the ending of a loophole for the wealthy, a significant advantage they currently have. We call money made with money (investments/assets..) a Capital Gain whereas money made in a job we call Income. That’s fundamentally unjust. Both are forms of income. Our tax system was written by people with money for people with money and it entrenches wealth, clearly - and increases the wealth poverty gap - year in and out. Tax equality is what this is about - some fundamental fairness.

Andrew Feinstein: This Labour Party practice of...

This Labour Party practice of putting up stooge independents to split the vote is what I believe happened to me when I stood against Keir Starmer in the general election. They put up a stooge called Wais Islam to try & split the Muslim vote. To the credit of the local community he was identified as such & lost his deposit! In just 6 weeks our community campaign came 2nd, halving Starmer’s vote

The Right Are Turning on One Another

One of the most high-profile political scandals in recent months has emerged not from Labour, but from deep divisions within Britain’s right-wing camp. A controversial interview with Ben Habib, current leader of Advance UK, has triggered fierce debate across social media after he effectively suggested that Nigel Farage had been financially influenced during the 2019 general election.

Ben Judah: You will see Brexiteers cling to the argument…

▶️ You will see Brexiteers cling to the argument that because the 🇬🇧 grew recently at a similar rate to 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 there is no Brexit damage. ▶️ But economists at @GoldmanSachs , @nberpubs and others are not measuring the outcome but rather modelling what 🇬🇧 itself would have achieved had it not done Brexit: i.e. no new trade barriers and no new red tape with our larges market. ▶️ Every serious organisation that has modelled this has found a significant and growing Brexit drag on where the 🇬🇧 economy like have been otherwise. ▶️ What they are saying is we’ve weakened the 🇬🇧 economy to be like 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 when we should be growing much faster. ▶️ This is what @nberpubs found in its 2025 paper — “The Economic Impact of Brexit” by Bloom, Bunn, Mizen, Smietanka & Thwaites: 1️⃣ “By 2025, Brexit had reduced 🇬🇧 GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time” 2️⃣ “Investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%” 3️⃣ “Employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%” 4️⃣ “These forecasts were accurate over a 5-year horizon, but they underestimated the impact over a decade” “These large negative impacts reflect a combination of elevated uncertainty, reduced demand, diverted management time, and increased misallocation of resources from a protracted Brexit process.” ▶️ How much has this cost us by these calculations? Some £180–240 billion.

June Slater: On the same day as The Unite The Kingdom Rally…

On the same day as The Unite The Kingdom Rally was the FA cup final . There were 22 arrests at the cup final ( crowd 84,000) There were 20 Arrests at The Unite The Kingdom Rally crowd estimated 300-500, thousands. Pro Pally rally 12 arrests from a crowd of approximately 15-20 thousand. In the last 12 months of the Pro Pally marches Over 3000 arrests have been made . Starmer, Lammy called The Unite The Kingdom Rally A hate march, he is still dividing his own country.
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