Andy
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Between Knotty Ash and North Cave.
Posts about bikes, Lib Dems 🔶 and occasionally intensive care medicine.
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Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp repeatedly refusing to say that he thinks Reform MP Sarah Pochin saying she doesn't like seeing black people on TV was racist.
Says he wouldn't use her "language" but it's right for her to express "legitimate concerns" about migration
Says he wouldn't use her "language" but it's right for her to express "legitimate concerns" about migration
I used ten mins of my extra hour today to watch Chris Philp on the BBC and he confirmed that the Tories’ policy on losing ILR if you claim any benefits *is* still retrospective. So it looks like the terms of his draft bill still stand, despite the long silence from Tory HQ.
Brummie and Manc arguing over which city has the honour of being crowned England’s second city. Brummie understandably says ‘Birmingham’, Manc says ‘London’.
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Wheras for Badenoch ten more years would have either put paid to her via a dumb scandal or have seen here consigned to the fringe, and Starmer would have never risen beyond cabinet minister.
This is all still the echoing consequences of one bad vote in 2016.
This is all still the echoing consequences of one bad vote in 2016.
It's genuinely crackers that in the UK, a social media company can *take advertising money from a fraudster*, the bank has to repay the victim out of its pocket, and the social media company doesn't even have to give the advertising cash to the bank! They make money on the transaction!
EXCLUSIVE: The British government is preparing to roll back on its pledge to make Big Tech companies pay for scams in its upcoming fraud strategy.
The Conservative Party isn’t getting back near power without recovering the Home Counties.
Now imagine how the sentence “The Conservatives propose to deport about 5 per cent of the UK’s legal population” come across at the breakfast tables of middle class professionals in Surrey reading their FT.
Now imagine how the sentence “The Conservatives propose to deport about 5 per cent of the UK’s legal population” come across at the breakfast tables of middle class professionals in Surrey reading their FT.
"The Conservatives propose to deport about 5 per cent of the UK’s legal population"
"the Conservative party increasingly holds positions that are further from mainstream British public opinion than Reform"
"the Conservative party increasingly holds positions that are further from mainstream British public opinion than Reform"
