MrsG
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35 years in UK education - now retired 💜💜 - Keeping an eye on the world & always hoping 🌍🌈
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One business we can definitely do without is betfred. A social evil and an economic drag sucking billions out of the economy into the stagnating offshore accounts of the uber rich . Tax them to f—k and back.
Holding govts to ransom.

Billionaire owner of Betfred says if UK govts raises tax it will close gambling shops.

Wants someone else to bear social cost of gambling.

Less tax on gambling means more for shareholders, execs.

Any big business not holding govt to ransom?
Betfred says gambling tax rise in budget will force it to shut all its UK shops
Levies thought to be under consideration will kill profits, say bosses, as gambling firms ramp up lobbying efforts
www.theguardian.com
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Thank you to the Samaritans for all their work helping people in crisis.
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The polls are lying to us.

10 elections this week.

7 wins LibDems.

1 win Reform by a whisker.
As is Obi - he looks very wise x
Fair point @libdems.org.uk
If Reform win a seat in a by-election it’s rammed down our throats by BBC as a major headline and report on their main page..

And yet the @libdems.org.uk win 6 seats in Surrey and it’s buried away hush hush 🤫

I only came across it by chance just now ..

#BBCReformsFreePRService
Liberal Democrats win six seats in Surrey by-elections - BBC News
The Lib Dems also won three borough and district council ward by-elections in the county.
www.bbc.com
Coming back at you with grandog Loki having a cuddle on a bench at Saltburn beach….
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How is York coping without a Duke and Duchess? Will people in York be ok? Are the jobs advertised locally or will they go again to outsiders?
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He’s methodical rather than flashy, serious rather than performative — qualities that don’t always make headlines but do make for competent leadership. The hostility from all extremes probably says more about them than about him.
Happy to do this ❤️
Sir Keir Starmer.

Our PM.

He's hard working with proven experience of getting things done.

Hated by the hard left as he's not Corbyn.

Hated by the far right as he solve the issues they are exploiting.

Hated by the media just because he's Labour.

All lie about him.

So let's show him some love!
Gosh this Warren 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Or people complain it is not quick enough or not exactly to the precise standards they want.

Governments don't have to be perfect. They just need to be moving everything and everyone along in the right direction.

Which is starting to happen after years of being static at best or going backwards!
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Despite Starmer having to fight the lies thrown at him by our media and the opposition party. He’s still leading a team delivering for this country and playing a role on the global stage. He really is a very, very capable PM. We are so lucky to have him. I’m grateful every day.
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Lest we forget one month ago Angela Rayner resigned over underpaying stamp duty on her £800,000 flat in Hove

Within a week Farage exposed not to own a £885,000 house in #Clacton he claimed he’d bought & accused of avoiding £44,000 in tax by funding his girlfriend to buy it

It got buried quick eh❗️😡
Angela Rayner resigns after underpaying tax on Hove flat - BBC News
Her departure comes after the PM's ethics adviser concludes that she breached ministerial rules.
www.bbc.com
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Badenoch: This government is too weak to stand up to China.
Also Badenoch: We should have been describing China as a foe. #ukpolitics
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Hahahaha holy crap Starmer is obliterating Badenoch who is flying into narcissistic rage as he reads out her embarrassing past comments saying that "we should stop describing China as a foe or threat".

This is a significant PMQs.

#UKPolitics #PMQs
And yet still she bangs on
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Get this investigated ffs
That £900k house in Frinton. Has anyone mentioned how it was paid for yet? Any laws broken, or all above board?

Anyone investigating? Media grown a conscience? Any journalist working for the British people? Anyone?

Half way through another week of silence then.
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That £900k house in Frinton. Has anyone mentioned how it was paid for yet? Any laws broken, or all above board?

Anyone investigating? Media grown a conscience? Any journalist working for the British people? Anyone?

Half way through another week of silence then.
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UK media. Ask Labour about the Chinese, don't ask Farage about Russian bribes, or mysterious bankrolling of Leave. If you do minimise it, laugh it off. Repeat the process for Russian money swilling through the Tory party.
The majority of the British media stinks.
It's as bent as a corkscrew.
Not sure what they are trying to achieve 🫤
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Silence is not in the least bit dodgy when these are running the show. Thing is, whose agenda are the following? 🤔
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Yet another Monday. Still no explanation from FarRage about who paid for his Frinton house. It’s looking more like roubles than crypto though.

As for Nathan Gill, maybe we will know more after sentencing. Unless he flits off to Moscow?

Dodgy. Still media silence.
It does seem a bit like that 🤷🏻‍♀️