Clive Woodbridge
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November 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Far Right Reform Supporters Advocating Murder Online. When Will They Be Proscribed As A Hate Group?
Far Right Reform Supporters Advocating Murder Online. When Will They Be Proscribed As A Hate Group? - Dorset Eye
A far-right group chat has surfaced where people, who openly espouse Reform UK, joke about asylum accommodation being burned down, talk casually about the mass slaughter of Muslims, swap Islamophobic…
dorseteye.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Reform Ltd at local level is showing it to consist of incoherence and people full of spite and hatred incapable of supporting their country.

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Reform civil war as council leader quits over £190m re-opening of Red Wall airport
Guy Aston, Reform UK’s leader on Doncaster Council, stepped down following “unpleasant, vitriolic texts that border on abuse” from his own side
liveapp.inews.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Yeah well they voted for Brexit too.
Here’s the definitive Budget feedback from the British public: yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

By are margin of 48% - 21%, Brits view the Budget as “unfair”.

Some individual measures poll well, but as a whole Brits think it will make them, and the country, worse off.
How have Britons reacted to the 2025 Budget? | YouGov
While the government may have protected themselves by dropping their income tax plans, the public reaction to the Budget has still been negative
yougov.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It remains astonishing GBNews continues to broadcast.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
GB News urged to cut ties with contributor accused of racism
Rightwing activist claimed Commons deputy speaker Nusrat Ghani should be barred because she was born in Pakistan
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Must admit The I is coming up with enough ludicrous budget stories to match the Telegraph and Mail.
How many can afford to put 18% of their salary into a pension pot?

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I put 18% of my pay in a pension. Capping salary sacrifice hits hard workers
Samson Dada puts 18 per cent of his salary into his pension using salary sacrifice. He says it is a mistake to change something which rewards future planning
liveapp.inews.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Presumably by not saving you'll be spending and doing your bit to stimulate growrh

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At 20 I have less motivation to save after cash ISA cuts. Not everyone likes investing
Josh Hall, 20, is ‘worried’ about how the cash ISA allowance cut announced in Wednesday’s Budget will affect his long-term savings plans
liveapp.inews.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Please just give it up - want a more radical left party go Green.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Corbyn and Sultana at odds over Your Party leadership as conference opens
Delegates to choose between electing a single leader or a collective of lay members to run the leftwing movement
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
People should not go near these schemes with a bargepole. Robbery in plain sight.

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‘Not a happy place’: Retirement complex landlord cuts services and hikes fees
The i Paper visited a retirement development in Greater Manchester where residents say services have been taken away and they feel intimidated into silence
liveapp.inews.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Right now I understand there's Zarah's Your Party and then there's Corbyn's Your Party but there's no Our Party
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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The Tories and Farage howl about ‘benefit cheats’ losing pennies - meanwhile their billionaire mates dodge mountains of tax. DWP estimates £9.5 bn lost to benefit fraud/error in 2024-25. HMRC estimates £46.8 bn slipped through the cracks in 2023-24. #ukpolitics
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
If the OBR had given me a figure I would have ignored it as well

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Reeves was warned her claim of £20bn black hole wasn’t accurate before Budget
In September the deficit was £2.5bn, and by 31 October it had turned into net positive of £4.2bn
liveapp.inews.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I wondered what he was incandescent about
And a very good morning as Allister Heath delivers his verdict on the budget.
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Fair play to those Ryan Air customers, who no doubt will get a partial refund of their membership fees.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Ryanair closes members club after flyers take advantage of discounts
Airline says 55,000 people signed up to Prime, making €4.4m, but passengers benefited by more than €6m
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Of course the irony is that financially this will have a bigger impact than anything the budget would have done.
Around 26,000 of the neediest people in County Durham will have to start paying council tax next year as the county council scraps 100% rebates for people of working age.

About 2,400 others who already pay some council tax will lose part of their rebate.
Council tax shock for thousands of Durham’s poorest – thanks to Reform UK
Durham will scrap full council-tax rebates, forcing 26,000 low-income working-age residents to start paying for the first time
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Left: Luke Johnson, Chairman of Gail's Bakery, who was pro-Brexit, criticises Labour for not understanding the private sector and how wealth is created

Right: The thing he voted for, Brexit, costs the UK £90 billion in lost tax revenue every year #BBCQT
November 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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I say this mostly because Reform and certain journalists friendly to them seem determined to start a “white flight” narrative since net migration has dropped so dramatically.

It’s not true. It’s not even close to true.
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Speculation, speculation, speculation. After forecasting doom and gloom the IFS now forecasting sunny blue skies (or maybe not).

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Budget tax rises may be ‘fiscal fiction’ as pain delayed for election year, IFS warns
Thinktank predicts backloading may force Labour to abandon tax rises or spending cuts
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Surely we can't judge the budget until we have heard from Lord Frost and Allister Heath?
November 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM