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Paul Davies
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 PhD in History. Retired secondary headteacher. Golf. Nottingham Forest. Labour. Pro-EU. Detest Johnson, Farage and Trump
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This is the clip the Chancellor put out after her press conference.

It is therefore obvious this was the key message she wanted people to take away.

Where in this message do we get the idea of income tax rises?

@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Here is a short message the Chancellor wants you to take away from her speech today, rather than the nonsense put out by the media.

"A budget that protects the NHS, reduces our debt and improves the cost of living.

A budget that puts your priorities first.

An economy that works for everyone."
November 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Nigel Farage says the NHS should be replaced with an insurance-based system like they have in the USA, which would mean crippling medical bills for Brits.

Drop a ❤️ if you love our NHS and want to keep it in public hands.
November 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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There was absolutely NOTHING in the Chancellors press conference to suggest income tax was going up.

That was the media.

Again.

Going into it believing it was going up a coming out of it repeating the claim.

I never thought it was going up before & didn't think it after.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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And this Government is new to power, mistakes are bound to be made, but what they've done with the minimum wage, free breakfast clubs, free childcare hours, Better Start centres, Employment and Renters Rights bill, millions into health and so much more should be shouted from the rooftops.
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Are you still paying these journo shit-stirrers? Rachel Reeves got a better-than-expected OBR update, cutting the £20bn fiscal hole. Income tax hikes aren’t needed, strong receipts give £15–20bn headroom, while thresholds may fall and salary sacrifice taxes rise. Source: Bloomberg
November 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Labour is delivering real results, 50,000 people deported, a 23% increase compared to the 16 months before Labour won the GE.

Since then:
• 24% rise in enforced removals
• 12% rise in the number of foreign criminals removed
• 27% rise in asylum-related deportations

#Labour

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November 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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New today: Labour have cut waiting lists by 16,000 this month – meaning faster care and less worry for patients.

The past year is the first time in 15 years that waiting lists have fallen.

There's a way to go, but Labour are getting our NHS on the road to recovery.
November 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
There was a time when everyone actually waited to see what was in it before shouting ‘U turn’ or making financial decisions. ‘Pitch-rolling’ has its disadvantages.
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Starmer and Reeves have a 10 yr plan. I like their plan. I don’t expect it to materialise in 16 months. And I don’t expect it to be without its challenges. I also accept external factors will play a part. That’s why it’s a 10 year plan.

50+ manifesto pledges achieved/on course
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions | Mark Cunliffe
#CentralBylines
centralbylines.co.uk/politics/a-n...
A new survey reveals negative attitudes to Reform UK Ltd
Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions
centralbylines.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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the government is investing £560m to reform children's social care and expand and refurbish children's homes.

it is unacceptable for providers to profit excessively from vulnerable children.

20k per week per child being a common rate charged by private providers.

Better with Labour. 👍
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Many thanks to JCB’s Lord Bamford for donating £200,000 to Reform. HMRC seem to think he owes them up to £500m from money hidden in offshore accounts, but why pay tax when you can give it to a bunch of racists instead?
November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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“It might take our producer five minutes to find 60 economists who feared #Brexit and five hours to find a sole voice who espoused it.

But by the time we went on air we had one of each: we presented this unequal effort to our audience as balance.

It wasn’t.”

#BBC bias
November 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Nigel Farage has refused to disagree with a Reform councillor who said and I quote ‘children in care are evil’.

The people who are currently thinking of voting Reform U.K. Ltd need to know what this fascist, evil cabal is really like.
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Oddly enough despite the ‘toxicity’ alleged in Downing Street, Labour continue to deliver time and again every single day. These 11 are all announcements from this week.

Impressive no?
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Farage calls it bias, but what he fears is balance. The BBC must report with courage, question every side, and refuse to echo rage for ratings. Truth has to sound calm when the world shouts chaos.
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Starmer hits out at 'racist rhetoric returning to politics' which 'makes people feel very scared'
'As a brown person I’ve never felt more unsafe in the country I was born in', Dr Amir Khan tells the PM
'To be British is to be tolerant and compassionate'
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Spotted in London...
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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🚨 PM: “Some of the rhetoric we’re hearing – racist rhetoric, divisive rhetoric – that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago is returning to politics and it makes people feel very scared,”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/11/racism-returning-to-uk-politics-says-starmer
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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“A sustained campaign of anti-migrant rhetoric is fuelling a growing cesspool of racism, including against international and ethnic minority nursing staff, without whom our health and care system would simply cease to function.”

How disgraceful.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Before Zack Polanski dares try to take credit for the abolition of the two child benefit cap that may happen in the budget, Starmer told the Treasury in May that they should scrap it. Bridget Phillipson, has indicated for a long time that it should be abolished. It was a matter of when, not if.
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Fgs, what a pompous twit, love or loathe Starmer he's worked in the real world and,achieved huge success, what has Polanski done to date.
November 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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The sight of Johnson, Truss and Sunak at the Remembrance day service is a stark reminder of the absolute mess the Tories left behind. Three PM's in 5 years, shambolic.
November 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Good luck with that.

God the hard left is tiring.
😂😂😂😂😂
November 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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All Farage has immigration.
All Polanski has is sound bites and membership numbers.
Two peas in a pod.
Don’t forget it.
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM