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Mark Arnold.
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Enjoy cricket and football.Husband/Dad.Bird watcher,walker and gym goer.
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“Child poverty is the biggest cause of social division in Britain today, a scar on our national conscience, and a stain on the soul of the country”

Gordon Brown

www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
Child poverty is a scar on our national conscience
A Labour government has taken millions of children out of poverty before. It can do so again.
www.newstatesman.com
May 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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The average annual energy bill will fall by around 7% to £1,720 from July, Ofgem has announced

news.sky.com/story/energy...
Energy price cap: Typical yearly energy bill to fall by £129 from July, Ofgem announces
Ofgem urges the millions of households on the price cap to "shop around" for savings as there are "better deals out there" despite the reduction in the default tariff.
news.sky.com
May 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Crawley looked and sounded in his interview far more contrite and less arrogant..Paradigm shift maybe..
May 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
A week a long time in politics...Last week I was very disappointed with Starmer this week he's done really well...
May 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Charities step up pressure on Keir Starmer to scrap two-child benefit cap

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Charities step up pressure on Keir Starmer to scrap two-child benefit cap
Exclusive: Survey commissioned by children’s charities shows UK voters want to see families prioritised
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Governments "have to be fair" to pensioners but there is a case for people on the top rate of income tax to be excluded from winter fuel payments, Gordon Brown has said

news.sky.com/story/gordon...
Gordon Brown suggests people on top rate of income tax should be excluded from winter fuel
The former prime minister, who introduced winter fuel as a universal benefit when chancellor, said there is a strong case for it, but suggests society's richest pensioners could be exempt.
news.sky.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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The recent UK-EU Summit brought significant progress on youth opportunities, defence cooperation, and easing food trade, marking positive steps our movement will build on for a stronger European future.
May 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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This week’s UK-EU summit in London was a long-overdue and hopeful step toward rebuilding a constructive, cooperative relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union.

Read our take on it all:
The key outcomes from this week’s UK-EU Summit
This week’s UK-EU summit in London was a long-overdue and hopeful step toward rebuilding a constructive, cooperative relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union.
www.europeanmovement.co.uk
May 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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2.9m emergency food parcels provided by food banks to Britons facing hunger.

1.8m to families with children.

Shameful statistics.

Real wage/benefit cut, profiteering takes toll.

16m live in poverty.

1% have more wealth than 70% of population combined.

Must redistribute.
Food bank demand up by half in five years as charity urges Labour to act
“A whole generation” has now grown up in the UK while food banks are the norm, charity chief says
www.independent.co.uk
May 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Yesterdays EU/UK closer economic alignment will be good news for the UK..
May 20, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Johnson put a border in the Irish Sea, sold out the fishing industry, all SMEs trading with the EU, our farmers, universities, musicians, young people, scientists, all of us…
And now he sits in the mess he made throwing insults at those who are clearing up after him.
What a monumental piece of shit.
May 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Morrisons says UK-EU deal will 'ease' price pressure

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Morrisons says UK-EU deal will 'ease' price pressure
The EU-UK trade deal has been praised as a
www.bbc.co.uk
May 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Transparent..👇👇👇
May 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Seems pretty resounding...👇👇👇
May 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The far right are imploding..
May 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The adults are finally in the room...
May 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Reducing my right to queue at airports is just wrong..I want my sovereignty to queue..Outrageous.
May 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM
The England womens cricket team have had some criticism on the standard of the fitness of the players..Well I've just witnessed a player training really hard in the gym..Looked really fit and strong..💪🏻
May 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Brilliant!

The Labour government has issued over £630m to schools, hospitals, and other public buildings for measures including heat pumps, solar panels, insulation and double glazing.

It is estimated measures like this will save the public sector around £650m a year over the next 12 years.

1/3
New energy upgrades for public buildings to save taxpayers money
Schools, community centres and care homes receive new awards to upgrade their buildings and save money off bills in the long term.
www.gov.uk
May 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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An improved trade deal with the European Union would hand UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves £10 billion in the Autumn Budget and limit the need for further tax increases, according to economists

Sounds like a plan

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
EU Deal Would Give Reeves £10 Billion and Cut Risk of Tax Hikes
An improved trade deal with the European Union would hand UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves £10 billion ($13.3 billion) in the Autumn Budget and limit the need for further tax increases, according to econom...
www.bloomberg.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Nigel Farage’s Reform ‘would trigger immediate and violent’ sterling crisis

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Reform UK ‘would trigger immediate and violent sterling crisis’
Nigel Farage’s tax-cutting plans risk blowing an £80bn hole in public finances if he wins power, economists warn
www.telegraph.co.uk
May 15, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Take a moment.
Bluebells are blooming.
Spring is quietly lifting the world.

Voices of hope and healing...threaded through a woodland floor.

This Mental Health Awareness Week, pause in nature with us.

#ThoughtfulThursday
May 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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They never had a plan.
They just lied and lied and lied.

Both Brexit and Immigration are the most dishonest and ruinous policies going. A Tory/Farage conspiracy of deceit that Labour seems to want to protect rather than challenge.

As for Chris Philp - get in the bin.
news.sky.com/story/leaked...
Top Tory caught admitting Brexit drawback in leaked clip
In response on Wednesday night, the Tories insisted that Chris Philp was not saying the Tories did not have a plan for how to handle asylum seekers post Brexit.
news.sky.com
May 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM