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The UK's aid budget will be shifted to projects that promote its interests, the foreign secretary has said.

Boris Johnson said the money will be "more sensibly distributed" to support foreign policy aims such as denying safe havens to Islamist militants.

His comments came as Penny Mordaunt, the international development secretary, said the UK will provide a £21m boost to an emergency aid fund.

The UK currently spends £13bn on aid each year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42528712

Now this is a seismic shift in the right direction.

STEED

01-02-18 06:40 AM

FAT CATS STRIKE BACK...

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Rail fare rises: Commuters 'priced off' UK trains, protestors say

Average rail ticket prices have risen by 3.4% across the UK, in the biggest increase to fares since 2013.
Protests are under way at some 40 stations, as many commuters see their season tickets go up by more than £100.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42536159

Fatcats will always win unless you rise up and they know that will not happen.

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Chris Grayling has insisted he is not "shirking" his job by travelling to Qatar on the day the biggest rise in UK rail fares since 2013 came into effect.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42540370

Oh come off it with that old one.

STEED

01-02-18 06:47 PM

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Theresa May declares 'personal mission' to fix housing crisis

The PM promises to "restore the dream of home ownership" - but Labour says she has "no plans to fix the housing crisis".

https://news.sky.com/story/theresa-m...risis-11193361

I get the impression from all of them that none of them know how to fix this problem.

Skybird

01-02-18 07:05 PM

What was it that started the outbreak of the US debt crsis before 2007 - wasn't it about Clintonian order for banks giving credit to buyers of houses who by their income could not afford to buy houses or pay back credits...? :hmmm:

In 2000, I moved into my current flat, as a leaseholder. Four years later, I bought it. I paid the price in full in cash, so to speak, did not take any credit. I still think this is trhe only way to realyl, honestly buy things of material value. You cannot buy what you cannot afford. That simple. Cannot pay the price? Get somethign else that is cheaper, or save more money. Nobody would ever have needed to "save my dream" - by triggering a mortgage crisis.

Dreams do not give you claim. Realising them for you is not something the others owe to you. You have to realise your dream by yourself.

Jimbuna

01-03-18 07:49 AM

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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has apologised to patients in England affected by a decision to postpone tens of thousands of operations in January.

Non-urgent treatments had already been postponed until mid-January, but NHS England said on Tuesday that would now be extended to the end of the month.

It came after hospitals reported they were struggling to cope with the surge in patients being seen since Christmas.

Mr Hunt said it was "absolutely not what I want".

But he said the move was needed given the pressure hospitals were under.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42552267

This situation at this time of year is predictable but Mr Hunt has been the Health Secretary for quite a while now improvements are long overdue.

He's also got the thickest teflon coat in the cabinet.

STEED

01-03-18 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2534649)

Some one is telling a load of BS, PM May states there is no crises and on the other side some one said there is a crisis. Therefore some one is telling a pack of lies as both sides can not be right.

Jimbuna

01-03-18 05:34 PM

Politics that is.

STEED

01-03-18 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2534762)

Politics that is.

Or to put it another way the truth will never come out. If PM May is telling lies she should step down. If it's from the other side who is this invisible person telling lies. The NHS is not a point scoring banter game, people are dying. About time the press stopped farting around and lay it on the line.

STEED

01-03-18 07:14 PM

Teflon Tony is back again...

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Tony Blair has attacked Labour's "timidity" on Brexit, saying it would deliver a departure from the EU designed by the "Tory right".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42558162

I don't think people have forgiven him so his comments will fall on deaf ears.

STEED

01-03-18 07:26 PM

UKIP NEWS

Old 54 year old Henry Bolton leader of UKIP dumps his wife for a 25 year old dolly bird. You dirty old man you are, as for you Jo Marney he is old enough to be your father!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...l-aged-25.html

Jimbuna

01-04-18 09:23 AM

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Plans for the way farming subsidies will be dealt with after Brexit have been set out by Michael Gove.

Farmers will receive payments for "public goods", such as access to the countryside and planting meadows.

The environment secretary told farmers the government would guarantee subsidies at the current EU level until the 2022 election. There would then be a "transitional period" in England.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42559845

Well, this is a start, just fisheries and a host of other subjects to cover but if subsidies are being guaranteed at the current EU level then there is some hope for those who would be most at risk.

Jimbuna

01-05-18 09:25 AM

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Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage is to meet the EU's chief Brexit negotiator in Brussels next Monday.

He wrote to Michel Barnier in October to request a meeting, the day after Mr Barnier met three high-profile pro-EU politicians from the UK.

Mr Farage said Mr Barnier was listening to people "who want to stop or delay Brexit" while he would represent the 17.4 million who voted for it.

The two men will meet on Monday at the European Commission headquarters.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42569888

I'd love to be a fly on the wall at that meeting.

Catfish

01-05-18 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2534997)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42569888

I'd love to be a fly on the wall at that meeting.

I would like to be an armed drone on the wall :haha:
I wonder what Farage says alone, without his usual audience.

STEED

01-05-18 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2534997)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42569888

I'd love to be a fly on the wall at that meeting.

It will be all over his radio show the day after. :03:

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The Conservative Party should "come clean" about how many members it has, its former chairman has said.

Grant Shapps said "transparency" on membership numbers was vital even if the figure appeared to be "embarrassing".
The party last published figures in 2013, when it had 149,800 members but has refused to publish an update since then.
Activists and academics have estimated it has fallen to 100,000, or less.
That would make the Conservatives the fourth largest party in the UK, behind Labour, the SNP and the Liberal Democrats, according to politics professor and party membership expert Tim Bale, assuming their rivals have "held above 100,000".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42565294

OK jim left the Labour party and clearly looks like not joining the tories or the SNP. This leaves the LibDems and the Greens and UKIP so UKIP are like the Tories so there out and hippy greens must be out as well...Jim must have joined the LibDems! :03:

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A leading member of Jeremy Corbyn's top team has described Labour's spending plans as a "bit of a high-risk s*** or bust strategy".

Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner told The Spectator that the UK was crying out for investment, adding that great strides had been made in the past when politicians were ready to take risks.

But the Conservatives were quick to seize on the comments, with the party accusing Labour of economic recklessness.

https://news.sky.com/story/labours-s...-says-11195726

So that means clueless. :doh: :haha:

Jimbuna

01-05-18 09:02 PM

It certainly does :yep:

Jimbuna

01-09-18 11:37 AM

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Theresa May's cabinet has met for the first time after a reshuffle that triggered a resignation and was called a "lacklustre PR exercise" by Labour.

Justine Greening quit after refusing to move departments, and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt persuaded the PM to keep him in post with a beefed-up role.

The most high-profile cabinet ministers all kept their jobs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42619018

The PM is strengthening the support around her in preparation of the mammoth tasks ahead for the government.

STEED

01-09-18 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2535638)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42619018

The PM is strengthening the support around her in preparation of the mammoth tasks ahead for the government.

What a load of tosh. :haha:

It has now become clear PM May has no crown, her cabinet calls the shots. :har:

That swine Hunt remains in Health with more power, Greening to be downgraded said no thank you and leaves. And the BITCH QUEEN OF HATRED is back in Work and Pensions!!! All unemployed and pensioners start praying....FAST.

STEED

01-09-18 12:41 PM

I listening to the radio the other day since the general election MP's have carried out 26,000 searches for PORN!

Clearly getting their jolly fill is far more important to them than serving the very people who voted for them. :doh:

Jimbuna

01-09-18 01:25 PM

Theresa May's cabinet: Who's who and how diverse are they?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42615109

STEED

01-09-18 01:32 PM

Watch out Jim the BITCH is back, Esther McVey the heartless bitch ever there was one.

She will probably recommend a cut in pensions or a freeze. :shifty:

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