UK Politics Thread part II

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Prime Minister faces questions about his political judgement after forcing out Transport Secretary over fraud conviction he had known about for FOUR years

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Sir-Keir.html

How can someone with a criminal conviction still be an MP?, and are there any more 'law-breakers' in the Cabinet?.

Downing Street refused to say if other ministers had criminal convictions in their pasts. Sir Keir savaged Boris Johnson after he was fined £50 over Partygate, saying 'you can't be a law-maker and a law-breaker'. He now appears to have said this in full knowledge that at least one member of his Shadow Cabinet had a conviction.

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EXCLUSIVE Fuel Minister Liz Kendall, who axed £300 payment to pensioners, lives in £4million Notting Hill home with her banker partner - and their heating bill is paid by YOU

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Hill-home.html

It's not just the Labour MPs it's ALL of them, and that includes the "House of Lords", everyone who works in Westminster from the Mrs Mops to the Speakers of both houses should have all expenses restricted until something is sorted out once and for all.
This abuse of the public purse is unsustainable, we've had Austerity for 14 years but it looks as if it was "Fill Yer Boots Time" for the Members of both houses...

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Labour civil war as Diane Abbott slams Keir Starmer's ‘poor judgement' on winter fuel cuts

Labour's Diane Abbott has lashed out at party leader Sir Keir Starmer live on television as she berated his "poor judgement" in accepting freebies and cutting winter fuel payments.

The Hackney North MP has a chequered past with the Prime Minister after she had the Labour whip withdrawn over an "offensive" suggestion that "Jews don't suffer racism".

The whip was restored before the General Election, but only after months of uncertainty about her future.

Appearing on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, stand-in host Victoria Derbyshire asked Ms Abbott how she thought Labour and the PM were doing so far.

After criticising the party for "wheeling out recycled Blairite Pat McFadden" earlier in the programme to defend the Government, she said: "There's been issues where I think Keir Starmer has shown poor judgement.

"He didn't seem to understand that [as] a man on £150,000 a year as leader of the opposition, it would look bad to be getting a millionaire to pay for his glasses and his suits."

Sir Keir - who actually earned £144,649 before the election - was roundly criticised for accepting gifts from Lord Waheed Alli, including thousands of pounds worth of work clothing and multiple pairs of glasses.

She went on to say: "Maybe if he'd done more doorknocking for the Labour Party, he didn't understand that of all the people to take money off, not pensioners.

"Pensioners don't forgive and forget and they're one of the blocks of voters who actually do vote - and he didn't seem to get it that that would be a problem.

"People are still coming up to my colleagues in other parts of the country in the street to complain about what he did about winter fuel.

"Taking winter fuel allowance away from pensioners in that rather clunky way, it showed poor political judgement."

Ms Abbott has already proved to be a headache for the Prime Minister as he tries to convince voters Labour has moved on from its hard-Left past.

She was a close ally and friend of Jeremy Corbyn, serving as his shadow home secretary before he lost the 2019 election and was later booted out of the party over antisemitism claims.

She has previously warned in interviews that she would be prepared to oppose Sir Keir and the Government on some issues.

Labour's decision to remove the universal £300 winter fuel allowance from most pensioners has sparked controversy, particularly as energy bills are set to rise.

Earlier this month Dennis Reed, director of the Silver Voices campaign group, said: "News that energy prices will drift up again in January is further proof of the folly of the Government in scrapping the winter fuel payment for most pensioners.

"Older people just above the benefit eligibility limit are already at their wits' end in balancing heating and food costs."
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...ffe6787f&ei=11

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

And Stalin's father was a shoemaker

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Is it really so bad living in UK as it is said in this video, where they say it's time to leave UK and live elsewhere ?



Markus

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^ For a second I thought it was Rockstar posting lol.

Yes it is soo bad living in Europe, oh the drama

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Originally Posted by mapuc

Is it really so bad living in UK as it is said in this video, where they say it's time to leave UK and live elsewhere ?



Markus

Starting to look that way some might say Markus hence the UK efforts to rejoin the EU so we can all emigrate to Denmark under the freedom of travel rules

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Originally Posted by Catfish

^ For a second I thought it was Rockstar posting lol.

Yes it is soo bad living in Europe, oh the drama

Precisely

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Labour savaged as English Channel 'crossings up 64% since Keir Starmer took office'

Chris Philp, the Shadow Home Secretary, has launched a scathing critique of Labour's handling of migration, blaming Sir Keir Starmer's government for an alleged 64% surge in Channel crossings since July.

Speaking in the Commons yesterday, Mr Philp highlighted figures showing 20,110 crossings in Sir Keir's first 150 days compared to pre-election periods.

He also urged ministers to introduce a hard limit on migrant numbers, saying: "If they are really serious... about reducing net migration as we are, what we really need is a hard cap on the numbers, proposed by the leader of the opposition and I last week.

"Behind all the bluster and all the chat about previous governments, we see her record and her Government's record.

"A 64% increase in small boat crossings since the same period before the election, 6,000 extra people in hotels, the asylum backlog up by 11,000, all since the July 4."

Since Labour came to power, there had been an 18% increase in crossings compared with the corresponding 150-day period in 2023, and a "staggering" 64% rise compared with the 150 days immediately prior to the election, Mr Philip claimed.

In response, Ms Cooper blamed the Tories for failures in the migration system over the past five years.

Home Office figures showed 122 people made the journey on Sunday in two boats - Sir Keir's 150th day in office - which means 20,110 crossings have been recorded since the Labour leader walked into Number 10 in July after his party won the general election.

Ms Cooper said many people had "understandably lost faith in the entire system" but sought to blame the Conservatives for a "collapse in controls".

She claimed illegal and legal migration had both "substantially increased" under the Tories while the asylum backlog "soared" and "enforcement of basic rules fell apart".

She added: "The scale of failure and loss of control has badly undermined trust in the entire system, and it will take time to turn things around."

Ms Cooper also pledged to enforce new visa rules enacted when Rishi Sunak was prime minister and to tackle exploitation in the legal migration system.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/new...f6ddfc79&ei=24