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Which one are you referring to Wilts ….. Starmer seems to announce a new one every week.
good luck to allThe Tories meanwhile plot the downfall of another inept leader and Reform continue to fail in winning any bi elections and deny one of there MPs is racist …
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lol HDLG is reduced to petty jibs as his beloved Labour disintegrate and Reeves is caught out in another lie.
The eternal wail of Labour ministers ‘It wasn’t me, it was a mistake, it was someone else’s fault so & so are to blame’.
Makes me laugh …. Starmer says he refers it to his ethics watchdog who immediately declares Reeves innocent.
How deep did he look?
Not very far it seems in his efforts to clear her as a paper trail of emails casts huge doubts over Reeves and her husband’s denials.
Will Starmer sack her….. maybe not as she still can be used as a scapegoat for the economic mess.
good luck to allKid id ask you a question but I’ve asked you numerous and you refuse to answer them , your beloved right wing remains in the wilderness , the Tories planning a new leader , Reform wondering why they can’t win any seats ..
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She paid her property agents to do a job.
They didn’t do it, and have publicly apologised.
There is literally nothing to see here, but the rightwing press won’t let it rest.
Tell Badenoch that , funny how she’s so keen to talk about that but doesn’t seem to care about Mone
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“There is literally nothing to see here, but the rightwing press won’t let it rest.”
Hmm….can you imagine if the Tories were in power and it was a Tory chancellor – do you think that a Labour and LD opposition wouldnt be hammering on about it everyday?
Of course, they would.
Jeez, Starmer and his Starmtroopers were constantly ‘at it’ pre -July ’24.
“Reform continue to fail in winning any bi elections ….”
Actually, in council by-elections, throughout 2025, Reform are winning loads of seats. Both Labour and Tories are losing them.
Greens and LDs are also winning seats.Facts.
Wilts there’s been 2 bi elections since the last election , how many have reform won ?
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Hmm….can you imagine if the Tories were in power and it was a Tory chancellor – do you think that a Labour and LD opposition wouldnt be hammering on about it everyday?
Of course, they would.
That may be so but we’re talking about the right wing press. Can you find me days’ worth of headlines about every minor Tory misdemeanor? I’ll wait.
How many of these council by-elections have been caused by Reform councillors quitting when they find out that actually doing some work is much harder than ranting about immigrants or because they’ve been thrown out etc?
Their councils are chaos. As anyone with half a brain could have forseen, they haven’t got a clue what they’re doing and they can’t find all of this supposed waste because it doesn’t exist.
Searched for UK council elections since Labour won in July 2024. There were significant council elections held on 1 May 2025 in England. Here are the key results:
Overall Results: Reform UK won the largest number of seats with 677 (41% of all seats up for election), gaining control of 10 councils for the first time.
Labour won just 98 seats (6% of the total) and lost control of one council. This was the lowest proportion of seats Labour has won in over 20 years. This was particularly notable as it was the first time Labour finished fourth in a local election and the first set of elections under Keir Starmer’s premiership.
The Conservatives lost control of 16 councils, winning 20% of seats – the second lowest proportion in the last 20 years.
The Liberal Democrats won control of three councils and secured 23% of seats, their highest result since 2008.
Notable Council Results: Some of the most dramatic changes included:
• In Durham County Council, Reform UK won 65 out of 98 seats, having held zero seats previously
• In Kent County Council, the Conservatives collapsed from 62 to just 5 seats, with Reform winning 57
• In Lancashire, Reform won 53 of 84 seats, with Conservatives falling from 48 to 8
The elections saw record-low political dominance, with 161 councils in Great Britain under no overall control.
Only one Parliamentary Election, The by-election was held in Runcorn and Helsby, triggered when Mike Amesbury stepped down on 17 March 2025. Sarah Pochin from Reform UK won the seat from Labour with just a six-vote majority. Labour had previously won the seat at the 2024 general election with a majority of 14,696, so this was a significant loss for the governing party.So clueless that even the Tories have done a reasonable job at ripping it apart. Getting sick of the news essentially becoming a massive Reform election campaign though, it’s over three and a half years away and they’re being allowed to spout half baked nonsense live on the BBC.
The elections saw record-low political dominance, with 161 councils in Great Britain under no overall control.This cannot be overstated. The fact is that no one party enjoys great popularity any more, whatever the media want you to believe.
Also some figures which back up exactly what I was saying above:
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/reform-losing-councillors-at-unusual-rate
It’s funny how the BBC and other Reform cheerleaders made such a hullabaloo about their winning control of the councils, but have barely said a word about how everything has subsequently gone pear-shaped in many places where Reform have assumed control.
Farage is on the front page of The Times today. The article says Reform can’t promise to lower taxes but they are ‘still the party of the working class’. So, even though it was a negative article his face was still splashed across the front page. And then I turn the tv on and guess who’s being interviewed. It’s endless. He’s now criticising council workers pensions even though he’ll be getting his EU pension but never bothered to turn up to represent the people he was supposed to be helping ie the fishermen.
Bung the public sector unions £25bn in total pay increases, expect some improvements in overall productivity – yes?
NO – no ‘kin chance.
An improved productivity agreement was never included in the ‘bung’.
Latest on public sector productivity:
Public sector productivity has dropped at its fastest rate in nearly three years.
Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed total productivity at state-owned bodies fell by 0.7 per cent year on year in the three months to June, marking the sharpest decline since the final quarter of 2022.
Healthcare productivity fell by some 1.5 per cent over the same period, dragging down the overall figure, despite the Chancellor announcing the largest settlement for the health service in over a decade at the last Budget.Not really surprising about the bloated health service though, is it? All that money swallowed up by the 23% employer pension contributions, as well as the salary increases. At the same time, despite generous money thrown at it, productivity plummets.
Welfare reforms kicked down the road….again, whilst the millions on benefits, some totally undeserving, get their freebies the working population, businesses, etc pick up the tab, as HMG’s deficit grows, with a c£50bn shortfall.
Starmer will be gone before next May’s local elections imho, and the overall UK financial pos gets periously close to a genuine crisis, which (despite their large maj) could see an early GE, late ’26 or early ’27.
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