Claire Savage

My great, great grandfather was there at the beginning of Hibs, a club close to my heart.

Rachel Reeves needs to put up taxes to cover £40bn deficit, thinktank says NIESR suggests a rise of 5p in the pound on basic and higher rate of income tax would fill the budget gap

Thinktanks have been making this claim since the day after the Election, but it hasn't happened (& income tax base rate wont rise).
All their forecasts pretend growth is linear. It isn't.
House building brings new businesses to service the new homes.
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Agree, she was a bigot and he shouldn't have apologised.

I know and I'm sure he does too but the mistake is thinking it won't take us years to join. He's having to deal with the here and now and there's nothing to suggest we'll be given special treatment particularly with the prat Farage still front and centre.

1. £22.5m to fund extracurricular activities in up to 400 schools over three years including debating skills 2. NHS waiting lists have fallen in May for the first time in 17 years – now down to their lowest level in two years. 3. 4% of migration comes from small boat crossings. 96% come here legally 4. Labour’s Best Start Family Hubs will be rolled out in every local authority by April 2026. 5. Firearms licensing guidance strengthened to protect the public 6. UK-France treaty targeting illegal crossings comes into force 7. Companies House confirms identity verification rollout from 18 November 2025. 8. New wave of mums to benefit from 24/7 breastfeeding support 9. New offence to target criminal gangs promoting Channel crossings to the UK on social media. 10. New vaccine for gonorrhoea available

Labour delivering for ordinary people. Waiting list still going down and more money for schools and Best/Sure Starts. It’s another ten out of ten!

I've gone right off em.

He has been, he's rebuilding our broken relationship with the EU27, the agreement signed in May will make a difference and is only the start. We can't just say oops sorry it was all a mistake, we're back. It isn't about what we want it's about what the EU27 want and will accept.

Excellent plan.

The 38 degrees petition against charging for GP appointments is still doing the rounds. There is NO plan to charge for GP appointments yet every week somebody shares the link.

This is at least the 3rd petition about this, there is NO plan to charge for GP appointments, who's behind this?

Play some mellow music.

The funding will support various schemes and pilots:

+ More extra-curricular activities in hundreds of schools
+ Better Youth Spaces programme
+ Local Youth Transformation pliot
+ Million Hours Fund
+ Uniformed Youth Fund

A full National Youth Strategy is due to be published in the autumn.

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Prime Minister unveils new opportunities for young people to re-connect with their communities Prime Minister announces major expansion of youth services and real-world opportunities to re-connect young people with the world around them

The Labour government is starting to reverse the decline in youth services, announcing new investment for things like youth clubs, after school activities and groups like the Scouts.

It aims to increase opportunities in sports, arts, outdoor activities and volunteering in communities.

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I mutter shut up every time I use a self service till, the endless instructions and questions, so irritating.

30 hours of government-funded childcare from September, saving parents up to £7,500 a year.

opening a new wave of school-based nursery provision this autumn

two million breakfasts in new free breakfast clubs,

lifting 100,000 children out of poverty.

Better with Labour 👍

Who are these people and when were the elections held? I could sit in my back garden announcing policies which would have exactly the same validity - zero.

Too not to, oh dear

Looks to lovely not to go out.

Have an amble rather than a power walk, it look beautiful out there.

How sweet

Disputed or debunked claims about migration and crime in the UK As politicians face criticism for promoting misleading data, here are some claims that do not bear scrutiny

It’s worth reading and sharing this article👇🏼demonstrating the depths the far right wing politicians & agitators go to to make up migrant issues that simply don’t exist..

Worst still is most of MSM amplifying it, without verifying it first..

Jonathan Portes say this interpretation is entirelywrong, worth checking it out.

I think this interpretation is almost entirely wrong?

Those on Skilled Work Visas will normally be able to extend even if the job would no longer qualify under the new skill/salary thresholds.

Those on Graduate Visas won't - but that's in no sense a retrospective/unfair change.

We all know Labour inherited a poisoned chalice from the Tories. Public services either on their knees or sold off and asset stripped. An economy in tatters due to the Brexit con that also led to the boat crossings.
Lets not pretend they were ever going to fix all that in a year.

Channeling his inner Farage, hope he's got his Fisher Price binoculars with him.

Thanks for this info, LBC are announcing this in every news bulletin as if it was the holy grail.

Best of luck to you.

Good riddance, we don't need people who don't want to contribute to the society and the infrastructure they use.

Think you're right, but flipping heck it's tedious.

Didn't say it wasn't, I was responding directly to Ed Davey (who I much admire). In my world it isn't right to just criticise however nicely without acknowledging the positives. But thank you for your input.