Dougie Doings

Reform UK suspends another member of Kent county council Isabella Kemp’s departure means party has lost nine of 57 councillors elected in May, including four after video leak

nasty and incompetent
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Charity Commission Demands More Transparency and Neutrality from IEA The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), the anti-state pressure group, must implement reforms to be more transparent and less politically biased, according to the charities regulator. The Charity Com...

🔴 NEW - Charity Commission Demands More Transparency and Neutrality from IEA

The regulator’s findings came a day before the Tufton Street group appointed a climate denial peer as its new boss.

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Nigel Farage's Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English The party's candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon 'lineage' and attacked 'third world cultures' in now-deleted posts

What we have become Part 2 today:

Nigel Farage’s Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English

The party’s candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’

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Conservative Councillor Accused of 'Old-Fashioned Racism' After Saying 'Young Black Males' Are 'Flooding' the UK EXCLUSIVE: Pauline Giles defended her comments to Byline Times, saying that "we cannot sustain the volume of young black males" that "jeopardises the security of our country"

The racism is boiling over - what have we become?

Conservative Councillor Accused of 'Old-Fashioned Racism' After Saying 'Young Black Males' Are 'Flooding' the UK

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/c...

Zohran Mamdani’s victory highlights exactly what’s wrong with Keir Starmer Mamdani has shown that left wing political movements don’t have to be dull, dreary and disappointing — instead they can galvanise voters.

www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/zohr...

Israeli occupation forces abducted a woman and her daughter from the town of Hizma, northeast of occupied Jerusalem.

YouGov today: "The increase in Green support since Zack Polanski became leader has put them in a position close to the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. We are seeing slight changes in each party’s figures from week to week, but the underlying finding is they are on comparable levels of support.”

Just a little reminder to American experts on crime in the UK that the homicide rate is 5 times higher in the USA than it is here.

He gave £13 millions of tax payers money to a girl he said he never met , now they want to give him more , FFS call it a fucking day on the royal family , shut that door on our delinquent history NOW .

Exclusive: Gaza victim demands justice over British spy flights A spy plane from a UK air base flew over his neighbourhood in Gaza hours before Israel blew up his home. Now he wants answers.

A spy plane from a UK air base flew over Nuseirat, Gaza hours before Israel blew up the Sheikh Ali family home.

Now, survivors wants answers.

www.declassifieduk.org/exclusive-ga...

Prince Andrew helped deepen UK relations with Gulf regimes for eight years after Epstein scandal The queen’s second son has held 70 meetings with repressive Middle East monarchies in the decade since the Arab Spring uprisings. Most meetings took place after Prince Andrew’s role as official trade ...

Did you know❓

The Foreign Office allowed ‘Prince’ Andrew to help deepen UK relations with its Gulf regime allies for 8 years after the Epstein scandal.

www.declassifieduk.org/prince-andre...

Houchen’s deprivation failure exposed – official Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England

Houchen’s deprivation failure exposed – official
Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England

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Colombian President Gustavo Petro has said that the question of “who will hold Israel accountable for its crimes” should start with Germany.

Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251103-col...

Nearly 150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in England’s A&Es each year Older people left in their own excrement and wet beds for hours and forced to watch others die, Age UK report finds

150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in England’s A&Es each year.

Older people left in excrement, wet beds, denied pain relief, forced to watch/hear other patients die.

NHS money pilfered by PFI and privatisation

But ... Govts have fiscal rules and don't want to tax the rich.

If the King is angry with Andrew, wait til he hears about his older brother; he was mates with Jimmy Saville.

People don't understand the level of corporate and billionaire benefits.

When you buy a house, you have to pay for it.

When they buy a house, a supermarket, an oil rig... whatever.

They deduct it off their taxes.

You pay.

What Reeves and Starmer know but are not telling you is why they won't rejoin the EU, because Brexit put up an EU barrier in the form of 12 Freeports, 74 SEZs, and AI Growth Zones (200 bids on sites so far).
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In 2020, the EU was about to bring a case against the UK Government for its misuse of State aid in free zones, but the case fell apart as the UK officially left the EU's regulatory orbit in the same year.

The Israeli military killed 46 Palestinian children overnight.

That's 10 more than the total number of Israeli children killed on 7th October.

Yet there was more outrage over the fictional beheadings of Israeli babies than these 46 kids.

That's easy: because there's no outrage

How times change. I can remember when grandmas didn’t need toothbrushes.

And, in fact, they’re only required to part with a minuscule amount of their wealth, not all of it. Nobody will become poor.

The owners of the right wing press and their fellow travellers in the media are terrified of having to pay their fair share of tax.
That's why the gloves are off. Hell hath no fury like the rich facing the prospect of parting with their wealth.

Why the banking industry is not a paragon of free markets, efficiency, or honesty Despite making record profits and paying record returns to shareholders it resents paying taxes.

Corrupt Britannia.

UK Govts bury bank scandals.

Frauds, moneylaundering not investigated.
FCA, SFO rarely prosecute.
HBOS frauds report promised by 2018, nothing published, ministers don't answer questions.

City of London Police funded by Lloyds Bank, UK Finance, financial institutions.

'Extremely Dangerous for Humanity': Trump Orders Resumption of US Nuclear Weapon Tests "By foolishly announcing his intention resume nuclear testing," said one expert, "Trump will trigger strong public opposition in Nevada, from all U.S. allies, and it could trigger a chain reaction."

One expert warned Trump's announcement could "cement an accelerating arms race that puts us all in great jeopardy."

‘Patients will suffer’: tales from the frontline of the UK pharma crisis The pricing standoff between government and industry has stalled research and put thousands of jobs at risk

UK Govt to capitulate to Big Pharma

Ministers have drawn up proposals to pay companies 25% more for NHS medicines.

Too many corporations holding govts/peopie to ransom - give us what we want or else
Energy
Water
Banks
Internet
Tax abuses

Who governs - Corporations or elected govts?

Welcome Cllr Al-Maghrabi to the Green Party and our growing movement for a fairer society, an economy that works for everyone, and a safe future for our children. I look forward to working with you to make the lives of all Bristolians better and for a fairer future for everyone.

And Starmer and his Government are complicit.