Reform's waste taskforce yet to start promised council audit The party is planning audits to root out waste in councils it controls

It’s found nothing of note in Kent and Durham…

Reform UK's promised Lincolnshire County Council audit yet to start

www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln...

#DOGEisDead

This is an iron lung for polio victims. Remember these? Me neither, it’s now in a museum where it should stay. Why? Because vaccines work.

@drneilstone.bsky.social

Wanting people to get sacked for free speech?

Farage showing what an absolute hypocrite he is.

Tackling child poverty is the only way we can build a country where background isn't destiny, so where you're from doesn't determine what you go on to achieve.

Labour spending review – the “biggest cash injection in 50 years” into social and affordable homes | Kreston Reeves The Labour Government has in its Spending Review made it clear that it is serious about meeting its ambitious 1.5 million homes target, recognising the role

That post frames politics as a zero-sum game. But governance requires patience and resilience. Labour’s long-term agenda includes equality, housing, education — not just soundbites.

www.krestonreeves.com/news/labour-...

Is growth and reform too slow for your hopes?

Prime Minister unveils reforms to transform further and higher education Young people across the country will gain the skills needed to thrive in tomorrow’s job market, as the Prime Minister today announced a package of reforms.

It’s easy to say “never again” when frustrated, but the alternative is silence. Labour is rebuilding systems, not just making promises. Critics forget that.

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Don’t you think effort deserves more than dismissal?

Government Tracker – Full Fact Full Fact is monitoring the government’s delivery on its promises

#FullFact real-time Government Tracker updated today.
It now shows Labour delivered (or are on track to deliver) 57 of 83 Election pledges.
This is an extraordinary achievement in just 15 months in power.
The Tories managed just 3 (one partially) in 5yrs

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Poll suggests most Reform UK voters back investment in renewable energy Research by YouGov showed some politicians had ‘grossly misjudged voters’ views amid criticism of net zero efforts, according to investment body.

Bad news for Richard Tice, the fossil fuel dinosaur…

Poll suggests most Reform UK voters back investment in renewable energy

Amazing what a decent government with decent Ministers can do.

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"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

Kemi Badenoch, a woman who excuse-makes for obvious racism and can't condemn it without doing mimsy false equivalences, talking about 'courage', is it?

Not everywhere is the same but basically Borough Councils (which are larger) pay Councillors an allowance. They will be dealing with Education, Social Care etc. TCs are really just Parish Councils who are entitled to call themselves TCs. It’s unusual for those Councillors to receive an allowance.

Farage must explain how Brexit has benefitted steel workers Campaigners have warned that Brexit has left the UK "much more exposed" after reports that the EU is preparing a new 50% tariff on steel imports.

⚠️ @pimlicat.bsky.social, CEO of Best for Britain, said:

“This development is yet another demonstration of the mounting cost of Brexit and Nigel Farage will have to explain to the steel workers he pretends to champion, how leaving the EU has benefitted them."

https://bit.ly/4q1dzPS

Tory voters say Brexit has failed and damaged UK economy Ahead of the Conservative Party’s 2025 conference in Manchester, exclusive new polling by YouGov for Best for Britain reveals that people who say they intend to vote Conservative at the next general e...

🔵 Exclusive new polling by Best for Britain shows that Tories now believe that Brexit has failed and damaged the economy.

🚨 Even Reform voters are more likely to label Brexit as a failure than a success...

https://www.bestforbritain.org/tory_voters_say_brexit_has_failed_and_damaged_uk_economy

Government to build over 1,000 flood schemes across the country Schemes supported as part of record £2.65 billion two-year investment to protect communities from flooding

Tory’s did have a flood defence strategy but didn’t put enough money in. Labour have increased that investment and completed projects. Labour success

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In jail? If you study English? So what you’re saying is that these days if you study English they arrest you. And put you in jail? ….

These days, if you study English, they arrest you and throw you in jail.

Reform pretend they offer change, but they’re just a bunch of Tories jumping from a sinking ship.

Dumbing down- again and again…

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

Are you teaching your children about climate change? if not, is it because you need more information on the subject?

Britons back staying in ECHR by 46% to 29%, poll suggests - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Town and Parish Councillors generally don’t get paid.

One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.

Leaving the ECHR could split Union Sir, In his article "Leaving the ECHR won't fix illegal migration" (Oct 6; letters, Oct 7), David Gauke makes the point that the Conservatives' decision to support complete withdrawal from the European convention of human rights is, at best, wholly unnecessary and at worst will make international co-operation on migration control and deportation much more difficult. He is right to do so. It is time for Tories to stop heading for the exit every time there is perceived tension caused by so-called foreign institutions that my party actually helped to create in the first place. To claim that ECHR withdrawal will not affect the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement is naive. Not only will it risk undermining trust in policing and criminal justice cross-border co-operation, it will trigger a breach of article 2 of the Windsor framework and a climate of instability that can only assist advocates of a border poll that could lead to the break-up of the Union. For the Conservative Party to advocate such a move is a betrayal of Conservative principles. Sir Robert Buckland KC Former lord chancellor and justice secretary; former chair, Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee

One very very lonely Tory voice on the letters page of The Times.
Sorry, Robert. It’s too late. Your party has gone completely nuts. Driven mad by 14 years of failure, Farage and your monumentally stupid Brexit.
You can ask them to put the petrol can down but they’re mesmerised by the fire.

Protecting communities and powering renewal: Over 24,000 homes and businesses protected from floods in first year 151 flood schemes delivered in 12 months to boost flood resilience across the nation and better protect more than 24,000 homes and businesses.

Flood defences.

Labour inherited flood defences in the worst condition on record, but through increased funding, 151 flood defence schemes have been delivered in their first year in power.

And across the next decade they have committed £10.5bn for the largest flood defence programme in history.

Starmer insists India trade deal will not affect UK visas as he heads to Mumbai British PM likely to face questions over closeness of Narendra Modi to Vladimir Putin during two-day India visit

Starmers hoping to announce a significant number of new jobs created in the UK (though visas for talented workers are a key ask of business)

He told the delegation this morning he wanted to hear an example each of a deal landed on the trip on the flight back

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Government Tracker – Full Fact Full Fact is monitoring the government’s delivery on its promises

Why don’t you know what Labour are doing/already achieved?

🌹 Labour’s getting it done.

17 Manifesto pledges delivered,
18 on track,
19 in progress.

That’s real change in just 15 months.
#Labour #DeliveringChange #Starmer

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