Liz McCarthy

Yay! A fresh round of baseless scaremongering.

Now, the noisy minority of greedy super-rich are telling us settling up charges will mean no one will invest or start business in the UK.

Just like they don't elsewhere with exit taxes like **checks notes**

USA, France, Germany, Canada, Australia...

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Resident doctors’ strike to go ahead after Wes Streeting’s last-ditch offer is rejected Resident doctors in England to strike for five days next week, saying health secretary’s latest offer is too limited

Resident doctors’ strike to go ahead after Wes Streeting’s last-ditch offer is rejected

Resident doctors in England to strike for five days next week, saying health secretary’s latest offer is too limited

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Five major banks to allow homeless people to open bank accounts under new pilot Thousands of homeless people will be able to open a bank account and five major banks as part of a strategy to improve financial inclusion.

Lloyds, NatWest, Barclays, Nationwide and Santander will join HSBC and allow people without a fixed address to open bank accounts, in initiative with Shelter and government bit.ly/4nPm6U0

‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap

"More than 440 City companies have moved almost £1tn — or roughly 10% of the entire UK banking system — to financial hubs across the EU because of Brexit."
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Huge surge in GoFundMe appeals as Brits desperate for proper dental care The British Dental Association brands it ‘Victorian’ that Brits having to beg for charity to pay for essential dentistry which should be available on the NHS

NHS dentists crisis sees surge in GoFundMe appeals from desperate people in pain

The British Dental Association brands it ‘Victorian’ that Brits having to beg for charity to pay for essential dentistry which should be available on the NHS

www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...

Hannan and Frost in the Telegraph.
Sunak in the Times.
Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper.
Johnson in the Mail.
Gove editing the Spectator.
Farage everywhere.
All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made.
Nauseating.

‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap

City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Reform MP James McMurdock was jailed for repeatedly kicking girlfriend, court records show Reform UK previously said the MP rejected allegations he either "kicked, stamped or punched the victim" but accepted he "pushed" her and that she "fell and was injured".

"The party campaigning to protect women and children from violent foreign people."
via Stephen Davis

'Reform MP James McMurdock was jailed for repeatedly kicking girlfriend, court records show'
news.sky.com/story/reform...

On what data do you base this claim? Prisoners do not, in reality, escape very often at all in this country. They are released early, in error, very rarely too.

"You left Europe because you wanted less boats, you have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment."

Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania on the UK's decision to leave the European Union.

Watch in full ➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0

Thames Water in Wiltshire - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament That this House expresses deep concern at the continued mismanagement of Thames Water, whose failings have caused serious disruption to residents across Wiltshire and beyond; notes that leaks continue to worsen, bills continue to rise, and customers are left with poor communication and little accountability; condemns the payment of excessive executive bonuses while service levels and infrastructure performance decline; regrets that a third of Thames Water customers’ bills are now spent on servicing the company’s debt; further notes that Thames Water holds £23 billion of assets in urgent need of repair and has a debt pile of nearly £20 billion; also notes that the company's future is perilous after US private equity firm KKR pulled out of plans to purchase the company, leaving it in the hands of its creditors who have failed to manage the company's finances; welcomes reports that the Government has appointed insolvency advisers to prepare for a potential Special Administration regime; calls for Thames Water to be placed into Special Administration so that debt can be written down with a swift exit plan to put customers first and direct investment towards repairing infrastructure; supports a ban on water company boss bonuses until environmental standards met; further calls for the replacement of Ofwat with a new, capable, and independent regulator without further delay; and urges the Government to act decisively to protect the 16 million customers who have been left to foot the bill for Thames Water’s corporate and regulatory failures.

The Lib Dems have submitted an Early Day Motion to Parliament calling for Thames Water to be taken into Special Administration.

That's great BUT the next step has to be public ownership.

The politics of despair have engulfed Britain. But Zack Polanski is offering a way out | Owen Jones The leader of the Greens wants to focus on battles that unite – such as taxing wealth – without yielding an inch on minority rights, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

" @greenparty.org.uk have hurtled past 130,000, eclipsing number of Conservative members. One poll already puts them on 15%, more than double last year’s 6.2% & tied with Labour. To call that a political phenomenon is not hyperbole."

✍🏼- @owenjones.bsky.social

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Bank of England chief warns of ‘worrying echoes’ of 2008 financial crisis Andrew Bailey says a close look is needed at the private credit market after collapse of two big US firms

Bank of England chief warns of ‘worrying echoes’ of 2008 financial crash.

Dash to the next crash:
Post-2008 crash laws mostly repealed.
No regulation of shadow banking
More deregulation.
Bankers collect rewards for speculation, people fund bailouts.

Naomi Smith, "For the last ten years we've had successive governments tell us what a great thing Brexit is"

"Well our polling shows that nearly 2/3 of people think Brexit has been more of a failure than a success"

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

Didn’t think people watched #bbcqt any longer. It’s so blatantly bias!

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

As a jewish Londoner I can assure you that we are not scared.
Indeed, many jewish people are amongst the protestors.
It is the british politicians and media that are scaremongering in order to create divides that don’t need to exist.

Water bills: millions of households in England could face even bigger rises CMA poised to give verdict after appeal by five firms for permission to increase bills higher than allowed by Ofwat

England households could bigger water bills as the competition regulator prepares to give verdict on industry appeal.

36% rise already approved by OFWAT.

People will continue to be robbed. Companies raise capital from customers, shareholders get returns.

End the scam. Nationalise water.

If any Government can just snatch basic human rights away from any section of society when it pleases then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want

Given that it was the Green Party conference last week

Does anyone know why Zack Polanski wasn't invited onto Laura Kuenssberg's BBC show, or onto Trevor Phillips's Sky News program?

London mayor Sadiq Khan hits out at 'misinformation' as new figures show fall in crimes Sir Sadiq Khan's comments come after renewed attacks from US President Donald Trump - who recently claimed "crime in London is through the roof".

Sadiq Khan has hit back at politicians "spreading misinformation" about safety in London as new data shows the number of violent crimes leading to injury has fallen in every borough over the past year

news.sky.com/story/london...

Just because an ID will be on a smartphone doesn’t change anything. The Irish govt tried bringing in one & then after the outrage restricted it to social welfare claimants. And then it transpired they were tracking such claimants via the cards - despite not being allowed to do so.

The far right…

Why is the UK media giving Farage so much airtime?
We don’t care what he has to say so please stop promoting his rubbish

A question for the crackpot heroin addict with a worm eating his brain in charge of HHS. If Tylenol causes Autism why was Autism first identified in 1912 and formally named in 1943 But Tylenol was not invented until 1955? Nor was Tylenol widely available until the early 1960’s.

#ProudBlue

chart showing Marginal tax rates 2025-26, including employer NI / Corporation Tax where appropriate

The Chancellor should protect workers’ pay packets and level the playing field on how different forms of income are taxed.

As things stand, wages (and some dividends) are taxed more heavily than many other sources of income.

Read 'Call of duties' now ⤵️ buff.ly/uLWun7f

Trump has no intention of stopping the obliteration of Gaza or the West Bank. And the poor people there are merely an inconvenience to him and Netanyahu.
In fact, I’m pretty sure they’ve already agreed a deal to share the land once it’s been flattened and emptied. It’s horrific!

Let’s stop our complicity in murdering the children before we start talking to them

Police arrest man filmed at far-right rally allegedly calling for Keir Starmer to be shot Video from ‘unite the kingdom’ rally captured man saying ‘someone needs to shoot Keir Starmer’

The police have arrested a man filmed calling for the assassination of Keir Starmer, citing malicious communications (which suggest the online dissemination of the call is the issue). But no news about the billionaire who called for violence from the main stage
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...