Worcestershir pays PwC ยฃ325,000 for new 'super council' plans - BBC News
Consultants were asked to draw up proposals to merge the county's councils into one.
Next time you hear DOGE being mentioned, just realise that Reform UK up and down the country are hiring consultants on tax payerโs money.
Reform UK Authority pays consultants PwC ยฃ325k for new 'super council' plans
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What about the Saxons?
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Oh.
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Check that your keyboard doesnโt smell of hammers
08.11.2025 09:53 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Further proof that a rabid right wing press has just as much of a radicalising effect on the older generations. Uncritical youngsters grow into uncritical oldies
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Richard Tice getting a very easy time on R4 Today. Justin Webb giving the journalistic equivalent of a back rub.
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Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to โraise aspirationโ and โboost business"
It's ยฃ10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so youโll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
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Reassuring to read about the philosophers Orr specialises in, as Farage could be described as a โright Kantโ himself
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Danny Kruger, MP
Reform UKโs policy chief.
Eton
Oxford
Centre for Policy Studies
Conservative Policy Unit
Speech Writer for David Cameron
Only Connect
Legatum Institute
Conservative MP
And Reform UK complain about MPs with no experience of the โreal worldโ?
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Thank you to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for having me on, one of the v few people in the UK press to follow this story during what is now a decade of media apathy &/or complicity
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Thatโs a toe rag, not a tea towel
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There is no end to the โdepthโ of his thinking.
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NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.
So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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Luckily, I canโt think of any other authoritarian types with a love of outsized neo-classical architectureโฆ
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Luckily, I canโt think of any other authoritarian types with a love of outsized neo-classical architectureโฆ
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๐when he says they are open for business, Farage means he'll take money from anyone. He was after all, paid by Russia between 2010-2017 to be on Russia Today.
12.10.2025 12:57 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_newsย in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
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Martinโs โanalysisโ is as authentic as his hair colour
01.10.2025 18:10 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
60-minute waiting time for non-EU passports at Schiphol Airport immigration! EU gates are empty. I will never forgive the liars Johnson, Farage, Gove, et al, for taking away my freedom.
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Bet heโs shit at Monopoly.
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For anyone who's published a book. (Source: www.alcs.co.uk/news/the-lat...)
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Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?
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Put your hand together for our first act
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Elephant in room is that weโve been invaded by ninjas
19.09.2025 18:30 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
For there to be no comment from the government on Musk's call for violence, let alone action against X, is unconscionable. An utter dereliction of its responsibility for national security and an affront to every member of an ethnic minority, who is being put at risk by this rhetoric.
14.09.2025 09:56 โ ๐ 1361 ๐ 420 ๐ฌ 41 ๐ 16
Sign the Petition
Urge Nigel Farage to Release His Tax Returns
Urge Nigel Farage to Release His Tax Returns
Sign the Petition.
chng.it/wjQxX9DnWQ
11.09.2025 17:39 โ ๐ 181 ๐ 95 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 1
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collectionโs current iteration.
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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Oh.
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