Liz Linnard

You didn’t hound Jeremy Hunt re his ‘ buy to let’ flats or Johnson spending eye watering sums doing up his Downing street flat ???

She says this while living in the US and applying for asylum there, claiming fake persecution for being pro-Trump.

European countries don’t persecute foolish people or liars, and she knows that well

Jaywick named most deprived area - again A seaside neighbourhood in Essex, part of the parliamentary constituency represented by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, has once again been named the most deprived in England. The latest official data showed that an area of the coastal village of Jaywick, close to the town of Clac-ton-on-Sea in the local authority of Tendring, has been classed the most deprived neighbourhood for the fourth time. Areas of Blackpool again make up most of the rest of the top 10, along with new appearances for neighbour-hoods in Hastings and Rotherham. Yesterday's data, published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), presented relative levels of deprivation in areas or neighbourhoods of England in 2025. The data highlighted "the scale of the challenge" but does not "reflect the progress made since 2019 or the strength of the people who call Jay-wick Sands home" , the Tendring District Council website said. MHCLG said Middlesbrough, Birmingham, Hartlepool, Kingston upon Hull and Manchester had the highest proportions of neighbour-hoods among the most deprived in England.

Farage earns more than £1m a year for non-MP work GETTY IMAGES - photo of the grifter Damian Grammaticas > Political correspondent 17 August 2024 Nigel Farage has revealed he is earning well over a £1m a year from work he does outside parliament, in addition to his job as an MP. It is thought his outside income is significantly higher than that of any other member of parliament.

Compare and contrast.
Absentee MP -v- his constituency.
Greedy grifting spiv -v- most deprived English neighbourhood.
He really couldn’t give a shit.
He feeds off the inequality and anger to line his own pockets. He doesn’t want solutions because the problems are his income stream.
(iPaper & BBC)

The path from abusing foreigners to abusing the disabled is well-trodden. I I hope this nugget is bright enough to reflect on who else has walked it.

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Police drop inquiry after man assaulted removing flags Tensions over divisive flag displays have erupted into violence in Norfolk, as police face criticism for inaction

Violence over street flags continues. A 68-year-old was brutally attacked and hospitalised while trying to take banners down, yet despite retrieving evidence from a house, police took no further action.

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Breaking news

Letting agent apologises to Reeves for not applying for rental licence on her behalf

Reeves says she should have checked rental licence had been obtained as letting agent apologises – UK politics live No 10 releases redacted emails between Reeves’ husband and letting agent

Tories refuse to accept Reeves wasn't to blame for rental licence error - and demand 'proper investigation' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Rachel Reeves row: lettings agency takes blame for failing to get licence Agency says staff member had offered to get permission for chancellor to rent out family home – but then did not

Right.
It wasn't even her mistake.
Can we move on now?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Obviously trusting an estate agent to do *anything* is a serious lapse of judgement. But on the whole, this makes Badenoch calling for Reeves to resign look even sillier.

The wolf in Lam’s clothing The Great Deportation Auction: plus White Adverts Matter

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In mild defence of Rachel Reeves, I think if Southwark Council expects landlords to pay for a license, it ought to mention this prominently on its "guidance for landlords" web page: www.southwark.gov.uk/housing/priv...

Rayner was told to take specialist tax advice and neglected to. And consequently failed to pay the requisite tax. Reeves’ husband was told the agents would sort it but they didn’t. I think the difference is quite obvious.

Obviously California has issues but this defense of their policies by Newsom is worth watching.

TN is a low tax state - for the top. regressive for the bottom. our services and laws punish working people also (bottom in infant & maternal mortality, poverty, school spending, violent crime, etc..)

Casually

In the all-conquering media/politics ecosystem that brought you Brexit, Boris Johnson, austerity, Liz Truss & the recent revival of weapons grade racism, she really is the Newcomer of the Year. Hands down. And the Spectator is now owned by a man who basked in the ugliest depths of far right Twitter.

In less febrile, more sensible times everyone would admit what they know to be true: Reeves and her husband made a simple mistake and one that was very clearly not designed to enrich them. Of course it's not a reason for her to resign. Badenoch did much, much worse.

Geert Wilders lost nearly a third of his seats in the Netherlands.

The Far Right can be beaten, they offer nothing.

New - Harvey & Wheeler, the estate agents used by Rachel Reeves to rent out her property have apologised for an "oversight" after they did not apply for a licence on her behalf, having offered to do so.

“Mom, what’s for Thanksgiving?”

“We’ll find out when we get to the soup kitchen. Jeffrey Epstein’s ballroom isn’t going to pay for itself.”

Avoiding Trump conversations after 6 PM improves sleep quality and reduces spontaneous cussing by 42%.

Avoiding Trump conversations after 6 PM improves sleep quality and reduces spontaneous cursing by 42%.

Screencap from wikipedia Faiza Shaheen From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Faiza Shaheen (born 1982) is a British academic and economist in the field of economic inequality.

Whereas Faiza Shaheen is actually an academic but is labelled an 'activist'

Faiza should respond with "that's Dr Shaheen" every time she is asked a question

The brown woman with the muslim sounding name, who is a proper academic is labelled the activist to denigrate her. So fed up of this shit now...

No more blatant example of Question Time’s bias than this.

Goodwin is a Reform activist and GB News presenter - you’d have to be intentionally blind to think he’s an academic

News summaries from AI chatbots have major accuracy problems A study from the BBC and EBU found that 45% of responses had significant issues.

A far-reaching study from the BBC and the European Broadcasting Union found that current affairs-related summaries from four major AI chatbots were rife with errors. www.techbrew.com/stories/2025...

Letting agent apologises to Reeves for not applying for rental licence on her behalf

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
That’s the end of that then!