Keith Bunting

Rushanara Ali: "The average monthly private rent in London increased by 9.7% in the last year and is over one and a half times higher than the average monthly rent in England"

At the time people probably assumed Ali meant this was a bad thing. It turns out she was boasting!

Labour homelessness minister Rushanara Ali threw four tenants out of her east London townhouse before relisting the property for £700 a month more in rent, The i Paper can reveal trib.al/E59gUNW

If apologies are owed for aligning people with sex offenders then we’d like one from you, immigrant community tells Nigel Farage Reform UK leader and sentient ahstray, Nigel Farage, has demanded an apology from Science Secretary Peter Kyle after Kyle accused him of being “on the side” of online predators, and, rather pointed…

NEWS! If apologies are owed for aligning people with sex offenders then we'd like one from you, immigrant community tells Nigel Farage newsthump.com/2025/07/30/i...

Adam Bienkov (@adambienkov) It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives

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Today Angela Rayner is meeting the victorious Lionesses in London, while Keir Starmer is in Scotland to see Donald Trump. Sometimes being the boss has its downsides.

What do you mean the nearest McDonald's is 20 miles away?! Isn't Scotland the home of McDonald's?!"

Wes Streeting’s donations are 80% related to private healthcare providers

As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep!

Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications.

This should also be banned?

Influence being bought in Govt?

Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy

Wow.

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YouTube video by Marsh Family "Nigel Doesn't Care" - Marsh Family parody of "Livin' on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi about Nigel Farage

Well worth a watch 😂

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Tweet from Matt Goodwin: Outrageous. A British Army Vet —who served seven tours—was forced out of military housing to accommodate Afghan migrants Plus pictures of the Army Vet for a GB News article

Just to be completely clear - this British Army Vet was NOT forced out of military housing to accommodate Afghans - who, by the way, put their own lives at risk to support and protect British soldiers.

Just ever more rage-baiting by Matt!

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Not a Lib Dem but agree with everything @eddavey.libdems.org.uk said is this interview.

The left is rallying against war with Iran They remember the rush to war in Iraq all too well.

Zack Polanski, @TheGreenParty said: “Starmer claims to support de-escalation – yet continues to back a government committing genocide in Gaza, arms its military, shares intelligence, and now refuses to rule out dragging us into another catastrophic war.”

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Nine of Gazan doctor's 10 children killed in Israeli strike on Khan Younis Graphic footage shared by the Hamas-run Palestinian Civil Defence shows the bodies of small children being pulled from rubble in southern Gaza.

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Revulsion and disgust doesn’t really do my thoughts justice.

Israel hits Gaza hospitals in deadly strikes after pause to allow release of Edan Alexander The strikes reportedly killed at least 18 people and came after Benjamin Netanyahu announced the military would enter the strip ‘with full force’

“Everyone inside the hospital - patients and wounded alike - was running in fear, some on crutches, others screaming for their children, while others were being dragged into beds.”

18 dead in these latest monstrous strikes on Gaza’s hospitals.

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How dare Keir Starmer tell my family that we have caused incalculable damage to the UK? These are Guardian headlines, published late this morning: I find these words exceptionally difficult to note when said by someone who claims to have the moral authority that comes from being the p...

I am going to find it hard to forgive a man as deeply racist as Keir Starmer.
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The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.

That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.

Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

OK now that I've read the white paper recommendations I'd say closing the care system to overseas recruitment is the single most substantive system change.

That can only plausibly work if salaries go up significantly.

I haven’t asked you because I can’t be bothered to look. I’ve asked because quite simply, there isn’t one, which I’m sure you know which is why you don’t want to say anything.

So please tell me Stewart, what are the proposals to fill the void in social care staffing that will be left by stopping the care worker visa scheme?

It’s easier to compete when you are able to pay them more. As opposed to minimum wage

We are about to get a very painful lesson in how much we rely on young people from overseas to look after our aging population.

So please tell me where the plan in to play British care workers a decent wage to incentivise retention and recruitment?

Yes, absolutely

Taking away carer visas before you have put place a plan to deal with the care recruitment problem is being done purely to attempt to improve immigration numbers to placate the Reform voters. And yes in my opinion, yes it is terrible. Thus is only going to exacerbate the social care staffing crisis.

Your probably right 😁

I think Anne is predominantly referring to me although I would suggest I’m not offended. I’m bloody angry.

So why have a government that’s bean in office for 10 months as well as opposition planning time, have no plan for social care. No plan for increasing wages so the exploitation can stop?

So why is the government planning to do nothing about it. By the way, I train care staff. To start the job requires carrying out a number of courses (mandatory training). It also requires skills that can’t necessarily be taught. The status of care staff is not helped when government act as true do.

But they are stopping the import of Labour but not incentivising the recruitment of UK born staff but offering better wages and status. It’s the worst of all worlds.

And she’s categorising care workers as unskilled which is also disgusting.