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Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

To be followed by cock-fighting, bear-baiting and bare-knuckle punch-ups.

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Like the Tories, the Labour government is trying to drive down the number of people who qualify for disability benefits by insisting there has been an epidemic of “overdiagnosis”: a favourite theme of the BBC and the junktanks of Tufton Street. Never mind the science: what outcome do we want?

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁

Labour faces another mass rebellion over reforms to universal credit Welfare secretary Pat McFadden plans further reforms to the benefits system, expected to include abolishing the work capability assessment.

Labour MPs who voted against welfare cuts this summer have warned that plans to change disability benefit assessments could trigger another mass rebellion

Others called for a vote to be delayed until a review into the assessments is complete

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Patricia Routledge 😞

Hmm.

An ad on TikTok. A woman is holding a blanket up for sale. It shows Shrek with a Hitler haircut and moustache above the text "Mein Swampf". Above the ad it says "cool gift".

I don't know what to say. Except that an extinction event is long overdue.

My current GP booking system is online. They switch it off at the same time as the phones.

Owen Jones & @owenjonesjour...•14m Labour has cancelled my Conference Pass. Absolutely pathetic, Trumpian behaviour. They are here suggesting that attempts to question Cabinet members and MPs about Britain facilitating Israel's genocide is a "safeguarding issue". This is clearly insane. Important Imformation about your Annual Conference Application Inbox x 中 凶 Team Labour <conferenceservices@labour.org.uk> 11:57 AM (5 minutes ago) - : to me - 30 September 2025 Dear Mr Jones, Important: Your Conference Pass has been Cancelled I'm writing to let you know that we've had to make the difficult decision to cancel your conference pass with immediate effect, following complaints we have received about your conduct. Why we've taken this action We have a responsibility to safeguard all our delegates, staff, volunteers, and visitors, and to maintain a safe and welcoming environment for everyone at conference. After careful consideration, we've concluded that we cannot continue your attendance while ensuring we meet our safeguarding obligations to all attendees. What this means Your conference pass is no longer valid and you won't be able to attend any further conference sessions on site. Your data We've used your personal information to manage this situation and ensure everyone's safety. Full details about how we handle your data are available at labour.org.uk/privacyl Looking forward We hope you'll understand that this decision was made with everyone's wellbeing in mind. Any future applications for party events will be considered individually. Yours sincerely, Conference Services

These people couldn’t have been more clear that they think not liking them is radicalisation; being angry with them for things they’ve done and said is extremism; asking them unwelcome questions is bullying and harassment, and raising your voice at them is criminal assault.

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

DWP plans will see more than 50,000 disabled people lose job support DWP plans mean large numbers of disabled people will no longer qualify for a work allowance to support people looking for employment.

At least 50,000 disabled people could lose access to financial employment support if the government goes ahead with plans to scrap the WCA benefit assessment, according to a new report from Citizens Advice

The true figure is likely to be higher

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Prime Minister Farage will love digital ID.

Starmer clearly wants a job with Palantir.

Welfare reform 'must happen', says Pat McFadden The Work and Pensions Secretary tells the BBC he will press ahead with welfare system changes.

The most unpopular government in living memory recommits to kicking the shit out of the most helpless in society.

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That BBC headline is a disgrace. "many experts"? FFS.

I mean sure, but all of this stuff came out in graphic detail five years ago and nobody wanted to talk about it because it showed - at best - that the entire national press had got the most terrifying political scandal of the decade exactly wrong, with truly devastating consequences for the country.

I boom and I strongly take issue with this list.

YouTube video by DJ Cummerbund DJ Cummerbund - Blurry In The USA

Just listening to this again, as I do on a semi-regular basis. I think the States will survive but, if I'm wrong, we can sing them out.

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Everything really is terrible, isn't it? Humanity absolutely knocking it out of the park.

Wow we should base our entire economy on this technology

As a society, the one thing we were totally unprepared for was annoying leftists being right.

If you are struggling to heat and eat, if your benefits have been cut, if you lost your winter fuel payment

This is where some of the money has gone

The orange dictator gets the feast and red carpet, the poor and vulnerable get the scraps and no carpet

Jeremy Corbyn in a kitchen with three women. He is stirring a bowl of food mixture and saying "Anyone fancy a big dollop of I Fucking Warned You, Didn't I?"

I know this isn't really adding any helpful solutions to the mess we're in, but I need to vent.

"Light the beacons! Oxford calls for aid!"

I mean, who is running the country? Because it can't be him.

Mike the Headless Chicken survived 18 months without his bonce. Can't help but feel he'd have done a better job as PM than Starmer.

A brilliant story about Peter Mandelson, told to me by Mark Gatiss on my podcast Trash Talk...

[opposing devastating cuts to welfare]

You can no longer be a Labour MP

[sending birthday messages to convicted paedophile, sex trafficker and "best pal" Jeffrey Epstein then continuing contact after his first conviction]

Well now hold on a second he's said he's sorry jeez

Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.

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