Thread 44 Starmer - Knolraap en lof, schorseneren en prei.

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I'll take a 7% fall any day

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2lpl9lxw2o

Same but trust the BBC to have an empty glass.

Same on Sky, its all about "the taxes have been moved to other tax payers and its not £150, as promised....."

What's not to love about this. It's excellent news.

https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/the-professor-will-see-you-now-by-elections

For those invested in the by-election tomorrow Gorton and Denton, this is a good article from Professor Philip Crowley.

The UK parliament now has an MP who is openly racist and far right. This is, for the current era, new ground, and it will be interesting to see how - if at all – other MPs respond.

https://bsky.app/profile/peterwalker99.bsky.social/post/3mfoihuogqs26

More accountability and drive to make the NHS more productive in a meaningful way.

https://www.ft.com/content/69430d69-78e2-4b3b-a0dd-f71678129eed

Can't read the article as it is paywalled, but I think this could be a good thing as long as it is done in the right way. People need to have trust in their doctors.

Plus this sort of initiative needs to go hand in hand with policies to tackle the employment barriers people with long term health conditions/disabilities face.

This is hate speech, surely?

Eta: I read this earlier:

www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/24/rupert-lowe-fails-block-investigation-mps-watchdog

Archived link
https://archive.ph/YBQh7

Thanks Duncin. No idea how I managed to read it or I’d have archived it.

Cheers Duncin. It will be interesting to see the evaluation of the pilots.

It seems Hoyle dobbed Mandy in...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8d5792yj9qo

Badenoch is having the worst PMQs. It's so bad I could barely watch it. Said some Labour MPs described Labour as the paedo party!

Badenoch has referred to Labour as the “paedo defenders party”. Can she sink much lower? Foul woman 🤮 using the abuse of women and children to point score.

Cross post!

We have a team in our Trust whose job is explicitly to support people with long term mental ill health to get back into work and then stay there. Their success rates are really good and improving all the time. It is a model that works.

Snap! @PandoraSocks

and POTUS ?

Parliamentary sovereignty preserved by the judiciary.

Fuck off Rupert Lowe. You fascist cunt.

I can - and will - call them stupid.

Stupid to the max.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/esther-mcvey-calls-for-halal-and-kosher-meat-to-be-labelled-immediately-reminded-it-already-is-403548/

What on earth is Hoyle sticking his oar into the Mandelson affair? why was he even in the BVI, let alone gossiping.... then passing hearsay on the Met.

Thats even before you get to the simple fact that BVI operates a UK based legal framework and extradition is very easy.

How many of the Jay Inquiry recommendations did Badenoch implement?

But kudos to her for using the language of the far right. Farage and Lowe will be impressed.

a ‘senior Tory’

'She just repeated it'

https://bsky.app/profile/adambienkov.bsky.social/post/3mfoxqvhr2k2a

In which Kemi Badenoch's spokesman can't quite bring himself to repeat his boss's suggestion at PMQs that Labour is the "paedo protector's party"