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amateurfoi.bsky.social
Along with claims that it just takes one phone call to your GP and the car is delivered within days ...
amateurfoi.bsky.social
Remember when Sir Humphrey in Yes Minister/Prime Minister used "brave" to indicate a decision was utterly stupid?
bestforbritain.org
🚨 Cal Roscow, campaigns director at Best for Britain:

📊 “Badenoch says the Conservative Party were “brave enough” to take Britain out of the EU. That ‘bravery’ has been rewarded with their lowest ever poll ratings."

https://bit.ly/3VVyA0E
Badenoch should be honest about Brexit damage
Campaigners have criticised Kemi Badenoch for claiming the Conservatives were "brave enough to take Britain out of the European Union".
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timbale.bsky.social
Stamp duty was, I confess, a proverbial rabbit. But even doing that magic trick's all a bit George Osborne and inheritance tax c.2007. And don't get me started on that weird, half-self-satisfied, half-slightly-surprised chuckle at her audience's positive reaction whenever she tickled their tummy.
timbale.bsky.social
She's nothing if not predictable, is she? I know the Tories aren't keen on anything Green these days, but pretty much all they've done this week is recycle stuff they've been banging on about--for the most part fruitlessly--for the last decade and a half. And today it's "Mickey Mouse" degrees. 🙄
Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut
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helenbarnard.bsky.social
Rumours swirling that Government may try to avoid fully scrapping 2 child limit by changing it to a 3 child limit, only lifting it for some groups or giving lower support to 3rd and subsequent children. Helpfully @resfoundation.bsky.social already crunched the numbers, finding that...1/4
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jdportes.bsky.social
Starmer says Reform's plans to remove people who came here legally are racist, immoral, & would rip the country apart.

Absolutely.

But both Labour & Tories also planning to move the goalposts for people who are legally here. Time to make clear that won't happen.

ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration_...
What about the long term? Six months ago the Centre for Policy Studies published a report claiming that, based again on OBR assumptions, allowing recent migrants to settle here permanently would have a long-term fiscal cost of well over £200 billion, and that we should therefore restrict their rights to do so. Unfortunately, the government in part adopted this agenda in the White Paper, proposing to extend the qualifying period for most migrants from 5 to 10 years.

As I pointed out at the time, however, the CPS calculation was based on two clear errors. They mistakenly assumed that new migrants earned much less than residents, and had much lower employment rates; as the data shows, this just isn’t true. Had they got their sums right, they would have found a net benefit of over £100 billion. The new Home Office research underlines this point.  The CPS claimed that about 70% of those coming on work visas have less than average earnings: this appears to be almost exactly the opposite of the truth.  Moreover, those who extend their stay, and their dependents, see both their earnings and employment rates increase significantly.  In this light, the proposals in the White Paper appear not just unfair and vindictive, but also economically irrational.
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helenbarnard.bsky.social
Just to be clear:
- Paracetamol does not cause autism.
- Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK
- We do not have a massive free speech problem here.
- Britain is not on the verge of civil war.
These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.
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11kbw.bsky.social
Christopher Knight in Significant ECtHR Prisoner Voting Judgment. Christopher Knight acted for the United Kingdom instructed by the FCDO.

www.11kbw.com/knowledge-ev...
amateurfoi.bsky.social
We both think it can take another bag but I'm always the one who has to give it a shove 🙄