@benonwine "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"
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Adrian
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So let me get this straight…
The public are being told facial recognition cameras, Digital ID and eventually digital currency are all about “security” and “safety”.
Meaning every payment, every document, every movement could one day be linked directly back to YOU.
But here’s the part hardly anyone talks about…
MPs and members of the Royal Family are reportedly exempt from parts of Digital ID systems for “security reasons”.
So the people making the rules won’t fully live under the system themselves.
Ordinary people could end up tracked, monitored and fined through one giant digital network… while the political class sit outside it.
And they wonder why trust in government is collapsing.
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@SorchaEastwood Sounds good to me - if the government can't do anything it can't do anything stupid and as most things it has done so far are stupid this is a positive result 😂
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I'm one Backbench MP. As a direct result of this Leadership shambles, I've had at least one and potentially two Ministerial Meetings cancelled due to resignations and now having to pull out of a Conference on cancer next week due potential votes on Starmer next week. And I'm just one Backbench MP....Can you imagine the impact of this all across Government?
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@PhilMyers53 Frightening prospect - if he keeps doing damage at the current rate the UK will go bust - British people will be refugees in other countries. Whatever happened to "Great Britain" - the wonderful land our fathers and grandfathers fought and died for?
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When Keir Starmer was elected he made it clear that it would take TEN YEARS to make a difference. To repair broken Britain
There’s 8 years to go
#TenYearKeir
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@wendlingere49 Why are you blaming the media? We don't need medai opinion to tell us how much damage he's done
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I hope the BrItish media takes a long hard look at the chaos they have happily helped to cause.
I've lived a long life & never before seen such a disgraceful attack on a legitimate Government & even worse the whipped up hatred of a PM.
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@Jenny_1884 Wait until you see the riots as Ed Millibrain closes North Sea Oil altogether
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You know this country is going down a very dark path when 7 overseas people have been banned from entering the UK. 4K extra police have been deployed some with riot gear & pubs around Westminster have been ordered to close, all for a peaceful demonstration to be held in London on Saturday where UK flags will be flying high.
Lots of other protests are held every week now in London & NONE of these measures are taken.
This country is starting to feel more like North Korea everyday.
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How on earth has Angela Rayner been "cleared" by HMRC?
She didn't pay the extra £40,000 stamp duty that was due. She didn't take the specialist tax advice on her flat purchase that she was advised to take.
She failed to pay the extra stamp duty that she, as Housing Secretary, had brought in for second home purchasers.
For HMRC not to issue a fine means they judged her decision as "reasonable care" having been taken, or it was possibly "careless", but not a "deliberate" underpayment.
She clearly did not take "reasonable care" to ensure her tax was correct. And if it was "careless", it was *deliberate* carelessness.
Do you seriously think that if YOU underpaid your taxes by £40,000 as the then Deputy Prime Minister did, that you would get away without a fine?
Sorry, but this stinks.
Pippa Crerar@PippaCrerar
EXCL: Angela Rayner has been cleared by HMRC of deliberate wrongdoing or carelessness over her tax affairs, paving the way for a potential leadership bid if Keir Starmer’s grip on power unravels. The former DPM has settled £40,000 in unpaid stamp duty, but has not paid any penalty as a result of the investigation. HMRC was also satisfied there was no tax avoidance. Rayner tells me she was “bruised” by whole experience because of intrusion into her disabled son’s personal life, but also because it had appeared as though she was “in it for myself” rather than on the side of ordinary people. Rayner indicated she may run in event of a contest as she would “play my part” and that she understood why Labour MPs were so upset following last week’s election crushing. She said Starmer should “reflect on” stepping aside.
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@emilyseraphinne In my view, they look great for your lovely slim figure 🥰
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@Chino_MeDicen Took me 12 attempts to stop this clip at exactly the right place
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@YuriShtngl If I was travelling in the opposite direction I'd turn around and offer you a lift to wherever you wanted to go 😛😍🥰
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@MatthewStadlen "Changing the country for the better" is a great idea! So far this so called government has mostly made changes for the worse
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Remember that Reform lost in Scotland. They lost in Wales. And they got little more than a quarter of the vote in England. Labour should get on with governing and changing the country for the better.
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@Antipolluters Tough choice. Labour MPs won't want him to call a general election so they will support him, otherwise they will lose their excessive salary and expense package soon, instead of in three years
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BREAKING NEWS
Sir Keir Starmer’s future will be the subject of a vote in Parliament in an amendment to the King’s Speech.
Dave Doogan, the new leader of the SNP at Westminster, said he would force Labour MPs to take a position on the Prime Minister’s job.
Mr Doogan said: “This farce has to end now, so Parliament can focus on the issues that really matter. It’s clear the only way that can happen is for Keir Starmer to go.
“He has lost the confidence of voters and his own MPs, and there’s no coming back from that. The Labour Party must stop dragging this crisis out and put an end to it now.
“If the Labour cabinet ministers don’t have the decency to do the right thing – then Parliament must. Unless they put an end to this chaos now, the SNP will table a motion of no confidence in Keir Starmer to draw things to a close.”
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@SamanthaNiblet4 Well done, that should help save your job with excessive salary and expenses for another three years. It'd be nice if you put the country first instead of your greedy self
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Proud to have my name on THIS list.
Colleagues not ambivalent to crashing the economy or a leadership contest with people we’re not even sure we back yet.
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot
NEW - Full list of the 111 MPs who have signed a statement of support backing the PM. Jack Abbott Luke Akehurst Bayo Alaba Callum Anderson Catherine Atkinson Calvin Bailey Alex Baker Antonia Bance Alex Barros-Curtis
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@AllisonCGardner Delusional. You don't have to be stupid to be a Labour MP but apparently it helps
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We are delivering on our manifesto and our economy is stabilising. The Prime Ministers global leadership has been excellent. A 5th prime minister in 6 years will paralyse our government and make the cost of living crisis worse. We promised stability and I will fight for that.
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@johnredwood I really start to believe it's deliberate. Undoing this mess will be really difficult for whoever is elected to govern
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The EU re set means more young people coming to UK to find jobs and housing. It means taxes on energy and energy using products, a big increase in costs of student support to help EU students, the loss of large amounts of our fish, and a big bill. It will cut our growth rate.
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For all his weaknesses, Starmer has been underestimated. Now he needs to convert his toughness, resilience - even his ruthlessness - into vision and conviction. Get on with improving the country - and tell us how he’s improving it.
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@gorbalsgoebbels Absolutely, a "battle for democracy" as in stop this arrogant idiot from dragging us back into the failed european federal experiment
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Starmer is showing resilience and has a thicker skin than most.
Lesser mortals would crumble in the midst of an onslaught from a horrendously biased media and opposition parties with dubious foreign links.
I honestly think this is a battle for our democracy.
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