Paul French

The Crown Prosecution Service does indeed have to give approval for police to charge suspects in serious crimes. But where is the evidence that when Keir Starmer was Director of Public Prosecutions the CPS wrongly refused such consents in rape and child grooming cases? There is none. On the contrary Starmer was pro-active in focussing on this type of crime as @nazirafzal has correctly highlighted. There may well have been failures to address this issue elsewhere through reporting and investigation but that is not the role of the CPS. Baseless innuendo does not contribute to serous debate.

Time and a quarter for working more than your contracted hours, time and a half for working days off. In a country where the managerial class routinely award themselves six and seven figure bonuses no matter how badly they screw up, those are hardly revolutionary demands.

I’m genuinely astonished how many people don’t seem to have ever seen this.

IS THIS THE YEAR ‘STUMBLING STARMER’ COMES TO HIS SENSES? It had better be. That we’ve got a government trying to grow an economy while wearing the Brexit ball and chain is just plain STUPID! THIS MUST BE THE YEAR WE REJOIN THE SINGLE MARKET AND THE CUSTOMS UNION! @UKLabour @RichardBurgon @Keir_Starmer @Meg_HillierMP @DanJarvisMBE @jon_trickett @darrenpjones @campbellclaret

The "No Parkin" sign, on the Lancs- Yorkshire Border, was one of a million glorious gags in the new Wallace and Gromit film. @aardman

It has been nearly 5 years since we got our sovereignty back so we could have a black passport, printed in France. Not worth it, is it?

Thé UK needs to rejoin the European Union as soon as possible

Any parents struggling to pay VAT on public school fees could just borrow the money at 8% compound interest for the rest of their lives. Like millions of working-class students do.

The Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall, owned by King Charles and Prince William, are worth £1.8 billion. They are exempt from most tax. Last year they made £50m profit and paid no corporation tax. taxjustice.uk/blog/the-royal…

5 journalists from Al-Quds Today covering the Gaza 🇵🇸 genocide, sleeping in a vehicle marked as being ‘PRESS’, were murdered by Israel 🇮🇱 last night. Burnt alive as they slept. 201 journalists now murdered. You won’t hear about it from the BBC or Sky. twitter.com/Wizard__Bisan/…

Just Stop Oil protestor Gaie Delap, 77 has been sent to prison for Christmas Because the companies Capita, G4S, Airbus, Telefonica and Buddi who run the UK electronic tagging system are too incompetent to make a tag small enough for her. She needs to be released immediately.

Labour's refusal to rejoin the SM is a deliberate policy choice to hamper & stifle the UK economy, hamstring business, mightily inconvenience British travellers, deny opportunities for young & old, & marginalise our once significant country. It's incomprehensible.

Nadhim Zahawi’s lawyer has just been found guilty of misconduct by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal for his attempt to silence me in an email which he said I couldn’t publish or refer to.

"Water bill rises announced today will be spent on paying off the debt of water companies. Debt got simply by paying dividends that were unearned and bonuses that were undeserved." @timfarron

2018: Richard Tice, "George Soros doesn't live here, he doesn't pay taxes here, what right has he got to interfere with our democracy with donations?" 2024: Richard Tice, "If Elon Musk can legally donate and he feels that's the appropriate thing to do, we'd be delighted" Clips were found by @AdamJSchwarz give him a follow 👍

Can’t even do the most basic job like supply your customers with water? Don’t worry about it @ofwat will still allow you a 54% bill increase. bbc.co.uk/news/live/c627…

Brilliant summary from Paul Lewis 👇 Mark this day for it is the day you became angry.

Yep people like Lord Blunkett are claiming £361 a day completely tax free and eating in subsidised restaurants where you pay half the bill. Lets end these ridiculous benefits.

The story behind this picture. This guy got bitten by a Rattlesnake it cost him £153k to save his life. They charged him $83,341.25 for antivenom that cost them $2,500. That is private healthcare and there was nothing he could do except pay.