Mr B.C

As I wrote this morning, Starmer lied to the House. There is now no doubt. Barton has confirmed the pressure that was placed on civil-servants to appoint Mandelson at pace also extended to the DV process.

Another one gone. He paid hundreds of £ millions in UK tax and donated £45m to UK charities. But he’s had enough and left now. Moved to Italy/Abu Dhabi. Guess who’ll have to pay even more tax now to make up the shortfall?

Immigrants to the UK took £15 billion in benefits in 18 months. £10.5 bn went to households with at least one unemployed foreign national. The number of immigrants claiming universal credit more than doubled since 2022. Economic and cultural suicide.🤯 dailymail.com/news/article-1…

We must make life unbearably tough for foreigners that we do not want in Britain. We owe these people no warmth whatsoever. Be cold. Be distant. Treat them like outsiders because that is exactly what they are.

Serious question - why would any serious person listen to Zac Polanski, let alone VOTE for the Greens? I need a cogent reason, not a ludicrous comment such as he appeals to the Young. The Young are better educated than my generation! So should know better!

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You've been looking for two years. Saved the deposit. Got the mortgage rate locked in. Paid the solicitor. Paid for the survey. Exchange due tomorrow. Then the estate agent rings. The council has offered £20,000 more. Cash buyer. No chain. The vendor takes it. You were tomorrow's buyer. Didn't matter. You still owe the solicitor £2,200. The survey money is gone. Your landlord says he has new tenants lined up for June. A friend explains the logic. A hotel room costs the council thousands a month. Mortgage on that house: maybe half that. The £20,000 premium pays back quickly. The spreadsheet wins. In Richmond, Westminster Council bought a block of 32 flats for about £16m to use as temporary accommodation. Sitting tenants were given notice. One neighbour put it better than any politician: people are being made homeless to house the homeless. Crawley says temporary accommodation now consumes £2 of every £3 it collects in council tax. The state publishes the homeless. It publishes the hotel bill. It publishes the children in temporary accommodation. But not the displaced. The homeless are counted. The displaced are not.

Caption competition, His Majesty the King Edition:

Fine. But that's not what he said to the House. So he mislead the House.

This is insane. The Treasury knows it is insane. Rachel Reeves has previously said such a policy would be insane.* *using more diplomatic language. Labour isn’t governing now. It’s thrashing around like a wounded viper.

@MerrynSW Stop welfare payments to people with “anxiety” or other made up mental health conditions. Thats about 2M people

It always amazes me that politicians don't just do something about the things people say over and over that they care about!

What do you mean I’m banned from England😂❤️ @ShabanaMahmood have the fish & chips ready for me.

Price controls don’t work, have never worked, and will never work. It’s so depressing being governed by economic illiterates.

Read this slowly. In 2020 the Bank of England created money at the push of a button. They bought government bonds at £100. Today they sold them for £23.41. Half a billion pounds. Gone before lunch. They printed it. They lost it. They billed you. Paid from your wage. Your tax. Your blood and sweat. They handed every UK household a £7,000 bill. You did not see it because they hid it in your tax. You did not push the button. You will pay anyway. This is theft.

@Steven1897001 @afneil Yes, a disaster. They reduced supply, locked out people who really needed it, increased prices elsewhere and led to a huge reduction in housing quality

@afneil Are they a disaster in New York Andrew?

Ahhh. Rent controls. A regular leftie populist war cry. And a disaster everywhere they’re tried. So no surprise Rachel from Customer Complaints is up for it — to add to her long list of successes.

Terrible judgment by the Prime Minister tonight. By whipping “House Business” he confirms at least one of two things, and most likely both: that a large number of his MPs are not buying his narrative and/or that he has misled the House. If he has acted in good faith Privileges would clear him. An unnecessary distraction? Not as much as what is now bound to follow. Utter contempt of Parliament including his own MPs.

Wow - just seen that CBI Retail sales number for April Minus 68, lowest since 1983. Slow handclap for this government.