John Mann

Britain when I was in my 30s was THE best country to live in the world. London was THE best city. I cannot tell you what a special place it was. Everyone, all over the world, wanted to live in Britain. I look now at the cards our country has dealt young British men and women? It’s a proper miserable deal, isn’t it? Student loans, for example. It is a suffocating graduate debt. NINE percent, over a very low threshold. That’s just brutal. Any real chance of saving, gone. NINE grand a year to even go to university. We break their backs before they even start working. Restore Britain would scrap interest on student loans altogether - funded by removing eligibility to foreign nationals who in the many, many thousands abscond and fail to pay a penny back. Wider tax, even more pain. Just remember, workers, when you’re walking to the office in the pissing rain that your efforts are funding some Somalian family to sit on benefits doing sod all. You work, so others don’t have to. We would ban foreigners from benefits altogether, and we could get the healthy British shirking class off their backsides and out picking litter and cleaning graffiti. Painful, yes. Necessary, absolutely. We need to brutally cut tax, and brutally slash down the size of the state. Do those two things in tandem, and just watch how the clouds lift for men and women who are putting in the hours and getting nowhere. Let’s say a young couple manage to scratch together 20k for a deposit after paying 2k a month in rent. What do they get? A pokey little flat in Lewisham? They don’t even own it, due to ludicrous leasehold rules? Spending an hour commuting each way, on filthy, packed trains? Not exactly the American dream is it? The system STINKS. Possibly one positive development thanks to technology - working from home. Farage wants it to end, and attacks the idea of ‘work-life’ balance. Restore Britain’s position is clear on private sector employees working from home - WE DO NOT CARE. And actually, a positive work-life balance is a good thing. People care, people are happy, they work better. Anyone who has actually run a proper business would understand that. People my age say oh well the youngsters don’t work hard enough, they don’t save, they spend too much. Possibly for some. False for an overwhelming majority. It is an objective fact that buying a home when I was younger was SO much easier than now. Cutting down on flat whites will not solve the entire problem, CLEARLY. Look at childcare. Maybe they want to start a family. Good for them. Oh wait, they examine the costs of childcare. Thousands a month. When the damn thing is only open six hours a day. Vast waiting list to even get in? It just doesn't work. Nothing works. Restore Britain would give vast tax breaks to working parents to ensure that a parent can stay with the child if they choose, or make childcare more affordable. Reward families with meaningful relief. Raise thresholds, widen VAT exemptions for essential child-related items, and expand tax-deductible childcare costs. We would front-load child benefit - pay more of the money in the earlier years, when the help is really required. Only British nationals would be eligible to receive that. Stamp duty, gone for British nationals. An insidious tax that further punishes ambition and success. We will support young men and women who want to get on, build a family and find their way in the world. I want these people to have the same opportunity that my generation had. That's all. The vast majority want a Government that will enable them to succeed, and then leave them the hell alone. They now have a political party that will do exactly that. Restore Britain.

Actor Matt Lucas on the London Underground as a free palestine activist says free palestine..

Richard Burgon really making it all about the Epstein victims here ... by spending a very long chunk of his Commons speech complaining about how Mandelson stitched up selections for the right of the Labour Party and tried to unseat Jeremy Corbyn.

Drug laws have never stopped people from using drugs. They've stopped people from using drugs safely. It's time to legalise *and* regulate.

The UK served on the frontline in Afghanistan and often way beyond it!

I didn’t hear you speak up when Reform UK or the Daily Mail targeted me with antisemitic attacks. Antisemitism isn’t a game. Stop trivialising it with nakedly political interventions in defence of Labour that our Jewish communities don’t need.

That’s not what he’s saying at all. And also he’s Jewish and you’re not.

Just a Liberal Democrat peer rushing to Lord Mann’s defence - and once again confusing a job title with the act of actually standing up to antisemitism.

I haven’t insulted him - that’s just untrue and anyone can look & check. But since we’re here: many Jewish people find it genuinely bizarre, even insulting, that the UK’s “Antisemitism Tsar” isn’t Jewish. Why do we as Jewish communities have to put up with this?

"The right to resist by any and all means necessary! From the river to the sea!" Many of us come from war families. I do. The men, in fact, sent in to deal with the worst of the SS. I feel so ashamed. And angry. This must stop. 6/6

An unelected Lord, appointed “antisemitism adviser”, now feels entitled or even qualified to explain antisemitism to a Jewish national party leader. To add to all this - he's not Jewish. Truly rabbit hole stuff.

Conflating Antisemitism with criticism of the Israeli government is dangerous. The Board of Deputies keep muddying the waters. This isn’t about him being Jewish - it’s about his position as Vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Israel.