'Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine...'
Christopher Hale@ChristopherHale
The godmother of punk Patti Smith met Pope Leo XIV this morning.
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Max Dunbar
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Max Dunbar
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'Fiction is the truth inside the lie'
Northern Hinterlands Katılım Kasım 2010
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Amazing Burnham is seemingly looking at loads of new taxes on working people to pay for elderly care so we’re just going to ratchet up taxes & spending until we’re forced to learn a hideous lesson but won’t consider tackling triple lock saving £15bn/yr by 2030 & £40bn/yr by 2050.
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It's not going well if they're already blaming the media
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has ordered all special advisers to not speak to journalists Cabinet Ministers have also been told there will be “consequences” if their aides leak policy under consideration
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I remember the harrowing images of charred bodies. This remains arguably one of the worst war crimes of the past 4 1/2 years. Commemorated last night in Kyiv. #olenivka
Oleksandra Matviichuk@avalaina
On the night of July 28-29, 2022, a powerful explosion occurred on the territory of the former penal colony in occupied Olenivka. Ukrainian prisoners of war were being held there in a separate barracks. The day before the explosion, the Russians took about 200 soldiers from the Azov regiment and placed them there. As a result of the explosion, about 50 people were killed and another 70 were injured. Eyewitnesses say that people were burned alive. Those who tried to get out onto the road were shot. No one provided medical assistance. The Russians just watched as people died. Captured medics tried to save those they could, wrapping people in pieces of cloth. Only in the morning were the wounded loaded into trucks like cattle and taken away. “In Olenivka, they burned what was left of my faith in people,” recalls one of the freed medics. War crimes have no statute of limitations, and we will seek to establish the truth about what happened. May the memory of the victims live on, and may their families find strength. Photo: Alexandr Ermochenko/Reuters/Scanpix/LETA
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Almost too easy but it's so apt
With council tax/stamp duty it seems that Andy will thrown up doable solutions to entrenched problems only to later say 'it's not on the table, we're still having conversations, etc'
The Burnham brainstorms will start to grate...
James Heale@JAHeale
No. 10 source quote to the BBC: “Andy is going to run towards problems that have been neglected.”
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This is so wrong. Pensioners with no housing costs get a higher tax-free allowance than workers with rent/mortgage. Writing off small tax bills will soon add up to larger tax bills and much like the state pension triple lock, will cause outrage when the policy is reversed.
Gwynoro Jones@Gwynoro
So the new Chancellor Healey confirms that if the state pension is your only source of income, you will not pay income tax. Of course Rachel Reeves made that decision last year. So it’s not a new Burnham government decision. Reckon fair bit of this is going to go on.
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Back to politics as usual with Andy
One guaranteed way to reduce welfare bills would be to abolish the triple lock, but of course Andy won't do that
Alex Wickham@alexwickham
NEW: Andy Burnham says he’ll make it harder to claim benefits, vowing to “get really serious” about cutting the welfare bill and setting up a clash with Labour MPs “It's about changing the nature of the support and making some of the support conditional upon people taking opportunities that are presented in front of them,” he tells @BBCLauraK “Let me just say something more though about what you're driving at, which is the welfare bill. I think we've got to get really serious as a country at getting the welfare bill down” There are no details yet on how he intends to do it but it will be a major challenge Keir Starmer’s efforts to reduce the welfare bill by just £5 billion sparked a huge rebellion from Labour MPs - organised by Burnham supporters including Louise Haigh - from which he never recovered
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What's "wrong" is giving pensioners with a triple locked State Pension a higher Personal Allowance than working people on the same income. It's just wrong. Income tax shouldn't be based on age - it's absolute nonsense.
John Ganges@dunstablian
So State pensioners will be protected from paying income tax only if their sole income is supplied by DWP. Those who actually worked and contributed to an occupational pension, as Governments demanded, will not be protected from income tax raids. Something wrong here....
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Can't recommend enough Leon Craig's THE DECADENCE: she understands friendships, she can do dialogue, she has given us the best pandemic novel, and a chilling ghost stort
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Never in my life been in a meeting with this many people that was actually productive. There’s some rule at Amazon that a meeting should never be bigger than you can feed with two pizzas, seems about right
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham chairs the first meeting of the National Economic Council at No 10 North
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The best thing about the online fuss about The Odyssey is that Nolan has a dumb phone and is just watching the box office receipts roll in and musing about his next project.
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‘The bosses even cancelled a lifestyle magazine article on Isabel and I, after it was commissioned.’
This is very funny.
Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧@TiceRichard
The Times Group despise Reform & its senior figures so much The bosses even cancelled a lifestyle magazine article on Isabel and I, after it was commissioned. Perhaps they feared it may present us in a good light. People need to know just how vindictive Times bosses are.
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The positive side of Burnham at 10
I liked Keir Starmer but he had one or two crazy ideas such as juryless trials and Leadbeater's ghastly assisted dying bill. At least juryless trials have gone
GB Politics@GBPolitcs
🚨BREAKING: Andy Burnham says there are no plans to scrap jury trials after sacking David Lammy
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