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‼️BREAKING | Greens have taken leadership of Worcestershire Council from Reform in a shock vote Conservatives (12 seats), Greens (8), LDs (7) and independents (3) have formed a rainbow coalition and ousted Reform at the annual meeting. Greens' Matt Jenkins will be leader. 🗳️

Just walking back after lunch through my local park, and saw this. Pretty sure it was kids, rather than hardened Nazis, but still utterly disgusting behaviour (and yes, me and my husband scuffed it up before leaving).

🚨NEW: Dorset Police have announced that 44% of alleged sex offences in Dorset are carried out by asylum seekers living in asylum hotels

🚨NEW: Plaid Cymru First Minister of Wales congratulates Reform on the election win, saying they'll "no doubt be a formidable presence" in the Senedd Adding, "I will always welcome scrutiny."

The UK personal allowance has been frozen at £12,570 since April 2021. That's the bit of your salary you keep before HMRC starts taking 20% off everything above it. In 2021, £12,570 was a reasonable tax-free bracket. Inflation since then has been roughly 25% cumulative, and the price of basically everything you actually spend money on has gone up — energy, rent, food, council tax, fuel. If the personal allowance had simply tracked inflation, it would now be closer to £15,700. Instead, the threshold sits exactly where it did when Sunak set it five years ago, and is locked there until 2030. The cost shows up everywhere except on your payslip. Every shop, every bill, every bit of your monthly budget feels tighter — while the threshold that's supposed to protect the first slice of your wages from tax just sits there at 2021 levels. The official line is that they 'haven't raised taxes.' They haven't needed to. Inflation does the job for them, every single year, until 2030.