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🚨Two UK pub chains axed along with 3,500 jobs amid rising taxes
Whitbread, which owns both Beefeater and Brewers Fayre, plans to close all 197 of its restaurant sites.
CEO Dominic Paul said the decision followed “significant cost increases”, which includes higher employer National Insurance contributions and business rates.
Reeves' relentless pursuit of businesses' money is ruining our economy!
Rachel Reeves is decimating business and jobs.

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I’ve never been more confident that the Conservative Party will recover and that through continued discipline and serious focus on policy, we will win back the confidence of the British people. 💙
@KemiBadenoch will lead us to victory and be the next Prime Minister of our great country. 🇬🇧🇬🇧

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I do the liar has finally been caught out
Andrew Staden. Writer: The Dark Ages.@RolandsDelectus
For god's sake get off this tedious, mind-numbing topic of Peter Mandelson. Nobody outside Westminster & Fleet Street - including the BBC - cares a jot about this subject. They care about the cost of living, about the NHS and about the #IranWar. @BBCNews #PoliticsLive #PMQs
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Unquestionably.
She's actually holding the Government to account. No stunts, no 'gotchas', just proper forensic investigation of what is clearly a serious failure of the Executive.
N Ecc 🏴🏴🏴@Neccccy
Has Kemi Badenoch done a good job in the last 2 days?
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Keir Starmer and the Labour government are the exact opposite of what the Labour Party traditionally stood for. A government that punishes the people with authoritarian, hypocritical, sanctimonious fake virtue to try and mask some pretty appalling politics during their first 2 years of being in government.
The winter fuel allowance is a huge symbolism of this. No previous Labour government would have ever have considered punishing pensioners like this.
So while Starmer repeatedly wangs on about “fixing the foundations” of the economy and a “£22bn black hole”, how is it economically fair and indeed morally viable to cut the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensions, hammer farmers and small businesses with punishment taxes while spending £500m on overseas farming, spaff £11.6bn on overseas climate change, a seemingly endless £3bn a year pipeline to Ukraine, the dodgy Chagos deal, £22bn on carbon capture machines & whilst breaking pledges on cutting energy bills and freezing council tax.
The Labour government has already shown itself to be completely devoid of vision and empathy towards the mood of the British people. The country is rotting (largely due to the 14 years of appalling neglect and nefarious policies from the Tory government). The new Labour government had a chance to create a national conversation with the people and really listen and act accordingly to their many valid concerns. Tragically, they didn’t. Instead, they have indulged in the politics of punishment, austerity and misery and communicated by a po-faced Prime Minister who comes across as a modern day equivalent to the pompous, authoritarian Malvolio from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
The Labour government is drowning in the snake oil salesmanship of broken promises and bare-faced duplicity combined with an angry divide and rule self-righteousness that only loses friends and alienates voters. And that’s why they are plummeting in the approval polls.
Keir Starmer is hammering farmers, small businesses & pensioners while he trousered north of £750,000 in donations and £100,000 in freebies. It’s grubby and deeply hypocritical.
He promised to clean up the mess in politics and be a Prime Minister with integrity, yet he’s claiming grotesque amounts of freebies, and in that dreadful po-faced manner of his, whilst repeatedly sanctimoniously lecturing to the public like we are all naughty schoolchildren.
He’s now disliked to the point that he’s become a national laughing stock. But hypocritical pomposity on this scale deserves nothing but ridicule.
Labour has tragically abandoned its “for the working people” traditions. “The Labour Party” in name has become an oxymoron. It is no longer committed to its original mission of improving living conditions and the opportunities of working people in Britain, standing against greedy corporations and the military-industrial complex, whilst protecting freedom of speech. Instead, it is the exact opposite - it’s in thrall to greedy corporatism. The over inflated payments to net zero based (largely overseas) corporations and meetings with BlackRock are a prime example of this.
We have a Prime Minister who has no vision, no common touch and rules with smoke and mirrors - as shown in the Mandelson saga.
To bookend where I began this post, Starmer & the Labour government aren’t anywhere near the values that used to serve Labour and their core voters well.
John Smith (former Labour Party Leader) once said, “People in Britain today are angry: not just disappointed, not just disillusioned, but angry. They are angry at the state of Britain; angry at the total absence of leadership; angry at the absence of vision; angry at the hypocrisy and double standards; and they are angry at the incessant incompetence of a Government they no longer respect and increasingly despise.”
And tragically, his words of wisdom (aimed back then against the Tory government) could equally apply to Keir Starmer’s government of today.


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I suggest we have to get rid of this Labour government
before anything constructive can be achieved
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🚨 Rumours in Westminster growing that Angela Rayner is going to make her move in May to take over as PM !!! Thoughts ???
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We need rent controls.
Help us end Rip Off Britain.
Vote Green on May 7th.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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BREAKING NEWS (with the potential to be massive):
The Guardian reveals Peter Mandelson failed advanced security vetting before becoming US ambassador.
He was initially denied developed vetting clearance in January 2025 - weeks after Keir Starmer had officially announced his appointment.
Foreign Office was ‘encouraged’ to deploy a rarely-used power to override the recommendation from security officials.
The Government promised total transparency on the Mandelson affair after MPs forced it to release of a batch of documents about the process. But nothing it has released reveals this startling fact.
Indeed, Starmer has always insisted Mandelson was subject to 'security vetting, carried out independently by the security services, which is an intensive exercise that gave him clearance for the role'.
Developing …
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No @BBCNews
UK is not facing lowest growth because of energy prices “due to the Iran war”.
We have highest electricity prices because of insane pursuit of net zero/failure to exploit our North Sea oil and gas.
We also have an economically illiterate Labour government
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▪️He said he would freeze council tax
▪️He said he would lower energy bills
▪️He said he would reduce student tuition fees
▪️He said he would support farmers
▪️He said he would protect pensioners
▪️He said he would support the disabled
▪️He said he would help small businesses
▪️He said he would fix the economy
▪️He said he would compensate WASPI women
▪️He said he would listen to the concerns of forgotten communities
▪️He said he would overhaul the immigration system
But instead, he did the opposite. Keir Starmer is the ultimate political snake oil salesman.

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