Taranasus
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Taranasus
@taranasus
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'They also took us to these wonderful villages - Potemkin was it darling?'




Rachel Reeves says £6.4bn overspend on asylum this year. Huge number. Does genuinely appear to have been unfunded.




Of 15 key policies in the King's Speech, 12 are seen as a good idea by the majority of Britons, and only 1 is seen as a wrong priority by most people % saying "good idea" Making water firm bosses personally liable for company lawbreaking: 82% Border Security Command with counter-terror style powers to target illegal immigration gangs: 77% Imposing limits on sale/marketing of vapes: 73% Banning sale of energy drinks to children: 72% Free breakfast clubs in all primary schools: 71% Creating GB Energy: 66% Bringing train operators under public ownership: 64% Gradually increasing the smoking age: 64% Banning ‘no fault’ evictions: 63% Restricting advertising of high sugar/salt/fat foods to children: 62% Banning zero-hours contracts: 61% Removing right of hereditary peers to sit in the Lords: 57% Planning reforms to accelerate large infrastructure projects and housebuilding: 49% Removing VAT exemption for private school fees: 49% Independent football regulator: 22% yougov.co.uk/politics/artic…




What does this mean for the future of the Conservative Party? Full story here: tinyurl.com/59btcpkb


Whatever Labour plans to do on economic growth will be dwarfed by the scale of damage that Ed Miliband will do to Britain’s energy supply.








