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The first government in British history to pay NHS trusts to remove patients from waiting lists was Labour under Starmer and Streeting. They offered a £33 bounty per extra patient. That's an estimated £32.5 million for almost 986,000 extra patients removed in a single year. Patients were removed if they did not respond to texts or letters— even if they never received them. Deadlines as short as 72 hours. Some were removed for being pregnant, after 'clock resets' of lists, or after 'not attending' appointments that were never sent. This is the 'fastest fall in NHS waiting lists for 17 years' Starmer is boasting about.

Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number. When the UN replied saying 6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end Famine for the year he never responded, and a few months later bought Twitter for 44 Billion. You struggle and suffer because people like him are allowed to exist, not because your neighbor is an immigrant.

Nigel Farage is the ONLY MP insisting the Bank of England 'relaxes' its rules on Crypto! Good job Farage can't be bought! Otherwise people might think the £5m gift was a bribe!

The Green Party is calling for a maximum workplace temperature to be introduced. Currently there is no legal limit on what temperate an employee can force you to work in. As the climate crisis deepens, the workers who keep this country going need to be protected.

As you sit boiling in the heat, never forget that all those people who for decades have deliberately and maliciously disrupted efforts to tackle climate change are probably sitting comfortable in their large air conditioned houses. Those houses were likely funded on the back of lies and misinformation they helped propagate.

So Farage has two choices, both illegal: The money was paid by Harborne who wasn't a registered elector at the time (tbc). Illegal donation. The money was paid through a company to get round Harborne's residence problem. Illegal money laundering.

Another grifter. Fuming about free tickets to see Taylor Swift but zero issue with a £5m bung

If Angela Rayner had to resign over 40k undeclared, there’s no reason Nigel farage should still be an MP with £5M undeclared. Resign now.

When IDF soldiers murdered Polish chef Damian Soból for cooking meals to starving refugees in Gaza, the world barely cared. This man had spent his entire life showing up for strangers including during an earthquake in Turkey. Every time the world broke, Damian was there.

Read this, please. It gives the parts of the barrister Rajiv Menon’s closing speech which the judge Jeremy Johnsonsays is contempt. This is a most important case both about the law and a barrister’s right - indeed duty - to defend his clients and judicial interference in that.

India is expecting thousands of deaths because they are in 50degree weather and have high numbers of manual labourers. We don't even know the number of heat-related African deaths because you lot don't care about black people.

Nigel Farage knows nothing about the real causes of white English working class boys underperforming. Unlike Farage, I was one. I left school at 16 with one 'O' Level, in Art. Farage attended one of the most expensive schools on earth. The best expert evidence says white working-class boys in England tend to do worse at school mainly because poverty, gender and place combine in a particularly damaging way. The biggest driver by far is socio-economic disadvantage: boys from low-income white families are much more likely to fall behind than better-off white pupils, and they often do worse than disadvantaged pupils from several other ethnic groups too. A big part of the problem starts early. Many disadvantaged white boys are already behind in language, reading and writing by primary school, and those early literacy gaps then affect performance across most subjects. Boys also tend to do worse than girls in English, which pulls down overall results. Experts repeatedly point to weak literacy as one of the clearest and most important reasons for later low attainment. Place matters as well. White disadvantaged boys are heavily concentrated in some coastal, ex-industrial and isolated areas where schools may struggle more, transport and enrichment opportunities are weaker, and there are fewer obvious routes into professional jobs. This helps explain why the issue is not the same everywhere: some schools and areas with very similar intakes do much better than others, which shows the outcomes are not inevitable. Family background matters too, but the evidence is often misunderstood. Researchers do find that parental engagement and educational capital are important, but that does not mean parents do not care. It usually means poorer families may have less time, confidence, money or familiarity with the education system, and may be less able to help children navigate school, university or career routes. Studies also suggest many low-income parents start with high hopes for their children, but become less confident over time as barriers mount. Another theme is that many white working-class boys see weaker returns from academic routes. University can look expensive, unfamiliar and uncertain, especially in places where good jobs do not obviously follow from qualifications. Some boys are more likely to enter lower-level vocational routes, but less likely to use them as a springboard into higher apprenticeships or degree-level study. That means the problem is not only low attainment at 16, but also weaker progression afterwards. There is also growing evidence that masculine norms, peer pressure, mental health, stereotypes and low expectations from adults can make things worse. But this part of the evidence is less settled than the evidence on poverty, literacy and geography. There is no strong evidence that the Equality Act has harmed white working-class boys' educational performance. That claim appears often in politics and commentary, but the serious evidence points elsewhere. The main causes identified by researchers are still poverty, low early literacy, weaker school engagement, exclusion and absence, place, and limited progression routes. Some expert submissions go further and argue that stronger equality duties would help, not hurt, because class disadvantage, race, gender and school practices interact and need to be tackled together. The Act has NOT been shown to be a cause of the problem. Some question the gap between disadvantaged white boys and disadvantaged non-white boys, which is real, but it is often described far too crudely, especially by populists who strategically use the white working class to set up a polarising 'Us' vs 'Them' narrative. A lot of public debate uses "working class" when the data are really about a narrower group, usually pupils eligible for free school meals. Within that disadvantaged group, white boys often do worse than several minority ethnic groups, but not all, and the difference is not well explained by simple claims about effort or values. The best explanations are that poverty seems to hit White British pupils especially hard, and that many disadvantaged white boys are concentrated in places with fewer opportunities, such as some coastal, rural and ex-industrial areas. These places may have weaker labour markets, fewer strong educational networks, and less visible payoff from academic success. White disadvantaged boys also tend to have very weak early literacy outcomes and very high rates of persistent absence, suspension and exclusion, which then feed back into lower attainment. Precisely why some disadvantaged non-white groups do better is harder to pin down, but the evidence usually points to different social settings rather than preferential treatment. Some minority families are more concentrated in urban areas with stronger schools and closer access to universities and transport. Some groups may also have stronger study expectations, tighter peer norms around school, or what researchers call migration selection effects - meaning families who migrated may be unusually motivated or education-focused compared with the average population. That does not mean minority pupils face fewer barriers overall; many still face racism and other disadvantages. It means that class disadvantage does not operate in exactly the same way in every community. Overall, the most reliable conclusion is that white working-class boys underperform not because of one cultural flaw, and certainly not because of the Equality Act, but because material disadvantage, early literacy problems, local opportunity gaps and weaker progression routes reinforce each other over time.

I can’t wait for the day this rambling, incoherent, grievance-addicted, braindead fucking blowhard finally disappears from my news feed and I never have to watch this same pathetic schtick ever again. Amen.

All he does is lie, and he knows his gullible supporters are too lazy to even do a basic Google search. He has brainwashed them into ignoring their own eyes and dismissing anything critical of him as lies.

Ash Sarkar on #PoliticsLive "The role of private equity in our social care system" @AyoCaesar 👏 "We've got a hugely expensive social care system. Adult and children social care is a massive part of local authority budget" "It's part of the reason why so many local councils are in debt" "And private equity is just siphoning money out of the system" "In just three years, in three regions of England, private equity sucked out £250 million in profit" "Something that Andy Burnham and whoever his pick of chancellor might be, is to say, we're not going to have such a huge role for private equity in the social care system" "We're going to have strong limits on how much profit can be extracted" "We're not going to have leveraged buyouts where private equity uses a tiny bit of their own money and then loads the company with debt"

@bigasaplanet His name was Jad Jadallah. He was 14 years old. Israeli soldiers shot him and then stood around him for 45 minutes while he bled to death, refusing to help him & preventing any help from getting to him.

So many incredible storylines at the World Cup but the stoicism and dignity of this man’s tribute to a national leader assassinated with the connivance of the CIA is maybe my favorite

We need to talk about Josh Simons...

PabloReports: Do you think a reset is possible with Israel while Netanyahu is still PM? Khanna: No. A reset is not possible while there is still occupation. It’s not just Netanyahu. You have a country that has apartheid. Until that situation is resolved and human rights are recognized, there will not be the kind of reset that you are talking about.

Nigel Farage was asked about his £5 million 'gift'. He had a meltdown.