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I wish they wouldn't keep referring to Camilla as "Queen".

Yes, she legally is (now) but she's also really not.

Queen Consort Camilla would be better

King's fancy piece sounds better

Except she’s not very fancy.

FFS, she's 78! And nobody was ever going to stack up in the public's affections against Diana.

She's actually quite good fun though.

Yeah people need to leave this poor woman alone. She makes the king happy and that's basically her job. They should have let him marry her in the first place, it would have saved everyone a lot of grief.

Further to my lament earlier this morning about the refusal of our political class to come to terms with our predicament we had the interview with Mel Stride this morning. God, it was embarrassing.

So, why didn't you support Starmer and Reece's cuts? "Well, err, the wrong kind of cuts, all last minute etc". Complete garbage.

No benefits for those on ILR. So, what is going to happen to these people? "Well, some of them might go home..."

Funding £5K for those starting work and buying their first home.. Supposedly funded by cuts in public spending amounting to £42bn over the Parliament. I repeat "over the Parliament". This for a country borrowing £150bn a year. And this is supposedly responsible! It doesn't even touch the sides of our issues. By the end I was nearly banging my head off the steering wheel.

Kemi Badenoch

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My message is clear: if you’re here illegally, you will be detained and deported.

Our new Removals Force, modelled on US ICE, will deport 150,000 illegal migrants each year.



She wants us to model this?

https://x.com/PabloReports/status/1974882303211192750

Bad Enoch is really not trying to win my vote back at all.

ICE are repugnant. Nobody should be modelling anything on them.

Exactly. Nobody following the news would be looking at what ICE are actually doing and want to copy that. She has terrible judgement. Hopefully some journalists will take he to task on this and see if she doubles down on her stupid idea.

The Conservatives will set out proposals later on cutting public spending on welfare, aid and civil servants which the shadow chancellor will say would save £47bn over five years.

His proposals include saving:

£23bn from the welfare bill

£8bn by bringing civil servant numbers from 517,000 down to 2016 levels of 384,000

£7bn from the overseas aid budget

£3.5bn by ending the use of hotels to home asylum seekers

£4bn by ensuring benefits and social housing are reserved for UK nationals

£1.6bn by scrapping environmental policies, including cutting subsidies for heat pumps and electric vehicles.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzv9j78dyo

"£1.6bn by scrapping environmental policies..."

Wot, not cutting the £25bn on carbon capture?

The £25bn on carbon capture should not just be cut, we should use it as a firing range for the RAF to practice bombing, as an eternal reminder not to appoint ministers who don't understand the laws of thermodynamics. It is an incomprehensibly stupid policy that even the Greens don't want, and I mean the sensible pre-Zack Greens. I know there are people on PB who are concerned that slagging off Labour will let Reform/Con in, and it's an understandable concern, but God in Heaven above it's a policy that's so stupid it makes my heart cry. That's £25,000,000,000 pissed up the wall because Ed Miliband is an idiot. Damn, guys, do better.

Have we done Turning Point funded Christian fundamentalists protesting against gay entertainment venues in Soho yet?

A link would be nice 😀

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25518686.bizarre-footage-shows-evangelical-group-black-uniforms-target-soho/

There are gay entertainment venues in Soho??! What is the world coming to.

I detest Soho.

Soho is the worst place in London to get lost in. You’re never quite sure if you’re stepping into a high class restaurant or a brothel.

It really is frightening for someone as innocent as me.

just order the tasting menu, what could go wrong?