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Re: Former Tory MPs joining Reform is seen as good thing by Reform voters – politicalbetting.com
Reeves to rule out a wealth taxWhat is wrong with the woman?
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/rachel-reeves-wealth-tax-kl6zj9kvz
Re: Former Tory MPs joining Reform is seen as good thing by Reform voters – politicalbetting.com
A sticky one.Farage promises to build “Nightingale prisons” to house 12,400 inmates, send 10,000 of the most serious offenders to overseas jails, including in El Salvador and recruit 30,000 more police officers in five years.So, he wants to deport UK citizens to overseas jails... for what end?
6 weeks of law and order policy announcements to come says Farage.
I would like to see the workings out on these first day of announcements....
Nigelb
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Re: Former Tory MPs joining Reform is seen as good thing by Reform voters – politicalbetting.com
The acquisition of votes from the hang em and flog em cohortFarage promises to build “Nightingale prisons” to house 12,400 inmates, send 10,000 of the most serious offenders to overseas jails, including in El Salvador and recruit 30,000 more police officers in five years.So, he wants to deport UK citizens to overseas jails... for what end?
6 weeks of law and order policy announcements to come says Farage.
I would like to see the workings out on these first day of announcements....
Re: Former Tory MPs joining Reform is seen as good thing by Reform voters – politicalbetting.com
Farage promises to build “Nightingale prisons” to house 12,400 inmates, send 10,000 of the most serious offenders to overseas jails, including in El Salvador and recruit 30,000 more police officers in five years.Leaving aside the whole "Florence Nightingale wasn't a prison warder" thing, don't you have to purpose-build prisons properly if you want to actually imprison people? Converting conference centres and sports halls ain't gonna work.
6 weeks of law and order policy announcements to come says Farage.
I would like to see the workings out on these first day of announcements....
Re: Former Tory MPs joining Reform is seen as good thing by Reform voters – politicalbetting.com
Farage promises to build “Nightingale prisons” to house 12,400 inmates, send 10,000 of the most serious offenders to overseas jails, including in El Salvador and recruit 30,000 more police officers in five years. 6 weeks of law and order policy announcements to come says Farage.And 200 years from now we'll be delighted on the rare occasions we beat the El Salvador cricket team.
I would like to see the workings out on these first day of announcements....
Re: Former Tory MPs joining Reform is seen as good thing by Reform voters – politicalbetting.com
Sequence matters, though.Labour to review state pension ageA three-member taskforce, led by trade unionist and Labour peer Baroness Drake, would “tackle the barriers that stop too many saving in the first place”, Ms Kendall said.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/21/labour-to-review-state-pension-age/
Well we all know what the answer will be.
Having too much month at the end of your money is a pretty huge barrier that stops people from saving.
I hate to be a broken record, but lower taxes on working people and lower housing costs would ensure people have more money, which would enable some saving.
No point in cutting taxes as long as rents are "every penny you can afford and then some". All that would happen is that the tax cuts would pass through renters to landlords as quickly as prunes pass through the digestive system to... well, we know where they end up.
Re: Former Tory MPs joining Reform is seen as good thing by Reform voters – politicalbetting.com
Isn't that why and where it all started? Late in the Blair years the old age pension increased by something like 75p in a year didn't it? The Tories by looking after the oldsters gave themselves 14 years in Government.Labour to review state pension ageProtect the triple lock, pull forward the change to 68 to about 2036.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/21/labour-to-review-state-pension-age/
Well we all know what the answer will be.
Probably reporting just after the next election.
Really a simple change in the triple lock to inflation should be acceptable to most people.
Re: Former Tory MPs joining Reform is seen as good thing by Reform voters – politicalbetting.com
This is just... weird.
This area of the White House features portraits of former First Ladies. Trump replaced Hillary Clinton’s with his own—just as he did with Obama’s on the main floor.
https://x.com/Mollyploofkins/status/1935463614825251103
This area of the White House features portraits of former First Ladies. Trump replaced Hillary Clinton’s with his own—just as he did with Obama’s on the main floor.
https://x.com/Mollyploofkins/status/1935463614825251103
Nigelb
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Re: Former Tory MPs joining Reform is seen as good thing by Reform voters – politicalbetting.com
Labour to review state pension ageProtect the triple lock, pull forward the change to 68 to about 2036.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/21/labour-to-review-state-pension-age/
Well we all know what the answer will be.
Probably reporting just after the next election.
Really a simple change in the triple lock to inflation should be acceptable to most people.
Taz
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Re: Former Tory MPs joining Reform is seen as good thing by Reform voters – politicalbetting.com
VP Vance to holiday in the Cotswolds, just as Ellen says she moved there to get away from Trump and VanceDoes that mean he turns up with 47 gun-packing goons?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8d638rrndzo
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14922645/JD-Vances-gridlock-traffic-Cotswolds-Vice-President.html
Can somebody smuggle a Colt 45 into his luggage, so we can lock the bugger up in Wormwood Scrubs for 5 years?
MattW
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