At 12:45 today Rishi Sunak told families of the Infected Blood Scandal that compensation would be voted through before the Summer Recess

At 17:00 he called a General Election, ending Parliament until the Autumn

Either he is a liar, or he doesn't know what he's doing

Two years ago when Rishi Sunak was Chancellor he made a speech to CBI saying he can’t stop inflation, as clamour grows for help for poor.

And yet here he is this morning claiming he's King Canute 😡🙄

(2.3% in April)
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Boris Johnson promised Brexit would give us the 'world's most effective border'

New report finds:

- Brexit border checks cost us £4.7 billion
- £7.5 bn a year in costs added to firms
- Hundreds of millions wasted on facilities that were never used
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The Daily Mail has now published more than 80 articles on Angela Rayner selling a former council house. And none on the four Tory MPs who made profits of £5.4m selling second homes subsidised by parliamentary expenses.

“I could help noticing that we appear to
Be considerably richer than you …”

One day soon, I will sit at a pavement cafe with a pint bottle of wine & a glass of cryptosporidium-riddled tap water, with not a single rainbow lanyard to be seen, and ruefully wonder how I could have written a book claiming the country has been rendered ridiculous & diminished.

GB News is in dire straights, so many of their staff have applied for voluntary redundancy, because they want to be paid, that they are struggling to staff their shows.

It could be curtains even sooner than expected.

The already dire quality is going to get even worse.

I haven't even got anything on my lanyard!

I'm just wearing it to wind up the minister.

#PMQs
#lgbt
#solidaritymatters

Very hired Nadhim Zahawi.

Make them pay for their terrible choice and boycott them.

RT if you will be taking part.

“ …. And now they are blaming rainbow lanyards “

According to today's Times, the party that made Truss PM, Rees-Mogg Business Secretary, Gullis a minister, Dorries Culture Secretary & 30p Lee deputy chairman is 'drawing up plans to dismiss underperforming civil servants & end what they call 'a merry-go-round of mediocrity''...

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Susan Hall's strategy of telling Londoners that they live in a crime-ridden, festering shit hole, that could only be improved with more cars and pollution might have gone down well with xenophobic bigots .... but it was never going to work in the place it mattered.

If you are worried about

Benefit Fraud £0.5bn but not Government Corruption £219bn.

Immigration £2bn but not Tax Havens £150bn.

Junior Doctors pay rises £1.3bn but not Bankers tax cuts £7.3bn.

You‘re buying their lies.

Its almost arousing.

Watch Andrea Leadsom(Tory MP) lose the plot when Jo Coburn points out that Ben Houchen's vote was down & that he never mentioned the Tories or Rishi Sunak on his election posters.

#PoliticsLive

The Guardian reports today that Susan Hall is a member of another Facebook group filled with racist and Islamophobic comments.

The truth is actually far worse. She's actively endorsing and campaigning alongside some of the people making those comments
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Susan Hall’s own campaign has removed her from her Party Election Broadcast, so we’ve stepped in to help.

Here she is — the Tory candidate for Mayor — Susan Hall, in her own words.

President Macron, 'In terms of unity and sovereignty, Europe has been through a number of crises, and they too are unprecedented in this period'

'The Brexit, of course, an explosion whose deleterious effects we have since seen.. Which has meant that today no one dares to propose