Kawczynski Shills For Yet Another Autocracy
Daniel Kawczynski isn’t content with shilling for the Saudis or defending Russia on Putin propaganda channel Russia Today, now the shameless Tory MP has added another state-owned TV station to his...
View ArticleWho is Asking the Questions Today?
Oral Questions to the Prime Minister Q1 Peter Grant (Glenrothes) Q2 Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead and Kilburn) Q3 Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham) Q4 Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey) Q5...
View ArticleTory ‘Decade of Irresponsibility’: Debt and Borrowing to Soar
Debt Philip Hammond has announced that the debt to GDP ratio will rise to an “eye-watering” 90.2% in 2017-18, a seven point increase on previous forecasts, the highest debt level in half a century....
View ArticleAutumn Statement / Budget Switcheroo Explained
Philip Hammond woke everyone up when he said this was his first Autumn statement but it would also be his last… “Mr Speaker, I am abolishing the Autumn Statement!” The Autumn statement will now be in...
View ArticleHammond’s £4 Billion Tax Bombshell
It isn’t just debt and borrowing that are going up, Hammond has stealthily raised taxes too. Insurance Premium Tax is being hiked from 10% to 12% from next June, a 100% increase compared with November...
View ArticleLabour Rising Star Falls to Earth
Rebecca Long-Bailey is the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, tipped as a Corbynista rising star and protege of John McDonnell. On the Daily Politics today, Long-Bailey had no idea whether Labour...
View ArticlePMQs / Autumn Statement Sketch Double Bill
Before we get to the disaster that was the Autumn Statement, first PMQs. Not one to break with tradition, Jeremy Corbyn continued to question the Prime Minister in the manner of a tramp freshly...
View ArticleRichmond LibDem Reveals Pro-Heathrow Reading Habits
The LibDem candidate in Richmond has given a shocker of an interview to the Standard, offering a highly implausible explanation for her Brexit flip-flop and bizarrely blaming an aide for another...
View ArticleWhen Tory Treasury Used to Mock More Borrowing…
These tweets mocking Labour for wanting to borrow more and not balance the books were sent by the Tory Treasury team just last year… The post When Tory Treasury Used to Mock More Borrowing… appeared...
View ArticleFarage Speech at the Ritz
WATCH: @Nigel_Farage talks about 2016 being the big year of political revolution at The Ritz. pic.twitter.com/2IQysBxoow — Darren McCaffrey (@DMcCaffreySKY) November 23, 2016 WATCH: @Nigel_Farage...
View ArticleOsborne Making As Much as a Premier League Footballer
George Osborne might have been standing at the despatch box yesterday as Chancellor on a meagre £141,000-a-year. Instead, he’s trousered £320,000 for speeches to various bankers in the last two months...
View ArticleGove Trousers £150,000 For Times Column
Michael Gove is another who’s coining it now his political ambitions are on hold. The Gover is making a cool £150,000-a-year for his new column at the Times, which will no doubt delight some lowly...
View ArticleOBR Debunks Remain Predictions on Growth, Unemployment
Worth pointing out that yesterday’s OBR forecast comprehensively debunked several of the key claims made by the Remain campaign. During the referendum Osborne and the Treasury told voters 500,000 jobs...
View ArticleMore Fake News from The Times
The Times today has another exclusive which is likely to remain exclusive. They claim Nigel Farage is planning to abandon it in favour of a new life in the United States. Nigel says it is “utter...
View ArticleAmy Lame is Sorry, Not Sorry
City AM reports that Sadiq Khan’s Twitter troll aide has written to the leaders of six Tory councils apologising for calling Ruth Davidson “scum“, George Osborne a “c*nt” and celebrating Thatcher’s...
View ArticleBlairite Momentum Coming?
Tony Blair tells the New Statesman “I can’t come into front-line politics. There’s just too much hostility, and also there are elements of the media who would literally move to destroy mode if I tried...
View ArticleDeloitte Took €24 Million From EU Last Year
According to Civitas research fellow Christian Stensrud, Deloitte, the firm responsible for last week’s famous ‘leaked’ memo, took at least €24 million from the EU in 2015. The US company was involved...
View ArticlePorno Perry and the Bonkers Age Verification Bill
The government’s Digital Economy Bill seeking to block access to porn sites with no age verification is shoddy for a long list of reasons. First, how do they decide what to block? Twitter for example...
View ArticleStandpoint Magazine Searching for Patron
Standpoint, the highbrow conservative monthly magazine edited by Daniel Johnson, is doing well by most indicators – the last two issues were their best-selling yet and their subscription base is...
View ArticleBarclays Said to Want £250 Million for the Telegraph
A rumour is going round the Telegraph newsroom that the paper is on the block for £250 million – though the mood of the Barclay brothers on this is said to be variable – they bought the group for £665...
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