Labour Government Tracker @LabGovTracker

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Will Hazell @whazell

a year ago

Sir Keir Starmer thinks the British Empire was a force for good in the world, Prime Minister's Official Spokesman said today. Was in response to Q below (asked in context of Douglas Alexander comment about "post-imperial delusion" when it came to formulating trade policy).

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Week 42: 28/04/2025 – · Labour loses Runcorn by-election to Reform. · Labour’s benefit cuts could cost £38.2bn in lost GDP, £18.4bn in tax, £13.7bn in public services. 9.3m people — incl. 3m children — face hunger. · Over 60s own 53% of UK housing wealth. Under 35s own 6%. · Labour take heavy loses in the local elections. · In response to the local elections Labour start briefing against the new intake of MPs that they handpicked, and parachuted in. · UK among lowest ranked countries for human flourishing. · Labour allows councils to sell off school playing fields. · Reeves plans milkshake tax. · Keir Starmer thinks the British Empire was a force for good in the world.

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City A.M. @CityAM

a year ago

UK’s ageing water network would take 700 years to replace at current rate bit.ly/3Gkz4cj

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Sam Dumitriu @Sam_Dumitriu

a year ago

This is bleak. Not a single new home was started in two-thirds of London's 33 boroughs. We need an urgent rewrite of the London Plan.

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Week 41: 21/04/2025 – · Amnesty International condemn the Labour Govt for continuing austerity. · Keir Starmer's controller Morgan McSweeney resolved '“to use any means necessary to delegitimise and destroy” Jeremy Corbyn, “to ensure he lost badly” and restore the Labour right to power.' · Starmer to rent homes for migrants. This risks out competing regular renters in a housing crisis. · Not a single new home was started in two-thirds of London's 33 boroughs. · Britain is likely to abandon plans to send thousands of troops to protect Ukraine. So much for Starmer’s vaunted coalition of the willing. · Reeves reveals plan to rip up banking regulations brought in after financial crash. · No 10 has officially said that Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women. A few years ago he said he supported trans rights. · According to the new EHRC guidance: -Trans people should be excluded from facilities opposite to their biological sex -They should sometimes be excluded from facilities in line with their biological sex -There should always be an available facility. This is unworkable. · UK’s ageing water network would take 700 years to replace at current rate. · The Government has agreed to publish a league table for migrant crime.

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Politics UK @PolitlcsUK

a year ago

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has announced pubs and bars can stay open until 1am on Thursday 8 May to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats

a year ago

🚨 NEW | Labour has BANNED English GPs from providing blood tests for transgender patients who get HRT or puberty blockers from private providers. The order targets trans youth (under-18s), but also discourages GPs from providing tests for trans adults. (Via @GoodLawProject)

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Week 40: 14/04/2025 – · Labour has praised the Supreme Court for ruling that trans women are not legally women. Labour's Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said: "This ruling brings clarity and confidence for women" · London rents are 40% higher than pre-pandemic. How are we supposed to live? · 1.3 million people with cancer, arthritis and more could lose PIP under Labour's benefit cuts. · Instead of also nationalising the Port Talbot steel plant The Government off the redundant steel workers therapy. · Government wants a private sector buyer for British Steel. If you’re looking to resell it as soon as you can. Then it isn’t “full on nationalisation” is it? It’s another bail out. It’s socialising the losses, and not keeping any of the gains. · Labour has banned English GPs from providing blood tests for transgender patients who get HRT or puberty blockers from private providers. The order targets trans youth (under-18s), but also discourages GPs from providing tests for trans adults. · British Transport Police have announced that trans women in custody will be searched by male officers, following this week's Supreme Court ruling. · GPs in England will be paid £20 each time they decide not to send a patient to hospital under a government scheme to help reduce the NHS waiting list. · British Steel could run on UK coal despite Labour claims. · EY set to cash in on nationalisation of British Steel, five years after cashing in on its sale to Jingye. In other news, EY fined £5m for “serious breaches" in 17/18 Thomas Cook audits. Corporate class rewarded for failure. From 2022-2024, EY 'donated' £408k to Labour in staff secondments. · ex-Labour MSP, has been charged with fraud offences in Glasgow between 2022 and 2024. · A national scandal is quietly unfolding in the NHS. 1000s of doctors are being blocked from becoming Consultants & GPs because the Government is restricting training spots. The public aren’t being told. Unemployed doctors while waiting lists soar is nothing short of madness. · Starmer ally Tulip Siddiq hit with arrest warrant on corruption charges. · Keir Starmer has announced pubs and bars can stay open until 1am on Thursday 8 May to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day. What is the point of this? They give us crumbs in this country and expect us to be grateful!

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Francis Hoar @Francis_Hoar

a year ago

There is simply no justification for the non-payment of TV licences to be a criminal offence in the 2020s. The BBC is one of many platforms, now by no means superior.The others each hv fees enforceable as are any debts in the County Court. The licence “fee” shld be no different.

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Week 39: 07/04/2025 – · Starmer refuses to nationalise British Steel – despite the crisis. · Labour govt is financially incentivising NHS hospitals (with huge deficits) to cut patient care & game waiting lists. · Hundred-year wait for family-size social housing in parts of England. · Labour has dropped plans to hold 5 local grooming gangs inquiries. · The Govt make a huge fuss announcing a theme park – That was already announced in 2023. · Pensions go up again thanks to the triple lock – which is nice – Interestingly for this £31B increase we could build 17 new Rolls Royce SMRs a year, providing roughly *the entire nation’s power needs* (~40GW) within 5 years. All from just one year of not *raising* the state pension. · Single mum-of-three convicted of not paying the TV Licence.

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Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth

a year ago

The Home Secretary is asked about 20 police armed with tasers breaking down the door of a Quaker meeting house to arrest 6 women eating bread sticks and hummus. Cooper refuses to comment & says she doesn't direct the police. Which is a lie, of course.

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Week 38: 31/03/2025 - · Wes Streeting says GPs should prioritise elderly, with sick young people treated by AI. Streeting reportedly wants young people to stay away from the GP if they get sick. He says this would free up "GPs’ valuable time" to focus on pensioners. · The 'Awful April' bills & taxes going up from today: Water: Up £10/month - Energy: Up £111/year to £1,849 - Council Tax: Up 4.99% in England, 4.5%–9.5% in Wales & at least 8% in Scotland – And much more! · British police are making more than 30 arrests a day over offensive posts on social media. I would simply not arrest 12,000+ people over social media posts when half of the neighbourhoods of Britain have *zero* solved burglary cases in the last 3 years. · Labour MP Dan Norris has been arrested on suspicion of rape and child sexual offences. Labour rigged this selection with a shortlist of 2 to make sure he was selected. · Sick notes to be overhauled in back-to-work drive. People could be directed to employment services instead of being signed off. · Reeves looking at lowering the annual amount savers can invest in their tax-free cash ISAs. · David Lammy spent over £1m on private jets in three months. · Labour is now the party of the rich, suggests poll: - Labour is 3rd (on 17%) with those on >£20k. - With voters on £80k+ Labour leads with ~40%. · The Home Secretary is asked about 20 police armed with tasers breaking down the door of a Quaker meeting house to arrest 6 women eating bread sticks and hummus. Cooper refuses to comment & says she doesn't direct the police. Which is a lie, of course. · The body of a disabled man was found in his flat in distressing, squalid conditions, just weeks after DWP wrongly removed his disability benefits because he had failed to return a claim form.

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Politics UK @PolitlcsUK

a year ago

🚨 NEW: Angela Rayner asked to go on a personal safari tour during a taxpayer-funded trip to Ethiopia last month Civil servants told her “that’s not how these things worked” according to a source [@thetimes]

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Visegrád 24 @visegrad24

a year ago

BREAKING: British Steel announces it will close its two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, ending all steel production in the UK after more than 150 years. The country that started the Industrial Revolution will no longer produce steel…

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Week 37: 24/03/2025 - · Child poverty reaches record high. The Government's current plans will mean that child poverty increases to 4.8 million by the end of the parliament. · The government's own impact analysis of their benefit reforms -says that it will force 250,000 more people in relative poverty, including 50,000 children. · More private renters are now in poverty than social renters. 4.8 million private renters are in poverty, up almost 300,000 on the previous year. Of these, almost 2 million are only in poverty when we factor in housing costs – around 40% of those in poverty. · Gas and electricity bills going up again for next week. 36% of all households now spend more than 10% of their disposable income on energy. Thats double what it was 5 years ago. · Labour's leaked education cuts: £500m slashed from schools. Means-tested school meals for infants. Free period products for girls SCRAPPED. Dance, music and PE schemes AXED. Childcare subsidy ENDED. · Migrants will be put up in hotels for years to come according to the Treasury as it orders the Home Office to cut costs. · Reeves plots tax grab on savers. ‘Big Brother’ fears over new rules that will make it easier for HMRC to snoop on workers’ accounts and dock their pay. · Reeves forced to find £500m of further welfare saving after OBR rejected ministers’ £5bn savings estimate for benefits cuts. · The OBR has new house starts FALLING next year. And they fall this year. · Reeves blames a member of her family for wanting to see a Sabrina Carpenter concert at taxpayer expense and says she had "advice that it would be better to be in a box" because it was "better for security." · Wes Streeting takes £53k from private healthcare recruiter before NHS job cuts. · A Labour MP has charged taxpayers £900 for "pet rent" for her cockapoo Bella. · British Steel announces it will close its two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, ending all steel production in the UK after more than 150 years. The country that started the Industrial Revolution will no longer produce steel. · Police raid a Quaker meeting house and arrest six young people meeting to discuss concerns about the climate crisis and the Gaza genocide. · Police sent six uniformed officers to arrest two parents who complained about their school on a WhatsApp group. · Keir Starmer’s director of communications, Matthew Doyle resigns. · The UK is short of 4.3 million homes compared with the European average. · President Trump has announced a 25% tariff on all cars not made in the US from April 2 Cars are the UK’s biggest export to the US with 18% of UK car exports going there. So much for Starmer sucking up to Trump! · The government has fined Sussex University £585,000 for supporting transgender rights. · Minister Matthew Pennycook signals Labour are preparing to scrap the Digital Services Tax (a 2% tax on UK turnover of US online tech companies) so tax avoiding companies like Amazon, Apple and Google can make & extract more profit from the UK. The tax was introduced by the Tories. Angela Rayner asked to go on a personal safari tour during a taxpayer-funded trip to Ethiopia last month.

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Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford

a year ago

Times weekend read as Rachel Reeves enters her most challenging period yet as chancellor: * On Wednesday the OBR will halve growth forecasts. Reeves's headroom will be wiped out overnight and she'll have to fill a hole in the public finances of around £20bn * She'll announce

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Week 36: 17/03/2025 - · All UK families to be worse off by 2030. The poor bear the brunt. · Labour is set to slash billions from public spending. Again. They are expected to be the biggest cuts in spending since 2019. More austerity. · The Resolution Foundation estimates "between 800,000 & 1.2 disabled million people losing support of between £4,200 & £6,300 per year by 2029-30" · Labour is drawing up plans to send failed asylum seekers to the Balkans and other third countries. Just like the Rwanda scheme they made such a fuss about scrapping! · The OBR halve growth forecasts. Reeves will announce more cuts to public spending cuts. She will claim this isn't a return to austerity. The departments themselves, which are modelling 11.2% cuts, say it very much is. · David Lammy snitches on his own family member who claims benefits. · Britain’s most senior military chiefs have been gagged by the government amid “anxiety” that a major ­review into the nation’s defences is ­“likely to be seen as limp”. · Tens of thousands of people will be hit by “knock-on impact” of PIP cuts. Unpaid carers face losing carer’s allowance if their family member loses eligibility for disability benefits - a devastating double household loss. · Ministers quietly delayed repealing Tory union-bashing laws and Union leaders are 'dismayed'. · The decision of the Department for Work and Pensions to publish figures showing the total cost to the economy of disabled people who cannot work has been described as a “chilling” echo of the “useless eaters” propaganda of 1930s Germany. · Starmer’s ‘Coalition of the (Un)Willing’ Collapses as Labour’s Ukraine Plan Explodes. · Liz Kendall says young people will be pushed to join the army.

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Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong

a year ago

🚨YOU SUFFER WHILE SPEAKER LIVES LUXURIOUS LIFE ON YOUR £££ Self-declared Socialist and Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, has spent £250,000 of YOUR money on: • £180k of first class flights • £900 per night, 5 star hotel stays • £3k on Chauffeur driven cars

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10/03/2025 - · Labour will slash disability benefits for 1 million people, including those who have difficulty dressing themselves, washing or eating. · Britain ‘no longer a rich country’ after living standards plunge. · GB Energy has no employees yet. · Graduates on minimum wage now have to pay back their student loan. · Wes Streeting brags about doing things the Tories only every dreamed of. · Labour ramped up Britain's Israeli arms exports after general election. · Rachel Reeves accepted free tickets to Sabrina Carpenter concert - as benefits cuts loom. And they’ve already had a freebies scandal remember. · Labour have created 27 quangos since they came to power. · Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, has spent £250,000 of YOUR money on: - £180k of first class flights. - £900 per night, 5 star hotel stays. - £3k on Chauffeur driven cars. - £400 on ONE meal. And much, much more!