Will the exchanges between the Islamic republic of our enemy Iran and our Friend Israel become a full scale war ? We know how the Islamic mouthpiece – the BBC will continue to react ..
Midweek 2nd October 2024 Middle East War .
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Looks Like the attempted assassination of that bloke from ‘have i get news for you ‘ is being covered up – there was no sniper – there was no bullet through the taxi windscreen ….
Hislop continues at the breast of the BBC
“The £22bn ‘black hole’ was obvious to anyone who dared to look.
A week on from Rachel Reeves’s big reveal that there is a £22 billion “black hole” in the nation’s finances, what are we to make of the claims and counterclaims and, more importantly, what can we learn?
Frankly, nobody comes out of this smelling of roses. Not the Conservatives who really did leave a lot for the new government to clear up, and were not honest about the challenges ahead. Not Labour, which knew the broad outline of these challenges, but refused to confront them in its manifesto and pre-election statements. And not our institutional framework, which meant that some of the immediate problems were allowed to fester and were obscured in the official data.
Reeves ran through a host of issues, but there were two big ones. The first was the lack of cash available to meet public sector pay settlements of any more than about 2 per cent. The second was that nearly all the estimated £6.4 billion cost of supporting asylum seekers was unfunded, in the sense of not appearing in the Home Office’s departmental budget.”
https://ifs.org.uk/articles/ps22bn-black-hole-was-obvious-anyone-who-dared-look
Warning to our Labour Government , our porous borders are allowing the build-up of a “fifth column” in our nation . “Stop the Boats” and cut immigration, legal or other. before its too late. We are in danger !
“There is nothing new about the £20bn ‘black hole’
All the important information was at Reeves’s fingertips long before the election was called. Not wanting to talk about it during an election is one thing – but suggesting it is new information is quite another.
The latest assessment, which was carried out less than five months ago, pointed to the departmental spending holes which are about to be presented as shocking information. Not even the headline figure is new: the Institute for Fiscal Studies has been pointing to roughly a £20 billion black hole for months (along with a great many other spending gaps, including in Labour’s manifesto). Former chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s fiscal statements both this year and last suggested that there would be big public spending cuts in the new parliament so he could both lower taxes and meet his financial targets. Bodies such as the OBR have been highlighting this trade-off since it began. It’s a conundrum, yes – but it’s by no means new.”
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/there-is-nothing-new-about-rachel-reevess-20bn-black-hole/
“The £22bn black hole row: Who’s telling the truth?
The £22bn figures reflects the projected overspend on departmental budgets this year, but not all of it can be attributed to the previous government.
“In reality the largest single item of ‘spending pressure’ in the current fiscal year was actually pay awards for public sector workers that the Chancellor had agreed to since taking office earlier this month,” analysts at RBC said.
Pay rises for the public sector, which came in at between five and six per cent, cost the Chancellor £9.4bn, Departments were only given funding for a 2 per cent rise at the last spending review in 2021.
Asylum spending was the third largest contributor at £6.4bn. This resulted from the costs from the Conservative decision to stop processing asylum claimants while doing nothing to budget for the resulting costs.
Rachel Reeves claimed that the last government “covered up the true extent of the crisis and its spending implications.” But Labour did already know about some of the funding pressures.
Back in February Labour pointed to the “eye-watering overspend on asylum support”. James Smith, research director at the Resolution Foundation think-tank, told the Financial Times that Labour “knew there was overspend in the Home Office budget”
https://www.cityam.com/the-22bn-black-hole-row-whos-telling-the-truth/
The Guardian was aflutter with news that Hislop, riding in a black cab, heard what was thought to be a “bullet” shattering the window.
the police have concluded it was probably just a “mechanical fault caused the window to shatter”.
order-order.com
” Labour is telling the biggest lie in politics. It cannot get away with it
To pretend ‘the books’ are worse than expected is not just shameless, it’s an insult to the British public”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/28/labour-is-telling-the-biggest-lie-in-politics-black-hole/
“Labour chooses austerity: the black hole is an illusion”
https://www.counterfire.org/article/labour-chooses-austerity-the-black-hole-is-an-illusion/
“The £22bn ‘black hole’ is no way a hard fact; it is merely a dubious metaphor designed to frighten us, and to justify continuing austerity. “
we will not enter austerity … we will enter a black hole!
HAH AH AH HAHAH A!
“It was with jaw-dropping incredulity that I listened to Sir Keir Starmer’s claim that he had no knowledge of the £22 billion ‘black hole’ in the UK Government’s finances until the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) told him about it after the General Election.
“I have never considered SNP leader John Swinney to be in the mould of Nostradamus but I distinctly remember that during the election campaign he (Mr Swinney) repeatedly stated that there was a £20 billion deficit in UK Government finances and that the Labour Party would continue to inflict austerity on the country after the election. The figures he quoted came from the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) and were in the public domain. If Sir Keir is now trying to indicate that he had no inkling of this he is either being dishonest or incompetent. ”
https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/24547963.keir-starmer-either-lying-completely-incompetent/
WHAT HOLE?
Jeremy Hunt: everyone will be paying more tax after autumn statement 2022
Everyone. Everyone. Everyone.
1,860,000
Theresa May, Former UK PM earned £1.86 million in her 2 years since leaving Downing Street, figures show
500,000
Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent
400,000
Matt Hancock, who lost the Tory whip after it was announced he would be appearing on the ITV programme, is still being paid as an independent MP and is rumoured to have been paid £400,000 to appear on the I’m a celebrity.
315,00
Boris Johnson earns £315,000 for 30 minute speech and ‘fireside chat’ in United States
65,040
Chuka Umunna Advisory Board of The Progressive Centre UK think tank (also known as Global Progress)
20,000
Jeremy Corbyn Labour party leader accepted up to £20,000 (about $27,000) for appearances on the Iranian state broadcast network Press TV
18,450
Keir Starmer £18,450 from Harper Collins as an advance payment for a book.
15,000
Boris Johnson Accommodation for a private holiday for my partner and me, value £15,000 Destination of visit: St Vincent and the Grenadines
10,000
Jeremy Hunt £10,000 from Citigroup Centre for speaking at an event on 9 March 2021. Hours: 4 hrs. Fee paid direct to charity. (Charity not mentioned)
5,822
Nadhim Zahawi MP promises to repay the part of £5,822.27 expenses claim for second home energy bills that relates to electricity for stables
2,200
MPs to get £2,200 pay rise from April for ‘dramatically increased’ duties last year
1,950
Philip Hammond accepts £2,000 watch from Saudi sheikh, despite ban on donating expensive gifts
Yours sincerely,
“Keir Starmer is either lying or he’s completely incompetent”
– OR BOTH
DO PEOPLE LEAVING LEBANON COME TO UK TO HATE ISRAEL FROM UK?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlvzqkgd2eo
“Three British sisters have spoken of their sadness at being forced to flee their home in Lebanon, saying they had “no choice” but to board a flight to the UK.
Amal Zahereddine, 18, and her sisters Yasmine, 17, and Layla, 22, were among British nationals preparing to leave on a UK government charter flight from Beirut to Birmingham.
“Right now there is no way we can stay. The noises, the situation, is just getting very traumatising so we have no choice,” Amal said.”
2024 … “The prime minister has insisted he has always followed the rules and said Labour politicians will no longer take donations like this.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvglk4v7538o
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LESSONS WILL BE LEARNT
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The United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal was a major political scandal that emerged in 2009, concerning expense claims made by members of the British Parliament in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords over the previous years.
“As a peer in the House of Lords, Alli is required to register his interests in line with the parliamentary code of conduct.”
https://www.parliament.uk/business/lords/whos-in-the-house-of-lords/house-of-lords-expenses/
Lord Alli London
Number of days attended 5
Quite academic and 53 mins long but has some good points IMHO:
ICMI24: William Collins – “Feminism, Cultural Collapse and the Rise of Authoritarianism in the West”
Keir Starmer’s top donor Lord Alli under investigation by House of Lords watchdog over ‘non-registration of interests’
The papers are running headlines saying ‘8 IDF soldiers die in Lebanon ‘ – as though soldiers dying in war is ‘unusual ‘ ….