Stephen Kinnock MP as Secretary of State for Wales.
Sir Chris Bryant MP as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Rt Hon Ellie Reeves KC MP as Attorney General. She will attend Cabinet.
Rt Hon Emma Reynolds MP as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. She will attend Cabinet.
Kanishka Narayan MP as Minister of State (Minister for Artificial Intelligence) jointly in the Cabinet Office and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. He will attend Cabinet.
Hamish Falconer MP as Minister of State (Minister for Intergovernmental Relations and European Relations) jointly in the Cabinet Office and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. He will attend Cabinet.
Rt Hon Heidi Alexander MP will remain as Secretary of State for Transport.
Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP will remain as Secretary of State for Scotland.
Rt Hon Sir Alan Campbell MP will remain as Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons.
Rt Hon Baroness Smith of Basildon will remain as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords.
Matthew Pennycook MP will remain as Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. He will attend Cabinet.
Alex Norris as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
Angela Eagle as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Miatta Fahnbulleh as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Wes Streeting gets defence.
Lisa Nandy stays at DCMS.
Yvette Cooper gets Health.
Angela Rayner MP as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Jonathan Reynolds MP as Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
Lucy Powell MP as Secretary of State for Education
Anneliese Midgley MP as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip). She will be a member of Cabinet
Bridget Phillipson demoted to Women & Equalities
Louise Haigh appointed First Secretary of State, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office.
Ed Miliband appointed Foreign Secretary.
John Healey appointed Chancellor.
Nick Thomas Symonds out of government.
Jenny Chapman and Hilary Benn are out as well.
Miliband, Mahmood, and Healey in No10 now.
Darren Jones also sacked as Chief Secretary to the PM.
Jo Stevens out as Wales Secretary.
Liz Kendall out as Technology Secretary.
…. Bryant at Northern Ireland – and streeting at Defence ? Should impress the queers …
Cabinet member Role Business / private-sector experience
John Healey Chancellor
Minimal. Career politician. Worked for the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and campaigning organisations before entering Parliament in 1997. No significant commercial executive experience.
Shabana Mahmood Home Secretary
Legal profession. Qualified barrister specialising in professional negligence and commercial law before becoming an MP. Strong professional services
background but not corporate management.
Ed Miliband Foreign Secretary
Very limited. Academic and political adviser. Worked as an economist and Treasury adviser rather than in business.
Yvette Cooper Health Secretary Limited.
Worked as an economic journalist at The Independent and researcher before politics. No senior commercial management experience.
Wes Streeting Defence Secretary
Some charity/sector experience. Worked for the National Union of Students and in public affairs. No major private-sector executive career.
Jonathan Reynolds Business Secretary
Most substantial business background in cabinet. Solicitor specialising in corporate/commercial law before Parliament. Has also built strong relationships with UK industry during previous time as Business Secretary.
Miatta Fahnbulleh Energy Secretary
Think tank and economic policy. Former Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation. Public policy and non-profit leadership rather than private business.
Angela Rayner Housing Secretary
None in corporate sector. Former care worker and UNISON trade union representative.
Louise Haigh First Secretary of State / Cabinet Office
Financial services. Worked for Aviva in fraud investigation before politics, alongside union work.
Question “Can you list Andrew Burnham’s cabinet and list their business experience please?”
The original work phone Louise Haigh reported stolen was a BlackBerry. According to official court documents from her conviction, her employer, Aviva, issued her a new Apple iPhone 5 as its replacement. The fraud charge specifically noted that the false report resulted in her receiving the upgraded iPhone
What will Keir Starmer do next?
Outgoing PM has joked about cookery classes and cutting hedges, but does the international stage beckon? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/18/what-will-keir-starmer-do-next
“But many of those who have worked closely with him agree that he is likely to end up doing something on the international stage, where he has garnered respect from fellow leaders, and is generally seen by voters as having been a success.”
The TaxPayers’ Alliance calling out the licence fee is hardly breaking news. It’s been six years since we launched our Axe the Tax campaign, calling for the outdated licence fee to be abolished. While the telly tax remains, Aunty’s annual report released this week had some eye-opening figures.
Half a million fewer people shelled out for a tv licence last year, meaning the number of people paying for the Beeb is now at its lowest level since 1999. Despite the fall in licence fee payers, the BBC still raked in a whopping £3.88 billion from it, up £36 million on the previous year, thanks to the licence now costing £180 a year.
PIC
This perhaps explains why they felt able to pay yet more enormous salaries to their so-called ‘top talent’. While households were switching off from our scandal-hit state broadcaster, BBC stars will have been popping the champagne corks. Scott Mills, the former Radio 2 host who was dismissed earlier this year, topped the table taking home between £745,000 and £749,999. Greg Mills, another DJ came in second getting between £440,000 and £444,999, while Stephen Nolan, a presenter on Northern Irish radio rounded out the top three with between £425,000 and £429,999. Naturally John O’Connell was more than happy to speak up for hard working Brits, telling the Telegraph: “Failing public trust, repeated scandals and six-figure salaries for star presenters make it harder than ever to justify this outdated and hated TV tax.”
To make matters worse, rather than face up to the fact people are switching off the BBC due to bias or poor content, there are now calls to force people using streaming services to cough up for the licence fee too. John was bang on when he told Mail readers “Forcing streaming service subscribers to pay the licence fee would be an outrageous expansion of an already deeply unpopular tax” while telling the Sun it was “one of the most bonkers ideas ever concocted.”
VIDEO GB News
Before long, William Yarwood popped up in the GB News studio, speaking with Jacob Rees-Mogg and he certainly didn’t mince his words: “I think if the BBC wants to prove itself as a proper broadcaster for the modern age, it should move away from the licence fee, towards a subscription model and act in the same way as many of the streaming services do… politicians in parliament could do this quite quickly but the issue is there is no courage or will to do so.”
My Comment:
But we all know we have been here before. As long as Lisa Nandy Minister for Culture & Sports who is about to consider to award the BBC another five years BBC Charter and yet another ‘approval’ for a TV license increase, they may decide to TAX ‘other’ online broadcasters through a new bill claiming the BBC is ‘The Most Trusted News Broadcaster’ and must be placed at the top of any Google Search/ Social Media and feature prominatly on YouTube with an alert to pay your TV License (use hidden tracking on your mobile phone and web page). This is the GREEN paper to BOOST BBC ratings… https://www.gov.uk/government/news/plans-for-prominence-of-trusted-news-sources-on-social-media-alongside-measures-to-reform-public-service-media-in-the-uk
This sadly appears to be the future of the BBC. An EAST GERMAN copycat state News channel.
Even if the TV license disappears, it will be put on local taxation and ‘other broadcasters’ via a new social media tax proposed in the GREEN paper.
AXE THE TAX Campaign continues: We shall win, but this new governemnt has James Purnell advising Andy Burnham on MEDIA management and STRATEGY!! He left the BBC to heada Media company As you do as a ex Labour MP. https://everything.explained.today/%5C/James_Purnell/
This article is more than 6 years old
Boris Johnson ‘looking at’ abolishing TV licence fee for BBC
This article is more than 6 years old Remarks came amid row over PM’s refusal to look at a picture of a sick boy in hospital
https://x.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/2079299058066243609?s=61
The BBC is profiling the new cabinet.
It says Louise Haigh resigned in 2025 after it ’emerged she had admitted a fraud offence in 2013′.
She actually resigned (in 2024) for the fraud conviction (in 2014) AND for lying about not having any convictions when she entered government
Breaking: Nick Brown found drilling for baby oil still
The BBC could easily make a profit and pay dividends to licence holders.
They had the greatest TV archive in the world by a distance, but wiped so many TV programmes off their tapes in the early seventies to save a few measly quid (there was three channels then) including Doctor Who, Hancock, Juke Box Jury and early Alan Bennett plays
“Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary Cat Little has told staff this morning that the Digital ID policy isn’t totally dead after all. Instead, it lives on within DCMS. She even apologised for the confusion given the briefings to the opposite effect. Not to mention the fact that Burnham’s spokesman said over the weekend that the “time and resource that was going to be spent on a national ID scheme will go instead to where it’s most needed, such as helping with the cost of living“. The cracks already appearing. Darren Jones is having a fantastic 24 hours post-sacking…”
OMG.
Not BBC.
I watched a bit of Peston on ITV. Dawn Butler was on.
She is the natural successor to Dianne Abbott.
A race-baiting black Labour MP with a slow speech delivery reeking of brain cell deficiency.
With ‘talent’ like that in the House of Commons, not to mention the likes of ginger Ange, no wonder they had to choose an outsider to take over from TTK.
“Fake (AFFORABLE) kits worth £18m seized by police during World Cup” https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c0rdgrkx552o
One raid involved 1,618 fake strips being taken from a warehouse in Birmingham, including replicas of star players such as France’s Kylian Mbappe and Norway’s Erling Haaland.
Statement: Signature of the UK-EU Treaty in respect of Gibraltar
Statement: Local government reorganisation
Oral questions: Visitor levy on the cost of domestic travel and holidays in the UK
Ok anorak time …. I’ve just realised – that ‘Dan Jarvis ‘ who soiled himself and his military experience – has been fired from the Dee fence – and replaced with little … streeting ….
Poor Dan . Only in office for a month ? Working for TTK and for ever tarnished …. lol
I have often wondered what exactly persuaded Corbyn to put his support behind one of the most bloodthirsty, West-hating, misogenistic, barbaric races to inhabit the planet, maybe he just likes wearing a tea-towel round his neck?
The mail is continuing to discuss the BBC advert on the BBC during the World Cup … and raises the cost – as well as the mindset of the BBC type who thought it was a good idea .
Those appearing were paid – apparently …
Then genuinely believe that people care enough about it to continue being forced to pay for it …
Starmer ally takes swipe at Burnham’s first big policy, reports the bbc and goes onto say
“Whenever there is a reshuffle at the top of government, it is worth keeping an eye and an ear on the dislodged, demoted and rejected former ministers”
There’s me thinking the bbc has just nearly slandered someone
There’s a ‘thing ‘ about the 5% vat cut – if I recall it was introduced by one John major in that famous ‘lie’ – when he said in PMQs that ‘there are no plans to introduce vat on fuel at the Moment ‘ which tarnished any trust in him ….
The daily charge is more important … and that’s green crap
Darren jones – a Starmer clone who was fired yesterday – has already started attacks on bodybags – with an accusation that the vat cut is ‘unfunded ‘ – it is – of course – because all government spending is unfunded because we are in debt …
The vat cut will be neutralised by increased fuel costs in October ….just in time for winter …
Labour family dynasties refer to multi-generational or sibling political families in the UK Labour Party, where relatives (parents/children, siblings, spouses) have held prominent roles as MPs, ministers, or party figures.
Ah … Hermer has been replaced by Rachel from accounts’ sister!
Yes folks … Ellie Reeves, hard left fan girl, is the new Attorney General.
another committed defender of the international legal order. Reeves voted for Labour’s Chagos surrender and supported Lammy’s removal of… pic.twitter.com/2hrsbicfWN
Can’t be that the powers that be might deduce she tripped over the cat and landed heavily just as the suspect pulled over outside her house to check his tyre pressures or something?
On an earlier thread I was critical of Burham’s rogue’sgallery of newly appointed Ministers. Specifically very critical of Louise Haigh’s appointment:
“Louise Haigh, who has a grubby insurance fraud conviction, probably the worst offender of the bunch. Something very low and deliberate about making a false insurance claim, not a spur of the moment error, A drink driving conviction would be more acceptable in my opinion.”
A forum contributor, ‘G’ took issue with this in the following terms:
‘”I know very little of Louise Haigh but her conviction was > 10years ago and for the record, the 10 probably exceeds the 7 required by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The length of time is relative to the level of offence she was guilty of.
Just sayin.”
To my mind the elapsed time is irrelevant, we have a window into the character of Louise, she might (or might not) be a totally reformed person but we are talking about her being appointed to an important office of State. We have to view her and this appointment in the context of the other defective appointments that this dishonest and corrupt Goverment is making. We are paying the price for this farrago.
If she had an honour she’d have withdrawn from political life . I know my sense of honour is a bit on the high side for 2026 …that applies to any politician subject to the legal process it is their job to draught….
It’s all well and good burying gold in the garden – but last time I looked it wouldn’t actually buy any food or fuel…. Our societies depend on people being rational and respecting the infrastructure we have – currency has to function and retain value, it’s the responsibility of those we elect to govern / serve to ensure things like that work. I’ve been to Venezuela a number of times and seen destitution and desperation on a scale that most Brits can perhaps imagine – but seeing people in rags and hungry with their lives obviously disintegrating around them is sobering in the extreme. The whispering thing … yes… seen that – but the light only went on with the context described here. 20-25% of Venezuela’s population now live abroad – that would be ca. 17 million leaving the UK. I wish people would think about it in those terms…
Venezuela’s dystopian descent into penury and chaos was facilitated by ideologically driven ignorant larcenous goons (bandits even!)- that’s what we’ve got underway in the UK. I hope we don’t get to do the full Venezuelan thing.
“Ann Widdecombe died after being hit on the head with a hammer 21 times at her Devon home as she ate lunch, prosecutors have told Westminster Magistrates’ Court.”
21 July 2026, 14:25 BST | Updated 35 minutes ago
tomoJul 21, 15:14 Start the Week 20th July 2026 Excellent from Francis Foster and Dominic Frisbee The UK is channeling Venezuela. It’s all well and good burying gold in…
FlotsamJul 21, 14:27 Start the Week 20th July 2026 On an earlier thread I was critical of Burham’s rogue’sgallery of newly appointed Ministers. Specifically very critical of Louise Haigh’s…
MarkyMarkJul 21, 14:18 Start the Week 20th July 2026 Ellie Reeves has been appointed as @attorneygeneral. She will attend Cabinet. https://x.com/10DowningStreet/status/2079329021041483991
Fedup2Jul 21, 14:16 Start the Week 20th July 2026 Cover up continues – bet he pleads guilty or prosecution offers no evidence to conceal the truth …. In 2028…
From Guido – for the record
Stephen Kinnock MP as Secretary of State for Wales.
Sir Chris Bryant MP as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Rt Hon Ellie Reeves KC MP as Attorney General. She will attend Cabinet.
Rt Hon Emma Reynolds MP as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. She will attend Cabinet.
Kanishka Narayan MP as Minister of State (Minister for Artificial Intelligence) jointly in the Cabinet Office and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. He will attend Cabinet.
Hamish Falconer MP as Minister of State (Minister for Intergovernmental Relations and European Relations) jointly in the Cabinet Office and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. He will attend Cabinet.
Rt Hon Heidi Alexander MP will remain as Secretary of State for Transport.
Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP will remain as Secretary of State for Scotland.
Rt Hon Sir Alan Campbell MP will remain as Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons.
Rt Hon Baroness Smith of Basildon will remain as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords.
Matthew Pennycook MP will remain as Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. He will attend Cabinet.
Alex Norris as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
Angela Eagle as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Miatta Fahnbulleh as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Wes Streeting gets defence.
Lisa Nandy stays at DCMS.
Yvette Cooper gets Health.
Angela Rayner MP as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Jonathan Reynolds MP as Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
Lucy Powell MP as Secretary of State for Education
Anneliese Midgley MP as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip). She will be a member of Cabinet
Bridget Phillipson demoted to Women & Equalities
Louise Haigh appointed First Secretary of State, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office.
Ed Miliband appointed Foreign Secretary.
John Healey appointed Chancellor.
Nick Thomas Symonds out of government.
Jenny Chapman and Hilary Benn are out as well.
Miliband, Mahmood, and Healey in No10 now.
Darren Jones also sacked as Chief Secretary to the PM.
Jo Stevens out as Wales Secretary.
Liz Kendall out as Technology Secretary.
…. Bryant at Northern Ireland – and streeting at Defence ? Should impress the queers …
And another forensic on brief solicitor is back to duel with the BBC’s finest interrogation squad on @rse vs. elbow issues.
https://fb.watch/IuWOSfJH3H/?
ChatGPT….
Cabinet member Role Business / private-sector experience
John Healey Chancellor
Minimal. Career politician. Worked for the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and campaigning organisations before entering Parliament in 1997. No significant commercial executive experience.
Shabana Mahmood Home Secretary
Legal profession. Qualified barrister specialising in professional negligence and commercial law before becoming an MP. Strong professional services
background but not corporate management.
Ed Miliband Foreign Secretary
Very limited. Academic and political adviser. Worked as an economist and Treasury adviser rather than in business.
Yvette Cooper Health Secretary Limited.
Worked as an economic journalist at The Independent and researcher before politics. No senior commercial management experience.
Wes Streeting Defence Secretary
Some charity/sector experience. Worked for the National Union of Students and in public affairs. No major private-sector executive career.
Jonathan Reynolds Business Secretary
Most substantial business background in cabinet. Solicitor specialising in corporate/commercial law before Parliament. Has also built strong relationships with UK industry during previous time as Business Secretary.
Miatta Fahnbulleh Energy Secretary
Think tank and economic policy. Former Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation. Public policy and non-profit leadership rather than private business.
Angela Rayner Housing Secretary
None in corporate sector. Former care worker and UNISON trade union representative.
Louise Haigh First Secretary of State / Cabinet Office
Financial services. Worked for Aviva in fraud investigation before politics, alongside union work.
Question “Can you list Andrew Burnham’s cabinet and list their business experience please?”
Note ‘Hamish falconer ‘ – son of the Blair friend … nice to keep it in the family – never had a real job – like the rest …
“Why Nothing Changed After the Culture War | Eric Weinstein [ARC 2026]”
Alliance for Responsible Citizenship and Eric Weinstein
The original work phone Louise Haigh reported stolen was a BlackBerry. According to official court documents from her conviction, her employer, Aviva, issued her a new Apple iPhone 5 as its replacement. The fraud charge specifically noted that the false report resulted in her receiving the upgraded iPhone
And failing to declare the conviction on job applications / vetting …
The REAL plot against Ann Widdecombe and the BOGUS plot against an Islamic gathering… it all gets stranger and stranger. Distraction? Diversion?
Last time we had a Chancellor called Healy we ended up with an IMF bailout.
‘Bodybags’ seems a strange nickname.
I prefer ‘Andy Bumhole’
New Defence Minister
………….
What will Keir Starmer do next?
Outgoing PM has joked about cookery classes and cutting hedges, but does the international stage beckon?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/18/what-will-keir-starmer-do-next
“But many of those who have worked closely with him agree that he is likely to end up doing something on the international stage, where he has garnered respect from fellow leaders, and is generally seen by voters as having been a success.”
Switching off (the BBC)
The TaxPayers’ Alliance calling out the licence fee is hardly breaking news. It’s been six years since we launched our Axe the Tax campaign, calling for the outdated licence fee to be abolished. While the telly tax remains, Aunty’s annual report released this week had some eye-opening figures.
Half a million fewer people shelled out for a tv licence last year, meaning the number of people paying for the Beeb is now at its lowest level since 1999. Despite the fall in licence fee payers, the BBC still raked in a whopping £3.88 billion from it, up £36 million on the previous year, thanks to the licence now costing £180 a year.
PIC

This perhaps explains why they felt able to pay yet more enormous salaries to their so-called ‘top talent’. While households were switching off from our scandal-hit state broadcaster, BBC stars will have been popping the champagne corks. Scott Mills, the former Radio 2 host who was dismissed earlier this year, topped the table taking home between £745,000 and £749,999. Greg Mills, another DJ came in second getting between £440,000 and £444,999, while Stephen Nolan, a presenter on Northern Irish radio rounded out the top three with between £425,000 and £429,999. Naturally John O’Connell was more than happy to speak up for hard working Brits, telling the Telegraph: “Failing public trust, repeated scandals and six-figure salaries for star presenters make it harder than ever to justify this outdated and hated TV tax.”
To make matters worse, rather than face up to the fact people are switching off the BBC due to bias or poor content, there are now calls to force people using streaming services to cough up for the licence fee too. John was bang on when he told Mail readers “Forcing streaming service subscribers to pay the licence fee would be an outrageous expansion of an already deeply unpopular tax” while telling the Sun it was “one of the most bonkers ideas ever concocted.”
VIDEO GB News
Before long, William Yarwood popped up in the GB News studio, speaking with Jacob Rees-Mogg and he certainly didn’t mince his words: “I think if the BBC wants to prove itself as a proper broadcaster for the modern age, it should move away from the licence fee, towards a subscription model and act in the same way as many of the streaming services do… politicians in parliament could do this quite quickly but the issue is there is no courage or will to do so.”
It’s high time the anachronistic licence fee was consigned to the dust bin of history where it belongs. You can check out our full proposals for abolishing the TV tax here.
https://taxpayersalliance.com/switching-off-bbc-and-channel-4/?ref=weekly-bulletin-newsletter
My Comment:
But we all know we have been here before. As long as Lisa Nandy Minister for Culture & Sports who is about to consider to award the BBC another five years BBC Charter and yet another ‘approval’ for a TV license increase, they may decide to TAX ‘other’ online broadcasters through a new bill claiming the BBC is ‘The Most Trusted News Broadcaster’ and must be placed at the top of any Google Search/ Social Media and feature prominatly on YouTube with an alert to pay your TV License (use hidden tracking on your mobile phone and web page). This is the GREEN paper to BOOST BBC ratings…
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/plans-for-prominence-of-trusted-news-sources-on-social-media-alongside-measures-to-reform-public-service-media-in-the-uk
This sadly appears to be the future of the BBC. An EAST GERMAN copycat state News channel.
Even if the TV license disappears, it will be put on local taxation and ‘other broadcasters’ via a new social media tax proposed in the GREEN paper.
AXE THE TAX Campaign continues: We shall win, but this new governemnt has James Purnell advising Andy Burnham on MEDIA management and STRATEGY!! He left the BBC to heada Media company As you do as a ex Labour MP.
https://everything.explained.today/%5C/James_Purnell/
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Boris Johnson ‘looking at’ abolishing TV licence fee for BBC
This article is more than 6 years old
Remarks came amid row over PM’s refusal to look at a picture of a sick boy in hospital
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/09/boris-johnson-looking-at-abolishing-tv-licence-fee-for-bbc
Ah, but, trust… impartiality… holding to account…
https://x.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/2079299058066243609?s=61
The BBC is profiling the new cabinet.
It says Louise Haigh resigned in 2025 after it ’emerged she had admitted a fraud offence in 2013′.
She actually resigned (in 2024) for the fraud conviction (in 2014) AND for lying about not having any convictions when she entered government
Breaking: Nick Brown found drilling for baby oil still
The BBC could easily make a profit and pay dividends to licence holders.
They had the greatest TV archive in the world by a distance, but wiped so many TV programmes off their tapes in the early seventies to save a few measly quid (there was three channels then) including Doctor Who, Hancock, Juke Box Jury and early Alan Bennett plays
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lost_television_broadcasts_in_the_United_Kingdom
And I think Purnell is now bodybags chief of staff
Just another day in Clown World…
And somehow I doubt the thick bastards learnt a single thing.
“Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary Cat Little has told staff this morning that the Digital ID policy isn’t totally dead after all. Instead, it lives on within DCMS. She even apologised for the confusion given the briefings to the opposite effect. Not to mention the fact that Burnham’s spokesman said over the weekend that the “time and resource that was going to be spent on a national ID scheme will go instead to where it’s most needed, such as helping with the cost of living“. The cracks already appearing. Darren Jones is having a fantastic 24 hours post-sacking…”
https://order-order.com/2026/07/21/cabinet-office-chief-claims-digital-id-policy-not-dead-after-all/
She even apologised for the confusion given the briefings to the opposite effect. = being found out.
OMG.
Not BBC.
I watched a bit of Peston on ITV. Dawn Butler was on.
She is the natural successor to Dianne Abbott.
A race-baiting black Labour MP with a slow speech delivery reeking of brain cell deficiency.
With ‘talent’ like that in the House of Commons, not to mention the likes of ginger Ange, no wonder they had to choose an outsider to take over from TTK.
“The chosen one.”
“Fake (AFFORABLE) kits worth £18m seized by police during World Cup”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c0rdgrkx552o
One raid involved 1,618 fake strips being taken from a warehouse in Birmingham, including replicas of star players such as France’s Kylian Mbappe and Norway’s Erling Haaland.
Birmingham, City of UK Culture.
Statement: Signature of the UK-EU Treaty in respect of Gibraltar
Statement: Local government reorganisation
Oral questions: Visitor levy on the cost of domestic travel and holidays in the UK
Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Conservative)
https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/020de255-0eb7-4d66-bf70-096b7c925cd8
Ok anorak time …. I’ve just realised – that ‘Dan Jarvis ‘ who soiled himself and his military experience – has been fired from the Dee fence – and replaced with little … streeting ….
Poor Dan . Only in office for a month ? Working for TTK and for ever tarnished …. lol
If we sell our defence to China we can spend the money on the NHS?
I have often wondered what exactly persuaded Corbyn to put his support behind one of the most bloodthirsty, West-hating, misogenistic, barbaric races to inhabit the planet, maybe he just likes wearing a tea-towel round his neck?
The mail is continuing to discuss the BBC advert on the BBC during the World Cup … and raises the cost – as well as the mindset of the BBC type who thought it was a good idea .
Those appearing were paid – apparently …
Then genuinely believe that people care enough about it to continue being forced to pay for it …
What did the BBC do for my? Pay me tax payers money! HA HHA HAH AHA AH HA!
Gender Disproportion: Approximately 73% of all TV licence prosecutions are taken against women.
HA H AHA!
GENDER TV LICENCE NOT PAID GAP!
HA HA AHA HAH AHAH!
Starmer ally takes swipe at Burnham’s first big policy, reports the bbc and goes onto say
“Whenever there is a reshuffle at the top of government, it is worth keeping an eye and an ear on the dislodged, demoted and rejected former ministers”
There’s me thinking the bbc has just nearly slandered someone
biased?
There’s a ‘thing ‘ about the 5% vat cut – if I recall it was introduced by one John major in that famous ‘lie’ – when he said in PMQs that ‘there are no plans to introduce vat on fuel at the Moment ‘ which tarnished any trust in him ….
The daily charge is more important … and that’s green crap
Vat off fuel £45 + BBC License £180 + Tax allowance at £20K + 650 MP pay reduce to minimum pay plus linked to performance
Live from Downing Street as Burnham hosts first cabinet meeting
Darren jones – a Starmer clone who was fired yesterday – has already started attacks on bodybags – with an accusation that the vat cut is ‘unfunded ‘ – it is – of course – because all government spending is unfunded because we are in debt …
The vat cut will be neutralised by increased fuel costs in October ….just in time for winter …
Labour family dynasties refer to multi-generational or sibling political families in the UK Labour Party, where relatives (parents/children, siblings, spouses) have held prominent roles as MPs, ministers, or party figures.
Ellie Reeves has been appointed as @attorneygeneral. She will attend Cabinet.
https://x.com/10DowningStreet/status/2079329021041483991
Cause of Ann Widdecimes death not yet established report the BBC…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq89q0yyqz4o
Can’t be that the powers that be might deduce she tripped over the cat and landed heavily just as the suspect pulled over outside her house to check his tyre pressures or something?
Ban hammers? Ban handles for hammers?
But the photograph shows a wooden bat sticking out of his pocket
Add picture of smiles and nice cookie jar!
Cover up continues – bet he pleads guilty or prosecution offers no evidence to conceal the truth …. In 2028 ….
On an earlier thread I was critical of Burham’s rogue’sgallery of newly appointed Ministers. Specifically very critical of Louise Haigh’s appointment:
“Louise Haigh, who has a grubby insurance fraud conviction, probably the worst offender of the bunch. Something very low and deliberate about making a false insurance claim, not a spur of the moment error, A drink driving conviction would be more acceptable in my opinion.”
A forum contributor, ‘G’ took issue with this in the following terms:
‘”I know very little of Louise Haigh but her conviction was > 10years ago and for the record, the 10 probably exceeds the 7 required by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The length of time is relative to the level of offence she was guilty of.
Just sayin.”
To my mind the elapsed time is irrelevant, we have a window into the character of Louise, she might (or might not) be a totally reformed person but we are talking about her being appointed to an important office of State. We have to view her and this appointment in the context of the other defective appointments that this dishonest and corrupt Goverment is making. We are paying the price for this farrago.
If she had an honour she’d have withdrawn from political life . I know my sense of honour is a bit on the high side for 2026 …that applies to any politician subject to the legal process it is their job to draught….
Excellent from Francis Foster and Dominic Frisbee
The UK is channeling Venezuela.
It’s all well and good burying gold in the garden – but last time I looked it wouldn’t actually buy any food or fuel…. Our societies depend on people being rational and respecting the infrastructure we have – currency has to function and retain value, it’s the responsibility of those we elect to govern / serve to ensure things like that work. I’ve been to Venezuela a number of times and seen destitution and desperation on a scale that most Brits can perhaps imagine – but seeing people in rags and hungry with their lives obviously disintegrating around them is sobering in the extreme. The whispering thing … yes… seen that – but the light only went on with the context described here. 20-25% of Venezuela’s population now live abroad – that would be ca. 17 million leaving the UK. I wish people would think about it in those terms…
Venezuela’s dystopian descent into penury and chaos was facilitated by ideologically driven ignorant larcenous goons (bandits even!)- that’s what we’ve got underway in the UK. I hope we don’t get to do the full Venezuelan thing.
“Ann Widdecombe died after being hit on the head with a hammer 21 times at her Devon home as she ate lunch, prosecutors have told Westminster Magistrates’ Court.”
21 July 2026, 14:25 BST | Updated 35 minutes ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj03r77n07jo